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Is This Anything?

Hammer + Nigel Show Podcast

June 25, 2026

A neighborhood is slick with orange liquid, AI bots stole Community College financial aid, and a woman was rescued by her dog barking. Is this anything?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
The Hammer and Nigel Presents.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:06)
It depends upon what the meaning of the word is.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:11)
Is this anything?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:14)
All right, let's rock and roll.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:15)
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**SPEAKER_4** (0:32)
Is this anything? A wealthy neighborhood in California is dealing with a slick orange liquid that's oozing through their streets.
Some orange liquid experts are saying that it's magnesium in the water that's causing this.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:49)
Whatever, it's soylent green.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:51)
Here are the people from the neighborhood.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:56)
Well, there's this groundwater that's seeping up and turning the street, this horrible shade of orange. It's turning everyone's property orange. It's turning their homes orange. It's turning their cars orange.
And it's also a safety hazard because it's very slick.

**SPEAKER_6** (1:11)
There's been a few incidents because it's so slick. There was a garbage truck where it just completely slid. There's been a couple of cyclists who have fallen. And most recently, there was a lady who actually fell back and hit her head.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:28)
It sounds like every time people are walking out in this street in the affluent California neighborhood, they're slipping and falling on themselves. Garbage trucks are sliding down the curb and the court. Oh, get these people. Somebody evacuate quick.
You know, some people evacuate for wildfires. You need to evacuate for the magnesium and calcium that are the minerals that are making this water slick. That is so funny. I don't know that this is anything. I'd be annoyed if I lived in the neighborhood, I guess. You put yourself in that situation every time I walk out the door. I'm falling on my face.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:03)
Is there anywhere in California right now where you can walk outside and not have to worry about stepping on something?
Whether it's needles, whether it's poop, whether it's orange magnesium, is there anywhere in that awful state where you can walk outside and not step in something? It's my question. Is this anything? AI bots stole more than $264,000 and taxpayer funded financial aid by sending ghost students to Baltimore City Community College.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:37)
AI bots.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:39)
They basically made fake accounts for fake students and took the financial aid. Here's a cyber defense professor breaking it down.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:47)
So scammers steal real people's identities and they create synthetic ones. So they use those to apply and online, to primarily online Community College classes, the kind with no in-person requirements. And you don't have to be a programmer. You can simply have a really creative and clear way to communicate what you're hoping to do. Hey, in this particular geography, identify the schools with online courses and then apply with some particular database of already stolen identities and continue that process until you're successful.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:17)
So scammers, so human beings along with AI were able to bilk almost $270,000 out of Baltimore City Community Colleges, taxpayer funded. Yeah, that's something for sure.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:31)
The amount of fraud that happens in this country. Oh, I mean, I knew fraud took place, but honestly, I had no idea it was this much.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:42)
This is a grain of sand.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:44)
Right.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:44)
This is a one grain of sand in a giant bucket.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:49)
Now, I wonder if the students from the Minnesota Learing Center will eventually get scholarships to the Baltimore City Community College. It feels like it's the next step in their educational journey.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:59)
They're all going to turn into good little programmers.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:02)
Last one. Is this anything? A woman in New Jersey was rescued by her dog when it wouldn't stop barking as the house went up in flames. The dog, thankfully, woke her up and was able to get to safety.
Here's Ada and Fire Marshal Michael talking about it.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:20)
He comes to my bed.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:22)
I said, Oh my God, what?

**SPEAKER_7** (4:23)
And I hear the smoke detector went off.

**SPEAKER_6** (4:27)
Immediately beep, beep, beep.

**SPEAKER_7** (4:28)
I was like, Oh my God, it's a fire.

**SPEAKER_2** (4:30)
It was in the living room, the house already in flames.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:33)
First arriving units got on scene and found the structure was heavily involved in the rear, fire rapidly extending throughout the house.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:42)
Yeah, I mean, that'd be me.
You know, Lindsay would be out of town, like the kids are staying with the grandparents, the dog is trying to wake me up. Shut up! I'm trying to sleep.

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