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1615: Day One Dictator

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	Comb your hair.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, December 10, 2023.
	This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation media assassination episode 1615.
	This is no agenda.
	Tracking Al Gore's rhythms.
	And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody's happy about Hunter Biden paying his taxes.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Everybody wishes he could get hookers and blow and cool stuff and then pay the taxes.
	The guy's got so much money.
	Do you pay his taxes or not?
	I don't know if he paid his taxes or not.
	Yeah, you'd think you'd know, wouldn't you?
	All the fuss they're making.
	Wait a minute.
	Is this a lead up to a 3x3?
	Well, we do have a 3x3 regarding Hunter Biden's taxes, that's true.
	Well, shall we do it?
	Yeah, might as well.
	And now it's time for 3x3!
	Experiment by JCBS!
	And once again, comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC!
	The never-ending 3x3!
	JCB brings you the headlines from this morning, 3x3 from the big three networks.
	And today, the headlines are... are... Hunter Biden, I guess.
	What do we have?
	Yeah, Hunter Biden.
	They did this apology tour by the networks to cover up for Hunter Biden as best they can.
	Oh no!
	But they never give us any real facts.
	They just kind of, it's weird.
	But listen, and by the way, these all seem like they were produced by the same White House.
	Same Hill and Knowlton White House.
	Almost identical in the way that, in the order of presentation and the way it ends, except for the The NBC one's slightly different at the end, but the rest of them are almost identical.
	Let's go with NBC.
	NBC, first in the 3x3.
	Tonight, President Biden ignoring questions about the new round of legal woes for his son.
	Woes?
	A nine-count federal indictment on tax charges from special counsel David Weiss.
	Hunter Biden facing the possibility of 17 years in prison.
	It's a 56-page indictment saying he failed to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019, spending millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills, including on drugs, escorts, and girlfriends.
	Such as $683,000 on payments to various women, close to $400,000 on clothes, and $188,000 on adult entertainment.
	Papa Joe, please adopt me!
	Hunter Biden said he was battling addiction.
	His attorney saying he paid back the taxes and the charges should not have been brought.
	So his name wasn't Hunter Biden?
	This would not have happened.
	It comes after Weiss's original plea deal for Hunter Biden, which would have allowed him to avoid prison time, fell apart under a judge's scrutiny.
	The growing accusations against Hunter Biden come as the GOP is investigating the finances of the Biden family, including the president, with more Republicans favoring the impeachment inquiry already underway.
	I will support it when it comes to the floor, likely next week.
	President Biden has repeatedly denied that he spoke to Hunter about his foreign business dealings.
	I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses.
	A former Hunter Biden partner told Congress President Biden spoke to their business associates at least 20 times.
	The president was pressed about it this week.
	I did not and it was just a bunch of lies.
	No, lies!
	Lies.
	They're lying about it.
	It's just lies.
	I did not do verbal lies.
	All the reports mention girlfriends on top of the hookers.
	It's interesting.
	This is an interesting approach.
	I mean, you know, he didn't pay his taxes, and then he did pay his taxes, so... That's the... they don't clear that up.
	Wait, if he... No, no, no, they said that.
	He said he did pay his taxes.
	In that report, I heard he paid his taxes.
	Yeah, that's what he said.
	Well, then if he paid his taxes, what's the fuss?
	Well, because it's fun to say hookers and girlfriends, I guess.
	And hookers... it's fun!
	It's entertainment!
	What's there not to like about a report like that?
	Well, for one thing, it's not giving us the story.
	If he paid his taxes, what's the point of all this?
	Okay, how about this?
	Did he pay the full amount of taxes?
	Did he pay the penalties?
	This is not a good story.
	It's not telling us anything.
	Well, what it's doing is it's distracting from the impeachment inquiry.
	Because all we hear is, hookers!
	Girlfriends!
	Drugs!
	Airbnbs!
	Woo!
	Well, when we go to ABC, we hear pretty much almost an identical report, except for the little ditty at the end.
	Heading out of the White House today, President Biden ignoring a barrage of questions- Barrage!
	About the new federal indictment against- And by the way, stop, stop.
	Both these, all these reports start the same way.
	Biden's ignoring the questions.
	Why?
	Did these guys get together in advance of putting these reports together?
	They're structured identical.
	How about this?
	How about this for a thought?
	This is a California issue.
	Am I correct?
	I believe this comes out of California.
	Yeah.
	Well, how about, it's time to get rid of Joe, time to bring in Gavin Newsom.
	Well, I'm not saying that's not the case.
	What I'm talking about is the story itself.
	They're identically structured, all three networks.
	Do their reporters talk with each other?
	How does this happen?
	Oh, please, please.
	Let's go with this.
	You started over, started over.
	Gee, I wonder, do you think there's collusion?
	Do you think they have the same source?
	In fact, I don't think there's collusion.
	I think they were presented with the structure by the White House and they just followed the instructions.
	Heading out of the White House today, President Biden ignoring a barrage of questions about the new federal indictment against his son, Hunter.
	Any comment on the new charges against your son, Mr. President?
	The nine-count indictment.
	There's nothing like that.
	We need to do that more often.
	Yeah, I love it.
	That's great.
	I love it.
	Six misdemeanors and three felony charges accusing Hunter Biden of failing to pay 1.4 million dollars in taxes from 2016 to 2019.
	Special counsel David Weiss insisting that during that time Biden was living an extravagant lifestyle.
	Spending on drugs, escorts, and girlfriends, luxury hotels, rental properties, exotic cars, clothing.
	In short, everything but his taxes.
	Biden allegedly shelling out more than $600,000 on various women.
	Another $397,000 on clothes and more than $180,000 on adult entertainment.
	Weiss, a Trump appointee kept on by Attorney General Merrick Garland to continue the probe, has been investigating Hunter Biden for more than five years.
	Through it all, the president standing squarely behind his son.
	My son's done nothing wrong.
	I trust him.
	I have faith in him.
	Hunter Biden has since paid all of his back taxes.
	Today, his attorney saying, if Hunter's last name was anything other than Biden, the charges would not have been brought.
	Adding that the special counsel bowed to Republican pressure.
	In a recently recorded podcast, Hunter Biden accusing Republicans of attacking him.
	A podcast?
	Podcast?
	Where's your tea, man?
	Church bells.
	not have been brought adding that the special counsel bowed to republican pressure in a recently recorded podcast hunter biden accusing republicans of attacking him to undermine his father's confidence and ability to continue the campaign they're trying to destroy a presidency and so it's not about me In their most base way, what they're trying to do is they're trying to kill me.
	Knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle.
	Wow, that was an old clip.
	That's from an old interview, that Hunter thing.
	At the end there.
	Yeah, well, they brought it back.
	It's curious how that was dropped in the end of this report, in the exact same clip.
	Okay, right.
	Whatever happens next, okay, yes, I think I can back you up here.
	How about this?
	Whatever happens next to Hunter, it will kill Joe Biden.
	Yes, this is a setup, this is a setup, a view to a kill.
	Well, let's go to CBS now.
	CBS, which is the- Wow.
	They didn't change much.
	Structure's basically the same.
	The exact same clip you just heard from Hunter will be played again on CBS.
	The exact same clip will be played on CBS.
	And in the CBS report, there's a couple of elements that you might find missing.
	Leaving the White House for campaign stops in California.
	And there's my favorite again!
	President Biden ignored questions about his son's felony and misdemeanor tax charges.
	The 56-page indictment details an alleged four-year scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in federal taxes.
	Hunter Biden is charged with nine counts, including tax evasion.
	And special counsel David Weiss included eye-popping details about Biden's alleged spending, $1.6 million in cash from ATM withdrawals.
	$683,000 in payments to various women.
	And $39,000 for home help, cleaning, and child care.
	This is a serious indictment.
	Tom Dupree is a- Hold on a second.
	What was all that?
	Okay, there's two differences right there.
	One, besides the fact that he took out over a million dollars in ATM, what does that have to do with anything?
	Wait a minute, how many- If you can only get $300 max out of an ATM... $400.
	No, it's $300 most... Unless it's your own ATM, it's gonna be $300.
	Some even $200.
	Well, you can do the calculation, you can't get a million and five or whatever she said.
	The machine... Okay, how many machines did he go to?
	Well, there's another issue.
	That's great!
	What was the point?
	So they got the ATM thing in there, and then they also put in, as though it's a bad thing, childcare.
	This CBS report is totally different.
	I mean, the structure's identical.
	They have the woman screaming at the beginning, and then they go on with the indictments.
	Exactly the same, except they add a couple of twists.
	One, they add this ATM nonsense, and then this child care thing.
	Is that supposed to be bad?
	May I add that this is the Pixie Girl, this is Katherine Harridge, this is the CIA CBS spokeshole?
	Why is she doing this report?
	Well, that in itself is a good point.
	ATM withdrawals.
	$683,000 in payments to various women.
	And $39,000 for home help cleaning and child care.
	Home help?
	Home held?
	Home?
	What is home?
	Did she say home held cleaning?
	She said home health cleaning.
	Oh, home health cleaning.
	Whatever that is.
	I'm gonna look it up.
	And $39,000 for home help, cleaning, and child care.
	Home help, cleaning.
	This is a serious indictment.
	Tom Dupree is a former senior Justice Department official.
	This indictment reads like an accounting ledger of vice, and the prosecutors spell out in gory, painful detail exactly how Hunter Biden was spending his money, and it doesn't look good.
	The indictment calls Hunter Biden a lobbyist, consultant, and business person, and alleges he earned millions for work with the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
	Okay, hold on a second.
	Could this all be to show that whatever he did, he didn't send money?
	There was no 10% for the big guy?
	Is that maybe the point of this?
	Like, oh, he took money out of the ATM, a million dollars, but no 10% for the big guy.
	Look at all the money he spent, but no 10% for the big guy?
	Possibly?
	That's a stretch, but it does get... It triggered it in you, so it must trigger it in somebody.
	A Chinese energy firm, CEFC, and other foreign businesses.
	More charges could be possible.
	In a statement, Hunter Biden's lawyer said, based on the facts and the law, if Hunter's last name was anything other than Biden, the charges would not have been brought.
	In a podcast recorded before the indictment, Hunter Biden blamed Republicans for much of his legal trouble.
	They're trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle.
	And so therefore, destroying a presidency in that way.
	Oh man.
	Alright, this 3x3, do you mind if I turn it into a 4x4?
	By adding CNN?
	I think this is the one.
	Dana Bash.
	I want to bring in our team of political experts to discuss.
	And Dana Bash, I'll start with you.
	You just heard Hunter Biden, before these charges actually came out, speak about the toll on him and his dad, not just politically, but personally.
	What impact will this have on President Biden as he campaigns for re-election?
	Well, it's already having an impact because it's very, very difficult for the president, for the president's re-election campaign to try to navigate what is very, very obviously understandably personal for the president.
	And it's not just about the The indictment and the allegations of criminal allegations, both the new ones in California and also in Delaware.
	It is about his addiction.
	And that was Wolf listening to Hunter Biden say they're trying to kill me.
	He doesn't mean that metaphorically.
	He means that literally because he's an addict.
	And his argument has been that the reason he didn't pay his taxes, the reason he spent so much money, over a million, maybe almost a million and a half dollars on all of these untoward things and more, is because he was addicted to horrible drugs to crack.
	And so what he is saying there is, they're trying to get me to get me off the wagon, which would destroy my father.
	And, you know, there of course are political reasons for this.
	And he did do things that were wrong.
	From the perspective of Hunter Biden, from the perspective of his lawyers, not so much that it deserves this kind of attention.
	And that's why they say that if his name was anything other than Biden, that he wouldn't be prosecuted to the degree that he is right now after that plea deal fell apart in July.
	So same script with a little addition.
	I have to remind you, Dana Bash married to CIA guy.
	Divorced from CIA guy.
	This is your op.
	Biden's going to need to leave all his son has to.
	He doesn't actually have to die.
	But I think he's in on it.
	He has to get addicted again.
	All that takes is another, you know, another treasure trove of fresh pictures, and Biden will lose it, and we've all been forewarned about it.
	And in comes Big Mike 2024!
	Like 2024. Or Gavin Newsom.
	Yeah, I can't see anything else going on here because this is too scripted.
	All three networks and then you put CNN, which was kind of a completely different approach, but the exact same thing.
	It was mashed up a little differently.
	Exact same product.
	Given to the public and it would go something like he gets addicted again, the Republicans get blamed because they're pricks.
	And they want him to fall off the wagon.
	Biden has to quit because of his family, you know, because of his son.
	He's got to, you know, got to work with his son.
	It's more important.
	Family's more important.
	More important.
	Yeah.
	Because we know family's more important than this and that.
	And so he looks like the good guy.
	The Republicans look like the a-holes because they did this.
