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- 11 / 05 / 2025 -
Emmanuel celebrates the election results while Alex bemoans them, Emmanuel is determined to be happy, why Alex thinks the New York City mayoral race results are a bad thing, Emmanuel argues for stirring things up and less of the same from Democrats, debating who is competent and who isn't, what people voted against, Gila brings up the hateful rhetoric that dominated the campaign, Rob's happiness that a sexual harasser wasn't put back into office, the fact that both Trump and Musk endorsed Cuomo, Alex brings up algorithmic manipulation, Alex accuses Mamdani of befriending a 9/11 conspirator, why Emmanuel likes Curtis Sliwa, Kyle's impressions of the results and their significance, listener feedback on last week's show, an article on the Nest thermostat from the past that could be useful today, the theory that Google only bought this company to mine data, progress on reviving the Nest thermostat, Alex warns of the danger of a thermometer running Linux getting rooted, the issue of unwanted features in various devices, unfairly labeling people as being out of touch if they don't embrace these features, more on AI alerts concerning suspicious activity, ICEBlock continues to work without being on the Apple store, the importance of knowing where the ICE agents are, how iPhones are strictly limited on what programs can be downloaded, addressing Google's alleged points, faces on the street are being scanned by ICE.
Overtime: Listener support for Emmanuel's position on Mamdani, Alex belittles the job of state assemblyman, Alex's criticism of a degree in Africana Studies, Emmanuel's theory on how to specialize in fields, how Mamdani actually reminds Emmanuel of Alex, going through the history of New York City mayors, Alex's approval of Bloomberg and Giuliani as mayors, Gila's concern as to what people have turned this election into, why the opinion of people who don't live here shouldn't matter, living in fear of Trump sending in the troops, disagreement on whether direct engagement is wise, Gila quizzes Alex about Cuomo, Kyle explains why people around the country are interested in this result, listener acknowledgment, Emmanuel reads the text of a referendum on Long Island to demonstrate how it was phrased in a biased way, how people generally don't get to see the text until Election Day when it's too late to do anything about it, why it's good that Alex is speaking his mind freely, trying to get the phone line to work, a caller who agrees with Alex, a debate on the merits of socialism and free buses, praise for Curtis Sliwa, thoughts on Trump, Rebel tries to advertise, Rebel is warned not to multitask, trying to find the right word for 2600 meetings, the issue of older versus younger politicians, how to deal with people you disagree with, a listener question about obtaining a domain, what the .cat top level domain is for, Rob and Gila explain what the digital map referendum was all about, scheduling notes for the next couple of weeks.
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November 5
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Off The Hook Overtime
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- 11 / 12 / 2025 -
A controversial figure in the United Kingdom wins a battle against the authorities while traveling to France, why this should be seen as a good thing despite who was involved, questioning why he was being searched on the way out of the country, how kids are getting around the new cell phone ban in schools, how this encourages collaboration, the potential danger involved, possible solutions, a warning to Alex to avoid a particular phrase, Cody Kociemba joins the conversation, how Cody has tackled the Nest thermostat issue, the features that are now available with this project, how the project developed, the Louis Rossmann connection, what the reaction has been like, getting the word out, how Google actually bricked the devices, how they are still collecting data from consumers, what the bounty exposed as far as the law, how people can run Home Assistant in conjunction with this, how China is grabbing data from dog feeders, what Google should have done, why old technology shouldn't be abandoned, how Emmanuel's old cell phone still has working apps, the potential risk with modifying Nest thermometers, Cody explains what he's involved with in addition to nolongerevil.com, why the EFF would probably be interested in this, an explanation of FULU and the bounties, why people should support WBAI, next week will be a call-in show.
