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Spreadinating.
Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, October 15, 2023.
This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation media assassination episode 1599.
This is no agenda.
And we're partying like it's 1599 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 we're all wondering where, how, and why did Pete Davidson become a sex symbol?
I'm John C. Domorek.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
In the morning!
Wow, man, you guys in California are preoccupied with the wrong things.
Nobody cares about Pete Davidson anymore.
Taco Bell does.
Really?
Is there a commercial?
Oh, eh?
Oh, no.
What are you watching that you get Taco Bell commercials?
I haven't seen a commercial in years.
I watch television to look for clips.
So, speaking of clips, we had the Eclipse yesterday.
Oh, yeah.
We had it, too.
Oh, you had it, too?
Oh yeah, it was the 95%.
It wasn't full like yours down there.
No, yours wasn't quite 100% full, but you got one coming in April that's 100% and it's going to be in Texas.
Yes, yes.
100%!
100%?
Well, the one yesterday was a jip.
It was a total jip.
It wasn't cool.
Oh no, no.
You don't know what a jip is.
No, we got a ring of fire, okay, but it didn't get dark.
What, what, what, what?
Where are you from?
We had cloud cover.
The sun was coming through a bunch of fog.
You got a real jip.
Not only didn't get dark, you wouldn't know it even happened.
So Fredericksburg was full.
It wasn't like what we expect for the full eclipse in April.
But it was full.
And I know it was full because we had dinner with some new friends.
Remember I told you I had my birthday dinner and this guy bought our dinner?
Yeah, the guy from across the room.
He winked at you afterwards, I understand.
Oh, yeah.
Anyway, so he has a ranch in Midland or something, and he lives in Austin, but they always come through Fredericksburg on their way to the ranch.
And, uh, and that's how we, how we met them.
And they could, they had to stay at the Comfort Inn.
They were lucky to get a Comfort Inn room, which is almost a step below La Quinta.
Everything was full, but it wasn't over full crazy.
And, you know, but people are all, it was like, oh, oh, oh, oh.
I don't get it.
Why are people so fascinated by it?
By the eclipse?
What is it that... I've seen a couple of them.
I've seen lots of them.
The big boys.
And moon and sun.
It's fun.
It's interesting.
I always thought it was interesting when you have a full eclipse, it actually literally gets about 10 degrees colder right on the spot.
Yeah, that didn't happen yesterday either.
No, it didn't happen here either.
But normally you get this and you can feel it.
It's like, oh, and by the way, when that happens, when everyone out there gets to experience this like 10 degree drop in temperature when the sun gets full eclipse for just a few seconds, think to yourself, ah, the sun has nothing to do with global warming.
Okay, well, speaking of that, so this new friend, we're going to call him Paul the tycoon, the oil tycoon.
So we have to, this new friend of yours has to be named in code?
Yeah, I haven't discussed with him yet that I'm going to talk about him on the show.
Oh, you don't want to bug about him.
I don't want to ruin my new friendship just yet.
So he had a very successful oil company, which he took public and then they sold it.
And then he had a year that he couldn't do anything.
They started a new one.
So his new oil company is worth one and a half billion dollars.
You wouldn't know looking at the guy.
So this is like, oh, how interesting.
Texas billionaires, they're all like that.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's real like he's a guy that has, you know, like drills in the ground and oil comes out.
Yeah, that's how you do it.
Wildcatter.
That's how you do it.
He's not a wildcatter.
He's a wildcatter.
He's not a wildcatter.
And he says, and so we're, you know, we're yapping away and ESG comes up.
He says, oh, I gotta tell you about ESG.
All right.
Says, guess who the, and this company is not yet public.
Guess what the number one investor is in my company, my oil spurting out of the ground company.
You get one guess, John.
I wouldn't have a clue of who to guess.
I mean, Microsoft.
I mean, I don't know.
No, no.
Digitapa in the troll room got it right, right off the bat.
BlackRock.
BlackRock.
50 million.
Oh, BlackRock.
They're interested in everything.
I wouldn't count that.
No, but they're the guys who started the ESG program.
This is Larry Fink's baby.
And it's like, oh, if you don't have a high ESG score, then you're uninvestable.
And so he explained the mechanics, he said... Well, he backed off on that by the way, recently.
Yeah, a little bit, but the ESG score hasn't gone away.
And if you have a low in this environmental social governance, if you don't have... Oh yeah, he's an oil company.
Yeah, right, he should be low score.
He should be zero, negative score.
So 50 million already in, another 50 million coming from BlackRock.
And my new friend, Paul the oil tycoon says, The ESG is phenomenal.
It's great.
Because whenever they tell us, oh, oh, climate change, whatever, you gotta close a well.
Boom!
Price goes up, we make out like bandits!
He says this whole block, it's a whole, the whole thing is a scam!
It's a scam!
He says when we had the public company, it was phenomenal.
Oh, oh, we have to close a well.
Oh, it's a problem.
Boom!
Stock price rockets.
This whole thing is a scam.
If people want to look at the evidence of this, take a look at the...
The chart for Exxon and first look at where Joe Biden was elected and look at the stock price then and look at it now.
He also said specifically, he says, look, I don't like it for our country in the world, but Democrats are good for business.
He says, whenever Democrats in the White House, it's good for us.
Tell it, tell it to the 90s.
That's when Clinton was in.
Things were rocking.
Yeah.
Why don't you soak in that for a bit?
I love saying that.
Marinate in that.
Why don't you put that in your pipe and smoke it?
So I don't know about you, but there's nothing but disinformation everywhere.
The whole world is full of disinformation.
It's all disinformation everywhere.
Disinformation.
Now we have reports about disinformation.
Just disinformation.
It's crazies.
It's happening everywhere.
Hallie Jackson has to report.
Disinformation.
Hallie Jackson.
Who has all kinds of weird sound effects on her show.
She's new into NBC Tonight, a research firm covering the network.
She mugs.
She has a weird mugging face.
She's mugging constantly.
She's, I don't, you know, I find her annoying.
Oh, well, hello.
Join the Hallie Annoying Club.
Yeah, and this one, her eyes are all, she's all bug-eyed.
Because, oh, it's misinformation.
It's a huge problem.
Look at this.
New into NBC Tonight, a research group uncovering a network of dozens of accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Did you know that X is formerly known as Twitter?
This should be outlawed.
Why do they keep saying this?
When is it just going to be X?
But you can do what I do.
I don't use X. I say Twitter.com.
No, I'm just saying X. It's still Twitter.com.
Of dozens of accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, spredinating... spreading, rather.
Spredinating!
Oh, this is cool.
How did she do that?
How did she come up with spredinating?
She said spredinating?
She said spreadinating.
What is that all of a sudden?
Disseminating and spreading.
That's okay.
Spreadinating.
I think it should be entered into the dictionary.
I like it.
...accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter, spreading what's believed to be coordinated posts with disinformation about the war.
Oh, it's believed to be coordinated?
Posts and videos that have been viewed millions of times.
X started suspending some of the accounts after they were contacted by NBC News, but didn't otherwise have any comment.
It's something we've seen a lot of over the past few days.
Take this video, saying Hamas militants started a new airstrike on Israel.
You see that?
That is actually from a video game.
No, no!
That's not even real.
You see the exact same video posted to YouTube here.
Yeah, there's an obvious conclusion to what they're doing here, and you know what's coming.
And there was this post claiming Israel bombed and destroyed an old Greek Orthodox church in Gaza.
It has something like 3 million views.
It has something like 3 million... What kind of news report is that?
How many views did it have?
Not something like... It has something like 3 million views.
There's a number, it's right there, you can read it.
Now she's sounding like a high school girl.
It had something like 3 million likes now.
And there was this post claiming Israel bombed and destroyed an old Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza.
It has something like 3 million views.
But the church itself said it hasn't been touched, that any other news is false.
All of these posts now have disclaimers on the bottom if you go to Epps and look at the post, but they're not taken down and some of them are posted from verified users, making it harder for people to know what's real.
NBC News tech correspondent Jake Ward is joining us now.
And Jake, these are just a couple of examples of this.
These posts containing misinformation, disinformation.
Very difficult, especially at a moment like this when people are frankly desperate for information, turning to social media platforms.
Desperate!
It is not a clear-cut picture.
It is not a clear-cut picture, Hallie.
The past few days have just been this vivid lesson in the fact that you literally cannot trust what social media feeds you these days.
And even more difficult is the surprise turn of events, which means that legitimate sources of information are slow to react because they were taken just as surprised as so many people were across Israel.
So a very, very difficult moment.
But as you say, this is a proliferation of Of misleading content.
And when it's not just made up, as in the case of the video game clip you're showing there, you know, it's out of context or out of time.
Oh, but trust us!
Legitimate sources.
It's even hard for us people.
Trust legitimate sources.
Keep going on this route because I have a series of misleading clips provided by PBS.
I love that.
Which is beyond misinformation.
It's a lie.
Let me set it up.
I want to hear more of this.
Another misinformation clip.
This is from CBS.
The term fake news is a controversial one.
Controversial!
It's often used to falsely claim that the facts someone doesn't like are just made up.
But actual fake news takes on a new tone when it's used as a weapon of war.
Misinformation has already cropped up in abundance in the current conflict in the Middle East.
Jolene Kent has the story.
You see a similarity here?
The M5M, what they're saying?
Oh!
Good one!
Good start!
Boom!
Good start!
Wait, hold on, they're trying to give us misinformation and a random explosion.
How should we start this report about misinformation?
I don't know, blow something up!
Good one.
As the war in Israel and Gaza plays out in real time on social media, experts say bad information and propaganda are spreading on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Oh, it's X again, formerly known as Twitter.
There's a pattern here.
Research group Aletheia detected a network of at least 67 accounts that posted false content about the war.
They've received millions of views.
Let's find out.
Including these mistranslated videos of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, manipulated to falsely say that Russia will support Palestine if the U.S. supports Israel.
Why are 67 accounts so powerful in their influence and why do they matter?
No, they are.
No, they are.
They're very powerful.
This is Elon's whole business model is now being attacked.
This is the point of this.
And why do they matter?
It matters whether or not people believe it.
And the more times that people are able to view content of a similar nature, The more opportunities an actor has to convince somebody of something that may or may not be true.
Actor?
George Clooney?
Who's doing this?
What actor?
What actor?
Brad Pitt?
This comes after Elon Musk, the owner of X, laid off much of the team responsible for monitoring posts made to global companies.
On Tuesday, the European Union sent this letter to the billionaire, asking Musk to immediately remove illegal content and disinformation.
Hello, my name is Thierry Breton.
I have a baguette in my butt.
Otherwise, penalties can be imposed.
How does this disinformation impact the war and what we know about it?
When we flood people with this sea of unvetted information, much of it deceptive, is we're throwing away the goodwill of our citizens.
And we're opening the door to a variety of people that want to manipulate their goodwill.
Do you anticipate seeing more of this kind of activity as the war continues?
Oh yes, of course.
Yes, we do anticipate that in the coming days that the information sphere is going to get more complicated and that more actors will be weaponizing information.
More actors, more actors!
Oh, she did it again!
Did she just do again ex-formerly known Twitter?
Ex-formerly Twitter has said as of Monday they've already removed several hundred accounts including those that are Hamas affiliated.
Meantime we've been pressing the other social media companies about this and Snapchat, TikTok and Facebook all say they've increased their resources to fight disinformation.
Oh, please.
So before we get to your clips, I'm very interested in those two things.
One, this is confirmed.
I don't have the TikTok app.
People send me TikToks all the time and I open them in the browser.
Yeah, that's what I do.
And every single time after that TikTok is done, that one video, the same
horrific violent clip pops up from some Israeli kid being killed at the at the at the at the rave and my buddy Dave he says it must be your cookies no he I don't get it well okay but I'm two people in two different states are seeing the same thing so I there's those misinformation different from disinformation
Now, before we get into, before we go any further with this, talking about this conflict, what's happening in the Middle East.
Adam's gonna read his email.
Oh, here we go.
Hey, there's the old clip.
You dug it up.
It's called a jingle.
It's called a jingle.
Adam's gonna read his email on the No Agenda Show.
It's a little tedious.
That's not tedious.
I want to remind everybody that when we deconstruct these things...
Same with COVID, lockdowns, Ukraine.
Masks.
It is masks.
It is bad for business.
It is not a great business model that we have.
It's not like people go, Oh yeah, this is great.
No, people walk away from the show.
They go, Oh, I've been, I bought in hook, line and sinker and they're telling me I'm wrong.
You guys suck.
I've been listening to your show, No Agenda, for two to four years.
Wait, wait, two to four years?
I know, that's a very interesting range.
I've never heard that.
Two to four years, and I've always enjoyed it!
However...
Your coverage of the atrocities by the monstrous Hamas, including the beheading of innocent babies, babies torn from their mother's bellies, is so appalling!
I'm sorry, I don't recall babies torn from their mother's bellies.
It's a new one.
There is indeed ample footage, pictures to prove what happened and your glib laughter with John.
Your glib laughter with John.
Well, there are no words.
Your excuse that you're just evaluating the media coverage is cheap and not even believable.
To say I'm disappointed and disgusted would be an understatement!
I want to remind people out there who have these kinds of complaints, send them to Adam because he'll read them on the air.
You know, it's taken on a whole new level.
Adamatcurry.com, by the way.
You know that dude who was so mad about when we started talking about trans Maoism?
Tim Pool?
No.
Ironhide1972.
Iron Mike?
Ironhide1972.
He was putting pictures up on Noah's Art Generator that we suck.
Oh yeah, I think we bounced him, didn't we?
I mean, Paul Couture bounced him from that, but then he showed up in the troll room last show.
So now I get an email from one of our producers who happens to also own the venue where he's organizing a meetup.
It's a burger joint.
And the email he received, which I'm sure many... Is this the hater you're talking about that's organizing a meetup?
No, no, no, no.
One of our producers who's organizing a meetup, who organizes one regularly, who has a venue, he owns the venue in this case, as the venue owner he received an email from the hater.
Okay.
Letting you know that a group from the No Agenda podcast will be at your establishment on October 14th at 5 p.m.
This group follows a very homophobic and transphobic podcast.
I would use all caution when serving these people.
Wow!
That was a good wow.
That was a very good wow.
That's a very good wow, because that's a wow moment.
Yeah.
So this prick, let's call him what he is, decides he doesn't like the show for whatever reason.
Oh, I know the reason.
And he goes after a venue for the meetup, but coincidentally the venue's owned by the guy organizing the meetup, so he sends the mail right on to us, which you just read.
That is unbelievable.
That guy is a true a-hole.
I wish these people wouldn't even listen to the show.
They get better things to do.
There's other shows they can go to.
Why harass us?
And why trying to ruin a good meetup?
I mean, come on, that's sick.
I actually tried to talk him off the ledge when this first started and I was emailing him personally and then he decided that... The prick?
Yeah, then he published all my emails.
Like, dude, I pray for him.
This guy's a sicko.
I forgive him.
I forgive him.
He has issues.
I forgive him.
I hope it works out for him.
It won't.
Now on to your dissing phone clips from NPR, which I'm very excited about.
No, no, these are PBS news hour.
I'm sorry.
I mean, NPR, PBS, I mean... Yeah, what difference does it make?
Hold on a second.
Let's do it.
Elitist Voices of America.
This is NPR.
Or PBS.
See?
It doesn't matter.
So a couple of these, I got some intro ones that we can go into, which is the, uh, this is Brooks and Capehart.
Oh my, you know, I'm going to have to start banning these, these, these clips because nobody watches this anymore.
They have zero traction.
They don't even, they still think it's Brooks and Dunn.
Brooks and Dunn.
Never was Brooks and Dunn.
That's a country duo.
What's that?
Brooks and Garth Brooks.
What's the other guy?
Kay Part.
Before Brooks.
Before Kay Part.
Who was it then?
Shields.
Oh, Brooks and Shields.
See, we don't even remember the old guys.
I remember.
Oh, well, okay.
Case in point.
All right, let's go.
What are we doing?
Here's some examples.
I'm going to lead into the egregious Re-edited clip that they used to become aghast and pissed off.
It's ridiculous.
But let's first get us in the mood by listening to these two boneheads.
In the mood.
In the mood.
I'm going to start with Brooks Putin hummus.
I thought this was one of Joe Biden's best weeks as president.
You know, he was a voice of moral clarity.
That's great right there.
His best week as president when he said, hey, I've seen proof of the babies decapitated.
It's true, it's right, certified, verified.
Oh, I'm sorry.
No, the president was confused.
He was one of the early voices to remind everybody that what Hamas has become looks like ISIS, sort of a death cult.
He did in the face of divisions on the left.
There are a lot of mainstream liberals who are appalled by what happened.
There are more progressive voices, many who think this is a legitimate part of decolonization.
And yet Joe Biden knows Israeli history.
He knows the Palestinians.
He's been doing this for a long time.
And he knows that this is a case of someone who wants to, of a group that wants to destroy Israel and push the Jews into the sea.
And so he said that.
I think he's also making the case, which I think Zelensky's a little ahead of him on, that Ukraine and Israel, the war against Hamas and against Putin, are joined.