	- And Gavin Newsom incomes Gavin or whoever. - Yeah, it was, Gavin is, well doing it, yeah.
	Now, a couple of things.
	The CBS report never mentioned that he had paid his taxes.
	That's the one thing they left out of the script.
	And I'm not sure why it was in the script, because it doesn't help things.
	It makes it muddier.
	Whatever the case, something's going on with this.
	And I have straight reporting on this, or seemingly so, and I think it's from NTD.
	You want to hear NPR first?
	NPR might, yeah, because they'll still be in the script.
	The NTD guys aren't, as far as I know, they're not read into anything.
	No, of course not.
	They're not even taken seriously by you!
	No, of course not!
	Alright, let's do NPR.
	What specific charges is Hunter Biden facing with this indictment?
	Well, this is a nine-count indictment.
	It was handed up by a federal grand jury in the Central District of California.
	The charges are related to tax years 2016 through 2019.
	Three of the counts that Hunter Biden is facing here are felony tax counts, one for tax evasion, two for filing a false return.
	The other six counts are misdemeanors, and those are for failing to pay his taxes and failing to file his taxes.
	Okay, so this all relates to the 2016 through the 2019 time period.
	What does the special counsel say that Hunter Biden was doing Well, prosecutors say that over four years, Hunter engaged in a scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in taxes that he owed.
	It also says that he evaded paying taxes for 2018.
	Now, the indictment says that between 2016 and 2020, Hunter made more than $7 million in total gross income.
	The indictment references business dealings in Ukraine, business dealings related to connections with Romania and China.
	Really?
	It says that Hunter got another $1.2 million in financial support.
	But prosecutors say that Hunter spent his money on drugs, on escorts and girlfriends, on luxury hotels, exotic cars, among other things.
	Prosecutors say, in short, that Hunter Biden spent his money on his extravagant lifestyle, not on his taxes.
	And so I guess they're saying that he willfully didn't pay his taxes.
	That's right.
	Although he had the money.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Now, from this NPR report, different takeaway.
	Not read in, not part.
	They have the script, but they took a different tack.
	They actually read the indictment.
	The indictment says he earned seven million dollars, which, you know, and he spent over a million on hookers and blow and stuff.
	Okay, that still leaves a good five and a half million dollars So it's ludicrous to say he spent his money on hookers.
	He had another five and a half million.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's unimportant.
	So the 3x3, including CNN, they are focusing your attention on the hookers.
	Don't look at the money from Ukraine and China.
	That's not in their script.
	And they add in, Joe can die at any moment or he has to retire because evil Republicans will get Hunter back, you know, have him off the wagon.
	So this is, the true, they buried the lead.
	Seven million dollars from China and Ukraine.
	Hmm, what could be wrong with that?
	Yeah.
	So that, I think, is what's really going on.
	This is MTD.
	This is Hunter Biden Charges.
	Uh, yeah.
	The president's son, Hunter Biden, is facing a nine-count indictment that includes three felony charges and six misdemeanors.
	The indictment, filed by special counsel David Weiss on Thursday, accuses the younger Biden of engaging in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019, while spending millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle.
	According to the indictment, he spent his money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature.
	It says, in short, everything but his taxes.
	Hunter's lavish spending was at its highest in 2018, reaching $1.8 million.
	reaching $1.8 million.
	His four-year spending spree included over $600,000 in payments to various women, $397,000 on clothes and accessories, and more than $180,000 in adult entertainment.
	Hunter Biden admitted to a crack cocaine addiction in his recent memoir, The indictment says he described his drug use in 2018 as 24 hours a day, smoking every 15 minutes, seven days a week.
	In 2021, he spoke to CBS News about that experience.
	I spent more time on my hands and knees, picking through rugs, smoking anything that even remotely resembled crack cocaine.
	Special Counsel Weiss says Hunter Biden made millions of dollars from foreign entities, including business dealings in Ukraine, Romania, and China, and that in 2018 he continued to earn handsomely and to, quote, spend wildly.
	Oh, thank goodness.
	I was about to be very disappointed in NTD.
	They put it in there.
	Thank you, NTD.
	Again, burying the lead, but it's in there.
	Yeah, you're right about burying the lead.
	Let's go to the second half of this.
	Hunter Biden's attorney, Abby Lowell, said Thursday that if Hunter's last name was anything other than Biden, the charges would not have been brought.
	Lowell accuses Weiss of vowing to Republican pressure.
	Hunter's business dealings are at the center of a House probe.
	So part of the script is if his name was anything, anything other than Biden, no charges would have been brought.
	What if his last name was Trump?
	Sorry, Abby.
	Lowell accuses Weiss of bowing to Republican pressure.
	Hunter's business dealings are at the center of a House probe into President Biden's involvement in his son's foreign business ventures.
	Republicans on Thursday released a resolution to further their impeachment investigation of the elder Biden.
	On Friday, some House members argued for fast-tracking the floor vote on the resolution in light of the recent indictment.
	Representative Jason Smith told Roll Call these charges further confirm the need for Congress to move forward with an impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden in order to uncover all the facts for the American people to judge.
	House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer attributed the new charges to the bravery of two IRS whistleblowers.
	The two agents, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, testified that the Department of Justice made decisions that benefited the president's son.
	Comer said the agents put their careers on the line to reveal misconduct and politicization during the probe, and that the DOJ got caught in its attempts to shield the younger Biden.
	That's another lead that was buried everywhere else, of course.
	And there's another thing that the right wingers, the more overt newscasters have been bringing up over and over, which is that this whole thing is and I think it's maybe suggested by the fact that if he already paid his taxes, which only two of the three by three reporters said he already paid these taxes.
	This could go to court, just linger, linger and prevent Biden from testifying against his father and the Comer committee.
	Because he's under this indictment.
	He can't do that.
	He can't do this.
	He can't go.
	He can't testify.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	But Biden can't testify?
	Why?
	Because he'd have to plead the fifth on everything.
	Because he's right now in the middle of a case against him.
	Well, can't he just lie?
	Doesn't seem to be beyond him.
	Well, I think he'd rather not be grilled.
	He seems like a weak personality.
	The idea is to keep him out of the Comer Committee, or the whole impeachment thing.
	Keep him away.
	As far away as you can.
	Get him to California.
	Yeah.
	Take a long time on this case until past the election and then... So California's friendly fire in this case.
	In this... Yeah.
	And then you end up with the... And then at the end of the day they say, oh well you already paid your taxes this shouldn't have been filed in the first place.
	Dismissed.
	Go home!
	Go home!
	Dismiss, go home, and have a nice day.
	And then get hooked and we'll remove your dad later.
	This is obviously a scheme.
	Are you telling me that our main three networks are no good?
	This is obviously a scheme.
	You mean, are you telling me that our main three networks are no good?
	I'm shocked.
	David Axelrod on CNN.
	Let me see if this is a political angle.
	Let's see if there's anything in this.
	David Axelrod, the indictment, as Dana just pointed out, really does paint a very damning indictment of charges against Hunter Biden.
	How does this reflect on the President of the United States?
	Great!
	Look, it does paint a damning portrait and a lot of it was known already, Wolf, both through other legal filings and through what Hunter Biden has said himself.
	The story of his addiction and some of the Uh-huh.
	that it is about Hunter Biden.
	It's not about Joe Biden.
	There are a lot of people in this country who have children who have fallen to addiction.
	And despite two years of effort, there's been no success...
	Why the laugh?
	Why the laugh?
	He laughs, he laughs.
	Oh, I missed that.
	...in this country who have children who have fallen to addiction.
	And despite two years of effort...
	Despite two years of effort.
	Boy, that was a subtle one.
	I wouldn't have caught it.
	There's been no success in linking Biden to any wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.
	So, I think this is, as Hunter described, as Dana described, this is an emotional burden for the President and will be going forward.
	I don't think, I think people can separate out Joe from Hunter.
	I don't think this issue is the political burden that perhaps some hope it will be.
	For the President, it's a very personal burden.
	Absolutely.
	And I think that's serious.
	I totally agree.
	There it is.
	Hey, I'm sorry.
	I mean, if you're president of the United States, it sucks when your son, you know, is back on drugs and back, you know, it's horrible because, you know, he's driving cool cars.
	He's got hookers.
	I mean, it's horrible.
	If you can't handle that, then you can't be president.
	You can't handle a lot of stuff.
	I'm sick as a dog, I might want to point out.
	Oh, you sound fine until you just mentioned it.
	Now I can hear you're congested.
	Oh my God.
	And I have tracked the source.
	This is from the Indy Meetup.
	I've gotten several emails.
	People are sick.
	Remember we had that one human resource who puked.
	Oh, right, right.
	You had a puker.
	We had a puker.
	She'll never live that down.
	Now, a couple guys, a couple guys are like, yeah, well, I tested, I got the koof.
	Like, don't test.
	Don't test.
	I didn't test.
	It's Emily.
	Emily from the Meetup.
	I blame Emily.
	She was typhoid Mary.
	Was Emily the puker?
	No, Emily, no.
	The puker was a little kid.
	No, Emily, she was in Nashville.
	She shows up there.
	She even said it.
	Because people email me, I got the cough too.
	I say, it's you.
	You're the germ barge.
	You are the germ barge.
	You have to know Emily to know that this is funny.
	Well, she's probably loving it.
	I hope she is.
	Speaking of Nashville, Everyone that we know in Nashville is safe.
	That was a weird thing last night.
	You heard about the tornado that just ripped through Nashville?
	Yeah.
	Oh man.
	And some weird weather back there.
	Very weird weather.
	My buddy Dave Jones, he's in Alabama, and he got a part of the storm.
	The hail was so fierce in Alabama, it stripped paint off his house.
	That's hail.
	That's some real hail there.
	Man, oh man.
	Nobody had his car in the garage.
	Yeah, he has an old 1930s Ford.
	I don't think... Oh, you want it out.
	I don't think that matters.
	It's all dinged up.
	It looks cool.
	How'd you do that, man?
	It looks nice.
	It looks beautiful.
	Hammer-toned.
	Here's ABC on the latest, just since we're talking about... Oh, by the way, Tina's sick now too, of course.
	So, no Sunday school for us.
	This is the latest from ABC on the COOF.
	And we turn now to the rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations, with RSV and flu cases also ticking up.
	It comes as holiday gatherings get into full swing.
	ABC's Reena Roy is here now with more.
	Good morning, Reena.
	Ariel, good morning to you.
	Yeah, it is that time of year again, right?
	A season when we're all celebrating, but also dealing with all kinds of illnesses.
	We usually hear the numbers go up in the fall and winter because of travel and holiday gatherings, and this year it is no different.
	The CDC says 15 states plus New York City are experiencing high or very high levels of respiratory illness activity.
	Respiratory illness activity?
	What is that?
	Like a ping pong game.
	A respiratory illness activity.
	And that means doctors are seeing more and more people coming in with things like fevers and a cough or sore throat, usually from COVID, the common cold or the flu.
	RSV is also on the rise.
	She's breathless!
	She is!
	an increase in flu and covid cases covid hospitalizations have reached levels not seen since february particularly among babies young children and older adults however they are lower than rates seen at the same time last year meanwhile health officials are also tracking a rising covid she's breathless it's sub variant called jn1 she's hyperventilating her reports She's so jacked about it.
	That's what you got.
	Yeah, I know.
	I'm happy.
	rates seen at the same time last year.
	Meanwhile, health officials are also tracking a rising COVID sub-variant called JN1 that's estimated to make up more than 20% of cases right now around the country.
	At this time, there is no evidence that JN1 is more severe than previous variants.
	No evidence.
	Tests, vaccines, and treatments are still...
	When there's no evidence, that means there's going to be evidence.
	Yeah, there's plenty of it.
	Just not now!
	More severe than previous variants, tests, vaccines, and treatments are still expected to be effective.
	And health officials say getting your shots is the best thing you can do.
	And it's not too late.
	Now is actually a great time because it often takes up to two weeks.
	My God!
	Today again!
	She's like, this is only a one minute 30 shot.
	I gotta get the vaccine promo in there.
	A great time because it often takes up to two weeks to reach full protection after a dose.
	That is just in time for Christmas.
	That's an important reminder.
	That's an important reminder.
	Yes.
	Oh man.
	I have some important reminders from PBS on COVID.
	Uh, and they did a little better job of selling the, the, uh, vaccine.
	Uh huh.
	Okay.
	Just over 15% of American adults have gotten the latest COVID booster.
	Demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since it was first introduced at the height of the pandemic.
	That's partly because the government's response to COVID-19 has been so politically charged.
	Judy Woodruff spoke to public health experts about that government response.
	It's part of her ongoing series, America at a Crossroads.
