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	Reading is good, kids!
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, September 17, 2023.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1591.
	This is no agenda.
	Making mascara run and broadcasting live 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, you know, I thought Hostess was out of business and they weren't making Twinkies anymore.
	I'm John C. DeBorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Uh, are you eating Twinkies now?
	No.
	No, but I noticed that the company was just sold for like four billion dollars and I thought they were out of business and they were, you know, defunct years ago.
	A couple, two, three years ago.
	Oh, Twinkies are not going to be made anymore.
	Hostess is out of business.
	There goes those chocolate cupcakes.
	It's funny you mentioned that.
	I kind of, I remember something like that now, now that you say it.
	Twinkies.
	No, I have no clips on Twinkies.
	Okay, well, that's great.
	So what else have you been working on?
	You've been down in the financial pits, I hear.
	Yes.
	Sell.
	Buy.
	Actually, now that you bring that up, wow, wow, wow.
	Let me get this going right now.
	I have a... I have a pretend... Not that I have a stock tip.
	We don't do stock tips.
	But I think there is some information that has come out in the Wall Street Journal today And also on the Wall Street Journal podcast that can show us what companies we should be short selling.
	Which, if I understand the mechanism, when you sell short, then if the company's stock goes down, you make money, correct?
	You sell at a certain... it's just like just reverse of what you normally do.
	You'd say you sell at 50 and you buy at 25.
	Okay.
	I think any company that does the following is a sure short sell.
	Is feedback now too harsh?
	More companies are opting for a gentler term.
	Feed forward.
	Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Bruel joins me.
	What?
	So Alexandra, first of all, what's the difference between feedback and feed forward?
	The concept is not so different.
	Feed forward instead of feed back.
	The idea is that feed forward gives people less anxiety.
	It's a little bit gentler.
	When people hear feedback, they think immediately, what have I done wrong?
	What are the bad things my boss is going to tell me to fix?
	One thing that we heard over and over was that during COVID, you know, employees weren't having regular review sessions.
	Everything was virtual.
	After the pandemic, when more people came back to work, Companies sort of changed their approach to HR and management.
	They rethought the review process and really decided that it was important to make the entire process more productive and effective.
	Now, just to be clear, are we talking about just a renaming of what we've come to know as feedback, or do these efforts include...
	It gets better.
	Some companies are actually doing this already.
	...changing the actual tone and nature of feedback-type conversations.
	It depends on the company introducing the term and revamping its review process.
	Some argue that just replacing the word with feedforward, or at Microsoft they use perspectives and other terms...
	There is a danger in really just glossing over the idea that feedback, negative or positive, is important.
	And rebranding doesn't really do much.
	But there's also a number of companies that are rethinking the entire process.
	And as part of that, they want employees to feel more comfortable in the process.
	And therefore, they feel that rethinking the words they use Replacing feedback with feedforward, reviews with connect sessions, and also having sessions more often, you know, between managers and employees actually makes for a more productive and effective workplace.
	John, I need a connect session.
	I need a connect session.
	We need a connect session.
	It's overdue.
	Yeah.
	Any company that employs these tactics is going to lose.
	That's obvious.
	Microsoft, of course, would be involved.
	Yeah.
	They're the ones that got sucked into this stack ranking bullcrap, which really hurt the company for years.
	Wow, we haven't talked about that in a long time.
	It's still around.
	Yeah, I know.
	Was it just Microsoft?
	I thought it was... Was it also... No, everybody... There was a big trend for a while.
	It was Jack Welch's invention.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Stack ranking.
	Oh, there's no winning!
	We don't like to foster a competitive atmosphere, but we laugh a lot!
	Now everyone hug and share a secret!
	Now it's interesting because this podcast came out today.
	I read the article.
	The article is even worse.
	It's filled with all kinds of terms.
	What does the Wall Street Journal think it's doing?
	It's supposed to be a newspaper.
	What, do they think they're the Harvard Business Review trying to establish certain norms in how businesses run?
	These are reporters that don't know how to run a business.
	Hello?
	Well, if you can't do, you teach.
	There was a guy that kind of got viral on Axe on the socials maybe two weeks ago and even some MAGA country people sent it to me saying that this guy has the wrong idea.
	I don't know if they understood what he was saying.
	Because he was, what he's saying is very polarizing.
	This is Tim Gerner, and this is a report from The Hills.
	Have workers become the bosses?
	That's what Gerner Group founder Tim Gerner seems to believe, and he told Financial Review Property Summit workers that this is a problem that needs to change.
	I think the problem that we've had is that we've, you know, we have, people decided they didn't really want to work so much anymore through COVID and that has had a massive issue on productivity.
	You know, tradies have definitely pulled back on productivity.
	You know, they, they have been paid, paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years.
	And we need to see that change.
	We need to see unemployment rise.
	Unemployment has to jump 40, 50% in my view.
	We need to see pain in the economy.
	We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.
	Wow.
	Unemployment has jumped 40-50 percent.
	What an admission.
	Goerner also said we have to hurt the economy to end the arrogance among workers.
	This is really interesting because I agree that the workers are out of control and this pandering, such as we just heard, is bad.
	It's biblically bad.
	You need to teach your children.
	Our show has been thematic about this point with the noodle boy.
	Yes, yes.
	However, some people thought that his solution was just a horrible idea.
	Let's all go broke.
	That'll fix things.
	Isn't that exactly what the Federal Reserve... Poverty!
	There you go.
	There's the solution to everything.
	Well, I think they're well on their way.
	I mean, poverty is on deck.
	I mean, to me, it seems like the West, the United States and Europe, with the immigration that's taking place, is like we're going to become the slaves who make... I think manufacturing may come back to the U.S.
	and to Western Europe.
	Yeah, backyard manufacturing.
	Yes.
	We'll be the slaves, and then we'll have our own Uyghurs, which will be the illegal immigrants.
	This is happening in Chicago.
	Finally, finally, people are waking up!
	At Sheldon Heights Church of Christ, an open dialogue on the migrant crisis, hosted by alderman Ronnie Mosley, was packed inside and out.
	First of all, they definitely chose this venue for a reason.
	They chose a small venue so that they could discourage the community from being able to show up.
	With fall and winter fast approaching, Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking to move migrants from police stations into what the city is calling winterized base camps.
	This is essentially like a Band-Aid to a gunshot wound.
	You are putting a Band-Aid on a huge problem at hand.
	I think that's a bad idea.
	on a huge problem at hand.
	One potential site, the former jewel parking lot at 115th and Halstead.
	I think that's a bad idea.
	They want to push this out of sight and out of mind.
	But it's coming with pushback.
	Many calling on the city's leaders to focus on the needs of taxpayers.
	We are the residents of this community.
	And we demand that they do not put these people here.
	They're not even following the rules in the police station.
	What makes us think that they're going to follow the rules here?
	Residents tell us they are in need of grocery stores, mental health facilities, and housing for homeless individuals.
	By the end of this year, the migrant crisis will have cost taxpayers a quarter of a billion dollars.
	I like calling it Winter Base Camp.
	What a genius branding!
	You're welcome here at the Winter Base Camp.
	Do you know how cold it gets in Chicago, migrants?
	It gets cold.
	Here, play the New York immigration clips, number one.
	Oh yeah, this is beautiful.
	Tensions rose today in Manhattan over the immigration crisis.
	Lawmakers tried to address the issue, but they were met with frustrated protesters.
	NDD's Jason Perry was on the scene.
	Close the border!
	Close the border!
	Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, along with other lawmakers, addressed the immigration crisis in New York City.
	But they were quickly disrupted by protesters shouting, close the border.
	Ocasio-Cortez continued speaking outside of Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, which has been used to process illegal immigrants.
	She called for more federal resources to help deal with the crisis.
	A man in the crowd voiced his frustration to the lawmakers.
	How is that bringing unity to the station when you're taking care of illegal immigrants over your own citizens?
	We spoke to some people in the area to see what they think is the solution to the migrant crisis.
	Close the border!
	Close the border, it's the only solution.
	A genius.
	Have them remain in Mexico, like the policy was before.
	Why does my family member have to wait in Colombia when they filed a legal petition and these people are right here on 45th Street?
	And another man voiced his concern.
	It's not right.
	You have to come through the proper channels.
	There's people that are waiting to get here.
	And they're skipping the line and they don't care.
	We don't know who these people are.
	They're not vetted.
	Many of my ex-girlfriends were from other countries.
	You know what I mean?
	So this is not about hate.
	It's not about hate?
	I had sex with them.
	It's not about hate.
	My many ex-girlfriends.
	I think we should call them Neo-Uyghurs.
	That should probably be the new term.
	Because that's all they're going to be.
	With AOC.
	I want to remind everybody, she auditioned for this role.
	She auditioned for this role.
	Yeah, we always forget that.
	She is an actress.
	An actress.
	And not a great one.
	She auditioned and has been MK-altered into repeating talking points.
	And she even, I don't know if you have it, talked about a path to citizenship.
	Well, I have one more clip in the series, but the problem is that they had her talking and it was so noisy with people yelling at her.
	Did you try that?
	In that last clip, I cut out two chunks of it because of this issue that she can't get a word in.
	How was the Adobe product?
	Did that work?
	No, no, it was beyond Adobe.
	This was just like a cacophony.
	It was a mess.
	And this man explained that it wasn't fair to the low-income families living in New York City.
	They have congestion pricing in the city, where you're going to have to pay $20 to drive into Manhattan.
	How are the low-income families supposed to survive?
	How are we supposed to raise our kids?
	While everyone gets everything for free, there's not two systems of justice in this country.
	We also heard from an immigrant who recently arrived in New York City.
	We never imagined, none of the immigrants, that we were going to be received like this.
	Nonetheless, I am grateful.
	Protesters and politicians both made their voices heard today.
	This is clearly an issue that will continue to demand national attention.
	Finally!
	At O'Hare, there's 400 neo-Uyghurs in the airport!
	By the way, kudos to Abbott.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, it took a long time.
	He's been shipping them out for, what, six months to a year?
	Quite a while, yeah.
	Yeah, quite a while.
	It's finally caught up to everybody, okay.
	Yeah.
	But it's so sad that it had to come to this.
	It's just, these are people.
	They're human beings.
	You know, it's like, what is, how stupid is this?
	Well, this is going on, the latest thing going on in Europe.
	Did you see this sit-down?
	With Van der Leyen and Maloney sitting next to each other?
	And the Dutch Prime Minister decommissioned Mark Rutte.
	What is that guy doing there?
	Yes, I saw it.
	Those two women do not get along.
	Well...
	I was talking to Willow and my niece and my nephew, and they're like, you know, Maloney, she's just another one of the elite.
	There's nothing that she's going to do.
	She talked a big game when she was coming in, or when she wanted to get in.
	And also, they say that the migrant issue in Italy, at least, isn't all that bad, even though the Lampedusa is made to look really, really horrible.
	They say that it's not really being felt.
	But, you know, they're in Firenze, you know.
	There's four different Italys, so maybe they just don't... Minimum.
	They got, yeah, minimum.
	Different vibe there.
	But, yeah.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I mean how much, I mean the Netherlands, people are sick of it.
	This is interesting though that this is a, as we've noticed with the COVID and some other incidents, these are universal, these are worldwide.
	Yes.
	Phenomenon.
	Which means it's coordinated by someone.
	And I don't know if you saw this, but Zelensky, you know, the actor from Ukraine, he came out and he said, you know, I see that not everybody is with us and, you know, we have a lot of Ukrainians now all over Europe.
	And here it is.
	Western governments could face defeats at the ballot box.
	You know, because the Ukrainian refugees, you know, they're going to vote, and they're going to go in, they're going to vote you out if our partners do not help us.
	It means they want Russia to win!
	And this is how crazy this has become.
	This guy has been threatening the West with one thing after another and we keep putting up with it.
	That's why I posted a photo of one of the stories in the current edition of Current Affairs where they're hinting of a pullout that we're going to give up on the Ukrainians.
	Yeah, can you want to give us a synopsis other than they're hinting at a pullout?
	That's basically the synopsis.
	Foreign Affairs is the magazine produced by the Council on Foreign Relations.
	And so they, it's like sometimes it's signaling, you don't know what messaging of some sort, and they say in the article Kiev should be prepared for a sudden pullback by the West in support because they make the point that people are getting sick of this.
	And I think they're getting sick of Zelensky.
	Well, what's going on in London right now speaks a whole different story about what's happening in Ukraine because it is a capital B bonanza.
	This year, it's bigger than ever.
	Nearly 3,000 companies have turned up to London's Excel Centre.
	Over a hundred countries have sent delegations.
	And if you're looking to expand and modernise your country's armed forces, this is the place to be.
	The war in Ukraine exerts a strong influence.
	The country has its own stand, but the conflict is also shaping the priorities of the global arms industry.
	Much in evidence are drones of all sizes and capabilities.
	And given their success on the battlefield, systems to defeat them are now a priority for everyone.
	In our market, we can see every day on the battlefield that drones are used every day in huge quantities.
	That is the threat we are addressing with our products.
	We have developed the top-notch country drone system to secure Ukrainian forces as well as Polish and NATO forces.
	The war has also underlined the importance of things some thought were no longer needed.
	Tanks, long-range artillery and shells.
	Ukraine uses 7,000 a day.
	Global inventories are running low, so production is ramping up.
	The war in Ukraine is also changing government spending priorities.
	Defense budgets are going up everywhere and armed forces are being reconfigured to meet new challenges.
	That means billions of dollars worth of defense contracts are up for grabs.
	Woohoo!
	Billions are up for grabs!
	And they are selling now literal directed energy weapons to bring down these drones.
	Zap him out of the sky!
	And we knew this is what Eric Schmidt was talking about.
	Remember he was on with Zakaria?
	It's like, oh, drones, drones, that's the future.
	It's these little drones, little drones.
	And there it is, a whole conference, 300 different country exhibitors, all selling drones and anti-drones.
	And it's just like everyone's like, oh, this is cool.
	It's great.
	Yeah, arms.
	Cool.
	Was it not Schmedley Butler who said, war is a racket?
	Yeah, it was General Schmedley Butler.
	And it is an enormous racket.
	What a scam.
	No one has.
	I guess everyone's just all pacified, sitting at home.
	We don't notice the writer's strike or the actor's strike.
	There's plenty of good stuff on Netflix.
	There's plenty of stuff to watch.
	Has anyone complained?
	That the late-night shows are off the air?
	Has anyone missed this?
	No one at all.
	To some incredible degree?
	Like, wow.
	Yeah, the guys are complaining.
	The guys who work there.
	Wow, yeah.
	And did you see that they're trying to get rid of Kimmel?
	Like, oh, well, some kind of report came out.
	He's drunk.
	Hello?
	We had boots on the ground reporting that.
	No, no, no, that's Fallon.
	Fallon, I'm sorry.
	Yep, sorry.
	We had boots on the ground reporting that when he went in.
	Oh, he's hammered every day.
	He's hammered.
	Well, the real reason you want to get rid of him is because he wasn't toeing the line with anti-Trump jokes.
	Yeah, yeah, true.
	Speaking of... He was pretty down.
	He just tried to maintain a middle ground with his political humor, while the other two guys are just slamming.
	It's like Kimmel, if I remember when Trump was in office, was literally crying on the stage.
	About how bad Trump was.
	Remember that?
	He's in tears.
	This is a comedy show, by the way.
	Trump's bad.
	He's hurting children.
	He's got to go.
	We shouldn't have a president like this.
	It's ridiculous.
	Let's recall comedy show Saturday Night Live opening with the Ukrainian national anthem.
	No, the real humor is on TikTok, people.
	That's where it's funny.
	That's what people are watching.
	Tina sat down on the couch and said, let's watch some reels.
	We don't have TikTok, but let's watch some reels.
	What do you mean you don't have TikTok?
	It's online.
	It's on the web.
	Yes, but I don't have it on my phone.
	She doesn't have it on her phone.
	I don't either.
	And I watch it all the time.
	I'm sorry to hear that.
	You know what's funny?
	By the way, I just should mention this just for so people should know.
	I use a VPN most of the time on my machine.
	It's just safer.
	And I use VPNs out of South American countries because there's a couple that are just so fast.
	It's like you wouldn't even know you're on a VPN.
	So when I'm on an Argentinian VPN and I just happen to hit TikTok, not as a sign on, but just as I'm now looks to TikTok like I'm in Argentina.
	They have the same dipshit girls in Spanish doing those stupid dances they do.
	Well, yeah, that's what TikTok is.
	TikTok is- It's like, why are you- what is- who- what- why are you doing this?
	You're making- you look like an idiot.
	Do you understand the mechanisms of TikTok?
	TikTok is the music industry.
	It is literally the music industry.
	There is so much money to be made.
	If you are a successful TikTok dancer, or whatever you've created on TikTok, you can make real money.
	Uh, and probably no surprise!
	Turning now to TikTok, and the European regulators slapping the social media app with a nearly $370 million fine, accusing the Chinese-owned platform of failing to protect children's privacy.
	Alexis Christophorous joins us now with that.
	Good morning, Alexis.
	Oh yes, Alexis, come on!
	Good morning, Gio.
	That investigation by Ireland's Data Protection Commission finds the sign-up process for teens made their TikTok accounts public by default, allowing anyone to view and comment on their videos.
	It also allowed adults to turn on direct messaging for teens without their consent.
	Isn't that what the teens want?
	Yes, it's softcore porn.
	It's borderline cruelty against animals in most cases.
	Funny, but cruelty against animals.
	And yes, that's what they want.
	Yes, it is where teens search on TikTok.
	No one goes to Google anymore.
	Ha!
	Fine them!
	Direct messaging for teens without their consent.
