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- Check this out.
Disregarding ocean boundaries, testing microchips.
The Chinese government released a map.
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It's convincing depictions of individuals doing
or saying things that they never did.
- Deep fakes. - [Female] Deep fakes.
- What is even real?
Lee Harvey Oswald, whole thing was actually a setup.
- [Oswald] I'm just a patsy.
- Patsy, which is like an old-timey term
for like the fall guy, the one who was set up
by the leaders around him.
Let's do this. - Our service members,
have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena.
- On unidentified aerial phenomena, UAP, baby.
We're exiting a period of incredible growth.
Look at this graph.
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But if you have 1,000 of these switches,
suddenly you have something
that kind of resembles a little brain.
There's actually not a ton of nuance here.
But they would be in something very interesting.
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A quiet revolution stirs.
- [Male Reporter] The Berlin Wall has fallen.
- [Johnny] Yeah. - Nice.
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- And I don't understand why
and I want to understand why.
All right, let's do this.
Check this out.
Microchips.
It conducts electricity really well.
It is a semiconductor of electricity.
In the heart of Ukraine, a quiet revolution stirs.
The creation of new tools of war built by volunteers
and students and technicians.
Tinkerers, who are repurposing their skills
to resist invasion.
And guess what?
This happened.
- The US does not currently have the ability
to even track this weapon, much less defeat it.
- A Chinese spy balloon drifting across North America.
- [Johnny] These two navy pilots arrive to the scene.
The Navy report describes this object as,
"An elongated egg, or a Tic Tac,"
that was uniformly white across the entire body.
It was approximately 46 feet in length.
One of the pilots, with his weapons officer in the back,
wanted to get a closer look.
It is actually just another quirk of the image sensors
that they use in the military on these specialized cameras.
- The second biggest bank collapse in US history.
- The bank is called the Silicon Valley Bank.
So now the banker, with his new loan,
goes and buys his oven for $9,000,
and the oven seller takes that $9,000,
and goes and puts it in their bank.
This document from the US Department of Defense,
this year's is more detailed.
China, "Remains our most consequential strategic competitor
for coming decades."
And so now you see a competition,
between these two great powers that have become deeply,
economically entwined over the last 50 years.
I'm not anti-milk.
I (beeps) love milk.
No, seriously, we got to do this.
- Got milk?
Oh.
(Nick laughs)
Look at it.
It looks great, dude.
- My full-time job is to do journalism.
I sit around and fact-check things all day.
If I get something wrong, it's a cardinal sin.
Joseph Smith, he's someone I know well.
He's the author of a worldview
that I held for most of my life.
- Nearly half of Sudan's remaining population is
in dire humanitarian need.
- [Johnny] Sudan is moving towards a civil war.
Let me get you up to speed on what's happening here,
and show you how Sudan's location here near the Suez Canal
in the Horn of Africa, makes it geopolitically important.
These messages were spread and amplified
by one social media platform in this country
that was just starting to use the internet.
- Conspiracies and incitements to violence,
all directed at the country's Muslim minority,
are just overrunning the platform.
- [Johnny] So let me show you how the US kept their colony
in the Caribbean using brute force,
spying, and the abuse of land and people.
This is how the US stole Puerto Rico.
Yugoslavia, a federation of six countries,
is ripping itself apart.
Their economy is in ruin,
and they're replacing communism with nationalism,
the kind that thrives on focusing on ethnic
and religious differences,
forcibly punching out a government from power.
No elections, no process,
just power being seized.
But I wanna show you how the coup has been used
by the United States of America
as a tool to get what they want on the world stage.
- [Female Reporter] Rockets and airstrikes continue
to rain down on Israel and Gaza.
- And this is where we need to zoom out
to get a bigger picture look at the rest of this region.
How did we get this?
A map so detailed,
to truly unveil Antarctica's mysteries,
we needed to venture inside it.
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- We'll talk about it tomorrow,
but I just didn't want you to stress tonight.
I wanted you to know that things are good, okay?
All right.
- [Johnny] Look at this happy guy.
Look at this happy guy.
[Man] I love you! - He was going
through his own little emotional rollercoaster.
Thank you.
Thank you, Teryn.
And look, we have Greenland.
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I'm at an airport in rural Greenland.
It's like in this fjord system,
near the village of Uummannaq.
All of the cameras and stuff just keep dying
because it's so damn cold.
It is -30 degrees.
In Greenland, Greenland, Greenland, Greenland, Greenland.
Should I reference Greenland?
I'd be like, "I just was up here."
Like, I can't not be like,
by the way, like. - [Alex] No.
