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I love pop-up bagels.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, November 30th, 2023.
This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1612.
This is No Agenda.
Celebrating our PhDs and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texasville country.
country here in FEMA region number six.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're saying R.I.P. Henry Kissinger.
That means it's the end of the adrenochrome shortage.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Are you telling me that Kissinger was hoarding the adrenochrome?
Well, this guy must have been using most of it.
Most of the world's supply.
Whoa!
Well, that I did not expect from you, but I'm all in on it.
It's, you know, when you think about it, the Great Reset, I keep saying, you know, the Queen is gone, Kissinger is gone, Charlie Munger's gone, the Pope is sick.
We're almost at the Great Reset.
Hmm?
Yeah, well, I think those guys are all responsible for it, so maybe the Great Reset won't happen.
Yeah, well, a Great Reset, maybe not the one they're expecting.
Maybe not that one.
I have to ask you a question right off the bat.
We were at a dinner, and I met a guy... No, you shouldn't give him your money.
Who was a huge donor and alum of Uh, UC Berkeley.
Okay.
And he's about your age and he was, you know, big in the sports and donated tons of money and he no longer donates.
I'm not giving any more of those nut jobs.
I say, by any chance, do you know John C. Dvorak?
Oh, of course I do!
Bill Bart?
Bill Bart.
B-A-R-D-T?
He's a wine guy.
He's into sailing.
I may have met a guy named Bill Bart.
Well, he was like, oh, of course!
He never shows up.
He never calls.
He never writes.
Well, surprise, surprise.
Next time I see him, I say, hey man, John's all pissed off.
You never write.
You never show up.
You never call.
You never write.
You never come to the alumni meetings.
I actually, you know, they used to solicit me constantly.
And then my original thing was, if you're a Cal graduate, you've learned how to tell people not no, which is something they teach you.
And so I used to say, well, you know, the problem is Earl Anthony produced this building and gave it to the university and it had to be for all, for the end of time, it had to be used for a humor magazine.
It used to house the California Pelican.
And then out of the blue, I don't know, the 80s or something, they just took the building and turned it into something else.
And they stole the building from this guy who donated it.
Of course, the guy's long dead, so they don't care.
They do this all the time.
All the universities do it.
I mean, they take people's names off of things, as you know.
Oh, yeah.
And so that kind of almost worked, but it didn't quite work until they called one year, and then I haven't heard since.
I have not heard one call since.
And they called and they said, you know, alumni, we need the money.
Yeah.
Do you think they've heard our show, maybe?
Like, just take him off the list and you said what?
I said, well, I was looking at the money that the Cal is donating politically, and they gave $1 million to the Barack Obama campaign.
If you can give that kind of money away, you don't need my money.
And they never called since.
Surprise, surprise.
Who would have thunk?
Yeah, Bill, Billy, I think is the name he called.
He said, yeah, you know, last time I was there, you know, they needed new uniforms for the volleyball team.
I gave him cash.
I said, I'm not going to put it into the coffers.
You'll never get it.
Here's cash.
That's probably true.
That was probably true.
Yeah.
I said, right.
Have you heard our show?
We always accept cash.
Cash is good.
Checks are easier to account for.
This is true.
Money flying around.
So just like we got kind of like an early warning from Richard Haass about Ukraine and Russia, about that winding down.
I think I may have, not quite to that level, but I have a signal that, I don't know if it's been discussed that much, but CBS has this new reporter, you know, intelligence reporter who is complete spook.
You know, she's got that spook face.
She's blonde, long blonde hair.
She has a very hard time looking straight ahead at the person she's talking to, so she keeps looking down.
Yeah, that's, yeah.
Spookers do that too.
Okay, let me mark that one.
I can't remember, John.
I can't remember, but you're probably right.
I mean, she's just total spook.
I've never seen her before.
Maybe you have.
She's on CBS, and she brings us the news that our director of CIA is now getting directly involved in the hostage negotiations, which to me means one of two things, or possibly both.
The Biden administration has pulled the ripcord, like, this has got to stop because the Genocide Joe thing is out of control.
Totally.
Out of control.
And possibly that CIA is responsible for all malaise around the world, and that the CIA controls all of this crap.
But you know, hold on, the CIA not wanting Biden to come back might be behind Genocide Joe.
There you go.
Well, let's listen to, oh, can you imagine that you're so right, or at least one section of the CIA.
Well, let's listen to this because there's a couple of interesting little tidbits in this.
And, you know, I typically wouldn't start off at the top of the show with the Israel-Hamas conflict, but this just, it came in this morning like this.
I got to talk to John about it.
CBS News intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis joins us now.
Sure, well there's lots of moving parts here, Nancy, but broadening the pool of hostages eligible for release is one of the key components that the U.S.
and Burns is pushing for here.
Specifically, that means extending in future agreements the eligibility to men and soldiers, which make up some, if not most, of the American hostages that continue to be held by Hamas.
Okay, right off the bat, men and soldiers, which is most of the hostages held by Hamas?
Soldiers?
Are soldiers?
Men?
Are these agents?
Are these advisors?
What do you think this is?
I think they're changing the narrative.
Sounds like, you know, all the women are out now, I guess, according to the spook lady.
Now, it's a tough sell.
Hamas has not shown any indication that it's open to this kind of arrangement in previous talks.
But one of the bargaining chips on the table, we're told, is Israel may boost the ratio of Palestinian prisoners that it's releasing in order to secure more hostages.
So thus far, the ratio had been 3 to 1, or 150 for the 50 hostages that have come out to date.
And we could see that ratio boosted in Hamas' favor in order to cajole the release of these more tightly held hostages, including men and soldiers.
This, it's all weird.
You know, we up the ratio from three to one.
And doesn't this sound like some kind of important guy exchange that is going on here?
And who are all these Palestinian detainees that Israel has?
Well that's the ones, the same women and children that they grabbed from the West Bank and elsewhere who threw a rock at a soldier and they threw him in jail.
Including men and soldiers.
That's really interesting because right now the ceasefire is supposed to lift on Thursday morning.
Why send the CIA director to run for office on this negotiation?
It's a great question.
Now I know she's a spook for sure.
Thursday morning, why send the CIA director to run point on this negotiation?
It's a great question.
I mean, Bill Burns has been deployed by this administration as a sort of behind the scenes... Deployed?
Deployed.
He's been deployed as a sort of behind the scenes... Negotiating utility knife and some of the... A utility knife!
He's like a Swiss Army knife.
He's a negotiating utility knife.
Yes, that's what you want.
That's what you want.
Sort of behind the scenes negotiating utility knife and some of the thorniest geopolitical snares.
Is he going to use the corkscrew on him or the tweezers?
I mean, which, you know, or is it a Leatherman that also has a vice you put on the nuts?
Well, that was well done!
Good work!
So he dealt with the Taliban as the U.S. left Afghanistan.
Well, that was well done.
Good work.
He was dispatched to warn Vladimir Putin ahead of the invasion of Ukraine.
Another good one.
He worked on thawing frozen relations with Beijing in the aftermath of that spy balloon incident.
Wow, this guy has quite the record.
So he's really been working behind the scenes.
And now he's a veteran diplomat.
He's got a wealth of contacts.
He's got a lot of gravitas in the region.
He's now got the added benefit as an intelligence chief of working behind the scenes in relative obscurity, which some of these really tough deals require in order to break through.
He's also meeting with counterparts from Israel and Egypt, who similarly have a lot of influence and clout in their respective countries and regions.
And so that's why there's hope that this group of stakeholders, in again relative obscurity, can make some real headway here.
And he's got deep ties in Israel as well.
That's right, yes.
And dealing with the Mossad director that he knows very well is an added bonus here.
What's his name?
Who, the Mossad director?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know his name.
What did they say?
They say the Mossad director.
Yeah.
Yeah, the M.D., Mossad director.
Hey, he has gravitas in the region.
You know, they should go clean it up.
So I think some signal's gone out, and B.B.' 's not a part of this.
And in fact, B.B.
has sunk so low, he went on Mark Levin's show on Fox Mark Levin!
Go ahead, say it.
The Great One!
And said the following.
We're destroying their infrastructure, their command posts, their rockets, their underground tunnels, and we're going to win, because we have to win.
This is a battle of the forces of civilization against the forces of barbarism.
And if barbarism wins in our part of the world, Europe will be next, and America will be next.
Because the axis of ...of terror of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and their other minions will imperil the Middle East... Wait a minute, the Houthis and the other minions?
Are the minions now part of the Axis of Terror?
...and their other minions will imperil the Middle East and then spread their barbarism to the entire world.
Israel is fighting our war, but it's also fighting America's war.
It's fighting your war, and our victory will be your victory.
Yeah, let's draw the line there, Bibi.
Let's draw the line there.
You're not fighting our war.
Now for him to go on Levin to say that, I think he's lost all gravitas in the region.
Was it Levin Radio or the TV show?
No, Fox.
Fox.
Fox.
The weekend show.
Levin has two shows on the weekend.
I don't think a lot of people watch that.
No, nobody watches weekend Fox.
No, nobody's watching Fox at all.
So something is changing here.
And, you know, and this is pretty desperate of him to say this.
And they saved the Houthis and their minions?
Come on.
The Houthis are going to now attack us?
I find it sketchy.
And then, of course, we need to up the propaganda everywhere.
TRT, Turkish radio, television, love those guys.
They've got a new one.
The Israeli army is being accused of organ theft in Palestine's Gaza.
A report by the Euromed Human Rights Monitor expressed concern over allegations that the Israeli army confiscated dozens of dead bodies from al-Shifa and the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, as well as from the safe corridor Israel had implemented and subsequently targeted.
The report suggests that the Israeli army took Palestinian bodies from a mass grave in one of al-Shifa's courtyards, a claim backed by the Director General of the Health Ministry in Gaza, Munir al-Bursh.
Euromain Monitor says suspicions of organ theft were based on evidence cited by medical professionals in Al-Shifa.
This included claims of missing cochleas and corneas, as well as other vital organs.
You can't- I know happened a little bit about ear and eyes.
You can't take someone from- who's been under the ground or something.
It's a good story.
More than a few hours old, you've got to immediately grab that stuff.
Yeah, it has to be brand new.
But no.
Livers, kidneys, and hearts.
And livers and kidneys and hearts and toenails.
Doctors also said that the claims cannot be proven or disproven solely by forensic medical examination.
As many of the patients underwent surgery before their death.
Allegations that the Israeli army stole corpses during a siege of the medical complex have been reported by several other outlets.
However, this is not the first time Israel has been accused of organ theft.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
So to counter that, now The View, because we've got to counter the narrative.
We've got to confuse everybody.
And we'll get to him in a moment.
Obviously, we've sent Elon out to distract from everything.
Elon, the Jew hater.
But The View steps it up a little bit, gives a little gravitas in the region to the Israelis.
I am still devastated.
We're two months since this war has been underway by the silence from women's groups in this country about the rape being used as an act of war in this attack.
The fact that sexual violence was used against Israeli women in the major women's groups in this country have not come out and denounced it.
This weekend Sheryl Sandberg put out a gripping video Oh, it's no good.
for it that violates every rule of warfare it is the height of immorality and the fact that the united nations and entity for gender equality and women empowerment has been silent the un committee on elimination of discrimination against women has been silent in the international me too movement oh it's no good it's just no good it's no good Everybody's all, all trying to move it away from Jim Sargeant.
Yeah, I could have gotten a Sheryl Sandberg clip.
She goes on and on.
Ah, I didn't see it.
I didn't see it.
I would have enjoyed that.
Oh yeah, it was, it was... There's two things I don't have which I should have gotten.
One I did have, I don't know why I didn't post it, but...
Is the Oakland City Council going nuts?
I don't know why the city councils do this, but they're going to pass an anti-Hamas resolution.
We hate Hamas.
Like they're in Oakland.
Every idiot in the in the Bay Area comes to the City Council meeting wearing the the scarf, the Palestinian scarf, and screaming at the City Council, saying you can't do this.
The kiffa yeah, kiffa yeah, kiffa yeah, kiffa yeah.
This whole thing is a scam and the IDF shot those Israelis, the IDF, and they blamed the whole thing is a giant conspiracy that we're being suckered into.
And one person after another, and all wearing masks.
Of course.
Of course.
Kiffey and masks.
That's perfect.
Yeah.
Perfect.
So it's kind of nuts.
It's very funny, though.
So then, and I'm really... I really have to... J'accuse, Elon!
I really think that this was so well timed by him to go to Israel, trounce around, you know, I'm so sorry.
I made a mistake.
And I mean, he's just been fantastic clips of Elon.
We just have to play some of this because, well, first of all, it solidifies my prediction.
He will ruin Twitter.
That's for sure.
It won't be the same.
But first, an ABC report that kind of summarizes it all.
This morning, Elon Musk is apologizing for endorsing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on his social media platform X.
It might be literally the worst and dumbest post that I've ever done.
Speaking to the New York Times, the world's richest man had a message for the companies who pulled ads from his platform, telling them don't advertise and using an expletive multiple times to emphasize his point.
You don't want them to advertise?
No.
What do you mean?
If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising?
Blackmailing with money?
Musk has faced mounting criticism after he agreed with a user on X who falsely claimed Jewish people are stoking hatred against white people.
Musk saying the user was saying the actual truth.
Amid the fallout, Musk visited Israel.
That is, by the way, a complete mischaracterization of what happened, but I guess Musk is all in on it.
Well, we covered it very extensively, I think, three shows ago.
It's a mischaracterization of what the tweet was about or what he said, but that is irrelevant because Musk is just... Because the truth is in the eye of the beholder.
Yeah, exactly.
The actual truth.
Amid the fallout, Musk visited Israel, touring a village where dozens of people were killed on October 7th.
The trip to Israel was independent of, it wasn't something like an apology tour.
The controversy could reportedly- No, Joe told me to go, you gotta stop the genocide Joe stuff, it wasn't an apology tour.
What?
Did she say 75 million?
It should be 75 billion, shouldn't it be?
75 million, that's nothing!
It's jump change.
Did she say 75 million?
Should be 75 billion, shouldn't it be?
75 million, that's nothing.
75 million dollars in lost ad revenue by the end of the year.
Actually, what this advertising boycott is going to do, it's going to kill the company.
They're gonna say, Elon, that you killed the company because you said these things, and that they were inappropriate things, and they didn't feel comfortable on the platform, right?
That's what they're gonna say.
And let's see how Earth responds to that.
It comes as Musk launches the long-awaited Tesla Cybertruck today.
Oh my f***ing god.
Well... Four years after a prototype was unveiled, it's distinct look drawing mixed reactions.
It's so-called armored glass, proving to be anything but.
Oh, boy.
Oh, man.
Many experts say the polarizing vehicle... Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I know.
They went straight into this.
They're taking him down.
That's a chicken shit situation.
No, it's beautiful.
This is hilarious.
He doesn't care.
It's hilarious.
Many experts say the polarizing vehicle could be another dent in the company's bottom line.
Electric vehicle sales have stalled in the US, and Consumer Reports found EVs have 79% more reliability problems than gas cars.
So this will help?
So we'll get to that, because that's funny by itself.
So not only is I think the entire war being blamed on Elon, but also the decline of EVs.
Is being blamed on everything is his fault.
Everything is Elon's fault now So I had to pull three clips from from this interview that he did at the New York Times deal book summit You know gleefully covered by CNBC Because everyone especially the CNBC people Andrew Ross Sorkin is now analyzing Elon
And I'm just gonna stick by my prediction, like, he doesn't care about advertisers, he wants everybody to stay engaged, stay on the platform until he turns it into a bank.
Right, I agree with that.
That's what he's doing.
So here's how that rolled out with Andrew Ross Sorkin on stage, with a little less bleeping than ABC did.
What was that trip like?
And obviously... And by the way, did you see the flak jacket he had on walking around?
It was like a baby flak jacket.
It only covered to his midriff.
I mean, his whole stomach and groin was exposed.
It was like, you might as well not have one.
Yeah, you think you want to have something a little more like even a catcher's thing.
Yeah, yeah, that's that's what you want.
But no, no, he had just like a little little breastplate.
Very odd.
What was that trip like?
And obviously, you know that there's a public perception that and you're clarifying this now, but there's a public perception that that was part of a apology tour, if you will.
This had been said online.
There was all of the criticism.
There was advertisers leaving.
We talked to Bob Iger today.
You hope?
Don't advertise.
You don't want them to advertise?
No.
What do you mean?
If somebody's going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f*** yourself.
But, go f*** yourself.
Is that clear?
I hope it is.
Hey Bob, if you're in the audience.
Well, let me ask you then, That's how I feel.
Don't advertise.
Actually, what this advertising boycott is going to do, it's going to kill the company.
And do you think that that...
And the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company.
And we will document it in great detail.
No.
Hold on, before we continue with this clip.
So he's saying the whole world will know that they killed the company.
I mean, the first thing that came to my mind is perfect.
Declare bankruptcy, he buys it out of bankruptcy, turns it into a bank.
Is that within the realm of possibility?
No, I don't think it's going to go that far.
I don't think so either, but- I think this is just an idle threat because nothing's going to- everyone knows that the military industrial complex and the intelligence agencies specifically use the platform.
They need Twitter.
They need it.
They need Twitter and it's not going to get killed, but it's kind of a roundabout threat To Disney and others that, hey, if you kill the company, somebody's gonna kill you.
Yeah, I think that's a good analysis.
In an offhanded way, yeah.
No, so then he goes on.
But those advertisers, I imagine, are gonna say, they're gonna say, we didn't kill the company.
Oh, yeah?
They're gonna say... Tell it to Earth.
They're gonna say... I love the grandioseness of it.
Tell it to Earth, man!
I'm gonna use that.
Talk to Earth.
The kid should use that.
You took the cookies from the cookie jar.
Oh, yeah?
Tell it to Earth!
...that you killed the company because you said these things, and that they were inappropriate things, and they didn't feel comfortable on the platform, right?
That's what they're gonna say.
And let's see how Earth responds to that.
Then this goes back a little bit.
I love Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Who's taking this all seriously?
The guy has zero sense of humor.
Zero!
Classic New York Times guy.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Alright.
Then this goes back a little bit.
We'll both make our cases and we'll see what the outcome is.
What are the economics of that for you?
I mean, you have enormous resources, so you can actually keep this company going for a very long time.
Would you keep it going for a long time if there was no advertising?
I mean, if the company fails because of an advertised boycott, it will fail because of an advertised boycott, and that will be what bankrupts the company, and that's what everybody on Earth will know.
What do you think, then, of the idea of trust, though?
Then it'll be gone.
And it'll be gone because of an advertised boycott.
But you recognize that... Wow, I think you're right!
He is really signaling like, oh really?
Really, you guys want to kill this valuable asset, valuable to my true customers, the military-industrial complex and the U.S.
government?
Really?
Really?
Watch you guys get a little call from the White House.
I think that's what he's saying.
I think you're right about that.
But you recognize that some of those people are going to say that they didn't feel comfortable on the platform.
And I just wonder and ask you, and think about that for a second.
Tell it to the judge.
But the judge is going to be... The judge is the public.
The judge is the public.
That's beautiful.
This is hilarious.
So then I'm going to... I have to play these other two clips before I can get to the best part, which is Andrew Ross Sorkin doing an analysis later of Elon.
So now it gets into AI, which of course, you know, you might as well Put that in there.
And Eli goes off the rails with this.
It's great.
One of the things about training on data has been this idea that you're not going to train or these things are not being trained on people's copyrighted information.
Historically, that's been the concept.
Yeah, that's a huge lie.
Say that again?
These AIs are all trained on copyrighted data, obviously.
Do you think it's a lie when OpenAI says that this is not, none of these guys say they're training on copyrighted data?
That's a lie.
It's a lie?
Straight up?
It's a straight up lie.
Okay.
100%.
Obviously it's been trained on copyrighted data.
Okay, so let me ask the second question.
He does, he does the best evil guy laugh I've ever heard.
This is phenomenally good.
And Ross Sorkin doesn't even say anything about it.
100%.
Obviously, it's been trained on proprietary data.
Okay, so let me ask you a second question, which is all the people who...
And he keeps going, though.
He needs a cat in his lap.
A white one.
Which is, all of the people who have been uploading, all of the people who have been uploading articles, the best quotes from different articles, videos, to X.
All of that can be trained on and effectively now you have this remarkable repository and I wonder what you how you think about that again and how you think the creative community and those who were the original IP owners should think about that.
I don't know, except to say that by the time these lawsuits are decided, we'll have Digital God.
Yeah, there you go!
We'll have a Digital God!
Yes!
Ask Digital God at that point.
Digital God!
You know, I interrupt here.
Sure thing.
There's an argument that can be made when you have that thrown at you, that I'm surprised Musk and others haven't used, is the following.
Okay, so I'm a writer.
And I want to write my first novel.
So I read all of Hemingway.
I read everything he's ever written, every news article.
I read all his novels because I want to get that style.
I want to have Hemingway.
I want to have that kind of, that Natty style.
I want it.
So I read all this stuff and then I produce a novel.
What's the difference?
It doesn't matter, because by the time the lawsuits are settled, there'll be a digital God.
There'll be a digital God.
What's your problem?
It just seems to me that that argument can be used against the argument that, oh, it's all this copyright.
Yes, everything in the world, you know, what if you just run it off of Shakespeare?
It's not copyright, it's public domain now.
What if you just use public domain once copyrighted material?
This is bullcrap.
This is not the good argument against AI.
The good argument is it's bullcrap.
It doesn't work very well.
That's the argument.
Well, I actually cut out like a minute of Andrew Ross Sorkin pining on about, as a creator, as a creator, I'm a creator.
Heaven forbid anyone steal his material.
Yeah, because it's so dynamite.
I don't know, except to say that by the time these lawsuits are decided, we'll have Digital God.