What?
They're wars against barbarism.
What?
Yeah.
What did he just say?
That Putin and Hamas are the same.
And Ukraine and Israel's the same.
Wow.
Wow.
Okay.
Yeah?
It's the same.
It's the same, except reverse, but we can't actually say that.
No, it's the same.
It's the same.
Hello?
So you have a big country like Russia is just like Hamas.
The big country in the, the big country, the big, the big elephant in the fight.
Okay.
All right.
Okay, good.
Let's go Brooks to Kay, part two.
And I think he sees that clearly.
And so I just think it was a, it was just a marvelous display of moral clarity and real storytelling for a guy who, for whom grand narrative storytelling and rhetoric is not always the great gift, but I just thought a magnificent week.
Moral clarity and grand storytelling.
What's your assessment of the administration's response?
I agree with David 100%.
I agree 100%.
It's the Secretary of State who spoke from the heart next to Prime Minister Netanyahu.
It's Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin being there earlier in the day today, also showing solidarity.
What happened a week ago, tonight or tomorrow, is really, it's beyond disturbing.
And I just feel compelled, you know, as an African American.
I understand the ancestral pain and terror felt by my Jewish friends and Jews around the world by what happened.
This was not, what Hamas did was not the usual Middle East back and forth.
This was barbaric.
This is literally what you get called out for if you say, I have a black friend.
You know, that's a raw, that's a bad take.
No, but you can say, I have a Jewish friend.
Oh, that's great.
I have a Jewish friend.
Okay.
You have a Jewish friend?
Yeah, I got a Jewish friend.
Oh, man.
That's nuts.
So they're pushing this barbaric thing.
Of course.
So they're building up to this and now I'm going to take us into the egregious Editing of a Trump clip to make him say stuff He didn't say and I have the original clips.
I dug them up.
Okay the way we do Yes, and I want to compare one to the other but let's start but it's through also the reaction first They edit a clip and then they react to it even though the clips of fake They react to it and they go out they go off the rails with how bad Trump is as a person this is the the intro to this clip and this is Brooks Trump edit intro and
As we talk about the Biden administration's response, his predecessor Donald Trump drew wide criticism and condemnation this past week for faulting Netanyahu, for calling Hezbollah very smart in his remarks.
Oh, it's another, it's a new very fine people.
It's the very smart people now.
Oh, this is good.
This is good.
Okay, where do we go now?
Okay, so first of all, he makes, he mentions, he, that's the host guy, the black guy, he mentions Netanyahu and then he mentions that Trump says Hezbollah is very smart.
And now they take the clip and they butcher a clip, and they don't even have it from the same feed, so it's a mess.
And I tried to even clean it up with Adobe, but hell with it, let's leave the mess the way it is, because Adobe actually doesn't work on Trump.
Oh, interesting.
And I've noticed this before.
Adobe does not work on Trump.
Because they hate Trump.
They must.
So they probably do.
Silicon Valley.
So let's go to, this is the Brooks Trump, and this has got the edited clip.
This is two.
Okay.
I'll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down.
That was a very terrible thing.
I will say that.
And they said, gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack from the north.
Because that's the most vulnerable spot on this planet.
You know, Hezbollah's very small.
They're all very small.
The rest of us are like, what do they stand for?
And we can contrast that to what Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley had to say.
Israel has a right to defend itself, and that means do that to the hilt.
You have to uproot the terrorist infrastructure, these networks, and Hamas needs to be no more.
This is sick, and we have to treat sick people the way they deserve to be treated and eliminate them.
Your response to what Donald Trump had to say?
The clip you showed is exhibit number whatever it is of why he should never ever again be entrusted with the power and responsibility that comes with sitting in the Oval Office.
I am happy to be wrong about the reaction from the Republican presidential field.
I thought they would follow form and not criticize Trump at all for fear of engendering the rage of their base.
But Governor Haley, Governor DeSantis, Governor Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, Most of them criticize Trump, and I applaud them for that, but there's no way that guy should be president of the United States again by that clip alone.
So, you know, when we deconstruct clips, and we're looking at the media, and we get the kind of feedback I read earlier, these a-holes are just politicizing it for their own ego, whatever it is.
Oh, whatever it is, let's keep Trump out.
That's disgusting.
Wait until you hear the original Trump clips.
I can't wait.
We can also play, I think, Brooks' reaction to this same edited little clip where he says Netanyahu, first Trump brings in Netanyahu, then he says Hezbollah's smart and says they're going to attack from the north or something.
It's a very confused, it's a really Screwed up edit.
And then they bring in, as you heard, DeSantis talking about Hamas, which is not what Trump was talking about.
And then Nikki Haley saying it's these people are sick, kind of indicating Trump is sick, which is not what that was about at all.
That was not what that was about.
So this is a real, real hack job.
Hack job.
Exactly.
And here's the followed by Brooks.
It's also a reminder of how Donald Trump's isolationist views have really realigned the Republicans' approach to foreign policy.
It's stunning.
I mean, well, first that Donald Trump clip.
Everything's about Donald Trump.
Like, a thousand people get murdered and it's all about Donald Trump.
And the party has, you know, it was the party of anti-communism.
It was the party of an American-led world order.
It was the party of containment against Russia, against the Soviet Union.
And now it's very much the opposite.
And as I look at the Republican Party, I just want to make sure they're going to fund Ukraine.
So now these are two guys that are supposed to be arguing with each other to give people perspective when they watch the PBS NewsHour.
But no, they're two guys that are in total agreement.
Neither one of them are representative of anything other than one lone pro-Ukraine view.
But let's go back to that clip that they butchered and let's listen to Trump's actually, this is a long clip, but you need to hear the whole thing in context.
And this is actually in good quality.
This is the Trump unedited comments regarding Hezbollah being smart.
The six billion dollars was a tremendous amount of money but nothing compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars that Biden allowed them to make in oil and other things.
Hundreds of billions that became a rich nation in three years.
That's why they're doing this.
They have so much money they don't know what to do with it.
They had no money.
They were broke.
And then there was the inevitable attack four days later, which I predicted.
And then two nights ago, I read all of Biden's security people.
Can you imagine?
National defense people.
And they said, gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack from the north, because that's the most vulnerable spot.
I said, wait a minute.
You know, Hezbollah's very smart.
They're all very smart.
The press doesn't like when they say I'm good.
You know, I said that President Xi of China, 1.4 billion people, he controls it with an iron fist.
I said he's a very smart man.
They killed me the next day.
I said he was smart!
What am I gonna say?
But Hezbollah, they're very smart.
And they have a national defense minister or somebody saying, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack us from the north.
So the following morning, they attacked.
They might not have been doing it, but if you listen to this jerk, you would attack from the north.
Because he said, that's our weak spot.
Whoever heard of officials saying on television that they hope the enemy doesn't attack in a certain area?
Now, unless it's a con job.
But you know what a con job is?
You're waiting there ready.
You want them if you want them.
But they weren't ready.
They weren't ready.
You know, say what you want.
Israel was not ready.
This was a big surprise.
This was a terrible thing that happened.
They weren't ready.
But if you wanted them to attack because you've got a million people there with guns and you're gonna blast to hell, then you do exactly.
But they didn't have that.
They didn't have that.
Biden's National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, even bragged just days before the attack that the Middle East seems to be quite quiet.
That was good.
They really, honestly, what they've done, it's a shame.
Yeah.
Okay, now a couple of things about that.
This is all in context.
It's fine what he said.
He's not complimenting Hezbollah like they all like to imagine.
But did you notice there was no mention of Netanyahu in that entire two-minute clip?
Edited that together.
And it was in the intro piece, it was two different pieces of audio.
That's the first thing I noticed.
Yeah, they did a botched job of that.
I mean, they could have had good quality because it was all from the same speech.
In fact, I have the Netanyahu piece.
And the Netanyahu piece, which they just pulled out of context and dropped it in as a cheat, as a sleazy lowest form of journalism thing you could possibly do, which they did on PBS.
I have the Netanyahu piece, which is actually standalone.
Is very interesting and could have been used as a jumping off point for a big discussion.
And I'm surprised that they didn't do that because it's more interesting than what they did, which was just Trump-batch.
But listen to this.
This is Trump on Netanyahu as a backgrounder.
That's kind of interesting.
The savage attacks on Israel happened for three reasons.
Biden loosened my... This is not the grudge clip, this is the regular clip?
No, I'm sorry, it's the grudge clip.
You're right, good catch.
I did have a bad experience with Israel, though.
When we took out Soleimani, it was us and Israel working as a group.
And we knew where he was, we knew how he was coming in, we knew the plane, we knew everything.
We worked on it for weeks, for months actually, but we worked on it for weeks.
The night before!
I don't think this has ever been told.
They'll say, oh, it's classified information.
Well, maybe it is, but I don't think so.
Israel was going to do this with us, and it was being planned and working on it for months.
And now we had everything all set to go.
And the night before it happened, I got a call that Israel will not be participating in this attack.
So let's do it.
And he came onto the plane, and we followed him right from the Situation Room.
We followed the whole thing.
About 15 seconds later it was all over, and we did it.
But I'll never forget, I'll never forget that Bibi Netanyahu let us down.
That was a very terrible thing, I will say that.
So we were disappointed by that, very disappointed, but we did the job ourselves and it was absolute precision, magnificent, beautiful job.
And then Bibi tried to take credit for it, that wasn't good.
That didn't make me feel too good, but that's alright.
So they gotta strengthen themselves up.
Wow, that is a little piece of info we didn't know about.
We had no idea, but you notice that little part in that clip where it says, Bebe let us down, is the little piece they took out, they chopped it from that and put it on the front end of the other thing.
Let me play that intro again.
As we talk about the Biden administration's response, his predecessor Donald Trump drew wide criticism and condemnation this past week.
It's actually the beginning of clip two.
It's part two, I'm sorry, yeah.
I'll never forget.
That Bibi Netanyahu let us down, that was a very terrible thing, I will say that.
And they said, gee, I hope Hezbollah doesn't attack from the north.
Wow!
Wow!
That, I mean, you should be fired from journalism for doing that.
They should all be fired from PBS.
PBS should take a knee for that.
This is one of the most egregious examples of editing and false... This is misinformation.
That's misinformation, yes.
Blatant.
Blatant.
On your national treasure, PBS or NPR.
Some one of those two.
Same thing.
So those are the original clips and you can see that they totally... This is a lie.
And Brooks and Capehart should be ashamed of themselves for going along with it and then making a big fuss about what a jerk Trump is.
Unbelievable.
Well, it's not unbelievable.
It's believable.
It's totally believable.
No, it's not unbelievable because it's happened.
Completely believable, yeah.
So that's pretty much the presentation.
Good presentation.
I like it.
I like it.
Well, of course, we were told... And I want to say it again.
Do not send your money to these people.
Send it to us.
Yes.
We don't have tote bags, but we can use the money.
That's for sure.
So of course everybody was all riled up about the day of rage!
This morning law enforcement officers across the country on heightened alert after Hamas's call for a global day of rage.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office is pulling personnel from specialized units to increase visibility.
In New York, congregants from dozens of synagogues prayed for peace as helicopters watched for suspicious vehicles from above and boats with radiation detectors patrolled the waters.
The NYPD telling its officers to prepare for 12-hour shifts.
We have directed the NYPD to surge additional resources to schools, houses of worship to ensure that they are safe.
So, as far as I know... I got a Day of Rage clip.
Okay.
There's always something going on in the world.
Yeah, that's why I think this is a good example.
This is the various 13th, which is the Day of Rage.
Stabbings!
A Jewish teacher in France is reportedly dead after a knife attack.
Two others have been injured.
An asylum seeker reportedly went on a stabbing spree, attacking various people, screaming...
Notice, notice, we've gone to asylum seekers now, which is the, it's the word they use in Europe.
We're going to use it everywhere.
They've been using this for years.
Asylum seeker.
Asylum seeker.
Reportedly went on a stabbing spree, attacking various people, screaming Allahu Akbar.
France's President Emmanuel Macron visited the school on Friday afternoon.
Also, a staffer at the Israeli embassy in China was stabbed on the sidewalk in Beijing.
Footage shows the diplomat being stabbed multiple times by a man in white.
So that was your day of rage.
Not very successful.
But they got us all riled up.
I didn't get everybody riled up.
You didn't get me riled up.
I didn't get somebody riled up.
We didn't get riled up.
You must have a clip.
No agenda people don't get riled up.
We just don't get riled up.
We don't.
Because we know.
We know what they're doing to us.
Now I want to talk about the military-industrial complex.
A lot of people benefit from this crisis in the Middle East.
I just got a message, I should say, from Sir Brian of London, boots on the ground, who, you know, there's funerals this guy's attending.
He is right in the middle of it, and I've been back and forth with him for days, and he's having a rough go of what's happening.
And he sent a video, and he has on his, and I take his credibility quite high, he's a knight, that Israel is now using the laser iron beam Not Iron Dome, but the Iron Beam.
And it's cool!
They have a laser now shooting things out of the sky.
Yep.
Yep.
Okay, a couple of things before you go into these clips.
Did you see the Richard Engel clip that's going around showing how the Iron Dome supposedly works?
Mmm, I don't think I did.
You see these missiles flying into the air and then they're taking a right turn and then going in the opposite direction?
Mm-hmm.
Have you seen those clips?
Well, I've seen it.
I don't know if it's the one you're talking about.
I've seen similar.
Well, probably.
I just don't understand what's going on with these clips because everyone says, oh, there's the Iron Dome at work.
And there's a missile going up and then turning around and going the other way.
I thought the Iron Dome was Patriot missiles that were shooting these things out of the sky.
That's what I thought.
But now they have, you can see laser beams.
In fact, Jewish laser beams.
I mean, it's a little crazy.
But, and I'm sure they're ours, but they have directed energy weapons now they're using, which is, it's quite like, whoa, okay.
Didn't expect to see that.
Anyway, we need to go to the Military-Industrial Complex, which both of these people are a part of it in some way.
Catherine Herridge, of course, the pixie girl, who is read in on all things military and intelligence.
And John Bolton, who is just a huge mustache a-hole.
And just a quick couple of clips here, because, you know, you don't hear from this guy for years, and he's off the stage, but he's Back!
Earlier today I spoke with former National Security Advisor to President Trump Ambassador John Bolton about the situation in the Middle East.
As we head into the weekend, as a former national security advisor, what indicators are you going to be watching?
Well, I think the big unknown question at this point is what happens with Hezbollah in the north.
I think the evidence is clear, beyond real dispute here, that the signal caller in this operation is Iran.
They armed and prepared Hamas.
I think they unleashed them at a time they thought would be beneficial to Iran in the region.
That was part of the strategy that they're following is to get the Israelis sucked into Gaza in a very heavy way militarily and then to unleash Hezbollah from the north.
I think there are some signs along the northern border, nothing conclusive, but I think that's the main point of danger at this point.
Yes, okay.
Thanks.
I mean, my sister in Italy could have gone on your show and said that.
Let's go a little deeper into that.
Bring her on next time.
Yeah, get on Catherine Herridge.
Let's get John Bolton.
You're so interesting.
Let's take that a step further.
Given the scope and the sophistication of the Hamas attack, do you believe that another shoe is going to drop?
Oh, another shoe is gonna drop!
I think it's very likely, and I think Hezbollah is the most likely implementer of that, but there may be terrorist attacks around the region.
Friday's been declared a day of jihad in the region and around the world, so this really could be the beginning of a much longer process here.
We hope so!
Not clear at all what that will entail, but I think anybody who thinks this is going to be over in a few days is unfortunately mistaken.
Nothing happened, Bolton.
Yeah, nothing.
He's such a prognosticator.
Yeah, he's a genius.
Oh, it's a jihad day.
Oh, not Sunday, by the way.
It's two days later.
It's going to take a long time.
We're going to need some money.
We need to start printing some money.
We need money.
We need money.
What does it mean here at home?
Law enforcement officials have been telling CBS News and other media outlets that they're seeing no signs of a specific or credible threat.
This is so much fun to play that after the Global Day of Rage.
I think at the moment the main threat area is in the Middle East.
I think it's Israel that's the target.
But I think it's almost certain that having... Wow!
Wow!
What a genius!
Hey, look at my mustache!
But I think it's almost certain that having missed this attack to begin with, not just Israeli intelligence missing it, but our own intelligence community.
Whatever evidence there was, they didn't draw the right conclusions.
You know, the next question you should ask is, what else have we missed?
What else have we missed?
Oh, we need more spy gear.
Well, that's not good.
You know, just as a little side note here, there's this fantastic story which checks out, and I'm not going to say it's related to it per se, but you've heard of Pegasus, the spyware Pegasus, the company Pegasus?
Yeah, I think so.
Pegasus was, you know, that's the Israeli spyware that's on everybody's phone and they've sold it all around the world.
Our US agencies were using it.
Pegasus is great.
You can track everybody.
You got a phone, Pegasus is on it.
So when Trump came in and the Obama-Biden administration left, The Blinken, and who was the assistant, the deputy director of CIA, Avril Haines, I think is her name, Haiti something.
It could be.