	In a statement, TikTok saying, we respectfully disagree with the decision, particularly the level of the fine imposed.
	It is the latest in a global crackdown on TikTok.
	In the U.S., some public universities, as well as many state and federal agencies, have banned the app on their devices out of concern it would give China access to sensitive user data.
	And Montana passed a law that bans the app's use in the state altogether.
	And it's not just TikTok.
	Instagram, WhatsApp, and the owner Meta among the tech giants hit with big fines by the Irish regulator.
	So, you know, the EU playing a big game, oh yeah, we understand how this works, China's gonna get it all, TikTok, bad, bad.
	But listen how the Queen of the European Union, you know her as Queen Ursula, how much she understands the topic of AI.
	I mean, artificial intelligence, this is the future.
	And she really, she is accepting artificial intelligence into her life.
	I believe in the power of artificial intelligence.
	Just look at the winner of last year's Future Unicorn Award, Korti from Denmark.
	They are using AI and voice recognition to help doctors predict heart attacks.
	It's simply amazing.
	Amazing!
	And indeed, the possibilities of AI are immense, I don't have to tell you.
	AI can turn on wind turbines and can produce more energy as the weather changes.
	Wow!
	AI can detect a weather change and turn on wind turbines.
	Simple.
	AI can detect a cyber attack faster than any human being.
	Yeah, what about MGM?
	And as a medical doctor, I know that AI can also, for example, detect cancer in mammographies way earlier and more reliably than any human being.
	So the EU... I didn't know she was a medical doctor, actually.
	Or at least not one that's qualified to speak about mammography.
	So the EU is doing the same thing here in the US and they're lining everybody up and they're getting everybody together and they're setting it all up because they want to control it, they want to make AI your new god and AI is right and AI is smart and AI does everything and I could not resist.
	C-SPAN got Elon Musk for a one-minute statement Which is much better audio than anything we've had so far outside of the tech, the private tech meeting where they were divvying up something.
	I think it's very telling what he's saying here.
	Okay, let's stop right there.
	Can we stop saying that these are some of the smartest people in the world?
	some of the smartest people in the world.
	Okay, let's stop right there.
	Can we stop saying that these are some of the smartest people in the world?
	They're not the smartest people in the world.
	They run profitable companies.
	They're businessmen.
	Yeah, does that make them the smartest people in the world?
	No, generally speaking, when you were in college in the olden days, the business guys were the dummies.
	The dummies would go into business.
	The smart guys are theoretical physicists.
	None of these guys are that.
	So he says, it was very civilized.
	Not sure why he's saying it's civilized.
	Maybe that can only be because there was money to be made.
	And these are some of the smartest people in the world, which he, of course, conveniently includes himself in this group.
	Among some of the smartest people in the world.
	So I thought Senator Schumer did a great job.
	Now listen to what he's saying.
	I'm not bringing it.
	I can't understand a word he's saying.
	He's mumbling.
	You're talking over it.
	I thought Senator Schumer did a great service to humanity here.
	Senator Schumer did a great service to humanity here.
	So, he's sucking up to Schumer for some reason.
	With the support of the rest of the Senate.
	And I think we'll, I think something good will come of this.
	I think this meeting may go down in history as being very important.
	This meeting's gonna go down in history as very, very important.
	The future of civilization.
	Schumer did ask everyone to raise their hands in the room to see if they were in favor of AI regulation, and I believe almost everyone did.
	Now this is interesting, because you keep hearing that Schumer asked, is everyone in favor of AI regulation, and you keep hearing, almost everyone did.
	Who didn't?
	Who didn't?
	Who was not for this?
	I'd like to know.
	The ones who are trying to get in it.
	We know that regulation is to keep people out at fixed prices.
	That's a good sign.
	I think the probability of there being some sort of AI regulatory agency that stands on its own similar to the FAA or FCC is likely at some point.
	You think so?
	I think so.
	The reason that I've been such an advocate for AI safety in advance of sort of anything terrible happening is that I think the consequences of So let's talk about the cases of AI being severe.
	You don't need AI for it to be severe and I only just heard about this case in Australia.
	It's very similar to what happened with the Dutch child care benefit scandal.
	Which the cabinet resigned over because they essentially ran an algo on taxes and returns.
	social social payments and they went to tens of thousands of parents and said now you receive too much too many child benefits you owe us 50 000 euros and this you know made people lose their jobs their homes some people committed suicide
	this seems to be some kind of trend amongst the world is australia had something very similar known as robo debt which happened four years ago and is just now coming to light it was wrong it was illegal it should never have happened and it should never happen again Amen.
	I Under the former Liberal government, this scheme unlawfully raised $1.76 billion in alleged debts against some 526,000 Australians.
	This tragedy caused stress, anxiety, financial destitution and sadly had a very real human toll.
	For more than four years, Liberal Ministers dismissed or ignored the significant concerns that were raised over and over again, including in the Parliament, but also by victims, by public servants, by community organisations, and of course legal experts.
	The Royal Commission has found that the Liberal Party's robodebt scheme was, to quote, a crude and cruel mechanism, neither fair nor legal, and it made many people feel like criminals.
	In essence, people were traumatised on the off chance they might owe money.
	It was a costly failure of public administration in both human and economic terms.
	So now that I see this happening, and I'm sure there will be other countries that had similar things take place, could this be a setup to bringing in the smartest people in the world to have this done right?
	You know what I mean?
	I don't think so.
	No?
	They're not going to do that.
	Well, governments are deploying this.
	This is what the IRS in the United States is deploying.
	They've announced it.
	We're going to run AI.
	Announce what?
	Robo?
	No, AI.
	AI?
	Yeah, but that's just, that's not going to be for this.
	What's the difference?
	And they're not going to do it anyway.
	The AI doesn't work.
	Yes, they are.
	Of course they're going to do it.
	In fact, I have a, I have a, where is it?
	I think I have a boots on the ground report about this.
	Where was this?
	One of our producers had this happen to them.
	I may not have it handy.
	The crux of it is they have a company that I think brings in $50,000 a year, and the IRS hit them up for $500,000 in unpaid taxes, which was run automatically, and they can't even get anyone to pick up the phone and listen and they can't even get anyone to pick up the phone and Well, that doesn't make a lot of sense.
	Here it is, here it is.
	Just wanted to chime in and confirm your contention that the tax debt over $250,000 scam is just trying to squeeze small business.
	To make it short, my wife and I have a very small business that processes transactions online.
	We make around $50k a year in taxable income on this business.
	The IRS had an automated system that decided we owed them $500,000.
	Plus dollars for tax year 2021.
	They decided this in 2023.
	It was clearly some type of algorithm they applied to us and it's impossible to even speak to a human about this and try to get it resolved, explaining that we literally make one-tenth the amount each year that they claim we owe.
	Yeah, it doesn't make sense, but it's happening.
	Well, it doesn't make sense because you can get a hold of the IRS.
	I've never heard it.
	You can't get a hold of the IRS.
	You can go to their Ombudsman program.
	There's a million ways of getting a hold of the IRS.
	We just had a situation with the IRS ourselves and Mimi had no trouble getting a hold of an IRS person to work on this.
	Well, maybe they should reach out to Mimi.
	Mimi has powers.
	Yeah, it's called dialing a phone.
	I'm just telling you what they're saying.
	I understand what they're saying.
	I'm just saying that it doesn't make sense because I've never had trouble getting ahold of the IRS.
	Well, maybe you have credentials that we're all unaware of.
	No, you call a number.
	There's phone numbers you can call.
	Yes, I know, John.
	I know, I'm just telling you.
	They may have been able to get a hold of them, but maybe they couldn't help them.
	I mean, during the pandemic, you certainly couldn't get a hold of anyone.
	Well, that's different.
	But this seems very resolvable.
	I sure hope so.
	They seem to be frustrated by the process.
	By the way, just as an aside, speaking of the smartest people in the world, Kara Swisher.
	Without a doubt, one of the smartest people in the world.
	One of our producers asked her a question on TikTok and she answered.
	On TikTok, not on X. I'm sorry, on X. On X. Oh.
	Hey Cara, I'm a big fan of Pivot.
	My hate, listen.
	I've heard John C. Dvorak refer to you as his protege many times.
	He seems to be very proud of this fact.
	How big of an impact did Dvorak have on your career?
	You did this.
	No, I didn't do it.
	Matt FLS did it.
	He's one of our producers.
	I didn't do this.
	Would you like to hear her answer?
	Because she answered.
	I'm sure she's... Wait, wait, let me guess.
	Let me guess.
	Dvorak who?
	No, no, no, no.
	No, she acknowledges you with, um, not really, but he had a good show back in the day.
	That sounds right.
	I'm a protege of Walt Mossberg.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, there you go.
	That makes sense.
	I just thought it was great that she answered.
	Because she's probably irked that we're always busting her chops.
	I don't think she knows that we even do a show.
	Oh, she does.
	She does.
	She does.
	No, there's no, no chance.
	She does.
	I've even, I've even once, uh, I think I, I sent a slash on X to Prof G and said, oh, it's my favorite hate listen.
	And he replied, thanks, I think.
	They know.
	They know.
	Come on!
	They're in the business of tech podcasts.
	How could they not be listening to the No Agenda Show?
	We don't do tech.
	Yeah, we do.
	We do all kinds of tech.
	We know everything about tech.
	What did we just do about AI?
	That's tech.
	I guess it is.
	We know more about tech than those jamokes.
	Well, that's beside the point.
	All they know is how to moan and groan about Elon Musk.
	How horrible he is.
	Oh, I don't know.
	I'd like people in the media that hate Musk, they hate on Musk like there's no tomorrow.
	I'd like an explanation.
	Well, we know the explanation.
	No, we don't.
	He took away their tool, the tool of Twitter.
	Yes, the tool of Twitter, which they use.
	I think they started hating on Musk before he took over Twitter.
	That just closed the deal.
	Once he flipped, you know, this is, my thesis is going to stick to this.
	The Democratic Party is a cult.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	Everybody, stop what you're doing.
	Judge.
	Once you quit the party, they go after you.
	Like a cult does.
	Oh, that's a reasonable idea.
	And people in the Republican Party, they quit the Republican Party.
	I mean, I have.
	And nobody cares.
	Oh, yeah, okay, whatever.
	What is he now?
	Libertarian?
	Yeah, that's what he says.
	But the Democrats, you quit the Democratic Party if you're involved, especially if you have a lot of money, like Trump did.
	You quit the party and start to do anything else and they're all over you.
	Well, did you see what happened to Jan Wenner?
	Did you see?
	Jan Wenner?
	Yeah, I did.
	I saw what happened to Jan Wenner.
	Did you see what happened to, now we're bringing this up, did you see what happened to, what's his name, the British guy?
	Russell Brand, I have a clue.
	Russell Brand got killed.
	Well, first let me explain what happened.
	Not literally, but figuratively.
	Let's start with Jan Wenner.
	Sean Wenner, who started Rolling Stone Magazine, became a super, super, uber lefty, I would say.
	Yeah.
	Just an example of that is he pretty much has the veto power over the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
	Yeah, had.
	And will not allow a number of people to be in it, even though they should have been in it years ago.
	Yes, well he has been ousted from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board because he wrote a book and he did an interview with the New York Times and the question was asked, well why didn't you have, you know, more women in your book?
	Why didn't you have more people of color?
	Or a woman.
	A woman.
	Why did you have a woman in the book or a black musician?
	And he said, You know, they're just... They're dumb.
	It was worse, he said.
	In the Times interview with Wenner that published on Friday, he said that black and also female musicians, quote, didn't articulate at the level of the white male musicians in his tome.
	It's not that they're not creative geniuses, it's just that they're inarticulate.
	Although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin.
	Please, be my guest.
	You know, Joni Mitchell was not a philosopher of rock and roll.
	She didn't, in my mind, meet that test.
	Not by her work, not by other interviews she did.
	The people I interviewed were the kind of philosophers of rock.
	Of black artists?
	Well, you know Stevie Wonder, genius, right?
	Suppose we use a word as broad as masters, the fault is using that word.
	Maybe Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield.
	I mean, they just didn't articulate at that level!
	But Pete Townsend, oh, hold on!
	What a canard!
	And then he even said, you know, I guess I'm old-fashioned.
	I should have probably put one woman and one black person in there, but I'm, you know, I don't care.
	Well, there you go.
	This is the classic leftist.
	Okay.
	They're hypocrites.
	Yeah.
	So the Russell Brand thing is interesting.
	Anyway, finish up the Wenner thing.
	He's been excoriated for this.
	Well, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sent a statement.
	Jan Wenner has been removed from the board of directors of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation.
	And they have no further comment.
	And then Brenner, of course, issued a statement.
	In my interview with the New York Times, I made comments that dismiss the contributions, genius and impact of black and women artists.
	I apologize wholeheartedly for those remarks.
	The Masters is a collection of interviews I've done over the years that seem to me best represent an idea of rock and roll's impact on the world.
	They were not meant to represent the whole of music and its diverse and important origins, but reflect the high points of my career.
	And interviews I felt illustrated the breadth and experience in that career.
	Me, me, me, me, me.
	No, he's done.
	He's done!
	That's great.
	He's done.
	So the brand thing is interesting.
	I started getting emails like, hey, Channel 4 just preempted its normal lineup.
	So this was not a planned show.
	They preempted whatever is normally running and ran this 90-minute program
	Which accuses and I think it's because it leaked out and he got some emails and the day before He did a YouTube and he said hey, hey, hey, hey, this is this is not right I'm I'm being railroaded because I have a different message and and I have Like a minute Which really shows you what kind of a hit job this was no we can talk about the validity of it But the hit job
	...is a beautiful piece they edited and they used this as the trailer.
	This is inappropriate, probably for young ears, but here is a piece from Channel 4's Russell Brand expose.
	I phoned and somebody asked what it was regarding and I said, well it's regarding Russell Brand being a sex offender.
	He's grabbing at my, my underwear, pulling it to the side.
	I'm telling him to get off me and he won't get off.
	Like holding me up against the wall, pushing himself in me.
	I love the music.
	He grabbed me and got me on the bed.
	I was fully clothed and he was naked at this point and he held me down and he was just aggressively trying to, you know, f*** me.
	I was like, oh my God, he raped me.
	He forced his penis down my throat and I couldn't breathe, it was just choking me.
	I was crying and he said, oh, I only want to see your mascara run anyway.
	them blood jobs where mascara runs a little bit good so they add this this big so so they take a story where the woman says this is exactly what he did and said i just want to make your mascara run and they cut to a comedic conference
	a stand up of him where he's using this as a joke and he says those blowjobs that make your mascara run and they add a lot of echo to it and a lot of scary effects.
	Bye.
	That, to me, tells me this is a hit job.
	But, wow.
	A serious one.
	And I have lots of questions.
	Like, has he been removed from YouTube yet?
	More importantly, have charges been filed?
	We know that certainly this apparently happened in Los Angeles, that you can make millions of dollars just like the case against Trump with a 20, 30, 40 year old accusation.
	So what is this?
	What really is the result of this?
	What is the point?
	And there's two sides.
	One is This is the mainstream media hates what he's saying and Big Pharma hates what he's saying.
	And the other side is he's using it to up his profile.
	There's all kinds of sides to this.
	I don't think he's using it to up his profile.
	It's like an Andrew Tate type of thing.
	Oh, that's not going to happen.
	I've always wondered why he's still on YouTube.
	That is questionable to say the least.
	I think they're out to get rid of him.
	He's a pain in the ass.
	Yeah, he's definitely a pain in the ass.
	But it's also, it's like, dude, you could see this coming down Broadway.
	You're building an audience on YouTube.
	What are you thinking?
	Oh, no, now I'm on Rumble.
	Okay.
	Bitch shoots coming next.
	No, he's Rumble.
	I think Rumble pays him.
	And we'll see.
	We'll see how strong Rumble is with these horrible allegations.
	It's, uh, now, and you know, of course, believe all women, but man, this is, this is severe.
	And it's so stylized.
	It's not a news report.
	It's a 90 minute documentary with, with music and effects and, and echoes.
	I mean, it's really meant to influence people's thinking.
	I don't even know if it, I haven't watched the whole thing.
	I have it.
	I haven't watched the whole thing.
	I will.
	I don't even know if they show two sides or if it's just all a hit job.
	The funny thing is people are posting audio.
	This is AI!
	Oh my god, really people?
	It's not that hard to find someone who will just say this stuff.
	I know there's one clip going around, the one woman where she's got cut in and out, but the raw version of her sounds very AI-ish, but what's the point?
	You can find an actress to do it.
	You don't need AI.
	You don't need AI for that.
	Hey, tell me, you're an expert in audio.
	Isn't this AI?
	No!
	Yeah, I got that note too.
	Yeah, Adam, you're the expert.
	Is this AI?
	No, it's not that hard to get actresses to do this.
	They even said they used four actresses for this piece.
	So somebody sent me, there's a website called AIORNOT.com.
	And AIORNOT.com takes a look at images and tells you whether they're AI or not.
	Well we need to run that on the art generator.
	Well, I did, and everything was AI.
	So I took some regular pictures, and I swear, this is a fact.
	I took a picture, I took a couple of screenshots of Ari Melber or whatever his name is.
	Ari on MSNBC.
	Yeah, that guy.
	And so I had to pick a couple of screenshots of him and I slipped one into the AI generator.
	It says, this is a real picture.
	And then it said, not safe for work.
	What?
	What?
	Anyway.
	Yeah.
	So he's not safe for work?
	No.
	Hmm.
	I have a bunch of clips about the impeachment I want to get out of the way.
	Oh goodness.
	We didn't talk about it last show.
