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We're leading the op.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, July 30th, 2023.
This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination Episode 1577.
This is no agenda.
All eyes on Africa and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
8 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I forgot to take the phone off the hook so anything can happen.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
Yeah.
I mean, even that just, the opening, whenever you hear a podcast, someone says, I forgot to take the phone off the hook.
You know you're getting some modern stuff.
There's no boomers on this show.
Phone off the hook.
People are like, what?
Phone what?
What does he do with a phone?
Off the hook?
What?
What does that even mean?
I don't even understand what that means.
You sound like a broken record.
Oh, man, oh, man.
There's a lot going on again.
I'm so excited about today's show.
Why?
Because it's like the mainstream media is our US media is almost doing nothing.
Although I think the distraction is Niger.
But there's a lot of Africa news all over the place.
There's a lot of stuff going on.
Well, they've got to make the transfer, they've got to move.
We've already given them all the ammo and arms and stuff from Ukraine, and so they're loaded to the gills, but we have to give them more once things start getting heated.
I don't know what we're going to get out of this.
Well, nothing.
The U.S.
is losing.
I mean, it's like taxpayer money is what we're losing.
Definitely.
I mean, do you want to do Africa first?
Do you want to start with Africa?
I mean, you know what?
It's funny.
We talk and talk and talk about Africa and then I don't think I have one clip about Africa.
Well, you know, Africa, we've got to ease into the show.
If people hear phone off the hook Africa, they're not going to listen.
Yeah, I agree.
Let's talk about something more amenable.
I got something.
Let's talk about... Well, okay.
Let's start with the military industrial complex.
Any Kardashian news?
That'll keep them glued.
Well, hold on a second.
It's funny you mention that because, uh... See, where's my real news?
And now, back to Real News.
Oh yeah!
Oh yeah, Real News, baby!
A Taylor Swift concert has reportedly caused record-breaking seismic activity equal to an earthquake.
According to a local seismologist, Swifties shook the ground so hard during the Seattle leg of the singer's current tour, it caused the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude quake.
Seismologists were piecing together the time codes with the largest seismic activity of Swiftquake, and found the greatest commotion was during her song's Blank Space, and of course, Shake It Off.
That's right, baby.
Two famous songs.
Ten times or near.
There's the earthquakes we've been waiting for.
Two toe tappers.
The BBC even had news on this.
Wait, this is weird.
When was that story?
Because I understood, and she was here yesterday, she did these two shows in San Francisco at the Chase Center, and I was under the impression from the local news that this was her first and second stop of her Eros tour.
I must have been misled.
Well, who knows?
This is earth-shattering news!
Literally!
The BBC News Hour did a minute 25 on it!
Such was the enthusiasm of the crowd's reaction to a concert by Taylor Swift.
Is it the Eros Tour?
E-R-O-S?
I think that's what it's called, yeah.
In the American city of Seattle last weekend.
Oh, it's last weekend!
That it produced genuine seismic activity.
Seismic activity!
Well, hold on.
Again, last weekend.
This weekend she's here.
Yeah.
And I was under the impression by our local news dudes that this was her first and second stop.
First and second.
That doesn't sound like first and second to me.
It's one of those things where every city she goes to... Hey, I'm here in my favorite city, Cleveland!
Hello, Cleveland!
This is all bullcrap?
Is that what I'm getting out of this?
Is this news?
By the way, it's the Eros Tour.
E-R-A-S.
Oh, that was Eros.
E-R-O-S.
Eros Tour.
Let's continue the BBC's report!
This was the sound that came from the Lumenfield Stadium when the global pop star was on stage.
Wow!
Sounds just like every concert I've been to ever!
This is the worst native ad they could have come up with.
Nearly 70,000 fans simultaneously shaking it off with Taylor Swift.
Measured the same as a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.
According to seismologists, Professor Jackie Kaplan-Auerbach is one of the geologists behind this study and she explained her findings.
Oh, let's talk to the geologist!
I went and looked at the data and holy heck!
Holy heck!
I looked at the data!
There was this obvious... Holy heck!
Holy heck!
What is this?
Holy heck!
I gotta do that again.
I went and looked at the data and holy heck!
There was this obvious signal from both Saturday and Sunday night.
And what jumped out was that they were just identical for four hours.
The ground shook in the same manner for four hours.
And at that point it was like, well clearly what we're recording is a concert.
And from my perspective, there's kind of two things it could be.
A, it's the music itself.
Now the other possibility is that it's the crowd.
And the crowd is going to dance to that same rhythm and they're going to sway and they were singing and I've talked to so many people who are at this concert.
Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me lady.
If they're swaying, that's not going to give you any seismic activity.
It's when they're going jumping up and down.
The crowd is gonna dance to that same rhythm and they're gonna sway and they were singing and I've talked to so many people who are at this concert who talk about how the whole stadium shook.
Well, it certainly is a new take.
It certainly is a new take on the old concert promotion deal.
Hold on a second, this is what's interesting about it.
This is a week ago before the first and second here in the Bay Area, but they stole the Bay Area.
What area is known for earthquakes more than California?
None!
Seattle's definitely not.
So they took the California gimmick Took it up from under us and did it up in Seattle.
Now we can't do it.
So we didn't get any of these earthquake stories down here.
This is news to me that this even, you know, this story.
So we got screwed out of a gimmick or somebody got screwed out of a gimmick because the whole thing is a scam.
That story's bullcrap.
And this story down here that does the first and second stop is bullcrap.
And by the way, they showed they had a lot of these ads about this concert.
Of course.
It was media buy.
I take it back, it wasn't at Chase Center, it was down at the 49ers stadium down in Santa Clara.
And so they had all these train cars going to it and back, and there were these girls, loaded with these... The Swifties!
Swifties!
Swifties, and there'd be like one guy who was smart enough to get in on it, and he'd be in there with a big shit-eating grin on his face.
Here's why they're doing this.
Okay?
Mmkay?
So Seattle got the Swifties.
Everything's good.
They got the earthquake.
California gets this.
Then another reminder of an aging Congress happening during a subcommittee hearing yesterday when 89-year-old Dianne Feinstein was called to vote, but instead began an awkward speech.
It provides $823 billion.
An aide comes to her side, interrupting her.
Just say I'm okay.
Fine.
Your representative is so brain-dead.
I got a longer report from CNN.
This was a beautiful moment, particularly coming after Mitch McConnell.
It's all sad, by the way.
I feel horrible for these people, that they're being propped up and held in office just to keep a seat warm, and barely that.
This morning, concerns are mounting about the capabilities of some of the oldest members of Congress.
At 90, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein is the oldest U.S.
lawmaker.
She has been in frail health since a shingles diagnosis earlier this year.
Since her return to the Capitol, she has appeared confused at times, including yesterday, when the senator had to be corrected and told to vote during a Senate hearing.
The clerk will call the roll.
Senator Feinstein.
Me, what?
You say aye.
I would like to support a yes vote on this.
in It provides $823 billion.
That's an increase of $26 billion.
That's actually interesting.
This report has a little bit more in it.
She is saying yes.
She's speaking out of turn, but there seems to be some cognition because she says, yes, I want to support this, but then she goes into explaining why.
But she kind of knew what was going on.
Well, no, I think that they were just going from person to person.
She didn't know it was a vote, obviously.
Can I say something about that report if you go back?
You don't have to play it again.
She was falling apart before shingles.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
But they gotta slip that in because there's a vax out there.
Vaccine!
Yeah, we got the shingles vaccine.
Good point.
I'd like to support a yes vote on this.
It provides $823 billion.
That's an increase of $26 billion for the Department of Defense.
And it funds priorities... Hey!
Stupid bag!
What?
Yeah, just say I. Okay.
Okay, just say it.
I. I. Look, it's a delicate conversation.
No, it's not.
But it is one that is being had more and more out in the open.
It's not delicate.
What are you hearing from Senator Feinstein's office about that moment in particular?
Yeah, everything's great.
Erica, it is a really delicate conversation.
It's not delicate!
It's not really newt.
To the U.S.
Senate.
There have been senators in the past who have had cognitive issues in the U.S.
Senate.
There are senators who have aged here in a way that really made it hard for them to do their jobs.
But Senator Feinstein's office, reacting to that moment in the Appropriations Committee, the senator was preoccupied, didn't realize debate had just ended, and a vote was called.
And you see that moment where her staffer comes up to her, whispers in her ear that it's time to actually vote, and then you hear Patty Murray, who's the chairman of that committee, saying, just say, aye.
Just do as we tell everybody else to do, Diane.
Just say, aye.
Aye.
There's a term for this.
Questions have been swirling surrounding the health and fitness of the 90-year-old California senator and whether she should continue in her post.
Meanwhile, Google searches for the term gerontocracy, which means oligarchical rule by the elderly, went through the roof after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell seemingly froze during a press conference Wednesday.
Currently, our Congress is the oldest in our history.
Whatever you do, don't look at Joe Biden because he's fine.
Everything's just fine with that man.
President Biden.
So, you know, part of the problem is the seniority system.
Yeah, I mean, we have a lower end, right?
You have to be, don't you have to be 25 at least?
Or what age do you have to be to be in Congress?
Isn't there a minimum age?
There is a minimum age, but the problem is, it's not the point I'm making, the problem is the seniority system.
If you're in longer than someone else, you have a higher priority when it comes to being on committees.
You get to choose this and that, and you get more privileges.
Yeah, right.
Unless they get rid of it.
And so that's why you keep these old farts in, because they're going to have a little more power.
It's going to represent your state better.
And I don't know what quite to do about that.
You could get rid of it, but then you'd have a lot of people and newcomers and some popular new person would come in.
I think the average, the median age of the American citizen is 35.
I don't think, I think it's... You think it's older?
Well, you know how we can find out?
Consult the Book of Knowledge!
CONSULT THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE!
Average age of American.
Okay, that's a very good idea, John.
No, median is different than average.
Oh, median.
So what should we, are we looking for the median or the average?
Look at both!
Okay, median age of the U.S.
population, this is the latest, is from 2021, and that is 38.8 years.
In 1960, it was 29.5.
That's the median.
Now let us look at the average.
The average age is 38.1.
So almost the same.
Hey, 38.1.
That's the median.
Now let us look at the average.
The average age is 38.1.
So almost the same.
Hey, 38.1.
All right.
So she's almost, she's more than twice as old as the median and average age.
So yeah.
And then we have Mitch McConnell brain freezing.
Yeah, we still haven't got a good explanation for that.
I think it was a mini stroke.
That's what it looked like to me.
Yeah, that's what I, it's possible.
Now, something else that you mentioned, the shingles and the shingles vaccine, of course, we're all cranking up and the CDC has already said, yo, you better get ready.
Pfizer and Moderna are going to have your special shot for the flu season.
Flu season.
I mean, I'm sorry, COVID season.
That's coming up.
We'll do it all in one.
Flu, COVID, RSV, it's all going to be in one.
But something else.
Again, I would say it one more time.
I never heard of this disease in my entire life till about a year ago.
A lot of moms know about it.
And they've known about it for longer than you and I have, much longer than you and I have heard about it.
But still, I'm with you.
But something else cropped up and it just flew onto the radar, which makes me immediately suspicious.
Immediately suspicious because we got emails about it and then I just see the news is blanketed with this story.
The CDC is sounding the alarm about the growing number of meat allergies linked to tick bites.
The CDC says nearly half a million Americans have been affected since 2010.
It starts when someone is bitten by what's called a lone star tick.
Scientists say a life-threatening allergic reaction can be triggered when the victim eats red meat or dairy products which contain the same molecule.
Okay, you wanted to say something.
This story's old.
I've said it to the people who sent me emails.
I think I first heard about this story three years ago.
And it came, it cropped up and then it disappeared completely.
And the reason I know it's old in particular is because Jay's old boyfriend, who used to hang out here, was allergic to beef in that same way.
And I thought, and then when this story came up, I equated it and he hasn't been around for years on end.
So it's like this story is at least three years old, if not older.
And I don't know why they brought it back in as though it's... We've noticed this over the years.
There'll be some story that was told a year or two, three, five, ten years ago languishes and then it's brought back as though it's new.
I think there's something else going on with this because I've done a little bit of the researches.
It's the blanketing of the media that made me suspicious because yes, you're right, these stories come back around.
I recall, we might have even talked about Jay's ex-boyfriend.
Emphasis on ex because, you know, he can't have a non-media eater in the Dvorak family.
Get out!
Um, so three years ago it also almost makes sense.
A new summer health alert tonight about a rare red meat allergy linked to tics.
The CDC calling an emerging public health problem and warning cases in the U.S.
are on the rise.
We get more from Raheem Ellis.
For months, Doreen Swardahl suffered extreme joint pain and fatigue.
It took me a year and four different doctors to get a diagnosis.
And that diagnosis was alpha-gal syndrome, typically caused by a bite from a lone star tick.
That tick bite leads to an allergic response to the alpha-gal sugar that's found in red meat.
And after you eat red meat, then you develop the allergic reactions.
Doreen says now she's also allergic to dairy and even gelatin.
And according to a new report from the CDC, out of 1,500 doctors surveyed, 42% had never heard of alpha-gal syndrome, and 35% said they weren't confident of their ability to detect or treat it.
Symptoms include hives, itching, abdominal pain, vomiting, and chest tightness.
The CDC says Alpha-Gal syndrome, traditionally found in mid-Atlantic states, is spreading.
110,000 suspected cases have been identified since 2010.
But experts estimate the true number affected is closer to 450,000.
The challenge is getting to those primary care frontline providers that are seeing patients and having them become aware so we can speed the diagnosis.
Doctors say use tick repellent, do frequent checks, and keep to trails to avoid the kind of precautions Doreen has to take.
Is it fair to say that this has changed your life?
Very fair to say that.
Anything I put into my body, I have to monitor.
A call for awareness of an illness understood far too little.
Okay, so at first, you know, there was some thinking and some producers even emailed me saying, hey, maybe this is the Lyme disease, and we know the Lyme disease was created in the Plum Island, but it's, you know, we went to America's favorite doctor, Dr. Jen.
That seems to be not true.
We're back now with America's favorite doctor, Dr. Jen, and today we're talking about a tick bite associated with food allergy and why it's a growing public health concern.
What do we know?
Okay, so the CDC is putting out this health alert for clinicians, people in the medical community, and also for the public.
And let me walk you through this because you hear tick bite, red meat allergy, and it gets confusing, right?
I get confused, yes.
This is a new entity.
It's an allergic reaction caused by a tick bite of a human.
So Lone Star tick, which is found in the eastern, southern, and central U.S.
and starting to spread some other places as well, bites us.
When it bites us, it passes along an enzyme, a sugar molecule, that then our body sees as foreign.
Not a problem, except that we're exposed to that same sugar molecule in meats, in dairy, in some other products as well.
And then what happens, our body says, I recognized that before as foreign, now I'm going to set forth and trigger a huge immune response allergic reaction.
So it can give you the hives, the GI issues, the swelling of the tongue, anaphylaxis in some cases.
And the CDC is saying we are not on the lookout for this.
A lot of doctors don't know about it, don't know how to think of it or identify it.
You can test for it with a simple blood test.
But people also need to be aware of this because they might be having these signs or symptoms after eating three to six hours later and not understand why.
So, okay, now they're kind of throwing me on a false scent here by saying it's a sugar molecule.
Okay, I'm not so sure, but I'm looking up this alpha-gal stuff.
That's alpha dash G-A-L.
Interestingly, once you really start looking for alpha-gal, they don't put it in the medical documentation as the word A-L-P-H-A.
No, they just use the alpha symbol.
Which makes your search a little more difficult.
Impossible.
Pretty much.
And different from Lyme disease.
Completely different tick-borne illness, but we've talked about before how many different illnesses we can get from ticks.
This is the new kid on the block, and so it needs to be on everyone's radar.
Alright, we're watching and we're paying attention.
And prevention is key.
That is key.
Best advice from the doctor.
We're back in a moment.
So, everything in prevention is key.
Hold on a second.
So, I go looking at alpha, alpha-gal syndrome and then I find this little ditty.
This is on the NIH.gov and it's a, it's a approved paper and it says the antibody response To the glycan, so I guess glycan is where they get the sugar molecule from, as in glycose, whatever.
Alpha-gal correlates with COVID-19 disease symptoms.
Huh.
So, it's like, what are the chances?
Do you think, oh yes, oh yes, here it is.
Some medications and vaccines may contain small amounts of alpha-gal, containing additive stabilizers or coatings.
Dude, I think they're covering up for some more, you know, another bad reaction to the vaccine.
This is in your vaccines, not just the COVID vaccine.
Well, this would account for the re-emergence of it as a new story.