They all started a lobbying firm called West Executive.
And they started lobbying for a competing firm, and that firm was also with a P. Hold on a second.
Palantir.
No, no, no, no, no.
This is all follow-up to Palantir.
No.
They started lobbying.
Of course, it's great when you lobby, you know, as a former administration.
Paragon.
Paragon is what it's called.
And they started lobbying, oh, Paragon, you've got to have Paragon, and this is no good, this Pegasus software.
And coincidentally, if you recall, the big stink about Khashoggi was that it was Pegasus software that the Israeli Pegasus company had sold to Saudi Arabia that got them killed.
You remember that?
Do you remember that?
I vaguely remember.
A little side story?
Yeah.
So that was probably planted by these guys because they get back in with Biden.
And in March of this year, Biden writes up this huge executive order on prohibition on use by the United States government of certain commercial spyware that poses risk to national security.
And wouldn't you know, it was written precisely to outlaw Pegasus and have this other software be this software.
And they haven't sold it to Saudi Arabia.
So it's just a little side note.
But when you have the Israeli government highly relying on one software for spying on anybody with a phone and that's Pegasus.
And all of a sudden it's no good and everyone has to have Paragon.
And that company starts to bleed employees, bleed clients that may have contributed in some way to some lapses in security.
I have no proof for that, but I just thought that was interesting that Sullivan and all these a-holes, including Ehud Barak, they were all involved in this lobbying firm and then they get in and boom, there you go, they get rid of that company and this new company is supposed to be it and I don't even know if the Israelis are using it.
Just a little side note.
So when Bolton says, ah, you know, maybe laps in security, maybe our lap, maybe it was the shitty software you brought in.
What are the U.S.
Or no laps in security.
Also possible.
What are the U.S.
government's best options to secure the release of the hostages?
Bomb Iran!
Well, I think at this point, unfortunately, given how caught by surprise we were, that it's going to take rescue efforts under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
I mean, I think the administration is correct to seek a diplomatic approach.
They're in gutter today.
I just don't think Hamas is in a mood to bargain.
I think they've got some very... Did he say gutter?
I think he said gutter!
He didn't say cutter, he said gutter.
They're in gutter today.
I just don't think Hamas is in a mood to bargain.
I think they've got some very valuable bargaining chips that they're gonna get a much higher price for, at least that's what they think.
I think the hostages are in grave danger and I think therefore any further time that goes by before rescue efforts begin puts their lives in even greater danger than it is already.
All right, so Bolton is, they're just asking anybody to come on who's connected to anything think tank, anything money, anything hateful.
These are all just horrible people who are just talking out of their butt.
But the best, by far the best person, the best representative of the military-industrial complex on mainstream M5M television is Definitely Lindsey Graham.
Lindsey Graham is rockin' it.
And he is making very sure we understand that Iran is in our sights.
Moss in the last hour announcing it's going to begin to execute hostages and post video evidence online for every Israeli airstrike.
Your thoughts on this moment, Senator?
Well, for every Israeli or American hostage executed by Hamas, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery.
The only way you're going to keep this war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable.
The only way you keep the war from escalating is by bombing another country!
Yes!
How much more death and destruction do we have to take?
I don't, by creating more, Lindsey!
From the Iranian regime.
I am confident this was planned and funded by the Iranians.
Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals.
So if I was Israel, I would go in on the ground.
There is no truce to be had here.
I would dismantle Hamas.
This is the best opportunity Israel has to destroy Hamas.
I mean he's channeling Bush now!
If you harm one American in Syria by using your Iranian militia against us in Syria, if you escalate the war by urging Hezbollah to attack Israel in the north, if Hamas kills one American and Israeli hostage, we're going to blow up your oil refineries and put you out of business.
It is now time to take the war to the Ayatollah's backyard.
I mean, he's channeling Bush now.
No, he's channeling McCain.
Well, yes.
His old buddy.
Yeah, of course, of course.
And if you remember, I wish we could find a clip where McCain is singing the Barbara Ann song as Bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, Iran.
I'm sure we have it.
Hold on a second.
We do have it.
It's just, God knows what it's called.
Is it this one?
Yeah, no, this is all... Bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, Iran.
Bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, Iran.
I think this is our own version.
I like it though.
So the ghost of John McCain... He's still with us.
He's still with us and he's being channeled through Lindsey Graham.
Now if you think that was good... Who is his buddy?
And just as an aside, this is exactly what we talked about.
This has always been on the radar.
This is pure evil.
That exists in the world.
It's not even one group of people.
It's just evil that has taken over.
And these people don't actually care about dead Israelis or dead Palestinians.
They don't care about any of that.
They don't care about you.
They don't care about me.
They just care about...
The programming they have in their brain to just bomb stuff, more money, get it into the markets, we need stuff to happen, this is what we live for!
What I would do is I would bomb Iran's oil infrastructure.
The money financing terrorism comes from Iran.
It's time for this terrorist state to pay a price for financing and supporting all this chaos.
Yes, if you're the Iranians, if we're up to me, this war escalates, I'm coming after you.
I think this is what I'm trying to clarify here, because I'm wondering... Us and Israel.
Us and Israel.
The United States and Israel... No, I want to be crystal clear.
Let me just understand you, just to be clear.
What was the point of that?
He's telegraphing that we aren't going to do it.
It's us and Israel.
Israel.
It's Israel.
Israel.
And the telegraphing is we're going to give them all the stuff.
Bibi's going to pull the trigger.
Someone's going to pull it.
It's not going to be us.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We want Israel to do our dirty work.
That's why he had to throw that in because he forgot to do that earlier.
Yes, he forgot.
Us and Israel.
No, I want to be crystal clear.
A joint operation with Bibi.
A joint operation is exactly what Trump was talking about when Bibi pulled out of the joint operation.
Isn't that interesting?
But he's clear.
He's clear now.
I just understand you, just to be clear.
You're saying that you would want the United States and Israel to bomb Iran, even in the absence of direct evidence of their involvement in this attack.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So if there's an escalation.
Yeah.
What?
Evidence?
Evidence?
Come on.
Everyone knows.
Everybody knows this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So if there's an escalation, Abby, if there's people's throats being cut on television as Israel goes into Gaza.
He's already telling us what the nightly programming is going to be.
It's as if he knows.
Oh, if we start seeing people's throats getting slit on television, wow, TikTok, maybe television?
Really?
Really?
They haven't shown much on television.
No, they haven't shown anything.
Please don't email us.
We've seen all the pictures.
We've seen it.
We've got a Telegraph account.
Don't worry about it.
We're Telegram.
But he is telegraphing what we're going to see.
Yeah, so if there's an escalation, Abby, if there's people's throats being cut on television... How is people's throats being cut on television an escalation of anything but the mainstream media?
It's not an escalation of the atrocities.
You know what I mean?
No, I know exactly what you mean.
He's just, he's got, he's got a script he's going by.
I don't know where it came from, who's delivered it, but it's, well, of course, again, I like, I'll say it again, we're behind We're way behind on the West Clark 7.
Yep.
And time is running out on this Iran deal.
And so they're either going to have to take action now because this is the last bit.
And if Trump comes back in office, which is possible.
Not going to happen.
It won't happen.
Not going to happen.
So, I mean, something will happen, but that won't be that.
Which is exactly why Brooks and Dunn are over there saying, oh, it would be horrible if Trump came back in.
Oh, no, because then we won't be able to bomb Iran.
I know Iranians!
But I have Iranian friends!
Duh!
If there's an escalation, Abby, if there's people's throats being cut on television as Israel goes into Gaza and they're threatening to kill the hostages, if Hezbollah is unleashed on Israel in the north, it will be because Iran is supporting that.
If you don't get the connection between Iran and this terrorist activity by Hamas and Hezbollah, you're missing a lot.
This is a terrorist state that has American blood on its hands.
It is now time to dismantle the financing system of terrorism if this war escalates.
Yes, I would do a joint military operation.
I tell the Iranians today, if the war escalates, you will pay a price.
You will be out of the oil business.
I want to be crystal clear on that.
And if we don't... That's interesting.
You'll be out of the oil business?
The oil business?
Are they still in the oil business?
The clip I played from Trump starts off with him talking about the fact that they went from nothing to allowing him to produce oil to the tune of 80 to 100 billion dollars in profits in Iran.
It's old.
I would like you to play just the beginning of this again.
Because this is the... Which one is that?
It's the clip... I think it's the BB background.
Well, no, it's the unedited comments.
Just right at the very beginning, he's talking about Iran.
The six billion dollars was a tremendous amount of money, but nothing compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars that Biden allowed them to make in oil and other things.
Hundreds of billions.
It became a rich nation.
Oh, yes.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Did we ever get those hostages back, by the way?
Which ones?
Because they've loosened up some restrictions on sanctions.
If the war escalates, she will pay a price.
She will be out of the oil business.
Did we ever get those hostages back, by the way?
Which ones?
The ones that we paid $6 billion for?
Have they been interviewed?
Have they been on 60 Minutes?
I mean, this would be a big deal.
Each person is about a billion bucks.
Should we be talking to them?
I don't remember there was hostages involved in this deal.
Yes, the six billion dollars was to get hostages back from Iran.
Iran.
Oh, that's right.
There's a few prisoners, yeah.
Prisoners.
Do we know even what their names are?
Have they been on television?
Do you want their names or their CIA names?
Thank you.
If the war escalates, she will pay a price.
She will be out of the oil business.
I want to be crystal clear on that.
And if we don't do that, what do you expect to happen in the future?
Do you expect Israel to forgive and forget?
Biden didn't mention one word about Iran today, and I want to support the president.
I'm supporting the Saudi-Israel peace deal.
Israel made peace with several Arab countries through their Abraham Accords.
I want to help the Palestinians we can do business with as part of a Saudi-Israel peace deal.
But I'm tired of letting Iran... I think they did this to stop the Saudi-Arab peace negotiations, the Iranians.
I don't want to reward them.
I want to punish them.
You know, now that he says that, I think that's bullcrap too.
That this, you know, oh, they did this to stop the peace negotiations.
Really?
You really think that Iran just, I mean, is it true Iran just wants death and destruction?
I'm going to bring back a tweet I mentioned in the newsletter somebody posted, which was about, it seems a little weird that on the 50th anniversary of the famous Yom Kippur War, the 50th anniversary, that Israel let down their guard.
Yes.
Seems like, you know, did you read Seymour Hersh's piece?
No, no, well I didn't.
What did he say this time?
So it was also the Sukkot celebration?
I'm reading verbatim from his, I'm just reading a paragraph or two.
The Sukkot celebration near a Palestinian village known in Hebrew as Haware would need extraordinary protection given the tension over the latest violence and the local Israeli military authorities with the approval of Netanyahu ordered two of the three army battalions each with about 800 soldiers that protected the border with Gaza to shift their focus to the Sukkot festival.
That left only 800 soldiers, the insider told me, to be responsible for guarding the 51 kilometer border between the Gaza Strip and southern Israel.
That meant the Israeli citizens in the south were left without an Israeli military presence for 10 to 12 hours.
They were left to fend for themselves, and that is why Bibi is finished.
It may take a few months, but he's over.
Now, I'm jumping ahead, because I want to get to that, because I have some other things that play into that.
But first, we need to listen So Lindsey Graham, he's just, I mean, you could do a supercut.
In fact, I'll probably get a supercut.
So now he goes and does some crystal meth, and he lays out this plan.
Listen to me now, and listen to me good.
We should, without lubricant, go into Gaza from behind.
I know it sounds brutal, but we need to penetrate them, blow our loads, and then subsequently blow out as needed.
That's AI, I love it.
I actually prefer if we stay inside for an extended period of time because we need to make sure that the deed is done.
I have been an expert on this subject for many years and I think now is the time to act.
That's AI obviously, but I thought it was fun to play.
It is.
The AI is getting funnier.
But the problem of course is that if you don't listen to our show and you don't, you are super skeptical about everything, you will be susceptible to some AI shenanigans.
But the whole point of good AI is that you catch on and it's funny.
I mean, otherwise, it's just no good.
Most people can't do that unless they're kind of trained, you have trained ears.
I don't believe that 90% of the people that would hear that, 90, Wouldn't buy into it.
No, come on.
It's like, yeah, we got to lubricate... Yeah, you say that, but I... Again, it's a complete disagreement with you on this.
All right, that's fine.
That's fine.
Now, before I get to the Netanyahu bit, just one more.
It's global.
The whole Iran focus, as we suspected, yay, perhaps predicted, is everywhere.
Let's go to the European arm of the CIA propaganda machine, Deutsche Welle, with some think tank a-hole.
For its incursion, Hamas has used thousands of drones and rockets and carried out cyber attacks.
The conflict has raised questions as to how the group is able to finance these complex attacks.
They've done cyber attacks?
This is news to me.
Every cyber attack is always Russia.
Now Hamas has done- Or North Korea.
Yeah, now Hamas has done cyber attacks.
Very complex.
This seems unlikely.
Well, it's the CIA, come on.
Or whatever.
Questions as to how the group is able to finance these complex attacks.
Israeli retaliation also has enormous costs for the economy of the Gaza Strip, which is under Hamas rule.
Joining me for this conversation is Matthew Levitt.
He's the director of the Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Oh, goodness.
I mean, you know exactly what this is.
We need a gig like that.
I want to be at the National Institute for Terror Near East Institute or something.
We can set something up like that and probably do as well as we're doing for the show.
Or better.
Hamas has been using drones, cyber attacks and rockets against Israel.
Where is it getting the funding for these weapons from?
Where is it getting?
Hello, hello think tank guy who has Hamas and Hezbollah things in the background.
Out of curiosity, do you have any idea where they're getting the funding for these cyber attacks?
I'm at a loss.
What could it be?
Hamas's funding streams have changed over the years, in particular in 2007, when Hamas took over the Gaza Strip by force of arms, pointing its guns not at Israel in that instance, Israel had already withdrawn, but against Palestinians.
Once it controlled territory, it was able to tax, some might say extort, the local population, and that is its primary source of income right now.
The second most important source of income, and this is something that has been consistent over decades since the founding of Hamas in the late 1980s, U.S.
government estimates that Iran provides Hamas somewhere between 70 and 100 million dollars a year.
Okay, so it's clear who we need to go after because Iran is the problem.
It's not a bunch of nutjobs known as Hamas who are just bloodthirsty, and we don't even have to talk about the genesis of that.
On top of that, training, intelligence, support, etc.
Okay, so it's clear who we need to go after because Iran is the problem.
It's not a bunch of nutjobs known as Hamas who are just bloodthirsty.
We don't even have to talk about the genesis of that.
We've done that.
But it's all about Iran.
It's all about Iran.
Now we get to Bibi Netanyahu and another player that we haven't really paid any attention to this woman.
So my initial, and I think yours as well, Neil, one of the initial, who benefits from this?
Well, you know, Biden benefits as a war president.
Hunter Biden benefits.
The NGOs who are flowing asylum seekers into every Western country in the world, they benefit.
Don't look at our border.
Look at that one.
Look at that 51 kilometer.
Oh, look at that border, that border over there, that border.
Don't look at Ukraine.
Don't look at any of this stuff.
So a whole bunch of people and machinery benefits and the military industrial complex.
Everyone benefits, benefits, benefits.
Wall Street's going to benefit.
Everybody.
The oil guys are going to benefit, are benefiting.
My friend paid for dinner, so I know he's benefiting.
But Netanyahu had this huge problem, and I think we need to revisit this, it's controversial because we have understood this from many people, boots on the ground, no agenda producers, that the Supreme Court, I'm just going to use the simple version, Supreme Court of Israel, Israel, Israel, They have precedence over the Parliament, over the government.
They can say, you know, we don't like this law or this rule.
Out of the blue.
They can do whatever they want.
It's slightly different than our Supreme Court, which has to have it presented to them through the court system.
Yes, and then here it's just, you know, we don't like what you did.
Exactly, yeah, it's pretty... And it's also filled with And I'm going on a limb because I'm not really schooled in it, but in Israel you have Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardi, I think it's Sephardi Jews, which would be like Sephardic.
Sephardic, yeah.
Sephardic.
Like my buddy Ben Cohen who, you know, dark, olive dark skin.
And in the Supreme Court it's pretty much all the white Jews, the Ashkenazi Jews.
And they're elitists and they're wokesters and they're just like the liberal, the nut jobs here in the United States.
Yeah.
And, you know, they're like, you know, everything LGBTQ, you know, everything's all good.
It's all beautiful.
You know, we could, you know, you know, don't just the whole thing.
Everything is it's identical.
And Bibi Netanyahu, who I've always considered to be very sketch guy.
I said sketch.
I'm going to retract that.
I've always been skeptical about the guy.
But we've been programmed to think he's a criminal, he's a gangster, he's no good, he's a warmonger.
He was voted in by democratic vote, if you trust elections, with one mandate, to change the judicial system so that the people of Israel Would feel like they actually have a say and not just this Starfleet command.
Pushed around by the judiciary.
Yes, this Starfleet command.
And so what happened was, and this is Sir Brian of London, has said, these riots that were ongoing, that had been going on since his election, and all of these, you know, all of the accusations, and they hate gays, and they're corrupt, and they're horrible people, he says, is pretty much identical to Trump and Black Lives Matter.
