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I'm Michael Loewinger.

The first thing you'll hear is that original voicemail, and the clips that follow are collectively my response.

And so, to look back to better understand the gun debate in our country, sources today include The David Pakman Show, The Ezra Klein Show, The Bradcast, Science Versus, The Real News, A Progressive Faith Sermon from Dr. Roger Ray, Speak Out with Tim Wise, and On the Media.

Hi, Jay.

My name is Caitlin.

It is much too risky.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Loinger.

The AI was good at persuading people often without the people even noticing that they were being nudged.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

I'm Michael Loinger.

[gentle music] On this week's On the Media, some tech titans want us to think they can turn back the clock and end aging as we know it.

We have here among the VIPs of one very unusual man.

He's at least 130 years old.

Enter Saul Newman, who takes issue with all of this, the early Blue Zones academic research and Buettner's Blue Zones brand.

That's coming up after the break.

This is On the Media.

On the Media is supported by HomeServe.

You protect your health, your car, even your phone, but what about your home? It's probably your biggest investment, and when things go wrong, the costs can hit hard and fast.

I know you've already heard from me about this exciting live show we're going to be doing this Saturday, October 17th in Richmond, Virginia.

Our brilliant friends Al Lutzen from The Reveal podcast and Michael Loewinger from On The Media are going to be there.

But I just wanted to make sure that if you're in the area, you have snagged your tickets.

They're going fast.

When, when did you start, when did you start at NPR?

Well, I was on a show called On the Media-

Mm-hmm

... uh, which is an NPR affiliated show, and then I started with NPR proper around 2003 or four.

Communities like Boulder County have paid ever since, and the question before the Supreme Court is whether any lawsuit like this will be allowed to go to trial.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 55 minutes today, spanning episodes from the past decade, include What A Day, On The Media, Counterspin, Democracy Now!, The Tom Hartman Program, and Downstream.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in four sections.

Section A, the industry's playbook.

We're destroying our own home.

We've just heard clips starting with What a Day, tracing how oil companies, terrified of billions in liability for decades of climate deception, are fighting the lawsuits that would make them, not taxpayers, pay for climate damage.

On the media in 2015 recounted how Exxon scientist Jim Black warned the company's top leadership in 1977 that fossil fuels would warm the planet, 11 years before NASA's famous testimony to Congress.

Counterspin in 2016 described how Exxon helped bankroll the Global Climate Coalition, which told lawmakers and reporters the science was unsettled, while its own internal memo admitted it cannot be denied.

Okay.

Uh, but my boss was like, "Listen, if you can just do it in the sort of corners of time that you are not making On the Media, the show that you're making, we'll let you make it.

We'll give you the studio space, and we'll let you make it."

Okay.