Yes, exactly!
It's like, OK, well, of course, we can't do that.
We have to tie it to red meat.
And as you know, red meat is all the climate change.
Now to an important health alert.
Today, the Centers for Disease Control is warning about a potentially life-threatening red meat allergy caused by tick bites.
The report estimates 450,000 people may have contracted the disease known as Alpha-Gal Syndrome.
CBS's Meg Oliver reports, the alert comes as health officials report cases of tick-borne diseases are rising.
Last year, 53-year-old Carmen Stangota began suffering from fatigue, muscle spasms, and slurred speech.
Eight months of testing, six different doctors from primary, neurologists, ear, nose, and throat, endocrinologists.
The father of four from New Jersey was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease from a tick bite that didn't show the most common symptom, a bullseye-like rash.
You know, there's good hours and bad hours.
It impacts all the things you take for granted that you do every day.
Other symptoms include headaches, fatigue, and muscle aches.
Every summer we see an increase in tick-borne diseases.
Dr. Laurie Handy says the number of ticks and tick-borne infections nationwide is on the rise, likely due to climate change.
Ticks can survive in different areas because it's warmer, and that can lead to more infections in humans.
To prevent an infection, doctors recommend wearing long clothes and using bug spray with DEET, changing and showering once home, checking your body in a full-length mirror, and throwing your clothes in the dryer.
Turn it on high, and if any ticks remain on the clothes, they'll just kill that after about 10 minutes.
If you do find a tick, you should grasp it with tweezers close to the skin and steadily pull it out.
The majority of tick-borne infections are easily treatable with antibiotics.
I really, truly hope that I can just help one other person, ten other people.
This has really been quite an experience.
Meg Oliver, CBS News.
I'm just not buying it.
I think that this is related to either COVID as a bioweapon, because literally of this NIH study, the antibody response to alpha-gal correlates with COVID-19 disease symptoms.
And then there's another PubMed publication.
Well that sure doesn't include gastrointestinal to the extreme that this is.
Or allergy to red meat.
Red meat!
A new synthesis of galactose.
For gene delivery.
Look, I am not a scientist.
I'm not a medical doctor.
We have a lot of people who are producers who listen.
Dive into this, people.
Let's find out what this alpha-gal thing is because it seems like it's in vaccines and it's affecting people and they're blaming it on red meat because why not?
What a great opportunity.
But really, if you listen to the show... Well, you got a lot of it wrapped up in one.
You got the red meat.
Yep.
Get people off of red meat, have them eat bugs.
Yep.
And you've got the climate change angle.
And then you have the name of the thing itself, which is Alpha Gal, which introduces you to transmasc.
Dude, transmouse!
That's right!
Alpha Gal!
Dude Gal!
Exactly!
And, as predicted, after we played the speech that was broadcast on our very own show day... What you need to know, right now on GMA3, global boiling has arrived.
The message goes up!
GMA3, the worst, by the way.
It's so obvious, the message, like, hello, I'm Antonio Guterres, the era of global warming is over, the era of global boiling is here, take it ABC, take it, take it!
You guys call it top headlines, I'm calling it hot headlines, and that's exactly where we're going to begin.
Today, the alarming warning from the U.N.
as the summer heat continues to cook.
The Secretary General calling this the era of, quote, global boiling, with July set to be the hottest month ever recorded.
And look, we are all feeling it.
150 million Americans are under coast-to-coast heat alerts today.
With the severe weather threat across the Midwest, there is some good news, some relief.
Finally, cooler temperatures are expected as we turn the calendar page into August, especially in the Southwest, the Rockies, and the Northeast.
Actually, I got to go back to the pharma people for one moment because I got a call from a friend of mine and he gets some medication from an Austin compounding pharmacy, which if you're going to get anything, I recommend going to a compounding pharmacy because, you know, they don't put alpha-gal in your stuff, as far as I know.
And he called me and he said, hey, thank you so much for all the talking you've been doing about Ozempic.
Because two doctors recommended I get on this.
You know, maybe he's pre-diabetic, but he definitely could lose a few pounds.
And he went to his compounding pharmacy.
They have, pretty much since the big rush started for Ozempic, the compounding pharmacy has had 60,000 inquiries for semaglutide.
They had to hire a call center.
That's how crazy this is.
That's why advertising or doing any such thing on television is bad.
Yes, and this drug is also, as we've been saying, be careful because it's off-label and everyone is pushing it in Hollywood.
You might die!
Now to our GMA cover story and the drugs being used for weight loss like Ozempic are making headlines again.
ABC News Medical Contributor Dr. Darian Sutton is here with a reality check.
Good morning Dr. Sutton, always love having you.
So there are reports of people experiencing so-called stomach paralysis.
What is that and what should we know about these side effect claims?
So, good morning, Janae.
So, stomach paralysis associated with these medications Ozempic and Wagobi.
So, one of the methods that these medications work is that they slow the rate at which food empties out of the stomach or they have something called gastric delay.
This helps with feelings of fullness and helping to suppress appetite.
Now, we're seeing these isolated reports of patients who are suffering from stomach muscle paralysis where food cannot empty out of the stomach.
We define this as called gastroparesis.
And it can be associated with symptoms of abdominal pain, bloating, acid reflux, or GERD, and severe nausea and vomiting.
And Janae, I've taken care of patients who suffer from this diagnosis.
It is absolutely brutal.
Patients often come in with severe dehydration and electrolyte abnormalities.
And many have so, their symptoms are so difficult to control that they have to be admitted to the hospital.
But in the larger studies, we have not seen an increased rate of gastroparesis comparing those who use these medications to the general population.
So we'll still have to wait and see if there's any identification of cause and effect, but I think it's important to acknowledge.
Humina, humina, humina.
It's important to acknowledge.
Meanwhile, let's get back to red meat, because that's gonna kill you.
Red meat's gonna kill you, but not the Ozempic.
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's all good.
That's all good.
In the UK, they are now, there seems to be, now I would say this is Pfizer marketing above everything.
But, the European Journal of Heart Failure has published a paper saying a dose of Moderna's COVID jab, jab, injured the hearts of about 3% of the people who received it.
This is a Swiss paper.
And it's an accepted paper.
Now isn't that unacceptably high?
I would say it is.
And so it's not the Pfizer, it's the Moderna.
Then unfortunately, it was the CIA drug.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak invested $500 million of his private funds into Moderna through a company, one of his vehicles, called Thalema Partners in the Cayman Islands, which has now come out.
And after he did that, he stated in Parliament the vaccine was safe and effective.
I wonder how long he'll be Prime Minister.
Let's see if this pops.
Let's see if this pops.
Maybe.
Come on, man.
They always want to get rid of their Prime Ministers.
They always want to get rid of them.
Yeah, but it's still the Parliament that chooses him, so it's not like they'd vote him in.
Meanwhile, we have the guy who did real drugs finally coming, well not finally, but coming out and saying it.
Bobby the K.
I did a really interesting interview on Math Hoffa, which is a bunch of black dudes in a barbershop podcast.
It's a good podcast.
Yeah, it could be.
I was talking to Mo about it and Mo says he's now doing a tour through the black spaces and he said, remember, remember, this is a big problem for the Democrats if they don't want him because he's grabbing the black American vote like crazy.
Because if you go to any traditional black American home on the wall, you will see three portraits.
Can you name the three?
You'd have Martin Luther King.
Yep.
John F. Kennedy.
Yep.
And who's the third?
Well, I think a lot of them would have Malcolm X, but I don't think that's the third.
Jesus would be the first one.
Jesus, MLK, and JFK.
And he is talking their language.
Let's see.
You talked about your addiction issues.
The only presidential hopeful I've ever heard admit that he used any kind of barbiturate was Bill Clinton talking about smoking weed and he didn't inhale.
But you're not.
I inhaled for sure.
That's partly what I'm talking about.
You're very open about the fact that this is a part of your history.
Before the interview really kicked off, you talked about having a hole in your soul that you felt like, shout out to Aerosmith, that you felt like you couldn't fill.
Yeah.
Is that what caused you to... Yeah, I mean, a lot of people, you know, I've been going to 12-step meetings.
I've probably been to, I don't know, 20,000 of them.
So you hear people's stories and there's a high percentage of people like me who believe they were born with the addiction.
And then there's other people who think that they got it later on in life, that they've crossed the line.
And once you, you know, they say, once you become a, uh, if you're a cucumber, once you become a pickle, you can't become a cucumber again.
Once you cross this certain line, then, you know, you can't go back.
For me, I felt that kind of gnawing, empty hole from when I was a little kid.
My drug of choice was heroin, so within four weeks of that, I was shooting heroin.
And I had been around animals my whole life and given them hypodermic needles and it made sense to me that it would be more efficient to inject the drug.
So I did that and I was addicted for until I was 28 years old and then I got sober.
I was trying the whole time.
I just didn't know how to do it, and I would go for weeks, I would go for months.
What was the difference in 28?
Well, I got into a 12-step program, and then I had a spiritual awakening, and it was like, it was lifted.
So, and it, you know, it was, it was like a miracle, as much a miracle for me as if I'd been able to walk on water.
The whole interview was really fascinating, and I cut this up a lot, because he talks about the first time he dropped acid, and then some guy said, hey, he had some heroin, then he did the heroin, then he was injecting heroin, but then someone said, hey man, smoke this crystal meth, you'll feel great, then he was smoking meth.
I mean, he's going through the gamut of things.
And he talks about being arrested on the airplane, after he got off the airplane, where he was actually on his way to a detox for the 12-step program to kick the habit.
And he thought, one more time.
One more time in the bathroom of the airplane.
And he says that actually that was really good for him because he got arrested then it was all out and then it was out in the open.
It's a good interview and what he says is that, I think, I don't know if it's in this clip, hold on a second.
What snatched you out of it?
Well then I guess I, my progression was very fast.
Action is always progress, it always gets worse and I...
My drug of choice was heroin, so within four weeks of that, I was shitting heroin.
No, no, I'm sorry.
That's the same clip.
He said that he got out of it with the 12-Strick program, which is closely related to God.
And he says, yeah, religion.
Religion stopped me right away.
So, you know, you should see the comments on this YouTube video.
People are loving it.
I loved it for different reasons.
I loved it for this little ditty about Ukraine and the military-industrial complex as he throws down the gauntlet.
When Mitch McConnell was asked about, you know, why are we spending $113 billion in Ukraine, he said, Well, he said don't worry about it because that money is not actually staying in Ukraine.
It is going to military contractors.
It's just going over, technically going to Ukraine, but we're actually just buying, going to General Don Hamilton.
- Outsourcing.
- Yeah, other soldiers.
- And he said, so it's all American companies, and that's good for our country.
- Yeah.
- And that's what's going on.
- And that is their rationale.
And over there, they're killing Ukrainian kids, so nobody here is gonna complain, 'cause nobody here is watching the coffins come home.
- Right.
- And so it's the perfect war for the military.
They get to, you know, get re-upped their contracts and, you know, and those are the people who drive policy in Washington, D.C.
So is Mitch McConnell they?
He's part of them.
I mean, Joe Biden is they.
Because when you say Joe Biden, when you say the military industrial complex, I'm still looking for names.
Like we're the... Victoria Nuland, Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken.
Those are the people who are driving them.
Those three names?
Yeah, those three names.
Okay, so when you get in, Joe Biden will go and he'll fire the other guys?
Yeah, all of those.
You know, I will reorganize the CIA.
Interesting.
He will reorganize the CIA.
How about that?
Yeah, I wonder what that refers to.
I know they... I have one JFK Jr.
I actually have a couple, but I have the one clip that I think is the more important one.
Yes, I know which one you're talking about.
When you play stuff like that, it explains this one, which is the JFK Jr.
security refusal clip.
In other election news, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
says the Biden administration denied his request for Secret Service protection.
In a Twitter statement, Kennedy cited the assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, during his 1968 campaign.
He said since then, candidates for president have been provided Secret Service protection.
But not for him.
He explained that the turnaround time for filing a request is usually 14 days.
But after more than 80 days of no response, he got a denial.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the protection is not warranted.
Kennedy cited a 67-page report from a protection firm which detailed different types of death threats and security risks for him.
What they should have done, which I found interesting because I looked this up at SecretService.gov under the facts, Secret Service is authorized to protect the president, vice president, immediate families, former presidents, spouses, children until the age of 16, and major presidential and vice presidential candidates and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election.
So that would be next year.
That he can have that.
But I mean, he clearly is being threatened, so they should do it.
And they're not!
No, they won't.
But they should have just said that.
I don't know.
I don't want to say the Amen.
Everyone gets it 120 days before.
You're right.
What you're saying is, from the public relations perspective, the Biden administration should have pulled that little tidbit out of the hat and said, well, we would, but...
But no, they didn't, because they're assholes.
I was talking to Mo about this, and he says he thinks the South Carolina primary will be very interesting.
He thinks that black America will come out for Bobby the K. Yeah, Mo doesn't take into account the rigging of these things.
He just doesn't.
Well, he said it will be very interesting.
He didn't say, I think he does take it into account.
It'll be very interesting.
Well, it probably will be.
So yes, the rigging of things is definitely there.
So I do have a series of clips.
I got, you know, that woman, Stacey Plaskett.
Yes, yes, of course.
She was the one from Virgin Islands.
We never heard of her before.
Now we know she did a sex tape and she's, well, you know, whatever.
I don't know if it was a sex tape, but it was something weird for sure.
She shouldn't have done it, whatever it was.
But she's useless.
She's got no vote, but she's there and she likes to make a fuss.
I wonder why they never brought her on anything, never heard of her.
Well, she comes on and does Before we go into her clips, we just have to acknowledge something we can't really show.
Before we go into her clips, we just have to acknowledge something we can't really show.
I'm sure you saw the clip of her staffer behind her.
All Adderall'd out, as far as I'm concerned, with big bug eyes, miming her entire monologue that she did there, talking about how Bobby the K was no good, and he was a racist, and he's a Jew hater, and all this stuff. and he's a Jew hater, and all this stuff.
And she flubbed the line, and this young woman behind her, who is with bug eyes, you could see her lips moving, like she's singing along with a Taylor Swift song.
She's doing every single word.
She probably wrote it or she's there to... Maybe that's her job?
And she bounces up like... You said... You said... And then Plaskett corrects herself.
You've got to see this video if you haven't seen it.
It's creepy.
So this was written for her, drilled in, she flubbed the line, and she had a handler there to go and correct it.
An MKUltra victim, that's what she was.
MKUltra victim.
So if you see her actually ad-libbing on Pisaki's show... You can understand why.
Yes, you can see why.
It actually makes sense.
You can see this pained look on Pisaki's face, like, oh, why did they make me do her?
So I only have like two minutes of her, but I've divided it up into four clips because every statement she makes has got some, oh my god, are you, what are you trying to say?
She's illiterate.
Listen to this.
Well, you know, first of all, they want to talk about censorship.
That anytime you point out untruths, you're censoring.
You're stopping people from speaking.
What?
What?
So first of all, she uses the word censuring.
Yes, S-U-R.
Instead of censoring.
They're two different words.
They don't mean the same thing at all.
Nope.
And then she says, if you speak the truth to somebody talking about anything, that's censoring them somehow.
I don't know what she's talking about.
And that's when the pained look starts showing up on Pisaki's face.
I can imagine that she was ready to talk about censure.
And she didn't know it was about censoring.
Maybe she was really talking about censoring.
No, no, no.
She was talking about... She just didn't know the words.
So let's go... Here's part two.
It's not that we're not stopping people from speaking.
People can speak.
It's not that we're not... What?
And then she doesn't say not, she says snot.
It's not that we're snot stopping people from speaking.
It's not that we're snot-snot-snot speaking!
You know, making fun of a black woman from the Virgin Islands is very bad.
It's not that we're snot-stopping people from speaking, people can speak.
Yeah, you can't speak.
Alright, onward with three.
But we're also going to give the American people the truth so that they can have science and facts and history against wild outlandish claims that the Republicans are trying to get.
That what?
That the Republicans are trying to get?
Hold on a second.
The science is in!
Let me hear that again.
But we're also going to give the American people the truth so that they can have science and facts and history against wild outlandish claims that the Republicans are trying to get.
Trying to get to get or give?
No, get.
She said the Republicans are trying to get outlandish claims.
She's out of her league and they're burning her.
She's screwed up and they're burning her.
They're burning her.
I don't think they're burning her.
I think that this was a blunder.
I don't think that they knew that she was this bad.
I mean, what's... Because Psaki's not into this at all.
She's just like... Well, that's what I mean.
They've thrown her to the lions.
Throw on the Psaki Show.
That'll be two morons together.
Well, alright, I only have one last little bit.
