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Hi, it’s Bernie Goldbach, and it’s a Top Gold audio clip.

This is episode 700. I’m going to give you a quick look at the Sunday Times in Ireland.

It’s a newspaper that would feature in the buying habits of a lot of people.

So I’ll just go through about six or seven stories.

The front page of the Sunday Times deals with an issue that’s on the streets.

People are talking about cost of living being pretty high, and there’s a lot of pressure at the parliamentary party level for Simon Harris, who’s the Taunus Chair, like the Deputy Prime Minister, to have a look at a budget that’s going to tackle the cost of living.

And there’s plenty of opposition calls and public sentiment which says, let’s do this.

There’s an issue concerning the war in Iran, and if it’s still going on, some of the backbenchers are saying, we need a budget, some kind of intervention to help people.

Like, I’m personally interested in child care costs, personal tax packages that puts money back into people’s pockets.

And then child care, child care, child care.

One way to put money back into my pocket is to change the threshold for the standard point of cutoff for income tax up to 50,000 euro.

And yet, even though there’s a lot of ink on this page and inside the paper about what to do about costs of living, the biggest item, the one that gets most of the coverage, it’s later on in this quick little clip I’m going to give you.

This is interesting.

40 million people checked out their web release of the 1926 census, including us.

We’re part of the McKelvie and McAuliffe families.

The National Archives website hit at least 40 million times, people looking at it, and 37.5 million exactly people have looked.

And the traffic is going to go up higher this week.

Highest traffic from Ireland, of course, we’ve looked at it, UK, US and Australia, and then India.

Interesting, isn’t it?

Meanwhile, a lot of processing that’s happening behind the scenes for this to happen.

We have records ourselves, which could complement the 750,000 records unearthed by the Irish archives.

We have pictures and we have a boat information that we should probably put into Ancestry.com.

Good story, isn’t it?

Here’s another story of interest.

The King visited, the King of England visited, and Jeremy Clarkson put an interesting spin on it.

And he said that the King had standing ovations from both Democrats and the Republicans thumping at their tables.

Interesting here, as far as I could tell, not a single one of them realized that the King was taking the mick out of them.

That’s right.

Hey, something big that’s happening in America.

The story, Elon Musk versus Sam Altman, power player himself.

Large article, but like I said, it’s not actually the biggest article on the paper.

A poll of Americans have shown that AI, the opinion for AI support, people despise AI.

Public opinion about AI in America is less supportive than for ICE.

Isn’t that amazing?

Mainly because a lot of people are saying there’s an existential and societal risk, that job displacement and increasing inequality.

What are you going to do about that?

And some of the first stuff is starting to show up.

So Erwin Seltzer says from the American account that there’s a trickle of layoffs that have started to happen.

And then in the labor market, Verizon, the major telco, the boss Dan Schulman starting laying off 13,000 employees.

And that guy, Dan Schulman, saying unemployment will reach 20 to 30 percent within two to five years.

The Boston Consulting Group says it’s more like 10 to 15 percent.

And this is the big story.

Not about AI, but instead, never mind the war in Iran about oil, it’s the food crisis.

And they’re looking at John Denton, who’s the secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce, saying that you might be thinking about oil and gas, but the greatest thing, the greatest human suffering is the fact that food.

And he says this is going to start seeing this in about three months.

So right about the time kids go back to school, the human consequences of not having fertilizer, not growing crops.

Global leaders are saying the Iran war has already led to a loss of 20 billion meals per week.

So it would be handy to have a corridor for fertilizer through the Strait of Hormuz.

That’s going to be pretty complicated.

Time’s running out.

He says it’s like cooking a frog.

Frogs going in the water.

The water is cold at the moment, but we’re not too sure what’s going to happen.

Well, unrest, that’s what’s going to happen.

So this is me and the gear that I use for this.

I’m using the DJI wireless mic system.

No mini tripod, but I like that.

I like this setup a lot.

Hope you like this short little clip.

Bernieinsideview.ie is where you’ll see the transcript of this.

Matt and Reese has set up a really clever way of having AI take the audio clip that you’re listening to and making this into a transcript.

So insideview.ie is where this will be.

And I’ll put an image on cover art for this audio clip of something I did more than 10 years ago when I used to use a handheld Nokia phone to make quick clips of Sunday news.

I’m Bernie Goldbach and I’m TopGold and good social networks.

Thanks for watching.

Bye for now.