So, ask Digital God at that point.
That's a flippant answer.
Oh, it's very flippant, and it's pretty wrong.
These lawsuits won't be decided before a time frame that is relevant.
Okay, not before a time frame that is relevant.
And then, now Elon is gonna ram it home, because remember, he's the guy that started OpenAI and was, you know, shouting the loudest.
The loudest about the dangers of AI eating the world and Neo Sam Altman screwed him over and they turned a commercial and Elon has kept saying no no no no no regulation we need regulation want the smartest people in the world no no no no no no no no and he's changed his tune.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
I think we live, you know, there's that... You know, I've got to practice my Elon.
You know?
I've got to get a hold of some of my mashups.
I'm sorry?
I've got to get some of these Elon moments so I can do another one of my mashups where it's just Elon never saying anything.
He actually never does say anything.
It's just the complicated speak of Silicon Valley geniuses.
Like Sam Bankman-Fried.
Sam Altman.
Elon Musk.
Give me a break, people.
We live, you know, there's that, I don't know if it's actually a real Chinese saying or not, but maybe live an interesting time.
It's apparently not a good thing.
And he's looking up the whole time at his digital god, I guess.
Not a good thing.
But I would prefer, personally, I would prefer to live in interesting times.
And we live in the most interesting of times.
Copyrighted!
Yeah, you're breaking copyright.
For a while ago, I was really getting demotivated and losing sleep over the threat of AI danger.
And I finally sort of became fatalistic about it and said, well, even if I knew Annihilation was certain, would I choose to be alive at that time or not?
And I said, I probably would choose to be alive at that time because it's the most interesting thing.
Even if there's nothing I could do about it.
So let's just get this straight.
So he went from warning everybody, helping get an executive order, which is not law, but there's laws being written all over the world to make sure that only the biggest incumbents can be the true gods of Yeah, there's too much money to be made for just any old schlop to go out there and do well.
Which really means only Google and Amazon and other big companies will be allowed to create your LLMs, your data models, and they're all selling horsepower.
That's all they're doing.
They're all selling compute cycles.
All of that's now over and now I've given in.
I was losing sleep and I figured, You know what, screw the world!
So then basically sort of a fatalistic resignation helped me sleep at night because I was having trouble sleeping at night because of AI danger.
Okay.
So Elon has decided that the world can go to hell in a handbasket so that he can sleep at night.
That's bull.
By the way, the whole thing – Of course it's a lie.
There's no way he wasn't sleeping well at night.
Really?
No.
Wait until we get to the analysis.
Fifteen more seconds on this one.
Helped me sleep at night because I was having trouble sleeping at night because of AI danger.
Now, what to do about it?
I mean, I've been the biggest, the one banging the drum the hardest, by far the longest, or at least one of the longest, for AI Danger, and these regulatory things that are happening.
We're back in the 80s.
No, wait, wait, listen to, this is the last bit, this is the last bit.
Okay, I'm sorry.
No, it's okay.
And, and, these regulatory things that are happening, the single biggest reason they're happening is because of me.
Ah, it all because of me!
I put it all in place.
I believe that.
Because those numbnuts in Washington, D.C., like, oh, Elon Susk, AI Danger, Air Danger, we gotta make him sleep well at night, let's put some executive orders in place.
So then Andrew Ross Sorkin, the most boring guy in the world, goes on NBC Today Show to talk about his, this is so extraordinary because Elon Musk used the F word.
Oh no.
Oh yes, we had to bleep it out, it's so bad for children.
But you know, Andrew Ross Sorkin, I mean he, this is, you are now news!
Journalists is the news!
Let's bring in the man of the hour, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin, who led that conversation with Elon.
He's the man of the hour!
Journalists, talking to journalists, always the best.
Ah, the man of the hour.
Musk at the New York Times Dealbook Summit.
Hello, Andrew.
So, I mean, what did you make of that?
You've covered Elon Musk a long time.
Here he is in the middle of this fire.
Advertisers fleeing his company, X, formerly known as Twitter.
Thanks for reminding us.
And then he has some, he does not mince words, shall we say.
It was fascinating.
I was speechless when he made those remarks.
No you weren't!
I do encourage people to see the whole thing because in many ways I think you got to see the full Elon Musk.
I think you saw that Elon Musk is many people.
You can see the Einstein and sort of Steve Jobs version of Elon Musk.
You can see almost a demonic version of Elon Musk.
And the idea is, the question is, can people People hold all of these ideas in their head, and can they be in the same person?
What was so interesting to me was he kept saying, I don't care if I am loved or I'm hated, but what I kept trying to get back to was... He didn't say that!
He didn't say that at all!
I watched the whole thing.
He didn't say that.
He said, I don't care if you advertise, but okay.
But what I kept trying to get back to was, do you care about being trusted?
Because ultimately, the advertisers need to trust you, the folks who are going to get in your vehicles need to trust you, the government that's paying for SpaceX, putting these rockets in, need to trust you.
And we were trying to grapple with that, and he was trying to grapple with that.
He was trying to grapple with that?
I didn't hear that in any of the clips you played, or what I heard when I listened to parts of it.
But it's also, you would say he was... Just making this up.
You would say he was grappling with that, not he was trying to grapple with it.
That's just... Oh, did he say he was trying?
Yeah, listen.
Yeah, listen.
Twice.
He said it twice.
Listen to this.
He's trying to grapple with you.
Yeah, listen.
...putting these rockets in.
Need to trust you.
And we were trying to grapple with that.
And he was trying to grapple with that.
Trying to grapple with that?
What does the word grapple even mean?
Grapple.
Grapple.
Let's look it up.
Let's read from the...
Is the question on our minds.
Yes.
Why?
Was he trying to grapple or was he grappling?
Well, if he was trying to grapple, he was trying to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match, or he was using a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding, often thrown with a rope.
I don't think it was either one of those.
So let's continue with the next genius analysis from Andrew Ross Sorkin.
We talked about demonic, the demonic side.
He talked about his... Demonic?
What happened to the digital god?
We talked about demonic, the demonic side.
He talked about his own demons.
What did you glean about that part of him?
Oh, get ready.
He talked about his demons.
Look, I think a lot of what...
drives him um in very good ways and bad ways is a childhood i mean there was a moment where he was almost crying during this interview where you could really see uh the demons that power a lot of this and it was it's sad there is a there is a depression under it oh okay i don't want to uh analyze him yes oh my god i don't know i would see a psychoanalyst now
yes he is i don't i don't want to say too much about and i can't diagnose him myself but there is something that that is driving him and i think it's in many ways it's productive and in other ways it's it's less productive.
Well done, Andrew.
Oh, that was riveting, that analysis.
He was almost crying on my bench.
I'm Andrew Rothalkin!
I mean, you know, we're talking about the world's richest man, $225 billion, and his contributions to modern society are undeniable in so many ways.
To your point, you've covered him for a long time.
How do you think it plays out?
Where does this go from here for Elon Musk?
Does he tank X?
Does it get sold?
He likes to say he doesn't care.
He cares.
He cares a lot.
You can see it.
You can physically see how much he cares.
He says he doesn't care, but he does care.
I can see it.
I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.
I think look.
Wait, I think look?
I think look.
This is good.
I think look.
Is that a show title?
I think look?
I think look.
What?
I think it might be.
He cares.
He cares a lot.
You can see it.
You can physically see how much he cares.
So, I think look.
I think you're going to see great and amazing things happen along the way.
Well, hold on a second.
The future teller, he's from, Andrew Roth, I'm from the future.
I'm Andrew Roth Sorkin.
Great things are coming, I tell you.
Just pay attention to me, Andrew Roth Sorkin.
I think you're going to see great and amazing things happen along the way, and I also imagine you're going to see other things like, and maybe X will ultimately fail.
I don't know, but I think he's going to try his heart to get this thing.
In a way, it's the least of it.
It either succeeds or it doesn't succeed.
You're talking about somebody who has an enormous influence in global affairs, including things such as the war in Ukraine, because it's his satellite system he can turn on or turn off.
This is my favorite.
They keep doing that, even though he sold that into, you know, what is it, the military version, which stays on wherever the U.S.
military wants it on, please.
Are able to fight or not fight.
But we talked about that, the power that he has and the leverage that he has.
It's interesting because he has all that leverage in these physical systems that he owns, but he doesn't have that leverage in Twitter, in X. It's a different It's a different business.
But the other thing I was just going to say that was so interesting to me about it was it was human.
You know, there's that page in Us Magazine that says, they're just like us.
No matter how much money you have, what your business title on your business card, there are these feelings that people have.
And they're complicated.
And I think being able to see that, we often don't have that opportunity.
Fascinating interview.
So I'm the best!
If you want to see feelings, watch me.
I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.
What a douchebag!
But it was very entertaining.
I mean, that's the best kind of entertainment is when the people on stage don't realize how entertaining they are.
And this whole Starlink thing, that seems to probably have been the main reason for Elon to go into Israel for another sale!
Now, Elon Musk also controls Starlink, which is an internet satellite service, which makes him a key player in any conflict on this earth.
Now, he wanted to provide the service to aid organizations in Gaza.
The Israeli government wasn't happy, saying that Hamas would use it for terrorist activities.
Today an Israeli government minister posted that they had reached an understanding that Starlink would only be used in Israel and Gaza with the approval of the Israeli government.
We have not yet confirmed that.
There you go.
Sales call!
That's what it was, you're right.
Good catch.
Sales call, sales call.
Hello!
Hey!
You know, I have a customer over here in Gaza, and they got a lot of money in Qatar, so you want a defense link?
Isn't it called defense link?
What is it called?
Starlink military version.
It's something else, not defense link.
Star Shield!
Yeah, Star Shield.
Star Shield!
That's what it's called.
Star Shield.
It's a sale!
Yeah, he's not going there on an apology tour.
No way!
He would go on a sales call.
Exactly right.
It's kind of a shaggy dog story you told, but... You're welcome.
You're welcome.
Basically what you did there.
Well done.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Since we're talking about the Jews, Israelis, the rest, let's at least get a couple of my clips out of the way.
Yes, please.
I didn't do too much about that.
I do have the update for the hostage thing, whatever the hell's going on.
It might be worth playing.
But first, let's play Chuck Schumer.
Oh, Chucky.
Chucky.
What does Chuck have?
He's talking about, you know, he's concerned, you know, all the Jew hate that's going on in the United States because of the Palestinian... It's a problem.
...protesters which are organized by some radicals of various sorts, left and right.
It's a problem.
And now, which is again, previously I would say Chuck Schumer would be responsible for the encouragement of these folks.
But now that they've turned out to be Jew haters, no.
This is no good!
A5 alarm fire that must be extinguished.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warning the nation of a dangerous rise in anti-Semitism.
This as lawmakers are now investigating possible anti-Semitism at America's top universities.
I love how they keep going after the universities.
It's your Black Lives Matter crew, bro.
It's who you activated during Trump.
That's who it is.
NTD's Arian Pasdar has the story.
I feel compelled to speak because I'm the highest ranking Jewish elected official in America.
King of the Jews!
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday addressing the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S.
I couldn't resist.
I'm sorry.
Is that not what he said?
That's literally what he said.
Not literally, but that's what he's saying.
In the two weeks after the attacks by Hamas, the Anti-Defamation League reports an almost 400% increase in anti-Semitic incidents over the same period last year.
Schumer says he sees a stark contrast in the ways Jewish and non-Jewish people react to that increase.
To us, the Jewish people, the rise of anti-semitism is a crisis.
A five-alarm fire that must be extinguished.
Five-alarmer?
He says that's because many American Jews have family members who suffered persecution firsthand and they're now worried that history is repeating itself.
The majority leader also said anti-Israel protesters often argue that Israel displaced 700,000 Palestinians.
But he said those same people never talk about the 600,000 Jews who were displaced from Arab countries.
Schumer concluded with three appeals to the American people.
Learn the history of the Jewish people, reject anti-Semitic double standards, and understand why Jews defend Israel.
At the same time, lawmakers in the House are investigating Harvard, the MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Wow!
That's over allegations of anti-Semitism on their campuses.
Because of that, the presidents of those three schools will testify before a House committee at a congressional hearing next week.
Oh, goody, goody!
Yeah, we get Jew hate in Congress!
This is gonna be fun, I can't wait!
It's gonna be great!
So Harvard and MIT now, too?
Oh man, this is, this, oh wow, oh!
We'll play the second half of this clip and I got one more, which is the University of California they're going after.
At the same time, the Department of Education is opening an investigation into Harvard.
That's to find out whether Harvard failed to respond to alleged harassment of students based on their national origin.
However, the office made clear that it has so far found no evidence of wrongdoing.
Yeah, and remember, the Department of Education is also a human rights division of the government.
Yeah, they're human rights.
This is going to be quite hilarious.
I don't know what these schools are going to do, because they were the ones, they're the ones who created the situation at the behest of the Democrat Party.
Yes!
Let's be honest about it.
And the whole thing has now backfired on them.
It's like, it is, it's biblical.
It's so good.
It's hilarious, but let's play UC Berkeley sued.
This is the end of the, there was a lead into this, but let's go right into the clip.
UC Berkeley and the UC system are accused of letting antisemitism go unchecked.
Jewish advocacy organizations allege that student groups prohibit speakers who support a Jewish state.
NTD's David Lamb speaks with the attorney who's suing the university.
Ken Marcus, Chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center and former Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, thank you for joining us.
Your non-profit organization is suing UC Berkeley and the UC system, claiming that it has long-standing unchecked anti-Semitism on campus.
So how did this start?
We take no pleasure in bringing the lawsuit.
We would prefer that they simply comply with their legal requirements.
This lawsuit is about the failure of the University of California to address anti-Semitism on its campus, certainly over the last year and a half.
Hold on a second.
I need to ask a question.
This being the United States of America, where we have a First Amendment, is anti-Semitism, is that illegal in America?
anti-Semitic speech?
I don't, as insofar as speech is concerned, that it may not be illegal based on the First Amendment, but these schools are signed on to certain certain but these schools are signed on to certain certain Standards that they have to follow, and one of them is to not be, you know, bigoted.
Not be against Joe.
Not be bigoted, but the thing that DeKalb, they keep isolating in these statements is that there's a Zionist, one or two Zionist organizations on the campus, and they want to have meetings and give speeches, and they won't let them.
And so that is like, I think, is the crux of this.
Ah, okay, that's exclusionary and that... Exclusionary, right.
And that goes, yeah, okay, all right, that, I gotcha, okay.
But as just a small aside, when it was Milo, when it was Ben Shapiro, or whoever wanted to go speak at a university campus and they were forbidden to do that, we I think that's part of it.
By the way, I think this guy, when he says a long-standing history, I think that will be included.
Oh, interesting.
Because the Milo and Shapiro thing, and I think there was... A couple other people.
Coulter.
I think she tried to speak there too.
And they shot her off the campus.
And they burned down part of the ASUC building.
In the process, I think it's mostly outsiders, but it's beside the point.
They have this issue and they have to solve it, and so they're getting sued.
Certainly over the last year and a half, starting with the decision by nine student organizations to exclude Zionists from speaking on any topic whatsoever before their organization.
And I understand that you receive many complaints from students.
So what are the students saying?
We're hearing from students around the country, Jewish students are afraid now because they are feeling such an immense amount of hate since the Hamas atrocities of October 7.
Now think about that.
In the wake of these atrocities in which Jewish Israelis were tortured, burned alive in some cases, raped, murdered, their corpses in some cases... Come on!
Come on!
Use some more!
A groundswell of support for the perpetrators.
The Berkeley situation is in one sense typical or representative of what we're hearing all around the country, but it is also one of the worst.
One of the worst!
We're number one!
Foam finger number one, baby!
This kind of reminds me, this whole First Amendment bit.
I went with a friend of mine, went to visit the Pacific War Museum.
He's been here for eight years, has never been.
I said, that's an outrage, you gotta go.
It's a great museum.
Because Admiral Nimitz is from Fredericksburg, Texas, and they have a great, I mean, it's a very detailed... Nimitz was from Fredericksburg?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's a famous son.
He's the famous son of Fredericksburg.
Wow.
So they have the Nimitz Museum, the Pacific War Museum, and you know, my grandfather, Renwick Eugene Curry, was lieutenant commander and base commander at Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands.
So it was, and they have a whole, the Marshall Islands, there's so much we don't, you know, when you think about World War II, all you think is Hitler, Jews, Hiroshima.
Boom, that's it.
There was a lot more going on.
A lot more.
And something that really, and they did a good job of this at the exhibit, There was a term that I think it was President Roosevelt, is that right?
I think it was Roosevelt.
And it was loose lips sink ships.
Yeah, loose lips sink ships.
There's a lot of posters you can get that have that saying on them.
Well, there were restrictions on speech.
At that time, you were, there were absolute restrictions placed by the government on speech.
And it's just, it kind of hit me like how easy we are, you know, especially when you see Rosie the Riveter, you know, and all this, all this incredible, you know, nationalistic, patriotic propaganda, how people, how easily people give up their right to free speech.
And this is, it's bound to happen over and over and over again.
And also I have to say, what a senseless bunch of crap that whole thing was.
Young men killing each other in the water and in the air.
Oh my god.
The whole thing just, did you, I mean this bombing of Tokyo?
No one ever talks about bombing the crap out of Tokyo.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians died.
They just kept bombing for months.
Anyway.
Yeah, and the thought was, of course, a few incendiary bombs are good because Tokyo's built on the housing in Tokyo.
It still is.
Rice paper.
Rice paper and light wood.
Rice paper.
Rice paper and light wood.
Yeah.
Poof.
That museum will give you a little different sense of what went on there.
Anyway, my point being that we as Americans are so susceptible to agreeing to restrictions by the government on our speech, which is just illegal and wrong, and that's not what we're built on.
You have the right to talk like a Nazi in America, that's fine.
You know, you got that right, if that's what you want.
The ACLU used to defend that.
That's all over now.
Yeah, those days are over.
And it's really the best way because then you can just stand there and laugh at them.
It's great.
But no.
I have a, what is it?
I don't think I have anything else other than it's just all bad for Joe.
And so we're distracting, we've got a lot of, you know, we're changing the narrative to, oh no, no, it's all these students.
It's not just students, it's Antifa, there's all kinds of rainbow people in there, and they're all just against whatever they're supposed to be against.
Not a single word about the hundred thousand who die of opioids, nothing about the Uyghurs, nothing about anything that's happening in Africa.
How about... In fact, I do have one Africa clip we can play.
Why isn't anyone saying anything about this?
This isn't even being played!
Because it's not the new new thing!
The U.N.
says 450,000 people have been displaced in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in the last six weeks.
It's blaming recent violence between armed groups and government forces in North Kivu province.
The U.N.
Refugee Agency says it's monitoring the situation after 3,000 human rights violations were reported last month.
That's nearly double the figure from September.
No one cares!
No one cares!
They're not the same level people.
Producers, listeners don't like talking about Africa.
If they tune out, another Africa clip.
I made that clip as short as I could.
Good work.
Everyone still here?
Okay.
Oh, we can't talk about Africa.
That would be no good.
Now, I came across a 26 minute video of the homeless in Austin.
It's heartbreaking.
It's just heartbreaking.
Downtown, right near the hotels.
Everyone's part, living it up.
Woo!
And there's just thousands of homeless people and just like San Francisco, oh just step over them, don't worry.
We're with Google.
We moved ours.
No, you guys did a good job.
Yeah, we moved them to LA where they belong.
I want to go back to AI for just a second because there was something else that popped up on CTN, that's Canadian television.
And, you know, so whatever Elon is doing, you know, thank you, Elon.
Thank you.
The AI danger has been set in motion, the regulations, because of you!
And we appreciate that.
But Jen Easterly is our representative from CISA.
The, what is it, Cyber Infrastructure Security Administration, who are also, or I should say, are very involved with protecting our elections, because why do it on paper?
And so she shows up... Heaven forbid someone actually put a checkmark on paper, because then you could actually audit it, but we can't even audit the Pentagon, let alone audit our own elections.
Oh, please stop.
So she shows up and her whole job here is to talk about, I guess she's doing the rounds and no one cares about her because Elon's out there.
And she's, this is, I'm starting to not like her a lot.
But she's also full of crap!
Miss Easterly, good to meet you.
I'll start with you.
I thought maybe it would be helpful for the audience, before we get into the solutions proposed, if each of you could reflect on the threat, as you see, posed by AI.
Yeah.
Miss Easterly, also.
So, I think we have to understand that AI is a form of information technology.
And the short history of information technology is, frankly, insecurity.
And so you think back to the internet.
It was never created to be secure.
I love it.
Think back, think back John, to the creation of the internet.
It was never created to be secure.
Ultimately it's all been about speed to market and features and driving down costs for competition and really where it's led us is an internet that's full of malware, software that's full of vulnerabilities, social media The internet has resulted in software that's full of vulnerabilities?
This is great!
Full of vulnerabilities.
Social media that's full of misinformation and disinformation.
And now this next generation of AI, we have to make sure that it does not have the vulnerabilities that frankly have led to ransomware attacks across all critical infrastructure and businesses large and small.
Wait a minute.
So crappy AI has led to ransomware attacks?
That's what she just said.
Did she?
I didn't hear her say that.
I'll tell you the problem.
Whoever she is, she patters rapid fires or remarks and I kind of zone out.
I missed it.
I must have been hypnotized.
Stay with it.
Vulnerabilities that frankly have led to.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll roll back a little further.
We have to make sure that it does not have the vulnerabilities that frankly have led to ransomware attacks across all critical infrastructure and businesses, large and small.
No, she didn't say that.
She said that just the Internet, the Internet itself is... No, what she said was vulnerabilities like the kind of the Internet that led to this, it will happen with AI because we're not checking it for vulnerabilities.