	No, of course not.
	There's reasons for that.
	Is it exciting?
	I think it's interesting because they brought, this is from NTD, so they're anti-Biden I'm sure.
	When we say the impeachment, we're talking about impeaching President Biden because he was involved in corruption through his son?
	We don't know.
	But it's a lot of just hanky-panky is what I would describe it.
	And it's at least as bad as when Spyro Agnew was in the vice presidency and he was collecting money in his office and they had to rouse him and kicked him out of the office.
	And this is, Joe Biden was doing the same stuff when he was vice president and probably still things going on.
	But this, the only reason I got these clips, because this is a guy they brought in just to outline the evidence, because the Democrats say there's no evidence And so we have these clips of this guy they brought on to talk about the evidence.
	So people out there can say, yeah, there's evidence on whether they're going to do anything or not.
	And they're not going to get an impeachment accomplished because of the Senate.
	And the Democrats are all for it.
	But let's go with impeachment evidence in TD.
	What's the evidence against President Biden in the impeachment inquiry?
	A key player has fallen out of the news cycle, Viktor Shokin.
	This was the Ukrainian prosecutor tasked with cleaning up corruption in the country.
	Until then, Vice President Biden stepped in, calling for his removal.
	At the time, Shokin was reportedly investigating the energy company Burisma, where Hunter Biden was a board member.
	To go over the timeline, we spoke with an investigative journalist.
	Jeff Carlson, thank you so much for joining us.
	And since this impeachment inquiry has been launched, several news outlets and pundits have been saying this is without evidence.
	Others say there's a lot of evidence.
	What evidence is there?
	You know, one of the big things that Democrats have been talking about is the fact that, well, what they've really done is they've sort of capitulated it.
	At first it was, you know, Joe Biden didn't talk to Hunter Biden.
	Then it was Joe Biden didn't talk to his business partners.
	Then it was okay, he talked to his business partners, but he didn't actually talk business.
	So we keep breaking down these doors.
	Now the new narrative is you can't trace the money directly going back to Joe Biden.
	Well, you pretty much can.
	And that's what this is all about.
	You know, it's not as if we're going to have a check that's going to be written directly out to Joe Biden.
	We know that there was this use of 20 different plus shell holding companies, shell companies, through which cash was passing through.
	We know that if you look at the Ukraine situation, you had this new prosecutor that was brought in.
	And despite what people say, he was absolutely investigating Burisma.
	You know, there was always this narrative that the IMF and the EU wanted Shokin gone.
	That's utterly false.
	We spent forever researching this and trying to find any evidence of either of those entities wanting Shokin out prior to Joe Biden announcing that he was going after Shokin, and it doesn't exist.
	So this is where it's going to really be about.
	It's about this Shoken guy and Biden bragging about it.
	Remember when he was in front of the Council on Foreign Relations?
	I think it was.
	Yes.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	It was like the Aspen Institute or something.
	I thought it was on the CFR.
	Well, it was in the public.
	He's bragging about how he got rid of this guy by blowing out a billion.
	You're right, it was the CFR.
	I have the clip.
	It was CFR.
	We might as well play it, since you're doing this expose.
	I remember going over, convincing our team, our others too, convincing them that we should be providing for loan guarantees.
	And I went over I guess the 12th, 13th time to Kiev, and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee.
	And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't.
	So they said, they were walking out to the press conference, and I said, no, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
	They said, you have no authority, you're not the president.
	The president said, I said, call him.
	I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
	I said, you're not getting a billion.
	I'm going to be leaving here, I think it was, what, six hours?
	I look, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.
	If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.
	Oh, son of a bitch.
	Got fired.
	And they put in place someone who was solid.
	And friendly to me and my family and others.
	That clip, of course, has been going around for, I don't know if you have a date on it, but it's what?
	I do.
	Three years at least?
	2019.
	October 2019.
	Four years.
	Yeah.
	And of course, everyone's been pointing to that clip as, you know, it's worse than what Trump did with his phone call, but okay.
	It's been taking forever to get anywhere.
	And here we go to clip two.
	As a matter of fact, quite the opposite.
	The State Department had said that Shokin had made enough progress that they were willing to free up the $1 billion in taxpayer guarantees.
	Some people say they're loans, they really weren't.
	They were taxpayer guarantees.
	But nevertheless, from Ukraine's perspective, it freed up access to $1 billion.
	So Joe Biden actually altered U.S.
	official policy by suddenly deciding to withhold these funds to Ukraine because he was trying to place pressure on Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, to remove Shokin.
	And it even gets a little bit worse from there, because once Shokin was finally removed, they needed to make sure that they had the correct prosecutor in place that would close all the Burisma investigations.
	Son of a gun!
	That took a couple months.
	And there was quite literally a phone call with Poroshenko the day after the new prosecutor was put in place, a guy named Yuri Litsenko.
	The day after he was put in place, Biden had a phone call with Poroshenko, and it was only then, on that phone call, that he agreed to finally release these funds.
	Which were supposed to have been released in, you know, December of the prior year.
	December of 2014.
	Those funds didn't get officially released until, I believe it's May 16th of 2016.
	And they were tied to putting in the new prosecutor, and that new prosecutor was the one who closed the investigation into Burisma.
	Yeah.
	Yep, yep.
	That's how I remember it.
	Well, it worked out well.
	Don't we even have that call that Biden called that guy?
	I think there was a call.
	No, we don't.
	I mean, I don't think so.
	Let's go to clip three.
	And Jeff, I want to zoom in on that.
	So Democrats are now pushing back on this impeachment inquiry, saying that while Hunter Biden may have acted unethically, Joe Biden did not.
	He did not change any U.S.
	policy.
	You argue otherwise.
	So what policy did Joe Biden change?
	Just the withholding of those loans was an official change in our foreign policy.
	And it appears that it was being done in order to close down an investigation into an entity at which his son was on the board of directors.
	But more importantly than that, that they appear to have been further financially entwined in terms of the news that we've been getting out regarding these sequences of two separate $5 million bribes, one to Joe Biden, one to Hunter Biden, all tied into getting this investigation removed.
	And it's important to note that Burisma is not above making bribes.
	The owner of Burisma managed to close a UK investigation before Hunter actually came on board.
	By doing exactly that, he paid the former prosecutor's office a $7 million bribe to close an earlier investigation.
	You know, ultimately this is part of another argument that we've been making is that it's impossible that Obama wasn't aware of this.
	You don't suddenly stop unilaterally a major loan going through to Ukraine that had been in the works and then hold that loan up until the changes that you wanted to be made were actually effectuated.
	So, ultimately, Obama had to be aware, at least after the fact, of what his Vice President was doing.
	Well, Biden said it.
	Biden said it right there in that clip.
	You don't believe it?
	Call the President.
	He'll back me up.
	So he must.
	Of course he knew.
	Yeah, that hasn't really been brought out much.
	It was assumed in that clip that you're talking about that that was a bluff.
	Oh, really?
	I believe it wholeheartedly.
	I mean, this is Joe Biden.
	The enemy always overplays his hand.
	This is exactly what he did.
	Hey, pride.
	Pride.
	That's what he had.
	Pride in what he did.
	And zooming out a bit, this is just an impeachment inquiry, not yet articles of impeachment to be voted on, but the White House has already shot back.
	It's actually giving a statement to major news organizations on how to report on this, saying to scrutinize what the House Republicans are saying.
	What does it mean for our country when major news organizations are getting editorial guidance from the White House instead of reporting on it from a distance?
	I obviously saw that and was a little flabbergasted.
	I guess you in some ways could almost argue, hey good, at least it's out in the open, because for years the exact same thing has been going on behind the scenes.
	How many times do you see one media organization, it usually comes downstream from the New York Times and Washington Post, But everybody picks up the narrative really pretty much at exactly the same moment.
	You know, we know that the White House was directing all the efforts at suppressing information on social media sites, Google, etc.
	behind the scenes.
	Same thing with COVID.
	Now they just seem to have given up any pretense that are literally putting that directive out there.
	See, this is why I think they hate Elon Musk, because everybody's complicit.
	They're all corrupt.
	And specifically around Ukraine, there were so many people involved in that corruption.
	And we know the news media is... Actually, they are corrupt.
	They're in bed with the intelligence agencies.
	They're all at the same parties.
	And that's why they hate Musk, because he let some stuff out.
	And people feel threatened.
	This last clip, which is the real reason to play these clips, I think is there's something suspicious about the fact that this memo went out in the first place.
	The memo that went out to tell the news media how to react to these stories Which the guy himself said, well, this has always been a kind of a secret now that it's out in the open because they don't care.
	They're just blatant now.
	They're just saying, here, we run the media.
	Here's how you should cover these stories.
	I don't believe that.
	I think this memo was purposely pushed out there by one of the big news companies.
	And I'm suspecting the Washington Post because they're the ones that are going after Biden the most.
	Mm-hmm.
	As if it was just pushed into the mainstream.
	I think this was a kind of a leak.
	As opposed to a blatant promotion.
	There is something very suspicious about this, and I think it's to accomplish two things.
	One, what was maybe mentioned in the Council on Foreign Relations publication, Foreign Affairs, about getting out of Ukraine, and the whole thing is so corrupt, why are we there?
	And the second one is part of the program by a lot of people, not all of them, by about half the Democrat Party, to get rid of Biden.
	How about this?
	Everyone understands that...
	If Trump gets into office, they all hang.
	Whether that's true or not, I don't know.
	They didn't hang last time, but yes.
	Exactly.
	But, you know, it makes people worried.
	And everybody oversteps somehow.
	So maybe this is the rats leaving the ship saying, well, at least we can shove all of this blame with our powerful media empires.
	We can push all of this onto one guy, one family.
	Let him bleed for it, the old coot.
	So, they're just protected.
	It obviously has nothing to do with democracy.
	It's only about protecting their own asses because of reputation and criminality.
	Well, something's up.
	And I think that discussion of that note coming out from the White House telling people how to react to these impeachment things is... And Obama has to be protected at all costs because... Well, Obama got nailed in this little... they keep mentioning him.
	I think Obama is targeted too, but I don't know what they're going to accomplish with that.
	But here's the last of these clips of this series.
	What will be interesting, though, is that this one time that they are making an overt directive telling the news organizations what they want them to do, and so far they're mostly doing it, will they continue?
	Because there definitely seems to be a step back from Biden.
	You know, the other day we saw something that was unheard of.
	We saw CNN running a clip where they were putting up the number of times that Joe Biden had lied.
	We have David Ignatius writing in the Washington Post that Joe Biden shouldn't run again in 2024.
	So we're getting, you know, our theory has long been that Joe Biden is not ultimately going to be the nominee for 2024, that it's going to be somebody else, likely Gavin Newsom.
	And we're now seeing those cracks start to form.
	So, you know, I think it's worthwhile noting for the audience that all this perceived protection around Joe Biden is less about protecting Joe Biden, but more about protecting Sort of the establishment and the way the establishment does business and I you know I think at this point they're beginning to give up on Joe a little bit as these facts mount as we started off discussing at the beginning of this episode.
	He's very measured in what he says.
	I mean, I agree.
	Yes.
	No one wants anyone to see how the sausage is made.
	And I'm now thinking this has to do with Mitt Romney's announcement that he's not running anymore.
	I'm not running.
	We need younger people to come.
	By the way, Mitt Romney looks 60.
	He's 74, 75.
	The guy looks great.
	He's in great health.
	He's 76, actually.
	Did I say that?
	Seventy-six?
	He said it looks... He said seventy-four or seventy-five.
	Okay, so he's seventy-six.
	He looks great.
	He's seventy-six, he does, he looks good.
	He looks good, he's, you know, he started Bain Capital, he's made bank.
	I think he's getting out because he knows the dominoes are about to fall and back in 2014, August 7th of this very podcast, According to the Durham Report, the best podcast in the universe, episode 641, we were discussing how business is done, certainly in the world, but by the United States politicians, the elites.
	I think it was in regard to Ebola in Africa.
	You know, it's like, hey, you know, we're going to come in, we're going to take over your country.
	Here's some Ebola for you.
	But then something else popped up in this conversation, which I thought was worth playing.
	Back in time to August 7th, 2014.
	So, we shall see if they can really pull it off because I don't, I think these guys just sit back and go, okay.
	Let's forget Ebola for a moment.
	How much money are you going to give me?
	What am I getting under the table?
	We have limits on that stuff.
	The carries of the world say, screw you man, my kid's going to get the money.
	Joe Biden's kid's going to get the company in Ukraine that he's running.
	They have limits.
	We'll just bring our extractive unit known as the Pentagon and Department of Defense and we'll just kill you.
	That's why we like to give people generous loans.
	So, not mentioned in that lineup was Mitt Romney's kid.
	They were all involved in Ukraine.
	All of them.
	And Pelosi's kid.
	They're all involved in the Ukraine scandal because it was such a great country to do that to.
	Yeah.
	And I think this is why, let's see what moves Kerry makes.
	You know, I'm hiding out in Africa, I'm doing climate change, but he's not immune.
	They'll throw him for the wolves too.
	They will.
	I forgot about the Romney kids being involved.
	Romney, Romney kid, the Kerry kid, the Pelosi kid.
	And you're right, he could run two more times, he looks so beautiful.
	Easily, and he loves the power, he loves it.
	So I'm not buying this or I'm not going to run.
	That's a good catch, I think so.
	I think you're right.
	So that makes sense.
	Just some pushback clips.
	These are older, but this is the White House.
	I want to play this one and then see if the other two follow.
	White House pushback on impeachment.
	Welcome back.
	The White House is asking the media to be critical of the impeachment inquiry against President Biden.
	It sent a letter urging them to quote, ramp up scrutiny.
	The letter from White House spokesperson Ian Sam says that there is no evidence against Biden and that the impeachment inquiry is without merit.
	The letter has raised concern as it seems to urge news outlets to follow an editorial directive from the White House.
	The letter was sent out today to top executives at big news outlets like the New York Times, Fox, CNN, and the Associated Press.
	Fox.
	This comes after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the impeachment inquiry yesterday.
	Oh, watch this be a super benefit by having Fox take a fall too.
	Watch that.
	Just, you can watch it happen.
	Hey, we can get Fox, we can get Fox to fall too.
	Could happen.
	Yeah, you don't need to put these other ones.
	There's more of the same.
	It's just that this White House directive is very interesting.
	I'm not sure what the ramifications will be long term, but it's not a positive thing.
	The Missouri and Louisiana case did and is going to the Supreme Court, just as a side note, even though that was more about COVID, but it's always mentioned kind of in the same breath.
	From our lawyer, as expected, the feds have decided to go straight to Supreme Court.
	They asked Justice Alito to stay the preliminary injunction pending the filing and disposition of the government's forthcoming petition for a writ of centurari Which sounds like a Roman soldier.
	And any further proceedings.
	Also, Alito granted them a one-week stay, that was until next Friday, and has ordered the plaintiffs to file a response by Wednesday.
	From our lawyer here, it'll be interesting to see what the plaintiffs say in response, what Alito ultimately decides.
	All we know for sure is the feds have announced their plan to seek a Supreme Court review, while nothing is certain.
	Our lawyer says the odds are very good they can persuade at least four justices to agree to hear the case.
	Which is the minimum needed.
	If that happens, the M5M will be hard-pressed to ignore the story, which they have so far.
	Except for this White House directive, which seems to be overshadowing it a little bit.
	But it's all part of the same thing.
	And this will... We know that this has been going on.
	It's non-stop.
	And I think people are figuring it out.
	And this will then bring me to equal airtime this morning.
	The new Chuck Todd on Meet the Press.
	Oh, yes.
	Welker.
	Yes, Welker interviewed President Trump and I have some clips.
	Since it's very timely, let's listen to the intro.
	Ahead of our first episode, as the new moderator of Meet the Press, Kristen Welker sat down with former President Trump in a one-on-one exclusive interview inside his New Jersey golf club.
	The interview comes as Mr. Trump faces a historic moment, expanding his already dominant lead over the GOP field, with his sights firmly set on retaking the White House, while facing enormous legal peril across four looming criminal trials.
	No topic was off limits, from the prospect of jail time to big policy issues like his stance on abortion and his view of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who made comments this week about Trump's so-called plan to end the war in Ukraine.
	Take a listen.
	Now, interestingly, on Friday, Megyn Kelly also interviewed former President Trump, and questions were almost identical.
	Oh, like scripted.
	Well, except for one, which we'll get to later.
	Can I mention something here?
	Yeah.
	This Welker thing, the left-leaning Mastodon instances, which is most of them, including the main one, they went ballistic.
	Why?
	Because the fact that they gave him airtime at all?
	Yes.
	Interesting.
	Well, maybe this is a part of taking it all down.
	Let's cozy up to Trump, man, because, you know, he's gonna come and he's gonna kill everybody.
	So we'll start with Der Velker with the first question, which is, well, we'll stick with Ukraine since that is the center of all action right now.
	I want to ask you about something President Putin said about you this week.
	I don't know if you've seen it.
	This was very recent.
	President Putin said, quote, we surely hear that Mr. Trump says he will resolve all burning issues within several days, including the Ukrainian crisis.
	We cannot help but feel happy about it.
	What do you make of that?
	Do you welcome his support?
	Well, I like that he said that, because that means what I'm saying is right.
	I would get him into a room, I'd get Zelensky into a room, then I'd bring them together and I'd have a deal worked out.
	I would get a deal worked out.
	It would have been a lot easier before it started.
	Essentially, for four years, I kept them from doing anything.
	Because, you know what, I will tell you this, I've never said this, Ukraine was the apple of his eye.
	I said, don't ever do it.
	Don't ever do it.
	He would have never done it.