It's not only going to keep them from going to the polls or suppressing votes or telling untruths, but it's also really very detrimental to the American people.
Hold on, hold on.
I want to hear that again.
That's not only going to keep them from going to the polls or suppressing vote or telling untruths, but is also really very detrimental to the American people.
She's speaking in the soundbites, man.
She's got nothing.
She's just saying things.
She's got nothing.
Nothing.
I have a clip from her from the hills.
The Hill's Rising.
Well, they put her on there, too.
Let me hear.
Stacey Plaskett, the delegate of the Virgin Islands, has been front and center at these hearings, accusing Matt Taibbi of perjury, accusing RFK Jr. of anti-Semitism.
Stacey Plaskett, delegate of the Virgin Islands, trying to get Jeffrey Epstein at her fundraisers as recently as 2018, I believe, the year before he was arrested again and died in...
He didn't kill himself.
Allegedly because of suicide in prison.
This was someone with full knowledge and awareness of his wrongdoing, was courting his influence, his access to funds and to important wealthy people.
Right.
Plaskett, who originally said that she wasn't really aware that he was donating.
She was completely unaware of his donations to her campaign, which, you know, then she had to say in a deposition last month.
It's just a lie.
Yeah, she was directly interviewed.
Yeah, you can see the emails from her team saying, oh, he's going to be there, right?
Let's make sure he gets a personal invite.
Not just for the political dealings, but was an attorney at the tax firm that worked with Jeffrey Epstein.
So even before she ran for public office, she knew Jeffrey Epstein.
But then there's obvious documents where she's asking that he be invited to the events.
She was clearly aware, most likely directly had been speaking with Jeffrey Epstein.
And Jeffrey Epstein, you know, had his own agenda for the Virgin Islands.
He wanted the sex offender policies for the Virgin Islands changed.
Wonder why that could be.
Yeah, you're probably right.
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Stop.
Alright, so there was a big, now I think we can do it.
There was a big Russia-Africa summit.
And, well, a couple of things happened.
So we have this Russia-African summit, and I think the distraction, the distraction was this.
We're going to continue to track the ongoing crisis in Niger as the country contends with the attempted coup of its democratically elected president, and we in the United States are officially only calling it an attempted coup still.
Because of some legal reasons, what it would mean for our troops that are there.
Earlier today, the Presidential Guard, which barricaded President Basim inside the Presidential Palace, declared that their leader, General Tiani, was the new head of state, and that the country's constitution has been suspended.
The group that calls themselves the National Council for Safeguarding the Country, claim they will now exercise all legislative and executive power.
And so while the leaders of this attempted coup called on international partners to cooperate with the new regime, in a new statement today, the White House National Security Council is calling today's developments an unconstitutional seizure of power.
But they are not calling it a coup, because that would trigger U.S.
laws that require the State Department and Defense Department to cut off all foreign assistance, limit military partnerships.
This afternoon, the NSC again called for President Bazoom's immediate and safe release.
I'm thinking this just might be a distraction so we don't talk about the Russia-Africa Summit, which included a number of head honchos, big ones.
Here's a little background on the event.
The Ugandan and Zimbabwean presidents met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Summit in St.
Petersburg.
During the bilateral meeting, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni invited Russia to take part in oil exploration in East Africa.
We want some little oil which we want to export as crude but also refined for the East African market.
But Russian companies can also take part in exploration for more oil in our area.
Zimbabwe's President Emerson Mnangagwa voiced support for Russia in the conflict in Ukraine.
The southern African country has previously abstained from United Nations resolutions criticizing Russia's actions in Ukraine.
Zimbabwe is in solidarity with the Russian Federation in your country's special military operation in Ukraine.
As current chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, the KPC, Zimbabwe unreservedly condemns the unjustified and vindictive ban on the sale of Russian demons on the world market.
Putin has billed a two-day summit that opened Thursday as a major event that will help to bolster ties with African countries, which he said was one of Russia's invariable priorities.
Now this is interesting because Museveni, he is the president of Uganda, as we heard from our boots on the ground, Captain Redbeard of the Space Coast.
That's our guy!
That is our guy!
Uganda is supposed to be ours.
We've got him lock, stock and barrel.
What's he doing now?
He's over there with Putin.
He's like, hey Putin, we got all kinds of good stuff.
I mean, you hear they're building a nuclear power plant, the Russians are.
They're putting up a big laboratory.
I don't know what kind of laboratory that'll be.
Hey, come on, take some of our oil.
This is not good.
Now, of course, Putin, he fattened the pot.
Not a little bit.
Thank you very much for joining us here on TRT World.
So in the past 24 hours, Putin has written off 23 billion dollars debts to African countries.
He has pledged free grains to at least six African nations.
What exactly is Putin trying to achieve here?
What do you think, douchebag?
Well, I think he is trying to counterbalance the Western narratives that Russia's quitting the grain deal with Ukraine, is endangering the food security for Africa.
And he's trying to prove that he's actually doing everything he can to increase that support for Africa in terms of food security, but most importantly, tries to keep them, if not on Russia's side, at least neutral side if not on Russia's side, at least neutral side more globally in his competition and rivalry with the West.
Okay, so $23 billion, it's not something to sneeze at.
That means a lot for some of these African nations.
And part of the deal seems to be a peace deal, not a stop the war, but a peace deal, a truce, dare I say, an armistice, perhaps with a demilitarized zone, with Ukraine, and Putin is backing a proposal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed the African Peace Initiative on Ukraine, speaking at the close of the Russia-Africa Forum in St.
Petersburg, Putin also praised China's efforts at finding a solution to the conflict.
But in general, the initiative, in my opinion, can be the basis of some processes aimed at the search for peace, the same as others, such as, for example, the Chinese initiative. the same as others, such as, for example, the Chinese Yes, they do not claim that their initiative contradicts or competes with others.
In general, the conversation was long and substantive.
We probably talked for an hour and a half.
Everyone spoke on this issue.
I want to emphasize once again that it was from an absolutely friendly position, that it was a real, real, real search for some ways, some opportunities to somehow diffuse the situation.
The Russian leader also brushed away a question about why he will not be attending the BRICS forum in South Africa in August, claiming that his presence at the summit is irrelevant.
Well, making no mention of the arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court.
Ah, there we go.
The International Criminal Court.
This is what they've been trying to set up for at least a year, where they have a warrant out for Putin's arrest.
And this does not sit well with the EFF, which is not the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
This is the African, South African opposition party, and again, South Africa should be ours, but oh no!
You've got, this guy is dynamic.
He's got the, they're all got red berets, they're all like militant, they're devout Marxists it appears, and he's in this football stadium, which is, there must be 50, 60,000 people there, and he's... Who's this guy you just said?
This is the leader of EFF, the South African opposition.
Name?
It's in this report.
And he's saying, boycott the BRICS meeting because they're trying to arrest Putin.
Listen to this.
South Africa's radical leftist opposition party, EFF, urged the leaders of China, India and Brazil to boycott the upcoming BRICS summit in solidarity with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Speaking at an anniversary rally for South Africa's third largest party, Economic Freedom Fighters, EFF, Julius Malema also denounced Washington's pressure to turn against the Russian leader.
We call on the President of the People's Republic of China, India and Brazil not to come to BRICS Summit in solidarity with President Putin.
They must say, you touch one of us, you touch all of us.
During the speech to mark the 10th anniversary of the party, Malema also turned against South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
It is Ramaphosa, the coward Ramaphosa, who could not guarantee that we will not arrest Putin.
We are Putin and Putin is us and we will never support imperialism against President Putin.
Putin's potential visit to South Africa posed a diplomatic and legal challenge for the South African authorities, as he is the target of an international criminal court arrest warrant.
There you go.
So it seems that Russia and China have a lot of Africa and all we have is Sudan, which of course we're not hearing anything about.
But, I have a nice little timeline from Captain Red Beard.
He says, you know there's a Russian naval base in Sudan.
No, I did not.
Here's a little timeline.
August 22, a new ambassador is appointed to Sudan.
November 22, Blinken suggests working with the US, i.e.
get rid of the naval base from the Russians.
February 23, Sudan finalizes the Russian naval base deal.
March 23, Victoria Nuland shows up.
That's when you know your country's in trouble.
When Vicky enters, look out!
Yes, one month later, April 23, 2023, civil war breaks out in Sudan.
April 23, 2023, civil war breaks out in Sudan.
So this new ambassador, John Godfrey, he had been out of politics, I guess, for 25 years.
He's appointed as the U.S.
ambassador to Sudan in August of 2022.
The Sudanese government in Khartoum was about to finalize that deal with Russia for a new naval base.
So he's there to try and wreck it all.
Blinken of course advised Sudan against working with Russia.
Then we had Nuland go in literally to discuss democracy.
And then the rebel commander held talks with the US, UK and Norway representatives in April.
And then of course, boom, everything happens.
This seems to be our doing.
The death in Khartoum is all us.
And that's all we've got is the Sudan part.
I don't think we have much else.
Russia and China seem to have the lock.
How about this for an idea?
We're actually working with Russia to keep China out of everything.
Well, I have a clip.
Let's see if that fits.
President Xi thanked the Mauritanian president for his support concerning China's core interests.
After the meeting, the two heads of state witnessed the signing of the Plan on Advancing Belt and Road Cooperation.
Also on Friday, the Chinese President met Burundian President Evaristo Ndaishimi in Chengdu.
The Burundian President is on an official visit to China to attend the opening ceremony of the 31st Summer Edition of the FISU World University Games.
During the meeting, the two heads of state reinforced the links between the two countries and also stressed the need for increased cooperation.
The Burundian president also reiterated that his country firmly adheres to the One China principle and believes that Taiwan is a part of China.
The Burundi side also announced its support for the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative.
The Chinese president responded by pledging continued support for Burundi.
So, seems like China is kind of on the outs there.
They got Burundi.
Yeah, I don't know how important those are.
Let's go back to this theory that this is all a scam.
We're working with Putin.
It started with William Burns visiting Putin just before the Ukraine War broke out, then all of a sudden the Ukraine War breaks out.
No, no, no, he didn't visit Putin.
He didn't visit Putin, did he?
Yeah.
Oh, he did.
In that interview that we played a couple of shows ago, he talked about visiting Putin.
It's hard to listen to because he's so boring, but he went to Russia and visited Putin, and the next thing you know, there's Ukraine.
We knew about it in advance.
I have the clip.
We knew it was going to happen, so I went and talked to Putin.
Here we go.
Hold on.
Let me play the clip.
Do you see any real threat to his position?
Well, I think there's an unease across the Russian population right now.
There's unease from some more hawkish critics who are, you know... Is this the one?
...who see the conduct of the war as being flawed.
And then you have the unease I mentioned before of, you know, lots of Russians of military age on Russian men fleeing the country as well.
So I'm not trying to suggest that that poses an immediate, you know, threat to his grip on... No, I don't think that's it.
But I believe you.
Well, you can't tell.
I believe you.
These are too long.
Yeah, I believe you.
So Burns goes over there, they set up this scheme.
The next thing you know, you have other little comments that come in.
All of our clips, by the way, kind of back this.
Just today, Mitch McConnell being cited by RFJK.
Bobby the K.
Just say it.
Bobby the K.
Bobby the K.
Which would be a lot easier to say.
uh Talking about how this whole Ukraine money is a scam, for all practical purposes, it's just being used to put more money into our side of the ledger.
You have this, we have Sudan, as you say, but Putin's got a Navy base there, how's that work?
Everything just points to this whole thing being a giant scheme to keep China out because I don't think Putin gets along with Xi Jinping.
Well that would be quite interesting if that was true.
That would be quite interesting.
Well Africa has... Because why does all of a sudden why is Russia all involved in Africa?
This has never been the case.
Where's Clooney?
We need Clooney to tell us what's going on.
They need to bring him out.
Don't you think?
I think he retired.
No, he was kind of... He just came out with a new spook movie.
Yeah, you've got to do this.
You've got something going on and you need a distraction.
Conclude it.
Conclude it.
What was kind of interesting, because the guy is impossible to listen to, Mussolini.
Uh, I mean, he's very difficult.
And man, his head is shiny.
Holy Christ.
Museveni, the Ugandan president, his head is so shiny.
He polishes it.
He looks like it.
So here's what he said.
Because he started off like, since the 1900s, you know, we've been colonized, we've been screwed.
You know, every country in Africa, he said, except one country, he said, that wasn't colonized.
He said, one facet of neocolonialism and colonialism was Africa being confined to producing only raw materials, crops like coffee and minerals.
I can give you an example.
He said, the global business for coffee.
Do you know what the global business for coffee is worth, according to Moussa It's gotta be phenomenally high.
$460 billion.
Yeah, there you go.
He says that's the value of the coffee business in the world, but of those $460 billion, the coffee-producing countries of the world share only $25 billion, and of that, Africa only shares $2.4 billion out of the $460 billion.
So he says the issue is the biggest stunting factor why African economies are stunted.
They do not grow because all the value is taken by other people.
Germany earns more from coffee than the whole of Africa.
Germany earns 6.8.
It's a little middleman.
They don't know how to do business.
Germany earns $6.85 billion from coffee, while Africa only earns $2.4 billion.
And all they're doing is buying and selling, trading.
Yes.
So what I want to propose to Russia and China is to discourage, as a policy, the importing of raw materials from Africa, to instead work with the Africans to add value at the source.
This would, within a very short time, transform the economies of Africa from low and mid-income to high and middle income, because we see from the example of Uganda that everything is depressed now, production is high but we are still producing raw materials.
To which I think the American answer is no.
No.
I think the answer from China and Russia is also no.
We can't have you do it.
Nobody's going to do that.
Here's 23 billion.
I'll give you that.
Now be quiet.
Hmm.
Well, it's there's just a lot going on.
There's a lot going on.
Adding to my thesis about Putin and the U.S.
working together.
It's interesting.
Let's just take the Wagner Group.
They wouldn't give them enough ammunition to do any real damage.
They started to march on Moscow because they're getting irked.
They got wind of what's really going on.
Yeah, yeah.
And then they send where they end up.
They send them back to Africa to go down there.
Here's some free gold for you.
Get down there.
Get out of here.
I'm telling you, this is getting more fishy by the minute.
It is.
And it started, my thinking on this began with, why the hell is Russia giving a shit about Africa?
Why are they all of a sudden showing up and doing a bunch of our, because we can't do it because we have a bad rep down there.
Well, who gets them?
I mean, China gets the most materials from Africa.
That's what we're trying to prevent.
Wow, that'll be interesting bedfellows, huh?
Interesting bedfellows.
Who would suspect?
Nobody.
Nobody.
Because that's all we do is bitch about Putin.
And we're turning our attention to China, at least the military-industrial complex.
Just getting a taste.
Not a big deal.
A little taste.
We have learned this evening that the Biden administration is now planning a historic $345 million military aid package to Taiwan.
For the first time, the White House says the U.S.
will supply Taiwan with military equipment from American stockpiles.
The aid package reportedly includes portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles.
The move, of course, is expected to draw criticism from China.
Yes.
How is this new?
What do you mean new?
But this is new.
This is new money.
We've been giving them stuff forever.
It's another bit of money.
They're publicizing it now.
That means they're moving... Look, if they're doing... Look.
If they're giving him $345 million publicly, that means there's another $34 billion on the way.
Why is it $345?
How come it's not the basic $400?
These are code numbers.
Yeah, $345.
Yeah.
There's always a $400.
Ukraine's $400 billion.
$400 billion.
It's always $400 million.
$400 something.
It's $400 million at a pop.
I'm with you.
I'm with you.
And now it's $340.
the basic 400, which would, these are code numbers.
Yeah.
Three, four, five.
Yeah.
There's always a 400 to Ukraine.
It's 400 billion, 400 billion.
It's always 400, 400 million, 400 something.
It's 400 million.
I'm with you.
I'm with you.
And now it's 340.
What is this?
I'm with you on that.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Well.
If it's going to get resolved, it'll get resolved on your No Agenda Show.
That's right.
And we do, we make interesting predictions.
You know, ever since bingit.io got a refresh with the excellent transcripts and everything, people are searching around and people do things like, Let me see what those boys were talking about exactly ten years ago!
And, uh, there was something very interesting August 1st.
2013.
Episode 535, I believe.
Do you remember what we were talking about?
It was actually, it's a prediction from you, which in hindsight, I think, was not that far off.
Can you recall what we're talking about?
I can't recall.
We talked about three episodes ago.
Here we go, everybody.
Let's go back in time.
Ten years ago today.
I've been thinking about this, too.
What is... Because you can't guess this war.
I mean, most of these wars you could.
And on the 80-year cycle, the wars have been as follows.
