the dream group at the university of austin. that book is training for the night. they want to take control of that dreams and cap, homeless and home. a lucid dream is a dream in which you realize you're dreaming as you sleep and dream and suddenly you realize, okay, what's happened them? it's a dream and we help them with and home. the lucid, dreaming was this mentioned in ancient times, but it's only been scientifically researched, unacknowledged since the 1980s. many people have probably occasionally experienced the lucid dream before because i rarely have lucy dreams, but when i do, i find it to a very special, exciting, very crazy state. nobody but crazy. in a positive way. catalina lute is also scientifically interested in this press, and they think phenomenon. the cognitive scientists wants to know. how long does it take to learn to dream lucidly? what happens in the brain when we know that we are dreaming? to find this out, she sent 20 test subjects to the sleep level retreat and they were all inexperienced participants. they doesn't frequently dream lucidly

joining me now michael shellenberger the university of austin cbr censorship and free speech. blic news. michael, again, we want to give people their due if they see the light. they are going to be cautiously optimistic here. but would zuckerberg have made this announcement if kamala had a been a strong candidate in the fall and had gone on to win? >> hey, laura, it's a great question. it's hard to know. i mean it, seems that they were trending in this direction. but you are absolutely right. i mean, after the 2016 election, when zuckerberg was being beat up, supposedly around allowing this information that elected trump. he then went on to censor true stories about vaccine side effects. he censored information about covid potentially coming from a chinese lab which now most people believe it did come from. the hunter biden laptop as you mentioned, but also accurate information about climate change, about the reality of biological sex. so, yeah, i mean, i think there is reason to be skeptic here. the best news though it appears they are going to defund those fact-checking organ

the founder of public news and the chair of free speech at the university of austin, michael shellenberger is with us. let's get your reaction to all of this. you are aware of all these measures that are been put in place over the years. >> who could have guessed that the people who were so anti-civilization would be so bad at maintaining civilization. this was completely preventable. we knew there were santa ana winds. we knew there was huge fire risk. many reports have been done on this. we saw that helicopters actually do a good job when they are mobilized, why weren't they mobilized for the pacific palisades fire? why was in the national guard mobilized earlier? why did we not have enough water for the fire hydrants. there's many excuses that get made to explain these things and while the reservoirs were full, there weren't enough reservoirs. we haven't had a significant water project built since 1979. l.a. is right next to the ocean so why don't we have desalination plants like they have in israel that work incredibly well that would've been able to pump fresh water right from the oce

joining me now is michael shellenberger, university of austin, cbr censorship and free speech also thender of public news. michael, the old thiefdoms, they are akram bling. >> hey, laura, it's good to be with you. this is an amazing moment. a moment where it's not just significant political change at the very top. but it's a huge change in the media. i mean, really what twitter was before elon musk bought the company was a magnified the power of establishment lifted leaning media set the agenda talk about what was acceptable bounds of debate. after elon musk bought it and made it a free speech platform for the first time it's the equivalent of martin luther finally getting control of the printing presses which had accentuating the power of the catholic church. new revolution of the political life and media landscape. >> laura: they are very uncomfortable including al sharpton who is very worried about the impact of what the so-called tech oligarchs are going to do with dei. watch. >> you have these tech oligarchs running things. and now looks like they're influencing government. and th

joe lawns dale who helped found the university of austin and many other tech companies joins me now.t to talk to you for the first time, i think you are the perfect guest to talk about this. i will confess to you and everyone watching, i'm not an early tech adopter, i don't understand the full suite of applications for artificial intelligence and i don't know what this investment will mean for america and ai. >> it's been an amazing 24 hours. so many things going on right now for america's new golden age. if america is going to solve all it's problems we need to increase productivity in the country. we have all sorts of issues. he's not going to cut things like entitlements, the answer is growth and what growth is as productivity growth and ai is a key to unlocking productivity growth and we have that infrastructure here, america is the best in these industries and he's going to move to accelerate that speed to talk to me about what that infrastructure is. if there's a government and private partnership to build the needed infrastructure, i read a lot about the need for electricity a