	But again, oil prices.
	He wouldn't have done it because of me, but oil prices.
	The prices were so high that he had so much money.
	So he had all this money to prosecute the war.
	The one who drove up the prices was Biden.
	Given that President Putin has bombed maternity wards, 20,000 kids kidnapped from Ukraine by Russia.
	Mass graves!
	Mass graves!
	Do you welcome his support, his all but endorsement?
	Look, I had a very good relationship with him, and yet nobody was tougher on Russia than me.
	I stopped Nord Stream 2.
	You never heard of Nord Stream 2.
	That was the pipeline until I got involved.
	I said, Nord Stream 2, people that were sophisticated, military people and political people never heard of Nord Stream 2.
	I had it ended.
	The pipeline was dead.
	Biden came in and he approved it.
	There was nobody tougher than me with Russia, and yet I got along with Putin.
	Let me tell you, I got along with him really well.
	And that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
	He's got 1,700 nuclear missiles, and so do we.
	But look, that's a good thing.
	Getting along is okay.
	But I got along through strength.
	And the war would have never happened.
	The war would have never happened.
	Now what's happened, it's so bad.
	The oil price is so high.
	It's hard to get it stopped.
	The oil price is so high.
	When he goes above $50 and $60 a barrel, he makes a lot of money on the war.
	Now, It's a humanitarian thing, it's a lot of different reasons, but I will get that war stopped.
	A lot of interesting things in there.
	He's thrown Nord Stream out, Nord Stream 2, which is not the one that was blown up.
	Very interesting, and blaming it all on Biden because of the oil price.
	So let's talk about age, because that's what we gotta do.
	What do you make of the age issue?
	Should there be an age limit to running for president?
	No, but there should be a competency.
	I'm all for the test.
	You know, I took a test two years ago, three years ago, and as the doctors said, and it was in front of doctors and a whole big deal at Walter Reed, which is an incredible place, and I aced it.
	Aced it!
	I got everything right.
	I'm all for testing.
	I frankly think testing would be a good thing.
	A lot of people say it's not constitutional to do it, but I would be for testing to test to make sure everyone's just fine.
	But a lot of people say that can't happen because of Constitution.
	Is that true?
	You can't test a president?
	Nobody says that!
	What was he talking about?
	He always has reasons for throwing weird stuff out like that.
	I think what he means is we can't actually find out that Joe is feeble because then, well, then we have to invoke the 25th Amendment.
	Maybe that's what he means.
	I don't think so.
	I don't think that's too convoluted.
	The 25th Amendment could be Implement it for any good reason.
	You know, the guy has a sore toe.
	You could do it if you wanted to.
	All I know is Trump throws stuff out there and there's always a reason for it sometime years later.
	Oh, that's what that was about.
	Yeah, I agree he does that, but in this case, I don't know what the deal is.
	Let's continue, let's continue with ageism.
	What do you say to people who say it is time for a new generation of leaders?
	Well, it's always time for a new generation, but you know, some of the greatest world leaders have been in their 80s.
	I'm not anywhere very near 80, by the way, but...
	Okay.
	And Biden's not too old.
	I don't think Biden's too old.
	But I think he's incompetent.
	There you go.
	And that's a bigger problem.
	I don't think 80 is old.
	I know people that are 89.
	I know a person 94, 95 who's 100 percent.
	Bernie Marcus.
	Take a look at Bernie Marcus, Home Depot.
	I mean, he has been amazing for so many years.
	He's 95 years old.
	It's really a level of competency, not the age.
	You will be in your 80s if you're re-elected.
	Does that concern you at all?
	Well, I will be toward the end.
	No, because my father lived much longer than that.
	My mother lived much longer than that.
	So genetically, that's a good thing.
	So the rest of the interview wasn't all that interesting.
	You know, will you pardon yourself?
	You know, these dumb questions.
	Kristi Noem, who's going to be your running mate?
	You left a note for Biden.
	What did it say?
	So Welker, I think she laid an egg on this one.
	The one that we really wanted to hear about, the one that Tucker didn't broach, was the vaccine question.
	And Megyn Kelly asked the question, and it's a long answer.
	I think it's...
	I think it's worthwhile to listen.
	We can interrupt it.
	Worthwhile to listen to what his answer was.
	Because this is truly the only thing that matters to MAGA country at this point when it comes to President Trump.
	This is the number one question they wanted me to ask you.
	That you shut the country down for six weeks in spring of 2020.
	Operation Warp Speed.
	Excuse me.
	Rushed through.
	I didn't really.
	Let me ask her a question.
	This is my audience's question.
	I gotta get it out.
	But I let the governors shut down.
	Some did and some didn't.
	Some didn't shut down at all.
	Operation Warp Speed, though.
	That was on the vaccines.
	They were rushed through.
	They have helped but also hurt a lot of people.
	And your White House actually supported mask mandates.
	So wouldn't you like a do-over on any of that?
	Look, when this came in, nobody knew what the hell it was.
	It sounded like an ancient, you know, pandemic.
	You thought that was from 200 years ago, or from 1917.
	We never thought you'd have a pandemic.
	Nobody had any idea.
	We got word that bad things were happening in China, right around the Wuhan Clinic.
	And I was the one that said it was in the Wuhan Clinic.
	And, you know, I stuck with it, and it was.
	It was absolutely.
	It came out of the Wuhan Clinic.
	But you take a look, and what we did was... This was brand new.
	Nobody knew what the hell it was.
	There's dust.
	Somebody said, there's dust coming in from China.
	And it's killing people in Italy, and it's killing people in France.
	You understand what he's getting at here.
	What he's saying is...
	We didn't know.
	It's easy.
	I think what he's saying is in hindsight, easy to say that, but I got all these messages.
	All this stuff was happening and I took action.
	It's going to kill people here.
	And by the way, I shut it down to China.
	That was a big move.
	I saved thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives by doing it.
	But honestly, nobody, I don't blame a lot of people because nobody knew what it was.
	Now we do understand it somewhat.
	Nobody really understands it even now fully, but nobody knew what COVID was.
	He does, and it wasn't even a name.
	I called it the China virus.
	I still do.
	I call it the China virus.
	It came out of China.
	He does these great things where, this is all NLP, what he's doing.
	It's so good.
	He'll give you some information, then zap your head around with, I call it China virus.
	And it takes you back to that, takes you actually back into the briefing room when he was saying that.
	It's very smart.
	You know, they call it COVID and COVID-19.
	As far as the vaccine's concerned, you had the original COVID.
	That's the original COVID.
	This was original.
	It's different.
	It's like original Coke.
	It's not like new Coke or Diet Coke.
	It's original COVID.
	The vaccine had an impact on that.
	And there are some people, I will tell you, some friends of mine that are Democrat, I think they voted for me, but they're Democrat, very smart people, tough people.
	They say, you know, I don't understand one thing.
	Why don't you talk more about the vaccine?
	It was one of the greatest things you've ever done.
	Now think of that.
	They say to me and I say, I'm not going to talk about it one way or the other.
	First of all, no.
	I think when he's this is I think this is also NLP when he says.
	The Democrats told him, this is the greatest thing you've ever done.
	Think about it.
	So that immediately makes you think Democrats were in charge of this.
	It's really, it's, I think it's really interesting.
	And the vaccine had an impact on that.
	And there are some people, I will tell you, some friends of mine that are Democrat, I think they voted for me, but they're Democrat, very smart people, tough people.
	They say, you know, I don't understand one thing.
	Why don't you talk more about the vaccine?
	It was one of the greatest things you've ever done.
	Now, think of that.
	They say to me, and I say, I'm not going to talk about it one way or the other.
	First of all, no mandates.
	I don't want mandates.
	I never had mandates.
	This is his thing.
	This is his thing.
	Because, of course, we have to recall that the vaccine was not administered.
	It was in In fact, it was held back until after the election specifically.
	It was held back on purpose?
	Yes, on purpose.
	By the Pfizer guys mainly.
	It was political as well, but here we go.
	He says no mandates.
	It was no mandates.
	Then he's got to take a shot at DeSantis.
	Mandates?
	I never had mandates.
	Florida sort of had a mandate because they were giving the vaccine.
	They were demanding everybody take the vaccine.
	That's another thing.
	But no mandates, no anything.
	I didn't demand anybody take it.
	But I have people on the other side.
	Not my side, although probably there's some on my side too.
	They said, you saved 100 million people because I got it done in 9 months as opposed to 5 years to 12 years.
	A lot of people... You're proud of it.
	No, I'm not proud of it.
	I'm saying what Democrats think.
	So interesting.
	You're proud of it.
	No, I'm not proud of it.
	No, I'm just telling you what Democrats say.
	It's better than I think people realize.
	People, because I got it done in nine months as opposed to five years to 12 years.
	A lot of people... You're proud of it.
	No, I'm not proud of it.
	I'm saying what Democrats think.
	Democrats... I get it.
	And I'm not somebody who denies some of the good that the vaccines did.
	Interesting.
	Megan says she doesn't deny some of the good of the vaccine, even though she herself says that she is vaccine injured.
	It's very interesting.
	No, I'm not proud of it.
	I'm saying what Democrats think.
	Democrats... I get it.
	And I'm not somebody who denies some of the good that the vaccines did.
	I lived through that too.
	But, of course, a lot of people have been vaccine injured.
	And that's one of the questions.
	Those people are mad that they were rushed through and that they can't sue.
	Well, I never gave mandates, and people have to make up their own, you know, make their own decisions, as far as I'm concerned.
	Now, some places had mandates.
	They had very strong mandates.
	Largely Democrat governors, and probably some Republicans, etc., etc.
	But, they're a Democrat.
	Is he talking about, he says mandate, mandate, mandate, but is he talking about vaccine mandates, which he couldn't do because the vaccine wasn't available?
	Or was he talking about mask mandates?
	He never mentioned masks.
	Or they're talking about, you know, quarantine mandates.
	What mandates is he referring to specifically?
	Only vaccine mandates, in my opinion.
	That's all that he's talking about.
	He was not going to discuss quarantine or masks.
	It does not come up.
	You know, make their own decisions, as far as I'm concerned.
	Now, some places had mandates, very strong mandates.
	Largely Democrat governors and probably some Republicans, etc., etc.
	There are Democrats that say, why aren't you talking about that?
	It's one of the, they really believe strongly.
	He's really trying to put this into your head.
	The Democrats, it's the Democrats, the Democrats, the Democrats.
	One said, you say, and this is very smart people.
	They said, you saved a hundred million people worldwide.
	In 1917, you know, it could have been as much as a hundred million.
	It ended the First World War because all the soldiers were dying of this horrible disease of 1917.
	You know, it actually ended the First World War.
	The soldiers were dying.
	They were on the front lines.
	They're fighting and they're dying.
	The only reason he can be saying this somehow is to let us, to remind us that soldiers are dying, our soldiers, that the mandates, the mandates in the army and the military, that these mandates, the soldiers are dying, that must be something like that.
	I'm not, I'm not sure why he's doing that otherwise.
	I think he's freewheeling, so he may not be.
	Possibly, possibly.
	This horrible disease.
	They said, you might have saved 100 million people, 50 million people.
	Why aren't you talking about it?
	I said, I'm not talking about it.
	But what I did do is I got something done for that specific thing.
	There it is.
	I got something done.
	So now he's saying, hey, I didn't force it in your arm.
	He should.
	He should.
	He never says it wasn't even available during my presidency.
	I'm not sure why he doesn't say that.
	That's a hedge, I think.
	But now he's going to say, I did all these things... Well, it was available to... Once the election was over, he had two months.
	Yeah, at that point.
	He was still in office.
	He could have done, you know, mandating then.
	Yeah.
	I also got Regeneron and I got a lot of therapeutics done, which were great.
	Interesting.
	He calls them therapeutics.
	Which would nullify any emergency use authorization.
	And Regeneron, was that really a therapeutic?
	I guess it was.
	I just vaguely remember how Regeneron, that was a bad product.
	No, no, no, it's Remdesivir.
	Regeneron, I think, is the monoclonal antibodies, I think?
	No.
	Let me look it up.
	That specific thing.
	I also got Regeneron and I got a lot of therapeutics done, which were great.
	I also got the robes and the leather and the rubber and all of the different things, the ventilators.
	We did a tremendous job and it's never You know, they appreciated what I did with the economy.
	I got a lot of good marks on economy.
	I got a lot of good marks on a lot of things.
	Rebuilding the military, getting rid of ISIS, the biggest tax cuts in history.
	I never got, I think, the credit that I deserve on COVID.
	And I'll tell you the way I look at it.
	It came in, and nobody knew it was.
	We have to put ourselves back then.
	I had a meeting, and we had a lot of professionals in the Oval Office.
	They say, sir, something bad is happening in the world.
	I said, what's that?
	And they said, people are dying.
	They're dying in China, in this area.
	And there was pictures of body bags all over the place.
	Black body bags.
	Satellite pictures.
	And they were all over.
	I said, that's strange.
	And then they'd have another meeting the next day, and the next day, and the next day, and all of a sudden, they had something where the first person died in the United States, and then another, and then it died.
	Then they started dying all over Italy and all over Europe.
	Nobody really knew what it was, Megan.
	I hear you.
	Let's change gears and talk about trans and women's rights.
	It is monoclonal antibodies.
	That's what Regeneron is.
	Okay, that's what it is.
	So he's kind of saying, I got duped.
	You know, hey, no one knew what it was.
	There was body bags, satellite images of body bags, which I've never seen.
	I don't think that must mean... He never said he was duped.
	No, I know.
	He's not saying... That's still his issue.
	He can't admit any false whatsoever.
	He can't say, well, that was a mistake.
	He can't simply say something was a mistake.
	Is this pride?
	Well, technically, but there's more to it, it seems to me, because even the most prideful person can say once in a while, say they were wrong under some circumstance.
	This guy can't do it.
	Pride, a disease that makes everyone sick except the person who has it.
	Anyway, I thought Megan kind of gave up at the end there and then went to trans and then... Yeah, you're right.
	She bailed.
	She did bail.
	Abruptly.
	Yeah.
	Well, then she went on to say, hey, you let Caitlyn Jenner use your bathroom.
	I go, okay.
	It's also sad.
	It's also pathetic.
	It really is.
	Well, at least somebody brought it up, at least to listen to what his current spiel is.
	His spiel tends to morph over time as he Reanalyzes what he said, so the next time he says it, it's better if he smooths it out.
	It'll probably be on one of his speeches.
	Completely ironed out.
	I guess he's still working it out in his head.
	This is not quite hitting home yet.
	What do I have to change?
	He may not be capable of it.
	He may not be capable of it.
	No, he's not capable, but he can circumvent.
	He can work it up so he can do a bit.
	He can do a comedy act about it.
	He'll make it funny.
	Speaking of the transgender issue... Well, exactly as expected, and I think you prognosticated it.
	Although they are not actual lead bullets, it looks like children who have been mutilated are now firing away at doctors.
	Psychiatrists, psychologists, hospitals, and probably parents soon.
	We have, and it's mainly girls who have been transitioned, are now coming out, there's lawsuits being filed, and wow, Alex Stein, you know Alex Stein, the real Alex Stein, 99, he's the guy that goes into all those city council meetings and will dress up like a nut job.
	He's the best.
	So he has a show, which I didn't realize.
	He has a comedy show, and he has a Chloe Cole.
	Yeah, Chloe.
	She's one of the main ones.
	Well, eye-opening answers in just this little bit of this interview.
	Eye-opening.
	Well, you know, this is obviously a comedy show, but I don't want to be disrespectful to you at all.
	I want to definitely get your story out there.
	So tell us a little bit about what happened at 14.
	And I've heard your story a bunch, but for the people that haven't, I mean, you went to a doctor, and I believe the doctor basically told your parents, if you don't do this, you're gonna kill yourself.
	Wasn't that one of the main motivations in getting the gender, uh, getting the mastectomy at 14?
	Excuse me, 15?
	Oh, yeah, they totally honed in on that when they were talking to my parents.
	This is the, would you rather have a dead daughter or a living son?
	Yeah, classic.
	But, interestingly, She wasn't saying that until after they put her on medications.
	Oh yeah, they totally honed in on that when they were talking to my parents about my desire to become a boy.
	I wasn't suicidal at the time, actually.
	I wasn't suicidal until I was on the treatments that they put me on, which...
	They put me on puberty blockers and testosterone when I was barely 13 years old.
	I was about halfway through my 8th grade year when they started this.
	And I was 15 when they cleared me to go under the knife and get a double mastectomy.
	That's when I, I, it was just, it was the summer after my, after my sophomore year of high school and they decided to remove my breasts surgically.
	And yet, if you would have asked your parents for a tattoo of Lynyrd Skynyrd or a Taylor Swift tattoo, do you think they would have given you a Taylor Swift tattoo?
	Oh no, I mean, here in California, it's illegal to even let anybody under 18 go into a tanning booth.
	And yet they, they let kids, they encourage kids actually to undergo these permanent life-changing procedures that will affect the entire course of their development from there on.
	I thought this, to me, oh wait a minute, the suicidal tendencies didn't come until you put the kid on puberty blockers, well that changes the story a little bit.
	Changes the story a lot.
	This is going to be a horrendous and well-deserved nightmare, because she's not the only one.
	And one of these things where they become popularized, you know, it's like all of a sudden and it creates a kind of a cascade effect, which is what has to happen.
	And all these medical operations have got to, they're going to be They're having meetings as we speak.
	Oh, you bet.
	And it's going to involve schools.
	I do bet.
	Yeah, you bet.
	You better believe it, I mean.
	Don't bet on it.
	Well, you can bet on it.
	A friend of mine, his wife is a grade school teacher.