And that these protests are, you know, and it's all professional signs and people are getting riled up and the military is getting involved, but it was, it's been led by a very interesting woman named Shikma Bressler.
I think she's 41, 42, good looking.
She actually started the Black Flag protest earlier, which is much more Black Lives Matter related, but she led this protest.
She's a physical, a particle physicist from CERN.
But somehow she got drafted into being the leader of this protest.
And I could not find it, but she apparently somewhere along the line said, you know, this Netanyahu, he better give it up, something bad's gonna happen end of September.
I've been looking for that quote, because that would kind of, that would close the loop.
But she was interviewed by the Times of Israel.
And I just pulled a couple of clips because I have a feeling that this protest cannot be isolated from what happened by the lapse in security, certainly maybe the lack of response from the military, and the fact that Seymour Hersh, who I hold him pretty in high regard, Seymour Hersh says this guy's finished, he's done.
This might have been a plan To get rid of Netanyahu that perhaps they misjudged and it went too far.
Here's a little bit of this interview with Shikma Bressler.
So Shikma, I ask you, what matters now?
Maybe it will sound a bit dramatic, but what matters now is really to say... I'm sorry, I should say this interview is from March of this year, just coincidentally the same time Biden did that executive order with the security change, but I'm not necessarily connecting those two.
Maybe it will sound a bit dramatic, but what matters now is really to save the Israeli democracy, to save the state and nation of Israel.
As part of my duties and job in Weizmann and being part of a huge international collaboration, I do talk to many people from abroad.
And what is clear to me is that people are not aware of the dramatic things that are happening these days in Israel and the fact that if we will discuss it in a month from now, we could be already beyond the point of no return.
What people need to take away out of this conversation and not wait to the end of it is to understand that we are now, these days, facing a real coup in the sense that if we are not able to stop what is going on at the moment, in a couple of weeks, days maybe, Israeli will no longer be a democracy and And then once the point of no return has passed, it will take decades to get back from this point.
And maybe it will not even be possible.
And I know it sounds dramatic, but it is dramatic.
But this is the circumstances.
This is what matters now.
I think that people are not really digesting, fully digesting what is going on.
And it is dramatic.
And it's happening now.
The only thing she didn't say was existential crisis.
That's the only thing that was missing from that.
And by the way... It's very similar to that Trump is a threat to democracy somehow.
Yes.
And I realize that my sources are limited, but I'm just giving you this.
My view may be different on Thursday.
It'll develop.
People shouldn't worry about it.
Yeah, but people are like, yeah, that kind of stuff.
The same guy.
So then in this next bit from the interview, she says something that catches my ear and my ears perk up because I've heard this somewhere else.
Listen to this.
How could you, just to play devil's advocate, how could you possibly win?
The government coalition will pass the overhaul bills because it can.
It's in power.
It will do that.
So what is a win for you?
So first of all, to some extent, we are already winning.
Maybe we're winning the battle, but not the entire war.
But you have to understand that they try.
If you look at the changes that Orbán did in Hungary in the last decade, And you compare it to what is being done here, they try to do what Orban did in a decade in Hungary to do here in two months.
As I said it's not just one law that they are trying to pass but it's more than 120 laws that are being really ambushed on us.
And this will probably not happen the way that they want.
They thought that they are going to, you know, to do this legislation and they will be done with it in no time, no defense.
And now they need to change that.
So they are calling back a lot of their thing and only focusing on this committee for the election of judges, which is the core thing.
If you go back again to Hungary, you will see that this is how Orban started by taking control over the judicial or the courts and the judges.
So they are focusing on that.
So when I heard this, I'm like, what?
or Orban committed a coup in Hungary and overthrew the judiciary and the country's calm and orderly and people seem to be happy there?
Did I miss something?
That he's a dictator?
We've been pushing Orban being a dictator, the left has, for at least the entire... Orban, the guy who would not mandate vaccines, who would not... Orban started the problem by blocking the initial wave of refugees from the Middle East back 10 years ago.
Orban threw up the fences and said no.
And the people of Hungary seem to be happy with him.
I haven't seen protests in the streets.
I don't want to say, you know, bring this guy into the picture, but as you recall, Tucker went there and hung out with him and tried to look around for some sort of problem and could find nothing.
Orban did take on the judiciary, which did have an issue with the I don't know.
This is like nuts.
Okay, so when this triggered me, I went, hold on a second, hold on.
Orbán's anti-globalist, obviously this woman is globalist, and this is what we're dealing with somehow.
So now, three weeks ago, 60 Minutes does an interview with three Israeli IDF soldiers.
They're in uniform.
One is a helicopter pilot.
One is, and that's a she.
She's always sexy.
Female combat chopper pilot.
Lesbian.
Does it get any better than that?
The other one is special forces.
And I forget what the third was.
And they're just talking about how horrible Netanyahu is.
It's the same topic three weeks ago.
Listen to this.
The head of national security has had multiple convictions, including supporting terrorism against Arabs.
The finance minister is a self-described fascist homophobe.
As for Netanyahu, he is in the midst of three separate trials on charges of corruption.
The protesters say that laws his government has introduced, over 200 of them, would not only weaken the courts, but control the press and diminish individual rights.
And that this is how democracies like Hungary became autocratic.
What happened in Hungary and Poland will not happen here.
There is a trend and it's going against you.
Yeah.
Around the world.
We'll be the first to stop it.
You're all determined.
We are not joking.
We are really trying to stop it and we will succeed.
One of their big worries is that without a strong Supreme Court, the ultra-Orthodox bloc and the government could turn Israel into a theocracy where biblical laws prevail.
Our Supreme Court is our last line of defense.
This is our last safeguard.
We need them empowered.
We need them independent.
That's what we fight for.
What is at stake for women, Shira?
That we'll be sitting in the back of the bus.
Literally?
Literally.
Are you married?
I'm married to a woman.
A doctor.
We have a daughter.
She's one year and eight months.
Her fear of an assault on women's and gay rights is well founded.
A government member said the gay community is more dangerous than ISIS and Hezbollah.
Oh crap, for some reason I must have cut out the bit where they talk about Poland, Hungary...
No, I heard it.
Oh, it was in there?
I completely missed it.
Sorry.
No, they mentioned both countries as autocratic countries.
Poland!
I'm giving you a clip of the day for digging that baby out of the woods.
Or whoever dug it up.
No, no, no.
This is truly... Well, it's not coincidence.
I know who gave it to me.
I know who does this.
It's supernatural.
So I get this clip and...
And it's interesting because it kind of parallels the Queers for Palestine movement, which I highlighted in the newsletter, and people should go read the newsletter and click on the link.
Or just go to Google or DuckDuckGo, which is what I use, at Queers for Palestine and start reading what's going on in Israel with the gay movement there and the symbiosis with Palestine and the fact that they're all, you know, it's just Very strange, and I think it's part of that.
I think that clip you just played is part of Queers for Palestine.
So the problem is that they said, we're not going to let it happen.
We will do what it takes.
And then here, going back to Shikma, the leader of this movement... So I think that if, as I said, if these laws will pass, by definition, the Israeli court system will be underneath the political system, the government.
By definition, it's not a democracy anymore.
And then we will have to, you know, we will wake up one day for something completely different than what we were used to.
I think that then what we will see here is that the country conditions fall, you know, goes down quickly.
We heard yesterday large groups from the reserve army units saying that if this happens they will not They will not serve a dictatorship.
We are here.
We all took our oath to protect a Jewish democratic country and not a dictator.
I think that we see it already.
We will be affected economically very dramatically.
We'll be affected basically in every aspect.
It may not be happening in one day, but But again, if you look at countries that went down these roads or conditions and then it will be a huge and a long battle which will Which you know, we will all be losing but But it will be it will be awful.
It will be awful.
So she says right there That reservist army will not defend a dictator.
They will not defend I presume Israel And I'm just putting a couple things together here.
It was like, do you think it's possible that they thought, well, you know, we'll let some terrorists come in and do a little something?
Well, when they tore down that fence with bulldozers and nobody did anything or even took a shot at them, that was extremely suspicious if you ask me.
They bring bulldozers up to the fence.
And just knock the fence over and nobody does anything about it.
And when you have the crowd, just like Black Lives Matter, when you have the crowd program, this is an existential crisis.
You don't know what people are capable of doing or not doing.
And so if everyone's been, and this, I mean, you don't see it much on M5M here, but in this research I've been looking at some of the video, these protests, you know, getting pretty rowdy.
Oh, there are, and monstrous, there are monstrous protests.
Yes, and so if there's like, okay, this is existential to the democracy and the survival of us here in Israel, Israel, Then it's not unthinkable that this could have been, at minimum, just let go and then they underestimated.
How ready or how bad it would be.
How Moss was or how bad it would be.
I mean, yeah, they could have estimated how they underestimated how bad it would be, which if we take this line of thinking, which nobody wants to do.
No, because it's very unpopular and very bad for business.
Because you're going to get more letters to Adam that he has to read on the next show.
Horrible.
Horrible letters.
If you take that line of thinking and take it to its logical extreme, Iran's not involved!
Very possible.
Very possible.
And Hezbollah won't come down.
I mean, we already played the clips from the last show on the Hezbollah as presented by Al Jazeera, which is a representative of Qatar.
So you're going to get something that's, you know, Qatar and these other Arab nations don't want to make this into a big deal because they're going to get killed.
And so the Israelis have shot into Lebanon.
From that area where Hezbollah would come in, there's no evidence that they're gonna come in and they probably won't.
They don't have to for us to go bomb them.
Don't have to.
Not if you got Lindsey Graham.
Not if you got him on your side.
So, my eyes are on Shikma Bressler.
It's baffling, baffling, that they pull this physical particle physicist from CERN into this and she becomes this hero.
I mean, I'm almost thinking, is she going to be the next Prime Minister?
Do we have a new Golda Meir on our hands?
But who is this woman?
I've looked at her wiki page.
I've looked at it, looked her up.
Who is she?
Who is behind her?
You know, she didn't do this on her own.
I don't care what anybody would like to think.
Well, she's at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
And I've been searching to find out.
I mean, she was married to, the guy died, Eitan Wertheimer, which I haven't, it's very hard to find information on her.
She's, you know, in that regard, a little like, oh, let me see.
He was a billionaire businessman.
Okay.
He was one of Israel's wealthiest men.
Okay, here we go.
He died in 2022.
Did he?
70 years old.
One of Israel's wealthiest men after U.S.
tycoon Warren Buffett bought a controlling share in his company.
Oh, now this makes her a little more interesting.
Read on.
As a philanthropist, Wertheimer was an ardent supporter of Israeli-Palestinian businesses and peace initiatives.
He founded Erez College in the northern town of Shlomi and the experimental school of Teffen Industrial Park.
That's all I have on this particular article.
So she is A, probably loaded.
Oh yeah.
And she comes from, you know, if you're in that level, Then, you know, you've got, you're connected.
She just connected.
She's connected.
Let me see.
Is Carmelo working?
Sold it to Buffett for six billion.
Hmm.
I don't know.
Oh, what is this?
I don't know.
He was an IDF.
I don't know.
I mean, this is where I got stuck.
But you look at Chikma, she's got leader written all over her.
Libtard leader, but she's got leader written all over her.
But she's reminding me because of the nature of the jobs woman.
Steve Jobs.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, he's got this wife.
Lauren.
What's her name?
Lauren Jobs.
Lauren.
She has a middle name that's important.
We forgot.
I forgot her middle name.
Anyway, she ends up inheriting Disney.
She basically runs, she owns the Disney Corporation for all practical purposes.
She's the major shareholder.
And all this other, and just nothing but money and stock.
And she's, I don't know what her real background is.
Lauren Powell Jobs.
Yeah, Lauren Powell Jobs.
She was, she's a super, ultra super, I would say naive liberal, and she puts all her money toward liberal causes and pushes things in that direction, which is nothing Jobs would have done.
This is interesting.
March 23rd, 2023.
This is around the same time this interview, the same month of the change of the technology.
Bressler was detained by police during one of the many Day of Disruption protests held across Israel.
She was later released.
Former Prime Minister and protest leader Ehud Barak, part of the West Exec lobbying firm that brought in the new software, tweeted that Bressler's arrest was dictatorship in action.
There's too many connections here.
I mean, I'm just... I need some red yarn, people.
I need to connect this on my wall.
We've got plenty of Arabs that listen to the show.
There are plenty of spooks that listen to the show.
There's plenty of military guys that listen to the show.
Can someone... Share?
Share, besides Seymour Hersh, who probably is digging into this as we speak.
Yeah, I think there's something going on.
As one would expect.
As usual.
As usual.
As usual, yes.
And then, of course, here in the United States, everyone loses their crap.
And it's very similar.
What happened here, particularly amongst the universities, was interesting.
There is such a... I mean, everyone jumping on the... And it's all around the world, actually.
Jumping on the pro-Palestine... Where is Roger Waters?
I keep waiting for him to come... He's the guy that's always been anti-Israel, pro-boycott, divest, and then another B. Why don't they interview him?
He's the guy I want to hear from right now.
I want to hear what he thinks.
Yeah, well, it'd be nice.
I have two clips I want to play.
Okay.
This is about U.S.
citizens stuck in Gaza.
And the reason I want to play these two clips is because there's a kicker at the end of clip two.
The State Department says the number of U.S.
citizens killed in the Hamas attack on Israel has risen to at least 29, with 15 people listed as missing.
This is Israel prepares for an expected ground incursion into Gaza as dozens of Americans there are trying to get out.
They had hoped to evacuate today.
They, along with more than 2 million Gazans without U.S.
passports, remain trapped.
Israel has imposed a complete siege on Gaza, meaning no people, supplies or food are allowed to come in or out.
NPR's Nina Kravinsky has more.
Massachusetts resident Abud Okal and his family waited at the Rafah border crossing for hours Saturday, hoping Egyptian authorities would open the gate to let them out.
He and other U.S.
citizens trapped in Gaza were told by the U.S.
State Department that the gate may open between noon and 5 p.m.
local time.
That window has passed and the crossing remains closed.
It's just extremely frustrating.
Okal, his wife, and their one-year-old baby will spend another night in Gaza.
That was an interesting little sound drop they put in there.
Now, this is not about Americans in Israel.
This is about, this whole piece was about, this is from NPR by the way, this whole piece is about Americans in Gaza.
Yes.
And which I guess there's a ton of them there.
And there's a kicker at the end of this one which had me somewhat baffled.
U.S.
officials have been negotiating with Israel and Egypt to open the border for Americans.
We're Americans.
Yeah, screw the Palestinians.
Screw everybody else, which is a sign of our, as a nation of our empire.
And our empathy.
Well, the empathy, screw that.
We have empire, and it's like, you got that border down there.
Open it up for Americans.
Yeah.
And you can be sure that we're putting pressure on the Egyptian government to open that southern crossing, that southern exit from Gaza for Americans.
Yeah.
Let our Americans get out and then you can pummel them close.
Yeah, hold on.
And that will in fact, well, as we heard from Lindsey Graham, it's going to be slitting throats.
Americans' throats will be slit.
An escalation of the violence.
Escalation.
So back at home, people in America probably heard about the university signing statements and, you know, oh, we hate Israel.
We're all pro-Palestinian.
It's crazy.
Here's something from ABC.
This is from Boston.
A digital billboard parked right outside Harvard University is attracting a lot of attention.
The names and faces of Harvard students, which we have blurred, are displayed under the title, Harvard's Leading Anti-Semites.
The students are allegedly those who signed onto a statement by the student group, Palestine Solidarity Committee, which read in part, we hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.
We're merely amplifying their message.
The man claiming responsibility for the truck says the Harvard community should know who the students are.
If they're ashamed of what they did and want to apologize, we'll remove them.
If they're proud of what they did, they should thank us.
Don't put these people on this screen because it puts them in danger.
But students like Jeremy Ornstein believe the truck's message is only adding to the tension on campus.
Harvard Hillel has already condemned this.
The Jews of Harvard have already condemned this and made clear it doesn't bring anything to the discussion.
And it actually brings greater harm and danger to a lot of human beings who are here.
Harvard University increasing patrols in light of the divide.
In an email to students, the school says, we do not condone or ignore intimidation.
We do not condone or ignore threats or acts of harassment or violence.
I know some of the fellow students on this campus and it just hurts my heart to see my fellow friends going through this when they're just standing up for what they believe in.
This issue is very sensitive and this is a very insensitive way to portray these Harvard students.
See, I don't believe this for a second that these people, anybody, certainly in the United States, certainly not at a university, has any context, any knowledge, any historical background in what is happening.
That particular group was exposed by a couple of documentaries.
There's two groups.
And they're paid directly from that $100 million slush fund from Iran.
And I think there's 300 of them in the country at different universities, including Cal Berkeley.
And I don't know whether they know anything or not, but they are paid to do this, and that's what they're doing.
Yeah, and what happens is, just like Black Lives Matter, without thought, without investigation, without any critical analysis, oh, I better do what everyone else is doing.
This is the problem.