Overtime: Emmanuel gets the names wrong, a relatively low number of listeners, feedback on the story about the jackass, how investigators should actually find crime, Gila shares a potentially violent comment about punching wires that was held by Google, Emmanuel battles two factor authentication and crosswalk identification, a tune from luRaichu, talk of Flock cameras, things on the show that people have never mentioned before, how to make authority figures freak out, Gila describes a change in YouTube identification, requesting surveillance camera footage in the U.K., Rob sets up the musical piece regarding buffalo, the phone line is activated in dramatic fashion, Emmanuel catches Rebel actually listening to the show, talk of Linux Mint, the tones payphones used to use to return coins, remembering 1-700-555-4141, hearing Rebel from the past, going around the room to get Rebel to hang up, Tim from Connecticut justifies his violent rhetoric regarding punching wires, the issue of obscured license plates, Emmanuel remembers his first license plate, toll plates in Connecticut and how they worked, the contrast of states that require inspection and those that don't, thoughts on the release of more Epstein files by Democrats, Emmanuel tries to tell Alex about the MS NOW network, Republicans release more Epstein files in response to the Democrats, Alex's theory that Google has a lot of this evidence stored, how the Democrats manage to give up while they're winning, the question of whether eight Mamdanis would have caved like the Democrats did with the government shutdown, more debate on Mamdani's qualifications, a report from the Seattle 2600 meeting, Gila walks into a trap, trying to figure out what Meetup is supposed to be doing, why it's not needed for 2600 meetings, "Overtime" won't be on next week, Alex will be in Buenos Aires next week, what to look for in the southern hemisphere.
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November 12
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- 11 / 19 / 2025 -
Alex is in Buenos Aires, it's two hours ahead and springtime, what the city is like, this is a call-in program, there will be no "Overtime" tonight, feedback on last week's story about the right wing extremist who won a battle over surveillance, Emmanuel's pet peeve over what people call the decades after 2000, a listener story that reminisces on how full access to a school system was obtained, Kyle explains the new phone system that's now in place and what it took to get it working, the first caller can't hear Emmanuel, listener thoughts on WBAI's phone system and how to improve it, testing out the connection with the people in Signal-land, a call from another WBAI host, the news hits about St. John's University kicking out the HOPE conference apparently due to an ex-cop taking offense at a pamphlet, suspicion that it would have been something else if it wasn't this, how there was no process involving HOPE at all, how none of this is a reflection on attendees, the good relationship between the conference and the university, how the university staff were also blindsided by this, a caller has trouble with their radio being on, Emmanuel's frustration with being the only one callers can't hear, addressing the Internet outage, why the Cloudflare outage had such a detrimental effect, ways to avoid this, how even Downdetector went down.
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November 19
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- 11 / 26 / 2025 -
Kyle accidentally deletes the opening of the program which explains the momentary glitch, Emma Best joins the discussion tonight, Alex gives some background on Emma, a New Zealand KFC ad campaign involving hackers causes outrage, Gila explains what's so upsetting about the ad, the possible allusion to the Max Headroom hack that took place in 1987, what may be an overreaction here, ESPN claims its radio station in Houston was taken over by hackers, Distributed Denial of Secrets is releasing 13,000 Jeffrey Epstein emails tonight, what is significant about this release, how the official release that's coming will be subjected to censorship by the Trump administration, the involvement with Bloomberg, a discussion of some of the technical aspects of this release, how people can see these emails, an interesting audio excerpt, Emma explains what's significant about this, what Emma has to contend with whenever a leak of this magnitude is released, what the EML file format is, how people can support WBAI.
Overtime: More on tonight's release of Epstein emails, describing the EML format, going through some of the emails live, thinking of something good to search for, Rob reads some quotes from Epstein's emails, creating a Gmail clone to make reading the emails easier, the HOPE_16 flash drives should be finished really soon, there are all kinds of deadlines at the moment, work is being done to find a new venue for HOPE, Gila points out the terrible spelling in the Epstein emails, an issue with the phone line not forwarding, the problem is fixed, Kyle has managed to fix the phone system so everyone can hear each other and there is no hum, Emmanuel tells Alex the rules for determining if the show was good, there will be news on the 2600 Voice BBS archive, how the Department of Justice is doing a really bad job covering up the Epstein files, how to figure out who has something to hide, Rebel has a question about phone numbers that don't ring, Rebel claims it's possible to call cell phones collect without being charged, the various emergency numbers that work on all cell phones, how everyone seemed to engage in a mild form of phone fraud at some point, remembering notebooks filled with hacker data, an update from Johnny Fusion, the challenge of avoiding certain conversations over Thanksgiving, what people are thankful for, the importance of supporting public radio.
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November 26
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