	In March of 2020, Many Americans were united in their fear of the new unknown virus as people grapple with the images of overwhelmed hospitals and death abroad and in the U.S.
	Hopefully it won't be much longer.
	But public opinion quickly splintered as governors issued stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of the virus.
	It should be a choice, not a mandate.
	It's a choice, not a mandate!
	Oh, so they're bringing this back.
	This is interesting.
	PBS decides now to say that this is a political thing?
	They go in, this is a whole 15 minutes.
	I gave you the beginning and I'm going to tell you what happens.
	So they go on and on and on and they actually redo the entire pandemic, the history of it, what happened here and there and everywhere in between.
	And their concern is, of course, that people aren't taking things seriously enough.
	And a lot of it has to do with the Republicans, those Lousy Republicans.
	Horrible.
	And so to bring it back around so we make sure that they get the right promotions and to make sure we get back on track with how we think about the vaccines.
	She goes from person to person to person and then and then tops it off and I I know you'll get it probably in two guesses.
	Wait, can I guess?
	Can I guess?
	Trump!
	Does it end with Trump?
	No, no, no, no.
	Here's what the question is.
	She's going to bring on one expert after another who knows the ropes and then finally get to the one guy who's going to tell it like it is and give us the fear-mongering we need.
	Now, Osterholm, of course.
	Nope.
	That's a good guess, but it's not the great guess.
	Then it's Hotep!
	Yep!
	And that had deadly consequences, according to Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine.
	He researched the human cost of the resistance to masks and vaccines in his new book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science.
	The big differential in deaths was very much on states where people widely accepted vaccines and states where people did not widely accept vaccines.
	What's my estimate is that 200,000 Americans needlessly perished.
	Wow!
	He's got no documentation for anything other than his, his, his book!
	And then he's got his book.
	Now, my advice from the Curry Consulting Company is, hey dude, comb your hair.
	It doesn't take a genius to comb your hair.
	Are you married?
	States where people did not widely accept vaccines.
	My estimate is that 200,000 Americans needlessly perished because they refused COVID vaccines after vaccines were widely available.
	A poll out this September showed 91% of Democratic voters had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 66% of Republican voters.
	And Democrats were far more likely to get the latest booster.
	And multiple studies show more Republican strongholds that resisted public health measures and vaccinations fared worse in terms of infection and mortality rates.
	That's a lie!
	It's a total lie.
	There's no evidence to that.
	It's a total lie.
	So they're basically lying, but you have to consider their audience.
	They're not lying to Republicans who are trying to get Republicans off their ass.
	Go get a shot.
	They're not doing that.
	They're lying to the Democrats to assuage them.
	Don't worry, you did the right thing.
	Get another shot.
	Oh, I mean, there's a lot of this going on.
	I mean, there's, there's friends of the show in California who were banned from all social circles.
	I'm talking upper, upper, upper class social circles.
	Because they were not jabbed.
	And now, and now, like, of course, you know, they're all back together, like, oh, we didn't know!
	Silly us!
	I mean, come on!
	And they're dropping dead!
	A lot of them are dying!
	That's kind of the irony, I guess.
	So, now I was going to do this later in the show, but since we're on the coof train here, Bobby the Op had this speech, it was like 40 minutes, and he was the clearest in his speech, which is why I even considered chopping it up, and he blames everything on the CIA.
	Which, of course, knowing his background, is risky business!
	Everything, and he blames the origin of COVID on the CIA, the creation of COVID on the CIA, I mean, it's mind-boggling what he had, and a lot of this is from his book, and I'm sure most people haven't read it.
	The Fauci book.
	The Fauci book.
	But this is very succinct.
	And then he goes into the lockdown strategy, and I just, I needed, I need to get this out because it's so good.
	And I pick it up because, you know, he goes way back to, you know, the the bioweapons treaties and how that was halted under Nixon.
	And, you know, but and it was basically was picked up by the CIA.
	They went, oh, you know, you pussies over at the Pentagon.
	We can we can manage the bioweapons.
	So he picks it up when in September of 2001.
	of 2001.
	Hmm.
	In 2001, in June, the CIA sponsors the first of its pandemic simulations.
	It simulates a biological attack on Washington DC by Saddam Hussein.
	This is in June 2001.
	That simulation got the It's got international, and a lot of the CIA people like Judith Miller from the New York Times was promoting it, going around doing all the talk shows.
	It triggered two Senate hearings, one by Joe Biden's committee.
	And that hearing was in September 2001.
	What happened in September 2001?
	9-11.
	So that hearing was going on during 9-11.
	As soon as 9-11 happened, the neocons, which were working on all this stuff with the CIA, pulled out the Patriot Act, a 350-page statute from a shelf where it had been waiting for a while.
	And in one week said we want to pass this in a week.
	There's only one member of Congress who read it, which was Dennis Kucinich.
	And he went crazy and said you have no idea this is the end of American democracy if you do this.
	It allows the CIA to spy on Americans.
	One of the things the Patriot Act did Is it did not get rid of the Geneva Convention or the Bioweapons Treaty, but it said no federal official can be prosecuted for violating those two statutes.
	So it reopened the bioweapons arms race globally.
	So a couple things we learned here.
	Now we understand why Dennis Kucinich was with him in the beginning and probably the op ended or, you know, RFK Jr.
	starts, you know, targeting the CIA and Kucinich is like, dude, I'm out.
	I like life.
	Yeah, I'm taking a different angle on this.
	Okay.
	I think Kucinich was there to brief him and make sure that he was getting his message on track on behalf of aspects of the CIA.
	I'm with aspects, yeah.
	Which is probably in a schism of newbies, jerk-offs, old-timers.
	Binaurals, what do you call them?
	Binaries, non-binaries.
	Non-binaries.
	They got those guys coming in.
	Nobody likes them.
	Nobody likes non-binaries.
	Nobody likes them.
	And so right now they're trying to do something about it.
	They can't.
	Kennedy's part of the scheme to do something about it by drawing attention.
	And he says he's going to re-org the CIA.
	And if he does, that means he's going to re-org it back to the way it was in the 50s or 60s or who knows what.
	The good old days.
	Good old days.
	Good old days.
	Anyway, so now... Because he's not an idiot, so he's not really taking a risk.
	I love what he's doing here.
	And now he's going to take it to Ford Dietrich.
	A week after, when the Patriot Act was being debated, and it was being held up by two senators, There was an anthrax attack on the U.S.
	Capitol.
	It was blamed on Saddam Hussein.
	And the neocons all said, see, we were right in the pandemic simulation.
	Saddam Hussein attacked us.
	And we used that as a justification to go to war against Saddam Hussein.
	And within two days, we passed the Patriot Act.
	Who got the anthrax?
	Two Senate offices, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, the two senators who were blocking the Patriot Act.
	The FBI did a one-year investigation.
	They said this anthrax was unique.
	It was Ames anthrax.
	And there's only one place in the world it could have come from.
	Fort Detrick.
	The CIA lab.
	I love this.
	I mean, it's all the stuff we've been saying, but he put it together in this one beautiful speech, and now... Yes?
	And he's more likely to know more than we do.
	We go on theories, and by doing a lot of reading and research, we have no inside information on any of this.
	We have to make sure people realize that.
	We're just reading, doing what nobody has time to do.
	No one has time for it.
	And he's got people briefing him.
	He's a part of the system.
	Oh, of a system for sure.
	A system.
	So he's got inside stuff that we can deduce, but he can know.
	So now, 2001, this is where we bring in Fauci.
	We went to war, we passed the Patriot Act, and immediately started giving $2 billion a year to bioweapons development.
	The Pentagon didn't want to do it because it was nervous about the legality, because it was a death penalty to violate the Geneva Convention.
	You would have been committing a war crime even if somebody told you it was okay.
	It wasn't.
	And so they funneled it through DITRA and DARPA.
	They funneled all of that money to NIH, to NIAID, which became the primary spear tip of bioweapons development.
	So Tony Fauci became the bioweapons czar in 2001.
	His budget went up by 2.2 billion dollars.
	He was personally given a 68% raise from the military.
	That's why he was the highest paid individual in the federal government.
	So now he goes through a whole bunch of stuff, which I didn't clip, about how Fauci did that, hid the money, went through the CIA front company, which was that weird organization that, funny enough, Malone came out of.
	Yeah, because he was involved in that.
	I forget what it was called.
	But anyway, it doesn't really matter because you understand the premise.
	But here's where things went wrong because they didn't have this part of the plan set up.
	And bioweapons development always includes vaccine development.
	Because unlike chemicals... EcoHealth, that was the place.
	EcoHealth, that was the front company.
	And bioweapons development always includes vaccine development.
	Because unlike chemical weapons, with bioweapons there's always blowback.
	It's called the boomerang effect.
	If you give your enemy bubonic plague, your guys are gonna get it first, too.
	They're gonna get it quickly.
	So the only way you can deploy a bioweapons is if you have already developed a vaccine.
	So the race is to develop a vaccine simultaneously with the bioweapons and then you can deploy the bioweapons and your enemy will take a couple of years to develop the vaccine.
	And you can inoculate all of your team.
	So, clearly we didn't have those ready because, you know, the virus escaped.
	I don't think it was really a truly weaponized virus.
	I think more people died of fear of being, you know, put on a ventilator.
	And old people die from flu.
	So, you know, the numbers show it was about the same as a regular flu year.
	So, it was just fun for him to connect that.
	But then, and this is the one that blew me away, because I had just mentioned, maybe two, three weeks ago, that I felt that social media was like we're in a big Milgram experiment.
	And then all of a sudden, Bobby the Op continues with His CIA braiding of the CIA takes it straight into MKUltra.
	Operation Paperclip, you know, all the things that were conspiracy theories when we were talking about him ten years ago.
	And part of the reason Alex Jones has been thrown off the media planet, although he seems to be coming back since this Tucker interview, which is interesting, and I'm happy for him.
	So then he brings in the Milgram experiment.
	You know, I know a lot about the CIA.
	I've gotten their manuals I paid.
	You know, over a thousand dollars, get these manuals because you, you know, they're training manuals from MKUltra.
	I'll pay a grand.
	Where are these manuals?
	Is this on eBay?
	Where can I get these?
	That's worth it.
	Yeah, we'll publish them.
	It stands for Mind Control, MKNaomi, MKDetrick.
	It all came out of Fort Detrick and NIH, and then 150 colleges around our country where they were funding these studies.
	And if you look at what they do in these simulations, they're using all of these techniques that they developed in colleges, in college laboratories.
	Social scientists and other scientists, medical scientists for years who were studying how do you control individual behavior, but also mass behavior?
	How do you...
	How do you induce mass psychosis?
	How do you create Manchurian candidates?
	You know, how do you do all these?
	They had all these colleges studying these and and how do you How do you impose?
	centralized foreign control on indigenous populations by coming into a country by using propaganda by using fear of By sowing chaos, by destroying relationships, destroying faith in institutions, driving people apart and creating chaos so they will invite in an authority who will give them peace and safety.
	And all of these mind control techniques are designed to accelerate that process.
	Hmm.
	Does that sound familiar to anybody?
	Perhaps?
	Does that sound familiar?
	This propaganda and so fear and does that sound a bit like 2020?
	And then he explains the Milgram experiment.
	But one of the most interesting experiments was called Milgram, Milgram.
	And there was a scientist at Yale, a sociologist called Stanley Milgram, who was part of the MK Ultra program.
	And he conducted this experiment where he recruited subjects from every walk of American life.
	There were students, there were professors, there were business people, there were blacks, whites, everybody from the New Haven area.
	And he would put the subject in a chair at a table where there was a dial in front of them that they could administer an electric shock to a person who was tied in the chair in the next room.
	Who they told was tied in the chair, but he was actually a confederate of Milgram's.
	He was an actor.
	And when they turned this dial up and administered this supposed electric shock, they could hear the man in the other room screaming, shouting, begging, struggling, bleeding with them, crying.
	And most of the people who were participating in this experiment Begged to stop.
	A lot of them were crying and telling the doctor.
	The doctor was standing behind them saying, turn it up, turn it down, turn it higher, turn it down, turn it even higher, turn it down.
	And 67% of them turned it up to 250 volts where it was marked potentially fatal.
	So this would be, um, let me see, Jimmy Kimmel.
	Let him die!
	Don't let him come in!
	Die, Republicans!
	Die, anti-vaxxers!
	Die!
	Die!
	But they needed one thing.
	They needed the man in the lab coat.
	Because that's how the Milgram experiment literally worked.
	It's on YouTube, you can take a look at it.
	I put the link in the show notes.
	You can see, the guy has a lab coat.
	And when there's someone with a lab coat, think Anthony Fauci, Who says?
	And why is Anthony Fauci ever wearing a lab coat?
	Or anybody that's on TV?
	By the way, when I played those clips of Judy Woodruff doing the report with the Hotez, what do you think he's wearing?