Right on the numbers, there was the American Revolution, which was to get rid of British occupation.
Then there was the Civil War, which took place, which I just discussed a second ago, 80 years later.
And then 80 years after that, there was World War II, which was a horrible war.
So the next cycle is 2020.
There should be a war.
But every, and I thought about this, every war that we've had in this country, it major, not World War I, which was, you know, we showed up and kind of just tipped the balance.
The first one was against an outside force, the British.
The second one was against ourselves.
We were just fighting ourselves.
The third one was against Europe, essentially.
And Japanese.
But it was countries.
It was our country versus these countries.
What would be the fourth one if it's going to be different?
Aliens.
That would be my call.
I think we're going to fight against our own government.
Oh man, how cool would that be?
That'll be awesome.
I never have believed that my thoughts on this, including the cycle and the years and the coincidences, is singular.
I'm not some guy that's over here... I'm not the only guy thinking this.
And I'm sure there's somebody in some think tank thinking the same thing.
Considering 2020, Black Lives Matter protests, the government locking us down, I think you were pretty spot-on.
Well, the event could also be the Ukraine war where we're not fighting against anyone, we just let somebody else do all the work.
Why don't you just take the win, man?
Why are you gonna do that?
I'll take it, I'm winning!
Take the win!
We sound a little different.
We sound a little more energetic.
Is it just me?
Are we sounding more energetic now or then?
No, then.
Then, I think we had more energy.
No, you're just you.
We had more energy back then.
Now, I have a couple of clips that I designed to lead us into a donation segment.
Oh, well, I'm all for that.
Let's do it.
Remember, we have our special guest today, along with the Powerball Numbers.
Yes.
The Powerball numbers.
We're going to do that this time?
Because we were right last time.
We're doing Powerball numbers, yes.
Okay, here we go.
Well, these are employment tips that I picked up off of one of the shows.
They had an interview with a guy who's telling us some stuff, and I thought there was information, man, that new information has come to light about this.
This isn't tips for people who want to get work.
Job seekers, take note.
New research shows that employees who are more agreeable make better teammates.
It's a trait that hiring managers are seeking right now.
Why are they looking for agreeableness and what other traits are they looking at?
NTD's Colin Fredrickson has more.
Hiring managers are looking for people who are more agreeable.
A recent study found a high positive correlation between agreeableness and team performance.
People who are more agreeable are more likely to cooperate and compromise with their teammates.
Those with higher agreeableness, you know, they're more compassionate.
They're more trusting.
They're the more eager to help others.
Yeah.
And those with lower agreeableness, you know, more competitive and skeptical.
Psychologist Ryan Warner says highly competitive people don't necessarily make great team members.
They can make the environment less inviting, and trust also becomes an issue.
Agreeableness is one of the big five personality traits.
Openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
This is a widely accepted framework that's used to assess differences in personality.
While we're going through the screening and the vetting process, we have several tasks that we run, as well as we have in-house psychologists that run interviews in order to look for key traits.
Raquel Gomez is the CEO of Staffy, a firm that evaluates job seekers.
She says the Big Five personality traits are a key metric for evaluating potential hires.
The key traits she looks for are conscientiousness.
This is very important.
This is a person's level of discipline, organization, and reliability.
Extraversion, for the confidence to speak up.
And meanwhile, she always looks for low levels of neuroticism.
This generally refers to a person's emotional stability.
People that having high neuroticism is, you know, overly exaggerating on things that happen.
They're not going the way they are expected, right?
So overly dramatizing.
I've got information, man!
New shit has come to light!
Wait a minute.
So you're just supposed to be a suck-up?
Is that the idea?
Well, no.
You're supposed to be conscientious.
Yes.
And agreeable.
And agreeable.
And an extrovert.
So you speak up.
You have to speak up.
Yes, I agree, boss.
Yes, yes, that's good.
I agree.
That's good, boss.
That's good, boss.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Go.
All right.
It's possible.
I know.
But after the second clip, I'm going to tell you the one they left out.
And it's really obvious to me.
But so is part two.
The recent study also found that neuroticism decreases teen performance.
It says high neuroticism leads to anxiety and fear, which can impair cognitive functioning.
People can learn more about where they fit in in the Big Five personality traits by taking online assessments, doing self-reflection, or seeking feedback from others.
Experts highly advise asking the people around you, because they can give the best feedback about your personality.
How does this lead into a donation segment, is my question?
Because they left out becoming a no-agenda producer.
Ah, there it is!
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courtesy in the morning.
To you, the man who put the C in the ICC, arrest warrant for Putin.
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only, Mr. John C. Dvorak!
In the morning, U.S.
Senator, good morning.
Chippin' Seaboost on Graffiti, there's something going on, game's nice out there.
And in the morning, two art trolls who were entertained by Darren O'Neill this morning.
He had a great rock and roll pre-show.
And of course, before that, we had the Bluegrass Show.
And Sundays are great here.
No agenda.
Hey, trolls, let me see how many we have here.
Put your hands up.
Hello?
Whoa, whoa!
Stop!
Okay, I got them. 2,356?
Well, that's hardly much more than we had.
It was less than we had.
The 2400 I think we had last Thursday.
No, no.
We had 22.
I think it was 22.
No, maybe it was 2424.
I think you're right.
It might have been 24.
Yeah.
So they gave up on us.
Disappointing showing, trolls!
I don't know.
I don't want 2,000 trolls showing up at my house, so I'm glad they're just sticking there in the troll room.
That's a good place for you to be.
They're listening to the live stream and trolling along in the troll room at trollroom.io.
Many of them, of course, are using those swanky modern podcast apps.
You can find them at podcastapps.com.
What's cool is if you're into open source and you don't want to get stuff from the Google Store, maybe you're using Graphene OS, Podverse now does notifications if you get it from F-Droid.
I know it sounds like a bunch of gobbledygook, but a lot of people care about this stuff.
Wow.
Yeah.
Even I couldn't follow that.
It matters.
It matters to a lot of people.
But there's many, many apps that allow you to listen to the live stream.
We'll give you a notification and of course you can troll along in the troll room.
Or of course, if you want to, you can, I'm saying of course too many You can follow us at noagendasocial.com.
Very interesting conversation after Thursday's show with Aaroner, who was somewhat perturbed by our conversation about Section 230.
And what we were saying about Section 230 of U.S.
Code 47 was, hey, these companies, you know, these Silicon Valley companies, maybe we take away their Section 230.
I think that's what we were saying.
Yep.
He took it as, you can't repeal Section 230!
There will be no Internet!
And as I was thinking about it, I'm like, I don't think we said that.
No, I don't think we said that.
But that's what the conversation ensued about that.
And I was kind of thinking, I mean, obviously, there's stuff in there about child porn, child trafficking, there's all kinds of stuff in there.
But in general, I just feel like, because he said, I can't run No Agenda Social if we don't have Section 230.
I said, yeah, that's right.
And I don't think, and I say this respectfully because I love that he's doing it, but not having these social networks, if we just had to go back to everybody has a blog and an RSS feed and you have a newsreader, that wouldn't be too bad.
Know what I mean?
Well, I think also there's a misinterpretation.
Let me go over this for just one second.
There's a possibility.
This is your Powerball section.
Section 230 refers to specifically sites like Twitter and... No, the language actually says any computer information service, so it doesn't refer specifically to that.
No, I'm saying it's what it's assumed to mean.
Yeah, well, interpretation is everything.
A rolling chat room, for example, falls under the, I looked up the definition.
But let's take, what is not covered by Section 230?
Email.
Television, radio.
Yeah.
That's not covered by 230 yet.
Holy mary, hold on a second.
Are you okay?
What's going on?
No, some weird thing just cropped up on my screen.
I can't get it back.
Oh, there it is.
Oh, please, never mind.
What was it?
It was my OneDrive.
Look back at your memories and it cropped up some weird icon or something.
Where you have to look at your pictures?
Freaks me out.
Memories!
Okay, television and radio.
So on, on, on radio, they have a five second delay.
That's what they use to keep people from cussing on the air or doing something.
But, but occasionally once in a while, like on a live show, like on ESPN or somebody will say fuck or they'll say shit.
And they'll just do that and they may or may not get fined for that.
It's not as though spontaneity completely disappears off the face of the earth.
But that's not what it's about.
It's about liability of someone posting something that is libelous or there's liability for what they did.
Criminal liability, civil liability, tort liability.
And that makes the company, or No Agenda Social, not liable for something that was posted there.
We still have to take things down, and I think the big part of Section 230 is that it is very broad and says, well, anything you find offensive, or literally, if you find it offensive, you can take it down, and that's not considered editorial.
That's the rub.
And that's why you get censorship.
Anyway, I was just, I was just thinking how podcasting works perfectly fine.
There's been no takedown at the source, I don't know of any that I know of.
Yeah, there's been podcasts that have been wiped out.
Not from an app, but not at the source, not from the server or the hosting company that hosts it.
There's a big difference there.
I think Podbean may have taken a podcast out of circulation.
Right, but not under Section 230.
I'm just saying that RSS feeds and being responsible for your own stuff This is what happened to RSS.
We had blogs, we had newsreaders, and it got attacked from two sides.
On one side, everybody started doing feeds, so instead of having a feed in your newsreader, all of a sudden you had a feed in your Facebook.
Facebook didn't have that initially.
Then they created the feed, and then Twitter had a feed, which was based on RSS.
In fact, Twitter was a podcast company initially.
Then Google Said, hey, we've got a great thing for you to use.
You don't need to buy any software.
Use Google Reader.
And everyone's like, oh, this is cool.
Google Reader's the best.
Tina had one.
Everyone used Google Reader.
And then they shut it down.
And that's how they killed it.
And then, you know, Google tried to do their... What was it?
What was their initial thing?
Was that Google Plus?
Google Spaces?
What was their... Google Plus.
Google Plus, yeah.
Or something.
I don't know.
So I'm just saying that we could go back to that and I would be perfectly happy.
I mean, it's not that I hate noagendasocial.com at all.
It's great, but a lot of memes.
Let's be honest about it.
We like to thank everybody who supports this show with value for value.
We pioneered this concept and we're very proud of it because it turns out if you ask people to just support something with the amount or the value that they would like to send back, Whatever value they get out of the show.
There's 96% of people get no value from the show, but still listen all the time and do nothing.
But there's a small percentage that will gladly do things.
We have people hosting meetups.
We have people putting up NoAgendaMeetups.com, Void Zero, with the infrastructure.
We've got Sir Paul Couture with No Agenda Art Generator.
Tons, tons of things that people do.
Lots of cool stuff.
Bingit.io!
Search engine.
All of these things.
And we put it under three categories.
Time, talent, or treasure.
And we'll be talking about treasure in a moment because without financial value we can't move forward at all because this is all we do.
All we do all day is sit at home mainly and sift through stuff.
Try and find the bullcrap.
Root that out.
We deconstruct all media and we do it to spin you down in this spun-up world.
We love our artists.
We think that it's very important to have fresh art every single show.
It gets attention.
People look at it.
It gets attacked.
It gets attention.
People are always interested by it.
They wait for it.
The cover art is something that's good to post on those horrible social media networks.
And we want to highlight the artist who we picked on the last show.
This was episode 1576.
We titled that Disease X. How could we not?
Because it's on the way.
It could strike at any time.
And it was a dirty jersey whore!
And we had a hard time selecting art.
There were some good pieces we liked, but that broke many of the rules.
And please remember that what you see on the website and what you even see on social media, a big, you know, 512 by 512 image, is not what most people see in their podcast app.
So you have to have certain elements, just can't be, you know, the gag can't be too small.
Now, Dirty Jersey Whore did an alien montage.
We had two little UFOs.
This was a compromised choice.
It was compromised, but it's not like it was bad.
No, we liked it as the compromised choice.
It was the choice.
I preferred the little comic book cover that was done by Man Crush, but it was just outrageously wrong in terms of it's too small this, too small that.
As much as I liked it, I couldn't really justify it.
You kind of like it came from No Agenda from Coob the Noob, which is to me look like mid-journey AI art, which you by definition reject.
Yes, I didn't see it as mid-journey.
I like the piece too, but it just didn't look like, I mean, we don't have enough evidence.
Right, that it wasn't, that it wasn't, yes.
We don't have enough evidence from Koob the Noob.
There's nothing else like it in his portfolio.
So we have to assume this, because I know he didn't draw this freehand in the time allowed.
It's just not even possible.
And so that got rejected, even though it's a beautiful piece.
And we even looked at Global Boiling, which was the hot chick on the boiling beach, but it was too much.
It was too weird.
Remember that one?
You also like the Nestworks Beast Mode.
Let me see, what was Beast Mode?
It's the one right next to the one we picked.
I think you liked it, I could be wrong.
There's a lot of pieces that were usable.
Yeah, usable.
Oh no, I think maybe it was the Global Heat Index when you made it like that.
No, I like Commissary Blogger's alien butt.
Where's Beast Mode?
I don't think we saw Beast Mode.
Oh no, I liked Global Screaming, I thought that was interesting.
Also from Koob the Noob.
The boob.
The noob, the boob, yeah.
I mean, for sure, lots of great artwork.
I mean, oh no, we almost picked Disease X by Tantaniel.
That's the one we almost picked.
No, I was the one.
I rejected that piece.
You're the one that was all in on it.
Just to be honest about it.
It was a compromised choice, but then you said, no, I want Disease X as the title, which kind of blows it, you know?
What can you do?
Well, you wanted Disease X as the title, too.
Don't blame me for the whole thing.
No, no, I'm not blaming you for anything.
So the new, the problem with this piece is I just thought it was simplistic and it wasn't really, there was not an, there was a little more artistic effort in the piece by Dirty Jersey Whore.
There was, it was.
There was no, I mean Tantaniel can do better than this.
Yeah we both thought that, for sure.
Thank you very much to all the artists.
We love that you do this.
Everyone can... As we said, you're gross about the artists.
Well, it's a service to the artists.
Artists will never hear that.
When you're up for a gig to do a commercial piece, you're never going to hear why you were rejected.
You just won't.
I'm not going to tell you.
No, you won't.
You will never know what you did wrong.
Now we're telling you.
Or right.
Yeah, or right, for that matter.
Exactly.
So we do this as a service, and everyone can follow along if you're listening live, noagendaartgenerator.com, or if you want those modern podcast apps, it'll flip right in front of your face.
Podverse does this, very cool.
Dreb Scott does our chapter work, which is also new cloud-based chapters.
Oh, hold on a second.
Powerball is number 35.
Here's your Powerball number, everybody.
So congratulations, Dirty Jersey Whore, for being the artwork for episode 1576.
And now, we are off to thank our executive and associate executive producers for 1,577.
And we'll kick it off right off the bat with what I believe is an instant night Robert Mullenberg, Grand Junction, Colorado.
$1,000.
And he has a great note.
Thank you for keeping my amygdala in check through COVID.
I'm eternally grateful.
Standard fare will do.
That's what I'm calling the perfect donation.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Okay, we're with the Indy No agenda meetup in Greenwood, Indiana sent us some $360 from the meetup and it goes to, the credit goes to, is a switcheroo in a meetup raffle donation to Joshua Crum.
Crum.
I think he also donated.
Yeah.
It's Crum.
C-R-U-M.
Yes.
I first learned of N.A.
when I saw Adam on the Seed Man Show in August of 1917.
Wow.
And quickly realized why.
You were on the Seed Man Show.
Yes.
He's local.
He was local.
And quickly realized why it is, in fact, the best podcast in the universe.
It's packed with so much invaluable information and insight as to what's going on behind the curtain.
I haven't missed an episode since.
Uh, this is why it broke my heart when my love called me out for being the ultimate douchebag with my full government name several shows ago.
Oh, this is Joshua Crumb.
Uh, and Adam said, come on, man!
Well, I can finally ask for a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Keep up the great work, John.
Give me a mic bump, will ya?
Also, I have an Omaha, you might die, can I have an Omaha, you might die, two to the head, little girl, yay, and a healthy dose of goat karma, thank you for your courage, Joshua Crum.
Yes, we got two to the head, and he wants a little girl, yay.
Yeah, so, now is that actually from Joshua, or is it from the interview?
I mean, I know it's a switcheroo.
Well, he came from the meat of someone, and it got switched to him, and I think he took responsibility and wrote the note.
Oh, very good.
You might die.
You've got... Karma.
We move on to Van Betsel.
Van Betsel, Pollocksville, North Carolina, 333.34, to be above all the other 333.33s.
In the morning, gents, thank you for your courage.
With this donation, my knighthood is secured!
Henceforth, I wish to be known as Sir Bunsen of the Island Creek Woods.