That's right.
And trillions of dollars lost to global cybercrime.
So the stakes are very high when you think about the power and the speed and the unpredictability of these tools.
And so it really is significant that governments came together, 18 governments, 23 agencies, along with 20 companies of industry that provided substantive feedback to lay out these guidelines and guardrails.
Hard rails!
Now, if we don't take care of this, what will the future be like, Jen?
Last question to you.
I think so much of this sounds very, uh, technical, I think, even to myself.
I'm wondering if you can... Hold on.
Yes, I'm holding on.
I heard absolutely nothing that seemed quote-unquote very technical.
Last question to you.
I think so much of this sounds very technical, I think, even to myself.
I'm wondering if you can, in part, on Canadians watching tonight, what a scenario you're trying to stop looks like?
Like, what is it, in tangible layman's terms, that you're trying to prevent from happening?
Yeah.
So you have to think of AI as just a form of software.
And we know that software was never created to be safe and secure.
Is that true, John C. Dvorak, long-term columnist and reporter on technology?
Not that I know of.
It's why- It's actually, they try to sell it as very secure.
Very secure!
Heaven forbid they're selling it as junk that it is.
Of software.
And we know that software was never created to be safe and secure.
We all know!
It's always created to be safe and secure.
No, we all know it was never created to be safe and secure.
It's always created to be- No!
Who is this woman?
She couldn't probably code in a go-to loop.
I have a clue.
She's friends with Kara Swisher.
...of software.
And we know that software was never created to be safe and secure.
It's why we have ransomware attacks.
It's why we have data theft.
No, Windows is why we have ransomware attacks.
Windows, specifically Microsoft.
It's why we have disruptions on things like pipelines.
It's why our energy grids are vulnerable.
So you can... Yes, that's why we have... Yes.
It's because of Windows!
Who is this person?
Jen Easterly.
Jen Easterly.
Well, I'm going to look her up.
Who's someone you hate?
You said you've learned to hate.
I'm learning not to love her that much.
Jen Easterly, from the wiki, is an American intelligence and former military official.
Who was serving as the Director of Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Biden Administration.
Hello.
Raised in Potomac, Maryland.
Spook!
Went to the United States Military Academy, Pembroke College, Oxford Rhodes Scholar.
Oh yeah.
Globalist.
Globalist and... Yeah, she's a globalist spook.
I'm just full of it.
She probably never cut it as a spook, it seems to me.
She doesn't get the chops.
But she's in charge of guardrails and in charge of the elections.
Guardrails?
Okay, well let her be in charge.
That means nothing will happen.
Data theft.
It's why we have disruptions on things like pipelines.
It's why our energy grids are vulnerable.
So you can think about AI as the most powerful technology of, frankly, that we've ever seen being used by nefarious actors to use them for offensive cyber purposes, to destroy our critical infrastructure, our water systems, our energy systems, our financial systems.
You can think about using them to create biological weapons, chemical weapons.
We really need to ensure that governments and industry are working together to mitigate the risk of these capabilities being used for nefarious purposes.
So she specifically mentions water systems.
So I presume that this report will tell us that it is AI that is doing this.
We begin with security concerns here at home stemming from the war in the Middle East.
A computer hacking group with ties to Iran has reportedly targeted a water supply system in Pennsylvania and the group claims this is just the beginning.
Just the beginning!
They're using AI!
This morning a cyber group backed by Iran is taking credit for breaching a water treatment plant in Pennsylvania.
Their ability to infiltrate into industrial control systems and possibly disrupt or worse cause damage to our infrastructure is very, very concerning.
According to the Beaver County newspaper, the Municipal Water Authority in Aliquippa says hackers partially took control of a substation Saturday, shutting down a pump that supplies drinking water in Beaver County.
A message appeared on a pump reading, you have been hacked.
Every equipment made in Israel is Cyber Avengers legal target.
Water pressure in some areas was reportedly affected before workers enabled a backup system.
The Cyber Avengers hacking group is also accused of targeting 10 water treatment plants in Israel.
since the war against Hamas began.
The Cyber Avengers are a hacking collective that is associated with Iran.
They also are supportive of Palestine.
And ever since the conflict began, we have seen them proactively targeting anything associated with Israel.
Experts say the Cyber Avengers group is becoming increasingly sophisticated.
Federal authorities reportedly believe the group successfully hacked four water treatment plants on the East Coast in recent days.
All of them used software developed by an Israeli-owned company.
This group has expressed that this is just the beginning and we should be vigilant that future attacks might occur where they see opportunities.
So Pennsylvania State Police say they are using a team of computer experts to investigate the hack.
I hope it's that CISA lady.
She'll figure it out.
First of all, why is a water pump in Pennsylvania connected to the internet in any way?
Because the CISA admin wants to do it from home.
Exactly.
He wants to monitor the pumps from home.
Take these things off the net and you won't have any problems at all.
I just love these stories.
Why does a local water supply company hook their pumps to the internet?
It makes no sense.
It's stupid.
Back to AI, I just want to remind everybody why AI is not real, it's not true, it's not working, it's bogus, because I will not believe in AI until it fixes my email spam.
Why isn't someone creating a large language model to do that?
Email spam, nothing.
What about these stupid phone calls I get from Steven?
The Bengali's guy named Steven.
Who's asking me if I wanted to get better cable service or if I want to get a new deal or if I want to take a discount on my something or other and it's all bullcrap.
Why isn't that tracked down?
This is costing the American public billions of dollars and just wasted time picking up these stupid calls from Steven.
Well, I think we need to kill Steven.
That may be easier.
Let's get rid of that guy.
I'm just saying Google is the premier source of email for most people in the Western world.
Maybe there's... Definitely.
I think Apple also has a lot of people.
There's still some AOL people out there.
Why don't they make it so that your email only shows you what you want, really shows you the things that are important to you.
You know, they just willy-nilly filter stuff into promotions.
Including our newsletter half the time where they let real spam come through.
Until that time when Google always reliably delivers you the no agenda newsletter to the top of your list and says, important, important, important, and doesn't file it away.
AI is bogus.
Well, I'm not going to argue that point.
Yeah, where's AI showing, shown to be useful except for cranking out mediocre art?
Yeah, or writing the advertorials for Sports Illustrated.
That was pretty funny.
The Sports Illustrated story is the best.
So bad.
And, you know, but it wasn't even, they're just buying this from a company that is delivering advertorial content.
You know, it's, it's totally, oh, by the way, oh my goodness.
First sighting of the season.
First sighting of the season.
What do we expect every single Christmas time?
Come on.
Well, we get the shopper who buys the gifts for everybody in the store.
Christmas spirit is alive and well in Melbourne.
A Secret Santa came into Kmart's Richmond store on Saturday and paid off all the lay-bys.
Among the items, a $200 Barbie house and an $89 Barbie dreamboat.
Kmart hasn't revealed how much the Good Samaritan spent or how many customers benefited from the gesture.
It just does our heart good when we see that Australians are still prepared to help others in need, even though they don't know who they are.
They're not family or friends, but just random acts of kindness.
It's great.
Pricey, where was you?
Can you prove you weren't there?
Work this out.
No, brother.
They should ban these stories.
As you point out, these are bogus stories.
They're probably not even true, let alone it's already after the fact.
So what difference does it make to anyone who wants to get a free doll or toy from Walmart?
It's nonsense.
This is a triple whammy.
First of all,
Well, I'll get back to the third of the whammies, but here we have the typical, we know that this is done over and over again, Secret Santa, and they're always promoting Walmart, or Walgreens, or Target, it's always a big box store, it's a known promotion, and this time it's Australia, they are 12 hours ahead of us, they're the first ones to come out with it, but they did not inform the old coot On the news team.
Everybody's in on it.
Everybody, except for the old guy.
And I don't know what this old guy does at this news desk, but he's, you know, and they involve him by saying, where were you old guy?
Did you do this, you old adorable coot?
And the old guy does not follow the script because they forgot to give it to him.
Can you prove you weren't there?
Why would someone do that?
What do you mean, why would they do that?
Because it's a lovely thing to do.
Why would you do that?
Because it's the Christmas spirit.
To help people out.
Yeah.
Maybe, I don't know, it just, it puzzles me.
You would do it.
It came up in it themselves.
No, no, we think it's the ankle, actually.
You think that?
Well, no, I'm just puzzled as to why this would happen.
But if they did that, wouldn't they just say we've forgiven the labia?
Exactly.
It's a material, it could be anyone.
Who puts stuff on labia in a miracle?
Oh, you know.
Not everyone's got a problem.
They want us to go back to the private jet thing.
So then they accuse him of being, you know, rich and he has a private jet.
But listen to what... A private jet?
So he says, well, didn't Kmart just do this themselves?
And one of the guys, if you listen carefully, actually says, why would we do that?
Can you prove you weren't there?
Why?
Why would someone do that?
So first, why would someone do a ha ha ha, ha ha ha?
Don't you understand it's an ad, old dude?
Ha ha ha!
Why?
Why?
Why would someone do that?
What do you mean, why would they do that?
Because it's a lovely thing to do.
Why would you do that?
Because it's the Christmas dance.
To help people out.
Yeah.
Maybe, I don't know, it just, it puzzles me.
You would do it.
It came up a bit in themselves.
No, no, why are you saying, why do you think that?
I don't know if you can hear it, one of the guys on the panel says, why do you say we would do that?
No, no, why are you saying, why do you think that?
Now that's the second part of the triple whammy.
The real joke is, and of course you don't have the images, they show the store, they show a guy at the, I guess the layaway desk, bringing out two articles and placing them right in front of the camera.
Listen again to who's really paying for this ad.
Christmas spirit is alive and well in Melbourne.
A secret Santa came into Kmart's Richmond store on Saturday and paid off all the lay-bys.
Among the items, a $200 Barbie house and an $89 Barbie dreamboat.
It's a Barbie ad!
Uh, yeah, Mattel.
Yes, Mattel!
Mattel!
And they place it.
It's $200, $80 for this, and they have it right there.
Yeah, they even put the price.
Yes!
It's a Mattel ad, people.
Mattel's on a roll.
Get with it.
They did a whole movie that's an ad and people flocked to it.
I gotta hand it to Mattel.
They were almost dead.
Oh yeah, they got some new marketing person at Mattel that knows what they're doing.
They were almost dead 10 years ago.
Remember that?
They were like the short of the century.
They were dead and boom, there it is.
The short of the century.
They were.
Oh man, it's just so beautiful.
So beautiful.
Well, this sort of thing.
I caught a native ad.
Too good.
This native ad, what do we have it called here?
Would it be native ad?
It probably would be, but I don't see it.
I see Nikki Haley.
How about the Pop Start bagel?
Here it is, Pop Start.
I have to set this up.
Pop Start, my favorite segment.
Pop Start is on the Today Show.
It's a little segment that Carson Daly comes out and he does.
It's called Pop Start and it's all native ads.
And so and it's really pathetic because it's really I mean it's pathetic because they plug one thing after another and they're coming out and I left this up the end of the coming out of a new single by what's the name of the singer that's married to the famous black singer.
I need a little more to work with.
She's married to the richest black singer in the world.
I think it's J-Lo.
J-Lo?
She's Latina.
Latinx.
Well, whatever she is.
So she, but she's got a new signal.
It's the greatest thing ever.
And they're wooing and awing over it.
And so they go to the next thing and then they go into this, this product.
Beyonce.
I think you're talking about Beyonce.
Beyonce.
There you go.
And so they, it doesn't matter because they're going into the real native.
Tell that to Beyonce.
Yes.
I'm sorry.
I'll be quiet.
They're going into this ad for a bagel that's got beer in the dough and it's a mail-order bagel.
And so they're going on and on about this bagel and it is a plug for the bagel company which is a pop-up bagel.
And you get to listen to Al Roker two times say, I love pop-up bagels!
I love pop-up.
He does it twice to make sure that... What are pop-up bagels?
It's a bagel pop-up store that pops up in New York, I guess.
And this is what it's called?
It's called the bagel pop-up?
Yeah, I guess.
I'm familiar with it.
But the way they go oohing and aahing, this is the worst kind of native ad you'll ever hear.
Let's practice, John.
We can get one of these.
Ready?
Look at that!
That is crazy!
Want to see what's happening there?
J-Lo is set to release a single called Can't Get Enough in January.
You were right!
It's J-Lo!
I take it all back!
The album release and film debut on Prime Video February 16th.
Steamy stuff in the holidays from Chandler Lopez.
Finally, you know we love a good food collaboration with a pop star.
We've covered Ted Lasso.
How much do you love a good food collaboration with your favorite pop star?
Nothing like it.
There's nothing like it.
Stuff from the holidays with Jennifer Lopez.
Finally, you know we love a good food collaboration with a pop star.
We've covered Ted Lasso's ice cream.
We just did the McDonald's Crocs recently.
Well now, Blue Moon's bagels.
That's right, Blue Moon and New York's beloved pop-up bagels.
I love pop-up bagels.
are teaming up and infusing real beer into this beautiful breakfast bread.
Oh, my God.
Did you dream this?
The valencia orange cream cheese.
Did you manifest this?
Yes, I did.
This is happening right now.
Salt bagel.
So try a bagel and dip it in one of these.
What are you dipping it in?
Oh, the orange?
I'm not really sure, but I wanted to get beer.
Is the beer in the basement or is the beer?
It's in the bagel.
I love this.
I love pop-up bagels.
Crunchy outside, soft inside.
Delicious.
I bring bagels and beer.
It's in the bagel.
I love this.
Oh, man.
I love pop-up bagels.
I love pop-up bagels.
Oh, my God.
Crunchy outside and softened.
Delicious.
Much like you.
There is no alcohol in this beer.
I mean, in the bagel.
I mean, in the bagel.
Salted, plain, everything.
Order nationwide.
Shipping starts today at noon.
If you're interested to have this feast, you can do that.
Noon Eastern Time.
This is a delicious bagel.
I don't know when was the last time I had one.
Thank you, Carstein.
Thank you, Carstein.
You got it.
Oh, my word.
This is what TVs come to.
Well, I can- I can- Not as funny, but I can show you it's even worse than that.
By the way, people will say, man, Linda Lou Patkins doing a native ad.
Well, I don't think so.
I love Linda Lou Patkin.
Oh yeah, she has great job search needs.
Police!
Police people!
Now, you alluded to some of this, and it's not the first clip I'm going to play, but the native ad is in full effect for Death Bound, Monjaro, which is the new weight loss version of Monjaro.
Monjaro is the diabetes weight loss drug, which It's for diabetics, but it helps you lose weight.
And Death Bound, which I think is called Zip Bound, but Death Bound as we call it, is native advertising everywhere.
But this is a huge shift in lots of different businesses.
And we're going to get to the ultimate outcome of what needs to happen and what I think everyone is really pining over.
But one of the companies that clearly needs to correct themselves is Weight Watchers.
Because for years, Weight Watchers told people it was you have no self-control.
Yeah, you're eating too damn much food.
You have no portion control.
Well now we know, thanks to Big Pharma and incessant lying, that people who are overweight, it's not you, it's a medical condition.
It's a disease.
This is a disease.
It's not the horrible crap food you're eating.
It's not the portions you're eating.
Man, when I was growing up in the Netherlands, the Dutch people would always go, you Americans, you have big gulp.
What is that shit, man?
No wonder you're fat!
Yeah, we're drinking big gallons of sugary water, but that's not the problem.
It's a disease.
So Weight Watchers hired CNN, and they did a beautiful advertorial.
I tightened it up to, you know, like $1.45.
How long was it?
Oh, it was three minutes.
It was an expensive ad.
Wow, that's expensive.
CNN Business.
Ugh, CNN Business.
Ugh, it's cheap.
CNN Business.
I don't think anyone watches this, but... Yeah, this probably could have gone ten minutes.
So they have a relatively new CEO, and she is sorry.
But in 2023, another huge shift.
Led by CEO Seema Sistani, Weight Watchers jumped into the booming prescription weight loss drug business.
Acknowledging that for some, diet and exercise aren't enough.
I want to be the first to say I'm sorry.
And we know better now.
We will do better now.
For many who are living with obesity, it's a chronic condition and therefore it is not a choice.
We needed to be the first to be proud and loud about it.
About the fact that we got it wrong in the past.
We've been treating these medications like it's a vanity.
And it's not.
It's life-saving.
In some ways it's sort of make or break for the business, too, though, right?
Because this is sort of the direction this industry is going with or without weight loss.
This is disgusting.
Oh yeah, especially with the piano music on a news item, supposedly.
Yeah, piano music on a news item is kind of a giveaway.
It's a native ad, but this is disgusting.
So basically they're entire modus operandi, which is to get people to eat less food and then switch over completely to eating their crummy food.
As a part of a lifestyle change.
Did they've just given up on it?
No, no, no.
I know what they, we talked about what the change they made, but this is them selling the change.
It'll come at the end.
Past.
We've been treating these medications like it's a vanity and it's not.
It's life saving.
In some ways it's sort of make or break for the business too though, right?
Because this is sort of the direction this industry is going with or without Weight Watchers.
I would say that's true.
I would say that's true and I think that people who are deniers about the fact that obesity is a chronic condition are... Fat deniers, John!
Don't you dare deny that this is a chronic medical condition.
You are a denier if you say that!
...going to be left behind.
Weight Watchers bought Sequence, a $99 a month telehealth subscription service that connects patients to doctors who can prescribe weight loss and diabetes drugs.
It's incredibly important to communicate the risks and that's why the training in obesity care management is really important.
Also, the lifestyle interventions that need to be done alongside the medications.
Why should somebody come to Weight Watchers for these kinds of prescription weight loss drugs instead of just going to their doctor?
Well, they can absolutely go to their doctor, but I think that what we can provide is a higher support solution.
Many doctors don't have training in nutrition, obesity care management, and nor do they have the support system to basically help throughout the journey.
How do you avoid having to rebrand the company every couple of years as people talk about weight loss differently?
I think of it less as rebranding and more that we should be changing.
We should be evolving.
You can't be around for 60 years and still be the same thing.
Our whole world has shifted.
Yeah, they are now in obesity care management.
And why go to a doctor when you can get a higher support solution?
I mean, seriously.
Why go to the doctor who, if he's any good, or she is any good, they'll say, what are you, nuts?
Stop eating.
Stop eating, you fat pig!
You're a denier!
You're a denier!
So now we have the best way to position yourself as a company.
Well, the best way used to be give yourself an award.
Yeah, you create an award show, give yourself the award.
Isn't that what the Archer Daniel Midlands Award, whatever the... No, what's that award you can buy?
What's that thing called?
Most of the awards you have to pay for to enter.
Yeah.
And then to buy it, they'll kind of tease you with the award, but you got to give them more money.
Yeah.
I forget.
Very common.
What's the thing that they always have the air?
Oh, J.D.
Power.
Thank you.
Troll Room.
Oh, J.D.
Power.
J.D.
Power.
Classic.
Give me a break.
The company has made billions on awards.
I know.
We're stupid, but we'll get to that later.
Well, I've been trying to do awards, but you refuse, you refuse.
I know, I know, I know, because I'm too honest.
You just refuse, you hate it.
So, Manjaro.
...does the study of their own drug.
That's usually how you get it approved anyway, so we might as well put it into some, run it through chat GPT, turn it into a press release.
And there's a reason for this.
They are all angling for one single thing.
We'll listen to the native ad that is running on NBC.
Now to a new report on two popular weight loss drugs, Monjaro and Ozempic.
Well, for the first time, researchers looked at real-world data on the two medications Real.
World.
Data.
W. R. D. Comparing how much weight people lost on them, and get this, one came out way ahead.
Oh no!
Oh no!
One came way ahead!
There's a winner!
way ahead there's a winner yeah the one who paid us more is now with more on this intriguing the one who did the study headline christine good morning it is good morning to both of you before you play the end of this on this same show that you pulled this clip was there any mention of the 450 000 africans that were that are now homeless and roaming as refugees There's even one mention of it?
Yes!
Well, if they were fat, there would be.
But that's the problem.
They're not eating.
They don't have this disease.
Now with more on this intriguing headline.
Christine, good morning.
It is.
Good morning to both of you.
You know, this is a hot topic for sure.
Hot topic!
Hot topic!
Hot topic for sure!
Hot topic!
This whole class of drugs, very exciting.
According to the NIH, more than two out of every five adults in this country suffer from obesity.
And we know from clinical trials that Ozempic and Majero, they work really well to help people lose weight.
But now, a new analysis finds one of those drugs is the clear winner in getting results.
Can we play this clip on the last show?
No!
No, no, no, no.
This is new.
This is new information, man.
This is brand new.
This is great.
And Manjaro can help decrease how much food you eat.
They're two of the most popular weapons in the battle against obesity.
Weapons!
Weapons!
This is a war!
A war against fat!
Now a new report suggests one of these blockbuster drugs is far more effective in helping people slim down.
The analysis looked at real-world data from about 18,000 overweight adults using Manjaro or Ozempic over a year.
It found those taking Munjaro were three times more likely to lose 15% of their body weight than those on Ozempic, and more than two and a half times more likely to lose 10% of their body weight.
Well, I know which one I'm choosing!
While not a peer-reviewed study, this echoes previous research... Well, not a peer-reviewed study...
Which was, you know, when it came to Ivermectin... IT'S NOT PEER REVIEWED!
THIS IS JUST A CONSPIRACY THEORY!
This has been debunked many times over.
And more than two and a half times more likely to lose 10% of their body weight.
Through the mouth, people.
While not a peer-reviewed study, this echoes previous research that found Menjaro more effective than Ozempic in helping some people with weight loss.
Both drugs are taken through weekly injections and are FDA approved only for type 2 diabetes, not weight loss.
I've lost 17 pounds in 8 weeks.
But demand is soaring as more patients use them off-label to shed unwanted pounds.