	Lab coat?
	Yep.
	So, 67% was willing to fry their fellow Americans, which, my dear friends, producers and trolls, leaves an exact beautiful 33%.
	That's you.
	33% of the people got up and walked out.
	And what Milgram said, if you, for 67% of people, if you have an authority figure that has some imprimatur of legitimacy, like a doctor's title, that 67% of people will take his orders, even if it means violating their most sacred values.
	They'll go against everything they believe in.
	And to me, it occurred to me many times during that 2020,
	We were all involved in this huge Milgram experiment, and that Anthony Fauci was, you know, Dr. Milgram, telling us you can violate the Constitution, you can censor speech, you can close churches, you can shut businesses, you can ban jury trials, and you can, you know, tell people what they can and can't do, and you can gaslight them, and marginalize them, and vilify them, and, you know, no cruelty is too great.
	I hope everyone feels good.
	And we also finally understand the magic number.
	We are the magic number.
	Sadly, we still have to pay our taxes.
	But otherwise, that's it.
	That's why we exist.
	That is our fate in life.
	We are the 33%.
	Yeah.
	Key, key.
	Code.
	Code, my friend, code!
	Big code, big code.
	Code for we don't know what.
	Well, that brings me to this continuation of what's going on in that regard.
	And that has to do with the one-day dictator, Donald Trump.
	Oh yes, just for one day!
	And by the way, I was watching some news coverage this morning and And Juan Williams was on Fox where he said, and Donald Trump said, he's going to be the dictator from day one.
	No, that's wrong.
	Juan Williams, I thought he was kicked off of Fox.
	He's back?
	He's back, I guess.
	They brought him on.
	And he said that and was corrected by one of the other panelists.
	He says, only for one day.
	He says, yeah, okay.
	He's a propagandist.
	He's great.
	This is the way this is going to be played because it's actually incredible to me, but Jim Acosta has a show on CNN.
	You're kidding.
	Really?
	We've never seen this show.
	It is a goldmine!
	It's probably the worst thing you've ever seen, because Jim Acosta has no personality whatsoever.
	He sits there stone-faced, and he just kind of reads from the prompter.
	He's really a reporter who should be in the field.
	He is not a host.
	He's no good.
	But they have him on there, which really makes me wonder what Discovery, who owns CNN now, which is major shareholders, John Malone, the right winger.
	This guy, Jim Acosta, he's one of the last few brand names they have.
	What do they have left?
	He's not much of a brand name, and he's sure no good as a host.
	I'm just saying, you know, from a media perspective, that's all, you know, he's recognizable.
	Let's put it that way.
	You can find people.
	So, um... Hey, they kicked out Don Lemon.
	They kicked out the Cuomo kid.
	They kicked everybody out.
	Well, I don't understand how they didn't kick this guy out.
	So let's, but let's, this is the beginning of his show.
	It's called CNN News Hour or something.
	And this is the very beginning.
	And let's, I got, these are four short clips and they're just, they're jaw droppers.
	I'm Jim Acosta in Washington.
	We begin this hour with perhaps the harshest warning yet from President Biden about his likely Republican rival for the White House.
	The president told a fundraiser in California late last night that Donald Trump would destroy American democracy if he somehow wins back the Oval Office.
	Biden said to the crowd, quote, the greatest threat Trump poses is to our democracy.
	The president went on to slam Trump's role in the January 6th attack on the U.S.
	Capitol, saying, quote, it's despicable Simply despicable.
	Biden also referred to Trump's comments on Fox earlier this week when the former president was asked whether he wants to become an American dictator.
	Here is what Trump told Fox.
	Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody.
	Except for day one.
	Except for what?
	He's going crazy.
	Except for day one.
	Meaning?
	I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill.
	Now, if there was any doubt about what Trump meant, the host, Sean Hannity, gave him a few chances to step back from those extreme words.
	But Trump did not.
	I love this guy.
	He says, you're not going to be a dictator, are you?
	I said, no, no, no, other than day one.
	We're closing the border and we're drilling, drilling, drilling.
	After that, I'm not a dictator.
	As we've noted on this program, for weeks Trump has repeatedly promised to seek vengeance against his political enemies, praising the leaders of China and North Korea, and also promising to vastly expand presidential powers, leading to headlines like these.
	The Atlantic writing that Trump isn't bluffing and will follow through on his threats, including investigating the press for treason, mass roundups, and detention centers for undocumented immigrants.
	Wait a minute!
	He didn't say any of that!
	He didn't say any of that.
	Was there more to the Hannity Show that we missed?
	No.
	No.
	He didn't say any of that!
	He did in the past.
	Sometime in the past he said this.
	He's putting it all together into one horrible package.
	The second clip here is a discussion of one of the big meetups that Biden had in L.A.
	where he made these comments and it's funny, again I'll bring it up, all the time they keep telling us that Trump's full of it, he says one thing, he does another, he's a liar, he's a liar's liar, but yet we take him very seriously when he says he's going to be a dictator for one day.
	This is your thing.
	I like it a lot.
	This is perfect.
	He's a liar!
	Make up your mind!
	Except when he says stuff that we want you to believe, he's not a liar.
	So, this is kind of interesting.
	Now, this clip is too long.
	I'm sorry for that.
	It's not over the time limit, which is too much, by the way, for anyone out there who wants to know.
	That's the time limit, yes.
	But it's long because it takes forever to get to the point that I wanted to make, which is that Hollywood's a bunch of douchebags led by famous douchebags.
	CNN's Kevin Liptack is live in Los Angeles for us as the president is in the midst of a weekend fundraising trip in California.
	Kevin, I imagine the president's words must have gotten folks by surprise at that fundraiser.
	What more is he saying?
	Yeah, he is really ramping up these warnings about what President Trump might do if he returns to office, and certainly they are very stark.
	Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake, according to President Biden.
	Now, when it comes to that remark that Trump made about being a dictator, President Biden deployed some rueful humor saying, thank God only one day, but certainly later on really underscoring The potential for another Trump presidency is no laughing matter.
	Telling these Democratic donors, literally, I believe the future of American democracy is at stake.
	The greatest threat Trump poses is to our democracy, because if we lost that, we lose everything.
	And you really are starting to see President Biden really honing his attacks on Trump, fine tuning his arguments at these fundraisers, these off camera fundraisers, giving him a chance to sort of test some material at what will be a central argument of his reelection campaign next year. giving him a chance to sort of test some material And certainly there are some Democrats who want President Biden to be more forceful about President Trump, to make this argument publicly.
	And when you talk to campaign aides, they do say that that moment is coming, that President Biden will begin to sharpen his rhetoric.
	But they want to wait until they're sure that Americans are paying attention.
	They don't want this falling on deaf ears.
	And you can imagine that these arguments will make their way into television ads, digital ads.
	Of course, that will cost a lot of money.
	And that is why President Biden is out here in Los Angeles this weekend raising money at two important fundraisers.
	One last night with some Hollywood heavyweights.
	You know, I was talking to Jeffrey Katzenberg.
	He's the co-chair of the Biden campaign, a movie mogul.
	He said this 36 hours will be the most successful when it comes to campaign fundraising for President Biden since he launched his campaign in the spring, Jim.
	Oh, goodness.
	Katzenberg.
	And you can be sure Rob Reiner was there.
	Oh yeah.
	Hey Katzenberg, what was that short form video thing that he poured two billion dollars into and failed out of the gate?
	What was that thing called?
	I can't remember.
	Remember that?
	Yeah, I remember it.
	It was a big turd.
	Because he's so smart.
	You know, now the Jim Acosta Show on CNN, you have to balance, you know, what you want to do when you do these kinds of reports, you're the host.
	You bring somebody in and he gives you a report and it's on one side.
	And so normally what you do is you bring somebody in with maybe a different perspective.
	No.
	Why would we do that?
	Oh, by the way, the trolls want us to mention, yes, we know Norman Lear died.
	Yes, we were the ones that told you about the Hollywood Foundation.
	Yes, we know.
	We didn't mention it last show.
	It was a big oversight.
	Oh, no, we didn't mention that Norman Lear died?
	Okay, we mentioned it.
	Uh, he was, I, look, my, when I talked to Mimi about it, I said, you know, they've obviously run out of adrenochrome down in LA.
	Queeby!
	Queeby!
	I mean, that's what Biden's down there for.
	He's trying to get some and he can't find any.
	Queeby, I think.
	Queeby?
	Queebus?
	Queeby?
	That short form, tube-tard?
	Tard tube?
	Queeby!
	Queebus?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, anyway.
	Yes, adrenochrome.
	Yes, that's why Biden's there.
	Well, it hasn't helped.
	Well, so we got the opportunity now to bring somebody in to give us some perspective.
	Okay?
	Here we go.
	All right, Kevin Liptack reporting from LA for us.
	Kevin, thank you very much.
	Let's continue the conversation right now.
	Joining me now is the niece of former President Trump, Mary Trump.
	Mary, great to have you back on the program.
	Really appreciate your time.
	I know you're so busy doing... I appreciate your time.
	The president was saying last night at this fundraiser in California, seizing on what Donald Trump has been talking about recently.
	I just wanted to get your reaction to what Trump was saying on Fox the other night.
	A dictator but only on day one.
	What was your reaction when you heard that?
	We need to take Donald at his word to a certain point.
	We can ignore the second half of that statement.
	Dictators, last I checked, don't stop being dictators.
	And he has every intention.
	Of destroying American democracy.
	And we need to be clear why.
	It's entirely for his own benefit.
	Nothing about this is ideological.
	So in that context, it was really heartening to hear President Biden be so direct about what's facing this country.
	I agree that it is too early to assume that people are paying attention and we don't want That argument to get normalized, which has been part of the problem the last seven years.
	Almost everything Donald does seems to be normalized.
	But we've seen what he's done in the past.
	And I think what he's starting to do now is push the envelope and get people familiar with the concept of his dictatorial tendencies so that they just write it off the way they've written off all of his other egregious anti-democratic behavior.
	Oh, she forgot to mention 5D chess.
	I mean, yes, this is so smart.
	He said, build the wall and drill, drill, drill.
	But this is really about him being a dictator for himself, because when you destroy America, it's great for business.
	You know, the funny thing is, is that do any of these people have any sense of how the American system works?
	It's got three... it's balanced.
	It does not work where some guy can just waltz in and, the way they're describing it, and just decide to be the dictator.
	You know, we saw this because Trump certainly didn't deliver on all the things he said he would, and what these people are doing is projecting because they know that they are the ones who will hang.
	That's what's going on.
	Oh, this guy comes in and we're in trouble.
	I mean, not Mary Trump.
	I mean... Oh, Mary Trump's such a stooge.
	But the fact that she's even... Who is she?
	I mean, she's just some rando.
	But let's... When you have a podcast, a cable podcast, you might as well bring in the randos.
	So you have a... So let's let her finish up with her doubling down on this whole thing so we can see the real logic at play here and the insanity of these Democrats.
	In general.
	That leads me to this question, Mary, and that is, I mean, do you think Trump would stop on day one?
	I mean, to say he would only be a dictator on the first day, I suppose if you're the dictator on the first day, you could say, well, tomorrow I'll be dictator too, because you're the dictator at that point.
	Oh, that's great logic, Jim!
	I mean, what do you think?
	Does he stop on day one?
	Every day from then on will be day one.
	Let's put it that way.
	He has no intention of stopping.
	He knows why he needs to get back into the White House.
	Those reasons won't disappear on a day two or day 100.
	So we have to take this threat incredibly seriously.
	And part of that threat isn't just Donald's rhetoric.
	It's the reception that rhetoric receives.
	We heard the laughing and the cheering in that audience.
	We hear what his sycophants and enablers like Sean Hannity and like practically every single elected member in Congress who is Republican is willing to put up with, is willing to allow, and is willing to support.
	Sycophants!
	That's interesting.
	That's a talking point.
	I'll get to it in a minute.
	Um, okay.
	Why is Trump saying drill, drill, drill?
	He ran on the wall in 2016.
	I think it's weak.
	Honestly, I think it's weak.
	I think by now people have just figured out that it doesn't have as much to do with a wall as it does with parole.
	And I'll give that to Lindy Hop.
	Parole, catch and release, etc.
	I mean, it's the policy.
	It's not the wall.
	It's the policy.
	The policy and that the agency that's in charge of it just follows up.
	The oil, oil, oil thing is a drill, drill, drill thing, sorry, is a direct counter to Nikki Haley.
	I had dinner with the oil baron, as promised.
	Ah, here we go.
	The Texas oil baron, who has actually met with Nikki Haley, and has shown her around the oil fields.
	She had good questions, and she, according to him, she is big oil all the way.
	Why are you doing this, I said.
	He said, I need a backup plan.
	Understandable.