Oh, well, you know, it looks like everyone is all for, I better, I don't want to be the guy on the, on the wrong side of this argument.
Then everyone, oh, yeah, yeah.
No classes.
Let's go.
No, but that's really, that's really what's happened.
These are Sadly, our higher education institutions have become... Well, the higher educated you get, the more boosters you get, too, so I don't know if that tells you anything.
I do have one more Palestine clip I want to play.
More boosters!
More boosters.
Get a PhD, you get all of them.
Speaking of PhDs, but first let's play Palestine Update.
Okay.
The day-old truce between Israel and Hamas militants appears to be holding after 11 days of fighting.
Egypt has provided a delegation to Israel in an effort to shore up the truce.
Martin Indyk is a former US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, now with the Council on Foreign Relations.
He's not sure either party really wants- Whoa!
Did you edit that in?
No, I added it in.
Okay, okay.
Now with the Council on Foreign Relations.
He's not sure either party really wants a peace deal.
On the Palestinian side, it's very hard to see how we could work towards a final status agreement.
And on the Israeli side, there looks like they're going into a fifth election.
They have a caretaker government.
Netanyahu was trying to form a right wing... Oh, hold it!
Stop the clip!
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is a two-year-old clip that accidentally got put into my pile.
Ah, an old classic No Agenda gag.
You got me.
You got me.
All right.
Yes, this is from May of 2021.
I'm sorry.
I apologize.
In an odd way, I just want to play two more clips and then we need to talk about higher education and PhDs.
There's this woman, Esther Perel, and she is, she has an actual title here.
Hold on a second.
She is, here we go, younger than she sounds, but she's Belgian-American psychotherapist known for her work on human relationships.
And she sounds kind of like a woo-woo person.
Oprah loves her, but she attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Another cutie.
She could also, she could be in that, in that government.
You're onto the Jewish cuties today.
Well, she's not, is she Jewish?
Yes.
Oh, she's the daughter of two Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors.
All right, so she shows up on my favorite hate listen, Pivot.
What's her name again?
Esther Perel, P-E-R-E-L.
Okay.
And she shows up on Pivot, my favorite hate listen.
And she has a concept, which I kind of like, which is AI is artificial intimacy.
Which I liked, I liked.
I thought it was a good gag.
And so I want first a minute on the artificial intimacy and then the clip that I think is pertinent to what's happening in the universities.
Modern loneliness masks itself as hyperconnectivity.
And so people have easily a thousand virtual friends, but no one that they can ask to feed their cat.
And that loneliness that is really a kind of depletion of the social capital is extremely powerful.
It's more to men than to women, but it's quite general.
It's very broad.
I've been very interested in talking about modern loneliness as it connects to the rise of the other AI, artificial intimacy.
How often do you find yourself working the whole day on your laptop?
Then you can't wait to close the screen.
Then you go home but you're too tired and all you do is watch TV.
Then while you watch TV you're also scrolling on your phone.
Then while you're scrolling on your phone you lift your head and you see that the people in the room are doing the exact same thing.
This is modern loneliness.
This is artificial intimacy.
I am there but I am not present.
And then I talk to you about something that really matters to me and your answer goes uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
All right.
So again, don't criticize yet because it's... You're leading me into two clips!
Good.
We'll get to that in a moment.
So this is the second and only other clip.
So as it pertains to what... By the way, wait, stop.
You said she sounds young.
She's 65.
She's not a young woman.
Really?
On her wiki page, she doesn't... I didn't look at her age.
Really?
No.
Yeah.
No, let me see.
She is... Oh, you're right.
No, she looks good then for 60... Oh, I just zoomed in.
Oh, okay.
She looks like Victoria Newland.
She looks like she's 65.
She looks like Newland.
I really need to click on those pictures and zoom in.
You gotta get with it.
I'm busted.
Okay.
Anyway, so this next clip, you know, this whole, the whole thing was because Kara and Scott, you know, oh, it's so difficult to talk about the conflict.
And she brings in a little bit here about, you know, because, of course, you know, no one can sleep.
You're scrolling all these pictures.
It's very bad for you.
Artificial intimacy.
And then she drops this little nugget, which to me explains exactly why you're seeing protests, which I think are completely disingenuous.
It's just, uh, let's just be for something that everybody else is for!
The new, new thing!
This is changing something in the world, not just in the Middle East.
It's not sure that the image is really the right image and it really tells the story that it pertains to tell.
It's a total mindfuck.
Um, there is...
It's a little bit like 9-11.
We tell people titrate.
Don't just watch it over and over again.
You will not sleep.
You literally will not sleep.
I am not sleeping.
And I didn't watch much.
I just talked to people and that's enough.
So what you do after that, when you feel like the tide is rising inside of you and you just feel like you don't know what to do with all of this, it's the most important thing is to come together.
With others to experience collective trauma collectively, to understand that this is changing something in the world, not just in the Middle East.
And to read poetry, to talk about what's happened, to ask people where they are.
I think allyship is extremely important in a moment like this.
And all of those who miss the allyship of Black Lives Matter will understand it even more so now.
That when somebody writes to you just to say, I know you have an attachment to that place, or I know you know people there, or I know, you know, you were there recently, or something that says, I know, I see you, there's nothing else for me to say, and you answer, this means a lot, you thought of me, I exist in your collective awareness, and that is a lot.
Oversocialized, undereducated.
Allyship needing nut jobs.
That's what this is.
I think you've been on that for a while and I think you're right, but where did you get this?
I told you, from Pivot.
When?
Friday.
This is an op.
Why do I say that?
Why do you say that?
Why do you say it's an op?
Because they just ran a loneliness bit.
Yeah?
You know, a complete feature on NPR on loneliness.
What?
What?
Yeah, I just picked it up on Friday.
Huh.
Another op uncovered!
I don't even know what year this is!
Wow!
Okay, did I play these clips?
Yeah, let's go!
Loneliness won NPR!
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of loneliness.
Wow!
A report from the U.S.
Surgeon General says about half of adults claim they've experienced loneliness.
So for some advice on how to make friends, we turn to some young experts.
I make friends by sitting next to them at lunch or in a class.
Wait, is this person 12?
More like 8.
It's a little hard and a little easy.
You could play with them or they can play with you.
Stop it right there.
You know, now that you mention it, they use these kids as foils for this feature that they're doing on loneliness.
And I'm thinking that they're kind of...
Put in the position where they have to do this because there's some op going on about loneliness.
John, we get our producers to have their children say the most horrible things, like shut up slave.
I mean, you can get kids to say anything.
Right, but so they put these kids, because I think they're trying to push back against the op, but let's continue.
Friends by sitting next to them at lunch or in a class.
It's a little hard and a little easy.
You could play with them or they can play with you.
According to the Troll Room, Bill Maher also talked about loneliness epidemic on his show.
On Friday!
Hey everybody, we dropped the op on Friday.
And Friday was the day of the 13th?
The rage, global day of rage.
So you should ask them nicely.
Try to be nice, because usually people don't want to be your friends if you're mean to them.
That's Liliana Beckwith, Colin Sadusky, and Liliana's brother, Owen Beckwith.
The fear of rejection sometimes holds people back from making friends.
When you assume people like you, you are friendlier, you are warmer, you're more open, you take more initiative.
That is University of Maryland psychologist Marissa Franco.
She's the author of Platonic, How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends.
And she says paying attention to people can help you connect with them.
Wow, do they at any point say, if an older person comes to you, you can trust them to be your friend?
I have no idea what the point of this op is, but the fact that we have three things going on simultaneously on the same day, which you'd think they'd spread it out a little bit, is very suspicious.
Now, they kind of demean the whole thing here on this NPR report, but at the second half, It's kind of, the second clip, it's kind of funny because the woman who's doing the, who's the presenter has to demean herself, I think, at the very end and the whole thing, I believe, falls apart.
But it, you know, it continues.
If you're just, like, present, and you're just, like, interested in people, like, that's enough.
You don't have to charm people.
Having someone to confide in can also affect the way your body deals with stressful situations.
Research shows strong social connections can reduce the risk of heart disease, dementia, and improve your overall well-being.
Yeah, just ask four-year-old Edith Wincek.
When I'm with my friends, it makes me feel happy.
Okay, so A, you don't have any trouble making friends.
Am I right?
No, I do.
Because I don't want any new friends.
Look, I describe myself as friendly, not social.
So in order to make new friends, you kind of have to be social.
I don't want to do that.
So can I be your friend?
I thought we were.
I was just checking.
I have to audition now?
I was just checking.
I was just making sure.
Because, you know, we're all, we're both nice.
This is, this has got to be binary.
There's something else coming to this.
I believe you're right.
Something is up.
How about a new drug?
This is very strange.
By the way, I thought it was going to be a good lead into the no agenda meetup section because they say you start making new friends, you're happier.
Correct.
And I was planning on doing that because, well, I will do it again, but before we even get to the meetup section, we need to talk about the PhD.
Yes.
Here's my, here's what we're doing for the show 1600 through the 16th anniversary and probably till about November.
I don't even know the entire deal here.
So this is new for me as well.
Well, you know, most, you know, 99% of it.
I'd say 80%.
We're going to do a no agenda, it's going to be certificated and recorded, put on a website, and we're not going to do it forever, we're going to do it for a month at most, because it's work that Jay is going to have to do.
Talking about getting your kids to do something.
Nice.
And she's going to charge us for it, so it's going to be, it's not free.
All of a sudden, not so funny.
We're going to grant, the show itself is going to grant, a PhD in media deconstruction.
And we're going to do it in the way it's done, everyone does it the same way, by charging you money.
Just like a real institution, just like a real college.
Will it be $500,000 for a four-year education?
No, it's a bargain by comparison.
It's going to be $1,000.
It's not a cumulative bull thing.
It's a thousand dollars straight up.
You will get a knighthood and an executive producer, but it's not that you can say, well, I've already contributed 500 to my knighthood.
Here's 500.
Let me ask you a question.
Can you name your doc?
Can you say, I'm now a doctor of deconstruction, or can you say I'm a doctor of something else?
Do you get to name your, your PhD or your field?
You can do whatever you want.
Well, and on the PhD, it says doctor of philosophy.
For media studies, exactly.
If you put it on the wall, people would pass by.
And say, oh, you're a PhD?
Yeah.
Is it just as valid as any other PhD?
Depends on your perspective.
Okay, like a knighthood or an executive producership.
Yeah, well it's definitely as valuable as the knighthood, but it's $1,000 straight up, that's it.
It's not $1,000 plus or minus anything.
$1,000 or more, you get a knighthood, a PhD, and an executive producership all in one.
Let's put it this way, it's just as valid as Jill Biden's PhD.
Am I right?
As far as I'm concerned.
All right!
Do we kick this off on the next show on 1600?
Yeah, we kick it off.
Well, you kick it off.
Now actually today we have a high donation of $3,000 and this person will retroactively, if he wants the PhD, we'll give it to him because it would be unfair to not give it to somebody who donated that much the day before we announced the donations.
So that's a retroactive one.
We can do that.
But from now on, it's $1,000.
That's what it's going to cost.
We figure, I figure we would get 10 or 20 people to do it.
I mean, I spent three months in college.
I have nothing to show for it.
You will have a PhD.
I got a hoodie.
And I will now have a PhD.
And you know what?
Well, wait, wait.
If you give $1,000.
Done!
Done!
I won!
Done!
Done!
You get a PhD because you're signing your signatures on the thing.
Oh, there you go.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage in the morning.
To you, the man who put the C's in the Doctor of Deconstruction, ladies and gentlemen, my friend and the other, Mr. John C. DeVore!
Well, in the morning to you, Miss Random Curry.
In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
And all the names of knights out there!
Hello, trolls in the troll room!
If you don't mind, would you please put your hands up?
I wanna ca- I wanna ca- Stop moving around!
I'm a troll, count me out!
Ah, people are interested in us.
2,381 trolls listening live right now.
That's, uh, that's okay.
It's low.
No, it's not low.
We're- 2400, Sunday.
Yeah, but that was Sunday.
No, it's Sunday.
Yeah, it is Sunday.
All right, you're low!
Some of you leaked out.
Some of you crept out.
What are you doing?
Anyway, we need more trolls.
Trolls, if you want to join us.
You know who you are.
You know you're a troll.
If you're a troll, you know who you are.
Join us at trollroom.io or get a modern podcast app.
Trust me, you're going to want one of these when the fake news... Everything's coming down.
Everything's going to... I was thinking... Yeah.
You know that guy who sent a note to the hamburger place owner who's going to have the meetup?
Yeah.
Do you have his email?
Should we dox him?
No.
No, in fact, I emailed him.
You want to know what I emailed him?
Yeah.
Hold on a second.
Because it came through an email to... Where is it here?
I think I have it here.
Hold on.
I'm not going to dox anybody.
Are you kidding me?
This was an idea.
No.
You're a troll.
Get in the troll room right away.
Here it is.
I said... So I forwarded the email that I got from the burger joint guy, and I said to this troll, I said, I forgive you for doing this.
AC.
And he replied, go fuck yourself.
Okay.
See?
That was basically it.
I'm like, no man, I forgive you.
You don't want to dox him?
You don't want to use email?
No, when I forgive, I forgive.
It's done.
I'm not keeping that on me.
It's fine.
I'm okay.
It's all right.
We know that our... That guy is a real creep.
It's really amazing that they find our show.
Well, he's got something stuck in his craw about that.
What can I tell you?
Anyway, because I'm sure he'll be emailing Apple and every other place.
So what?
Get these guys off!
They're homophobes and transphobes!
Yeah, so that's why you want a modern app from podcastapps.com.
These apps also alert you.
I'm guessing the guy had his nuts cut off.
When we go live, you get an alert, you can listen to the stream live.
It's quite amazing what we're doing over there at Podcasting 2.0, so do that.
Or just follow us.
On noagendasocial.com.
John C. Dvorak at noagendasocial.com.
Adam at noagendasocial.com.
Although I'm not posting anymore.
I'm kind of done.
I'm reading.
I am reading, but I'm not posting.
I'll repost something.
No, it's too polarized.
Everyone's got an opinion.
I got no time for it.
It's just as bad as any other social network at this point.
But you started it.
I did.
And now it's like, it's our home, Curry!
Who do you think you are?
It's our home!
And, you know, anything, it's becoming like No Agenda Forums.
Oh, no, nothing's, no.
When they start starting their own No Agenda Social Podcast, then yeah, okay, then you got something.
Now see that never works because people quickly, we saw that, we saw that when it was like the kind of the anti no agenda podcast and they couldn't keep up because it takes a lot of work and dedication to do a show twice a week and they couldn't even deconstruct our deconstruction.
They got tired of it.
Like it's too much work, too much work to keep up with these guys.
No, no, no, no.
One of the main reasons we're still here, 16 years, you heard it right there, almost 1,600 episodes, a very interesting confluence of numbers that cross this month, is because we haven't relied on advertising.
If we relied on advertising, sponsorship, underwriting, whatever you want to call it, we would have been long gone.
Because it wouldn't have been able to sustain ourselves with it, which we need.
We can't do this work.
It's a full-time job.
Everything we do is prep.
Yeah, go out to dinner with a friend, show prep.
I'm here in Fredericksburg, there's an eclipse, show prep.
Everything is show prep, and then just the incoming.
I mean, it's at least after filtering the 115 emails in the morning, and then throughout the day another 100.
And I read it all.
I read it all.
I have to.
Because there's always going to be that one gem that you miss if you don't.
And people are like, hey man, can your assistant reply to me?
No, there's no assistant!
Donations are not that good.
I wish.
I wish.
So all we ask for is time, talent, treasure.
And we so appreciate the talent and the time that people put into making this show great.
Such as our Knight Danga, who does noagendameetups.com.
Now more important than ever, as we just heard, because you need to get rid of the artificial intimacy and get some real intimacy.
Look in people's eyes when you talk to them and not have to be worried.
Because even if you have a completely different opinion from another No Agenda producer, no one's going to vilify you and say, well, I don't agree with you.
Because we're normal amygdalas here.
Normal size.
One of the great talents that we receive every single show is from our No Agenda artists.
We appreciate them so much.
They do such great work.
And the artwork we had for episode 1598, titled that one Guardrails, was an anomaly.
People noticed it right away.
They said, oh my god, it's like an upside-down stamp.
Curry Dvorak is not on the artwork, which is pretty much a prerequisite.
But we laughed so hard when we saw this from Matt Boisvert.
We just had to chuckle when we saw the terror leader, one leg, one eye, missing right ear, living in a cave, answers to the name of Lucky.
It's an old gag.
Rewrite of an old joke.
It was great.
And it was, I mean, there was some, what other stuff did we look?
Well, I kind of like... I want to mention something about that.
We noticed there was no, I did, that there was no Curry Dvorak on there.
So it wasn't like it slipped by us.
It was one of those artworks that we made an exception.
Yeah, it happens.
We make exceptions.
We do.
I like the Spy Who Loved Iran, which I thought was a pretty piece, and you correctly said.
And by the way, you can follow along, noagendaartgenerator.com.
Dreb Scott also puts these pieces of artwork into the show notes, so you can see what we're talking about.