Doctors say they work by mimicking hormones in the gut tied to appetite.
The major difference between the two medications is that Monjoro is working on two hormones and Ozempic is working on one hormone.
So you're essentially getting more bang for the buck when you take Monjoro.
After struggling with obesity her whole life, Tara Rothenhofer joined a clinical trial for Monjoro.
Three years in, she says she's lost more than 200 pounds.
Instead of that feeling of looking towards your next meal while you're still eating the current meal, you're having more of that feeling of satisfaction, of enjoyment.
You know, you have a few bites of something and you feel full.
Eli Lilly, maker of Moonjaro, says it'll soon release a version that's FDA approved for weight loss called Zeb Bound.
In a statement, the maker of Ozempic, Nova Nordisk, told us their drug is only meant to treat type 2 diabetes.
Its approved drug for weight loss, called Wagovi, is similar, but at a higher dose than Ozempic.
Experts caution the safety of these drugs is still unknown in healthy people who just want to lose a few pounds.
They can have side effects like gastrointestinal distress, nausea and vomiting, and they only curb hunger while being used.
For most patients.
When you stop the medication, you will regain roughly two-thirds of that weight.
This is not a medication that will reset you for life.
Okay, and now we get down to what this is really all about.
One thing and one thing only, and I guarantee you, the Biden administration will push this and push and push through executive order, whatever they need.
They're going to get this in one place, the most important.
Remember, This is a disease.
This is a debilitating disease.
This is ruining people's lives.
This is a horrible thing.
And we finally have a solution, so we need that where?
On Medicare.
So bottom line, Christine, no matter what, these drugs are expensive.
How much does insurance cover?
So right now these are quite expensive.
Some of these drugs are hundreds of dollars a week.
Now if you are prescribed for diabetes, then you might have insurance that will cover this.
And insurance does cover a lot of people on these drugs.
But for weight loss specifically, some of these drugs are not covered by insurance.
And one of the wrinkles here is that Medicare, way back like 20 years ago in the fen-fen craze, Congress made it that Medicare would not cover weight loss.
Because there were so many, you know, dramatic scams.
So they need to go back and figure out, once Medicare starts to cover it for weight loss, then you'll probably see insurers start to follow.
We're not there yet.
We are in the early days of this.
But this is a health story.
It's also an economy story, because when you can get health care costs in this country under control, it could be really life-changing and also financially important for the country.
Absolutely, when less people are obese and have complications in that way.
Charging $1,000 a pop for bullshit is not going to help anybody.
No, but what they want is that the drug companies, but Eli Lilly is leading the charge, they want their drugs on Medicare.
They want this to be covered by Medicare so they can pull ahead of the rest of the pack and lie.
I mean, I'm not a doctor, but come on now.
Yeah, you're puking, you have stomach issues, the food noise is gone.
Food noise.
We've got to get the Medicare, but it changes the lives.
It'll combat climate change.
I'm telling you, we're going to see this.
Climate change is part of it.
I've got a bunch of clips called Spending Dilemma that might actually touch on this.
Let me play one last one, because this is such a wonder drug, it's doing more.
I mean, we know that people don't want to drink alcohol, they don't want to snort cocaine, and then... This is a conversation I'm really excited that we're about to have.
We've heard a lot about the benefits of Ozempic, we're talking about Wegovy, what has become weight loss drugs, but now... Oh, now, wait a minute, we're better than Manjaro!
There's new information about how it could help So how does it work and what does it mean for any woman who may be approaching that age?
Yeah, well we are joined now by Dr. Robbins to talk more about this and this is a conversation I know, Shirlane, you were really, as we had our meetings in the newsroom, so many points to get to.
So let me just say this, Dr. Alicia Robbins, she's a board-certified OBGYN, she is a lifestyle physician, she also has a medical practice called the ELM, which specializes in perimenopause and menopause for women.
I've never even heard of a practice that specializes in this.
Oh, this is so exciting, guys.
But, Dr. Robbins, first of all, thank you for joining us.
And can you please tell us right off the bat, first of all, who should be paying attention to this right now?
This is not just older women, right?
Talk about that first.
It's not just for older women.
No!
Menopause!
You've got to be thinking about it when you're young!
Yes.
Well, first of all, hi everyone.
Thank you so much for having me.
This is so fun.
It's so fun!
It's so fun!
I'm getting paid.
It's so fun!
And I'm so glad that we're bringing attention to this.
So yes, Gillian, like you said, menopause is... They should give it to newborns!
Getting more... We're talking about it more, thankfully, finally.
Finally?
But this also applies to women in their 40s, which is really...
The simplest way of when we say perimenopause, perimenopause is the time in your 40s or even late 30s when your hormones start to change and you start transitioning towards menopause.
But it can last a decade.
So really I'm talking about women in their 40s and 50s should listen to this.
You really need to get on this stuff in your 40s because, you know, you turn 40 and, you know, stuff starts to slip and you get a little pudgy.
I mean, this will help with your menopause.
These people are ghouls.
This is evil.
And we need to, as you say, outlaw advertising of pharmaceutical products to consumers.
Yeah, that would include native ads.
Disgusting.
To the Spending Dilemma clip.
I defer the rest of my time to the gentleman from Berkeley.
Spending Dilemma.
Let me see.
Oh, this looks interesting.
Is America heading toward a debt disaster?
What is Congress doing about the nation's increasing indebtedness?
The House discusses the problem, one lawmaker saying the damage will be catastrophic and irreparable.
NTV's Virginia Gibson has more.
This is our generation's world war.
It's a problem of historic proportions.
The most important and incredible threat to the republic as we know it.
Continued inaction will prove disastrous.
Oh no.
America's national debt, it continues to surge nonstop as Congress continues borrowing to spend.
The end result could be economic calamity for future generations.
The House Budget Committee discussed the urgency of the issue Wednesday.
The only people that can fix this is the United States Congress.
And to think that the United States Congress is going to be willing to do this is laughable.
Lawmaker Steve Womack says Congress has done nothing to address this issue.
He says the big problem is that no politician wants to cut the biggest sources of spending, entitlement programs, in particular, Social Security, health care, income security, and Medicare.
Cutting these things will be unpopular with voters.
This is great.
And by the way, this is great.
Social Security is a separate fund, or supposed to be, because if you look at your, you get a, your check stub, it shows you the deductions, you got your taxes, which is supposed to pick up for the, and then it has Social Security, separate, and it's supposed to be kept separate.
So the fact that they're stealing the Social Security, in other words, it's just another part of the tax, is inconscionable, and nobody has done anything to stop that.
Wait, you're getting mad about this?
No, I'm, well, I've been mad about it.
Yeah.
It's like, it's a scam, and they're taking this money.
Right now, we're finally at the point, it took a long time, but we got to the point where we're taking in less money than we're borrowing on a yearly basis.
I think 115% is what we're borrowing.
Not according to Janet Yellen, by the way.
She says that's fake news.
Everybody says it except her.
Which is the best part.
She's in charge of it.
But they're stealing money left and right, and then that's why it's interesting about they want to add $1,000 to Medicare, you know, a month to these people to pay for it, for their shots, $1,000 shot, which is bogus.
And the other point is, is that if they put in an enforcement agency in Medicare, they could cut probably the budget in half for that because there's so much scamming going on.
Well, this is the biggest scam, is this!
I mean... One, it probably pales by comparison.
But let's continue.
And politicians need votes to stay in power.
The debt is so high, interest payments themselves take up 16% of spending.
Interest is crowding out all of our discretionary programs.
Interest is certainly crowding out defense.
My colleague on that subcommittee and I both see that every single day and it's certainly happening on the non-defense side.
One possible ray of hope, a fiscal commission.
We need an outside group of experts to help us understand what the absolute truth is.
The commission would analyze the economic situation and then provide recommendations to Congress.
Put John and Adam on this commission!
Another waste of money!
Put us on this!
This would be fun.
We could have fun with this commission.
So they don't want to audit the Pentagon, which is obviously a source of waste.
There's all kinds of waste going on.
This guy's bitching about the fact that our interest is overtaking the military budget, which is bloated.
I will finish this off.
I love it!
A fiscal commission may not be the magic potion, as the chairman had said, and it may fail.
It may.
But we cannot stop trying.
Lawmaker Bill Huizenga believes this commission would be the most practical and immediate way Congress can break the status quo.
It's unclear how Congress would react to recommendations from such a commission.
By clutching their pearls, The Curry-Dvorak Commission.
I can see it already, John.
That would work.
We'll be taking private jets, you know, around the country.
Check everything out.
Yeah.
Check everything out, you know.
Well, it's obvious.
It's obvious where they're going to get it from.
It's from a carbon tax.
That is the global idea.
Well, that's what they're hoping for.
You're right.
Well, it's more than just what they're hoping for.
I mean, they're really starting to push this.
But the pot, the pot, where the carbon tax money goes is going to be the UN.
It's not going to go to the Wagovi shots.
They have a, well, you're right.
It's going to go to the UN and they're already setting it up.
There's even an organization for this.
What is this organization called?
It's the Tax Justice Network.
Put justice in anything and you're good to go.
United Nations voted for the organization to take a greater role in international tax matters.
The move is perceived as a threat to the ascendancy of the OECD, the body that has led these discussions for decades.
Countries at the UN adopted a resolution to begin the process of establishing a framework convention on tax and completely change how global tax rules are decided.
The resolution was led primarily by African member states and could eventually move decision-making on global tax rules from the OECD, a club of developed countries, to the UN.
You're spot on.
It will be moved to the United Nations, and because Africa's involved with it, that means it's a carbon tax.
And I have the details here.
I have the actual numbers from France 24 as climate finance, or as we in the biz say, climate finance, is on the agenda for COP 28, which is kicking off.
Climate finance is going to be one of the items really at the top of the agenda of the COP28 taking place, of course, in the United Arab Emirates.
As we said, participants trying to find an agreement on a target to fix.
And Charles Pellegrin is here to tell us more, Charles.
That's right.
This is a huge topic of conversation that covers many different sectors, areas, whether it's clean energy investments or spending on climate resilient infrastructure.
And at COP21 in Paris in 2015, richer countries Agreed that they should help poorer countries that are more vulnerable to the climate chaos caused by the carbon emissions of developed economies.
Well, the commitment that was agreed on by these developed countries in successive climate talks was of $100 billion per year in climate assistance by 2020.
But wait!
What?
that was missed for several years and that might finally actually have been reached this year.
But the needs are so much bigger than that number.
Actual estimates of how much is needed by emerging markets and developing countries in order to keep global warming under the set target of two degrees.
Well, they're much higher.
By 2030, $1 trillion will be needed annually in external.
What?
What?
What happened to 1.5 degrees?
Shut up.
By 2030, $1 trillion will be needed annually in external assistance.
And total spending for these countries would actually be much higher than that, around $2.4 trillion.
Shut up and listen, because you don't know what you're talking about.
You stupid pleb!
They need a trillion dollars a year, but really 2.7 trillion dollars a year.
They're going to steal it from everybody.
And we're going to be living in cardboard boxes.
It's unbelievable.
We need a revolt!
A revolution!
And of course this is exactly what Donald Trump, former President Trump, is saying.
I gotta get in here because everyone's crazy.
They've all gone nuts.
They apparently are.
If anyone's buying into this.
So now that Trump once again is on the scene talking sense.
As witnessed by many people who are starting to say, you know, well, you know, before I continue, I have to read this Boots on the Ground.
Remember the Amazon engineer who told us that the Rivian deal that Amazon did with all their delivery with these Rivian pickup trucks, that they can't have them, you know, the charging station, stuff is blowing up, these things are catching on fire.
So listen to this.
Latest update from our Amazon engineer, Boots on the Ground.
Because of power generation issues at the power companies, Amazon is now using diesel-powered generators to power the vehicle chargers.
Oh, I love it.
That's so good.
So Trump is, you know, this is the one speech that he did that everyone's up in arms over.
At least it's being used to clutch pearls.
This is where he said, these vermin have got to go!
Which when you... He has the vermin speech.
Now known as the vermin speech.
Heaven forbid you use the word vermin.
Well, it's much worse.
Because over there at NPR, on the media, they did a midweek show.
They had to do a special edition.
In between shows!
With Brook Glatzer.
To discuss the word vermin.
Oh, no, not just the word vermin.
The entire speech!
Jeff Charlotte, who is the author of Undertow, Scenes from a Slow Civil War, has been around the country.
He's been around the country.
He has talked to everybody.
Good for him.
And he comes back and he lets us know that because of Trump, and Trumpism, We are in the midst of a slow civil war.
And this is all based upon an analysis of Trump's vermin speech, also known as the post-indictment speech.
And I had people who had started clipping this for me, and I had already clipped it.
This is how unhinged, deranged this is from our national treasure known as NPR.
His post-indictment speech last Saturday, We have a record crowd here today, so that's... He represented a turning point in his rhetoric.
He was talking about the final battle, which he's been doing.
This is the final battle.
This is the most important election we've ever had.
But then there was another element.
He's speaking of obliteration.
He's saying, not only is there a risk of World War III, there will absolutely be World War III unless I am returned to power.
I will prevent World War 3.
I will prevent it.
And now people believe it.
This is what I love about this entire analysis.
They put words in his mouth over and over again.
He didn't say, there will be World War 3 unless I'm returned to power.
He didn't say that.
Absolutely.
Be World War 3 unless I am returned to power.
I will prevent World War III.
I will prevent it.
And now people believe it, too.
Well, he said the same thing in the speech that just preceded January 6th.
He said, you have to fight... So she basically contradicts the basic thesis of the guy.
Because the guy said, things have changed, he's got new rhetoric.
I know.
And so she comes out and says, well, by the way, he said the same thing back.
And I've listened to a lot of his speeches.
I don't listen to much of them anymore.
They haven't changed.
He goes up to her, does a bunch.
He does a buck, buck 15, buck 30 of shtick.
Hilarious.
Mostly the same interchangeable material and boom.
No.
No, this is, this is, something has changed now.
We have to be very afraid of this warmongering Jew-hater.
That just preceded January 6th.
He said, you have to fight as hard as you can or you won't have a country.
Oh no, that's not the same thing.
When he means World War III, he's not talking about not having a country.
He's talking about nuclear obliteration.
This won't be a conventional war with army tanks going back and forth shooting each other.
This will be nuclear war.
This will be obliteration, perhaps obliteration of the entire world.
I will prevent it.
Nobody else can say that.
I alone can stop it, which is, of course, a classic of fascist rhetoric.
He didn't say that!
He never said, I alone.
But this is how these people hear it.
This is what's so fascinating about this is you're right, because this is exactly what they're hearing.
And then you talk to the liberals in the anywhere you are, and you're going to they all hear it's it's the dimension thing again.
They're they're living in a in a different dimension.
They're hearing different things.
Yes.
Democrats are just going to fire off a nuke for no reason.
So now they've heard that the Democrats are going to fire off a nuke for no reason.
Yeah, I think that is how it's being heard, that we are very close to nuclear war with Russia, that he alone can stop it.
But it's even more abstract than that, right?
So when he says, at the end of the day, either the communists win and destroy America, or we destroy The communists, because that's what they are.
They may go by a different name.
Fascists.
Marxists.
He opens and closes the speech with some kind of classic anti-Semitism, talking about globalists and Marxists.
What?
I love this!
He's a Jew hater!
Classic anti-Semite, talking about communists and Marxists.
So if you bitch about Marxism, you're a Jew-hater?
Correct!
He's expanding... Because Marx was... Marx, by the way, was an admitted atheist, okay?
Let's get that straight.
That's the whole point!
Exactly!
Exactly!
But no!
No, no, no!
This is the new anti-semitism.
This is the face of Jew hate.
They are.
They may go by a different name.
Fascists.
Marxists.
He opens and closes the speech with some kind of classic anti-semitism, talking about globalists and Marxists.
He didn't say globalists.
He's expanding the potent conspiracism of anti-semitism so that it applies to all of his enemies.
But, lest anyone be confused, he doubles down in the middle by talking about Jack Smith.
The special counsel who indicted him.
Jack Smith.
What do you think his name used to be?
I don't know.
Does anybody have it?
Jack Smith.
Sounds so innocent.
What is his original name?
What's his real name?
It's Jack Smith.
But it couldn't be.
That sounds so innocent.
By which he means it sounds so all-American white.
Oh, I see.
So when you say that, then, you know, he can't be one of us.
He can't be one of us whiteys.
No, no, no, no.
Let's get back to the Jew stuff.
And then at the end, and this was new, he said, we will drive out the globalists.
We will cast out the communists.
We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country and wants to destroy our country.
This is a reference to driving out the money changers.
Jesus driving out the money changers.
What?
This is my favorite.
This is a reference to Jesus driving out the money changers.
You know, the Jews.
These people are sick, John.
This is a sickness.
This is a real sickness.
It wants to destroy our country.
This is a reference to driving out the money changers.
Jesus driving out the money changers.
And to make sure you don't miss it, he refers, the speechwriter, I should say, refers to both the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Matthew.
The money changers, historically, in antisemitism, are understood as the Jews, but in this moment, it's understood as the enemy.
And the enemy is Jack Smith, it's whoever is on the other side.
That's interesting.
Rather than cast the Jew as enemy, that's the tradition, here, that's already assumed, and so you cast the enemy, whoever that may be, as Jews.
Help me.
Help me understand how they come to this conclusion.
I have no clue.
They're weird.
No, they're ill.
This is mental illness.
Total mental.
Yeah, the Jew becomes metaphor and he's got plausible deniability because of course there are enough right-wing Jews.
He's not saying any of No!
His daughter's Jewish!
Miller, who is Jewish, wrote that speech for him and has not been shy of using that language before.
So we can say this isn't about Jews in a way for Trump.
It's really not.
His enemy is Jewish.
So is Miller.
Ever is against him and his power.
And then since he's become proxy, when I go out and I speak to everyday people, they see him as a martyr.
Oh, he's a martyr.
Now let's talk about martyrs for a second.
Because now we need to take it to not just Trump, but all the crazy people who are for Trump.
Yes, they're really, dare I say it, racists.
They hate black people.
Black people are dangerous to Trump.
So you say that Trump has always strived to create martyrs.
Back in 2017, when he was president, he said that the wounded GOP Congressman Steve Scalise took a bullet for all of us when he was shot in the hip by someone who professed to be a Trump hater.
He wasn't a Trump hater.
I don't think that guy was a Trump hater.
He was a Republican hater.
Yeah, he hated all Republicans.
Trump wasn't even there.
But Scalise didn't die so he wasn't martyred.
No!
At a congressional baseball practice.
But you say that Ashley Babbitt, who was killed as she stormed the U.S.
Capitol on January 6, was, quote, processed, made productive, almost immediately after her death, transformed right away into yet another flag, like a new tarot card in the deck of fascism.
What flag?
What flag?
I never saw an Ashley Babbitt flag.
And she wasn't killed, she was murdered.
Oh, you racist.
Processed, made productive, almost immediately after her death, transformed right away.
No one talked about it.
This is a lie.
This reporting is some of the worst I've heard on NPR for a week or two.
Oh, par for the course.
We didn't even know who shot her for, I think, weeks and weeks.
It took a long time before we knew who shot her.
Then we heard it was an agent.
It was a long time before we knew the horrible truth, John.
He was black.
Processed, made productive, almost immediately after her death, transformed right away into yet another flag, like a new tarot card in the deck of fascism.
Holy mackerel!
A new tarot card in the deck of fascism.
And now she says something.
Boy, these guys really think they're hot shit.
Poets.
Poetry, baby.
It's poetry.
A new tarot card in the deck of fascism, where joined Gadsden, the coiled snake on... Wait, isn't it Gadsden?
It's not Gadsden.
What did she say?
I think it is Gadsden.
I thought it was Gadsden.
Gadsden.
Yeah, Gadsden.
But she says GAS-den.
What a dope.
What a dope.
In the deck of fascism, we're joined Gazdan, the coiled snake on yellow, and the Blue Lives Matter flag.
When I saw Ashley Babbitt, white woman, who had a mob, climbed up through a broken window, and a Capitol Hill police officer shot her and killed her.
So we saw only the hands of the officer, and it's a black man.
And I understood immediately, as a student of American mythology and history, this is the lynching story.
Innocent white womanhood killed by a black man.
This is the template of Hollywood.
You go back to The Birth of a Nation, one of the most influential movies of all time, 1915, based on a novel called The Clansmen.
It's a positive story about the Ku Klux Klan and a white woman flees from a dangerous black man and jumps over a cliff and dies, and thus the Klan must ride to adventure.
Ashley Babbitt was such a productive martyr because she's wearing an American flag outfit, kind of.
She's the only woman in this crowd, but she's really fierce and tough.
She's also a veteran.
I started traveling around the country watching the myth and formation.
Who Ashley Babbitt was doesn't matter to them.
I mean, this is so racist, so...
Oh, I'm going to use a modern word.
It's just racist.
I'm going to use a modern word.
This is the kind of left-leaning racism that just permeates the Democrat Party right now.
It's just completely out of control, and this interpretation of One of his many speeches, which are all pretty much the same.
If you've seen one, you've seen most of them.
It's onerous.
And then they come up with all this crazy, you know, the tarot card in the deck of fascism and all these other things.
It's ridiculous.
This is embarrassing.
How can you have a tarot card in the deck of racism at the same time you're referring to Jesus kicking out the money changers?
The deck of fascism.
Yeah.
Um, so now, now, of course, you have to understand that Ashley Babbitt, she's a perfect martyr for this, you know, as Hollywood, mainly a left-leaning outfit there, Hollywood, as they created this, this beautiful, you know, oh no, black man kills white woman.
Horrible.
Oh yes, this is what we hate in America.
Go Trump!
Given all the mismaking about Ashley, you looked into her life and what did you find?