	Middle school, I think they call it.
	And she had a they-them in the class, a female.
	And I guess there was some school function, and he asked his wife, he said, hey, is that the they-them's dad?
	She said, yeah, how do you know?
	He says, well, first of all, he's wearing a Ukraine t-shirt, so that was just an easy guess.
	So it turns out that these parents Third grade hired a social worker to come and monitor their child in school to make sure she was okay all the time.
	And the school teacher said they made her so paranoid with a social worker hanging around.
	She had ADD, but she thought the whole world was about her, and it completely broke her brain.
	And then, there you go.
	Transgender, gotta be a boy.
	It's all of it, the whole system.
	And I have to say, it's coming from mind-controlled, MK-altered parents who wants, and this goes back to my hairdresser, who were the crazy ones during COVID and now they need control over their lives.
	And here's something I can control.
	My kid is trans.
	Yes, I have control over this.
	Got it.
	I understand it.
	I'm being told that this is right and just.
	And it's so sad because these parents, you have to forgive them, they don't know what they're doing.
	They've been manipulated.
	Completely psychologically manipulated into this.
	Anyone who wears a mask by themselves in their car, you need to make sure their children are okay.
	Check in on them.
	Check in on them.
	Make sure the windows are rolled down in a hot car.
	You gotta check on them, man.
	It's just, uh, it's just nuts.
	Really is.
	Well, I don't have any transgender stuff.
	No, I mean, that's really all I have on the, on the trend.
	I mean, we can't have, although I, there was some, uh, some pretty funny, uh, well, and actually we have the, actually I do have something I could run.
	Okay.
	There's some crazy, you know, California's, you know, nuts about some of this stuff.
	Uh, yeah, I've heard.
	I'm reliably informed.
	So we have a couple of bills, school bills, you know, to make sure that things are in order, that the legislature is going to pass.
	I have two clips.
	This is California School Bill A.
	Two California bills could impact how classrooms and school board meetings are run, if signed.
	The first is Senate Bill 274, introduced by Democratic Senator Nancy Skinner.
	The bill would ban schools from suspending students who disrupt class or defy teachers, known as willful defiance suspensions.
	The amendments taken in the assembly extend the current sunset on willful defiance suspensions prohibition for middle school students and creates a sunset provision for this on high school students.
	The bill has received bipartisan support.
	Skinner previously said suspensions lead to students dropping out of school at a time when many are still behind due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
	But people in opposition argue that the bill is almost like a license for the kids to misbehave, being detrimental to the learning of others in the classrooms.
	Ayes are 31, noes are 6.
	It passed the legislature and is now awaiting Governor Gavin Newsom's signature in the coming weeks.
	Okay, let me just understand.
	Because not everyone in the world understands detention.
	So detention is when you've been a bad boy or girl in the class, you're sent to the principal's office, at least that's the way I remember it, and the principal says, you have detention, which means you have to stay after school in detention hall, and you have to be quiet and do your homework, and you stay there for an extra hour or so, you might have to do it for a week or two.
	Is that what we're talking about here?
	Well, they're talking about mostly suspensions where you get kicked out of school for a week.
	Oh, okay.
	Because you knife the teacher.
	Was that the example given?
	No, but it might as well be.
	I mean, it's like the kids who are just maniacs, and there are kids who are maniacs that have to be kicked out of the school, and now you can't do that.
	You have to put up with them.
	Which means that all the kids will suffer because you'll have these troublemakers.
	And kids who are genuine troublemakers, if anyone can remember back when you were a kid, there are kids that were just troublemakers and they loved it.
	Now, you're giving them a free reign and you don't think they know it?
	I would like to refer everyone to a wonderful movie known as The Breakfast Club.
	With Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson and these kids, these troublemakers, were put into detention, which comes before suspension, and the whole movie is about that, and they turned into wonderful human beings at the end of the movie.
	That's where they got it from.
	Let's pass a law.
	It's no good.
	The Breakfast Club sucks.
	So let's play clip 2.
	This is another thing going on.
	The second bill, Senate Bill 596, would make it a misdemeanor to harass school employees or disrupt school board meetings.
	It's also awaiting the governor's final decision.
	Introduced by Senator Anthony Portantino in February, individuals who harass school staff in verbal, written, or electronic communication may face up to $1,000 in fines and jail time.
	Critics say this bill silences parents and protects school employees from public criticism, not harassment.
	Governor Newsom has until October 14th to sign or veto bills this legislative year.
	So if you're on Twitter and you say your school board sucks, you're going to be fined $1,000.
	This is very Chinese, by the way.
	China, PRC stuff.
	Yeah, social credit score.
	I like it.
	It's pretty much the same thing.
	And now we have the last thing, which is... Oh, there's more?
	Finally, somebody's pushing back against this, and the government has kept California from imposing their crazy car mandates, and the California car mandates now have been kicked back by the feds.
	California may not be allowed to implement a zero-emission vehicle mandate.
	House lawmakers voted to strike it down.
	And it wasn't just the Republican majority.
	Eight Democrats agreed.
	NTD's Jason Blair has the latest.
	The Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act passed the House on Thursday with a near party-line vote.
	Who is screaming at me?
	Where is this from?
	Is this a local news report?
	NTD.
	The legislation seeks to void regulations in California that would ban the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 in order to fight climate change.
	The mainly Republican supporters said that California's mandate will have negative economic effects and intrudes on consumers' ability to choose a car that best fits their needs.
	The mainly Democrat opponents argued that the mandate is needed to combat climate change and reduce pollution, saying the transportation sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gases.
	Americans can make consumer choices based on their merits and needs, not radical mandates rooted in trying to force Green New Deal directives on families.
	This bill disregards over 50 years of precedent, erasing decades of progress made by states to protect Americans from dangerous air pollution.
	And now, has this passed, or is this still up for vote, up for grabs?
	I think it's passed, but it hasn't been signed.
	By the way, the little kicker at the end is what got me, which is, we need to get electric cars because of dangerous air pollution.
	That is not the same as global warming.
	I think we need to bring this jingle back.
	People are asking for it.
	I think we just need to use it as a general jingle for all things climate madness.
	I'll kick it off.
	A city ripped to pieces.
	Apocalyptic scenes abound in Derna after rain from Storm Daniel collapsed dams outside the city.
	Floods drown thousands soon afterwards.
	But the question is now being asked, could it all have been prevented?
	In Libya, where access to Derna is still so difficult, where there's a compounded problem of the problems of the dams breaking as well as the storm breaking from the sea, this is a tragedy in which climate and capacity has collided to cause this terrible, terrible tragedy.
	Climate and capacity has collided to cause this tragedy.
	This is the new term.
	Climate... Is that my clip, by the way, or is that yours?
	That's mine.
	That's the UN douche.
	That's climate and capacity.
	These are the two new... This is the new term.
	I think this is what's going to be the new thing.
	Well, they do have... There are pushing this idea that we're over capacity.
	Play my clip to see if it's in this one.
	The catastrophic flooding in Libya came as a new study found Earth's ecosystems are outside of their safe operating space for humanity.
	The report in the journal... There you go.
	Hold on.
	I've got to hear that one again.
	...found Earth's... You know, hey, you know, I'm sorry.
	We've got to... Morning.
	Amy Goodman clip inbound.
	I'm sorry everybody.
	People are angry, I didn't warn them.
	Here we go, let's try it again.
	The catastrophic flooding in Libya came as a new study found Earth's ecosystems are outside of their safe operating space for humanity.
	Oh man, that's beautiful!
	Outside of their safe operating space for humanity.
	Woo!
	Woo!
	The report in the journal Science Advances warns of imbalances to a majority of key measurements of the planet's health, including biodiversity, freshwater, pollution, and the climate.
	Climate scientist Johan Rockström co-authored the report.
	Six of the nine boundaries are outside of a safe space.
	The four boundaries that we assessed in 2015 are deeper into the red, so we're continuing to move in the wrong direction.
	And this is a big concern.
	Close to 800 organizations have endorsed climate actions beginning Friday, culminating in a march to end fossil fuels Sunday here in New York at the United Nations.
	My goodness!
	So now I just got, I got to write this down.
	I got, I'm sorry, I have to write down exactly what she said.
	The catastrophic flooding in Libya came as a new study found Earth's ecosystems are outside of their safe operating space for humanity.
	Earth.
	Outside of their space.
	Safe operating space.
	Systems outside of safe operating space.
	For humanity.
	Okay, here's what I'd like to say.
	Bullshit.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who just put the sea in the climate and capacity catastrophe.
	Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore.
	Hey!
	Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Crane.
	Mower ships, sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
	And all the dames and nights out there.
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	Let me see if...
	Hello?
	Oh, no.
	Don't run away.
	Hold on a second.
	This thing is warning us.
	I better go.
	I better go.
	Well, we got a short row of ducks with a niner.
	2-2-2-9 on the troll count today.
	2,229 trolls listening.
	I think that's decent.
	That's pretty good.
	It's a little low.
	A little low, but not too bad, considering we are 142 into the show.
	Yeah, we want 24.
	We do want 24, but thank you.
	More trolls are sticking around, and they know the Powerball number is coming up in the donation segment, as it always is.
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	There's still some mastodon instances out there that federate with us.
	It's one big happy family.
	There is?
	Oh yeah.
	Oh no, there's definitely.
	Yeah, totally.
	Not many.
	Nothing that we really want to be a part of.
	We've successfully driven everybody off.
	Good work, everybody.
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	Time, talent, treasure.
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	Organize a meetup.
	You can tell someone else about the program.
	You can also create artwork for us.
	Our artists are doing this right while we're speaking.
	They are creating art in live, in real time, because research shows that fresh new art for every single episode makes people interested.
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	Something new is happening.
	I want to be a part of that.
	And you can.
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	By just listening to it or creating some artwork.
	And the artwork for the previous episode, 1590, was very valuable to us.
	The title of that show was Bold Action.
	And after some hemming and hawing, we realized... Some?
	It took us quite a while, actually, to come up with this.
	It took us a lot.
	This was a fallback.
	But it turns out this was a genius choice.
	No, it was a great choice.
	It turns out.
	Which is typical when we do this, when we have this, I don't like this, you don't like this, well I like this, but it's too small, you can't read it.
	Oh, you're nailing my voice, it's so accurate.
	I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
	I could use some better deep notes, but I'm getting close.
	It went after the other.
	I had this and he had that and he didn't like this.
	He didn't like anything, actually.
	You said to me, you're in a mood!
	I did, because you were in a mood.
	And I said, no, I'm not in a mood.
	I just disagree with you, old coot.
	And so we went back and forth and back and forth and back.
	It really took about 10 minutes.
	Yeah, it took longer than normal.
	It did.
	And so then it turned out the one we picked was a fallback.
	It was like, oh, well, we can agree on that one.
	And it was the best choice, I think, in hindsight.
	This got a lot of attention.
	I got people texting me, wow, you guys are genius, you chose the right one.
	We're the best.
	That's right, that's how we roll.
	That's why there's two of us.
	Francisco Scaramanga brought us the artwork for 1590.
	Very, very detailed, very good.
	To affirm A Mockingbird, of course referring to the scandal of libraries dropping all books from before 2008.
	I got an email from a librarian about this.
	Who says I've been waiting for... This is why you listen to the donation segment.
	I've been waiting for a while for y'all to cover the library BS raging.
	My best guess about weeding in Canadian school libraries, they picked 2008 because it's 15 years ago.
	And library administrators are lazy and disorganized.
	They just picked that round year because that's when the woke mind virus ramped up.
	It's also possible that some head librarian from that era retired So now they can toss all the bad books with impunity.
	At my library, books that don't get checked out for a whole year are sold or pulped.
	Administration regularly wants to trash the whole reference section.
	You know, that's funny because I have, uh, we have a book sale here in Albany, uh, which is a small community that has a library that does this two book sales a year.
	And one of them is people donate their books and then they take books from all the various libraries and it's all there.
	And so I, you can buy a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica for like $8.
	Wow.
	And they have all, in fact, I have so many reference books.
	I've got the Cambridge reference book of American ethnic groups, which is huge, by the way.
	And it's like two bucks or three bucks.
	Wow.
	So you can load up if you have your own library and your own place.
	Load up, load up, people.
	If you've got a house like John and you've removed all your family members, load up!
	You'll load up with books.
	And so you can get all these cookbooks.
	Cookbooks.
	They got all these old cookbooks.
	It's a bonanza.
	And they're cheap.
	So they expunge or pulp expensive art books, historical atlases.
	And our librarian says, library land has collectively lost its mind.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Let's stop and mention what they mean when they say pulp.
	That means they grind up the books and send it to a paper recycling company.
	Yeah.
	So this is worse than book burning.
	By the way, I'd like to point out that the media is using banning, burning, and using all kinds of B words where really it's limiting access to children.
	It's a little different.
	You know, they make it all sound so Nazi-like.
	That's the idea, because we want to turn all our kids into trans kids.
	Hitlerjugend.
	Hitlerjugend.
	Library land has collectively lost its mind.
	Libraries have forgotten their core business is giving patrons the books and info that patrons want.
	Libraries have shunned their core value of neutrality in favor of virtue signaling.
	And I'm, you know, in 1987 I was asked by the ALA, the American Library Association, to participate in a poster campaign for them as an MTV... You were?
	Yes, and I wish I could find more.
	I can't tell you to stop reading from the note.
	No, this is me.
	I'm sorry.
	No, it's me.
	This is me.
	I stopped reading from the note.
	No, and there was a poster campaign and it was me in my full MTV glorified hair.
	I can't find it.
	And it was like, I'm sure the tagline is like, reading is good, kids!
	I don't know, something like that.
	I wish I could find that.
	I wish I could find a copy of that poster.
	It was an actual poster and they put it in libraries everywhere.
	Yeah, you should have that on your wall of shame.
	Well, these days I'd be ashamed of it.
	Or, you know, kind of like you have beautiful old books.
	Russ, spelling the word good with a U is probably the issue.
	Okay, John.
	Thank you, Francisco Scaramanga.
	Should we just take a quick look at some of the other pieces that didn't make the cut that we had such arguments over?
	Because, let me see if I can jigger my memory.
	The COVID camp piece I liked a lot.
	I liked the No Agenda library card.
	No, no, no.
	Stop.
	That's not where you started.
	That's not at all where you started.
	Where did I start?
	Okay, so you started with the alien.
	Oh yeah, I started with the sombrero flying saucer.
	Flying saucer, right.
	And I said, well, A, it looks like AI, and by the way, almost everything looks like AI these days.
	Everyone's using it.
	Yeah, because it is.
	It is.
	And I said that Adam Curry and John C. DuBois, and the little Mexican dancing dudes, it's too small!
	Of course that's what you said.
	Because it is!
	I agreed with that.
	The Mexican dancers were too small.
	Then I started looking around and I went, I think I went to the cart next.
	No, you went to the quarantine camp signs.
	Oh, the COVID camp, Toxic Shock?
	Yeah, and I was like, meh, that's kind of a played out.
	No, no, I'm sorry, you're right.
	You started with the library card.
	I love the library card!
	I'm like, dude, why?
	If it said 2008 on it, maybe.
	Yeah, that was a kicker, that 2008 little thing.
	Yeah, I had to give in on that one.
	You did.
	And then after I was correct about two of these, you said, you're in the mood.
	And what else did we argue about?
	Then I went to the camp and you said, nah, the camp is this, this, this, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And so, uh, okay, the camp was out.
	I think you're right.
	I think that's, that is what I said about the camp.
	And then there was some different, but you wanted to, let's, let's stop there because you kept pushing for the Curry, Dvorak, Mexican guy jumping out of an alien thing.
	Yeah, I like that one.
	Nyko, Symes, Vengo on pause.
	Yes, I like that one.
	Yeah, and it's like, you know.
	You didn't.
	I didn't.
	And then as a compromise, I tried to throw out the Canadian campfire by Matt Boisvert.
	And, you know, which had showed a fire.
	Yes, right.
	You came up with that and I said, what?
	No, you didn't.
	You actually said, yeah, but you know, I see the maple leaf, but you don't see the fire.
	And I conceded.
	And then you said, what about that mockingbird thing?
	And then we both looked at it and we went... I was exasperated at that point.
	And so I came up with the mockingbird thing.
	You wanted to go to the stupid supermarket.
	The one with all the ugly produce.
	You wanted to leave.
	You were done.
	You were done with me.
	You were done with the show.
	You were done with everybody.
	It's not true.
	And so... So you looked at it.
	I looked at it.
	We couldn't see anything wrong with it.
	And when you even mentioned that it had the little...
	Pride colors behind it.
	That was a nice touch.
	Yeah, little pride colors.
	That was a nice touch by Scaramanga.
	I think this turns out to be one of the better ones.
	It's a killer!
	It really is.
	Who knew?
	Who knew?
	Sometimes that's how it goes.
	And I am proud of us for sticking with it.
	No one rage quit.
	You know, we stuck through it.
	Well, when you really have issues, we end up going into the archives.
	No, we didn't go to the archive.
	No, we go to the archives.
	Let's see what was submitted to Vince.
	Show 1100.
	Look at some pieces there.
	We got lucky.
	We didn't have to resort to the evergreens.
	Yeah, the evergreens, which are a mess, by the way.
	It's like no one wants the evergreens to be pulled up.
	So that's talent, and we thank Francisco Scaramanga for providing us with pure, raw talent.
	Great job.
	Thank you to all the artists who diligently provide us with choices.
	Please back off on the AI, people.
	You can just see it change.
	You can see in the past few months, you can see it's all AI.
	Even people who are really good artists are, I think that they're putting their art into AI and say, hey, slick this up a bit.