If you look at your modern app right now, you can see it in the chapters.
And you said correctly, well, if you don't really know what's going on, it just looks like a James Bond on LSD.
I'm like, yeah, okay, it was pretty though.
But it wasn't as funny as the terror leader.
You know, we're not going to do Stars of David, you know.
What else?
You used it for the newsletter, the peanuts.
I did?
I thought you did, yeah.
No, I didn't use the peanuts.
For the newsletter, I think I can tell you.
No, I used the war calendar.
But I look at that and I'm like, that's, it was comments from a blogger, AI generated so not stolen.
Totally stolen.
I've seen that from Charles Schultz.
That's totally stolen.
I don't care if it's AI generated.
If you can generate Peanuts characters, that's a copyright violation.
I don't care if it's done by AI, but that's stolen art.
That is never going to get used, you thief.
Oh, so the faux diddly had a Do the math!
And I actually sat with a calculator and we're trying to figure out... Oh no, we gave up after two rounds of attempts.
It's like, I can't... What is this artwork about?
I'm hoping 33 pops out somewhere, but no.
So that was very odd.
It might if you do whatever you're supposed to do.
I'm not sure.
I don't know how to do it.
We tried numerological tricks.
It was very odd.
It didn't work at all for us.
Yeah, and there were other good-looking pieces, for sure, good-looking pieces, but nothing quite like the terror leader, who has not emerged as a meme yet, so maybe we missed that.
It's possible that you're going to be wrong on this one.
I might be, yeah.
Mohammed Dayef, it's the right kind of guy, but... No, he's got all the elements.
He's got everything we need.
We don't know where he lives.
He's got one eye, missing a leg.
I mean, it's perfect, but nope.
So far, no good.
But again, we're so far ahead of the game on this deconstruction stuff that it could be months from now.
It does happen.
It does happen.
So thank you very much, Matt, for Matt Boisvert.
I wonder how you pronounce it.
We really appreciate the work of all of the No Agenda artists.
I get such a kick out of it every single time.
We just love that we're arguing over real work, real input from people.
And remember, you're not doing it for us.
You're doing it for No Agenda Nation.
You're doing it for your brothers and sisters.
That's what's going on here.
I mean, in that regard, yes, no agenda socialist also.
You're doing all that for each other.
It's all fine.
So that's your time and talent.
The treasure portion is, of course, critical to keeping the show going.
Been a good showing today, in no small part, thanks to our top executive producer.
I didn't even see this.
I mean, I don't really look at the... I have no time in the morning to read the whole spreadsheet, but this is from some earthling in Houston, in Woodlands, Texas. $3,000.
Now I'm blown away.
I'm blown away by this.
Adam, here's the note.
Adam and John, thank you for not only wading through the much each week to the... I think it means the muck.
Thank you again for truly helping us scour so many sources searching for the truth.
Yes, you do.
You do.
Clips, boots on the ground, all kinds of your own personal experiences, all part of the system.
Thank you.
The V for V and other things y'all do to remain free of influence, etc., is incredible.
Honestly, I want to write a novel to you both just exploring these two principles, but I will refrain for now.
Thank you.
Simply put, what you do and have done is appreciated more than you can know.
Your prayers, karma, insert how you view it, would be appreciated as well.
You got it.
I'll give that to you.
Uh, I would love to pick your brains.
Would either of you be open to a short interview?
I may be in, I may even be in order to come to Fredericksburg if that's in the cards.
I'll meet you, brother.
Or sister.
Earthling.
Some earthling.
Earthling.
Earthling.
You could, you could.
He's funny who's the actual alien.
Yeah, you come to Fredericksburg, of course.
I'll, I'll take you out to lunch.
Well, he's in the woodland, so it's just a drive.
It's not that hard.
It's just a drive.
It's a couple hours.
It's a couple hours.
Thank you so much, and congratulations.
Now, are these PhDs numbered?
No, but they're going to be listed in an archive.
Oh, okay.
They will be in an archive.
Well, you were the first one to receive an official... Well, actually, if you think about it, you know, to number them, like 1 slash 100, it would be more of an artwork you're getting, but no, we're not doing that.
You could have just said no, but thanks for the long answer.
I'm thinking about it.
The problem is you got me thinking about it.
Sum Earthling, thank you very much.
Here's the karma you request.
I shall pray for you.
You've got karma.
Be well.
This is good news from the No Agenda Shop in Fayetteville, Georgia.
They have our cut of the action for $814.18, ITM guys.
The shop is still alive.
It's a shop you should go all visit because they got cool stuff.
I do.
And here, although I think the website, it could be easier to find some of the cool stuff.
Here's your cut.
Artists have been paid as well.
If anyone is looking for recommendations, check out my tequila review podcast.
at stillchillin.com and wherever fine podcasts are heard.
Thank you for encouraging all you do.
And again, this is a perfect example of time, talent, and treasure.
Noah Jenner Shop, they can do whatever they want to do.
We have no agreements, no contracts, run with it.
And we have one restriction, don't put our heads on anything.
They work out a deal with the artists who are all Noah Jenner Art Generator.
And then whenever there's something left over, whenever they feel it's right, they'd send a donation.
And there you go.
And we've never even met them in person.
And what's cool is that we don't do shirts, they do.
We don't do hats, they do.
And people that do shirts and hats and all the rest, that's a business separate from podcasting to an extreme.
We'd be losing $814.18.
You're right.
Yes, we would.
That's exactly what would happen.
And we'd have to have meetings.
Oh, God, no.
Gray Lusty is in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
477.77.
Interesting.
Oh, I see.
Driving 1,077 miles from Tomahawk, Wisconsin for the Thirsty Third Thursday Meetup in Charlotte, North Carolina.
See you at Ed's with three douchebags in tow.
Wow.
That's some dedication.
And it will pay off.
You will love it, Gray Lusty.
Send us a report.
Send us a report.
Anonymous in Biloxi, Mississippi.
433.33.
Biloxi's a really nice place, by the way.
I've been.
Guys, first time donating, well, forgiving me, Podfather, but I just wanted to express my appreciation for the show, especially during COVID.
I was an avid Joe Rogan listener when COVID first started and I listened to the episode with that lunatic Michael Osterholm and him saying a million people are gonna die!
No, it's three million.
It was three million.
Yeah, he says a million in the note.
Yeah, he said three million.
And it's going to get really bad.
The really bad it actually had.
Oh, it actually had me freaking out a little bit, and I consider myself a very rational person.
But I went back and listened to Adam's episode, and luckily, he plugged the show!
Duh?
Plugging the show helps.
Works!
Even though when Adam was talking about people getting rings and nightings, I thought it was a little weird.
At the time.
But I'll check it out.
And ever since, I haven't missed an episode!
Yeah!
I can see how by not listening to the show and only watching the M5M, I could have easily been one of those people double-masked up, driving around in my car by myself, and with my fifth jab by now.
But I just wanted to express my sincere appreciation for both of you during that time, and today, for keeping us sane.
$433.33.
I'm gonna give him a deducing, because I didn't ask for it, but it's the first donation, so...
You've been de-douched.
I'll do the next two here.
Because Earl Christopher in Marshfield, Wisconsin.
A lot of Wisconsin today, for some reason.
Hmm.
Huh.
I have a Wisconsin clip coming up later.
Uh-huh.
Wait, why?
You won't be disappointed.
Says, no jingles, no karma.
333-33, thank you.
Also, 333.33 from Josh Koenigsegger.
Thank you.
Also 333.33 from Josh Koenigsecker, Koenigsecker, which would be Koenigsecker, I guess in Dutch.
But he's not from Dutch land.
He's from Peccolet, South Carolina.
Do I pronounce it that way?
Peccolet?
In the morning, Adam and John, for many months I've been a faithful listener, but a douchebag.
With this donation of $333.33, I offer V for V for the hours of information and amusement you offer me each week.
I appreciate your perspectives and enjoy your back and forth, but my favorite part is still Adam's delivery of your award-winning Gitmo Nation media assassination.
If I might ask for three things.
One, de-douche me!
You've been de-douched.
Wow, that was really easy.
Two, I want a Jobs Karma for my fledgling business.
BronzeAgeShavingCo.com BronzeAgeShavingCo.com for fine American-made safety razors and shave soaps.
Promo code NOAGENDA for 15% off.
I might try.
What are you drinking?
My last can of polar.
Plain seltzer.
Since you never ask, I'm drinking a Waterloo watermelon.
Mmm.
How is it?
I don't taste any watermelon at all.
Could you please give me my favorite jingle, Rubbleizer, thank you for your courage, Josh Koenigsegger in Pakalette, South Carolina.
India, Tango, Mike.
Standby.
33, 33, 33.
Robilizer out.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Dave Fugazotto, our buddy in Gladstone, Missouri.
Hey Dave!
The Duke of everywhere.
Duke of America's Heartland and the Arabian Peninsula.
Happy 1616 years getting in before the mad rush.
Here's hoping it's a good donation spree to keep y'all in the cheddar.
Please give my pop a birthday shout out, he's on the list, and a healthy dose of South Carolina Scream Karma.
Keep on keeping in, Dave.
Scream?
Oh, hold on a second, I didn't have that one lined up.
Yes, we have it here.
You've got... ...karma.
Now this next one, I recognize the name and I don't see a note, but I know that the note was posted to my timeline on No Agenda Social.
I do want to pull this up for a second because it's from Jason Rich and he's a member of the Beef Initiative.
One second, let me see if I can find...
Yeah, and it was his first time donating, so I don't know how he maybe thought by posting it on the, uh, on Knowledge in the Social that it would get him.
Oh, some people, I've seen people do that.
I have no idea why they're doing that.
Well, he's, you know, it's his first time, so, you know, I guess, here we go.
Jason Rich, just donated for the first time.
It was great to sit on the porch, and by the way, what did he donate?
What was his amount here?
333.33.
It was great to sit on the porch with you and Slim at White Oak Pastures, that was Georgia, when we actually did the show from there.
Thanks for everything you've done for the Beef Initiative.
For anyone in Colorado looking for grass-fed and finished beef, we are The Hookup.
They can find us on Twitter at Jason Rich, W-R-I-C-H.
This Monday the 16th will be my 45th trip around the sun.
My wife and I just purchased a neighboring ranch and are fixing it up for Airbnb and wedding or conference venue.
All right, so I got to put Jason Rich on the birthday calendar, because he's not there.
Well, thank you very much, brother.
Believe me, it was a lot of fun hanging out with you there as well.
And I'll give you a de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
Give him the puts to the flank, stakes aside.
Dame Cheryl Wetzel in Pinedale, Wyoming, 333.33 and she sent an actual physical note and check-in and you can tell because Yep, that's a real note.
Hello, gents from Pinedale, Wyoming.
Happy 16 years loving the show.
Thank you for highlighting the absurdity of the world that we now live in.
So many discussions are so sad, but your voices help to lighten the burden of the insanity.
I happen to have some knowledge of rapid test kits and it is beyond shocking.
Beyond shocking!
Beyond shocking!
That it is now okay to willy-nilly extend an expiration date without going back to the FDA to prove that a kit still works.
ABSURD!
Since I do not believe that Cove 2 even exists, these kits are most certainly CRAP!
Even before expiration.
I would dare say they are designed to be inaccurate.
I suppose as long as the internal control is working, the test must be right, right?
The promotion is that these kits work best on the fourth day is genius, because of the dingbats that I know, most of which you know better, will test all four days because the primary symptoms for COVID is now, I don't feel right.
My nose is running.
The kids must be flying off the shelves.
Final note, recently a colleague announced that she was COVID positive after her recent flu shot.
Isn't that interesting?
She didn't have any symptoms other than fatigue, you know.
She just didn't feel right.
She is waiting for a PCR confirmation.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your courage.
Dame Cheryl, cowgirl of the Wind River Range, Wyoming.
Does she want any?
She wants the F-35 scream.
Oh, she also wants the F-35 screen.
Oh, hold on a second.
Oh, sounds like you got COVID.
Ah, I don't feel right.
You've got... karma.
That thing is a winner.
That's a winner.
Jennifer Davies is in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and she also has a note which she sent in, and I have that note here.
And, hi John and Adam, this executive producer donation is in honor of my smoking hot husband.
Oh, switcheroo!
Jonathan's 50th birthday on October 16th.
He's been listening to your show for a long time.
Caps.
And I figured it was time to make an honest podcast listener out of him.
I can't think of a better birthday gift for his 50th time around the sun than an executive producer credit for the best podcast in the universe.
Please de-douche it!
You've been de-douched.
That is very kind.
That's a great birthday gift.
You should also probably just give him a flamethrower or something like that.
It's also cool.
Fifty-year-old guys like that.
Jonathan is a hard-working man, faithful husband, and amazing dad to our four human resources.
He hit me in the mouth a few years ago, and I have to be honest, at first I thought he was getting corrupted by the show.
Wow.
Was the marriage on the rocks!
But when I actually started listening, my eyes were opened and my amygdala expanded.
I'll always be grateful.
Thanks for all you do.
Please play China's Asshole.
It's true.
Oh, I didn't get the it's true part.
Missed that.
I just thought it's true.
Yeah, it's true.
Where's the it's true, ladies?
Hold on.
We haven't been asked for that one in a while.
No, it's gone out of favor.
It's true.
I've got Donald Trump, it's true.
What is this?
I've run into a number of people who said that they couldn't listen to the show because they felt it was corrupting them.
Really?
Yeah.
Really now?
Yeah.
Corrupting them in what way?
I don't know.
Hmm.
Uh.
I can't find this anymore.
What is this?
It's true.
That's not the right one.
Where's the ladies?
It's true.
Oh, it's not it's true.
It's that's true.
That's true.
See?
They messed me up.
There you go.
There you go.
Yes, I got your ladies right here.
Okay.
Donald Trump don't trust China!
China is asshole!
That's true.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
All right, there you go.
Now we go to our Associate Executive Producer, Ryan D'Asio in Fishers, Indiana.
222, 222, a row of ducks.
From the artwork to the end of the show, mixes and everything in between.
Show 1598 was superb!
Thank you, Ryan D. Azzazio.
You're welcome.
Anonymous is in Amsterdam with a row of ducks, 2-2-2.
Hi, I'm John Adams.
It's been a while since I donated, so here, take my money!
I'm a painter from Amsterdam who likes to sneak his politics into his paintings.
Ooh!
Ooh!
I was gonna look him up, I didn't.
He's anonymous, so you can't read the name of his website, because he's not anonymous anymore, so we can't plug his stuff.
Well, really?
Because it's just an Instagram, it doesn't have his name on there.
Well, it's up to you if you want to violate his desires to be anonymous.
I know you use it in the notes, so... Now I'm conflicted.
Well, you tell me if it's worth showing first.
Sometimes the show inspires me for a painting's title, like The Green Leap Forward.
Thanks for that one, Adam.
Fellow listeners who like art from outside of the lefty plantation can find my work on my Instagram account, on the Insta.
Petrex Art.
P-E-T-R-E-X-A-R-T.
Petrex Art.
P.S.
I made that Grumpy Old Men artwork a few shows ago.
Of course, I know you don't like your faces on there.
The artwork was titled just for fun.
Surprise!
You didn't catch that!
Love the show.
No jingles, no karma.
Did you check it out?
Uh, I tried.
I think it's way back.
What?
No, I didn't know.
I said I didn't check it out.
Oh, I'm checking.
Oh!
Oh, this is cool stuff.
You on his website?
Yeah, on the, on his Insta.
On his gram.
Yeah, I can see what he's doing here.
Oh, it's very, very, uh, very different.
It's kind of cool.
It's kind of cool.
All right.
Is it good?
I think so.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, I'd, I'd hang it on my wall.
Not the one with the devil's horns, but the other ones.
Yeah.
Some good stuff.
Oh, yeah.
James Shea's up.
West Virginia.
210-01.
Donation note, email, and I do have it.
Oh, good.
Except I didn't forward it.
I don't know why.
You had it, too.
Somehow.
Oh, I don't know why it didn't show up.
Huh.
I decided to send a bank check this time because John says that's the way to go.
So hopefully you can match this note up with the check when it comes in.
Funny, I saw this note, too.
You know, I didn't forward it to Jay, though.
I had to stop being a freeloader.
I hadn't donated in a long time because the fuzzy cows in the 10-4 newsletter got to me.
It was good.
A lot of people love those fuzzy cows.
I love the cows.
Your show deserves more support.
Agreed.
No disagreement there.
And we all need to recognize that and step up.
Please play the Emperor Hillary clip that I sent you years ago that never gets played.
Because I am holding on to this dream that she will run again, solely for the value it bring to the show.
I would like some goat karma, please.
Lastly, I would like to change my knight name to Sir...
Tiff, Tiffialibi, and Certifiably Insane.
Oh, Certifiably.
Got it.
Can you put them on the upgrade list?
It's not on there, I'm sure.
Thanks, fellas, for the hard work you do every week to bring us the best podcast in the universe.
Benny's Goat Karma in an upgrade name.
And this Hillary Emperor clip from 2017, which I found immediately.
What is thy bidding, my master?