Oh boy.
She documented her life very extensively.
8,000 tweets.
She made a lot of videos.
That's documenting your life alright, isn't it?
Twitter, that's a documenting of my life.
I found someone I think would surprise a lot of people.
Ashley Babbitt from Deep Blue, Southern California.
Kind of a beach person.
Votes for Obama twice.
Thinks he's the best president ever.
So how did she get from there to here?
What was the turning point?
The dead.
What do you think the turning point was?
How did she get from there to dead?
I mean here.
Brooke Gladstone?
Oh, let's find out.
She talks about a houseless man in Southern California.
A houseless man?
Oh boy.
We can't even say homeless anymore.
He's a houseless man.
A houseless man.
A houseless man.
Let's not offend anybody while we're doing this.
So all renters in the United States are houseless men.
That's correct.
She talks about a houseless man in Southern California defecating on her front lawn.
And the compassion she's tried to have in her life, she just says to hell with it.
And Trump is right there with this... He was right there.
On the sidewalk.
He was right there with this anti-poop message.
He's right there on the sidewalk saying, Ashley, Ashley Babbitt, I want you to be with me!
Be a martyr!
...is right there with this story.
You know what?
That anger you feel?
It's not anger.
It's love for your country.
You don't have to swim against the current.
Give into the undertow.
Let it take you out.
Here's white supremacy.
It's ready to carry you.
And now she's got a leader.
Poop on the front yard and white supremacy is all kind of the same thing?
If you have poop in the front yard, just let white supremacy carry you away into utopia.
This is the point.
Let it take you out.
Here's white supremacy is ready to carry you and now she's got a leader and she's got a mythology and it's so easy to go with it.
Well, if you're going to simplify it like that, I guess it is easy to go with it.
She has a meter.
I have the last clip.
And she has a mythology.
You never really talked about the mythology.
What's the mythology?
The mythology... Okay, I'm sorry.
I shouldn't be interrupting anymore because you just can never get this thing done.
Keep playing.
It's 39 seconds and we're over.
The speech Trump gave on Saturday after the indictment.
There's a key moment there where he's talking about cutting taxes and he gets cheers and then he starts talking about what he calls... Hold on, I have to stop you again.
I just want to point out this usage of after the indictment.
After the indictment.
Just to keep reminding us, if you don't remember this, Trump is an indicted guy.
Yes.
Indicted!
Which means he's probably guilty.
It must be!
Until proven innocent.
What are you talking about?
Stop that now.
Do I need to play our buddy?
John Brennan?
Yes.
Guilty.
Where is it?
I need to put this one back.
You should have it at the ready.
Yeah, I need to put it back.
Brennan, guilty.
Here we go.
This is what they really are talking about.
People are innocent until alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity.
That's it.
That's the mantra right there.
People are innocent until they're alleged to be involved in some kind of criminal activity.
Guilty!
The speech Trump gave on Saturday after the indictment, there's a key moment there where he's talking about cutting taxes and he gets cheers and then he starts talking about what he calls transgender craziness and he gets huge cheers.
He steps back.
And I've seen this moment in so many Trump ads.
He steps back.
He says, look at that.
You see, I'm talking about cutting taxes.
People go like that.
And he mimes moderate applause.
I talk about transgender, everyone goes crazy.
Who would have thought five years ago you didn't know what that- Hold on a second.
He didn't say transgender craziness.
He said, I talk about transgender, everybody goes crazy.
These people are literally hearing things.
What he calls transgender craziness, and he gets huge to it.
He steps back, and I've seen this moment in so many Trump ads.
He steps back, he says, look at that.
You see, I'm talking about cutting taxes.
People go like that.
And he mimes moderate applause.
I talk about transgender, everyone goes crazy.
Who would have thought five years ago you didn't know what the hell it was?
This is how Trump uses rallies.
He is not a leader.
He's riding this undertow.
He's the one saying, is this where we're going?
He says, five years ago nobody talked about it.
Who'd have thought?
Not him.
But he'll follow now.
Your national treasure, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay, he'll get a clip of the day for that work.
Oh, well, thank you.
It did take me a little bit of time to do that.
Meanwhile, it must irk these people to no end that Fox News does stuff like this with the Rhode Island co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
You know, this is my favorite story of the day.
Because it identifies with what I've seen in the barbershop.
All the brothers, for some reason right now, are turning tides right now.
And I just wonder, what is the big reason?
I think personally it's the duplicity of the Democrats.
The hypocrisy.
We're not stupid.
The brothers are not stupid.
We understand when someone's for us and when someone is not.
And it's obvious that the Democratic Party is not for us.
Their policies actually strike at the heart of the black family and the nuclear family.
Yeah, so, you know, you were part of Black Lives Matter, you founded it there, and now you're saying, you're not saying the entire Republican Party, you're saying Donald Trump.
So what is it about Donald Trump?
Is it the economics?
You noted the black family.
What is it going to take for him to sure up this support amongst black voters?
Well, I just think that it's going to take information.
A lot of people are misinformed.
They don't really understand because they don't educate themselves on Donald Trump as a person and his history.
But if they do that, and it's going to take, you know, leaders, educated leaders, getting the word out there.
I think that it'll happen on its own and it'll be organic because personally, I love the man.
I mean, how could you not like a real man?
How could you not relate to someone like that?
Oh, we can't have that.
He's a racist, don't you know that?
Yeah, that guy's going around.
He seems irked.
I want to bring in some Nikki Haley stuff here.
Because Nikki Haley is... Nimrod Haley.
Nimrod Haley is the one that...
What's her real name again?
She's the new op.
I know, but what's her real name?
You had it last time.
Oh yeah, it's... Nimrod.
I came up with Nimrod, but I... Yeah, Nimrod's good.
I like Nimrod.
We'll just use Nimrod Haley.
So she is being promoted by a bunch of rich guys.
Yeah, Koch brothers.
Well, Silicon Valley Republicans are backing her too.
I think some oil guys are backing her as well.
Yeah, they're all backing.
I don't know why.
Well, I do know why.
It's because they don't want Trump.
Yeah.
But she's no good.
Nim-a-ra-ta.
Nimrod.
Exactly.
Yeah, Nimrod.
Nim-a-ra-ta.
For short.
Yes.
So she's the new op.
She's the new op.
I think she's been that way ever since they started putting money in her favor.
And the thing that you notice, if you watch even Fox, oh, she won the debate.
Somehow she won the debate.
Nobody's winning these debates, but somehow she's coming out ahead!
And they keep pushing that, and they go, look at her numbers, they're going up!
This is a pathetic attempt to thwart Trump, for real.
It's very pathetic.
It's very pathetic.
And here's some examples, part one.
With a narrower field of candidates in the GOP primary, we are seeing the remaining candidates picking up major endorsements.
A political advocacy group backed by the Koch brothers recently threw their support behind Nikki Haley.
And today, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon also said that Haley is the candidate who has the best chance of unseating GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
What do we make of this?
Joining us to discuss is Mike Leon, host of Can We Please Talk Podcast.
Oh my God!
Podcaster!
Oh my God!
Well, this will change the tide.
We've got a podcaster.
Podcaster justice!
So she brings on a podcaster who doesn't know anything.
Why do they bring him on then?
I have no idea.
PR?
Maybe he has a PR person?
We can never get one because the PR people don't like us much.
They hate us.
That's what it is.
So they bring this guy on.
He's got nothing to say and it's actually kind of funny what he says because he's a stooge.
And by the way, the Koch brothers are notorious, even though they were mentioned a lot in 2015 and 2016 as terrible people.
But once they turned on Trump, they never liked Donald Trump.
So they sent him no support whatsoever, and then the talk of the Koch brothers just disappeared.
Because everyone's fine with them.
Okay, here we go.
Mike Leon, thank you so much for joining us.
Great to be back on the show.
Now, big donors, including the billionaire Koch brothers, are backing Nikki Haley for president.
That's the latest push to beat Trump.
How do you read this, especially given the polls?
Yeah, you know, it's so funny that now you're starting to see folks starting to weigh in.
We saw Iowa Governor Reynolds background to Santas.
Now we're seeing the donations that are coming in from the Koch brothers for Nikki Haley.
I read it as similar to last time I was on.
I was mentioning about how the debate performances went.
And I think right now people are starting to see Nikki Haley's ascension after these debates.
I mentioned to you, Tiffany, I'm going to take a victory lap about Tim Scott would probably be dropping.
And sure enough, he drops.
And I think what's happening right now is you're starting to see Wow, he's got a crystal ball there on that podcast.
I predict him Scott will drop out of the race.
I'm going to take a victory lap about dropping.
And sure enough, he drops.
And I think what's happening right now is you're starting to see even before we get to January and the Iowa primary, you're starting to see a consolidation.
And I think the money is starting to move towards Nikki Haley because we saw a poll in South Carolina trending upwards in her direction.
We've seen her shoot up in morning council polls, which registered Republicans as about 4000 or so in those polls.
And she's moving up continually there.
Now, the problem is, is that they're all chasing the person that's 40, 50 points ahead of them, but there's legal troubles ahead for the former president.
We know that there's going to be trial dates around key campaign dates.
Super Tuesday, for example, the former president could be in court.
And I think right now what you're seeing is the donors are starting to realize we have to put our money behind somebody that we think can not only beat Trump in the GOP primary, but could also beat President Biden in the general.
Nikki Haley's campaign has done that in terms of speaking to moderates and independents and Latinos and bringing in that coalition of voters.
And I think right now the ear of those donors, she has caught on because of the messaging, because of the way she's performed in these debates.
So, by the way, she's gaining ground in South Carolina where she was the governor.
I'd hoped she'd get some support.
Sounds to me like some of these special interests and donors are hedging their bets here because they don't think Trump can beat the rap.
And they want to have a backup horse.
Yeah.
That's what it sounds like.
She's not going to beat any Democrat.
She might not even beat Kamala Harris.
That would be a great combination to see.
It would be dynamite for the show.
Great for the show.
Mimi was a bitch the other day.
I said, what are you talking about?
This is all great for the show.
Really, Mimi?
I saw a picture of Mimi.
She looks great.
I love the color of her hair now.
She changes it.
Yeah, I like it.
I like it a lot.
I do.
On with the final clip of Nikki Haley.
Expanding on that point, what is Nikki Haley doing right that the donors are backing her?
Well, I think the biggest thing has been a dehumanizing word.
She has used this a bunch of different times when speaking about issues that Republicans have been getting hammered on in the midterms, specifically around abortion, women's reproductive rights.
She mentioned in the first debate with Martha McCallum from Fox News She mentioned it recently in the other debate.
I think the other big thing that I was telling somebody this, a Republican strategist this, is right now the U.S.
is involved in two wars, and there's a third potential looming with respect to whatever China does with Taiwan.
We have Russia-Ukraine, we have what's happening with Israel and Hamas, even though there's a pause right now in the fighting.
And I think foreign policy-wise, Nikki Haley is way above Some of these under candidates, specifically Vivek Ramaswamy, we've seen the back and forth he's had about Vladimir Putin and the way they would talk to President Xi of China.
So I think that's what's happening right now.
Foreign policy affects the US economy.
It affects things at home here, even though voters tend to rank it as lower issues.
The billionaire donors know that President Trump ran on no new wars and being able to navigate the foreign policy waters.
And I think Nikki Haley is carrying that torch.
She was a former ambassador to the UN.
And right now, she has put out the best plan in terms of messaging around what she would do for our allies involved in these wars and putting out the fires that could potentially come if China were to invade Taiwan.
That's why I think the money is shifting towards her.
She's a big war monger.
She's pro-Ukraine war.
Yes, military-industrial complex.
What is he talking about?
The guy is full of it.
He's part of the scheme.
Oh, of course.
This Nikki Haley thing is getting on my nerves.
I can tell.
I can tell.
No, it's... Yes, she is a war... She's a warmonger.
She's a hawk.
She's a McCain Democrat.
And, you know, when you think about the Koch brothers, don't they make stuff for war?
I'm sure they make stuff for war.
They're an oil company.
Yeah, the oil guys are behind... We're having dinner with the oil baron, the Texas oil baron.
You did?
No, we're having dinner next Wednesday, yeah.
And so I'm going to talk to him about it, because I know that buddies of his, and he may also be a Nikki supporter, I'm going to ask, because we know that really those guys want a Democrat to win.
Because that's how they're... Well, just look at the price of Exxon stock if you want some confirmation.
Exactly.
Biden gets in, the stock soars.
Yes, beautiful.
It's beautiful.
Even though they're patriotic and they're pro-America, but Nikki Haley may just be what the doctor ordered.
With that upside-down smile.
I think that's what bothers me the most about her.
I don't like her look in general.
She's got... Yeah, just because she has an upside-down smile that's like borderlining on a grimace.
And she's glib.
She's horribly glib.
Yeah, if we could just be, you know, very superficial for a moment and incredibly sexist.
That's what we do.
That's what our show does.
She got saddlebags.
Because that's what they do in real life, especially in the executive suites.
She got saddlebags.
She shouldn't be wearing jeans.
Well, she should wear a jacket.
Well, that part I didn't get to.
I didn't go that far.
Well, but, you know, I'm a fashion guy.
I'm a fashion guy.
I know, normally I'm a face guy.
Normally I'm a face guy.
But, yeah, she does not have a pleasant smile.
No.
Or just has a scowl, kind of.
Yeah, it's like borderline scowl.
Yeah.
Yeah, but it's going to resort to nothing.
It's just not going to work.
Do these people really believe that?
I think it's a backup.
I think it's a backup hedge.
And if Trump beats the rap, which I think he will, I mean, I don't think any of these cases will actually happen before the election, do you think?
They're gonna try.
I mean, they would like to find something to do to lock him up.
Yeah.
Literally.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, he can still run for president when he's locked up, can't he?
Yeah, he can and probably win.
Yeah.
And then he can pardon himself and good to go.
I don't know about that.
That's a big issue.
Nobody knows for sure.
It would be good for the show.
Here's the question for the show and for the listeners and for the patrol room and for the producers.
Who's Trump's vice president?
We've been pretty good at predicting these things.
Well, here's what I would do if I was him.
Nikki Haley!
No.
She hates Trump.
She won't do it.
I can't see that.
It'd be another bad selection.
It's gonna ask for an assassination.
No.
Nikki Haley is out.
Okay, I have another option then.
Comic strip blogger.
Alex Jones, anybody!
Do you think he has an idea?
Do you seriously think he has a thought about that?
He must, I guess.
Well, somebody must.
But I have not heard any speculation on any of these.
People like to speculate about this and that.
I've heard nothing in regards to Trump's vice president.
Sarah Huckabee?
Sarah Huckabee would be good, except it would be like, ah, look, he's taking a press secretary and making her vice president.
Well, she's also, I guess, the governor of Arkansas, so maybe that's something, but Sarah Huckabee would be great.
Then the only, Vivek?
Actually, calling, no.
Calling Sarah Huckabee, I think, is a good call.
I like that.
But she's of course not chimed in.
I haven't heard anything from the Huckabee camp.
He's got his own show, the old man does.
That could be a goofball vice president.
What was Pence?
He was a disc jockey.
They threw him in there.
Pants was just a... They were hedging their bets with pants, hoping for the best, and got pants.
We have quite a lot to talk about in our donation segment.
People decided, hey, I want a PhD before this ends, and I want to talk a lot about it.
In case you hadn't.
Yes, this is the worst group.
They had last minute Charlies.
Ooh, last minute Charlies.
This is a new thing.
So they're all last minute Charlies, because they decided at the very last minute, they could have done this weeks ago.
Where's this coming from?
Coming at the last minute is a huge list.
Massive.
Yeah.
And they all are last.
So last minute Charlies are the most talkative when they could.
But we're going to edit on the fly.
Whereas if they'd done this a week ago, or two weeks ago, we'd probably read the whole note.
Where does this come from, last-minute Charlie?
It's got to go back to the 30s, or some cartoon, probably, in a comic strip.
Maybe Charlie Chaplin?
Charlie Chaplin, last-minute Charlie?
No, definitely not Charlie Chaplin.
But before we do that, we have a couple of important business things we need to take care of.
One is the word of the year.
Merriam-Webster is keeping it real this year.
The dictionary company says authentic is the word of the year.
It's based on large numbers of searches for the term and its meaning.
Runners-up, influenced greatly by news events, included deepfake, coronation, and indict.
I wish indict had won.
Indict?
Indict would have been much better.
It's the word of the year!
Indict!
No, instead it's authentic.
What do you think people have been searching for when they're looking... And why do you need a definition of the word authentic?
Are you a moron?
That's what they said, is based upon searches for definitions.
It could be lies.
Oh, you think?
Merriam-Webster?
Lies?
And then the last thing, which is cropping up, and I think we're going to be hearing more of this, and it came through kind of a roundabout way.
I'd heard the term before because I knew that Amsterdam has implemented this.
Amsterdam, run by a socialist mayor, but an extremely socialist mayor.
It's called the donut economy.
Have you heard of this term, the donut economy?
No.
So the donut economy... I think if we have policemen out there, they may have heard of it.
Wow!
Actually, I have a... Wikipedia has a definition.
A visual framework for sustainable development shaped like a donut or life belt.
And Amsterdam has implemented this, it's called the Amsterdam City Donut, the Donut Economy, and it stems from a lady, Kate Raworth, who invented this word, and she's doing the circuit now, because of course she wrote a book about it, and everyone's talking, oh the donut economy, and I think it will catch legs, I think it's got legs, oh the donut.
I don't think so.
Ah, really?
Well, my first initial impression was about the police having a doughnut.
I mean, that's a deal killer.
Would you like to hear her explain the doughnut economy?
Oh yeah, sure.
Tell me about your doughnut.
Tell me the inspiration behind the doughnut.
Tell me the inspiration behind the doughnut.
She's falling apart already.
What the doughnut means.
So the doughnut I offer you is the only one that actually turns out to be good for us.
It's incredibly healthy because it's a vision for thriving life.
But yes, think of a doughnut the kind with a hole in the middle.
I think of humanity's use of Earth's resources radiating out from the centre of that picture.
This means that the hole in the middle of the donut is a place where people are left falling short on the essentials of life.
That's where people who don't have the resources for health and education, for housing and security, for income and voice are falling short.
We want to leave nobody in the donut's hole.
Now you could say that was a very 20th century goal.
Increase our economies, grow GDP and everyone will have the resources they need to meet their needs.
So we have to add to this a very 21st century understanding that as we use Earth's resources we come up against an ecological limit beyond which we must not go because that is where we overturn an Transform the life support systems.
We depend on this living planet.
We depend upon a stable climate and fertile soils and healthy oceans and thriving ecosystems.
And when economies seek to grow forever, they undermine that delicate web of life.
Do you understand it yet?
No, she's full of shit, whatever she's saying.
This is not going anywhere.
Nice try, lady.
I'm telling you, this is going places.
No.
Well, one more clip and... Take a bite out of it.
So the donut says, leave no one in the hole, but don't overshoot Earth's limits.
And this is the goal we strive for.
So the hole is that vortex in the middle where people plunge into... It's not a vortex.
...poverty and deprivation.
Yes.
The edges are...
The diseases of civilization or excesses harming the planet, using more than you need.
No, this guy gets it.
And forcing more people in the middle.
So the fleshy part is the good part, the healthy part.
If you had to describe the current state of the global donut and the current fleshy part, is it a very thin one?
So the current state of the global doughnut is a double whammy crisis.
Billions of people are falling short.
Billions of people live in that hole in the middle.
We know that billions of people don't have enough food to eat every day or have clean water.
Many kids don't go to school.
Millions, billions of people have no access to the most fundamental primary health care.
And at the same time, collectively, humanity has Overshot at least six of the nine planetary boundaries we recognize on climate breakdown, on land conversion, on biodiversity loss, on excessive fertilizer use.
So this is our inheritance at the beginning of the 21st century and it is resulting from the deeply degenerative I'm telling you, everyone's going to be talking about the doughnut economy because it's so convoluted and so retarded.
People will use it.
I love the global doughnuts.
No one's going to use it.
You heard it here last.
You want to put five bucks on it?
I could take that out of the 500 you're going to owe me shortly.
Okay.
What do you mean?
What do you mean shortly?
What?
So, uh, no, I'm not betting on any of this.
Betting on the show is a bad idea.
It means, it tells the producers that we got money to throw away.
Oh, $500, $5.
That's right.
Throwing it away.
Uh, okay.
I'm telling you, the global doughnut... And it's a thing that will never end.
It's not like something that's got no end point.
I'll put five bucks that by the end of... No, it's just not even worth it.
It's too much work to create the boundaries around the bet.
Yeah, we don't need to bet on it.
But I have a good feeling about this one.
Oh, you'll never hear it again.
Amsterdam is the shining sparkle, the glaze on the global donut.
Yeah.
Yeah, that glaze is not sugar.
With that, I'd like to thank you for your courtesy.
In the morning to you, the man who put the C in the last minute, Charlie's!
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore!
In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, all the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Hello, trolls!
Oh, man.
Oh, no, no, no.
Oh, man.
1745.
Oh, no, no, no. 1745.
We're failing.
We're failing.
Trolls are deserting us.
Yeah, they're deserting us.
Left and right.
I think they get sick of it.
It was the donut.
I apologize.
The donut.
You drove them off.
I drove them off with the donut.
So sorry.
By the way, we've driven a lot of people off in the past couple of weeks.
Why's that?
Oh, we wouldn't choose a side in Israel versus Hamas.
Oh yeah, that gets people worked up.
Yeah, and I just want to say- We have a lot of people sending us notes saying it's the best show ever.
Well, I would say that we don't want to be liked, we just want to be respected.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
That's right.
That'll get us through Christmas.
Yeah, but I mean that.
You know, you will not goad us into it.