	Wait, wait, wait, I got confused with the way you put that.
	She asked him, he asked her, why are you doing this?
	Was that you asking him?
	That was me asking him, why are you doing this?
	You're asking him, why is he doing what?
	Why are you pandering to Nikki Haley?
	Why are you supporting her?
	To be fair, I don't know if he supported her financially, but certainly his other billionaire buddy did.
	A lot of billionaires are in on Nikki Haley.
	And he's also an oil guy.
	He had a big fundraiser out at the ranch.
	His friend.
	So my friend the oil baron says we need a backup plan in case something happens to Trump.
	Because he knows that Trump is all in on big oil, in drilling, etc.
	And I think that's why Trump is doubling down.
	Drill, drill, drill, drill, drill.
	Oil guys, don't worry, I got you covered.
	Yeah, don't give her any more money.
	Yes, exactly.
	I got you covered.
	It's all going to be good.
	Now, he did mention something else.
	He is very confused and very mad at something you brought up, the methane leaks.
	He says, the methane leaks are bullcrap!
	They send you a report!
	And it's just an algo.
	He says they run an algorithm.
	We have no methane leaks.
	And if we had them, we'd love to know exactly where they are because we like to plug those up.
	He says they just send a report that has algorithms and says, well, according to our algorithm, you have methane leaks and here's what you have to pay in fines.
	Ah, interesting.
	And then he said, where does the money go?
	This is the favorite question.
	It's your thing.
	Well, it's also Andrew Horowitz's thing.
	Where does the money go?
	Horowitz is always wondering where the money goes.
	Where does the money go?
	And I said, well, here's what I know how it works in the finance industry.
	What happens, and I said, this is a tip, this is a tip for you.
	What you do is you say, oh, okay, well how, because the bank guys, they do these deals with the Department of the Treasury, so I don't know how this works with the Department of Energy.
	They do a deal and they say, well, what we'll do is we'll give all this money, this, you know, so let's say it's $25 million in fines.
	We'll give that to these non-profits.
	You see, and then the treasury for banks, but in this case, DOE, I guess would say, okay, give that to those guys.
	And what happens, you just gave $25 million to non-profits.
	You get to write that off of your taxes.
	Nice.
	That's how it typically works.
	So anyway, the oil guy, oil baron, my friend, will keep me updated on progress, and he had one other thing for me, which I wanted to let you know.
	He goes hunting on King Ranch once a year, and he comes home with, I gotta look it up, with Nilgai.
	N-I-L-G-A-I.
	Nilgai.
	Have you heard of this animal?
	No.
	But I have heard of Oryx.
	It's not Oryx.
	And you're in Texas.
	It's not Oryx, but it is one of those antelope-like animals, and he's going to give us a whole bunch of Nilgai meat products.
	Okay, good.
	And I'll send some to you, too, because I know you're going to love it.
	He says, oh, it's beautiful.
	He says it's very similar to Oryx and antelope.
	So I'm excited.
	The antelope's delicious.
	I've had that.
	So, uh, well, did he have any dispute with my analysis of the oil loss or the methane loss or anything?
	Which I said, why, you know, the refineries don't like this because if it's happening, then they're losing product.
	They're losing money.
	Well, no, he not only does he agree with you, he says it's not true.
	He says they're just sending him a report that has an algorithm.
	Yeah, I didn't know that.
	Okay.
	I know that now.
	Yeah.
	It's not even true.
	Bull crap.
	Could you please show me where the leak is?
	We'll go and plug it.
	We'd love to know where that is.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you run a refinery, there's not, I mean, there's a lot of horrible product that's going here and there every which way.
	And you can walk through a refinery right now and you won't smell anything.
	There's no smell of anything.
	And if you do smell something, there's an issue that has to be taken care of immediately.
	Definitely.
	This oil baron, he's a sweetheart.
	I love this guy.
	He's going to be one for the show for a long time.
	No good.
	He'll straighten us out.
	He will definitely straighten us out.
	Especially, I got a note from Atomic Rod Adams, and he's back, and I don't know what's happened, man.
	He's like, I love you guys, you know, I know I've been away for a long, he's been away for a long time.
	He sent me a whole explainer, but he says, I just, I have one disagreement with you.
	Climate change is real.
	I'm like, Oh my God, they got to him.
	I think they got to atomic rod.
	Something happened there and he's all in on, on manmade, uh, climate change.
	Hmm.
	Now he sent me, I went, I struck back, I said, dude, don't do this to me.
	We love it.
	We love nuclear.
	We're on your, we're on board with you.
	You don't have to sigh off me with this stuff.
	He wants us to know that it's very, very, very, very real.
	So I'm going to read through his, uh, his argumentation because we owe him that because he's atomic rock.
	Well, then send him some counter material.
	He's obviously not getting it.
	No, he, he has material, but he said he answered me this morning.
	So I haven't read through it cause it's long.
	Anyway.
	I was just surprised, you know, like, oh man, it's like, you know, well, maybe one door closes, atomic rod, oil baron, one door opens up.
	Well, I want to do a quick mea culpa and to discuss just for one second the testimony of the three college presidents.
	Yes.
	The mea culpa is I said Penn State at least once.
	Oh, gosh.
	People were like, tell John it's you, Penn!
	I'm like, I'm not his assistant!
	Why do people think... Well, I got a couple of notes.
	No, but most people think that I am your intern.
	You bitch about this constantly.
	We don't need to hear it again.
	Well, yeah, we do.
	Stop.
	It's John at Dvorak.
	You know what they answer when I say email him?
	He never answers.
	Yeah, well, there you go.
	I answer mostly.
	I mostly answer.
	In fact, they did answer to Dame, that word poet, Baronetess of the Rhyming Lines sent an email.
	She happens to be a An executive, the professional staff at Berkeley.
	Oh?
	And she called me out on my whole analysis about the three presidents and nobody else has brought any of what I'm gonna read from her up at all and I realized this is exactly right.
	She says that You should go with Occam's Razor.
	There was no conspiracy.
	The presidents of Harvard Penn, U Penn, and MIT were stymied by their own wokeness.
	How?
	One, Title IX laws.
	As a professional staff in higher education, the presidents of Harvard and the rest of them all received hours long training.
	You don't take these trainings.
	I have for various things, harassment, whatever.
	But I guess these people all take training on Title IX.
	And what constitutes harassment and bullying?
	According to Title IX, these trainings make it very clear that to be considered harassment, behavior must be, quote, pervasive, severe and persistent, not a single instance.
	A single instance may not be enough to constitute harassment.
	It has to be a one single event or two pervasive and persistent.
	So, if a stupid freshman yells genocide to Jews in an auditorium class and runs out the door, that will be written off as a young kid being stupid.
	Anyway, she goes on and on with this, describing Title IX as being, they were caught up in it, and they were trying to beat around the bush about context.
	And I retorted with her, I said, what about this?
	If these women were so handcuffed, that's what it seems like, they were handcuffed by Title IX because they could get sued.
	For not following Title IX, which was presented and produced by our government, they should have said on stage, I can't answer a yes or no question like that because I'm handcuffed by Title IX, something you, Congress, has approved and made me abide by.
	And throwing it right back at them.
	Okay, a couple things.
	It is now known that the UPenn lady and the Harvard lady, not the MIT lady, had $1,500 an hour lawyers prepping them for two days.
	So that's, so yeah, that comes back to Title IX, but that's where all that went wrong.
	They were lawyered up and they were reading their scripts, and that's why those two were, their answers were similar.
	I think the MIT lady went, oh, that's good.
	Well, I'll jump in on that.
	The MIT lady said nothing.
	But here's, so I wanted to get an alternative opinion from liberal intellectual elites, because it's much more fun to figure out what the other side of thinking is thinking.
	And lo and behold, my hate listen twice a week did not disappoint.
	Of course, I'm talking about Pivot with the illustrious Kara Swisher, who has a mouth on her.
	My God, she drops more F-bombs than I ever have.
	But that's not who we're talking about today.
	Today it is Prof G. You know him as the professor from New York University, professor in marketing.
	Who is a Jew, I'm sorry, who happens to be Jewish, and he had a very fun, no-agenda-like take on these presidents.
	In particular, now he's talking about President Gay of Harvard.
	Oh, I thought it was embarrassing for them.
	They came across as weak and over-lawyered.
	They were clearly coached to try and seem empathetic but say nothing.
	They were smirky.
	And I just want to read a statement that President Gay put out.
	She said, Like many of you, I've watched in pain and horror the events unfolding, triggered by callous and depraved actions.
	We have been here before too many times, and that familiarity is part of the heartbreak and outrage of this moment.
	Even as a global fight against the pandemic has forged new bonds and inspired new acts of profound generosity, we are confronted again by old hatreds and the enduring legacies Of racism and inequality.
	So, that's a powerful statement.
	It's accurate.
	But she was writing about George Floyd, or the murder of George Floyd.
	And that is, these presidents have been unequivocal.
	He did a no agenda switcheroo!
	That was a good one!
	Yes!
	And that is, these presidents have been unequivocal and strong and resolute about other outrageous things that have happened.
	And here's here's the problem.
	It's not the issue of whether it's not around whether this is hate speech or free speech.
	That's not the issue here, in my view, or what's causing the controversy, because I would argue that, you know, that if you're a group of students are walking in a march and they start saying from the river to the sea, I'm not sure that doesn't qualify as free speech.
	Now, we can have an argument over that.
	But the the problem here is the inconsistency.
	There you go.
	I thought that was quite good.
	I wanted to give him his props on that.
	That was a good switcheroo.
	Yeah, but every clock is right twice a day.
	But that's exactly what people are seeing.
	they're seeing the inconsistency and saying, oh, and it's, it's, it's beautiful because this is drawing light.
	This is not, We expected, well we hoped, I guess, academia, higher education would eventually crumble under, you know, maybe the student loans or something had to happen, but now they screwed themselves.
	It's beautiful to watch, and donors are pulling out, and people are waking up.
	They're like, what are you?
	Do you punch?
	You guys are dicks!
	It takes forever for the public to figure out what's going on.
	Oh, it takes years sometimes.
	Years.
	And to wit, This is a report from Turkish radio and television.
	If you want to get the Palestinian slant on everything, this is where you go.
	They did, this is a quickie, a report of The pro-Palestine demonstrators marching on Wall Street.
	The signs were professional.
	They were all Socialist Party, World Workers Party, anarchy flags, etc.
	Over the last couple of weeks, I've attended many pro-Palestine demonstrations throughout the United States.
	But I can tell you this one in downtown Manhattan today is the largest crowd I've seen.
	And they're marching right now towards Wall Street and their goal is to shut it down.
	Their goal is to send a message from New York all the way to Gaza.
	We're in downtown Manhattan today and we're marching towards Wall Street.
	What's the significance of that?
	There are thousands of people here marching towards Wall Street because we know that it's the center of financial capital, the center of U.S.
	capitalism, which is the engine of the Zionist genocide machine that has so far killed 20,000 Palestinians in just two months.
	So we have a large coalition of people here from all kinds of different backgrounds, and we also have Jewish people here demonstrating for Palestine.
	So the whole thing is against capitalism.
	These are socialists and Marxists.
	They don't actually care about Gaza.
	They see an opportunity, and they're seizing it.
	Of course, it's not going to work, but... Well, it's worse than that.
	No, no!
	Gambling?
	What?
	So we have one of our producers who happens to be a... Happens to be what, John?
	A gorgeous Broadway actress.
	Wow!
	You do get the good producers.
	Now, um... I get Emily the Germ Barge.
	She... She...
	Well, she sent a clip from one of these, uh, pre-December.
	December 8th was supposed to be this huge protest around the country.
	One day walkouts left and right.
	And the only place it's happened was Wall Street and I guess the Washington Post.
	But except for those two guys, there's nothing going on.
	But this guy gives a speech.
	Now it's very, unfortunately, it's very difficult to listen to it.
	I ran it through Adobe, made it 10 times worse.
	Yeah.
	Now this guy's giving a speech.
	Can I just give you a tip?
	A tip?
	That TRT report, I tried it through Adobe, sucked.
	I ran it through the, what is it?
	I gave you the link to that.
	It's the open source, love that guy.
	The vocal remover and isolation, which you would typically think is just to remove music or background stuff.
	Yeah, I'll have to try that next time.
	It's very good for removing crowd noise and stuff.
	Well this is a dual problem, echo and crowd noise.
	Oh man, if it sucks... If you can't hear it, you can't hear it, but this is an unbelievably interesting couple of clips.
	This is the Destroy Israel clip.
	Oh, hold on.
	Destroy Israel.
	Here we go.
	Israel is losing ground politically and romantically.
	Financially, it is losing ground in every possible sphere of life.
	We have become Biden's worst nightmare.