Each year on my birthday, every American gets a cupcake.
Yes, my master.
You've got... Karma.
That was good.
Sir Goatee Fisher?
Winter Springs, Florida, 201.33.
Switcheroo!
Okay.
Hey, John and Adam.
Adam and John, actually.
I wore my No Agenda University t-shirt out on the town Friday the 13th and ended up at Ellen's Wine Room in Sanford, Florida, and it organically created a fantastic impromptu meetup.
We had many people in the wine room discussing No Agenda after Sir Loin and I hit people in the mouth.
The t-shirt was an amazing conversation piece.
Everyone should go to the No Agenda shop and buy their own t-shirts and enjoy the great responses they create.
Please de-douche longtime listener Eric.
You've been de-douched.
And also, owner of the wine room, her name is Ellen.
You've been de-douched.
Please contribute this donation to my keeper of 36 years, and they never had a fight, Trish Holland.
Dedoosh her!
You've been dedooshed.
And give her, and you know, producer credits.
That's the switcheroo way.
I just did it.
Switcheroo.
You got it.
I am also sending in a meetup report as well.
Yes, received.
Goat scream, love is lit, karma.
Well, I'm not quite sure exactly what that got.
Goat scream and karma.
You got it, man.
Thank you very much.
You've got.
Uh, Mark Pugner, our buddy in Los Angeles, California.
Good ol' Mark Pugner.
I humbly request a John's My Chair Gently Squeaks jingle.
$200.33.
I tune in to hear the best media deconstruction, while the 4X chair Gently Squeaks. while the 4X chair Gently Squeaks.
Stories of lies and of worldwide destruction.
While the 4X chair Gently Squeaks.
There it is, a classic from Darren O'Neill.
Beautiful.
Glad we could play a little bit of that.
Earl Pennell, Pennell.
Next is in Ohio, Youngstown, Ohio.
$200, associate executive producer.
Credits are real, people.
ITM John Adam, new listener.
Spot on evaluation of the war in Israel.
Hopefully this donation makes up for any listener that was lost.
Can I get some Go Karma?
Yeah, you sure can.
Thank you.
You've got karma.
And finally we got Linda Lupatkin who's in Lakewood, Colorado.
I'm gonna give her a... She needs a job, Skarma.
I'm gonna give her a different read this time for a resume that gets results!
I say.
Go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
That's ImageMakersInc with a K dot com.
Or just find Queen Linda Lubatkin under the show's producer list.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Thank you all very much.
All of you are exec or associate executive producers.
All of you receive a title, one that is completely real.
It can be used anywhere where any type of title is recognized.
And we suggest you put it on your LinkedIn, your resume, or go to imdb.com if you don't have an account there.
You probably don't, but you do now.
You'll see lots of heavy hitters, in Hollywood even, who have credits.
And I would send you to our donation page for other people to learn how you can become an executive or associate executive producer.
I believe you demoed a beta version of the new donation page?
Yeah, NoAgendaDonations.com with a plural, plural.
So are we going to stop our Dvorak.org slash NA?
No, I'm keeping the other one alive for a year.
You don't have the credentials to even do anything with it.
That's the problem.
Yeah, I do.
Why don't you forward it?
It's under Dvorak.org.
I can do anything I want.
I got the FTP.
Why don't you forward it?
I will, but there's a couple of things that need to be done to it first.
Yeah, like find the password.
I know what's going on.
You can't fool me.
Keep it alive for a year.
You know I'm going to remember this.
I still have people using the legacy account, which is a decade Maybe longer.
Too old.
And I've talked to PayPal about this because we now have an account executive that calls once in a while and says, what's all you're doing?
Or they say like, hey, what's this weird donation?
Are you guys terrorists?
No, they never have done that.
Oh.
And so the guy calls and I said, you know, he says, well, I don't know what we're going to do because they have programs, you know.
Oh, we're going to get you on this great deal.
It works.
Yeah.
And so I said, well, you know, we don't need that.
OK.
And I explained the business model and everything to the guy.
And I said, but the one thing you guys could help.
And he says, well, you know, it's not really my job to do this.
Oh, OK.
But he says, I'll give it a shot and see if I can get it done, which is to move the The legacy account, all the people over to the regular account and then get rid of that thing.
No, they can't do that.
They're going to try.
They can't.
You know, a friend of mine lost the email that he had his ex account registered to when it was still Twitter.
That email address went away and They cannot reset your password.
It's unbelievable what they can't do.
It's just not possible.
He was lucky enough to buy the domain back and set up an email address to get it back, but it's impossible.
It's crazy.
It's unbelievable what they can't do.
They can't do what they can't do.
Thank you all, execs and associate executive producers.
We have some meetups, we've got, I think we have two nightings coming up, we got some birthdays, and John will take us through the 50s with people who came in and supported the show this week.
Phil Barnett starts us off in Brentwood, Tennessee, 1-5-9-9-9.
Sir Gregory in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1-2-1-2-1.
Sir Jonathan in St.
Louis, Missouri, 1-0-1-0-1.
73s, K-E-0-I-H-T.
Yeah, 73s.
uh 73s k e 0 i h t yeah 73s uh julia saavedra in madison heights virginia 100 lucas williams and roswell There's a guy named Roswell.
I think we have a couple of people there.
Yeah, we got goodies from Roswell.
I got a flying saucer.
Did you ever get the driver's license from, the alien driver's license?
I sure did, sure did.
I use it, I use it all the time.
I give it, I was at the bank and to do a bank transfer even though they know me.
No, no, no.
Yeah.
And they accepted it?
No!
But they get the biggest kick out of it.
First they look at it like it's real.
That's hilarious.
They look at it and they go, huh?
And they look and they have a befuddled look for a while and then they figure out it's a big joke.
So when you go to the bank, which is a small little bank, and you know they're all sitting there going, here's that old coot again!
It's the Voracs coming in with checks!
Yeah, pretty much.
But so I throw this, I've used it a couple of times and it always gets a chuckle.
Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico comes in with a hundred.
Clara Sierra.
Clara Sierra.
I think it's Sierra in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Sierra Morris.
A hundred.
Happy birthday to her talented, smoking hot boyfriend.
Sir Scobie.
We got him on the list.
Yeah, Sir Scobie.
Sure, he's been around.
Sir Scott in Clayton, California.
One hundred.
He's a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Steven Shevlin in Southampton, Massachusetts.
Nuts. 9-9-9-9.
Kevin McLaughlin.
There he is.
Conquering North Carolina.
Lover of America and boobs.
Duke of Luna. 8-0-0-8.
Breast Cancer Awareness.
Save the twins.
Save the twins.
Gary Blatt in Wayne, Pennsylvania. 7-7-7-7.
David Jarman in North Turimura, New South Wales, Australia, 75.
Cayton Clifford, Huxbridge, Ontario, Canada, 6969.
I got hairy legs, is what he says.
He sure did.
Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina, 6006 again.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Save the coconuts.
Christopher Dector in 5678, Baronet and Dame and the Dame of Puget Sound and some Mammish.
5454, you got a birthday call out, it's on the list.
Sir Subterranean Citizen in Saskatoon, the Paris of Canada.
$52.69.
We put a birthday biscuit because it's a birthday here at the end.
And he also wanted a posthumous mothership boarding pass for his friend Tanya's next journey.
All right, that's virtual and you got it.
John Craddock in Stafford, Virginia. $52.69.
Sir Recalcit- and he's on a birthday list.
Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve in Santa Rosa.
5150.
Get John out of the house.
Meet up coming up on October 21st.
Yeah, and you'll be there.
I will.
I'll be there.
It'll be our- it'll be the prelude to the 16th anniversary show.
And if you're gonna donate to the show, bring an envelope.
Christopher Myers in Dallas, Texas, 51.
If you could even see me in this dark bar.
Will Sherman in Spring, Texas, 5033.
Needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Economic Sir, Barron Sir, Economic Hitman in Tomball, Texas, $50.01.
And now we got the $50.00 donors and I'll wrap this up with starting with Jared Yaw in Nashville, Tennessee.
Real, real deals now in San Antonio, Texas.
You want a real deal now?
Yeah.
Brandon Savoie in Port Orchard, Washington.
Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami.
Thomas Fanslow in Livonia.
Christian Freeman in San Marcos, Texas.
Kevin Dills in Huntersville, North Carolina.
William McFarland in Manassas, Virginia.
That's a birthday.
And a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Diane Schwanebeck in Johnsburg, Illinois.
Big Papa Productions, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Kelly McDill in Mission Hills, Kansas.
Easy Landscapes in North Stonington, Connecticut.
Easy.
Philip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky.
Michael Thompson in New Brownfells, Texas.
Chris Lewinsky, sir, in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
Michael Parrott in Salem, Oregon.
Michael Wendell in Meadowin, New Jersey.
James Powers in Carnegie, Oklahoma.
And last on the list, sir, Spud the Mighty in Marietta, Georgia, plus Sir Jerry Winginroth in Saugus, California.
I want to thank these people for making The prelude to show $1,600, show $1,599 a success.
Thank you all.
Yes, thank you all very much.
Also, if you came in under $50 for reasons of anonymity, I see you there, $49.99.
Or if you're on one of our sustaining donations, we thank you very much for those.
Those always get us through the tougher times.
You can make one up yourself.
We have a lot of different ones.
And for while stocks last, you can still find all that information on this website.
And thank you once again for supporting episode 1599 of the best podcast in the universe!
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Order!
Shut up, Wayne!
Shut up, flame.
Shut up, flame.
It's your birthday, birthday.
Oh, don't watch it.
And we've got a list that we will work through right now.
Barron and Dame of Puget Sound wish Tim White a happy birthday.
He turned 54 yesterday.
John Craddock's turning 52 today.
Jason Rich will be 49 years old tomorrow.
Jennifer Davies says happy birthday to her smoking hot husband Jonathan.
He turns 50 years old tomorrow.
William McFadden celebrating on the 18th.
Their subterranean citizen wishes Landon C. Johnson a happy birthday.
Ciara Morris, happy birthday to her smoking hot boyfriend, Terscovy of the Piedmont.
And Dave Fugisoto, that is our Duke of America's heartland and the Arabian Peninsula, wishes his pop a happy birthday.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcasting in the universe.
Two night notes to read because they came in at lower amounts, but they will be nighted today.
And the first one is from Kirk Strauch, or Strook, since he's from Iowa and not from Holland.
I'm a dude named Ben named Kirk from Hull, Iowa.
I decided to check my PayPal history today and took the sustaining donation subscription I've been on since at least 2018.
To my surprise, I've reached knighthood.
And a third more, please knight me Sir Kirk of Siouxland, protector of things with power cords.
If I may, please have protein bars and diet Mountain Dew at the round table.
Ooh, breakfast of champions.
No jingle, no karma.
No jingles, no karma unless you have one for people who found no agenda by searching for what happened to Cranky Geeks.
Hey, it works!
Keep up the great work, and of course I'll stay on the sustaining donation to keep the show going.
Thank you very much, Kirk.
You're on deck for knighting in a moment.
And we have a note from Chris.
Gentlemen, it was a long haul, but please see the attached accounting, which allows me to don seriously uncomfortable body armor while sipping something.
Noage in the social name, the dangerous clams.
At dangerous underscore clams at noagendasocial.com.
Please knight me as Sir Christo of the Black Mountain.
Round table, tacos, and diet Dr. Pepper.
Oh, we got some health nuts here today.
Thanks guys.
Don't stop what you're doing from Chris.
And both of you can get ready because here's a blade.
John has a sword here.
There you go.
Oh, nicely unsheathed.
Kirk and Chris, pop up on the podium here.
Both of you have reached this night's status.
You took a long row, but does it matter?
It's just as valid.
I am hereby very proud to pronounce the K-D as Sir Kirk of Siouxland, protector of things with power cords, and Sir Christo the Black Mountain for you.
We've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
We have the Protein Bars and Diet Mountain Dew and Tacos and Dr. Diet Pepper.
Why?
I don't know, because we also have Cowgirls and Coffin Varners, Rubin S. Rubin and Rosé, Gases and Sake, vodka vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum.
It is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
But, of course, you always want to try out our mutton and meat.
It's top-notch.
And you can surf on over to noagenderrings.com.
Check out those beautiful night rings.
You will be receiving one of those, along with wax, to seal your important correspondence with, because they are signet rings, and you'll get a certificate of authenticity.
Just send us your ring size and your address, which is all available there in the handy form.
And thank you so much for supporting the No Agenda Show, the best podcast in the universe.
No Agenda Meetups.
Don't fall into the trap of artificial intimacy, attraction.
Attend a No Agenda Meetup.
You heard it.
You heard it.
Smart people are telling you this is a real thing.
And we have a solution.
I mean, when I say we, I mean the producers with no agenda.
This is an adjacent program, adjacent to the podcast itself, supported by listeners just like you.
And people like to send us meetup reports.
Here's that Ellen's Wine Room meetup report, which was impromptu.
Hey, No Agenda Nation, this is Jeff Sergode from Fisher of the Space Coast here at an impromptu meetup at Ellen's Wine Room here in Sanford, Florida.
This is Trish the Keeper.
Love his look.
Hey, this is Ellen from Ellen's Wine Room in Sanford, Florida.
I just learned about No Agenda and Jeff and John.
Awesome.
Love it.
Yeah, this is Eric's soon-to-be ex-douchebag.
It's Oviedo.
Not Oviedo, although phonically perhaps it looks that way, but it's Oviedo.
Hey, Dave Dredd here.
Sir Lloyd, night of the new Smyrna Beach, shark shallows and surrounding seashores.
Cups of coffee in the big time, boys.
Show up at a meet-up, ooh yeah!
Love his lips!
Alright, Oviedo, we'll never remember, but thank you for correcting us on that.
Denver had a meet-up.
Every day you're not at a meet-up.
You should think of the old Dutch saying... Wow.
So, yeah, something else.
We're arguing about who the three Musketeers were.
Jim from Denver filling in for Rasputin in the morning.
This is Sir R. I think I may be d'Artagnan.
It's not the bad guy.
All right.
Love is lit.
Come on out.
Mile high meetups.
And we're out.
And that was not even Dutch when he spoke there.
That was funny, I liked it.
Right now, as we speak, there is a meet-up underway at Sawmill in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
That's Sir Jeff who's out there.
I told you, go to that meet-up, ask him about his scars.
Hopefully he'll have a report for us.
Also today, Gaston for Gaston kicked off at 2 o'clock in Charleston, South Carolina.
That's at Gaston Manor.
Dame Jennifer organizing, you know there's going to be a great... Gaston Manor.
Gaston Manor.
You know there's going to be an awesome Meetup Report from that one, especially from Dame Jennifer.
Dame Jennifer, just so much good stuff.
We have the spooky October Meetup, which kicks off, just started, at Prodigy Burger Bar in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Then tomorrow, Monday night, bowling night in the Ozarks, Enterprise Park Lane, Springfield, Missouri, seven o'clock.
On Thursday, our next show day, North Idaho, Sandy Brigade.
They've been meeting for years and years.
5 o'clock at Selkirk Abbey, and that's in Post Falls, Idaho.
North Georgia Monthly, 6 o'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia on Thursday.
And finally, Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday, 7 o'clock at Ed's Tavern, Charlotte, North Carolina.
There's a ton of them.
The whole calendar is filling up all the way through December.
No agenda meetups.
When we say connection is protection, it's true.
You protect yourself from artificial intimacy.
If you have never been to a meetup, now is your time.
You will notice the difference.
It is good for your health.
You heard it!
The op has been dropped!
NoagendaMeetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself!
Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me.
Triggered on hell's lame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Now I know I did my ISOs first last time, so now you have to start.
You know, I think you're right about this binary nature of this loneliness op.
Oh, there's something coming.
Maybe it's a drug?
You think it's a drug, maybe?
Or... I don't know.
They can do something.
But we'll see.
A new social network?
How about a government-run social network that's better for your health?
When it happens, we'll be the first to notice.
We'll know.
Yeah.
I have two, uh... Two.
One of them is kind of funny.
I don't know if it's a good end to show, but it's funny.
It's ISO 8010.
80% of structures have been decimated.
It's a little long.
A little long.
80% of structures have been decimated.
It's just... Yeah.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Alright, alright.
Try this one.
Dystopian Nightmare.
Dystopian Nightmare.
I like it.
Nothing like a good Amy Iso.
Let me see what I've got.
She's got vocal fry in it, too.
I got bonus vocal fry.
It is bonus.
Dystopian Nightmare.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a bonus.
It's a bonus.
Let's see what I got.
The things I do for this show!
It's too long.
It's funny, though.
It feels wrong, but it's actually right.
Uh-huh.
And then my favorite, here's the ringer.
I swallowed a bug.
Come on!
You know... It's really good.
The dystopian nightmare, like, reflects the show.
Yeah.
I would go with that, but if you want to use... It's up to you.
It's your choice.
Because I know you love I Swallowed a Bug.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna look at the troll room.
Alright, troll room, here we go.
First one... I swallowed a bug.
And the second one... I don't know, let the trolls do it.
Dystopian nightmare.
They're gonna pick the bug because it's a troll room.