We're not interested in your stupid social media fights.
We're just deconstructing media showing you what's happening.
It's all we do.
Yeah, and we come up with some gems from time to time.
Yeah, the donut being one of them.
A topper.
Thank you.
Well, come on, we had a bagel, we had a donut, you know.
That's true.
We had, we got the breakfast foods are the theme for today's show.
Breakfast foods are the theme.
I want to thank the trolls for being here.
We appreciate you.
You always have interesting, you help us a lot.
For sure.
You help me a lot, so I appreciate it.
I've developed this skill where sometimes it's just like, oh, there's something going on.
I look over there and there's the troll room with the answer or something going on.
Or a good segue.
The trolls are important.
It's a live studio audience.
People should try this more often.
If you're doing a podcast.
If you dare.
But you don't have to do editing, post-production.
No, we don't do any of that.
We also don't have cameras and sitting there with headphones.
We are just two guys who have some expertise and we love sharing it with you.
And the trolls are a part of that and we appreciate it.
And it's good to troll here so you get it out of your system.
Because it just goes away.
It goes away.
It's true.
You don't get in trouble, you know.
And you can sleep easily.
You know, it's like when you troll, troll in the troll room.
That's why it's called the trollroom.io, trollroom.io, or use a modern podcast app, which you can get at podcastapps.com, which has this, a lot of cool features, including the live feature.
You can get in the troll room by going to noagendastream.com.
It's the same thing as trollroom.io.
It goes to the same place.
But yeah, if you want to call No Agenda, why do you say, why do you bring that up?
Because I went to it today to see why you weren't online.
I was online.
It was clean feed.
Not when I went to No Agenda Stream.
Oh, no.
Okay, whatever.
There was still Derek.
Yeah, we had some issues connecting on clean feed.
Yeah, it's okay.
We love clean feed.
It is, it's good.
Someone emailed me.
How do you do that?
It can't be just clean feed.
Well, a lot of it's clean feed.
And of course, Mike.
How do you do what?
How do you create such a great sound between you and John?
I said 45 years of experience and clean feed.
Clean feed's an element of it.
Yeah, clean feed and 45 years of experience.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We know what we're doing.
Probably the 45 years is more.
It might.
It might help a little bit.
Anyway, you can always participate in that.
We appreciate you being here, trolls.
You can, of course, troll along if you want, and post your memes at noagendasocial.com, which, luckily, we have that going on today, so Sir Paul Couture can have the... Let me see if the art generator, because we will need to talk about it, actually.
Has he got it going yet?
Let me check.
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Seems like it's still a problem.
That's not a good sign, typically.
When it takes hours to bring something back from a hardware problem.
These systems are getting worse and worse over time.
I hope he doesn't have to make a trip to the data center.
That would be bad.
It's probably AI, you know, that attacked us.
Call Jen, tell her that we're having problems with the art generator.
I'm sure we'll get some email submissions that we'll have to browse through.
No, Paul Couture is managing on knowagentosocial.com and they'll tag us so we'll be able to choose it right from there.
What we won't be able to do Unfortunately, is thank our artists by critiquing them.
That's a shame.
The only thing we can do, so we're Value for Value, which is what we've been throughout the duration of this program.
Oh, by the way, I did my interview with Mike Adams from Brighteon.
Yeah, Mike Adams, who's the Nature guy.
No, I don't think he is the same guy.
No, I looked it up.
Oh, he's the same guy?
He is.
The guy who founded Brydeon is the same guy.
He's the health ranger.
Yeah.
But he's a nice guy.
Really nice.
He seems like a really nice guy.
And he was very knowledgeable, and his partner there on the podcast, Todd, he's a No Agenda producer, and he loves the show and had a lot to say about it.
And he hasn't released it yet, but at a certain point, I want to give him kudos, right?
I said, by the way, Mike, you know, we talk about You know, Brydeon, often on the show, he says, you do, I say, usually goes like this.
John will say, where did you get that clip from, Brydeon?
He thought it was funny.
No, I usually say rumble.
That's not true.
I rarely... No, Brydeon is when it's really... I rarely besmirch Brydeon.
That's not true.
It's a lie.
Only when it's a really nutty clip do we both say that must be from Brydeon.
He thought it was funny.
So anyway, we appreciate him.
So yes, it's value for value.
We talked about that a lot, which he thought was outstanding.
People really love this idea.
It's spreading.
It's become a term unto itself.
So instead of tipping or No, no, no.
Value4Value.
If you get any... V4V.
V4V.
Value4Value.info.
If you get anything... It was a four.
It was a number four.
That's right.
Number four in the middle.
If you get anything out of this podcast, which we don't have behind a paywall.
There's no tiers, no subscription, no Patreon levels.
No secret.
Secret bonus?
No, what is it?
Premium content?
No.
Premium content to me is the most insulting thing you can do as a podcaster.
Yes, but next to going on Fox.
I think it's basically insulting.
People should note that.
Yes, it is.
It's insulting.
If you're listening to something and then they say, if you want premium content, subscribe to our Patreon.
Yeah, go to Locals.
Hello, Scott Adams.
Yes, it is insulting.
I agree.
It's insulting.
So we don't insult you.
In fact, we don't even insult you by calling you fans, or audience, or listeners.
You are producers.
And douchebags.
Well, there are douchebags.
And producers return value back to the show, and you do it in three ways.
Time, talent, or treasure.
There's so many ways that people contribute to this program.
Boots on the ground.
Making art is one of them, of course.
Giving us leads, information, making clips, making whoopee.
And also promoting the show, hitting people in the mouth.
There's many ways you can do that and we love our artists.
I wish we could critique all of them because we usually get, you know, these days close to 20 pieces of art that we want to talk about why we didn't choose it.
So we'll just talk about the one that we did choose for episode 1611.
We called that Podcast Pro.
Why do we title it Podcast Pro?
I don't even remember why.
Was that a... Because it was that we were mocking The term, because somebody indicated in one of our clips that you, we were playing, it was a long story, but it was a mockery.
Yes, clearly a mockery.
A title.
Yes.
A mockery.
Now the artwork was from Francisco Scaramanga, who is now two in a row.
If he nails this next one, it's the hat trick.
This is going to be hard.
Well, there were many pieces to choose from, and we chose kind of a, I would say, a compilation piece.
There were probably about five good pieces in that group.
There were.
This was a compilation piece, which had, it had RFK Jr., Seal, and Hawk.
Which is the clincher, by the way.
That's one of the reasons we picked this piece.
That was the clincher.
It was a cute little Ukrainian girl with a drone.
Then we thought, and this has to be, this has to be AI.
Oh, totally.
I would like to just scare him on and say it's not AI.
But I think he did compose it because it was like, it looks like there's a couple of pieces from, you know, he maybe done a couple of pieces of AI and put them together.
Then he obviously put the title and the Korean Dvorak thing on himself with an overlay.
But I think the basic Peace with the girl and the drone is AI.
Now, the seal and the hawk on the seal's head was hilarious.
So stupid.
Stupid yet cute.
Yeah, it had something.
I got pushback from people.
Hey, man, falconing and hawking is not a rich boy sport.
I said, well, have you seen the video of RFK Jr.
with his hawks?
It looked pretty douchey to me, you know, walking out in the field, having your hawk destroy another animal in midair.
I don't know.
It didn't feel kind of weird to me.
Well, it may be, it may be not a rich, maybe most rich boys would never take it up and it might be more... Maybe I'm confused with falconing.
I guess falconing... Same thing.
Well, falconing, some of those birds go for a million bucks in Saudi Arabia, in the desert.
Well, if the birds go for a million bucks, then it's the rich boys.
I'm telling you, some of those birds go for a lot of money.
For example, let's bring up our executive producer in residence, or Hollywood producer in residence, David Brunetti.
He's actually made friends with a hawk, like a friend.
Really?
Yeah, a little hawk, baby hawk, sat next to him.
He's documented most of this on his Instagram.
A little baby hawk started hanging out with him.
And as the hawk grew up, he'd come by and say hi every once in a while.
I think he could...
Turn that hawk into a falcon for falconing, and it would maybe become worth a million.
I predict the seal is in his future, in his pool.
The seal's in the pool.
The seal in the pool is coming up next.
He's becoming an elitist.
Well, thank you very much, Francisco Scaramanga, and hopefully we'll, well, who knows?
As John says, it's going to be tough, but you could have a hat trick.
There's only a few who have done it.
Then we hope we'll have, and we of course thanks Sir Paul Couture for running the noagendaartgenerator.com for how many years?
12?
13?
At least 10.
Well him and Randy Asher did a previous site which he lost.
And that was Drupal.
That was headless Drupal.
That didn't run very well.
I think the Drupal came later.
I think when Couture took it over, just Sol as a solo, I think he's the one who implemented the Drupal code.
Ah, okay.
Well, that didn't last.
It became a new site, the old site, which has a lot of old art in it.
Did we lost all that?
I don't know.
Well, I have a backup of, you know, up until about, was it maybe six weeks ago?
Believe me, there's plenty of art.
Yeah, there's art.
But it's sad when that happens, particularly on a show day.
And don't sweat it, Sir Paul Couture, we love you.
It'll work out.
Don't worry about it.
So then what is left is a long list of lengthy notes, but much appreciated because it's great for the show, of executive and associate executive producers, and of course, Wednesday was the last day The last day for the triple bagger of a no-agenda Ph.D., an official Ph.D.
certificate, the whole deal, which begets you a Insta Knight or Insta Dame and, or a title upgrade, and an executive producership.
And, wow.
You know, people just really came in at the last minute.
Last-minute Charlies came in.
Last-minute Charlies.
Last-minute Charlies.
Fried of Droves.
Frank Adzinsatz.
I wonder if that's how you pronounce it.
Adzinsatz.
He's in Armidale, Victoria, Australia.
And I haven't seen one of these numbers in a while.
1-2-5-6-8-7.
There's got to be something up with that.
Maybe that's what it takes to get to a thousand since it's dollary dues.
He says, last day of PhD opportunities, something I would not miss.
So a donation of one, two, five, six, eight, seven, which also takes me to the official US dollar total to become Duke Frank.
There you go.
To be known henceforth as the Duke of Frankness.
No jingles, just some revenue generating karma.
Keep up the amazing work spreading the message and evidence about how inept and compromised most of the mainstream media is today.
Thank you.
You nailed it there.
That's exactly what we do.
Regards, Frank, oh, Agenstat.
There you go.
Pronunciation guide.
Armadale, Victoria, Australia.
Duke of frankness.
Yes, you shall be the Duke momentarily.
And here's that karma you asked for, my friend.
You've got karma.
Robert Dawson, who happens to be in Taiwan, came in with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
And this took a while to get through.
He was working on Zelle and then he did something.
He finally got some money through using Capital One, going straight into the bank.
It was a week of work back and forth and back and forth.
So Jay was on that the whole time?
No, I was actually.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
So, uh, he got it in.
And by the way, there will be some laggards that, you know, there's a guy who said, send a pile.
There's some stuff that's going to come in the mail.
It's going to be postmarked.
It's going to be late.
So we're going to have a few more of these.
We, of course, have enough PhDs for all.
We don't care.
Nope.
Uh, except for the long notes, but luckily Dawson didn't have a long note.
He says, looking forward to taking a seat next to all the Knights and Dames and UHPSDs at the illustrious roundtable.
I'll take a big portion of that mutton and meat.
I'll bring high mountain oolong and the whole group.
At the end of our twice-weekly banquets.
He's in Taiwan, which has terrific food.
Great oolong.
He's having banquets twice a week.
Cheers, John and Adam.
Thank you for all the bottom of my heart, and my wife's bottom, too.
Ha!
Here's to the next 16 years.
Karma all around.
All right.
Karma all around.
Thank you very much, Robert Dawson.
You've got karma.
Karma and oolong.
Derek Highbrink, Plymouth, Minnesota.
1-2-3-4-5-6.
ITM, thank you for your media deconstruction.
No agenda has kept me company for over 10 years on long car rides and long distance runs.
Please knight me, Sir Derek, protector of Star Lake.
I'm looking forward to checking the graduate degree box in the next census.
Yeah, yeah, I guess.
Is there a box for that?
I guess there is a box for that.
Must be.
Way to go.
I like it.
Jingles.
F cancer karma for all listeners.
You've got karma.
I checked the box because I thought that's what you meant.
That's right, man.
Pluma.
1-1-1-1-1-1.
RoaDix.
What's a RoaDix?
Yeah, it's a big RoaDix.
Lots of ground to cover today.
Forgive the lengthy note.
I'm a proud monthly supporter, as everyone should be!
All caps.
And grateful is the common word to accurately describe what is gained through your tireless devotion to the process and production quality and the unparalleled lessons on deconstruction.
Wow.
As a lifelong student, I'm thrilled to receive the No Agenda PhD, executive producer, etc.
Hook up my soul sister Kelly Rigo with 11111 is the $111.11 of producer credit for upcoming 40th birthday.
You can keep track of that.
On January 4th.
I hope she's on the list.
I don't know.
This is a nightmare for Jade to put this thing together today.
No kidding.
Other people would have quit.
And please decree me as Pluma Dame of the Feathered Whales.
Oh, it's a her.
Oh, nice.
Pluma.
It's a her.
Pluma's a her.
By trade, I've worked in radio, film, TV festivals and events for more than a decade.
I've held a creative producer role in a bent toward projects that raise consciousness and help us all become better humans, which appears to be a lifelong mission.
I'm between projects now and a very inspiring gig in Saudi Arabia is at a standstill.
So I'm putting my faith in some sweet pagan jobs of karma.
I'm glad she mentioned pagan jobs, Carmen.
We have a number of people that refuse karma because it's pagan.
Although it's not really, in this case.
It's not for them.
It's no agenda.
Divine assignment from the Hui Hui Shores of Hawaii.
She's in Hawaii.
Mahalo Nui Loa for your courage.
Put Kelly Rigo on the birthday list and give her a biscuit.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
Got that.
Gem and bolt mezcal at the round table.
Hold the fruit.
Alright, here's your monk karma.
You've got karma.
I forgot about that one.
We have Kevin McLaughlin, Concord, North Carolina, our boob man!
And he comes... What about Kirk?
I'm sorry, we got Kirk Pettis.
It scrolled past him.
The spreadsheet.
I'm sorry.
Kirk Pettis, Hopkins, Minnesota.
1,100.
Thank you, John and Adam.
J-O-N.
Truly the best podcast in the universe.
The last 11 years has ingrained inspiration and reverberation.
The PhD has triggered my vanity and forced the procrastination.
Hey!
Made another rhyme.
King me.
King me.
Knight me as Sir Rain, the Kingmaker PhD.
Karma for all!
You've got karma.
So Kevin McLaughlin decides to come in, and I would have never...
I've seen him as a last-minute Charlie since he's very consistent.
He is.
Concord, North Carolina, 1-0-8-0.
He's got boob in there.
1-0-8-0-0-8, which is a PhD with a boob donation incorporated.
And a twist.
He wants cancer karma for all those who need it.
Could you please squeeze the melon mix by Sound Guy Steven to the end of the show?
And we did that.
Archduke of Lunars, 1612.
1612. You bet, boy.
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
Then we have BioLife member Drury.
Oak Grove, Missouri.
1044.
Sirs, you both always make my day when listening.
My wife is so sick of me sitting with my earpods on giggling to myself.
I've had the show on in the car many times.
Make her listen.
I've had the show on in the car many times during our constant travels.
She just doesn't get it.
Oh well, her loss, I figure.
I've been a listener since episode 104.
I did go back and listen to the previous 103 episodes as well.
I don't remember what the name of the show was I listened to that mentioned your podcast, but it was a Jack Love or something like that, who was at the time a regular on Alex Jones, a regular Alex Jones guest from Austin, Texas.
He was copying your value for value system.
That's not copying.
That is open source.
We want people to move to this.
It's the only way forward.
The only way.
I was so intrigued by this way of doing business that I had to listen in.
I'd say, in a roundabout way, my donations are an Alex Jones donation.
He's always right, by the way.
Even though I no longer listen to him unless Adam is a guest.
I would humbly ask to become Sir Curl the Wagons, protector of the Missouri Ozarks from Moberly South to Branson.
This is definitely the most beautiful part of the country of ours.
I've set in place a plan that allows no agenda listeners... Oh, yes.
The opportunity to visit the Ozarks.
Please release this email to NoAgendaNation.
It's NoAgendaReservations at gmail.com.
NoAgendaReservations at gmail.com.
And any reservations of his properties will be discounted 60% to 70% if you email him.
We've seen his properties.
They're nice properties in the Ozarks.
If you're looking for a trip there, then definitely hit him up.
And he wants the jingles fisting nuts and the whole load.
I got that for you.
Just go for it, John.
Tell us your peeve about the fisting method of eating snacks on an airplane.
I see this on the airplane and it's very annoying and I think it will result in fights breaking out because it's just so annoying to watch.
Guy takes his bag of peanuts and throws a pile of them into his palm of his hand and then he makes a fist.
I'm gonna give you the whole load today.
There you go.
It's a little too long.
It's not quite a jingle.
So, there you go, man.
Thank you.
Matt Liebeck in Rimrock, Arizona.
There's another one.
I had to go back.
He wanted to do a direct deposit and managed to go to PayPal anyway.
1033.33.
And that 33.33 is the PayPal fee.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much.
I'll keep it short and sweet.
I couldn't pass up the PhD from the guys who taught me so much.
And I need a de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
I'll take the show credit and the PhD, but I'd like to pass the knighthood to my dad, John.
Hopefully that got on there.
Yeah, I think it did.
God bless you both, and no jingles, no karma.
Thanks for your courage.
And it's pronounced Lee-bick.
Lee-bick.
Not Lie-bick.
Lee-bick.
Matt Lee-bick.
Justin Frank Polgar is in Santa Cruz, California.
1-0-3-3 and a penny.
In the morning, Professors Currie and Dvorak, thank you for your dedication to this craft.
Chocolate blessings to all Gitmo Nationals.
Put those blessings in your mouth at yescoco.com!
Yes, Coco.com.
That's Coco with a C-A-O.
C-A-O, yeah.
ITM gets you 11% off.
I earned my bachelor's degree in introspective humanistic behavior from UC Santa Cruz.
Yes, I created the major.
I've spent the last 15 years making chocolate and rehearsing reality.
Not for the greater good, but for the greatest great.
God wins!
After thousands of hours of amygdala squashing on the 333rd day of 2023, a PhD in media deconstruction is the next obvious yes.
Can't wait to hear Adam's motivational commencement speech.
It's going to be a long one.
For my knighthood, I should be known as Sir, yes, sir!
For the feast, please have durian, uni, and my hot wife on a platter.
I'll bring the chocolate.
For jingles, it's a good time for the shape-shifting Jews, JCD's ants, and pasta glock.
You're asking for a lot, my friend.
Hold on a second.
It's, uh... Ants.
Oh, man.
It's all going to be short pieces of it because this would be by itself six minutes if we played all of it.
Roll up.
I got hands.
Man, I can't find it.
Nice fade, Curry.
I got ants.
Man, I can't find it.
I got ants.
I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my noodle gun.
You racist piece of shield.
I got my pasta glock locked and loaded.
There we go.
These are not jingles, these are mixes.
Yeah, these are not jingles, people.
I would mention, since he did mention about getting a, he made his own major, at the University of California system throughout the state, you can make up your own major.
Really?
And you just go to your council, counselor will put together with the courses you need.
And so you could get a degree in media deconstruction from Cal Berkeley if you, if you wanted to, but you know, just you get one from the No Agenda Show for less money and time.
Cal Berkeley, it'll cost you $150,000.
Sir, Midnight of the Rivers in Pensacola, Florida, 1022.52.
PhD with a small duck-duck-grey-duck donation.
Minnesota producers will understand.
Please give me a title change to Sir Jason Rivers and some F-cancer karma.
Thank you for your courage.
Thank you for your courage.
You've got karma.
Sir Don, with a thousand thirteen and a swazzling off at the end, 69 cents, I went to college for eight years from 1998 to 2006, earned five bachelor's degrees, a doctorate wasn't available for my field of interest, they've been completely worthless in my professional life.
Sounds about right.
Listening to the best podcast in the universe for the last 16 years has provided far more education and the lifelong value than college ever could, even the alcohol and drugs part.
I threw my diplomas away many years ago, but I will proudly hang the No Agenda PhD on my office wall.
I'd also like to say happy birthday to my smoking hot mill fiancé, Dame Audra of Legoland, who celebrates 45 trips around the sun December 1st.
Love you most, baby!
Unfortunately, she needs to be called out as a douchebag for not donating for nearly two years.
Well, that's not real.
Douchebag is someone who has never donated, so you're kind of harsh on your lovely lady there.
She says, baronet sounds too feminine for the savage beast of a man I am, so until I reach baron status, I humbly request a title change from Sir Don to Doctor Don so she can brag about marrying a doctor.
Can you please play the French Bulldog F-35 Goat Screams capped with a R2-D2 relationship, Karma?
Oh my goodness.
Um, okay.
That's not exactly the way you'd call it.
But I can do some of that, I think.
Yes, I can.
You've got karma.
You've got karma.
I'm not going to go.
I am Scott Clark from Hudson Oaks, Texas, wherever that is.
1-0-1-0-1... 1,010.
Uh, please de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
Please call out my douchebag nephew, Ty Walker.
DOUCHEBAG!
He says, I think you need to have something worse than a douchebag.
You should use it for people like my douchebag nephew, Blake Walker!
So is that another douchebag?
Who didn't have the common courtesy to hit me in the mouth?
Minor switcheroo, please credit five dollars.
You do all the accounting for Ty, Blake.
I don't want douchebags at my house for the holidays.
I'm keeping the thousands for my knighthood and PhD.
Please knight me Sir Viper 515.