	You know what I mean?
	Everything seems AI-y to me.
	AI-y-y-y-y.
	Am I wrong in seeing this change?
	I saw it weeks ago.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	You're an artist.
	No.
	Well, I just saw it weeks ago.
	I mean, as soon as comic strip blogger gave up on his butt drawings and started submitting, you know, things that are 3D, it's kind of a giveaway.
	Once the ass went to 3D, we knew it was all over.
	That's how it goes, people.
	Let's talk about some treasure.
	We have executive and associate executive producers, just like Hollywood.
	These are titles that are real.
	You can use them anywhere, and they are accepted even on IMDb, and we kick it off with our top executive producers, as we have a duo here, Dame Becky and Sir Mike from Katy, Texas, who come in with five 1917 And they say, there's a reason for this number, numerology counts, happy anniversary to us!
	We were married on September Sunday, September 17th, that's show day, 1972!
	Show 1591 hits on our anniversary date and day, hence the donation amount!
	Dame Becky and Sir Mike of the great Katy Prairie, no jingles but double karma for all the small business owners in Gitmo Nation, and we say congratulations and happy anniversary!
	You've got karma.
	Next on the list is Jim Schneeberger in Cary, North Carolina.
	And he sent a note in.
	He didn't put donation on the first one.
	The second one came in the next day, so we didn't get it in here.
	Oh, you have a note.
	Good, good.
	I have it.
	ITM, thanks for all you do.
	Is there a simple note?
	Jim Bobway of Shotzi land and Grand Duchess.
	She should be by now anyway.
	Marianne Schneeberger.
	She of the healing hands.
	This warrior will be at my side in Valhalla one day.
	That's the note.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Okay.
	Next is Gene Morpheus in Bellingham, Massachusetts, 34567.
	See attached note, which I have in front of me.
	It is a, it's not just a note, it's two pages of typed information on his own classy letterhead, and we will not read everything.
	However, he says, enclosed, please find a measure of value.
	Some reaction to John's hypothesis that the mafia conducted the JFK assassination and the CIA was powerless on the sidelines.
	It is certainly possible, if not likely, that mobsters were the trigger men in the assassination.
	Convicted felon James Files claims to have been the shooter on the grassy knoll and named Charles Nicoletti and John Rosselli as associates.
	The FBI investigated, but some concluded he wasn't reliable.
	Of course, had they concluded he was reliable, it would destroy both the lone gunman and the magic bullet arguments.
	Connections between the intel agencies and the mob are widely documented.
	However, the gigantic cover-up was certainly the domain of intel agencies.
	It is equally likely that CIA officers Alan Dulles and Richard Helms were the masterminds.
	And he gives us many, many points to back up his thesis.
	Yeah.
	And, uh, which I don't think we have to go through, but they are all, uh, perfectly valid.
	They're all interesting.
	All interesting, and we appreciate that.
	And we will give him a double karma just for the effort.
	Thank you.
	You've got... karma.
	And onward with, uh, where are we?
	Oh, Catherine Knight.
	She's in Mesa, Arizona, and she has a switcheroo.
	Oh, all right.
	I have to get back.
	There it is.
	ITM, I previously neglected to thank my son Billy Knight.
	She's in with 333.33 for hitting me in the mouth.
	He qualifies as a douchebag, but please credit this donation to him so he can be de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	And he's been added to the birthday list at 919.
	Thank you for your courage.
	Very nice.
	Thank you.
	Sharon Puchniak.
	St.
	Paul, Minnesota, 333.33, one of our famous favorite amounts.
	Good day, Adam and John.
	I'm ashamed to say I've been listening to your podcast since the pandemic began and I haven't donated till now.
	I'm sorry.
	I love the show.
	It truly is the best podcast in the universe.
	You make light of the darkness out there.
	It's nice to listen to news and have a few laughs.
	My friend, Sarah Dame of the Lake Mary Gates, Introduce me to the show and we chat and share laughs about your shows and all the valuable information therein.
	She called me out as a douchebag a while ago and it's about time I get de-douched.
	You've been de-douched.
	I was born and raised in Canada and now living in the U.S.
	I love hearing about all the crap going down in Canada as well as the U.S.
	What did you call Trudeau?
	A wet noodle?
	That's funny.
	Couple of items to mention.
	Whoever said something negative about John's voice needs to get a life.
	Oh, we got a fangirl here.
	And in your recent donation segment, the bit about Obama's dick was kind of funny.
	It's okay to add something useless and distasteful, but a bit funny.
	I was okay with it.
	I had a good laugh.
	We're one for one, John.
	We're one for one.
	I'd like to call out my friend Jolene as a douchebag.
	No jingles, no karma, just keep doing what you're doing.
	Thank you for the laughs and all your hard work behind the scenes.
	Cheers!
	Sharon Puchniak.
	Thank you, Sharon.
	We appreciate that.
	That was a nice note.
	Very nice note.
	Loved it.
	CNR in King George, Virginia.
	Well, we are on our way to another gorgeous meetup.
	G-O-U-R.
	I think she meant meetup.
	And decided that today is the day that we will claim our first executive producer credit as we walk hand-in-hand toward the roundtable.
	C-N-R-N-K-G.
	Oh, how nice.
	Okay.
	We have Sir C.B.
	checking in from Harris, Minnesota, 333 AC and JCD.
	Greetings to all producers of the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you, John and Adam, for the best media deconstruction that keeps us all sane.
	Please encourage all producers in the area to make their way to the Cornerstone Pub and Prime in the City of Wyoming, Minnesota Nuts, for the Goat Karma Producers Local 33 meet-up, The Return of Sir Dixbert, on Friday, September 22nd at 7pm.
	Help us welcome Sir Dixbert back to the land of the loonies.
	This donation finds me above the level required for Baronet!
	Please title me Sir CB, Baronet of the Builders.
	Can I get a don't raff and a massive helping of TPP Jobs Karma for me and all in need of it?
	Thank you for all you do, 73s.
	Hey, he didn't give us his call sign.
	You can't just do a 73s without your call sign.
	That's in violation of the Ham Code.
	73s, Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie, Sir CB, Baronet of the Builders.
	Don't raff!
	Why you are laughing?
	Shut up!
	Sir up!
	Shut up.
	First syrup.
	Joe, you've got karma.
	Sorry about that.
	Step down to Jobs Karma.
	Sir up in Alberg, Vermont.
	Of all places.
	23456 becomes our first associate executive producer.
	Says he's enjoying the show.
	Birthday donations from my lovely wife, Robin, today, 9-17.
	My third son, Justin, on 9-15.
	And my second son, Jesse, on 10-6.
	Thanks for all you do.
	No jingles, just some relationship karma syrup of the Green Mountains.
	Relationship karma, here you go.
	You've got karma.
	Up next, Tara Gray, Lanigan, Saskatoon.
	You've been de-douched.
	Row of Ducks 2222.22.22.
	These are associate executive producers.
	Hey, John and Adam, in the morning, I'm sending this row of ducks in honor of Jamie Gray.
	My smoking hot husband turns 50 on September 16th.
	He hit me in the mouth in 2020, and we haven't stopped listening since.
	As this is our first donation, a de-douching for him would be much appreciated.
	You've been de-douched.
	I shall remain a douche, but not for much longer.
	Thank you for the amygdala shrinkage.
	His only request, other than jingles, is to confirm that we really could seek refuge with Adam and Tina if we need to flee from the insanity of our totalitarian regime here in Candanavia.
	It's getting wild up here in all the wrong ways.
	Did I say that?
	What?
	Did I say that they could seek refuge with us?
	Yeah, you did.
	Well, there you go.
	We have a guest room, limited availability.
	His jingle requests are call to prayer, Fletcher, what is, I don't, I don't know a call to prayer from Fletcher.
	This is a weird one.
	I think it's the one where he's kind of chanting and then says Ali Akbar at the end.
	Oh okay, well I have that one.
	Sunday service, oh yes I got that one, and the boogity boogity amen.
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	You're gonna get some Adam Curry.
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	Nay.
	222.22 which is a row of ducks.
	ITM John and Adam, a row of ducks and a 5-5-5-5-5 switcheroo from Sir Ohio Bloke qualifies me for knighthood.
	Accounting attached.
	May I be dubbed Sir Son of a Bloke.
	I may have waffles and wine at the round table.
	Also, can I have a birthday shout-out for myself?
	September 17th, 25 years.
	My brother Dominic on September 28th.
	Check to see these, because it's not yellow here, so I'm always kind.
	I think it's in there.
	Yes, it's in there.
	We're good.
	Everybody said there's a big list.
	It is a big list.
	And my mother blokes Sheila on September 26.
	No jingles, no karma.
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	Thank you, Sir Touchy Puss.
	Bozeman, Montana, $200.
	We're almost done here with the execs and associates.
	Dear NA homies, I was choring and listening to episode 1591.
	I had to drop everything and donate so I could bitch at John.
	Now I'm just a lonely industrial engineer, but even I know that hydrogen is an extremely viable alternative for coke and steel making, and damn it, John, you should too!
	I guess it's about the clean steel that we were talking about, which has nothing to do with this, but he feels you should have piped up and said, dusting off your college chemistry book.
	You'll be reminded that hydrogen is also a very potent reducing agent.
	Instead of giving off CO2 like burning coal, the byproduct is pure water!
	The point he was making is that purified coal is used as a reducing agent for removal of impurities in pig iron.
	We don't have to invoke any climate change hysteria to agree all... I think he needs to do his own podcast, is what I'm thinking.
	Ah!
	He has a potential.
	Yeah, he does.
	I mean, he has knowledge.
	He has knowledge.
	That's what you have to have, which is unlike most podcasters.
	Good point.
	And his point was that he was disappointed that you didn't pipe up and immediately just... Yeah, the steel making has never been something I've known that much about.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, we appreciate your support and your note has been taken in and appreciated as well.
	Sir Touchy Puss of the Gallatin County Fairgrounds.
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	And finally we have Linda Lupatkin, Lakewood, Colorado!
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	And we thank our Executive and Associate Executive Producers for bringing us Episode 1591.
	Very much appreciated.
	Good notes.
	Thank you.
	Good donations.
	It really keeps the engine running.
	We appreciate it.
	We have a few more people to thank as we go, as John will take us through the rest.
	I'm going to just plow through these.
	You plow through them, baby.
	Starting with PayPal.
	$118.74.
	Probably a refund.
	Thanks, PayPal.
	Laura Masters, Lara Masters in London, Brent, UK.
	$100.01.
	Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico.
	There you are.
	100.
	Sean Coffey in Annandale, New South Wales.
	Hi, Sean.
	100.
	I sent a note to Adam.
	Melissa Reeve in Winchester, Virginia.
	100.
	James Zuckel in Tucson, Arizona.
	100.
	Laura Starks in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
	Birthday?
	8008.
	Boobs.
	Kevin McLaughlin, Concord, North Carolina.
	There he is again, continuing his run.
	8008.
	And this time he's promoting Rich Sweetness.
	The Rich Sweetness Melon.
	Okay.
	Dame Jen in Athens, Georgia, 67.
	Another birthday.
	Happy birthday, Sonya.
	Corey Buckwheat, 6568.
	And he's in London, Ontario, Canada.
	Long note for some reason.
	Is there any deductions in there?
	I don't see it.
	We'll read that note to ourselves.
	Rita Harrington in Sparks, Nevada.
	There she is, 65.
	6-0-0-6.
	6-0-0-6.
	Joshua Hartley, Hart, Hardy, Hart, Hartkey, Joshua Hartkey, and Chalyn, Chalyn, Chalyn, Chalyn, I think.
	Washington, I should know how to pronounce it.
	6-0-0-6, got a birthday call out from Maria.
	Coming up, Kevin McLaughlin, 6-0-0-6, with small boobs, North, Conquer North Carolina.
	And this time he's promoting the Ickle Mouse Melon.
	Pickle, I-C-K-L-E, mouse.
	I'm gonna ask for that at H-E-B.
	You'll never find him in a million years.
	Sheila Ryan in Paris.
	France!
	56-84 and Sheila!
	It's about time some Parisian woman sent us a donation.
	She says Shana Tova.
	Shana Tova.
	Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, is 57.
	Sir Ohio Bloke in Nay, Ohio, we heard from him earlier.
	That's a switch roofer, son of a bloke.
	Richard Futter in London, UK, 55.10.
	James Edmondson, South Plainfield, New Jersey, 55.10.
	Charles Couch in Thornton, Colorado, 52.80.
	Ash!
	In Flower Mound, Texas, 5233.
	Mark Bendikowski in Wysola, Poland.
	Hey, Poland!
	Warsaw.
	I mean, it says Wysola, but Warsaw's where he is.
	We need boots on the ground.
	How's everything going there?
	Yeah, yeah, and these are all, he's the beginning of the $50 donations, which I'll name in location, one after the other, beginning with him and then Big Papa, Big Papa Productions in Minneapolis, Minnesota, nuts.
	Philip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky.
	Michael Thompson in New Brownfells, Texas.
	Michael Perot, it could be Perotti or Parrot in Salem, Oregon.
	Easy Landscapes in North Stonington, Connecticut.
	If you got landscape needs, easy.
	Kelly McDill in Mission Hills, Kansas.
	Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
	John Edgar McLean in Newton, Massachusetts.
	David Jarman in New South Wales, with a, he needs the Powerball number.
	Well he had, he said he knew the Powerball number was 5,000 and he said here's 1%.
	Which is even less because it's Aussie dollars.
	And he's got a birthday coming up.
	Yep, he does.
	Nathan Cochran in Franklin, Tennessee.
	Hey, Nathan!
	He's my buddy, Nathan.
	Nathan!
	Hey, Nathan!
	Tatiana Prince in Hollywood, Florida.
	Peter Odo in Ridge, New York.
	Stephen Schumach in Xenia, Ohio.
	Joan Poles in Hernando Beach, Florida, and Baron Alan Bean, who's now in Beaverton, Oregon.
	That's 50, and that concludes our list of well-wishers and producers for show 1591.
	And thank you to everyone under $50, typically for reasons of anonymity.
	I will read one note from Luke from Alexandria, Virginia, Spooksville.
	He says, I started my night layaway program in hopes of someday joining the vaunted and distinguished group of other knights and dames at the Noah Jenner Roundtable.
	I've been listening to your show now for over two years.
	I want to be able to give some value back to all that I have taken.
	I hope my monthly donations will help keep this show going, and I look forward to each episode.
	Yes, you better believe it, Luke, we appreciate that.
	It's not the amount, it's the fact that you send something back, and whatever you are putting in on a monthly basis, I'm sure it's meaningful to you, and therefore very meaningful to us.
	Thank you to these producers, thank you to those of them who are on the sustaining donations, such as Luke.
	And of course, to our executive and associate executive producers, you have really kept us going.
	These titles are real, they are forever, and you can use them anywhere titles are used!
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	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm so hot, champion.
	Yes, we do have quite the list.
	A number, the first number coming from Sir Up, who wishes his third son Justin a happy birthday, celebrating the 15th, his wife Robin today, and his second son Jesse, who celebrates on October 6th.
	Tara Gray wishes her smoking hot husband, Jamie Gray, a happy one.
	He celebrated yesterday, turned 50.
	Sir Ohio Bloke, for son of a bloke, turns 25 today.
	Happy birthday.
	Son of a bloke also says happy birthday to his mom, Bloke's Sheila, celebrating on the 26th.
	On the 28th, his brother Dominic will be celebrating.
	Dame Jen, happy birthday to Sonya, she turns 17 tomorrow.
	And Joe will be turning 50 on the 20th.
	Laura Starch wishes her husband Lee a happy one for the 19th.
	And Catherine Knight says happy birthday to her son Billy, also on the 19th.
	Joshua Hartke, Maria Hartke he says will be celebrating the 19th.
	Happy birthday.
	And David Jarman turns 57 on the 20th.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	We have exactly one title change, but it's no small one.
	Sir CB now becomes a baronet thanks to his upping up to another aggregate total of $1,000.
	He becomes Sir CB, Baronet of the Builders, and we congratulate him with that peerage uppage, and thank you for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	One knight, and this is the son of the bloke who is going to be knighted.
	Ooh, that's a blokey sword.
	Here, I'll grab mine.
	There we go.
	Uh, well, you there!
	Son!
	Son of a bloke!
	Hop up on the podium here!
	You are about to become a knight of the Noah Jenner Roundtable!
	I am therefore very proud to pronounceicate thee with the following title, donated to you apparently on behalf of your dad, you are hereby to always be known as Sir Son of a Bloke!
	For you, we've got, oh yeah, Also, we got the waffles and wine, as requested.
	Besides that, diet soda and video games, you might enjoy that.
	Harlots and Howl Doll, always good for a young son.
	Beer and blunts, brisley and hotties and cachaça, vodka and vanilla, geishas and sake, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and Pablo Amor!
	He's already drinking it.
	He's already drinking the meat and munching on the mutton.
	While you're doing that, get one hand free, the non-greasy one.
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	And welcome to the roundtable of the No Agenda Nights and Names.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	I am so proud of everyone who is organizing No Agenda Meetups every week.
	Every single show day when I get the list from Mimi, I just, it brings a smile to my face because it shows me that people are going way beyond.
	Just listening to the show, they are getting together, they are enjoying each other's company.
	It's a big nation, No Agenda Nation, or for some of you, Gitmo Nation.
	And by getting to know people in your local community, you are actually doing a service to yourself and your community because, as you know, connection is protection.
	And in the Netherlands, they spend two days connecting and protecting up in the Rijsvriesland with all kinds of activities, over 30 people, and as usual, for the Netherlands, they're stoned and sent us a meetup report.