	Because now every time, every time they organize a meeting, every time that they have an event, every time they hold a press conference, every time they have to make one decision or another regarding Palestine, or anything else in this country now, the question is, are those Oh man, you so should have run that through the vocal remover.
	What chaos are they going to unleash?
	Because when we finally deal that final blow to Israel, when the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history...
	Oh, man, you so should have run that through the vocal removal.
	Well, anyway, the idea is to destroy Israel.
	Mm-hmm.
	And this is a millennial thing.
	All the millennials, including the older millennials in particular, they're all in on this idea of destroying Israel.
	Yes.
	Well, what is the point?
	I mean, what does that accomplish?
	Well, the second part of this kind of explains what it accomplishes.
	If you can try to make it out, I'll explain what he said, if you can't hear it.
	Here we go.
	Well, here's what I did.
	While you were talking, while the clip was running, I pulled number two through my AI machine.
	Hopefully, this will be better.
	Oops.
	I need to open the fader, of course.
	That would help.
	Hold on.
	This is going to be genius.
	If the Palestinian people If no Air Force, with no Navy, was able to defeat Israel and the U.S., what is impossible?
	What can we do?
	I know for a fact, I know for sure, I feel it in my bones, I feel it in the concreteness of our material conditions now, that when we defeat Israel and the U.S.
	Empire, we will actually have been able to know how to dismantle capitalism here in the United States.
	See?
	It was better, right?
	It was.
	And so the idea is this whole process is to dismantle capitalism.
	This is just a straight-up Marxist play.
	And everyone's buying into, oh yeah, those poor Palestinians.
	It's got nothing to do with the Palestinians.
	No, that is the most racist, genocidal thing you can be, is abuse those people For your own socialist Marxist needs.
	That's what makes them worse.
	So everybody supporting Palestine is really supporting the death of America.
	All that was missing from the guy's speech was death to America, which I mentioned in the newsletter.
	Yes.
	Death to America.
	Death to America.
	When you see the Palestinian protests, that's what you're dealing with.
	But I got a kick out of the fact that at the very beginning it says, we're Biden's worst nightmare.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Genocide Joe.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	There was something I learned amidst all of this about the Boycott, Divest and Sanction, the BDS movement.
	I think it's Boycott, Divest and Sanction.
	That's what it is.
	Yeah.
	I was not aware, certainly not in the state of Texas...
	That this goes beyond just, you know, Roger Waters and, you know, some people yapping.
	There's actual laws that have been created for state contracts.
	In much of the United States, there may be penalties if you decide to boycott the state of Israel.
	37 US states have enacted some form of anti-boycott divestment sanctions or BDS legislation.
	It typically requires parties signing contracts with the state government not to engage in a boycott of Israel.
	In order to apply for such a contract, I had to first sign a pledge saying that I would not boycott Israel or, not only Israel, get this, Israel or any territory it controls.
	There have been several ports across the United States that have reached the The most important question here, does the Constitution, does the First Amendment forbid states, the federal government, from passing laws that target the anti-BDS movement?
	I want to thank all Texans for the support.
	In Texas, a federal court struck down the entirety of the Texas law after our client Bahia Amawi was asked to sign a contract that asked her To promise Israel that she wouldn't boycott.
	But the state simply passed a new law that applies to companies instead of individuals.
	Even when the laws allow for free speech, there needs to be a social climate that allows folks to freely express their views.
	But two months into heightened tensions and rhetoric surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, that climate may not be now.
	I'm not sure about, you know, this is TRT, so... I don't know about a law, but... That's interesting.
	Didn't realize it went that far.
	Anyway, Genocide Joe's representative at the United Nations on the Security Council did not do themselves any favor with the veto vote.
	The U.S.
	veto in the U.N.
	Security Council was not unexpected, but the cries of outrage are now growing louder.
	China's permanent representative to the UN, Zhang Jun, called the decision hypocritical and self-deceiving.
	The Iranian foreign minister warned there could be an uncontrollable explosion of the situation in the Middle East if America continues its support.
	The UAE's deputy UN ambassador, Mohammad Abu Shahab, said the decision sends the wrong message to Palestinian civilians.
	Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard describes the U.S.' 's action as a callous disregard for civilian suffering.
	Doctors Without Borders said the U.S.
	now stands alone in casting its vote against humanity.
	The U.S.
	is the one sending weaponry, and warships have been surrounding Gaza for 20 years.
	The arms and rockets have been manufactured in America, in Western countries, and they support Israel to kill the youth, children, women, and the elderly.
	God is our saver.
	When America vetoed the ceasefire at the United Nations and everywhere else, this veto is against the people who are dying and shelling all day and all night with American weapons.
	The US veto has prevented a halt to Israel's brutal attack.
	But the cries for a ceasefire are now growing stronger as the evidence of genocide mounts against Israel.
	Yeah!
	There you go.
	Everybody hates America now.
	Well done, Joe.
	Well done.
	I'm sure your base will love that.
	Now we need to counter this message.
	This is no good.
	So let's call Joe and Mika over there at MSNBC and let's launch the new campaign.
	We need to blame somebody.
	We need to blame this on somebody.
	And these people, they're taking it.
	I mean, they're going with false flag now.
	They're not saying it.
	But whatever it is... Just as a reminder, we had the head of the Council on Foreign Relations on that show telling them to kick off a new campaign.
	Well, no, but that was a campaign that was to end Ukraine.
	This is the different war.
	Well, I know, but... Oh, they get the messages.
	Yeah, they get the messages.
	That's your point.
	Um, well, it's Richard Engel.
	So, this time they brought in Richard Engel.
	Richard Engel?
	Okay.
	The message is, it's Bibi Netanyahu's fault, people!
	We heard in your piece the frustration with the Israeli military response, the time that it took on October 7th to reach those kibbutzes.
	We were talking about that a bit yesterday on this show.
	What do officials say about that long span of time before they can get there?
	They are saying absolutely nothing.
	They are postponing that question until after the war is over.
	And many Israelis initially were accepting that, and they said, fine, this is a time of national crisis, national emergency, investigations will be held later.
	But as time passes, They are demanding answers.
	How could it possibly have taken, in just that kibbutz, 8 hours?
	Other places it was longer.
	We spoke to people who were hiding by the side of the road for 10, 12, 14 hours.
	Some cases 24 hours.
	This is a country with an active military action.
	active police force that has lots of planes, lots of helicopters.
	How could it possibly, and it's a small country, how could they have missed what looked like an army crossing the border?
	The Hamas militants crossed in Israel, most of them in a militarized uniform, in green, many of them in vehicles, on motorcycles.
	They then were setting fires, rampaging.
	The Israelis throughout were calling each other, communicating.
	I've spoken to families of survivors who managed themselves to send friends and relatives to go rescue people before there was any kind of military or police response.
	So there was not just an intelligence failure to not anticipate this attack, but then a complete failure in responding to it.
	And the official line is, yes, there was a failure.
	We will deal with that.
	At a later time, and there will be a full and thorough investigation.
	Ah, so the message is clear.
	Thank you very much, CIA guy.
	So, Mika, Mika, come on baby, do your business.
	Richard, so, Israel also now saying it has detained hundreds of people suspected of terrorism.
	What more can you tell us about that?
	So, there is a considerable amount of confusion about these images that many people are finding disturbing.
	They were broadcast on Israeli television extensively yesterday, and they show at least 100 Palestinians on the ground, stripped down to their underwear, holding their head in their hands, guarded by Israeli troops.
	And the Israeli military spokesman said that they were not officially released by the military.
	He didn't deny them, but he said he didn't know if or when the Israeli soldiers may have taken them.
	But he said that the main mission is to confront Hamas and go after Hamas suspects wherever they are.
	The Israeli media said that they were men who were arrested in Gaza and that some of them included Hamas suspects who turned themselves in.
	Palestinians are viewing this very differently.
	They say that this was an attempt by Israeli forces to humiliate Palestinians and break the will of the people in Gaza.
	Response time question is not just a little follow-up we'll leave for later.
	This is a disturbing reality.
	Eight hours?
	Israel is the size of what?
	Massachusetts?
	Maybe?
	Benjamin Netanyahu was very quick to declare war.
	He could assess the situation and realize that Israel was at war.
	About eight hours to get to women who are being raped, by the way, for a year, for months.
	Disregarding.
	A female analyst who said this is coming.
	There's a 40 page document spelling it out.
	And I want to spell this out even more specifically for you.
	Think about it.
	This is a small country.
	These gate crossings are militarized.
	You're going to tell me they don't have cameras?
	You're going to tell me they don't have panic buttons?
	You're going to tell me they have absolutely no communication with the outside world?
	There was no warning of this?
	There was no sign of this?
	There was no way to know that we immediately need to respond and get there within minutes?
	This is a problematic question.
	Keep going.
	Keep going.
	And it's fair to ask.
	It should be asked now.
	And quite frankly, how does the administration go forward without knowing the answer?
	We're suffering the repercussions here in the United States.
	We're learning a lot about attitudes and the response to this complex situation.
	But that question needs to be answered.
	That wasn't my bell, by the way.
	For some reason, they're using a bell now.
	I think that was your time's up from the control room.
	So that's, there it is, there's your answer, it's Bibi Netanyahu's fault.
	Yeah, but here's what's, that's stage one of the, I don't want to say it.
	Of the op, I'll say it, no problem!
	This is stage one.
	Stage two, which is already starting to float around and surface, is Netanyahu knew this was coming, he wanted it to happen so he could make his move against the Palestinians.
	Makes nothing but sense.
	Because he did this on purpose.
	Yeah.
	It wasn't a failure by of intelligence.
	No, of course that's that is the that's why I said they're moving towards false.
	No, he's done.
	Yeah.
	And that and then the woke win.
	And yeah, and Israel goes all queer.
	Have you seen the queer protest in Israel?
	Queers for Palestine?
	Yeah, and queers for Israel.
	This is the untold part of the story.
	I guess somebody even came out and said Israel is probably the most gay country in the world.
	This whole thing is simmering underneath this.
	Yeah.
	Well, that was part of the whole protest against him.
	This is what we know.
	All those protests were, as I was told from boots on the ground, very similar to Black Lives Matter during Trump.
	Yeah.
	Now, they do have an out.
	They've created an out.
	Yaya Sinwa.
	That's the guy we're now after.
	Yaya Sinwa.
	If we can get Yaya, then I think we can end this.
	What is the very latest in terms of the fighting?
	Well, almost impossible to judge on the accuracy of the reports coming from the Israeli military.
	But they do say that they're making progress.
	They say that Hamas's military structures are beginning to break down, that their brigade structures are beginning to collapse, as more and more of their fighters are killed.
	The Australians claim around about 7,000 Hamas fighters have been killed since the war started, after October the 7th.
	As I said, impossible to verify that, but if it's true, I mean, that's about 25% of Hamas's arm strength, and it would indicate that it is beginning to fall apart.
	And there are signs, too, of the morale is beginning to collapse a bit.
	Hamas fighters surrendering in the northern part of Gaza, in the Jabalia refugee camp.
	In the south, Yahya Sinwar, that's the commander of Hamas in Gaza's house, has been surrounded.
	Israel's describing that as a symbolic victory for them, nothing more than that.
	But say they will get Yahya Sinwar, and that they will kill him eventually.
	That he's got nowhere to run to.
	Perhaps that's true, but for the moment...
	The fighting is going on very, very intensely, house to house, from top to bottom of Gaza.
	The Israelis have Hanounas, the main city in the south of Gaza, surrounded now with armour, and they're pressing forward into the city on the ground.
	At the same time, they're calling people to evacuate, as you said in the introduction to this report.
	Yeah, I think that's the guy.
	Yaya.
	Well, it's a good name.
	He's got the kind of name that we were always looking for, like that cigarette guy, Sig Sig, or whoever it was in Africa.
	There's been a bunch of these characters.
	They always have stupid names.
	Yeah, Yaya.
	Yaya is easy to remember.
	We can remember Yaya.
	Yaya is easy, and it rhymes with certain songs.
	Yeah.
	Sittin' in my ya-ya, waitin' for my ya-ya, uh-huh.
	C'est moi.
	So, ya-ya.
	So, they're gonna get him even though they have his house surrounded.
	I don't know why they just don't walk in and get him, but right now it's surrounded and I guess they said eventually they'll get in there somehow instead of just bombing the place.
	And, you know, so, and this will only last as long as Netanyahu can come up with something to save his own hide because he's got to come up with a counter to the counter.
	He'll do something.
	He's in trouble.
	He's in trouble.
	Well, no, he's, he's, I mean, really the only thing he needs to do here is just keep going.
	But eventually, you know, because the Guterres, he invoked Article, I think 99 or something of... Oh, Guterres is just a Israel hater.
	So when you invoke, well, at this point, um, We need to stop the war.