we'll have part of the tech crowd you will talk about started the university of austin. we'll have more guests in the coming days you will hear from someone like charles barkley as well. in this age. here is what i can promise you, i have been given instructions to be me. my goal is to do the same thing i've done in every program no matter what network. real and authentic with the audience as i pursue the truth. i won't always be right but i will always try to be right. it's a pursuit of the truth. that's what journalism is. >> dana: i'm glad you will be you. we love you and congratulations and we'll see you at 4:00. please make fun of the guys before you toss to us at the "the five." >> every day. >> i will. consider it done. >> dana: good luck. see you at 4:00. fox news alert here. cbp source has revealed the name of the u.s. border patrol agent shot and killed during a traffic stop yesterday. the shooting happened in vermont about 12 miles south of the canadian border. molly line has the latest from that spot. hi, molly. >> good morning, dana. this border patrol agent

joining me now is michael shellenberger, university of austin, ccbr chair of politics, censorship andspeech. he's also the founder of public news. michael, the old fiefdoms there, a crumbling. >> hey, laura, it's good to be with you. >> i mean, it's an amazing moment, right? >> it's a moment where it's not just significant political change at the very top, but it's a huge change in the media. >> i mean, really, what twitter was before elon musk bought the company was it magnified the power of establishment, left leaning media to set the agenda to decide what we talked about, what was acceptable bounds of debate. >> after elon musk has bought it and made it a free speech platform for the first time, it's the equivalent of martin luther finally getting control of the printing presses, which had accentuated the power of the catholic church for 100 years. we're in a new reformation, i would say, of american political life and of the media landscape. >> yeah, they're very uncomfortable, including al sharpton, who is very worried about the impact of what the so-called tech oligarch oligarch

of last year. games workshop also recently finalised a deal with amazon to turn the warhammer 40,000 universe into films and tv series. let's speak now to dr hailey austin media and culture at the department of games and arts at abertay university good to have you with us. for the uninitiated, explain what this is— the uninitiated, explain what this is because it's an astonishing british success storx _ astonishing british success sto . �* ,, astonishing british success sto �* «m, story. but unless you know it all of it you _ story. but unless you know it all of it you may _ story. but unless you know it all of it you may be _ story. but unless you know it all of it you may be totally i all of it you may be totally unaware of its existence. exactly, exactly. warhammer and specifically warhammer 40k is a mixture of a table top role—playing game but it's mostly a war strategy game with miniature is, so there's lots of points to the hobby, both in buying and collecting them, the miniature is, as well as painting them and playing together with other people and using the managers in a wrought game setting. it using the managers in a wrought game setting-— ga

university of texas at austin. >> dance team. thank you. >> hey. good. um, they just learned this routine together last night. >> that's how good they are. they better than me. >> and now, speaking of someone who's quite good at what he does, our gary tuchman is live for us. gary, where are you and what is going to be dropping? because there's always something different with you that drops from the sky on new year's. hold on. >> one. >> sarah. carrie. harry. happy? almost 2025 from prescott, arizona. this is whiskey row. it's a long street in the city of 45,000 people. music behind us. police estimate between 15 and 20,000 people here. and what's going to happen here in whiskey row shortly at the stroke of midnight, right up here, you can see a big cowboy boot. this is the whiskey row boot drop. that boot is going to come down at the stroke of midnight in the mountain time zone. distinctive by 2025. why is it called whiskey row? well, i can tell you there are a lot of saloons on this street today. in this day and age, it's very classy. it's a beautiful pl

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austin powers' movie right now." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. you proved a lot to ohio state fans last monday. just two months earlier, things didn't go your way against your biggest rival, university of's the story of this team. i think there's so many people that can learn from this team. we have an unbelievable group of guys that decided to come back and forgo going to the nfl. and there was a point at the end of the year where there's nobody who thought we were going to do this. and there's a group of guys that did decided they were going to win. they started with a home game against tennessee. we got some momentum going there. we went out to l.a. and the rose bowl and played number one oregon and won that game. and then, we went to the cotton bowl and one of the most iconic games in ohio state history. just unbelievable play by jack sawyer with a sack-fumble at the end of the game to win. and then, to finish with a a national championship trophy. but, you know, there was a a point there where a lot of people doubted us. and the resilience of these guys to come back and win and finish, i think there is a lot of life lessons to be learned here. we get caught up in all these things