	Special Agent Steele Johnson report India Tango 3-3 Mike.
	They have a weird obsession with goats.
	I'm expecting one to be slaughtered later.
	They figured out Obama is gay.
	This is a problem.
	They're all eating meat, CO2 emissions through the roof.
	They keep calling me Mr. Spook.
	I can't figure out why.
	According to my handler, I'm not the Spook.
	Still trying to find out why the Norwegian bingo wasn't a quiz.
	Now they're doing some sort of cult-like dance ritual that's unlike anything we've ever seen.
	I saw they're eating tree resin.
	They are trolls from the roots.
	They too, they're eating some kind of tree bark resin and talking about trolls.
	I'm pretty sure it's a ritual or drugs.
	End of report.
	Like a Dutch Dukes of Hazzard somehow.
	Weird.
	Here's our Lincoln's Meetup report.
	Welcome to the Denver Meetup at Lincoln's Roadhouse.
	This is Sir R. Peter Rogichnik.
	Happy to be out here.
	And here's my Bitcoin brother.
	Hey, this is Corey.
	Just send a shout out to...
	All you people out there.
	Bye.
	Sir Scott staying dry.
	This is Dennis.
	I heard this place was so cool I had to come all the way out from Wisconsin.
	It's Jim from Denver.
	In the morning.
	Sir Soothsayer here.
	Happy to report the surprise beer is not Bud Light.
	And we are out.
	Thanks everybody.
	No, thank you.
	And we have a meetup today.
	Charlotte's first annual golfing meetup.
	I kicked off this morning and that is at the Charlotte, North Carolina Tradition Golf Club and then the Flying Saucer Draught Imperium.
	So I guess they're having a good time.
	We'll find out hopefully with the Meetup Report.
	Also, the 33rd Annual Knapp for Humanity takes place today.
	It's underway at Duckworth's Grill and Taphouse in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	The Tribal September-Summer Rearview Mirror Meetup, also underway in Indianapolis.
	You know the Indy people are all crazy.
	Blind Owl Brewery.
	And the Too Hot Tucson Meetup will kick off this Thursday, next show day at 4 o'clock at Canyon's Crown in Tucson, Arizona.
	Oh, that is Dame Beth who is organizing.
	And the Sanity Brigade, 3rd Thursday, 5 o'clock, Idaho meetup at Selkirk Abbey Post, Idaho's Fall.
	And do not miss the Thursday, 3rd Thursday meetup, 7 o'clock at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	And finally on my list until our next show day, which is Thursday, on the 21st, Totally not a drug cartel or spook meetup.
	Nope, not at all.
	Rosarita Beach Hotel in Rosarita, Mexico!
	And that is Sir Brian of London who was hosting that.
	He's one of those guys who, he's from Israel, but somehow he's got a gig and he helps people sail the yachts around the world.
	And there's sailing yachts, catamarans.
	Oh yeah, I knew a guy that used to do that.
	Well now you know two of them.
	Sir Brian of London is one.
	And he's a fun guy, so if you are anywhere near Rosarito, Mexico, go to the Rosarito Beach Hotel on September 21st.
	And remember, no agenda meetups, noagendameetups.com.
	It's very easy to find out where there is a meetup near you.
	If there isn't one, start one yourself!
	Always guaranteed a party.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you won't be.
	Triggered or hell's lame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	As usual around this time, we look for end-of-show ISOs, which is another fine segment.
	How many you got?
	I have three, actually.
	I don't know if they're any good.
	Go play those, I only have one.
	Here's my first one.
	I know this!
	I don't even know that!
	Uh, there's this one?
	No, I'm not a poor baby, I'm more reptilian.
	Ah, muddy audio is too bad.
	Who is that?
	That's Pelosi saying she's a reptilian.
	Oh, she is a reptilian.
	Did you hear that whole clip that she says she's a reptilian?
	Here, listen to this.
	Uh, you know, of course she was gonna say that, but... Poor baby.
	Yeah, she's really, really committed to that.
	It's really sad.
	No, I'm not a poor baby.
	I'm more reptilian.
	Cold-blooded.
	And go in or win the election.
	Uh, we're gonna take a short break.
	You know, when people tell you what they are, you might as well believe them.
	So... But that's not a good ISO.
	Maybe this one.
	I also got the robes and the leather and the rubber.
	That's all I got.
	Well, I only have one, but it is a show-ender.
	It's a better?
	Okay, here we go.
	I tell you what, we're great!
	Yep, that's the one.
	No doubt about it.
	It's a winner.
	It's a winner!
	We're great!
	It's a winner.
	It's a winner.
	I want to...
	There's something, there's this clip that I found from Africa today, because it's, you know, obviously, we're nearing the end of the show, so might as well ring in Africa for a moment.
	And it reminded me of something that we may just want to talk about briefly.
	This is about Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
	The military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have signed a mutual defense pact that binds the signatories to assist one another, including militarily, in the event of an attack on any one of them.
	Ministerial delegations from the three Sahel countries announced this in Mali's capital, Bamako, on Saturday.
	The contracted parties undertake to combat all forms of terrorism and organized crime in the common area of the alliance.
	The Liptakoguma Charter, the pact, establishes the Alliance of Sahel States, AES.
	The Liptakoguma region, where the Mali-Burkina Faso and Niger borders meet, has been ravaged by jihadism in recent years.
	Of course, everything starts with security.
	But the heads of state must also think about economic issues, how to bring the different countries closer together, and how to facilitate trade between our different populations.
	All these issues will be added to the Charter in the coming days.
	All three countries have undergone coups since 2020, most recently Niger, which the African bloc, ECOWAS, threatened to intervene militarily, but Mali and Burkina Faso quickly responded by offering their military support to Niger.
	So what this reminded me of was, because these African countries who've all had coups, which is no coincidence, kind of how World War I started.
	With the Conference of Berlin.
	And I don't know if, I'm not really, I'm only just learning about this because for some reason this was never in my history book.
	But the Conference of Berlin was, was that the, like 1890.
	And all these European countries got together and said, hey, it's time to divvy up Africa.
	And most famously, King Leopold of Belgium took over the whole Congo and wiped everybody out and wound up kind of winning with all the valuable minerals and resources.
	But, you know, all these, you know, the Italians, the Dutch, the French, the British, everybody had a piece of Africa and this Berlin conferences where they, this really where they all agreed to this division.
	And I think The way I'm starting to understand it now is that Germany felt gypped.
	They didn't get what they should have.
	And that is, of course, with the shot that was heard around the world with the Ferdinand being shot, that that kicked off World War I. World War II, I think there's an argument to be made that there was a lot of Africa shenanigans involved in that as well.
	And now I'm just thinking, are we not focusing on the wrong thing, Ukraine?
	Although that may be where we have the actual fighting starting, but in a way, aren't we seeing all these countries going into Africa again and trying to divvy it up, but Africa may be this time pushing back with these types of agreements amongst the three couped states.
	Does this ring true in any of your history knowledge, John?
	No.
	Nothing at all?
	The Brilliant Conference?
	None of that?
	Well, I mean, I know about all these things, but I don't think that's what... I think what's going on today, if Ukraine has anything to do with it, it's as a conduit for moving arms and ammunition to Africa.
	Okay, yes.
	As opposed to being anything else.
	I guess what I'm saying more is that Africa has always been... the resources of Africa have always... There's too much goodies down there.
	There's always been a source of... Gold, diamonds, all kinds of rare earths, everything.
	Right.
	Copper.
	Uranium.
	It's always been a source of argument amongst the conquering nations, mainly of Europe.
	Yeah, well, the way they see it, you have a bunch of Dummies in Africa who are just not qualified to compete with the smart Europeans.
	Yes.
	And so you just take their stuff.
	It's a bunch of bullies.
	Right.
	And I think that now that Africa... And they don't even share with the Africans?
	And they make the African kids do all the work?
	Yes.
	I think... Yeah, I know it's pathetic.
	I think this is kind of what's happening.
	The Africans have internet.
	Like, hey, hold on a second.
	That's, you know, actually now you're talking.
	Yeah.
	That's a possibility.
	They got the phone, they got the little phones that they carry around.
	Kenya has 94% penetration of 5G.
	I mean, they're rocking and rolling down there.
	You know, I'm thinking that, you know, especially Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, like, hey, we got internet.
	You know, we've been emailing you for years, and now we're sick of you!
	Stop coming here and taking our goodies!
	I'm going to stay on this.
	I'm going to see if I can find some more evidence.
	Keep us sick in half a show.
	Do the show a favor.
	You're a racist.
	You just hate black people.
	No, I love the black people.
	The black people.
	I know.
	I have one last clip.
	Actually a couple clips if you want to be on time.
	Yeah, we got some time.
	But I gotta play the, you know, I was trying to get the Biden stuff.
	The Biden-Maryland speech is just a gem of gaffes and yelling and screaming.
	He's coming close.
	Yeah, but they didn't jack him up enough, but there's still good stuff in there.
	I just couldn't edit it together.
	And then I got distracted by another edit job I tried to do.
	Naomi Klein was on Democracy Now!
	moaning and groaning.
	She has a new book called Doppelganger.
	It's about Naomi Wolf.
	Yeah, it's about Naomi Wolf getting in her strike zone and causing trouble.
	I started trying to edit some pieces from it, and it ended up with... Naomi Klein can barely get a... She's worse than Musk when it comes to... And so I couldn't do that.
	I'd be there all day.
	But I do have one little sub-clip of Biden, because this is... Only because he yelled this out, and it's just one of these things that galls me, and I'll tell you why after we play it.
	Chris George, Community College, thanks for welcoming us here today.
	As many of you know, my wife is a professor at a community college.
	Nobody's a professor at a community college.
	You're not a professor in high school either.
	No.
	And by the way, now that you mention it, or now that I mention it, why is she working at all?
	Who are we kidding with this?
	Oh yeah, she still works.
	She's going to the community college to give her speeches.
	I forget what she's even teaching anymore.
	Oh please, oh please.
	No, I think that you're waiting for the speech where Biden gets all jacked up and says something weird.
	Massively jacked up, not little jacked up.
	Well, I think it's coming.
	No, he says it's coming.
	He said it in his speech.
	But I'm going to tell you what, I'm going to, yes.
	He said, and I know where it's going to happen.
	Here is the teaser.
	The United Nations General Assembly holds its 78th annual session the week of September 18th.
	Leaders from around the world descending upon New York for what's expected to be the most interesting UNGA since before the pandemic, with the focus on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, shadow diplomacy with Iran, and the increasingly tense geostrategic divide between the U.S.
	and China.
	General debate begins on Tuesday.
	All right!
	Well, this is where they're going to jack him up.
	He might be right.
	I didn't know about that.
	He said in this last speech in Maryland where he was half jacked.
	He says he's got a big speech coming up.
	That's the one.
	But he never said where or what.
	And so that would be great.
	That's the place to do it.
	Jack him up to the max and let him go.
	See what happens.
	He's so full of Ukraine maybe or something.
	I got that!
	Son of a bitch out!
	It would be great if you did something like that.
	I can't wait.
	I can't wait.
	This story has been out since two weeks and we haven't talked about it.
	I'd just like to play this briefly.
	Well, briefly.
	This morning, new details about how hackers breached some of the most recognizable hotels on the Las Vegas Strip.
	In one case, in just 10 minutes.
	They figured out who worked at MGM and decided to call into the IT help desk and pretend that they were one of the existing employees.
	ABC News has learned a Russian hacking network provided the ransomware used to a group known as Scattered Spider, reportedly based in the US and Europe.
	MGM property computers, including at the Bellagio and MGM Grand, went down Tuesday, resulting in days of long check-in lines and casino machines offline.
	With reports of IOUs given out to winners.
	Check-in procedure is kind of messy.
	A lot of long lines.
	Gambling's really messy.
	It's not as fun when you have to wait.
	The Financial Times reports the hackers originally tried to manipulate the slot machine software.
	Unsuccessful, they then hacked the resort's systems in exchange for money.
	There's a good chance that they're going to get paid because they need to get those operations back up and running as soon as possible.
	They're losing tremendous amounts of money.
	MGM says it is operational and working diligently while addressing individual guest needs promptly.
	Days earlier, hackers targeted Caesars Palace, compromising the hotel's loyalty program data, including social security and driver's license numbers.
	Caesars paid the ransom, reportedly $15 million.
	Scattered Spider claims it accessed 6 terabytes of data from both Caesars and MGM.
	Experts warn all big corporations are at risk for similar hacks, unless employees are properly trained.
	These were the IT professionals that were fooled.
	This was the IT help desk.
	They've alluded that this was an outsourced vendor, but nevertheless, it's always education.
	It's never letting your guard down.
	Caesars is now offering identity theft protection and credit monitoring services for those affected.
	And at MGM, it wasn't just Las Vegas hotels affected.
	Other properties nationwide were also hit.
	So it's interesting that the word not used here is ransomware, even though that's exactly what it was.
	We have boots on the ground, which I will read.
	Indeed, the breach originated from the help desk with credentials likely obtained through phishing or social engineering.
	Despite this being preventable through methods like two-factor authentication, no such measures were in place.
	This started at the corporate level.
	See, that's a little different from the report there that says, oh, it started with the slot machines.
	No, it started at the corporate level, made its way to all MGM properties, even those in Macau, including in Vegas, Aria, Bellagio, New York, New York, Cosmo, Mandalay Bay, MGM, Park MGM, the list goes on.
	Upon discovering the hack, which I would say was ransomware, MGM took their systems offline voluntarily.
	Hackers are demanding over $100 million in ransom.
	And of course, we didn't even hear about the Caesars incident, and Caesars reportedly paid $30 million in ransom and managed to keep it under wraps until now.
	According to our boots on the ground, it's a shitshow.
	I am currently working on a project with corporate.
	It will be at least two weeks before email is even restored.
	And I love that it was first China when this first came out.
	Oh, it's China.
	And now it's the Russian group Scattered Spider.
	Scattered Spider.
	Scattered Spider.
	Who comes up with these names?
	I don't know, but these guys are making bank.
	Yeah?
	And I'm surprised they didn't go after those casinos earlier.
	Well, they did.
	No, I mean earlier, like years ago.
	Who knows?
	Well, that's true, because the Caesars thing was kept quiet, so it's possible it's like bankers, you know, they go, oh, we got hacked, we lost all this money, don't say anything.
	And then they hide it in their financials under some bogus line item.
	Wow.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He's no good.
	Let me see, I have... Oh yes, this was kind of important.
	Even though the Mexican aliens are off the news desk, that's done, because I don't think anyone was fooled by that.
	But NASA did come out as expected.
	They downplayed any UAPs, UFOs, but the important news got out.
	NASA has released a highly anticipated report on UFOs after a year-long independent study, and believers may be disappointed.
	Scientists found no evidence that any of the UFOs documented had extraterrestrial origins.
	But looking forward, NASA has now appointed a UFO research director, saying further study will require new scientific techniques like artificial intelligence and advanced satellites.
	The truth is out there.
	Advanced satellites.
	More money!
	More money for NASA!
	Yeah, we need advanced satellites.
	That's what we need.
	Yeah, we need that.
	More money.
	Send us more money.
	It's very dangerous.
	Very dangerous.
	It could happen.
	Could be real.
	We need satellites.
	We need stuff.
	Speaking of... Speaking of AI...
	This was a very weird report from France24.
	Let me see if I can find this.
	But it kind of made sense in the whole AI gambit.
	Let me see.
	This is... where was this now?
	Yes, here it is.
	AI regulation in Europe.
	Because of course, not just Chuck Schumer is on this, but we heard Ursula, Queen Ursula talking about it.
	But listen to this report, because not everyone is on board, and it seems like they've This may even give us a clue as to what they're really trying to do with AI.
	Now the European Union is wasting no time to try and regulate AI.
	Absolutely.
	They're well ahead.
	And we're now in trilogues for the AI Act.
	So that's the EU's institutions hammering out the details.
	And one sticking point at the moment is this idea of a human rights impact assessment.
	That's put forward by the European Parliament.
	Human rights impact assessment.
	So the idea is that those who deploy high-risk AI will have to fill an impact assessment saying what risks their systems could have to human rights.
	Now, the campaign group Avaaz helped develop this proposal saying it's necessary because of cases like in the Netherlands, where the police used AI to profile children.
	And this led to over 800 of them being wrongly registered on their systems and even some of them being taken to child protection services.
	So OVAS says it's crucial but says that actually France is one of the countries spearheading the charge against these impact assessments.
	Now the French government hasn't responded to this concern What I can say over in the UK, they're taking a very different approach.
	All eyes are on this November summit at Bletchley Park on the 1st and 2nd of November.
	Politico has written that Rishi Sunak has done a bit of an about-turn from extolling the economic promise of AI to really being worried that it could destroy us all.
	They say he's been seduced by Silicon Valley funded think tankers who are kind of obsessed with the idea of long-term existential risks.
	This is certainly what Elon Musk is worried about and he of course signed that letter six months ago calling for a pause in AI.
	Now the people that wrote that letter, the Future of Life Institute, are saying well we shouldn't be talking about risks now and risks in the future.
	We should look at it more like climate change.
	It's a set of new technology and it's a set of risks that could do great harm in the future but are already already doing a lot of harm now.
	That would make sense.
	Make everyone believe, and Elon Musk is right up front, that AI is just like climate change, and open the floodgates of money.
	Oh, we have to do so much to mitigate the dangers of AI.
	It's just like climate change.
	And you can even combine the two.
	I think that may be what these guys are gunning for.
	Let's make it just like climate change.
	Yeah, why should we let all those douchebags get all the money?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, those guys haven't done anything.
	Yeah.