	The killing can stop any time now.
	I think everyone's made their point.
	Well, somebody's got to come up with a way to do it.
	That's the problem.
	It seems that all these Western countries can get into these quagmires and they can't get out.
	Here's another interesting irony.
	We always bitch and moan about the Asians and the way they deal with things.
	Have to come out.
	They have to save face.
	It's so important for them because they've got their egos are all tied up and saving face.
	I have never seen anything worse than the Americans, the Europeans and everybody outside of Asia having to save face.
	We're the ones who have to save face.
	We just can't walk away from anything.
	Oh, because it's embarrassing.
	That's true.
	That's true.
	And I'm going to move away from this for a second, since it's still genocide.
	Joe, back to Biden, because just when we're getting ready to, you know, the message has gone out, hey, we got to stop this.
	We got to stop the Ukraine thing.
	And that's now being used for some border stuff, which is all bullcrap.
	They're going to stick it all in there.
	They're going to give Ukraine more money for a little bit longer.
	But we needed to ratchet it up one more step, just one more.
	And this is a setup by Kirby, and then I'll play the actual Biden clip.
	And so we can't support Ukraine.
	Their chief advisor yesterday said they're likely to lose this war if they lose the U.S.
	support.
	And Putin gets all of Ukraine, then what?
	Then where does he go?
	Because right then, he's up against the eastern flank of NATO.
	And if you think the cost of supporting Ukraine is high now, just imagine how much higher it's going to be.
	Not just in national treasure.
	But in American blood, if he starts going after one of our NATO allies, because as the President also said, we take our Article 5 commitments very seriously.
	So what he's saying here now, this is, I mean, this is not even to be taken seriously.
	Is if we don't keep using Ukrainian men as cannon fodder to be blown up every single day.
	There's another Abrams tank.
	There's another Bradley vehicle.
	These things are getting blown up one after another.
	Yeah, once they show up, they get blown up.
	They just get blown up continuously.
	It's all bullcrap.
	It's all lies.
	It's not true.
	So now we're saying, you know, if we don't go for the original truce, Which, I would like to point out, according, I will use the language of our producers who are very mad, very mad.
	What are they mad about?
	Well, we didn't call Henry Kissinger a war criminal.
	You see.
	I don't want to interrupt your train of thought.
	But you're going to, right?
	Yeah, but I'm going to.
	Some guy writes to me, you know he's a war criminal, why don't you say it?
	You know, why don't you say it?
	And so, you know, some Dutch guy.
	And so I'm, I think.
	And so, I still want somebody to give me an example of how is he a war criminal?
	Cambodia!
	Oh, really?
	He went over to Cambodia?
	I didn't know that.
	I thought he was over here all the time.
	You mean he advised Nixon, perhaps, to bomb Cambodia and then Nixon bombed Cambodia?
	Or he advised Lyndon Johnson to go deeper into North Vietnam and bomb him?
	I mean, he advised one president after the other.
	It's the president who's the war criminal.
	He doesn't have to take Henry Kissinger's advice.
	Yet when Lyndon Johnson died, nobody said he was a war criminal.
	When Nixon died, nobody called him a war criminal.
	But poor Henry Kissinger, he dies.
	Somehow he's the war criminal because all he did was sit on his ass at a desk.
	He didn't pull a gun out.
	He didn't carry a gun.
	He didn't shoot anybody.
	But he's a war criminal?
	What?
	For being a Jew.
	Come on, you know this.
	It's obvious.
	So by the same logic, Boris Johnson is a war criminal because he thwarted the peace.
	He prolonged the war between Russia and Ukraine.
	This is fact and known, and there's no disagreement over this.
	Nobody has denied it.
	And all Putin wanted was the buffer, which he's going to get eventually.
	700,000 men have died, I'll guess.
	I'm just, you know, look, I'm no Hamas health authority.
	But when it comes to Ukraine, those numbers are probably pretty accurate.
	A lot of Russians, a lot of Ukrainians died over this silliness, this stupidity, probably just to cover up the crimes of our political elites, including the Bidens, including the Pelosi kids, the John Kerry kids.
	The labs?
	The labs.
	All the bio labs all over Ukraine, nobody's talking about that anymore.
	Covering up all of these crimes, the money laundering, the cyber crime, the hookers, all of it.
	There's always hookers involved.
	To cover all of that up, to create an even better crime state.
	No, we had to delay all that and just kill some people.
	Who cares?
	Ursula is involved.
	They're all involved in this.
	This is no secret to us.
	We try to just deconstruct media.
	Anyway, to bring it back, this is now the new gambit is, no, no, if Ukraine falls, Then they're going to attack what?
	Poland?
	Poland?
	All over again from the 1960s.
	Poland?
	Is that who they're going to attack?
	Really?
	Yeah, Poland.
	That'll be the day.
	But you've got... Well, let's listen to the current president.
	Good afternoon, everyone.
	I'd like to speak to you today about an urgent responsibility the Congress has to uphold the national security needs of the United States and quite frankly of our partners as well.
	This cannot wait.
	Congress needs to pass Supplemental funding for Ukraine before they break for the holiday resource.
	It's as simple as that.
	Frankly, I think it's stunning that we've gotten to this point in the first place.
	While Congress, Republicans and Congress are willing to give Putin the greatest gift he could hope for and abandon our global leadership, not just Ukraine, but beyond that.
	If Putin takes Ukraine, he won't stop there.
	It's important to see the long run here.
	He's going to keep going.
	He's made that pretty clear.
	Putin attacks a NATO ally.
	Then we'll have something that we don't seek and that we don't have today.
	American troops fighting Russian troops.
	American troops fighting Russian troops if he moves into other parts of NATO.
	Extreme Republicans are playing chicken with our national security.
	Well, buckle up everybody, because I do not put it beyond these people at all to create some kind of false flag!
	I'm gonna say it, I'll just say it!
	on the battlefield, and damage our national security in the process.
	Well, buckle up, everybody, because I do not put it beyond these people at all to create some kind of false flag.
	I'm going to say it.
	I'll just say it.
	And they want war so bad.
	Now, I know everyone's going to say, no, it's the Zionists.
	No, it's Joe Biden.
	It's Blinken.
	It's Obama.
	It's all these people.
	They're all horrible.
	They love war.
	They don't care.
	They don't care.
	We should be happy that Putin is reserved.
	And by the way, he's of course running for re-election.
	BBC time.
	President Putin wasn't even looking at the camera when he announced today he was seeking another six years in office.
	His muffled words were picked up by a nearby microphone at a ceremony to award medals to soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
	He was told by one of them, Russia needs you.
	To which he replied, I will not hide that I have had different thoughts at different times.
	But it's now time to make a decision.
	But now is the right time.
	The time when a decision needs to be made.
	I will run for the position of President of the Russian Federation.
	When it'll be Mr Putin's fifth term and with leading opposition figures either imprisoned or in exile, voting is expected to be a formality and his re-election assured.
	Now, analysis of this is even more interesting from the BBC because, as we know, Election rigging doesn't happen anywhere.
	No.
	Trump is an idiot.
	It was the fairest election ever.
	But when it comes to Putin... And there's clearly no doubt in his mind, and the minds of those that surround him, that he will be re-elected.
	There's no question about that.
	And we even have already a sense of what it's likely to be in terms of the result.
	Apparently Putin's spin doctors and political technicians are working on a 75 to 80 percent share of the vote on a 70 percent turnout because they want to make some kind of grand gesture about how the Russian people are behind them.
	But that said, although the outcome of the election is not in doubt, the interesting thing about Russian elections is how much work the Kremlin will have to do to get that result.
	In theory, it can just rig the whole thing, especially now because it's introducing voting over three days and a lot of electronic voting, which makes rigging even simpler than before.
	However, if you rig it too obviously, too offensively, shall we say, not only does it mean that you don't win the kind of public legitimacy that you hope for, but also there's a risk that it sparks public protest.
	It has in the past.
	2011-2012 we saw the largest protests in Russia since 1991 because of that reason.
	So instead a lot of it is how do you pre-rig it, buying off constituencies and in particular making sure that you stack the campaign so that none of the other candidates look at all appealing or credible.
	Oh, there it is.
	Don't worry.
	Besides the fact that Putin clearly has cancer and is dead, or will be dead any minute now, he looks so sick, now he's going to rig his own election.
	This is exactly how insane we've become.
	Now, we have two new puppets on the playing field.
	This is important to pay attention to, because Zelensky is done.
	Once he went with the, hey man, give us some credit, give us some credit.
	Now, he was done.
	He doesn't have the juice.
	Juice J-U-I-C-E troll room, okay?
	The Juice.
	You gotta clarify everything to these trolls.
	You know, his recent appearance in front of Congress was cancelled, so we have two puppets on the scene.
	Now, for the Republicans, we have Ruslan Stepanchuk, head of Ukrainian Parliament, he is this huge... I mean the guy has got to be 6'7".
	Here he is with shaking Mike Johnson's hand, the Speaker of the House.
	With all black military style fatigues.
	And he is, in fact, number two in line should anything happen to Zelensky.
	But then, all of a sudden, I'm going to think military-industrial complex puppet pops up.
	Welcome back, Poroshenko!
	Hello and welcome to TET-A-TET, France 24's flagship interview show.
	Our guest today is Petro Poroshenko.
	He is the former president of Ukraine and the leader of the opposition.
	He joins us from Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
	Thank you very much, Mr. Poroshenko.
	It's a pleasure.
	Thank you for the invitation.
	Mr Poroshenko, the U.S.
	Senate has decided for now to withhold a major package of financial and military aid for Ukraine.
	There is a forthcoming European Union summit next week, also to decide whether there should be financial and military aid to Ukraine.
	No guarantee that there will be agreement on this.
	Are you worried that the West He's losing faith in Ukraine and is not going to provide Ukraine with the financial and military assistance it needs.
	First of all, you should understand that this next week, the next seven days, is one of the most important day in Ukrainian history and undoubtedly very important for Europe and for the world.
	That situation, this is not just a package for assistance Ukraine, we discussed with the United States.
	This is the investment in the American security, in the American defense capability.
	And with that situation, I hate the idea that Ukraine can appear the hostage Now if I had to bet on it, I'd say Poroshenko is the guy.
	Question for the internal policy for the next year election.
	Now, if I had to bet on it, I'd say Poroshenko is the guy.
	He's the guy that is going to be brought in to create the truce that we will get American weapons defense.
	This has all been fleshed out, I think, already.
	Poroshenko, who was brought back to Ukraine to face treason and, you know, whatever, you know, treason charges, literally treason charges.
	So now he's there just hanging out, doing little interviews with Deutsche Welle.
	I think he's the guy.
	He's the guy that will be brought in.
	The truce will be signed.
	This guy's a CIA guy.
	He'll be fine.
	As is Deutsche Welle.
	Thank you.
	Did you hear them leading the witness, by the way, with that question?
	Well, he's an amateur.
	So, I think that's where we're at.
	I think that is the basic Yeah, there's something going on.
	I think the reason for all this money right now, just before, if they keep talking about it before the holidays, is because this is when the fiscal year is going to end for a couple of these giant defense contractors, and they need to get their bonuses figured out, and it's always a piece of the action, and so they're going to get their Christmas bonuses this year.
	They're not going to get it next year, and so they got to get that Put aside, and that's what the reason for the panic is.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	There's... let me see... I'm gonna bring in AI into this conversation because there is some AI news.
	As you know, AI, it's the future.
	of bullcrap.
	It was the future of humor if you watch enough of these clips of Hillary.
	Well, here's a good one.
	I like this.
	AI, which of course we have regulation everywhere.
	AI is the most dangerous thing in the world.
	If you ever wanted proof that AI was bad, Al Jazeera has the latest on the AI that is killing Palestinians.
	More than two months of Israeli bombing have turned the Gaza Strip into a hellscape.
	Entire neighborhoods have been wiped out, made uninhabitable.
	With more than 16,000 Palestinians killed, it is a population on the run.
	An unfolding genocide.
	And we now know that the unprecedented killing of Gazans is being powered, at least in part, by AI.
	An Israeli artificial intelligence system that generates new targets at a rate we have never seen before.
	We have three AI systems which operate in concert.
	We have the alchemist system.
	Thanks, bro.
	The killing AI is called the Gospel.
	layer of this AI system, which is called the fire factory, which analyzes the data, and the gospel system, which produces possible military targets.
	Thanks, bro.
	The killing AI is called the gospel.
	It must be stressed that every military target which is attacked from the air by the IDF, goes through an analysis of both intelligence officers and legal advisors.
	So while AI systems produce potential targets, at the end of the day these are human beings which are authorizing them.
	The Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories have become a testing laboratory in every sense of the word.
	There is just simply no limitations to the extent that Israel can test these technologies against Palestinians.