For the roundtable, please put me down for a pitcher of Pyramid Hefeweizen and a pile of Peanuts Farm 4 Alarm Wings with Ranch.
Well, that's not complicated.
No jingles, no karma, but a shout out to Seaman... Cool all over the place.
Shout out to Seaman Moses of Anchorage, Alaska for hitting me in the mouth.
Thanks for all you do.
Van Betsel, Pollocksville, North Carolina.
Let me put those things on the list for him here.
There was no karma, no nothing.
Oh, okay.
Well, then we go to Bowman or Bowman McMahon in Utopia, Texas.
That's got to be a place.
You know where that is?
Yes, I do know where.
It's not that far from here, really.
Well, you should move there.
Why?
No!
No, I can't move there, no.
You'd be in Utopia.
No!
Can I get the jingle of Obama, no, no, no, no, no, set to the Tapatio Mexican hat dance?
Thanks for all you do.
Oh, that's the, uh, cucaracha.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it.
Of course you can do that.
Hey!
Hey!
Listen!
You're in my house.
Hey!
yeah baby you ask we play yeah i gotta take this one because i have to know this is from rich gash rivera His military nickname, I bet.
Arnold Maryland.
And he writes a note on paper with his check.
That's proof, that's proof.
And, uh, let's see if there's any bingo requests.
He just wants de-douching, let's start with that.
You've been de-douched.
Eventually, it would give him some jobs karma at the end, I'll read the note.
I have been listening to the best podcast in the universe since early 2020 after being hit in the mouth by a fellow aviator and a friend of the show, Cody Doder-Dowd.
Ah, the Doder, yes!
The Doder!
The Doder!
I now fly for a major airline here stateside after I've flown alongside Doder in the United States Navy during a too-long 25-year Navy career.
I recently had an overnight during one of my airline trips in Adam's backyard, Austin.
It was there I was hitting the mouth and I knew I had to stop being a douchebag and provide some treasure to you both to avoid an exit strategy.
I immediately texted Doter to share with him that I had been assigned room 333, something that has not happened in my four years of airline flying.
He and I agreed the only course of action was to share my experience and end my status as a douchebag.
Very good.
With that, I hope you accept my humble donation at 33333 dedouche me just got that.
I also respect- Respectfully request some jobs, Karma, as management and union in my company seem far away from a deal on a new pilot's contract.
Oh goodness.
Thank you both for your courage.
Yes, thank you.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Yeah, doter, um... I have a doter patch.
You know, doter, that's his... Is that loaded with nicotine?
No.
For your jacket, for your flight jacket.
Yeah.
Doter's like his handle, you know, like Maverick, Goose, Doter.
And Gash.
Oh, man.
Gash, yes.
There you go.
We move on to Brian Talecki, Lincoln, Nebraska, 333.33.
This birthday donation also makes me a knight.
We've got a lot of knights today and a couple of dames.
I started listening in July 2020 after hearing Adam on the Tom Wood Show.
I'm bringing them in, John.
What are you doing?
I'm bringing them in from Seedman.
I'm bringing them in from Tom Woods.
I coast from the old Leo Show.
I'm still coasting.
Last year, I turned 40, could no longer remain a douchebag.
I made my first donation and vowed to become a knight on my 41st, and accounting is below.
Please knight me.
Sir Otter of the Flatwater Round Table Request, Snickerdoodles and Summer Brew.
Jingle, Sharpton, birthday biscuit, gonna need a Bitcoin, and a serving of relationship goat karma, you got it, thanks, he says.
Brian.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose, and you're gonna need a Bitcoin.
You've got karma.
Alexandra Miller in Arcata, California started listening after Adam was on Rogan in 2020.
It took you two years, three years.
Recently my wife joined... Alexandra Miller... Alexandra's a male?
He says recently my wife joined the listening party and refuses to...
And refuses to be a douchebag.
This is actually some sort of switcheroo.
Yes, it's interesting.
Thank you so much for your service.
Humbly, the Humboldt Miller douchebags no more.
I'm gonna do it.
You've been de-douched.
Doing some of that Rogan psilocybin, I think.
Nice.
Sir Fat Dad is in North Little Rock.
In North Little Rock, Arkansas, 333.
Short note, Sir Fat Dad of the BMXicans here requesting BMX World Championship Karma.
I am competing next week in Glasgow, Scotland as a member of Team USA.
Go USA phone singer number one!
About that.
Well, we should be watching.
We should be rooting for you.
We got professionals, man.
He's competing in the BMX World Championship.
How is he fat?
Well, he's Sir Fat Dad.
I mean, who knows?
Who knows?
There's no way.
That's just his name.
I mean, One Hour... Yes, I know.
One Hour Cleaners.
It's just a name.
It's your joke, man.
It's your joke.
It is.
This amount also pushes my wife, Shonda, to damehood.
Please dame her.
O.T.
Chick.
Got it.
Man, good luck on that.
So what kind of karma does he just... I think we should do... What kind of karma would work?
I'm going to give him a double up.
I'm I'm sitting here in weather too cold to turn on the AC and watch the media hype up the heat catastrophe as the next thing to be scared of.
Oversocialized and under-informed kids, a coinage by my partner, and a tone-deaf political class are busy harassing the citizens Yeah, while wantonly destroying the whole region's centuries-old industrial base.
That's probably true.
Sounds about right.
The only source of income and wealth for many millions and ultimately the state as well.
Thank you for... Also true, unless you want to be a middleman selling coffee in Germany.
Right.
Thank you for helping me stay sane through your relentless deconstruction of this foolishness.
A bit of howling dog!
Or was it Yoko Ono, Karma?
And my country's... It's actually sheep.
But it could be Yoko Ono.
And my country's second most famous export.
Screwing your freedoms would be fine for my upcoming birthday on the 31st.
Cheers, Stefan.
Oh, does that mean he wants a... Yes, he does.
He wants one of these.
Okay.
I got you, brother.
I got you.
Screw your freedom.
You thought.
Karma.
Because he's from Vienna.
That's his export, yes.
Paul Heaney is in Kremlin, Colorado, 333.
No note, that deserves a double-up karma.
You've got double-up karma.
You can take this one.
Yes, Brandon Wheel, Piara Waters, Western Australia, $250.
Greetings from a friendly little hollow on the outskirts of Cockburn, Western Australia.
The purpose of this donation is twofold.
First and foremost, please accept this humble donation of treasure as a token of the immense gratitude my family and I have for the valuable yet oftentimes shameless work you do.
Maintain a semblance of sanity.
Shameless?
Well, here it is.
Dash, dash, dash.
Maintain a semblance of sanity whilst navigating the strange times we live in would not be possible without you.
I'm not quite sure why it's shameless about it.
I'm not sure either.
Secondly, I would like to express thanks and love to my dearest wife, Cassandra, for her grace and strength in bringing our beloved daughter into this world.
It will be her first birthday this Sunday, the 30th of July, and I am ever so grateful for the joy she brings our family.
Happy birthday, Hallie!
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You might want to get that LASIK checked.
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You could confuse it for a club.
Yeah, especially from the distance I'm reading it.
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Jonna.
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Jonah?
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The reason I don't have some of these jingles is because I did not do a rap text alignment, so I missed some of these.
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Ran a marathon in 3 hours and 33 minutes, so I had to be assigned to donate, right?
Yeah.
It's usually assigned to donate.
3, 33, 33.
Usually, yes.
What is the longest distance either of you have run?
Oh, I've run for the border.
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Hi Adam and John, your podcasts are high points of my week.
I am pleased so many fellow Washingtonians contribute to the show.
I think someone advised you a little oddly regarding the Gutfeld Show.
We record and watch Gutfeld every night and watch next morning.
There's one regular member of the panel of four and one semi-regular and two new people every program.
Panel members are funny and articulate businessmen, lawyers and outright comedians.
Also, the show is somewhat crude.
Usually, Gutfeld himself.
Dame Valerie.
What did we get wrong?
I don't think we misunderstood that.
I don't like it.
I don't like the show.
That's what it was.
You talked disparagingly about the show.
I never liked Gutfeld.
And I've always wondered why Scott Adams was a huge fan.
But over time, watching the Gutfeld Show, I've come to appreciate him for the kind of cra- He's a- He's a screwball comic.
I mean, it's okay, but I mean, I- I'm just not interested in the evenings.
I'm just not interested.
And I- and I don't- Cat- He's the king of night- late night!
Yeah, I know, but Cat Timp is just- ugh, she's annoying.
And then you got that dude with his- with his belt.
What's his name?
Seamus Marcus?
Yeah.
Marcus Aurelius.
Whatever.
It's just like, ah, okay.
Yeah, I can see where you're going.
It's an acquired taste.
I would do the show.
I saw HOTEP.
You're not funny enough.
Hey John, HOTEP was on the other night.
I can be funny.
What do you mean I'm not funny enough?
You already said you hate Cat and that she's like the mainstay of the show.
I'm never gonna get on is what you're telling me.
Well, if you keep saying things like that... Hey, you know what I'm on?
You know what I'm on?
It should go like this.
If I was coaching, it'd be like, yeah, I've seen this show a couple times a day.
Quite sure how it's set up, but I like the people on it.
They're hilarious.
It's a great show.
And Gutfeld does a wonderful job of keeping the show moving.
Unlike you, I'm not full of crap.
Here, let me tell you what I'm going to be on.
Because I am on an important show.
Let me see.
I'm going to be on Dad Saves America.
That's a pretty big show, but that's a podcast.
What is this next?
I'm still waiting for the Fredericksburg donations to come flowing in here.
I did the Matt Long Show.
Oh yeah, Monday.
Once again, I've been asked to appear on the, what's the guy from Fox?
The guy who you can put in anywhere?
Kilmeade.
The Brian Kilmeade Show.
But he's on vacation, and Kennedy is hosting.
Oh, your old buddy?
Yes!
He said, would you mind calling?
I said, oh Kennedy, that would be hilarious!
You broke my butt, Kennedy!
We all know the story.
Yes, you should definitely bring, you will bring that up.
Of course I'm going to bring it up.
You know, I have some, I have some mea culpa's for her too, because what she was brought in as the conservative VJ, and I, I was fresh off the boat from Europe.
I didn't understand politics in America at all.
You know, I was pretty young, although she was younger, I'm pretty sure, but I didn't really understand what that meant.
And just thought, she's icky.
Yeah, I didn't, you know.
Really, I avoided her and just like, you know, and a lot of people didn't like her because of course they were lefty MTV Marxists and I didn't know.
So I owe her an apology for that.
But, I mean, I thought she's done quite well for herself.
You know, I have respect for her.
I like her.
She gets work.
She gets work.
She's marriage material.
She gets work.
Dynamite.
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I'm on with Trisha Gilman in Dayton, Ohio.
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Didn't see anything.
So a double up karma will work for Trisha.
I didn't see it either, Trisha.
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It's getting there.
Almost done.
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I didn't see Sir Fur here trying to burn Dana Brunetti again.
Oh, well, that's too bad.
I did get a note.
Do read, do share.
Well, I'll just summarize, because it's pretty profane.
Oh, okay.
For one thing, he says that he doesn't think Surfer has the guts to continue this thing.
This is from Hollywood superstar producer Dana Brunetti?
Yeah, who's got a new movie coming out called Gran Turismo, I'd say.
Yeah, that's the video game come to life, based on a true story.
I guess.
Anyway, that'd be good.
But he also wanted to correct you.
Uh-oh.
He says the Producers Guild of America is not a union.
I didn't say it was.
Did I say it was a union?
I guess you did at one point because it got his tackles up.
Okay.
And so then he blew up over it because he hates these people.
Is it a drinking club?
He had to sue them to get one of his awards.
He hates them but he wants an award.
Really?
No he won an award and but they were because of these producers awards they they kind of Hollywood kind of runs it through this guild of what he calls douchebags and they limit it sometimes so they well we'll give three over three of the five producers we'll give three of them an Oscar and so you have to sue to get yours yeah yeah and there's a bunch of stories about it.
Where's my podcast award?
He's not well there you go I want my audio award.
Hey, Dana.
Yeah.
Adam is the one getting screwed.
Yeah, what's your problem, bro?
Making all these big movies.
Living high on the hog.
He says this is his last movie.
Please.
All right, Spielberg.
Gotcha.
No, we love our Hollywood connections.
I just want to get John a bit part.
Does he have to say anything about that in his profane notes?
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You are actually banned from Hollywood?
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Welcome back, everybody.
You missed the Powerball number and our special interview.
Yeah.
I'm not gonna say it.
Good to have you back.
There was a pretty interesting documentary I was watching, and it's about all this alien bullcrap.
No one's buying this, by the way.
Even Joe Rogan's not even buying this one.
This hearing and, oh yeah, this Grush guy.
But this whole, this whole kind of documentary, maybe a big word, is about Wernher von Braun, who told apparently several people that the military-industrial complex would play, ultimately play their last card.
It's called the last card.
And the last card would be, this is the blue beam theory of course, would be holographic Spacecraft, they would be beaming into the sky, and then hidden amongst the spacecraft they would have some of their regular aircraft that would, you know, bomb a couple buildings or shoot a laser beam or something to make it look real.
And that would bring in the New World Order, and then we'd all go to a global government and we'd all be happy and be depopulated forever.
Just thought I'd bring that up.
I'm unfamiliar with this.
Yeah, it's relatively new.
I'll send it to you.
It was an interesting thesis.
I liked it.
I was a big fan of that guy when I was a little kid.
Werner Von Braun?
Yeah, because he was on Disney all the time.
He was a Nazi!
Yeah, I found out later that Disney never mentioned this.
Well, let's not talk about Disney.
A note from one of our UPS drivers and producer.
Boots on the ground.
Adam, John, right to the point.
There's a good chance our contract tentative agreement may not be ratified.
This is a big deal for us in America.
I think 17% of the GDP of America depends on UPS.
Slow things down to say the least.
My fellow UPSers are focused on what profits the company made while we were on this unfair contract.
Unfair because of how inside people and the lower tier drivers are paid.
Yeah, this irks them a lot.
My concern is that many don't see the big picture.
There's a limit to what people will pay for shipping, even for the best in service.
I agree.
We've actually not shipped some things for that very reason.
To ask for more than the proposal now will lead to a loss of public support and could jeopardize the dream endgame of future pension checks for our worn bodies, which they are.
This job?
I mean, I remember when we had ice here and our UPS guy was, although we were the last house he was going to go to, he was slipping and sliding all over our path and I appreciate what those guys do.
Lastly, I view this job or career, even with its challenges, as a blessing from the Lord, and I'm thankful.
There aren't a lot of places with the combination of our pay, benefits, and retirement left out there.
It is truly one of the last great American blue-collar jobs.
Please keep my name private.
Did so.
And that's it.
And he says we should go on Theo Bond Show.
You and I together.
Well, that's not going to happen.
Thank you anyway.
See Yvonne?
He's a comedian.
It's a pretty good show.
He's funny.
Yeah.
But we'll never go on together.
No.
Don't do that.
Never.
And... Divide and conquer.
A note from our man, Joe.
She says, yep, well, you can see proof the still crew month issues in this email to employees regarding all reserves exhausted and United limping to the end of July.
It's the end of the month, so, you know, you're gonna see your... We keep warning you and if crew month shortage at United this month They just don't have the pilots.
This has been a theme of our show for two years.
It comes from Joe.
I actually put his Patreon link in there.
You can go and take a look at his most recent update.
But it's true.
They fired all the... Didn't we have an email from a pilot in the donation segment?
I recall.
He said he somehow remember or a note.
Yeah, we talked about the guy, he was from, uh, from Gash.
Gash, yeah, yeah, yeah, Gash, Gash.
Gash.
What's your name?
Gash.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, we have some crime issues in Oakland.
Really?
But they're funny.
Oh, well that's good.
And there's one little incident that just took place recently that I thought was hilarious and it happens to be covered in this crime report because, you know, Oakland and Alameda County and San Francisco, a lot of California is plagued by these Soros District Attorneys.
And the one locally in Oakland says that, you know, she literally says, I got nothing to do with law enforcement.
She's the actual law enforcement head of law enforcement.
I don't know why they're blaming me.
You know, you just don't have enough.
It's not about a crime problem.
You don't have enough hilarious crime.
You need more hilarious crime.
Well, there's hilarious crime in this report.
This is crime in Oakland from New Tang Dynasty.
This is MTD.
Staying in California, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, in Oakland published a letter sounding the alarm over rising crime in that city.
Earlier today, I spoke with journalist, documentary filmmaker, and Oakland resident, Leighton Woodhouse, for his perspective on the situation.
Leighton, thanks so much for joining us.
Oakland's NAACP is calling on local officials to declare a state of emergency around crime.
You've covered this area in depth.