Uh, you'd like a Parrot's Bay, uh...
Coconut Rum 90 and a Barks Red Cream Soda and West Milton, Ohio Fireman's Waffles.
You only get two at the round table.
We'll give you all of them.
Jingles!
Whoopin' with the Constitution Sharpton and hoping for a no-exit strategy, M. Scott Clark.
Now get out there and whoop Obama's butt!
It's a slide whistle mix, I forgot about that.
Oh my god, ace.
Jesus.
Kill it.
R-E-S-P-I-C-E.
What, you got somewhere to be?
Kill it.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
What, you got somewhere to be?
No, I'm here.
Then we have Jack Ash, Snohomish, Washington.
That's a great name.
Jack Ash.
In the morning, gents, I've been meaning to donate for a while now, but kept putting it off as I've been meaning to put a note together with a little insight slash boots on the ground on a few things y'all have mentioned over the last several months.
I've been listening more earnestly.
I heard Adam on Rogan a few years back and listened sporadically until early this year.
Anyway, this is not that note.
Thank you.
Just bugging you guys for a title and another sheepskin.
I'd like to known as Sir Jack Ash.
Pronounced as one word akin to Jack Ash.
Yeah, I got it.
Wandering Sasquatch of the Gardena, Snohomish, and Watauga Valleys.
Hereafter the monikers Jack Ash or That Damn Sasquatch will suffice.
Aside from the standard fare, I'd like to will again...
Kiwilango Burger from Bareback Grill, Pizza Port Beer Buddies, Jagger Fries from Fred's Rivertown Alehouse, and Apex IPA from Sound to Submitting Brewing Squass at the Roundtable.
You only get two.
Don't do these things.
They're just doing it to... This is... You're a narcissist!
But we love you.
OXO, O by O to more closely match Adam's 5 by 5.
How I see it when he says 5 by 5 in my shorthand.
No jingles, no karma.
Thanks again, gents.
Thank you, Jack Ash.
So long, Jack Ash.
Jack Ash.
Chris Fosgate, 1000 parts unknown.
Congratulations on making it to 1611.
Well, it's 1612 now.
No agenda is the only source of news I can stand these days, so very glad that you both invest your time in superior media deconstruction.
Skills.
Thanks for all you do.
Night, me Sir Chris.
Night in the Kansas City real estate.
No jingles, no karma.
There you go.
There's a note.
That's a note.
How about this one though?
Joel Hansen from Odesco, California.
1000.
Sir Schmoll of the Skinny White Guys.
Keystone Light and Kibble for my noble steeds.
You guys rock!
Thank you for your courage.
Now that's what I call a good note.
Andy Cracciolo in Phoenix, Arizona, which is also where they put a lot of people in witness protection.
Oh, really?
One thousand!
ITM, gentlemen, it's been over a year since my last donation.
It almost sounds like time.
Almost sounds like time since my last donation.
Anywho!
Life has been tragic and all over the place, but I won't bore you with that information.
I just wanted to wish you two a belated Thanksgiving.
Have an amazing end of year.
You two deserve a lot more than you've ever received for all the hard work and entertainment you provide.
Thank you so much for everything.
I have no idea what my current title is.
Last was Baron Crack, ruler of Arizona and Cabo.
Cabo, baby.
But I think with this, I hopefully get a PhD.
And then if I'm late, then enjoy the spoils.
Extra mutton and meat, please.
And the F-35 Gold Scream.
Karma.
Gold Scream.
You've got... Karma.
Sir Dave, the reformed baronet, 1000.
What a bargain!
Removing the douchey guilt of overdue V for V and a PhD.
Can't pass this up.
This also makes me a baronet, Sir Dave, the reformed baronet.
If that's a title change, I request that Bob Dylan, the titles are a change in intro.
You got it.
Thanks for the very best media deconstruction.
Six hours a week, no jingles, no karma, Sir Dave, the reformed baronet.
Hmm.
Robin Robson.
Or Robeson, I guess.
Robeson.
1000.
John, I'm near Spuzzum!
He's in Canada.
I'll say he's from Spuzzum.
Yes.
He always gets a laugh in Canada.
I've told the story before.
I was giving my first speech and it was in Vancouver and the guy comes up to me and says, you want to get a laugh?
I said, yeah.
He says, just somehow work in the town name of Spuzzum.
True.
I got a huge laugh.
Yes, of course.
I shall henceforth be known as Sir Robin of the Wack.
Chilliwack, BC.
Get it?
Candanavia.
Please de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
I couldn't pass up this chance to become a PhD Knight.
Rogan Donation.
Rogan Donation.
Anonymous comes in with a switcheroo.
Adam and John, hope this finds you well.
$1,000.
I'm writing as I'm making a $1,000 donation to the show in honor of my friend Tom.
Tom introduced me and several others to No Agenda in 2019.
We haven't been here since the beginning, but we have been here through COVID, Ukraine, and all the distractions.
Tom's wife went to heaven a few weeks ago at the much too young age of 43.
Oh, man.
Leaving behind Tom and their three wonderful kids.
I'm sure he has- sounds like he has a great set of friends and community around him.
So in memory of Tom's wife, we are making the donation such that Tom forever claims his seat at the No Agenda Roundtable and knows the support of all the knights, dames, and douchebags that make up the No Agenda family.
Tom will be known as Sir Thomas, Lord of the Ham Radio Hobbits.
No karma, please, but we do wish for a de-douche- You've been de-douched.
And we also request a full-throated, that's bullcrap from John.
That's bullcrap!
That is one of the best ones you've done.
That may be a show opener.
Well, they can use that for their ringtone.
Do people still do ringtones?
It's even called a ringtone.
Yeah, I think some people do and most people do.
One that's the most annoying is the people that have the phone ring, that lousy old-fashioned ring.
Yeah, that's just annoying.
Yeah.
Remco Dvrijer.
Dvrijer.
In penis Rotterdam.
Pernis.
Oh, I thought it says penis.
Yeah, no, it says there's an R in there.
Pernis.
Oh, 1,000.
I missed it.
About two years ago, I hired Dame Tutehola following a tweet about her being fired for not getting the shot.
Tutehola.
She immediately hit me in the mouth and I never missed the show since.
Uh, I'm glad that I'm no longer a douchebag.
I'm no longer Douchebag Remco and I would like to be known as Sir Remco, Knight of Tevisa and the Spanish, Spanish, Spanish refuge of Ribera Debra.
I expect Dame Tutola to change my name accordingly on her phone contacts.
She now has me listed as Douchebag Remo.
No jingles, but health karma for everyone who needs to keep up the good work.
Sir Remco Knight of Tevisa and Spanish Refuge of Ribera de Bra.
From penis the Netherlands.
Penis the Netherlands.
You've got karma.
And the ducks go crazy!
Oh, look at this!
We have www.wilddirtco.com Hello!
For my Inc.
tonight, please dub me Sir Viber of Still Waters and de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
And because I have this opportunity, I'm offering all No Agenda producers $333 off any land purchase, as well as a $330 switcheroo donation in your name if you go to www.wilddirtco.com and buy some land!
We specialize in super rural and desirable parcels of raw land, homestead, or bug out, all with payment plan options.
How about that?
I gotta look at that myself.
Well, that's a business.
I love the bug out.
I need some bug out land.
Bug out land.
We gotta go bug out.
We gotta bug out, man.
We had a very busy...
Very busy season, are running low on inventory.
Oh, while stocks last!
The $3.33 plus $3.33 deal at WildDirtCo.com is open to you from now until eternity.
Thank you for your service.
P.S.
A P.S.A.
Really?
We are currently in a golden age of memes and some of the best curated memes are found on No Agenda Social.
However, fellow memers, we can do better.
No likes and no boosts means your post is subpar and you failed to hit the mark.
Let's up our game, boys and girls.
Stop posting trash.
I'm with you on that.
That's exactly what I wanted to say.
That was well put.
I want to look at wilddirtco.com.
While you do that, I'm going to go to Vaus, Vaus, Vaus.
Vaus.
Viscount of Hamilton.
1,000.
Greetings from the beautiful Westfield, Indiana.
That's where he's from.
This is the Viscount of Hamilton and the two and the two pennies supporting your excellent program.
Signing up for the PhD for myself and also the Insta Dame.
My better half is another one of those split donations and obtain a PhD for her as well.
Ah, he does have a second one here from the Viscount of Hamilton for Dame Missy.
Also $1,000.
He's put $2,000 and it should be at the top.
She is certainly worthy of having listened since the beginning.
Hitting me in the mouth would be a surprise.
Early Christmas gift for her.
For now, let her be Dame Missy for the ceremony, and she can let you know if she prefers another name.
God willing, we will be at the Indy Meetup on Monday.
Monday, Monday, Monday!
Monday.
So no J, no K, and God bless you both.
Yours truly, the Viscount of Hamilton and the Two Pennies.
So, the Wild Dirt Co.? ?
Over seven years in the business of flipping wild dirt!
Fantastic.
Anonymous with a thousand.
Can I please request Ben Shapiro?
Oh my God.
Do we have that?
That's not a joke.
I don't know that we do.
When I read this note, I said, I don't know about that.
Oh my God.
No, that's not him.
That's Ben.
No, that's not him.
I don't think we have Ben Shapiro doing that.
No, that's not Ben Shapiro.
Is this one Ben Shapiro?
Oh my god.
No, we don't have Ben Shapiro.
Sorry.
Well, we don't have it logged.
No, I don't think we've ever had that one.
That's just the bottom line, we've never had that.
Followed by a Space Force from Trump, yes.
Space Force!
Got that.
I would like to be known as Sir Big A, please, for my night name.
Thank you for everything you do.
I listen to No Agenda every Tuesday and Thursday.
Oh, that's interesting, because we do it on Sundays, but it's fine if you listen to it on Tuesday.
Thank you.
Where is he from?
He might be in Australia.
He doesn't say.
He probably just listens to the Sunday Show on Tuesday.
Yeah, I guess.
Okay, Mike D's up and he's in for $1,000 and he says, just like college, I have waited to the last minute to turn in my paperwork.
There you go.
At least he's honest about it.
Yeah, I like that.
I surely wanted to make the deadline for the No Agenda PhD in media deconstruction.
I'm already more proud of this PhD than I am of my bachelor's in business from Kansas State.
Go ahead and de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
At the round table, I have what Adam's having, along with a glass of tepid water.
Oh, he's a podcaster.
And a wine bottle of whatever John is drinking.
Please knight me, Sir Mike D of the Seven Billion Rising.
I'm a real estate broker in Texas.
Oh, he's in Texas.
Going on 20 years in the last few years, I concentrated more on creative financing than buying and selling property.
Leaving the banks out of it.
There you go.
Give him a ring at 7billionrising.org.
He's got a story to tell.
I thank you two for showing up for us with an amazing podcast twice a week.
Your media deconstruction is tops.
I hope you never exit this fight.
Much love for your leadership and everyone part of the No Agenda Nation.
From my new homestead in Kyle, Texas.
Where's Kylie?
Kylie, Texas.
No jingles with her.
Kyle.
Kyle, Texas.
Yes.
Thank you, Mike.
Nicholas Schroeder, 1000.
Salutations, Professors Currie and Dvorak.
Having previously obtained knighthood and the title of Sergeant of Arms, Protector of the Round Table under a pseudonym used in creative writing exercises, I must now submit my tuition paid in full for the education received over the years from this honorable institution.
I am beyond ecstatic to have officially obtained my doctorate and I'm looking forward to the benefits that such a prestigious title will afford me.
I'm appreciative for all the work you have done in the advanced and somewhat controversial field of media deconstruction.
Thank you for your courage and know that I regard this amount paid in my poverty but a fraction of the value received over the years keeping us safe and sane from all of the games that the corporate media plays on the public for the benefit of the highest bidder.
Well put!
I'm forever in your debt for the knowledge and the prompting to better myself in so many ways, including getting things as small as obtaining my ham radio license at Adam's Direction because John wouldn't renew his.
I renewed it.
I think you have.
I hope to continue paying it back and forward in any way possible.
While I won't share my Brazilian hottie, I will bring cachaca to the graduation party to share with my... Cachaca.
Yeah.
Cachaca.
What is cachaca?
It's a, uh, it's a white, uh, it's like a white rum, only it's more like the Brazilian, uh, version.
And it's got a very distinctive flavor that is, uh, it's made with sugar cane, but it's got a really different taste.
It's delicious.
Excellent.
Kshasha is here.
And I will share that with my... Kshasa.
Kshasa.
I know, I mispronounce it constantly.
Penis, Rotterdam.
Penis, Rotterdam.
Kshasa.
Penis.
To the graduation party, to share with my cohort of fellow producers for this episode, 73's Respectfully Deconstructed, Nicholas J. Schroeder, 73's to you, Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie.
Charlie, you did not add your call sign.
Okay.
We'll let you slide.
Onward with Sir Pants.
In Brookfield, Wisconsin.
Sir Pants actually came in twice with $1,000.
Oh, my.
Here he is for the first time.
Sir Pants, PhD donation.
Go E-G-U-N direct.
EGundirect.com.
Check it out.
Best weapons dealers on planet Earth.
They've got every gun.
They've got a lot of good guns on that site.
Worth looking at.
I'm going over there.
Interesting.
Guns with Jay talking about them.
Yeah, there's a 22.
What?
Sir Pants in Brookfield, Wisconsin comes in with another thousand with a switcheroo PhD for Sir Asscrack.
Nice.
He's the brother of Sir Pants.
Give him some gentleman farming karma.
You've got karma.
All right, then we have, that was kind of cool, we have Quint Y. Newell with a thousand in the morning.
Gents, PhD me, please.
No jingles, no karma, but plenty of love and light to know a generation.
Love you twos from Quint.
Thank you.
And I'll do Hendry Cocosoli, a thousand dollars, no note, and Resolvent Technologies, Inc.
A thousand dollars, no note.
Double up karma for you guys.
Thank you so much.
Daniel Lawson and Knight Me Sir Love, $1,000.
Knight Me Sir Love and Baron of Bay Ridge in Kings County, New York.
Any insights about pawns in the game or Whitney Webb books?
Give me a Mo Karma jingle, please.
Yeah.
You've got other things to do with your time.
You've got Mo Karma?
Bojorkes.
Bojorkes.
Mission Viejo, California.
A thousand, please knight me.
Knight Filippilo of the Barburia Plains.
Barburia, yeah.
Barburia.
Verdolagas with... What is it, John?
Go ahead, just pronounce it for me already.
No, go.
I don't know.
Verdolagas.
I mean, I don't know what it is.
Verdolagas with pork and green sauce and a glass of cold... tepache?
If I can't pronounce it, it's hard for me to serve it.
Yeah, well, you're out of luck.
This is the way to talk in Mission Viejo.
Oh, that's the problem.
Okay.
Thank you, Dr. Aaron Arnaldo Boyarquez.
Boyarquez.
This is tough.
Yeah, I'm not sure either.
Sir Yogi!
That's easier.
In West Richland, Washington, a thousand.
By the way, we should mention this is an excessive... It is, this is not your... It's very abnormal, but we love it.
Because it'll pay the bills till February and March.
We don't even start getting donations again till March.
Oh no, it's gonna be... It goes dead.
It'll be dead.
It'll be dead.
I was waiting to get home from California road trip to see if there was enough cash left over to get myself a PhD, yeah.
On the last day, while heading home, we went to our favorite coffee joint, and what was handwritten on the cup lids but the number 33!
There you go.
I shit you not!
The writing was on the lid!
Oh no!
The universe was telling me to get that PhD.
Thanks for all you're doing, keeping me and my smoking hot dame sane.
Peace and love to you both, Sir Yogi Knight of the Carnival.
Midways, can I get a goat karma for everybody?
You've got.
And we have another thousand from Sir Gooch of RVA.
Gooch!
No jingles, no karma, just a PhD.
Thank you.
No exit plan, please.
You got it.
We're still here.
Joe Acton, Maine.
1,000.
I've been listening for a few years and I haven't missed the show since I started listening but I have to admit I was starting to feel guilty about being a douchebag.
Kept thinking I should probably take advantage of the PhD program because I always wanted some higher education credentials and became a knight at the same time.
How can I pass this up?
I just couldn't pull the trigger.
Then on the 33rd day of the year, I looked at my phone and it had 3,333 unread emails.
This was a sign.
It was time to give back and do my part and hopefully keep you guys from finding an exit strategy.
Please, de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
For jingles, play some classic Sharpton F-35 health karma for everybody, and he'll be knighted Sir Jolly the Brave of the Maine Mountains.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
He finishes, he wants a bacon cheeseburger.
Hey!
Hey!
Be quiet during the karma!
He wants... Be quiet during the karma!
You've got... ...karma.
Okay, put this on your list.
He wants a bacon cheeseburger and Chateau Latour.
I wouldn't mind having one of those myself.
Which year Chateau Latour should we have?
Oh, okay.
Let's make it a 2005.
Okay, Chateau La Tour.
Isn't that made by the Rothschilds?
No, no, that's Mouton and Lafitte.
Michael Halb, or Halby, 1,000.
No note.
Gets you a double up karma.
Thank you very much.
You've got...
karma jonathan lang as we race to the end thousand humbly requesting a de-douchey and all-purpose jobs karma you've been de-douched i do declare myself sir no please and a scholar for those in the memphis area keeping out for a meetup soon one Once you requested it, one of you requested a month or two back.
Thank you for your courage.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
We have Scott McNulty.
Due to my affiliation with various secret societies, which shall henceforth never be mentioned again, I had to wait until the ninth hour of the eve of the solar day of 333 in order to make my donation for obvious reasons.
When the moon is in the house of the sun's first light, the seed is born!
We dive at dawn.
I was working at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, embedded in the news department.
I've been there for over a decade when the first global native ad for the UN-led big pharma military industrial complex CoPro was launched.
I lost my family and job to groupthink in that battle.
Wow.
They were all spellbound by the black magic of propaganda.
The silver lining is that I no longer work at the Ministry of Truth.
Since then, my field of art direction and graphic design have been requiring the jabs for jobs around here until only two months ago.
In order to get by, I've been painting houses and playing guitar in the Toronto art rock band Fifth Project with a K.
Wow!
That guy!
Yeah, we love you for this.
I like this guy.
Fifth Project's latest EP, The Wolf, made it to number 23 across Canada on campus radio in 2023.
If you love a warm embrace and a kiss to your third eye, or female-fronted psychedelic art rock, you can pick up a copy of The Wolf during tomorrow Band Camp Friday, and all proceeds will go to us!
We're an independent band.
We rely on value for value just like Noah's Agenda.
Search for 5th Project with a K on Bandcamp.com to have a listen.
That's 5th Project with a K. We're on all the socials too.
I've been listening to... This is... I love this note.
We've been listening to Noah's Agenda regularly since Adam's JRE debut, so this is long overdue.
And this first time de-douche is... You've been de-douched.
Not only comes with a PhD, but a proper nighting too.
Woo-hoo!
Once the WTC7, you'll go, yay?
Oh, really?
Job's karma.
That's not on my notes.
Oh, shoot.
My God.
That wasn't even on my cell.
That's a big note.
It's a big note.
Here we go.
But the guy, I have to give anyone credit, who went through, who's an art director, that was so honest with himself that he figures, you know, he can make money other ways, but he'll go back into it.
it he's obviously a talented person jobs jobs jobs and jobs Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
On the other extreme we have Alex Orrish with a thousand dollars note.
And so we get double up karma.
You've got karma.
Eric Hulbritter, South Ogden, Utah.
A thousand in the morning as a successful professional procrastinator.
I'm finally funding my PhD tuition.
Thank you for your courage.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Jingle requests.
I'm going to come.
I want to get rid of that one.
I can't even find it half the time.
It's not, that's not what it is.
It's Trump.
It's Trump.
Probably Trump something.
Trump cum.
I can't find it.
Hold on, hold on.
Stupid.
I do not like this one.
Trump cum and then goat scream.
Okay.
I'm gonna cum!
There you go.
You've got karma.
Todd Machera in, uh, looks like, oh, he's ITM from Behind the Lines in Chicago.
He's $1,000.
Thank you both for your service.
Please knight me as Todd Zell, the unvaccinated.
No jingles, no karma, not an anonymous donation.
Proud to support you both.
Thank you.
James Bartles, 1,000.
No location, but he's been a listener since episode number one.
Thank you for all you do.
Thank you, James.
Night name Sir Jim of KC Stagehands.
Needs work, he says.
What is this stuff?
Aniracetam?
That's what it sounds like.
Aniracetam and bulletproof coffee for the roundtable.
Jobs, karma, and goat for everybody!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs!
Let's vote for jobs!
We have Meg Kenny.
First time donations.
He came with a thousand.
I come to the No Agenda Family in a roundabout way from the Glenn Beck Program.
Oh, there you are!
That does happen.
Worked out.
I was hit in the mouth by my best friend, Karen.
I was taking a break from Glenn Beck's sometimes doom and gloom, but my friend was listening and heard Adam sounding a lot like me.
Oh?
Or was it me sounding a lot like Adam?
Either way, she knew right away you were my people.
I was listening to your archives from 2020 to 21 and you do sound like me.
So it only makes sense I should earn a doctorate in media deconstruction.
I look forward to your episodes and thank you both.
And the Noah Jenner Nation for all you do.
She must be Dame Kenny of the Megalodon.
That's the giant shark.
She's like Guinness and medium rare tomahawk steak at the round table.
And he's all hell breaking loose.
You're going to need a Bitcoin.
You're all going to die and yay.
Stay strong.
Yes.
That's Manning.
Yes.
Okay.
I got those for you.
They're saying that all hell is going to break loose and you're going to need a bitcoin.
We're all going to die!
Yay!
That's a good combo.
That is an interesting combo.