No, I get bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, Amy, bug.
Yes, Amy, Amy, Amy, bug, bug, bug.
Bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug.
Nightmare, bug.
I don't know.
Toss it.
Let's do... I'm gonna do Dystopian Nightmare.
I'm with you.
It reflects the show.
I can always play the bug.
How about this?
No, don't make me combo it.
I swallowed a bug, followed by a dystopian nightmare.
No, it has to be three seconds or less.
That is the rule.
That's the rule.
That's the rule.
But because I give you that, I will get the next clip.
Did you know, in the world of podcasting, that Rob Lowe has a podcast?
Of course, why would I know I don't know that?
There's no way I would know that.
I didn't know it either.
Rob Lowe has a podcast.
And it's pretty interesting.
He had Arnold Schwarzenegger on his podcast.
And this is a clip that's been doing the rounds because it's quite entertaining.
Okay, let me ask you this.
And I ask people this all the time.
David Dreyer, a good friend of ours.
Of ours, yeah.
Yes.
And a good man.
Served for many, many, many years.
He used to have the greatest what makes me a Republican.
And he had, I think, four or five things.
I think it was, in no particular order, strong military, low taxes, less government, more personal freedoms.
There might have been one, a couple, but it makes sense to know... Strong law enforcement.
Strong law enforcement.
And then I'd like to know what the... I always ask Democrats what it means to be a Democrat in that way, and I think whatever anybody would say... New cities.
What would they say?
Ruin your cities.
What's that?
Ruin your cities.
Ruin your cities.
That's what the Democrats would say.
We're about ruining the cities.
We want to fuck up every city in America.
That's what, that seems to be the theme right now.
Why is that?
I have no idea.
I just thought that was dynamite.
It was funny.
You don't hear Arnold drop the F-bomb.
Of course, he said, screw your freedom.
We haven't forgotten that.
You don't get a pass.
You don't get a pass because you're funny here, Arnold.
But that was funny.
I thought that was pretty good.
I want to give ourselves some kudos for picking up on something somebody accidentally said.
And here's the kudos clip.
Second Carrier Group is on its way.
And Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the U.S.
will send a second carrier group, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, to the eastern Mediterranean to help deter the widening of the war between Israel and Hamas.
This carrier joins the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which arrived earlier this week.
You know, all the vets are all worried about, was it the Phoenix that Israel attacked?
I don't know.
You talking about the Liberty back in the day?
No, was it Liberty?
Yeah, Liberty.
The USS Liberty that the Israelis killed a bunch of American soldiers and they're just all covered up?
Yeah, the Liberty.
Yeah, they're all worried about it.
Like, this is not good.
This is very dangerous.
Well, they still don't trust anybody after that Liberty experience, and that thing has still been covered up.
It's been suppressed to this day.
Yeah.
Yes, yes.
Well, it's on the wiki, but it's still kind of not known.
Alright, since we're doing kudos, I'll just give kudos to myself for calling this one a long time ago.
The President is expected to arrive later this afternoon.
We know among the topics he'll be discussing is the Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub, which the White House expects will bring about 40,000 jobs to our region.
Take a look at this.
Here's what we are expecting.
We know the President will be here with the Energy Secretary.
They're announcing seven regional clean hydrogen hubs that were selected to receive Seven billion dollars in funding to accelerate the domestic market for low-cost clean hydrogen.
According to the White House, hydrogen, which is a clean fuel, helps the U.S.
reduce emissions while creating jobs and building healthier communities.
Now we know that Mid-Atlantic Hub will be in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware again, creating thousands of jobs.
We will have the latest on that announcement when it happens.
Clean energy!
Clean hydrogen!
This scam is here now.
Clean hydrogen.
Seven billion dollars for clean hydrogen.
Hey, this is a new story.
I didn't know this was happening.
I didn't know they were throwing money at this.
Seven billion.
Yeah, that's a lot.
Seven billion dollars for clean hydrogen.
Crazy.
All right, I promised a story about Wisconsin.
Now it's time for our Trans Maoist Agenda Update.
Self-destruct initiated.
Yes, Trans Maoism continues, just because there's that, you know, we do have a war, it's covering up a lot, but we still will stay on the stories that matter.
This is a video that is from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Kids News, CBC Kids News.
Kids News!
And it is being used in Wisconsin schools for fourth graders.
It is animated, kind of like No Agenda, animated No Agenda, that style, a little more purposeful.
Both kids are brown, the mom looks Asian, the dad looks Mexican or Latinx.
The baby in the story is white, so it's a very polarizing visuals, and we can stop at any time you want, but I think it's worth listening to the entire thing.
Again, this is for children.
CBC Kids News.
You can find it right there on YouTube.
They broadcasted on television and now in Wisconsin schools for fourth graders.
Aww.
Hi, baby.
Are you a boy or a girl?
Funny you should ask, Sid.
One of the first things they check when a new baby is born is what kind of body parts they have.
They do that to determine a baby's sex.
Most of the time, it's easy to determine.
And sometimes, it's more complicated.
This one has a penis.
It's a boy!
This one has a vulva.
It's a girl!
I gotta stop it right there.
Why do they use vulva instead of vagina?
What is the reasoning behind that?
Well, that, now that you stopped it, because I would have said, well, what a dumb thing to say.
I have to, uh, I'm glad you stopped it because now we have to discuss this.
Yes.
There's a reason.
There's not, these things are not done without.
Hold on, Troll Room, not Volvo.
Volvo.
It's a Volvo!
Oh, I love being childish.
15 forever.
Right.
But why?
Why, why, why?
The vulva is the global term that describes all of the structures that make the female external genitalia.
The components of the vulva are the mons pubis, labia majora, labia minora, clitoris, fist, biggler, vulva, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, a whole bunch of stuff, and the vaginal opening.
So this is a new one that they're trying to push.
It's only the external stuff.
It's only the stuff you can see on the outside.
That's what it says.
Interesting.
Yeah, just the external.
It's more complicated.
This one has a penis.
It's a boy!
This one has a vulva.
It's a...
A girl!
Congratulations!
Whoa!
Let's hit the brakes, people.
The way your body looks on the outside is only part of the story.
What?
Stay with me, gang.
This is important.
Hi, little one!
Your sex refers to your physical body parts, remember?
But there is also something called gender, which is how you feel inside your body and who you know yourself to be.
And your gender, how you feel on the inside, doesn't always match the sex you were called when you were born.
Okay...
Let's say you were born with a penis and you feel like a boy inside.
In that case, your sex and your gender match.
But what if you were born with a penis and you know you're a girl inside, not a boy?
Then your sex and your gender don't match.
Wait, what does know you're a girl inside mean anyway?
Does that mean you have to love pink things and princesses?
Nope.
Sometimes people refer to things as girl things and boy things, but this is just how people sometimes classify things.
Usually to make it easier to sell stuff to kids and their parents.
So the reason why we call boys boys and girls girls is for people to make it easier to sell stuff.
That's an interesting take.
So how does that work in a communist country or a tribal organization where capitalism doesn't apply, if there's no capital?
So are they saying that, I'm just guessing here, are they saying that this is the problem, capitalism is causing this issue?
Because if there's no capitalism you wouldn't have this?
Then you wouldn't have confusion if there's no capitalism?
Correct, correct.
I don't see where that's going.
Clothes, toys, and games are for everyone.
You don't have to be a boy or a girl to like a certain thing.
Sid, has anyone ever told you that you shouldn't play with something or wear something because you're a boy?
Well, yes.
The body parts you were born with don't always dictate who you are, how you feel, or what you like to play with.
Ah, that's such a relief.
Gender, how you feel and who you know yourself to be, tells you who you are.
Figuring out what feels right for you is just part of growing up.
Bye, little cutie.
Um, you might want to change that diaper sooner than later.
Yeah, there you go.
Hello, Canada.
Good work.
Good work up there.
And of course, that results and leads to News stories like this.
To Italy now, where a whole bunch of transgender men are entering the Miss Italy pageant after a pageant rep said transgender women can't compete.
All right, let me lay this out for you here.
It's a little complicated.
The organizer of the Miss Italy pageant said the pageant only allows people who were assigned a female gender at birth to be in the competition, meaning transgender women, men who became women, would be excluded.
One transgender man named Frederico saw this and thought, well, hey, I was born female, so he decided to enter the pageant under his birth name, Frederica, even though he identifies as a man now.
That moment then turned into a movement.
One LGBTQ group shared his entry on Facebook, encouraging other transgender men to apply, and now more than a hundred trans men have entered the pageant, with some even being called to the next stage of the competition.
Jesus, come quickly.
This world.
What I find fascinating is that at no point does anyone state the obvious that the whole idea of beauty contests is crazy.
No, they don't see that.
Well, that used to be the thing.
Yeah, they used to, oh, your beauty competitions.
I mean, don't you remember like 25 years ago?
I sure do.
Let's see.
Everyone's bitching and moaning about beauty consistency.
We used to do a review of all of them on this show, you know, recently.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
Not real.
We stopped doing it.
Yeah.
And the main complaint said it objectified women and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then that died down for some unknown reason.
Now we got this.
Yeah.
It's the whole thing is sad.
All right, I have a two-parter.
Well, it says you're on the transgender thing.
Let's play my... There's a thing I've been dragging along this TikTok clip.
It's called Talk Transphobic.
Transphobia.
You have to look it up.
It's from the last couple of shows.
Oh, hold on.
Talk.
Yes, I got it.
If you are told that something you're doing is transphobic, it is not your job to try to prove that it's not.
You are going to mess up.
It is guaranteed.
If you are told information and you immediately reject it and go, nope, that doesn't fit my view of what transness means, you are not going to be able to show up as an ally because all you're worried about is what you think and you feel about an experience that's not yours.
It's gonna be uncomfortable, it's gonna be confusing, and it's gonna mean that you're gonna have to evaluate how gender is seeped into society, how it has affected and shaped your life, how cishet normativity has affected your life.
And just because we're existing in front of you does not mean that you get to ask or say whatever you want, and that's supposed to be taken as a compliment.
Questions can be transphobic.
Compliments can be transphobic.
And so that's where it comes in where a lot of the work with being an ally actually has to do with our own individual reflections on how transphobic society has shaped the way that we think and live and treat people.
We don't need allies who are trying to prove how good they are, or who are asking for a pat on the back, or who are trying to seem nice, or who are worried about what they look like.
We need allies who are willing to stand up for trans people and learn how to do that the best that they can.
Yeah, by shutting up!
You know, I gotta mention this.
Do you remember the podcast conference that I went to, Podcast Movement?
Yeah, I do.
And they wanted me on a panel.
I said, who else is on the panel?
And it's like, well, it's this one, this one.
But, you know, we can't have just all white guys on the panel.
So we invited this woman who knows nothing about the topic because she's BIPOC, and that woman because she's an American descendant.
But they didn't know anything about the topic.
And I said, but they're not appropriate for this topic.
Yeah, but we can't have four white guys on the panel.
I said, well, you know what?
You can have three because I'm out.
I'm not a part of this.
So those very same guys, one of them, had like a mini podcast conference, you know, sold tickets to it.
It was in Europe.
And they got cancelled.
I mean, the event still went on, but some black lesbians, who, as it was described to me, started calling up speakers they had contracted and saying, there's, you know, there's not enough black people on this stage, not enough LGBTQ, you shouldn't go there.
And these were people who work for companies.
Guess what?
About 10% had to cancel.
So the very people who are trying to protect The, uh, you know, the, the sensitivities of LGBTQ BIPOC people were now being cancelled by those very same people!
Yeah, isn't that great?
This is what they never understand!
It's like, it's going to be used against you.
So you might as well take a stand now.
Cause it's gonna come back to bite you in the ass eventually.
My final two, I have a funny one, but my final two clips are COVID-related, specifically vaccination adverse events.
Dr. Drew We've played Dr. Drew throughout the COVID period, the COVID years.
I think we both trust him.
He's not always been in line with our thinking.
We still have always played his opinions because he is a doctor.
Oh boy, there's a new study out that he read and he's kind of upset about it.
This article came out this week in Circulation, which is a very fine, high-end cardiology journal.
It's called Circulation.
I've been sending it around to people.
And it took my breath away.
I was shocked at what an indictment it was.
It showed that myocarditis was not that uncommon in young males.
Certainly more common than severe COVID in that group.
Okay?
So myocarditis more common than severe COVID.
So you're putting people at risk and taking away little problems.
Okay.
All right.
And then you've heard all this, it's just myocarditis.
Myocarditis throughout my career is a medical emergency.
And now this article showed for the first time that about half of the kids, these are adolescent males who got myocarditis, are going to have lifelong cardiac dysfunction, which means a significant percentage are going to end up in heart failure, hopefully at an advanced age, but if not, on the transplant list.
So this comes the very same week that the Nobel Prize for, let me see what the actual title is, Physiology and Medicine is given to the inventors of mRNA.
Yeah.
And so there's a Chinese journalist at this little event asks a question about long-term effects of mRNA.
I'm going to tell you what she said because it's a little difficult to hear.
Then we will hear the answer from the first Scientists receiving this Nobel Prize, and then the second one!
Hello, this is Caixin Media from China.
And with mRNA, we don't know the long-term effect yet.
So do you have any concern over that?
Richard, would you like to respond to that question?
Yes.
Of course, you know, mRNA vaccines have only been given for a certain amount of time, which begs your question.
Having said that, of course, the mRNA vaccine that is given is very transient, and the fact that 13 billion people have gotten the virus, vaccine virus, and... Whoops!
I mean, the amount of side effects noted to date is extremely limited, so I don't think it's a major concern.
So first, this guy gaffes it.
He says, oh, 13 billion people have been, what did he say, he said some crazy amount, have been given the virus, I mean the vaccine.
Let's ask the other guy.
Anyone else want to add to that?
That's fine, I guess.
I think that's... Yeah, say something!
Well, it can't be integrated into the nucleus, into the DNA, and that's, you know, a safety precaution.
The adverse effects that's been noted is mostly mild myocarditis or perimyocarditis, mainly affecting young males.
But that normally resolves without any long-term effects.
So these guys are getting a Nobel Peace Prize while the top... Nobel Prize is not a Nobel Peace Prize.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Thank you for correcting me.
The outrage is still there.
They're getting a Nobel Prize for this technology and they sit there stone-cold face saying, it's just limited, it resolves itself, while the top publication says this is horrible and Dr. Drew says this is, you're gonna be in the transplant list.
What is wrong with the world?
Well there seems to be a disconnect between...
Something and something.
And I think one of those somethings is money.
Yeah.
Yeah, unfortunately, for the love of money is the root of all evil.
That does seem to hold true.
Unless you've got something.
Well, let me take one quick look and see if there's anything that's... I got one kind of an oddball clip, which maybe is worth playing.
I got a military, got a succinct, Biden succinct comments on NPR is always a good way to go out.
And then I have a weird Mexican education deal, which is like, what?
What?
Well, you tell me which one you want.
I would say, let's play the weird Mexican educational deal and you tell me what's going on here.
Under a new law, low-income Mexican residents living near the California border can now go to some state community colleges at in-state tuition levels.
The law creates a pilot program for some Mexicans who want to attend certain community colleges in Southern California and will run through 2029.
The law is designed to help low-income Mexicans who live within 45 miles of the California border to get an education and prepare for jobs.
Under the new program, students would pay $46 a unit in-state as opposed to $307 a unit out-of-state.
That's according to a legislative analysis.
Similar tuition programs are available in at least 24 states, including Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
Dude.
To literally Mexicans in Mexico.
Dude.
I don't know what's going on.
And meanwhile, do you know what the most emailed clip is that I received this week?
Can you even, it's 12, I'd only get 12 seconds of it.
It's a little longer, but can you just imagine what people are asking me as an audio expert?
Oh, they're asking if it's AI or asking if it's been edited?
Yep.
And it's the same clip.
Dude, dude, listen to this.
Did AOC fart on camera?
And to ensure that horrors do not happen in the names of victims who do not want their tragedy used to justify further violence and injustice.
Wow, she farted on camera.
This is the number one emailed clip?
This is what everyone cares about.
Then this is why we're never gonna be rich.
Ever.
Ever, ever, ever.
All right, we got a little bit of Iran stuff to end it up with.
We got Billy Bones.
Billy Bones with the end of show mix.
We got... What else we got here?
We got... Let me see.
Oh yes, Donald Winkler.
That's the other one.
And a classic.
A classic that you heard earlier in the show.
If you are listening, that is.
You might have heard that.
Coming up next on No Agenda Stream, we've got Behind the Schemes.
Oh, with special guest Graham from Grime-erica.
There you go.
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Thank you so much for being here.
And please stay safe.
This is the Stay Safe medley.
One of the, I think it's an MSNBC host.
And this is what she does.
Congressman Adam Schiff, thank you so much for being here tonight.
Please stay safe.
As a matter, of course.
And again, I'm reminding people.
Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold.
Thank you so much for being here tonight.
Please stay safe.
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Leib C-Sharp.
The stay safe in German sounds better.
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Internationalize a little bit.
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Please stay safe.
Life Seeker.
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Not Hitler, no.
Life Seeker.
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