How would you describe the state of affairs there?
It's crazy and it's getting crazier.
You may have heard this story that this week there was a naked woman who stepped out of her car on the freeway on the Oakland side of the Bay Bridge and started just shooting at cars, obviously suffering some kind of psychotic break or something.
But, you know, that was pretty wild, even by Bay Area standards.
But also another viral video that went around this week was of a car jacking up on Skyline Boulevard, which is really kind of the nice part of town.
It's like where people go to walk their dogs on nature trails in the Redwoods.
You know, car pulls over, blocks the path and gets out with a gun at 8 a.m.
in the morning and just tries to jack this person's car at gunpoint.
There have been over 8,000 car break-ins in Oakland just so far this year, which is a 50% increase over last year.
Oakland has the second worst 9-1-1 pickup time in the state.
People feel very insecure.
Crime is rampant.
It's pretty crazy.
I saw the video.
That was pretty crazy.
The video of the naked woman shooting at people?
You haven't seen that?
I have, the naked one I saw, which was the big fat black woman in this grocery store wiping cake all over herself, she was naked.
I saw that one, but no, this is, and she's not big and fat, this black lady is running down naked, and she's shooting at cars until she runs out of ammo.
She's gonna kill somebody doing that.
That's why it's hilarious, John.
Yeah, it's kind of hilarious.
Yeah, somehow I missed the video.
I knew about the story, but I missed the video.
No, the video's a must-watch.
Okay, on with part two of this hilarious clip.
I want to look at where this all started.
You know, the NAACP is blaming failed leadership, including the movement to defund the police, anti-police rhetoric, as well as the district attorney for the increase in crime.
From your perspective, how accurate is that?
Well, last night there was a town hall that I attended with the district attorney who rarely does public appearances, and it was absolutely packed standing room only.
And, you know, she doesn't see her job as preventing crime.
She said that straight up, that the DA doesn't have a role in preventing crime.
And that's a problem because that's not the way that traditional DAs look at this stuff.
There were also laws that were passed.
For example, there was a law passed statewide in California, which makes it more likely that a police officer who shoots somebody in error, you know, shoots somebody innocent, somebody unarmed, which happens on the job sometimes as a good faith which happens on the job sometimes as a good faith accident.
Like look, the officer thinks that somebody's holding a gun or whatever.
It's more likely that that officer will end up in prison.
And whatever you think about the fairness of that law, the consequence has been that officers don't want to end up in prison.
So they have been transferring out of high crime cities and going to So Oakland, along with many other cities, has had a crisis in recruitment and retaining of cops.
Pretty interesting, you said.
That's not my job.
I'm not interested in that.
What am I?
Yeah, I know.
I thought that was hilarious.
Very weird.
So you have a DA.
This is all over the country.
In fact, I have a clip.
In Austin too.
It's in Austin as well.
There's a Soros DA in Austin.
And they've run out of cops.
No one wants to be a cop.
I have a clip from a previous show, and I think if you do the search for IL for Illinois, it's the clip about how the Illinois changed its state laws too.
And these legislatures are in cahoots with these Soros people.
I mean, I'll be honest with you, IL gives me a lot of results.
Could you give me a little more?
Would it be ILDA?
I mean, I'm going to need something more than just IL.
Here it is.
Yeah, okay, I get the point.
A justice reform in Illinois.
Okay.
Justice.
Yes.
Yes.
Oh.
Oh, my goodness.
Do we even get to play a trigger warning?
Warning.
Amy Goodman clip inbound.
In a victory for criminal justice reform, the Illinois Supreme Court has ruled in favor of legislation abolishing the state's cash bail system.
The 5-2 ruling overturned a decision by a lower court from last December deeming the Pretrial Fairness Act unconstitutional.
Illinois judges will no longer require people charged with a crime to post bail in order to be released from jail as they await trial, unless they're considered a threat to the public or likely to flee.
The policy is expected to go into effect in September.
In a statement, the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice said, quote, Wealth-based jail?
disproportionately impacted by wealth-based jailing, giving people the opportunity to stay in their communities while awaiting trial will enable them to keep their jobs, housing, and custody of their children, making us all safer.
Wealth-based jail?
What was that?
I don't know.
These things, we already tried this in San Francisco.
They ended up with shoplifters going, you know, picking.
They also changed the law in California saying, If you steal anything less than $1,000, eh, don't worry about it.
Yeah.
Literally.
And so the shoplifter would get picked up and Maybe, if they even got picked up and then they just let them go out and shoplift again, that's what they'd do.
Until they got enough stuff and then they'd go home.
Right.
But these reforms, there's reasons that a lot of these things came into being.
The cash bail.
No, I'm saying the reason that cash bail came into being in the first place was an evolution, and then just to pull the rug out from under these things, just out of the blue, it doesn't seem to be working out.
So here's my third of the Oakland clips.
And yet, in some sense, people may feel that they shouldn't really be speaking out against it.
I noticed that the NAACP is urging African Americans, white, Asian, and Latino communities to speak out against crime.
And they say that people shouldn't be shamed into silence.
How much do you think this is at play?
I think that it's, I think that that has been the case in the past.
I think that is becoming no longer the case as so many people have become victims to crimes.
Everything from armed robberies to just the cars being broken into.
This crime wave has overwhelmingly impacted
Low-income people in the flatlands of Oakland who are majority non-white Those neighborhoods have been the most besieged by this crime wave So those are the folks who are suffering and those are the folks who the NAACP is speaking out it out on behalf of and saying to those More affluent middle-class people in the hills as well as working-class people in other parts of the city You know, we need you to speak out along with us because a lot of folks in those low-income
Quote-unquote black and brown communities have been speaking out about this for quite a while.
Hey, what's this quote-unquote black and brown communities?
What's that bullcrap?
I have no idea.
Quote-unquote?
But I think the point they were trying to make in that sub clip was it's the liberals who can't speak, say anything bad about crime because it's your shame.
You sound like a damned Republican.
Yes.
Can't do that.
Can't do that.
We made a new friend.
New friends here in the Hill Country.
Yeah, really?
Susie and John.
And they own a winery out here.
Oh, who doesn't?
She's very interesting.
She is James McLemore's daughter.
Who is that, you think?
That name rings a bell.
Yeah.
The first CEO of Burger King and inventor of the Whopper.
Oh, he invented the Whopper.
He invented the Whopper.
She's got nothing but money.
They have a pretty cool house.
He has a safe, like a walk-in safe that only has guitars in it.
Oh, he's a guitar collector.
Yeah, and he has a wine tasting room too.
One of those with a table downstairs and literally in the cellar is pretty cool.
Yeah.
Sure.
We had a Pastor Nick 2013 Syrah.
Is the name of the winery Pastor Nick?
Yes, Pastor Nick.
I think it's in California.
It's not Texas?
No, it's from Healdsburg, near Healdsburg.
Pastor Nick.
Oh, but they live in Fields, Fredericksburg?
He has a wine cellar, John.
He has other wines besides from his own winery.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
I was, I was misunderstanding the, uh, the entire story.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Super nice people.
Very funny.
I was the pastor, Nick.
Oh man.
It was, that's why I thought you would know it.
I know it's one of those wines that I just never get run into.
Because I said, I'm going to tell John we had this pasta, Nick, if there's only two answers John has when I said I like a wine.
It's either, that stinks, you have no palate, that's no good.
I never said that, of course.
Or you paid too much.
Make it up as you go along.
You paid too much.
Well, that one, I do say that.
You paid too much.
If it's a great wine, you paid too much.
Well, you didn't pay too much if it was free.
No, I didn't.
I am making it all up as I go along.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
We never get that.
That's a wine that is not in my milieu.
That was good.
It was very good.
Oh, let's do this for a second.
There you go.
I'm liking these jingles.
Well, they say go woke, go broke.
Not quite, but this is what's happening.
The Bud Light backlash appears to have taken another toll.
Anheuser-Busch is laying off more than 300 corporate staffers.
The move comes amid lagging Bud Light sales, triggered by a boycott following a partnership with a transgender influencer.
Wow, they really shortened the story there.
I'd say.
So the CEO is still there.
Wasn't that the pivot moment that we've been waiting for when the CEO gets fired?
That's when the stock will start going up again?
Yeah, that's still in play.
So that's the idea, right?
That guy was the ex-CIA guy.
Yes, yes.
Who was clearly brought in to wreak havoc.
And we got a wonderful note from Aaron, the concerned therapist.
Now, you remember that Aaron is the one who had to beat boots on the ground early on for us and said, hey, these therapists, they are completely controlled, just like doctors during COVID.
They're controlled like You don't feel good?
You're a girl?
You're a middle school?
Let me see, let me have another 30 minutes with you.
You're a boy.
Let's get you on some puberty blockers.
Let's go!
Top surgery!
And they are dictated that by the AAP, American Association of Pediatrics, American Psychiatrist Association.
It's all these associated, the political organizations.
And in the last show, We had the governor of Utah on, and there was a CBS Face the Nation face-off between the leading transgender doctor who does transgender surgeries and the governor, Governor Cox of Utah, who has paused all All procedures for minors until they figure stuff out.
And Aaron, the concerned therapist, said there was a huge lie, which is probably ignorance on at least one person's part, but a huge lie.
I'm going to play the pertinent part from the series of clips we had on the last show.
So just on the numbers, of 73 million children in the U.S., there were just 56 genital surgeries related to dysphoria between 2019 and 2021, according to the study by Komodo Health and Reuters.
Yeah, do you have the numbers on hormone therapy and puberty blockers?
What is the number?
They're exploding.
We went from like 10, 10 years ago to several hundred this past year.
So Aaron writes in and says... I can guess the lie.
What's that?
The number of operations.
Yes.
And the reason why is not that hard to figure out.
This was misstated by the governor and the news model.
She stated 56 genital surges were performed of minors between 2019 and 2021.
The study only covered procedures that were paid for by insurance.
Many insurers do not cover elective surgeries like this, hence all the GoFundMe campaigns for these procedures.
And she sends me a link, us a link, to the Reuters article that has the actual numbers.
So, let's take a look at this.
How many top surgeries do you think, well, no, let's start with hormone therapy.
And this is all for minors, right?
Kids.
Ages 6 to 17.
Okay.
Six?
Oh yeah.
U.S.
patients ages 6 to 17 with a prior gender dysphoria diagnosis initiating hormone treatment.
So this is hormone therapy.
I'll give you for the years 2019, 2020, and 2021.
What did the governor just say?
Oh, it's like a hundred.
I'm guessing that's wrong.
Yeah, 2019, 3,036.
2020, 3,163.
2021, 4,231.
We do not have data for 2022.
It'll be up.
How about top surgeries?
56 according to the report on CBS.
1,163, 2021, 4,231.
We do not have data for 2022.
It'll be up.
How about top surgeries?
56, according to the report on CBS. CBS, the Tiffany Network.
Let's see.
U.S.
patients 13 to 17 undergoing mastectomy with their prior gendered... So this is only girls.
This is not any boys or whatever.
This is no penilectomies.
This is a mastectomy.
Top surgery.
2019, 238.
2020, 256.
2021, 282.
2019, 238. 2020, 256. 2021, 282.
Once again, your mainstream media is full of crap.
So you're talking about 246, almost 700 or 700, as opposed to what they said, and let's slide of 56.
Yeah.
And you see these increases.
Slight difference.
Yeah.
Massive increase in California.
Plus?
California is like a, I mean, it's hockey sticks here.
They have graphs and everything.
What else do they have?
How about the diagnosis of youths with gender dysphoria?
So, new diagnosis in the United States, patients 6 to 17.
2019, 21,375.
2020, 24,847.
Now we're in the pandemic.
2021, 42,167.
2019, 21,375. 2020, 2020, 24,847.
Now we're in the pandemic.
2021, 42,167.
These are just the diagnoses that are reported.
That are reported, not to mention the ones that aren't.
Yeah.
This is a disaster.
It is.
It is.
It is a disaster.
It is.
Let's see, do we have anything else?
I was just going to point out, there was a, there was an article about Pornhub, which I would say is a source of a lot of these problems with the, you know, Pornhub and OnlyFans is probably the biggest problem because Pornhub leads to, and OnlyFans finances.
You know what Pornhub did?
A dozen one year on revenue?
I, uh, too much.
425 million dollars.
Half a billion dollars.
And that's in one year.
But here's the thing, it's owned by MindGeek.
You know what MindGeek is?
No.
MindGeek is a, here, headquartered in Luxembourg, offices in Bucharest, Nicosia, London, Montreal, and Los Angeles.
They are basically a tracking company.
They offer, let me see, what is it, search engine marketing, ad buying, Hosting, ad platforms, media content delivery.
This is a huge company, but they're really just tracking people and selling data.
That's a horrible operation.
If you get a link to Pornhub, and I've seen them, and I've clicked on them, you will be sorry.
For research purposes.
Yeah, well, the point is that if you tag OrinHub, it will drop at least one or two pieces of malware on your machine that you have to use more than, you have to use one of the anti-malware programs to get rid of.
And it's the type of malware that just throws ads at you from here and there.
Why is this ad showing up?
The worst kind of, it's the worst, Yeah.
So Trump was in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Oh, did he do a thing?
With antivirus and anti-Trojan and all these other kind of preventative software systems, don't ever click on a Pornhub link.
Yeah.
So Trump was in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Oh, did he do a thing?
Did he do a little meetup?
Did a big meetup.
Uh-huh.
He's got a new gimmick he's trying to where he's working on his new wheels and walls thing, which I have a clip of.
Free and fair elections, and we need borders.
We need those two things.
Just like when they used to say, you know, we built 500 miles of wall.
When they used to say about walls, the Democrats, oh, we don't need walls.
We'll do it with computers flying in the air, right?
I said, no.
Two things, two things you need always for the next thousand years and for the past 5,000 years.
Wheels and walls.
A wheel and a wall.
Every computer changes, everything's different.
You know, you develop a new brand of computer, within about two months it's obsolete.
But a wheel doesn't change, and a wall doesn't change.
They're two things at work.
And it's the same thing with our democracy.
We need fair elections.
We need borders.
We have to stop the invasion of people into our country.
And you know who's coming in?
Prisoners.
People from mental institutions.
Terrorists are coming into our country.
And millions and millions and millions of people.
Yeah.
Now.
That clip, unfortunately, I have other Trump clips, but that clip brings me to a series I want to play.
Ooh, ooh, a series.
Which is the series on immigration.
Okay.
And these, and the reason, this is my, I do this occasionally, my little educational moment.
Edutainment.
It's edutainment.
And there's, there's just stats in here that are just, I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
I bet they're staggering.
Well, some of them are more fascinating than staggering.
The numbers are unbelievable, that's true.
But it's the people coming across that make it interesting.
Here we go.
Border Patrol has apprehended a record number of terror watch list suspects entering the country.
Among those giving testimony at the hearing was Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies.
He also spoke with me earlier today.
Todd, thanks so much for coming on.
Border Patrol has now apprehended a record number of terror watch list suspects.
What kinds of people are we talking about here and how did we get here?
Right, well you have to remember that more than 40% of all illegal aliens crossing our southern border are from countries other than Mexico or Central America.
The entire world is on their way here.
Everybody has heard the siren call of our open borders and our policies that are letting pretty much everybody in.
Just a month or so ago, I was in Matamoros in Mexico, and my entire hotel was filled with Kyrgyzstanis and Dagestanis.
Everybody's coming, and so it's inevitable that some of them are going to be known to our intelligence agencies as potential terrorists.
And that's who's coming.
Well, I mean, are all these countries on the terror watch list?
Kyrgyzstan?
Well, I don't think it was, I think it's actual people they caught.
Oh, oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah, surprise.
And that's probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Yeah.
But if not even half the people are from Mexico, I mean, you know, all these poor Mexicans, nobody's, you know, it's just, it's ridiculous.
And they're not necessarily going to vote Democrat either, I should mention.
Wait a minute, you thought all these people coming across the border are Mexicans?
No, I've talked about this being like a lot of Venezuelans and all these anti-communists.
No, I didn't think that, but I think the public generally thinks it's just Mexicans.
Because they're brown.
Because we're racists.
Yeah, well, there's that.
Here we go with part two.
And now you testified before the House this week and said that the increase in illegal immigration is transforming American society and that children are being affected the most.
Could you expand on that?
We rarely hear about the fact that most of the people that are coming across are in family groups or unaccompanied minors and they have to go to school in the United States and now they have to take standardized tests.
Overcrowding, the purchase of portable classrooms, security issues, gang problems, and these are starting to hit Americans.
It's a pocketbook issue, it's a public safety issue, and it's a quality of education issue throughout the interior of the United States.