	They're douchebags.
	They're just this climate thing.
	They're just wheelspinning.
	Let's do something new.
	Yeah.
	Well, let's get some of that sweet, sweet climate cash.
	Yeah, you might be onto something there.
	Yeah.
	They're going to wrap.
	I finally got this kind of an interesting clip.
	This is the The Whitmore case is finally wrapping up.
	Whoops!
	The FBI-Whitmore scheme ends.
	It's finally ended and there's a few people who got, I don't know, the whole thing was a front for an FBI sting.
	It was a hoax!
	It was a hoax!
	In Michigan, a jury today acquitted three men in connection to Governor Gretchen Whitmer's kidnapping plot.
	This likely concludes the trial over the kidnapping attempt that took place in October 2020.
	Eric Molitor, William Knoll, and Michael Knoll were each found not guilty.
	Prosecutors allege the men conducted surveillance of the governor's vacation cottage.
	In the whole case, ultimately nine men were convicted or pleaded guilty in the case, and five were acquitted.
	Authorities have said that men were planning to kidnap the governor from her vacation home, but they were arrested first.
	Some of the defendants said that FBI undercover agents coerced them to drive the plot forward.
	Yeah, finally!
	Although inconclusive there.
	Three years later this thing took forever to resolve.
	Well of course we can't have anyone actually hearing about this news because then it would show the FBI has a cycle and they do and they did this to incriminate Trump voters.
	Yeah.
	And they're white supremacists, and they're horrible people, and Whitmore was trying to raise her profile by this phony baloney kidnapping scandal, and now it just has to fizzle out and the mainstream can't really admit it.
	It has nothing to do with it now.
	They fell for it.
	They fell for it hook, line, and sinker, as usual.
	Well, they fell for Jussie Smollett's cock and bull story.
	Yeah, it was three in the morning, it was freezing out, and some MAGA guys with the MAGA hats came out with a noose.
	Yeah, and eventually, maybe three, four years from now, we'll hear about January 6th being phony.
	Laura Logan, by the way, coming out with a documentary, I think.
	Is it out already?
	I think maybe next Thursday?
	About January 6th?
	And what does she conclude?
	Oh, there was all... She did... I sat through almost half of an interview she did with Stu Peters.
	No, this guy.
	Stu Peters, that's a good one.
	What was interesting, she said, oh no, Bray Epps was not FBI.
	She says, oh no, every single agency had shills in that J6.
	She says Defense, Homeland Security, you know, she has like eight different agencies, she said, that all had shills walking around trying to get the, you know, I have to watch the documentary, but it sounds like she's saying that this was so coordinated that everybody was in on it.
	And she's a pretty good journalist, so... Yeah, she is.
	And it makes sense because, you know, Nancy Pelosi refused to bring the troops in, and the whole thing was a scam.
	Yeah.
	But it's a good talking point for the Democrats, January 6th.
	Yeah, but Stu Peters, really?
	That guy creeps me out.
	I don't know what it is about him.
	I haven't seen his stuff for at least two or three years.
	Oh no, he's active.
	He's very active.
	Huh.
	Guess maybe we need to talk about this one little thing before we go.
	Fair warning.
	Elitist Voices of America.
	This is NPR or PBS.
	The United Auto Workers are testing their strength with a strike.
	NPR's Camilla Dominowski joins us.
	Camilla, thanks for being with us.
	Happy to be here, Scott.
	What's it been like?
	What have you seen?
	Yeah, I mean, I talked to executives at the Detroit Auto Show.
	I went out and spoke to people on picket lines and pitch blackness.
	There was one image from this week that I'll never forget.
	There were two events right next to each other in downtown Detroit last night.
	One was a big UAW rally.
	Bernie Sanders spoke huge emphasis on the vast and growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots in America.
	And then, literally next door, Scott, there was a glitzy charity event at the auto show.
	$400 a head for a ticket, people dressed to the nines in floor-length gowns with drinks walking around the cars.
	And right outside, red t-shirted people in the streets with picket signs, just separated by some glass and some mounted police officers.
	Oh, that's fascinating.
	Bernie Sanders got no play on that, that he was out there.
	I didn't see anything.
	I have a clip.
	I have a UAW clip, too.
	We should probably talk at least one minute about this before we leave.
	Sure.
	The first ever strike against Detroit's three largest automakers at the same time is taking place right now.
	President Joe Biden today siding with the union in a strike that could affect the nation's economy.
	NTD's Arianne Palstar has the details.
	For the union makes us strong!
	Hell yeah!
	The United Auto Workers, or UAW, started the first ever simultaneous strike against Detroit's three largest automakers on Friday.
	The union's president made the announcement shortly before midnight, which is when the contracts between automakers and workers expired.
	For the first time in our history, we will strike all three of the big three at once.
	We are using a new strategy, the stand-up strike.
	The union wants 40% pay raises to compensate for soaring inflation.
	Automakers which include General Motors, Ford and Stellantis offered up to 20% phased in over several years.
	The union declined.
	President Biden on Friday siding with the union.
	Auto companies have seen record profits, including the last few years, because of the extraordinary skill and sacrifices of UAW workers.
	But those record profits have not been shared fairly, in my view, with those workers.
	Record corporate profits, which they have.
	It should be shared by record contracts for the UAW.
	Biden sent two of his top aides to Detroit to get involved in the negotiations.
	The president and CEO of the U.S.
	Chamber of Commerce said in a statement on Friday that the UAW strike, and indeed the summer of strikes, is the natural result of the Biden administration's whole-of-government approach to promoting unionization at all costs.
	A long strike threatens to spread economic turmoil.
	General Motors CEO Mary Barra says the strike could harm employees, their families and even the U.S.
	economy, saying for every General Motors job there are six other jobs in the economy that depend on us running.
	I've heard both sides of this, and I think the workers make a valid point, like, hey man, 2008, 2009, we gave you all this stuff, and we helped in the Great Recession, and then we want it back, and our jobs used to be good-paying union jobs, that now we can't even get by because of inflation, which I'm sure is true.
	They've got a valid point.
	Then on the other side, it's all political.
	Unions are the most political organizations we have probably in the United States.
	And I think they may be out to, this may be a ploy to also bring down Biden.
	I think it's a play to bring down Biden.
	You want to hear?
	NBC actually, I think they solidify that point.
	It's a short report.
	And there is a lot of political fallout from this unprecedented strike we just heard from President Biden with his eye on 2024.
	He's trying to walk a fine line between supporting the workers and limiting the impact on the economy.
	Kelly O'Donnell is at the White House with more on that.
	With an auto strike, politics always has a seat at the table.
	I said, please stay at the table as long as you can to try to work this out.
	President Biden caught squarely in the cross currents.
	Backing unions is in the DNA of his political brand.
	I'm proud to be the most pro-union president.
	I'd be the most pro-union president in American history.
	Today saying, strong unions are good for the economy.
	Auto workers help create America's middle class.
	They deserve a contract that sustains them in the middle class.
	But his climate agenda also puts him behind the wheel of electric vehicles, touting American automakers' investment to move away from fossil fuels.
	Kelly, also looming over all this is the UAW's endorsement.
	A labor endorsement the president wants very much, but has not yet secured, so he has a stake in this too.
	The White House says he wants a good outcome for everyone, while he was clear today, Lester, that workers deserve more when carmakers' profits have gone up.
	Yeah.
	It seems to be hitting Joe right where it counts for him.
	Well, what's going to happen if this strike goes more than two weeks, it's going to affect, it's going to create a mini-recession that's going to be blamed on Biden.
	A mini-recession?
	What are we in now?
	What are we in?
	We're not in technically a recession at all, but whatever the case is... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just gotta stop.
	Isn't two negative quarters technically a recession?
	We don't have two negative quarters as far as I know.
	I thought we had them.
	We already had two negative quarters.
	A couple quarters ago, maybe.
	Oh, okay.
	It's no longer that?
	Whatever the case, it's going to be noticeable because these recessions have not necessarily been noticeable.
	Gas prices, everything that people are bitching and moaning about the price of chicken.
	Beef is overpriced, I have to say.
	I just bought some stew meat.
	It was $6.50 a pound at Costco, of all places.
	For Chuck?
	Chuck is too expensive.
	It should not be seven bucks a pound.
	But anyway, the point is, is that this is going to get blamed on Biden because he hasn't done anything about inflation and he's just going to spend more money.
	He's being targeted.
	They don't want him running again.
	They got to do something about it.
	They're going to try to pull everything out.
	I mean, half the Democrats do want him again because, well, he beat Trump fair and square.
	Their conundrum is they don't want Kamala.
	That'll be the worst thing they can think of.
	So they don't want to kill him.
	No, they don't want to kill him.
	They don't want to kill him.
	They got to just have him resign.
	So I think the best bet is the impeachment bet.
	Create enough of this, of the evidence, bring it out there and get his party people like what happened with Nixon.
	To take him aside and say, look, this is good.
	This is a distraction.
	This is not good for the party.
	There's too much going on here.
	You're going to get yourself in trouble.
	This is, you know, we don't need this aggravation.
	We don't even want you to be impeached.
	Resign, which is what they did to Nixon.
	The Republicans did that to Nixon.
	They took him aside and told him to resign and he did.
	Yeah.
	But he's so nuts.
	Well, they gotta jack him up.
	He's gotta make a big faux pas now.
	It's gotta be apparent to even him.
	We'll jack him up.
	Oh man, I'm just... Yeah, if you jack him up and let him loose with a press conference, that could be a real issue.
	It would be great for the show.
	Because he's poking at people, calling them Jack.
	Hey Jack, I'm all jacked up!
	I did it!
	Ukraine!
	What?
	Hunter!
	Bo is dead!
	Something like that.
	So after they boot him out, they really don't have any other choices, like the reporter said in that earlier clip.
	It's got to be Gavin Newsom, who is really unlikable nationally.
	I mean, California is, you know, we've got rigged elections, so he gets in easily enough.
	If you want to play one last clip, I do have the clip about the family.
	You have to look this one up, but I've been keeping it around.
	It's about the California political families that run everything.
	Yeah, it's good.
	It is.
	California.
	The four.
	It's looking.
	Oh, we've played this, haven't we?
	Yeah, I think so.
	But it was years ago.
	Yeah, it's good.
	It's from the archives.
	I have it.
	Listen, this is the No Agenda Show, baby.
	We got it on tap!
	Pat Brown's father, Edmund Joseph Brown, was known for running scams and gambling operations in San Francisco.
	With the help of businessman William Newsom II, Pat Brown became governor of California for two terms.
	During his governorship, he awarded the Squaw Valley concession contract to William Newsom III and his partner, John Pelosi.
	The deal was criticized for the state of California paying for everything and getting nothing.
	William Newsom III grew up with the governor's son, Jerry, who was training to be a Jesuit priest.
	John Pelosi's son, Paul, married Nancy D'Alessandro, daughter of Thomas D'Alessandro Jr., who was known for smuggling heroin into the U.S.
	with Lucky Luciano and the Baltimore Mafia.
	John Pelosi's son, Ron, married William Newsom's daughter, Barbara.
	Over ongoing disputes about the Squaw Valley concession, William Newsom Sr.
	threatened to hurt the governor politically just as Governor Brown was running for a third term against Ronald Reagan.
	He lost.
	But eight years later, the former governor's Jesuit son, Jerry, reclaimed the governorship in 1974.
	He appointed William Newsom III to a Placer County judgeship in 1975.
	And three years later, to the State Court of Appeal.
	William Newsom was an attorney for oil magnate J. Paul Getty, named in the 1966 Guinness Book of World Records as the world's richest private citizen.
	And while serving on the appellate bench in the 1980s, he helped Getty's son, Gordon, secure a change in state trust law that allowed him to claim his share of a multi-heir trust.
	After Newsom retired from the bench, he became administrator of the Getty Trust and provided seed money for his son Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi's nephew, to start the plump jack business that led to a career in San Francisco politics.
	As mayor of San Francisco and lieutenant governor of the state of California.
	Gavin Newsom was informally adopted by the Gettys after his parents divorced.
	And recently succeeded family friend Jerry Brown to be the current governor of California.
	For 80 years, these four families have ruled over the state of California politically.
	It's called our democracy.
	Get at work.
	That's what it's called.
	Democracy at work.
	That's right.
	And the Bushes, you know, they don't rule California, but they unsuccessfully tried to get Ken Paxton out because George P. Bush was all upset.
	It's these cartels of families, and let's throw the Careys in there.
	Let's throw Mitt Romney in there.
	The Kennedys.
	The Kennedys.
	Let's throw them all in there.
	This is what we need to wake up to in America.
	And I'm sure the same happens in every other country in the world.
	Yeah.
	Rich families.
	Democracy.
	Democracy.
	That's right, everybody.
	That's your democracy at work.
	Hey!
	We should start every show off with that clip just to remind us.
	That's a great clip.
	That is good.
	All right, everybody.
	That is our deconstruction.
	Now you understand the world.
	It's very small.
	It's just a small bunch of douchebags.
	Not that hard to understand.
	We just get distracted by, you know, all kinds of stuff.
	But not you.
	You belong to Gitmo Nation.
	Noah Jenner Nation knows better.
	You know the truth.
	And you got it with a smile.
	And we have end of show mixes coming up from Dee's Laughs.
	Dr. I, insert TJ in the raffle, and J-Dog.
	And right after the show, live on Noah Jenner's stream, we have Rare Encounter.
	Featuring Cold Acid and Abel Kirby.
	Make sure you stay tuned for that.
	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 I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We're getting ready for that jacked-up joke.
	Until Thursday when we return, remember us at dvorak.org slash NA, support the show, send some value back.
	Until then, adios mofos, ahooey hooey, and such.
	A CBDC, as you know, share this with your friends, neighbors, and colleagues.
	You gotta wake people up.
	It is a totalitarian system of total control, tracking, and tracing.
	And if they don't like your politics, or your speech, or your viewpoint, if they don't like the fact that you have an automobile powered by gas and you refuse to turn it in, they'll just turn you off.
	They'll turn off your chip.
	They'll turn off your system.
	They'll turn off the CBDC.
	They will cut you out of the system.
	So, to that degree, it really is biblical.
	It's the B system.
	No man shall buy or sell without taking the mark.
	Yeah, I said, when children are left to the devices, but what do parents do?
	Accept, give, or more devices.
	Fear for democracy more than ever.
	So private that the information is confidential.
	How clever.
	Surges of infection, who's to blame?
	Undervaccinated, but not under-vaccinated.
	I mean, come on, man.
	They geolocate.
	They data track and trace.
	Uninformed citizens running in place.
	They can't keep pace.
	1.50 an hour during the pandemic was dark.
	But making money on Zoom from afar felt dark.
	Like a therapist, tell your secrets to a stranger.
	Shout out to Dangai, returning every room into a danger.
	Tell your secrets to a stranger.
	What else?
	Fearless as a Lone Ranger.
	Shout out to that guy returning every woman to a danger.
	Just to set everybody in the right tone, masks do not stop you from getting or spreading flu, cold, or COVID.
	COVID is not a killer virus.
	Oh, these guys are, they're saints.
	Yeah.
	Just to set everybody in the right tone, masks do not stop you from getting or spreading flu, cold, or COVID.
	COVID is not a killer virus.
	mRNA is not a vaccine.
	It's an experimental gene tinkering thing.
	There are only men and women, two-spirit and non-binary are not genders.
	Librarians used to be hot, not ugly with green hair.
	There is no LGBTQ community.
	There's no black community.
	The world is not overpopulated.
	There's no structural wage difference between men and women in the workplace.
	All politics is theater.
	The U.S.
	President is not the king, the emperor, or your daddy who's going to save you.
	If you want to speak to your real father, talk to God.
	All advertising-based media is dishonest, at best, and likely propaganda.
	And climate change initiatives are a huge money-making global scam.
	We don't talk about Brandon.
	We don't talk about Brandon.
	It was election time, economy was booming and there wasn't a cloud in the sky.
	No clouds allowed in the sky.
	Brandon walks in, scandam, it begins.
	It's science!
	You tell him the story, oh my.
	Sorry my son, go on.
	Brandon says six feet apart.
	That's what they tell him.
	That's freaking crazy.
	Don't question what the experts say.
	Just get back to your slaves.
	We don't talk about Brandon.
	No.
	We don't talk about Brandon.
	Obvious to see Brandon stuttering or stumbling.
	I can always hear him sort of muttering or mumbling.
	I associate him with the sound of... Quiet!
	Go!
	You know the... You know the thing!
	He takes heavy sniffs of the kids.
	It's so frightening.
	Always falls asleep.
	Not a joke, think about it!
	A four-year term creeps all in the house Watched a build-back Somebody else But the one good thing He's salvaged from this mess Is all the memes about Brandon All the memes about Brandon It's been two years They say it's for your health.
	What have we got to show?
	Pfizer's got the wealth.
	Economy's crap.
	You know who we can thank if this is normal now.
	We're gonna need some serious help.
	But who could save us?
	I don't know, buddy, but I'm really scared.
	Could the government help?
	Hey, yeah!
	They could just print up some more money!
	Isn't that inflation?
	Nah, it's just paper!
	Cool!
	Thanks, Brandon!
	You wanna six feet in the ground?
	Not what they tell us!
	Double mask up in your car?
	That's freaking crazy!
	Triple jab right in your arm?
	Are we still positive?
	Come on!
	We all talk about Brandon.
	Four year term.
	Creeps all in the house.
	No bag.
	Somebody crazy.
	One good thing.
	Salvage from this mess.
	We all talk about Brandon.
	We all talk about Brandon We all talk about Brandon Let's go Brandon, I agree music The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios, mofo.
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