Sir, let me make sure I've got your rare tomahawk.
Guinness and medium rare tomahawk steak.
While you're getting that, I'm going to go to Sir Henry.
He's in Austin, Texas, right around the corner from you.
The donation makes me a baron, gives me a PhD, I'm a happy man.
Sir Henry, that's the note we like.
Yeah, we do like that.
Andrew Herman, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in the morning.
John, thanks.
My donation of $1,046.31, that's Canuck bucks, Canuck bucks, please add me to the PhD and executive producership and an instant knighting list.
Uh, Douchebag No More, Sir Andrew Herman, Edmonton, Alberta.
I guess I'll give him that.
You've been de-douched.
Yeah, he'll get bumped up.
Uh, Amy Thurmond in Westfield, Indiana, 665.
Greetings from Amy in Westfield, Indiana.
Could not meet the podfather in December without first claiming my name.
Oh, she's going to be at the meetup.
Yeah.
My smoking hot husband, Sir Craig of the Dark Moon, hit me in the mouth years ago.
I'm a better human for it.
Please bestow upon me the title of Dame Amy of the Shining Sea.
I generally try to stay healthy by limiting carbs, fat, sugar, sodium.
So at the round table, I'd like to pay homage to my Indian roots.
Indiana.
Indiana roots, sorry.
Indiana is named after Indians.
And fortify my food depraved soul by requesting a giant breaded pork tenderloin and a chocolate miracle whipped cake.
That'll do it.
Thanks for all you do.
God, we've got some death bound here for you.
Sir Penton, Sir Pentine, Sir Lance, interesting.
Oh, it's a switcheroo.
Sir Pentine, Scarborough, Queensland, Australia, 654.32.
Clips, F Cancer, you've got Karma, we got that for you.
This is a switcheroo donation from Sir Pentine, Knight of the Reckless Peninsula, I guess.
This donation of 1,038 Australian dollar-a-doos is for my father.
Soon to be instant knighted, Sir Lance, Knight of the Northern Rivers.
Oh, that's just lovely.
We'll make sure we do that.
Phoebe is going nuts.
Please play him F-Cancer and You've Got Karma jingles.
I know you can defeat this, Dad.
We both enjoy your entertaining, informative podcast immensely.
I'm hoping that I made it in time for a 1,000 Aussie dollar-a-doo doctorate in Ph.D.
Phoebe!
A Ph.D.
media deconstruction for my dad.
Yeah, of course.
And here's your F-cancer.
It works.
Come here, Bubba.
Come here.
Good girl.
Come here.
John Kelber in Milwaukee.
Good girl.
333.33.
ITM crackpot and buzzkill.
After enjoying your shows on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I had to donate value for value on Wednesday.
I've appreciated the biweekly deconstruction since learning of your show on the higher side chats.
Hireside Chat donation a couple of years back.
Adam, in my first donation I asked what your favorite conspiracy was and you said you don't like them at all.
So I'll rephrase.
What conspiracy do you find the most interesting?
Fake Space?
Hollow Earth?
Operation High Jump?
There's got to be something.
John, I'm glad you brought back the 3x3 and I hope to hear it more often.
Jingles, Climategate, Chemtrails, Obama sucking in soot.
Thanks and enjoy the holidays, John.
Yes, I would say Operation High Jump is my favorite.
To the gate, to the gate, to the Climategate.
Chemtrails sucking in soot.
Boom.
Joanne Fortune is in where, or where, North Hampshire?
333.
I've listened to you live for the last year and a half, and you've changed my life.
I've moved to the Freedom State of New Hampshire, and I go to the meetups.
You two rock my world.
Thank you, and thank you for your courage.
And thank you, Joanne.
Very nice note.
Here we have Jackie Green, the famous guitarist in Orangevale, California.
Oh, Jackie!
Jackie!
Jackie Green!
333, love you mean it.
Perfect note.
Uh, not as good as Tyler Holm from Westminster, Colorado.
First Associate Executive Producer, 250.
No notes!
So you gotta double up karma.
You've got... Karma.
And so that lets us end with Linda Lupatkin in Lakewood, Colorado.
200.
And she requests jobs, Karma, and wants to tell you that for a remarkable resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
It's delicious!
That's Image Makers, Inc.
with the K. dot com, or just find Linda Lou Patkin under this show's producer list.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
That was quite funny.
Well, thank you all very much.
This has been quite the pre-Christmas surprise.
And of course, everyone here who came in with the correct amount is going to get a PhD.
It's a rather long list of nightings and PhDs, but I'm happy to do it.
We love you for it.
We have meetups to talk about as well.
There's so much still going on in the No Agenda Show, but especially our Don't hang up!
Executive and associate executive producers, thank you for supporting us.
We enjoy support from anybody.
The whole point of Value for Value is you give us what...
The show delivers in value to you.
That may just be $5 a month, and if that's all you can afford, we love you just as much and appreciate you.
You don't have to be an executive producer to help the show.
In fact, if everybody gave just $5, it would be fantastic.
That never happens, so we appreciate these execs and associate execs for paying it forward for others and, of course, enjoying their instant nights and dames and their PhDs.
I'll get ready for all the ceremonies.
John will take us through a very quick small list in the 50s.
Yeah, there's a small list left over of people who just donated, which is what we're all we're gonna get from now on.
Sir Michael Raguse in Tustin, California, $100.
Happy Holidays, he says.
Kevin McLaughlin does come in and conquer North Carolina with yet another 8008.
Life is better with boobs, he says.
True.
Edward Owens, 8008.
He's in Alameda.
The Island of Boobs.
Diana, Dana, Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada.
Laughlin.
72-27.
Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana.
65-02.
Sir...
Pitenom.
Pitenom.
61.
Parts Unknown.
Jamie Buell in Vista, California.
6006.
A boobs donation.
Small and far.
In fact, here comes Kevin McLaughlin once again at 6006.
Boobs are the reason bras were invented.
He says, surprise night, surprise night in Yukon, Oklahoma, 5444.
Colleen Garrett in Cary, North Carolina, which is where, curiously, near Kevin McLaughlin, I believe.
Happy birthday to me, my gift to you, $54.
Eric Hockel in Mulrose, Deutschland.
We haven't heard from him for a while, and there he is.
And there he is with the right spelling on his name, thanks to the spreadsheet.
Yes, beautiful.
52.
Scott Nelson in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
50.01.
And here we go, wrapping it up with $50 donators.
Starting with John Taylor in Florissant, Colorado.
Sir Richard Gardner, I believe, New York City.
Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon.
Michael Elmore in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Zev Green in Teaneck, New Jersey.
David Steele in Mobile, Alabama.
Jason Kaler in Bluffton.
Indiana Ray Howard in Kremling, Colorado.
Kyle Schaepper in New Albany, Ohio.
As opposed to Old Albany, Ohio?
I didn't know it was there.
Julie Minadeo in Costa Mesa.
Kyle Mahn in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jill Woods in Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Brian Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
And last on our list, The inimitable Ryan Sharp in Huntsville, Alabama.
I want to thank all these people for making this is a great show is show 1612 and this will make up for a lot of slower shows coming.
And thank you.
Thank you again to our executive and associate executive producers.
Those titles are real and you can use them anywhere titles are recognized.
Of course, that can be on your resume.
It can be on your LinkedIn profile.
It's a good place to put it.
Or if you don't have one, you might not open up a profile on imdb.com.
It is completely valid.
You'll see many show business heavyweights there, and a lot more added to today.
If you'd like to become a producer of any amount, including under $50, which are never mentioned for anonymity reasons, or please think of the sustaining donations, which can be just a few dollars a month, a week, or whatever you want, go to... And let me give everybody one last Goat Karma.
Karma.
And thank you for supporting No Agenda Show!
Episode 1612!
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Order!
Order!
Shut up, Wayne!
Shut up, sleep!
It's a birthday party!
Yeah, we got lots of lists on the list.
Birthdays today, Faith Ann Bazor, which is Dave Bazor, happy birthday.
He turned 50 on the 23rd.
Jim Bopway, boss of Shotsiland, happy birthday to his wife, Viscountess Marianne Schneeberger.
She celebrated on the 25th.
Aaron Borgiaquez celebrating on the 28th.
Tina Selby, which is Tylan Selby, happy birthday.
Turned 33 on the 28th.
Colleen Garrett celebrated yesterday.
Sir Don wished his Smokin' Hot Mill fiance Dame Audra of Legoland a happy birthday, turning 45 tomorrow.
And Pluma says happy birthday to Kelly Rego, turning 40 on January 4th.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
It's your birthday, yeah!
Come gather round, douchebag, producer and slave.
As we all thank your brothers and sisters who gave.
And some of them nights, some of them days.
For the titles are a change.
By request, we bring in the Bob Dylan titles are a change.
And we have title changes for Sir Frank Asenstadt, who becomes Duke of Frankness.
Sir Midnight of the Rivers becomes Baronet Sir Jason Rivers.
Sir Dave the Reformed becomes a Baronet.
He becomes Sir Dave the Reformed Baronet.
And Sir Henry becomes a Baron.
Alright, time now to congratulate our PhD graduates!
Frank Asenstadt, Robert Dawson, Derek Heidenbrink, Pluma, Kirk Pettis, Kevin McLaughlin, BioLife member Drury, Matt Liebig, Justin Frank, Polgar, Sir Midnight of the River, Sir Don, M. Scott Clark, Jack Ash, Sir Fosgate, Joel Hansen, Andy, Kakarikolo, something like that, Sir Dave, the Reformed Baronet, Robin Robson,
Remco de Freyre, WildDirtCo.com, Viscount of Hamilton, Dame Missy Anonymous, Mike D, Nicholas Schroeder, Sir Pants, Quint Y. Newell, Henry Coccosoli, Resolvent Technologies, Inc., Daniel Lawson, Aaron Borroquez, Sir Yogi, Sir Gucha of RVA, Joe, Michael Halby, Jonathan Lang, Scott McNulty, Alex Ulrich, Eric Halberder, Todd Massera,
James Bartles, Margaret Kenney, Sir Henry, Andrew Herman, Armie Thurman, uh, Amy Thurman, Sir Lanson, Sir Ass Crack, welcome new No Agenda MD, PhD to the Society of the Learned Person.
You got in just under the wire.
We congratulate you and say from this point forward, go forth and spread the No Agenda word far and wide because we will not be silenced.
We will not be deterred.
The truth is out there.
Now go and find it.
I'm glad I can retire this.
Yeah, hopefully we missed anybody.
I think we got everybody.
I even have Jay texting me on the fly with some knights that had missed the list, so let's do them now that I have everything completed.
This is my blade.
Here's mine.
Bigger one.
You take it, hold it, and just keep it.
Okay, well that feels kind of good.
Up on the podium please, Pluma, Missy, Amy Thurman, Robert Dawson, Derek Highbrink, Kirk Pettis, BioLife member Drury, Justin Frank, Polgar, M, Scott Clark,
Jack Ash, Robin Robson, Tom, Remco de Freyre, Viber Anonymous, Mike D, Daniel Lawson, Aaron Borroquez, Joe, Jonathan Lang, Scott McNulty, Todd Massera, James Bartles, Margaret Kenney, Chris Fosgate, Joel Hansen, Sir Schmoll, Andrew Herman, and Lance.
All of you are about to become knights and dames of the Noah Duner Round Table.
I am very proud to pronounce the K.V.
as Sir Robert Dawson, Sir Derek, Protector of the Star, Sir Rain the Kingmaker, P.A.C.
Sir Curl the Wagon's Protector of the Missouri Ozarks from the Moberly South, the Branson.
Sir, yes sir, Sir Viper 515, Wandering Sasquatch of the Gardena, Snohomish, and Watauga Valleys.
Sir Robin of the Wack, Chilly Wack, Candanavia.
Sir Thomas, Lord of the Ham, Radio Hobbits.
Sir Remco, Knight of the Tevisa and the Spanish Refuge of Ribeir, Deber, Deber.
Sir Vibra of the Still Waters.
Sir Big A. Sir Mike V of the 7 Billion Rising.
Sir Love and Baron of Bay Ridge in Kings County, New York City.
Knight Filipea, Filipea, Filipelo of the Barbera Plains.
Sir Jolly the Brave of the Maine Mountains.
Sir no, no please.
Sir Scott O'Matrick of the Scandinavian High Ground.
Sir Toddsell the Unvaccinated.
Sir Jim of the Casey Stagehands.
Dame Kenny of the Megalo, Megalodon.
Sir Chris Knight of the Kansas City Real Estate, Sir Schmoll, Sir Andrew Herman, and Sir Lance Knight of the Northern Rivers.
And for you, we have lined up here at the round table... Let me stop that for a second.
We have...
Hookers and Blow!
I need some Hookers and Blow!
Red Poison Chardonnay!
We also have High Mountain Oolong Gem and Bolt Mezcal, Parrot's Bay Coconut Rum 90 Proof, Bark's Red Cream Soda, West Milton, Ohio Fireman's Waffles, Durian Ooni and his hot wife on a platter, Kewelango Burger from the Bareback Grill, Pizza Port Beer Buddies, Jagger Fries from Fred's Rivertown Alehouse, and Apex IPA from the Sound to Summit Brewing Quast, Keystone Light and Kibbles, Glass of Tepid Water and a Wine Bottle, Vendola gas with pork and green sauce and a glass of cold tapache.
And anricasetam and bulletproof coffee.
Giant breaded pork tenderloin and a chocolate miracle whip cake.
Bacon cheeseburger and a Chateau Latour.
And a Guinness and a medium rare tomahawk steak.
And of course, mutton and mead.
Please go to noagendarings.com.
That is where you will find, well, first of all, beautiful pictures of the Knight and Dame rings.
You can see that if you fill out your ring size, there's a handy ring sizing guide there.
Send us your address.
We will send you the No Agenda Knight or Dame ring, whichever one you want.
We don't discriminate.
And along with a certificate of authenticity and some wax to seal your important correspondence with.
If you have a PhD, go to the same website, noagenderings.com, select the PhD, and of course put in the name that you want on your certificate, and we'll send it out to the address you provide as well.
Thank you all so much for supporting your No Agenda Show!
You're not done with me yet?
No, no, no!
You're not done!
We got some meetups, some meetups today.
The Mile High Meetup, 6.30 at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
We have in Tilburg, probably over by now, but they may be listening, all stoned.
The one week after another Parliament election in the Netherlands meetup, it started at 8 o'clock at the Beer Café Godinsky in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Tomorrow, the Thanksgiving Therapy Meetup, 6.30 at Ice Troma Brewerty in St.
Gabriel, Louisiana.
On Friday as well, the Fort Wayne-Auburn Bluffton Busco No Agenda Club 33 meet-up, 1 o'clock, Crazy Pins, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
On Saturday, the Connecticut Ugly Sweater Party, 2 o'clock at the Truck Park in Higginham, Connecticut, Beach Girls organizing.
The 208 Treasure Valley Boise meet-up, 3 o'clock on Saturday at the Potter Powder House Brewery, Garden City, Idaho.
And on Sunday, the next show day, a meet-up in Cheyenne, one o'clock.
And that'll be at Chronicles Distillery in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
And a reminder, on Monday, December 4th, Indianapolis, Indiana, it will be a no-agenda meet-up.
There's about 75 or 80 people are expected.
We'll be doing a live Ask Adam on stage, and the Keeper will be with me.
That's it, your no-agenda meet-ups.
This is what you need as a companion to the show.
Everybody knows it.
In fact, the Indiana Meetup was started because Mark and Maria, we talked to them, we had a Zoom meeting to make sure they want to make sure we were comfortable with everything.
They started the Indianapolis Indy Meetup because they felt that they needed to have people and a community in case we went through something we went through in the past three years.
And I really respect that.
And they know what the slogan is.
Connection is protection.
NoahJennerMeetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
It's easy and always guaranteed a party.
I got a couple of ISOs I want to fly by you, see if you like any of them.
Ready?
Sure.
I got a couple of, um, a couple of ISOs.
I want to fly by you.
See if you'd like any of them.
Ready?
Sure.
I think the proof is in the pudding.
Hmm?
Mm-hmm.
That's not bad.
Not bad.
Uh, next one?
Wow!
Whoa!
Look at that!
And then, uh, maybe this one?
Podcast police!
Put the mics down!
Put the mics down!
That was inaudible.
I know.
It was the podcast police.
Put the mics down.
Yes.
All right, what you got?
All right, well, I think I beat all those.
Yeah, probably.
Let's start with, uh, when is the offbeat goal?
Goal!
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Yeah, that's out.
Yeah.
Then let's go to the obvious.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That's cute.
Cute.
And then unbelievable.
Literally unbelievable.
That's the best one.
It's the clearest.
It punches through everything.
And we are literally unbelievable.
Literally unbelievable.
I think that's the one.
Good news, everyone!
Tell me you got a good news clip, John.
I always have a good news clip.
I did notice something you should know.
This is from the Norville Insight Edition.
When you have syndicated network shows, they keep it short and sweet.
The local good news goes on four or five minutes.
They talk to the neighbors.
No, we can't have that.
They can't keep it tight locally.
It's not tight.
Keep it tight, people.
So here we go.
Heroes can be found everywhere.
This one was behind the wheel of a truck when a woman who was choking approached.
Amber Cogliano reports he's now being called an angel.
You're probably not used to seeing a truck driver like this chilling out to classical violin in his big rig.
But his moment of calm is suddenly disrupted.
A woman pulls up in front of his truck.
She is in obvious distress.
The truck driver saw she had one hand to her throat, then she raised both hands.
She was giving him the international symbol for choking.
He jumps out of his truck and immediately realizes it's a life or death crisis.
Then he grabs her from behind and administers the life-saving Heimlich Maneuver, with three thrusts under the ribcage.
And out came the fast food she was choking on.
In an instant, the ordeal was over.
When the truck driver escorted her back to her car, he noticed two toddlers in the back seat.
And here's the hero today, cement truck driver Jeff Hannes.
I was in the right place at the right time, and I did, in my opinion, what most would have done.
A humble hero.
And for that good deed, the Chicago Bulls gave Jeff and his family courtside seats.
What do we want?
Good news.
And what they left out.
They left out the part where the Chicago Bulls gave them the courtside seats because the Chicago Bulls are chokers.
I like that.
I liked that.
It was a great good news story.
I liked the part about the international sign for choking, which I didn't know existed.
Yeah, never heard that either.
International sign.
And that she was choking on some fast food!
This was a dynamite end to this 1612th episode of the No Agenda Show.
Of course, we have end-of-show mixes coming up by request.
We got Sound Guy Steve.
We got... Oh, we have the... An AI mix from Coconut Peak, which is kind of funny.
End-of-show mix from the Clip Custodian Neil Jones and Sir Dr. I.
On the NoAgendaStream.com website or TrollRoom.io, up next we have Unrelenting.
That's with Darren and Sir Gene.
All right, that should be beautiful.
Thank you all so much for celebrating your PhDs with us.
Thank you for supporting your No Agenda Show.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country and in FEMA Region No.
6 in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Meet us back here again on Sunday.
We'll be right back.
We'll do another three hours of media deconstruction for you.
Remember us in the meantime at Dvorak.org slash NA, noagendadonation.com.
Until then, adios mo foes, a hoo-wee-hoo-wee and such.
In the airwaves, where truths collide. where truths collide.
We'll see you next time.
Where cronies must kill, stand side by side.
We'll see you next time.
I.
I love melons!
Did you know there are over 40 different types of melons out there?
Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina says honeydew melons.
He just wrote that in there for some reason.
He likes melons.
Golden delicious melons.
The galea melon.
Horned melons.
The main melons that are there in the world.
There are over 40 different types of melons.
Summertime is the perfect time to show off your melons, ladies.
Honey Globe Melons.
Honey Globe Melons.
Tasty.
Camouflage Melons.
Choppers in Aisle 3.
Camouflage Melons.
Jade Dew Melon Donation.
Jade Dew is another literal melon.
And I've had those, they're pretty good.
I think the Tuscan Melon's my favorite.
Ah, you just love melons.
The Picasso Melon.
Calabash Melons.
That's Calabash Melons.
The Kiss Melon.
It's got a big tongue that comes out of it.
The Papaya Melon.
The Balin Melon.
The Yubari King Melon.
Autumn Sweets.
Autumn Sweets, the melon of choice for connoisseurs.
He's gonna run out of melons, by the way.
I don't know how many melon varieties there are.
I think there's these guys.
But he hasn't even said watermelon yet.
Exactly.
Cantola melon.
Another one I've never heard of, but, you know.
How long will he be able to come up with melon names?
Korean melons.
I love his melon assortment.
Gak melons.
The un-enough melon.
I've never had one.
The Sprite melon.
Charante melons, which is literally a melon.
Kevin McLaughlin's back, this time promoting the Snap Melon.
For you to keep your score.
I love melon!
Children today, they think the internet is their iPhone.
Hey, I got Google, I got the internet.
Hey, I got apps.
People always thought the web was the internet, too, if you really want to go back to it.
Yes!
It was!
It still is!
But the web never was.
The web, no.
But the web is an open communication, hyperlinking system that runs on the internet.
That sits on top of the internet.
Yeah, but it's one step closer to... It's not a platform.
The web is not a platform.
Twitter is a platform.
Facebook is a platform.
Google is a platform.
Your iPhone app store is a platform.
These are platforms that they will regulate to their own desire.
The web is still the last place.
Trump is telling us what he intends to do.
Trump means to throw people in jail who disagree with him.
Listen to what he says because he's telling us what he will do.
He says, let's remove all doubt.
This is what I'm about.
He will execute whoever he's allowed.
Take him at his word.
Boom.
Boom.
Predilection.
Predilection for.
Revenge.
Revenge.
Look at his past.
Boom.
Trump is telling us what he intends to do.
He has to be eliminated.
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