I just wanted to get that on the record in the Congress.
I'll just say, we know this.
Here in Texas, we know this.
Yeah.
We know what the problem is.
We're witnessing it.
We're seeing it.
And it's not just voice.
Route 87, which comes right up from, um, from, um, from Bernie.
Um, from San Antonio, basically.
We see the buses, the white buses, they come up through Fredericksburg, hang a right, go to Austin.
It's a mess.
That's where they belong.
Yeah.
Believe me, this is, we're well aware of that here.
Well, I don't think the general public is.
Here's part three.
You also brought up mass asylum fraud at the border and other legal loopholes that people are using to get into the country.
You spent a lot of time down at the border.
Could you tell us what you've seen in that sense?
Right, well, to get asylum, to qualify for asylum in this country, you have to be able to show that you have been politically persecuted by the government of your home country.
But the vast majority of people coming across are, by indication from my interviews with thousands of them, are economic migrants who are coming here to work.
They're not fleeing something.
They're just coming to and for something in the United States.
That's not ineligible grounds for asylum.
And a lot of the immigrants that I talk to are very well aware that they have to come up with some kind of story, and they all know that nobody's going to check it, it's not checkable.
But when you catch them down there before they've been lawyered up, as I do, they'll just tell you, yeah, I can make $30 a month in Colombia doing my job, but in the U.S.
I'll make $150.
You know, why wouldn't I do that?
That is not asylum.
That is something entirely different.
But they're going to claim asylum and they're going to be lying about it.
Maybe it's appropriate to just mention here that according to the former New York banker, the reason for this is that the people who run the world, who run America, don't care.
They don't care about Americans.
They know that we win.
We win over China.
Why do we win over China?
Not because of bombs, not because of how smart we are, how much technology we have.
It's about people.
They count people, and as long as your population is growing, you win.
And China's population is declining, Europe's population is declining.
Europe is in competition with us because they're importing as many people, as many bodies as they can.
We're just more efficient, typically.
And so they are, you know, don't say replacement theory, but they are just... Heaven forbid!
Just, you know, and of course, you know, what are we doing?
We're sterilizing our children, we're scaring other young people into not having kids because of climate change.
And so they just import people and that, and I'm not, I'm not even sure how the mechanism works, but I think somehow that means you can print more money and you can just, you know, just flood more money in and under this current system.
But don't forget they work cheaper too.
Of universal, of modern monetary theory.
They work cheaper, yes, but you know, you can just flood the system with money and give it to people and, and that way you keep everything afloat.
They don't care.
They don't care.
Surprise.
Now, you said in the same hearing that 100% of crimes committed by illegal immigrants are avoidable, which I thought was very interesting.
But that's in response to some studies that show that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes than American citizens.
Could you speak to that?
That's right.
I took heat for that, but I'm happy to do it.
I'm just saying every crime by an illegal immigrant is a crime that was unnecessary, that was preventable.
And you can't say the same thing for American citizen crime, at least not in the context of an apparatus that's deporting, that could deport them.
Okay, now one argument that was brought up is that it's not possible to stop illegal immigrants from crossing our borders.
But you've said that it is, and that illegal immigrants actually pay close attention to the decisions that our government's making on the border.
What kinds of policies can be put in place to prevent the influx, do you think?
Well, we saw definitive evidence during the Trump administration, during the Trump years, that policies do play a critical factor in the decision-making processes of immigrants while they're still home.
Will the money that I pay Get me into the country and get me in to stay.
If the answer is no, I'm not dropping the cash.
I'm not spending that money on smugglers.
I'm staying home.
And they did in huge numbers.
The administration of Trump had about 20 or 30,000 apprehensions a month.
The very next month after Biden took office and got rid of those policies, Remain in Mexico, Title 42, they opened up all kinds of exemptions, the numbers went to 200,000 a month and never looked back.
I have a clip that fits right into this.
You were talking earlier about Illinois.
Illinois has more issues.
Chicago specifically.
Quick quip from the local CBS affiliate.
We've kept our eye on the South Shore, mainly black American neighborhood.
And they were like, hey, what's going on with these?
I guess now we call them asylum seekers.
Illegal immigrants would be more appropriate, but no person is illegal.
So they are flooding in and they're being shuffled, shuffled into this particular neighborhood.
And they're fed up now.
Now they've had enough.
Any of these residents say they no longer have any tolerance for the disruptive behavior by those seeking asylum here.
It's making them feel unsafe.
They disrespect us, they rob us, they harass us.
And they're patient.
Let me say this.
They got one more time to deal with it, because otherwise, next time they deal with it, they're going to deal with it from the streets.
We're going to take over.
Nobody's going to be able to stop us from what we're going to do to them.
Much of the residents anger was directed at city officials in attendance, including 20th Ward Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, Chicago Deputy Police Chief Stephen Chung and Family and Support Services Commissioner Brandi Kanazi.
At one point, police had to intervene, breaking up an argument during public comment.
It's really the parallel with the Netherlands and what's happening in the EU is it's exactly the same.
In these small little cities, little villages, little towns, they throw down what they call an asylum center and they just let them all go in there and then that's where they are and they eat there but then they go out and they break into cars and break into homes and harass people.
And the people are fed up.
Fed up.
Taking it to the streets.
That's what's going to happen.
It's going to be mayhem.
Well, and then when you have a bunch of police forces that have been dumbed down and eliminated or defunded, it's not going to be stoppable.
Well, Fredericksburg has a plan.
It's not a pretty one, but Fredericksburg has a plan.
They tried to do a public housing authority in Fredericksburg.
That was funny.
Well, for the poor people, there's no one poor here in Fredericksburg.
Well, you know, people who work in our restaurants and stores can't afford to live here.
Well, okay, why don't we have the restaurants pay them more or go out of business?
We need to have public housing authority.
Well, there were a lot of people who showed up at the city council meeting.
That changed things real quick.
Yeah.
I'm becoming one of those hill country hicks, man.
So Trump was in Erie, Pennsylvania.
What was this event?
What was the event?
Oh, it was a rally.
Okay.
First he did Iowa, then he ran to Erie, Pennsylvania.
This is the big speech he gave yesterday.
Oh, okay.
It was a big speech.
It was an hour and fifteen, hour and a half.
Any new gags?
Any jokes?
Anything funny?
Well, I think I did play the wheels and walls came from that.
But this is the one that got my attention and this is kind of a long clip which will have the kicker at the end and there's another very short clip after that.
But this is Trump in Erie, Pennsylvania on DeSantis.
DeSantos!
And very importantly, because, you know, they keep talking about the independent voters, we're up 18 points among independent voters over Biden.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
You know, we remember Trump going, hey, polls are crap, they're no good.
No good.
Polls are lies.
They lie.
Yeah.
So now he's all in on polls.
Polls are good.
Yeah.
We're up.
Polls are good.
And very importantly, because, you know, they keep talking about the independent voters, we're up 18 points among independent voters over Biden.
And in the newest, just came out, echelon poll, the echelon poll of swing states, we're trouncing Biden by 7 points, and the big new premise poll, we're beating Biden by 43 to 39, with DeSanctis losing to Biden 33 to 38.
In other polls, I'm leading Biden by 6, 7, 8, and 11 points, while DeSanctis is losing to Biden in every single case.
And when asked, and this is very important because it's the economy stupid, right?
It's the economy stupid.
We've heard that line for a long time and there's a lot of truth to it, but I think in this case there's a lot of truth to borders and there's a lot of truth to militaries and not doing what we did in Afghanistan because we have an incompetent leader.
Getting out was fine.
Getting out with dignity and strength, not stupid.
The stupidest, most embarrassing thing ever in our country's history.
When asked who's the best To improve the economy, it's Trump 54 to DeSantis 18.
In Iowa, we're leading 55 to 11.
In New Hampshire, great state, we're leading 59 to 12.
And in South Carolina, we're leading 65 to 10.
And we're leading by a similar number in Nevada.
We're doing great.
Nevada came out, yeah.
It's like 65 to 10.
We're leading by a lot.
And we're going to keep it that way.
You know, the characters in the battle, they got some beauties back there.
They got some real.
They have one very good one, though, actually.
One is a lot.
But they got some beauties.
But, you know, they were saying you always have an ebb and flow, right?
So you're leading.
Like right now, we're leading by a lot.
A lot of people say Desank, this is dropping out of the race.
I don't know that that's true, but I wouldn't be surprised.
You should.
Because I think he's absolutely killed himself for 28.
Matt.
So before you comment, play part two, because he is he.
I don't know where he gets this idea, but he's been promoting the idea that Desantis, Desantis, who he does call the Sanctimonious, is quitting.
So here's just a follow-up to that, what he just said.
You know?
But remember the loyalty thing.
He wouldn't be there except for me.
And then he said, I have no comment.
And we know what that meant.
No comment means he's running.
But he's really hurt himself.
But I hear he's dropping out, but I will say this.
We're gonna make this country so strong.
We're gonna make our country so great.
We're gonna have so many victories again.
That wouldn't surprise me.
I mean, I'm hearing all the money people.
What's that Ken guy, the billionaire hedge fund guy?
He's going, oh, you know, Ronnie not doing so good out there.
Murdoch is like, well, you know, worried about him, worried about him.
I think he is going to drop out.
And I think Trump either knows it, he's been told it, or he's got intelligence people working to tell him that he's dropping out.
Something's up.
So the Republican Party held a rally and they invited, now there's 14 candidates, and this has to be the people with money behind the Republican Party just trying to throw wrenches into Preliminaries or whatever, whatever they're doing.
And we didn't have a whole bunch like Chris Christie, Will Hurd.
Give me a break.
I mean, these people are being paid or it's all ego.
I don't know what it is.
There could be some tax annulment we're just unaware of.
Well, there's that.
I got a clip here.
This is from Turkish radio and television.
A Republican dinner in the U.S.
state of Iowa brought together all 14 presidential candidates on Friday night, who spoke on a range of hot-button issues.
Biden has proven to be incredibly weak, and Kamala is not up for the job.
And I will continue to say, a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for Kamala Harris.
That's who we're actually running against.
We have to make sure she doesn't win.
This is Nikki Haley.
I pledge to be the president to finally solve the issue of the southern border.
We're sending the military to the border.
Yes, we will build a bor- Uh, now hold on a second.
So this is DeSantis.
He's saying, I'll become president and I'll send the military to the border.
This is, this guy is not serious.
This is, you don't need the military at the border, he doesn't- Not only that, but it's, there's something illegal about it.
We can't use our military, we can use the National Guard.
Well, besides that, I mean, you can just say, America is closed to you.
No.
We have the Border Patrol.
Border Patrol just says, no, we send you back.
Why is he saying we're sending the military?
So there's something funky going on.
I pledge to be the president to finally solve the issue of the southern border.
We're sending the military to the border.
Yes, we will build a border wall.
And we will use deadly force against the Mexican drug cartels.
While most of the field avoided digs at the man who poses their biggest threat, one candidate didn't hold back.
This is Will Hurd.
Donald Trump is not running for president to represent the people that voted for him in 2016 and 2020.
Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison.
And if we elect— Boo.
Boo.
I know.
I know.
I'm being paid to stand here.
I know.
I know.
I got some kind of tax advantage.
I know I'm up here.
I know.
True to form, Donald Trump didn't shy away from attacks, nor peddling his own theories, including one that connects the U.S.
withdrawal in Afghanistan to the conflict in Ukraine.
We lost 13 incredible lives and many, many badly wounded.
The most embarrassing, I think, moment in the history of our country.
And because of that, I believe that was the incentive for Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine when he saw the incompetence of our military and our leadership.
This is not a tactic you want to... This makes no sense!
He knows that's not true!
He knows it's not because of our withdrawal out of Afghanistan.
Does he think the American people are stupid?
I mean, what kind of tactic could this be, John?
I mean, we know why, because his favorite The only dog to kick is NATO.
We know why.
They were threatening to put bombs into this country and make them NATO, and we know why.
In 2014, Victoria Nuland, why is he now saying, oh, Putin got bold because we had a crappy withdrawal from Afghanistan?
He's starting to make up scenarios that are obviously wrong.
Weird.
Trump is consistently pulling far ahead of his Republican rivals.
That's despite a myriad of legal troubles in several states, including his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
But he's promising that nothing will stop his campaign.
Talha Duman, TRT World.
Very interesting.
He's really doing a replay.
He's playing the same music.
Doing the same stuff.
Then he's just missing one.
He could clinch this today.
It would be the biggest win.
For him to just say, I got screwed by Fauci, by Burks.
I got hoodwinked.
And they lied.
He has never admitted he's wrong on anything.
No.
Unless somebody can cite me where he did.
But I don't remember ever hearing that he was he was contrite, showing any contrition, or an apologetic nature.
Which is just the opposite of Kennedy.
I get around here in Hill Country.
You come up 290, before you hit Fredericksburg, there's Trump promises kept, trucks on the side of the road, there's flags, there's banners, but there's people here who are changing their opinion, and they're all looking at Bobby the K. It's people who have not voted before!
But I don't vote.
But I don't want to participate in this scam.
There's my guy.
And they're talking about Kennedy.
They like his message.
Yeah, this is the op at work.
It's great.
You know, we got a big guy with no agenda social.
Someone said, this is hurting the show!
You talk about him being an op with no evidence!
Corinne Dvorak said, without evidence, Bobby the K is an op.
And the evidence, the evidence is, it's, the evidence is... He's not dead yet.
The fact that he's doing this.
Yes, exactly.
He's going against everything.
And he, and what we're missing is, we're missing Holly, well Hollywood is on strike conveniently.
No, this has, this is staged.
Yeah.
We're only in stage one.
There's like two more, three more stages to go where they start flipping switches.
But the stage one is the testing phase.
I love your line.
Kennedy is the great reset.
I love that line.
I love that line.
Yeah.
I do say so myself.
So let's just say it's the great reset.
It's an American reset.
Yeah, he sounds like he's got, I mean, so earlier today we played the clip, he says, I'm going to reorganize the CIA.
That, I think, is a key clue.
I agree.
Because the CIA may be incredibly fragmented.
He's not going to change, he's not going to abolish it, he's not going to get rid of it, he's not going to destroy it, he's not going to take it down, which is all the problems that, you know, Nixon had.
So the CIA set him up with the Watergate thing.
If you read the Baker book, Family of Secrets.
It has it all outlined in there what they did to him.
Russ Baker, I think.
Russ Baker.
Great writer.
And we recommend, it's one of the books we recommend.
And this is different when you say, I'm going to do a re-order.
I mean, you do that anyway when you're president by getting rid of the head guy and putting your own guy in there.
But there's probably other things.
He wants to go more deeper in.
And I think he wants to get the woke out of the CIA.
Well, and yeah, I mean, Malone was on...
On Banyan's show.
And I didn't clip it.
By the way, the fact that Malone is out there now like an expert on the CIA.
Talk about an op!
I mean, the guy's a scientist!
He was an angry scientist who didn't get credit for co-inventing mRNA.
And now he's doing speeches everywhere, and now he's... No, he's... yeah.
We've always suspected him as being a spook.
His freak, he openly says it!
His friends are spooks!
His friends say, you gotta come down to Wuhan.
It's cool down here.
Alright.
When he said, when he gave, the clip that we had, this was, I don't know how many months ago, but the clip where he goes on and on about how the mRNA is a platform that the CIA needs because of chemical, biological warfare weapons that may be coming our way.
Here's the clip.
They actually like monoclonal antibodies better.
The idea behind monoclonal antibodies that they really like is you can administer these products to a special forces group, they go in theater, do their business, come back out, go see their wife, monoclonal antibodies gone, it's cleared.
The problem is that the technology just has not performed.
The monoclonal antibody technology is too kludgy.
It's too cumbersome.
And what we've learned over the last three years is that viruses and pathogens can evolve to escape that fairly rapidly because they're fairly specific.
Okay?
We've all seen a viral evolution in real time.
We experienced it.
So that's the unmet medical need that is being attempted, at least that's the justification underlying this, is that there is an unmet need for some technology that will now allow rapid response to both emerging pathogens and engineered pathogens such as biowarfare or terrorism-based pathogens.
I love the troll room.
Murray N. Dude, your family's a bunch of spooks.
By that logic, no agenda's an op.
We wish.
Where's my check?
Where's my check?
I want to remind anyone in the intelligence community that we accept your donation.
It's pronounced cloo-gee.
It's cloo-gee, not clud-gee.
So this is someone who read the word and decided that they knew how to pronounce it.
So let's look at this from a different angle.
Presuming he's an op.
Bobby the K is an op.
That's never going to be good for the American people.
So what?
Of course not.
It's never going to be good.
There's always a downside.
Now, is it going to be climate change?