- If there's one thing Kim Jong II like to do,
it was to talk about his thoughts on cinema.
He wrote an entire book about it,
which was kind of the impetus
of this entire video, this book.
Oh, you should have just put this book in front of Johnny.
Johnny's walking around and he sees it,
he's like, "Oh, what's this?"
He's like, "We gotta make a video about this."
And that put an idea in the pipeline
that would eventually become my North Korean cinema video.
- This is for the moon landing video.
It's thick.
- We hired someone with an old-timey,
radio transatlantic accent to do it instead.
Buckle up for this one.
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- [David] In a world on the brink of destruction.
- [Johnny] We talked to astrophysicists,
meteorologists, and NASA historians,
to better understand the moon landing conspiracy.
There's basically no chance of getting a decent shot
of the stars in this environment.
- Former Congressman, among several people hit
with insider trading charges today.
- Their insider knowledge may help them make the best bets
on Wall Street.
Congressman Ro Khanna from California.
making bank during financial meltdown.
Oh my God, no.
I have children,
and if I ever gave them this much milk,
I would feel like a criminal.
(man laughs)
On March 13th, 1962,
the joint chiefs of staff put this document
in front of the Secretary of Defense
for approval from the president.
A secret meeting, and the memo it produced,
meant only for the eyes of top British officials.
These leaders wanted to remind the world
who the global superpower was,
and they've been doing it for a long time.
- Russia may sabotage undersea cables.
- If you have access to submarine cables,
which governments and militaries do,
you can scrape through the insulation of this cable,
you can splice in another cable,
and you can duplicate the signal,
and hear everything your enemy is saying.
These few 100 cables that connect our world,
contain an unfathomable amount of data,
and it would seem impossible
that any government agency would be able to spy on it all.
Impossible, that is,
if we didn't have solid proof that they do.
We've been talking to Russian journalists,
a lot of them independent,
who have moved to YouTube to try to escape censorship.
You could be swimming in the ocean one day,
minding your own business, and right below you,
there could literally be this massive,
48,000-ton metal machine with a couple 100 humans aboard,
equipped with nuclear warheads
that could be launched at a moment's notice.
What have we created?
I started a new channel
with my old Vox colleague, Sam Ellis.
It is live now, it is called Search Party.
Rival politicians and a new class
of ultra wealthy businessmen called oligarchs,
were battling for power under a weakening Yeltsin.
According to data gathered by ESPN,
between 1900 and 1989,
the All Blacks won 71% of their tests.
If China begins the invasion,
its missiles still could destroy Taiwan's planes and ships.
(bright upbeat music)
(party horn blares)
I need to show you a video. - [Man] Pause real quick.
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- Henry Kissinger, one of the most controversial
and powerful figures in American politics, is dead.
It's unlike any substance on earth.
- [Man] There's nothing wrong with drinking olive oil.
- This stuff is so good.
Yeah, that gap up here.
Okay, get another bag.
I gotta tell you something really quick.
I have a slightly complicated relationship with breakfast.
The camera is just covered in cheese.
In another study, 92% of the supplements that were tested
by scientists were contaminated with bacteria.
Get your nose in there.
- You've been doing this for an hour and a half.
- Don't kill Johnny.
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Through Greenland, exploring this massive island.
Mostly, I've been in the fjords in these rural communities,
hunting for seals and riding on dog sleds.
Bet, like.
- [Nick] Say it confidently. - Bet, bet, bet.
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(Nick laughs)
I'm not in touch.
Here in the office,
we actually had some pretty nice heated debates
about Joe Rogan.
- Unbelievably insane.
- Militants who seizes an Israeli-owned tanker,
over the weekend were likely Somali pirates.
- [Johnny] This line going up represents the expansion
of the piracy industry in Somalia.
- The worst nuclear reactor accident to date.
- Today, nuclear power is in decline,
and I've been trying to understand why.
I ended up in a conversation with my friend, Cleo,
who makes a show called "Huge If True".
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(party horn blares)
Ah, feels amazing. - Dude.
(clock ticking) (bright upbeat music)
- Okay, so that's all I've got,
and we will see you all next year.
- Bye, everyone. - Bye.
- Unplug me.
Here's the video.
- Three, two, one.
- Five high.
- Oh, that worked.
- That was cute. - Yeah.
(all murmuring)
- [Female] Thank you. - [Man] We miss you.
Bye, everyone.
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- I was out of frame, guys, really?
(cameraman laughing)
I made the music here.
(cameraman laughs)
Yeah, I should have been front.
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Goddammit.