Is that what he's going to go all in on?
If he's president, if he's elected president?
Will it be the climate change angle that he's gonna... You know, here's the things I hear.
I only hear two pushbacks from MAGA country.
MAGA!
He's a globalist!
I hear this a lot.
He's a globalist!
I think that's probably true.
Definitely true!
And he's gonna throw all climate skeptics in jail!
Yeah, that's a lie.
Yeah, I know it.
There's no evidence of it.
But there's no evidence.
And I think it's one of those things they're going to pull the rug out from under to turn people.
You know, what you do is you set him up.
And Pisaki did it with that clip I played last show where she goes on with all this bull crap.
And I think the idea is, OK, let that slide out there.
See how many people subscribe to it.
And then you pull the rug out from under him and say, look, it's absolutely not true what you think.
That's a good trick.
I'd love the trolls to chime in, but there's not a lot of love for Bobby the K in the troll room, I'll tell you that.
Yet.
Let's see, coming for your guns?
No way.
I don't think he's gonna do that.
Nobody will.
Nobody has the guts to do that.
Um, but I mean, man, I mean, it's when I hear him, it's like he listened to no agenda for 10 years and said, okay, everything these guys are saying, I'm just going to go on podcasts and say this, what they said is all true.
So I don't know.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Maybe he, maybe he's the ultimate Q, the Q op, but I don't know.
That's another good one.
I do have to mark Trump.
I got Trump in the tapes to Carter.
Well hold on let me let me do this quickly.
I've got the hills rising.
This was an interesting clip about the most recent issues Trump is having.
On the retention point, I think the best comparison is not even between Trump and Biden, or Trump and Pence.
It's actually between Trump and Obama, because Obama also had taken classified documents when he left office, even actually while he was still president, and had them rented in a private, or in a rented private facility called the Hoffman Estates.
And when the National Archives discovered that Obama had these documents, they didn't try to negotiate getting them all back.
Instead, what they did is they actually worked out this deal where Obama was able to keep the documents at the Hoffman estates, but the National Archives technically had ownership of them and had stewardship of them.
So Obama still had possession of them, still had access to them, but NARA was technically in charge.
And so to me it seems like the correct analogy here would be that NARA and Trump were going through this negotiation of how he could properly secure the documents, of which ones he needed to return and which ones they were allowed to keep, and that was the process that was taking place before that Mar-a-Lago raid by the DOJ, and yet The difference here is that Trump is now being indicted for retaining the documents, whereas Obama was allowed to keep them.
So why was NARA so insistent that Trump wasn't allowed to have any of these in his possession when the previous standard would suggest otherwise?
Yeah, that sounds like a double standard.
Yeah.
By the way, this comparison is never going to end.
I just had a crazy thought.
If Bobby the K says he's going to be the podcast president, and he's literally going back in our archives and listening to the crazy crap we've talked about and he's saying the same thing, maybe he's waiting for us to tell him what to do.
Maybe he's just sitting at home listening.
What should his next move be?
Unbeknownst to us, we're leading the op!
I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on no agenda in the morning.
And we do have a few people to thank for a show of 1577, starting with John T. S. in Orlando, Florida.
$170.
Linden Weiss from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan comes in with $150.
He needs a de-douching and he needs de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
And needs to call out Darnell as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Okay, now we ended up with some random note that I'm not going to read, since it's not in the note reading section, but it's Don Canary Cash... Cashmere, uh, who is in Santa Cruz, uh, Tenefery.
No, no, Tenerife.
Tenerife.
Tenerife.
Tenefery.
Tenefery!
Tenefery.
How's it going?
Tenerife, yes.
He needs it to be dedouched.
You've been dedouched.
Tony Pace in Houston, Texas, $100.
Sir Herb.
Sir Herb Lamb, as far as I know, in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 8008.
Boop.
He's was overboard and he's back.
Welcome back.
Along with Kevin McLaughlin, who's been back and back and back and back at 8008, and this time he wants us to celebrate the Sprite Melon.
Yay.
Sir, hold my beer in Austin, Tennessee.
80.
Austin, Tennessee?
That's a new place.
I said Tennessee, but it's Texas.
Oh, okay.
He wants a Hold My Beer donation.
That's the 80.
Lydia Terry Dominelli in Clifton Park, New York, 7533.
Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana, 6502.
Which is a chip, an old chip, an Apple II.
Jamie Buell in Vista, California, 6006.
Small boob.
Small boobs.
Melissa Adams in Balsecour, Alabama, 5545.
Birthday for her brother, John.
Got a brother donation.
Yeah, brother John.
Marcus Muller.
Mueller.
Marcus Mueller, actually, in Mont... Hello, Marcus.
Montabaur.
Montabaur.
Montabaur, Deutschland.
5522.
Peter Chong in Lakewood, Washington.
5510.
Sir Chris Abram in Arlington, Virginia.
55.
55 pounds is the amount I've lost.
You can see him on No Agenda Social every day, taking pictures, showing how much he's lost, and he has really done a great job.
Everyone's proud of you, Sir Chris.
We're proud of what you've done, brother.
Keep it up.
Sir Jackson Kite in Leveland, Texas, $51.50.
He's the knight of the transistors.
I keep saying kite, but not knight.
Zev Green in Teaneck, New Jersey, $50.
And that's all $50 donors now.
Starting with Zev.
Rodolfo Izquierdo.
At Rodolfo's Cuerto, I guess, in Jefferson, Texas.
And he says, Hello, East Texas!
Hello, East Texas.
David Steele, Mobile, Alabama.
Mobile.
Mobile.
Or Mobile, I don't know.
No, it's Mobile.
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Brandon.
Go Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
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Julie Minadeo.
Costa Mesa, California.
Shelby Diamond Star Photos.
Come on, do it right.
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There you go.
Check them out.
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Esch, Esch, Esch.
In Hilversum, Netherlands.
And she wraps it up with our last producer for a show, 1577.
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These are very important.
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Turns one today.
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Our producers are what make the show.
It's you.
You are all producers, not listeners.
We'll never refer to you as listeners.
You are truly our producers.
And it's good for you to get together and hang out from time to time to exchange ideas, information.
Maybe you're looking for someone to hang out with on a more regular basis.
This is what these meetups are great for.
Noagendameetups.com.
They happen all over the world.
And we had our meetup in Da Nang, Vietnam.
And we have a meetup report!
Hello, John and Adam.
This is Justin, who is organizing the Da Nang Vietnam meetup.
We had a great meetup.
A lot of people came.
A lot of good conversations.
And I'm going to pass the phone around and let everybody say hi.
All right.
That was it.
That was everybody.
All right.
Thank you, John and Adam.
Thanks for the good show.
I'm very disappointed.
He was the only one there.
He sent pictures and it was really cute.
It was a nice modern bar, by the way.
Very cool place.
And the two of the servers were helping him tape our heads.
He printed out big heads and put them on sticks.
And they were, like, all concerned because it was a little windy there, and they were trying to make sure the heads didn't blow away.
And nobody showed up!
Next time, Vietnam, next time.
Let's go to Indy!
That's where they produce the professional meetups.
Those guys, they got a huge group.
Hello, this is Dame Maria.
And this is Sir Mark.
Safely back from Greece.
The weather was great.
We were on the beach every day.
100%.
Hi, it's Gary.
I want to tell you about the, um, thing.
Seriously, man.
Here's the bottom line.
Look, oh, I'm going off script.
I'm going to get in trouble.
Adios, mofos.
Hi, this is Syrup of the Maple.
Another great meet-up is in the bag.
Wanna see my wet ball temperature?
Don't tell the Department of Justice, I'm here.
In the morning, this is Josh.
Oh, what crap.
First time donator today.
I am no longer the ultimate douchebag.
Adam, I'm sorry.
Thank you very much.
In the morning, Dame Trinity having a great time in Indy.
Thank you for your courage.
In the morning, Sir PBR Street Gang.
And for my sins, I got another mission.
Thank you for the courage.
This is Mike DiPaoli, math.
Easy peasy, gardens.
If you have blossom end rot, give your tomato some tums.
In the morning, this is Alicia.
100%!
Sir Fodfather here, and I got a dime baggie!
Hey, this is Guzman of the Midwest here in the Scorched Earth.
Has anybody seen my wet bulb?
In the morning, James Flanney!
Sir Benny saying hi, and especially hello to Phillip and Caroline, who showed up for the first time today.
See you guys later.
Hi, it's Julie from beautiful Fishers, Indiana.
Thank you for your courage.
Bruce here.
In the morning, John Adams.
In the evening here at the No Agenda Meetup, Emily Blassinger.
Listen to Millennial Media Offensive when you're done, although Dan is a nerd with his jingles.
Nodder from Indy.
100% love these people.
Hi, my name's Whitney.
I'm a server at the Blind Al.
I met up with the No Agenda Meeting and they are awesome.
In the morning!
I love those guys!
Funny.
Keeper and I can't wait to see you guys after our European vacation.
We're definitely going to come stop by.
We're winding out the month with two meetups today.
30th, it's been a while, meet up one o'clock Eastern.
That's probably, yes, maybe ending.
Ireland's own Jaeger House Pub in Charleston, South Carolina and the unpronounceable edition at BB's Grill in Olathe, Kansas kicked off about an hour ago.
In the coming month of August, let me see, we got Fort Wayne, we got Coeur d'Alene, Coeur d'Alene in Idaho, we got Gitmo Lowland, Crooked Rhine.
Ooh, that's gonna be fun.
We have Rippon, California, San Marcos, Texas.
Oh, that'll be the float and meetup.
That'll be fun.
That's August 13th.
Sadly, we can't go.
We're already gonna be in Europe.
Rhode Island having a meetup, Alfreda, Georgia, Kaiserslautern, Germany, and Konya, Turkey, Reichsfriesland, lots of meetups around the world, lots of meetups around the country.
You need to go one of these because this, when it all comes down, when the op is complete, when the great reset comes, you'll know that connection is protection.
You'll have it if you are part of a No Agenda Meetup group.
NoagendaMeetups.com, if you can't find one near you, start one yourself!
Yeah, baby.
Like a party.
Okay.
nights and days you wanna be where you want me you wanna be where everybody feels the same like a party yeah baby like a party okay you got any ISOs?
I have one Oh, well, let's play your one first.
What is this?
I thought this was Stewie Griffin.
I thought this would be an oddball iso.
I'll have what she's having.
It's oddball.
It's oddball, for sure.
Clear.
Well, it's clear, which is always a good thing.
I have three.
Let's see.
They're not all great.
What is this one?
Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more.
No, I don't like that one.
It's Tucker.
How about this one?
Strong number two.
And this one I think is the best.
It's very hard to control people.
Wow, we have four shitty isos.
Which one do we- I like Kara Swisher at the end, kind of.
Oh, you're giving her too much credit.
Give me the Tucker one again.
Oh, no, I hate that one.
I don't want it.
Okay, then, on a way, give it, play it, all of them you should accept.
What's the first one?
The first one was, uh, no, that, that, no, this one.
Strong number two.
No.
How about this for an idea?
Do the Karis Wister one and then play Stewie.
That's a real compromise.
Let me see.
Yeah.
That's too long.
It's very hard to control people.
I'll have what she's having.
Okay.
Oddly, oddly funny.
Oddly funny.
I don't know how that works.
Well, I've got one kind of an interesting double clip here that might be worth a discussion to.
Just to get out.
So there's been this clip floating around since 2019.
And so I took the clip and I ran it through Adobe.
It turns out that Adobe has more than a little trouble with just RFK Jr.
Oh.
And I want to play, so I have two versions of this, the same clip, one through Adobe Enhanced, and then the original.
I want to play the original, and this is where Biden goes off after some guy and wants to do push-ups and take him to the gym and beat him up.
Oh, this is like the union guy or something?
Yeah, yeah.
He gets in his face.
Okay, let's have a listen.
But you, on the other hand, sent your son over there to get a job and work for a gas company that he had no experience with gas or nothing.
Is that Biden?
That doesn't even sound like Biden.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, I remember.
Okay, here we go.
Oh, oh, oh.
Hunter working for Burisma.
Oh, I remember.
Okay, here we go.
Here's Biden.
Oh, this was a different guy, yeah.
Oh, wait, that's what I'm saying.
I don't mind if I'm moving.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Right, that was pretty horrible.
That was pretty horrible.
Now if you remember, this is in 2019, actually before that to about 2019, both of us complained bitterly about who was micing Biden.
Yes, and we thought that his audio guys were doing it on purpose is what we figured.
Yeah.
So that's a very echoey thing.
Now, so I just said, well, let me just run it through Adobe.
Adobe, this is very funny because it starts off promising where you can hear the guy, the first guy very clearly.
And then it devolves into like the weirdest stuff.
It's not like nobody's, you can't understand a word of it.
You don't know what they're saying.
They're mumbling.
This is unbelievable.
But you wouldn't yell at him.
John and I don't take any money for any product or anything.
We never have.
We're not interested in it.
it's just for us to about them.
By the way, some of that is weird.
I want people to know that, you know, because this is a native ad for Adobe.
No, John and I don't take any money for any product or anything.
We never have.
We're not interested in it.
And when you hear us either saying we like a product or saying we hate a product, it's because that's our actual opinions.
That's the beauty of our model.
So, we are lauding the Adobe product, or have been, and now it seems like we might not be.
Let's find out.
Start it over, because you're right.
It sounds, wow, this guy's cleaned up.
And then he starts just saying mumbo-jumbo that I know he wasn't saying.
Yeah, that's your AI, everybody.
But you wouldn't yell at him.
That's your son over there.
That's where Adobe breaks down.
He had no experience.
Yes, that's where Adobe breaks down.
He had no experience before.
I said nothing.
You got no experience.
Nothing.
In the leather tru, get access to it.
You're selling access to it, bros.
It's just like me.
The view of Van Biret has.
Have we heard enough?
It's just too much.
and because I was a junior leader so you know, they're going to go.
No, I know either.
By the way, it's Florida.
I'm going to send it to you.
All right, all right, all right.
Can I stop this?
Have we heard enough?
It's just too much.
I've got to stop this insanity.
That was pretty funny.
So Adobe sucks, is that some native ad you're telling us?
Yeah, I guess so.
It has its moments and this is... It does have its moments, this is not... Not moments, it has its limitations.
Yes, this is not one of its moments, that's what that is.
We've got an excellent end of show mix, Bill Mountaineer, he's back!
We've got Leola Puke, he's back!
And Steve Jones, the clip collector!
All of them doing dynamite work.
Very proud of what you're doing.
And up next on noagendastream.com, the Boost-A-Gram Ball!
Brand new podcast by yours truly.
Playing all value for value music.
Hope you enjoy it.
I'm going to try and do one of those every week.
Because I need more podcasts in my life.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region No.
6, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where, ah, we ran over, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's all your fault we listened to that Adobe native ad.
Should have gotten a clip of the day.
I don't think so.
We'll be back on Thursday with another minimum three hours of media deconstruction for you.
Please remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA.
Until then, adios mofos of Huey Huey and such!
Let him go!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't!
Let him go!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Loose the head. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Loose the head. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Loose the head. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Loose the head. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Loose the head.
Hey, Joe.
Not sense, you'll see it.
Pedro, your mind is in ruin.
I don't know what it's about or not about, but I like it in style.
Don't you know it, don't you?
That it's time you should retire But incognition breakdown You'll do the same It's more than a realistic now It's fucking the pain Hey Joe I got something I think you ought to know Hey Joe
I want to tell you that your circuit's blown I think we'll soon You'll fight upon Yeah We'll be right back.
They really need to let you go Cause you're doing harm Fighting cognition breakdown Cause you're the same Because there's a battle breakdown Because it's a threat Yeah Fighting cognition breakdown Great is not right I think that you're great Fighting cognition breakdown
I think that you're great Now I think that you're ready In the morning The president's family dog, Commander Has bitten or attacked Secret Service agents at least ten times Over a span of four months You may remember the First Family's other German Shepherd, Major, also had a history of biting people.
Get down!
Go, John.
Get down, get down, get down.
You're a bad dog, baby.
The German Shepherd has bitten six Secret Service agents and acted aggressively a total of ten times. - New York Post is dubbing the first pet commander in chomp.
You notice that they're definitely Democrat dogs.
They only bite law enforcement.
Maybe the dog has accidentally been snorting cocaine left around the White House.
And that's why Commander is biting people, you think?
Ow, ow, ow, ow, you know?
Oh my God, you're a rabbit.
Across America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, it's a cruel summer.
Summer, and it's a tough summer.
And the consequences are fierce.
Summer, summer, and they are tragic.
Summer is said to be the hottest, cruel summer ever recorded for millions.
It's very hard to control people.
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