	I think the objective is clear.
	And that is kill the annihilation of of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and making Gaza uninhabitable.
	These technologies that are used now in Gaza, we should probably upgrade the term from automated apartheid to automated genocide.
	There you go.
	Automated genocide.
	Beautiful.
	Now, screw you guys calling it the gospel.
	Bring out the book!
	Stop that nonsense.
	Nonsense.
	The EU, however, has completely... Thank you for the laugh.
	Well, it is funny if you think about it.
	Of course it is.
	It's so crooked.
	Say it.
	Go ahead.
	Say it.
	Well, it basically infers Christians.
	And so you have the, like a Christian, you know, behind the killing done by the Jews against the Palestinians.
	It's just, the layers of irony and screwiness is just way over the top.
	So the EU completed as the first ever in the world.
	They're so good there the EU's.
	They've just got their AI regulation done.
	Now this is only the political part because the actual technical part will need to come later.
	But listen to this.
	The European Union has agreed on legislation to govern the use of artificial intelligence.
	The deal includes limits on facial recognition technology And restrictions on using AI to manipulate human behavior.
	The EU says the future legal framework for AI will include tough penalties for companies breaking the rules that will not stifle development of the industry in Europe.
	It follows years of discussions among member states and lawmakers in the European Parliament.
	We had one objective, to deliver a legislation that would ensure that the ecosystem of AI in Europe would develop with a human-centric approach respecting fundamental rights and the European values.
	This is really something that is much more, I believe, that a rulebook.
	It's a launchpad for the European startups and also researchers to lead the global race for All right, so blah blah blah.
	We did it.
	Great job, everybody.
	Let's get to the details with our Deutsche Welle Techno Douche.
	You will divide AI applications into four risk classes.
	Some of them will be completely forbidden, like facial recognition on a mass scale.
	There are some exemptions for military and law enforcement.
	Uh, don't worry everybody, facial recognition not gonna happen with a couple of exemptions for police.
	The police need to do it.
	And also the behavioral control and the control of your thoughts, that will be also banned.
	Yeah, except when we need to control your thoughts.
	There's a few exemptions in the controlling your thoughts area.
	area but high risk applications for example in self-driving cars will be allowed in the eu but they have to be certified the technique has to be open so that everybody can see how that works and normally i would call it like chat gbt on a medium risk level that can be in the eu without any restrictions
	but it has to be documented how this thing works and everybody has to know that he is dealing with AI that is not talking to humans.
	But wait, wait, wait, there's a fourth category!
	This is one of the essential measures in the whole legislation.
	You as a consumer should always decide, do I want To talk to a machine, I have to know that it's not human.
	This is the basic principle, but there are also some AI applications that will be not regulated.
	For example, audio and video altering programs that make these well-known deepfakes.
	These are not regulated.
	They don't pose a high risk in the view of the EU.
	I love it!
	So we could do any kind of deep fakes we want on audio and video, no problem.
	And by the way, I love the name that he came up with, Chet GPT.
	I think we should have a chatbot called Chet.
	Chet, good old Chet.
	Chet is a great name for a chatbot.
	And of course... By the way, in that conversation he discussed the openness necessary for the self-driving cars, which is the last thing I want.
	Because I don't want every hacker in the world going through the code of a self-driving car and looking for ways to defeat the mechanism or fool it or have it drive over the cliff or across the bridge and then over the bridge into the drink.
	I mean, you don't want Dad, no.
	Well, the UK is lucky because they're no longer a part of EU regulation and that's great because Brits may now be forced to take a selfie before they can watch porn because the AI will make sure you're old enough.
	That's how they're going to check that.
	I have one more clip here before we finish.
	Wow, that's a good one.
	It's a great idea.
	Don't worry, it's just making sure you're old enough.
	Don't worry about the selfie you're taking.
	Don't worry about the fact that we're going to post these selfies of the people watching porn.
	The funniest news this week was that that fabulous demo of Google's Gemini that everybody was drooling over turns out was completely phonied up.
	Gee, wait a minute.
	A Silicon Valley demo phonied up?
	What a genius idea!
	If you saw it, they had, you know, they were talking to it and it was answering and they were showing little, you know, like, oh, this drawing a duck.
	Oh, that's a duck quack.
	Except they cut out all the response times that could have been three seconds, 30 seconds, who knows?
	The voice prompts were not voiced.
	They had pre-entered those with text.
	The whole thing was phony.
	Phony from Google, but that's okay because we have Al Gore to bring the humor back into AI.
	And he did it.
	He had a great interview.
	Half an hour at COP28.
	No COP is complete without Al Gore.
	To one based on broadcasting and then moving on to the internet and to social media has disrupted the balances that used to exist that made representative democracy work much better.
	Because a free self-governing people Rely on a shared base of knowledge that serves as a basis for reasoning together collectively.
	But if you have social media that is dominated by algorithms that Pull people down these rabbit holes that are a bit like pitcher plants.
	These algorithms, they are the digital equivalent of AR-15s.
	They ought to be banned.
	They really ought to be banned.
	It's an abuse of the public forum.
	But when people are pulled down these rabbit holes, you know what's at the bottom of the rabbit hole?
	That's where the echo chamber is.
	Oh!
	And if you spend too much time in the echo chamber, what's weaponized is another form of AI, not artificial intelligence, artificial insanity!
	I'm serious.
	I'm serious.
	I'm at the bottom, Al.
	Help me.
	Artificial insanity.
	Which is dumb, because artificial insanity would mean that people aren't really insane, it's artificial.
	But that's just me.
	Al Gore, man.
	And you know, he comes out, he comes out on stage, he puts his hand together, like praying, like, thank you, thank you, I'm so, thank you.
	Namaste style.
	Namaste, yeah.
	Namaste style, yeah, oh yes.
	Very good to the Buddha.
	I gotta read it right now.
	I see even Comic Strip Blogger, love the man.
	I've known him longer than my wife.
	And he posts stuff from, what is it, Barf Grok.
	This is Elon Musk's fantastic AI, Grok.
	It's word salad.
	It's crap.
	None of this is good.
	It's entirely recognizable immediately.
	They gotta fix that.
	They can't because it's no good.
	These things can't even do math.
	They really can't.
	If you ask them to do some basic math, it's hard for A.I.
	Look, people argue with me all day long, but A.I.
	is not going to kill us.
	This is Lisp all over again.
	It's going to kill us with laughter.
	Well, it's Lisp all over again.
	The A.I.
	winter is coming.
	Lisp.
	Yeah, that was the last A.I.
	Which is still used.
	Yeah, yeah, right.
	The Lisp guys are all over this.
	Like, hey, we did this with Lisp.
	We could at least create this.
	Large Lisp model, that's what it is.
	It's not impressive.
	It's going to fail.
	And the only people winning is NVIDIA, because everyone wants compute cycles.
	And I would say that they're good for a short.
	I mean, that's just me.
	I'm not the DH Unplug guy.
	I'm just saying that this Gemini demo was the second fail for Google.
	The first one was BARF, and it got all the answers wrong.
	And then this Gemini demo was faked?
	And where's the business?
	Where's the business?
	Now you've nailed it.
	Where's the business?
	Where's the business?
	The business is compute cycles.
	It's like that old commercial.
	Where's the business?
	Where's the beef?
	Where's the business?
	I mean, the way I see it, I still like the AI stuff because I love the Hillary AI woman and I like the Biden AI.
	I like all the AIs that are being used for humor by goofballs that are online creating this stuff.
	There's no business in that either.
	And it's like the guys who do memes.
	There's no business model.
	You can't do memes for a living.
	No.
	But that's where it's going.
	It's where it's headed.
	And some of it's getting better.
	That stuff is fantastic.
	And that's, as you saw, is the bottom of the totem pole.
	I mean, that will be used for No, it'll be used in reverse as we discussed.
	I didn't say that, said politician A. That must have been AI, that's not true.
	There's a product for sale, I think it's actually legit.
	It's a product that, it's a snap-on finger.
	Yes, the extra finger.
	You put this finger on it so anyone takes a picture of you and says that there's a picture of you doing something or other, you point out that you have six fingers on one hand so it must be A.I.
	That's great.
	I just thought it was a great idea!
	I mean, seriously, there is, I just don't see the, you know, okay.
	So pretty soon, just like everybody had homogenized flower points, we'll have homogenized word docs.
	It'll all be the same.
	It'll all be the, in the ever expanding world of filling your business name.
	That's what it does.
	It creates predictable crap.
	It's not impressive.
	No, I agree.
	I mean, it's not impressive.
	No, thank you.
	But it's funny.
	Well, it'll be great for the show.
	And it's great for the show because you can bellyache constantly, which you do.
	Yes, I do.
	Which is my job, but you do a better job of it.
	With AI.
	With AI.
	And it's material.
	It's dynamite!
	Now, as you mentioned, I should have clipped the Hillary thing.
	Yes.
	Where she blames everything on global warming.
	Which is a very funny clip.
	Well, it's like the Greta thing.
	That was great.
	You know, the Greta with the vegan hand grenades.
	I mean, it's great.
	It's just, it's not a business model.
	Comedy is hard.
	It's hard to make money at comedy.
	Well, especially when you're just giving it away.
	Yes.
	So, no, it's, I'm sorry.
	And I love all the podcast companies.
	Oh, we've got AI for this.
	Yeah, we'll do your show notes, AI.
	Everyone wants to make it so easy.
	Like, oh, you don't have, you hardly have to show up and your podcast will be created.
	It's great.
	No, no, it's not.
	So we were, I wanted to talk about TV and movies for a minute.
	Okay.
	We do have to take a break.
	So we're, we got a hard out.
	Let's come out of the break and I want to bitch about a couple of things out there.
	Well, let's go into the break with bitching.
	That's always fun.
	Come on, do it.
	Well, let's start with this.
	There's a movie that the hell raising the flower hell or whatever it is to say it's a Scorsese movie that was produced by Apple.
	Oh God.
	Three and a half hours long.
	I have a screener.
	I tried to watch.
	It's unwatchable.
	It's too long.
	It's about some murders that took place in the South during the... of Indians.
	And I'm gonna play a clip from it.
	This is the whole movie, by the way.
	Oh.
	It's as if... It's like bad Southern accents.
	Killers of the Flower Moon.
	Yeah, Killers of the Flower Moon.
	It's... It's a money... It's obviously...
	Scorsese got a... who knows how much money to do this film.
	Took it to three and a half hours to make sure nobody actually wanted to see it.
	Because then you'd be embarrassed.
	And the whole movie is like DiCaprio and a bunch of other guys, including De Niro, you know, the usual suspects.
	Oh, this is one of those.
	Man, we're all on the Scorsese movie.
	It's gonna be like The Godfather.
	We're going to have nothing but fun.
	They all have the worst southern accents imaginable.
	Mine is bad.
	No, DiCaprio's is worse.
	And he's doing a Texas accent even though he's from, it's just terrible.
	And the whole movie, I have a clip from the movie, and I'm telling you, the whole three and a half hours is basically this.
	Now, John?
	Yes, me?
	I got a message for you from King Hale.
	He wants you to find A.C.
	Kirby and tell him to take care of Dune Reader.
	All right?
	It's time now, John.
	I can't do it right now.
	My wife's sick.
	Well, my wife's sick, too.
	My wife's sick, too.
	No, why don't you do it?
	Why are you always trying to get somebody like me to do your work for you?
	Well, because I don't know.
	I don't know A.C.
	Kirby.
	I don't know what he looks like either, right?
	I mean, I would do it, but I can't do it because I don't know what he looks like, John.
	Alright.
	I'm sorry.
	Alright, I'll do it, but I can't do it right now.
	You can't get to it right now just so you know that something needs to be done straight away, not to wait on it for hell.
	It has to be done straight away, right now.
	You know, you're being mighty pushy, Ernest.
	Oh, I gotta get back to work.
	I'm gonna lose my job.
	Let me tell you something, you got one more chance, John.
	This is it.
	One more chance.
	I'm gonna talk to King Hale.
	I'm gonna tell him you're gonna do it right now.
	I don't wanna lose this job.
	John, you ain't got no choice.
	It's time.
	Oh, man, that's bad.
	I mean... The whole movie is basically that.
	I live in the South.
	They don't... Nobody talks like that, I know.
	Oh, man.
	But it's like... Clip Custodian says he watched it.
	Took him two days to watch it.
	Oh, he couldn't watch it in one setting?
	No.
	I don't think anybody can.
	But why even watch it?
	Well, his kid is going through chemo.
	This was probably less fun.
	Watching this movie.
	We were talking about some of the other crap that's on television.
	The Kelsey Grammer reboot.
	Yes.
	Unwatchable.
	Anything that's not on network TV.
	I watched something that I liked.
	Okay.
	Ready for it?
	We watched it last night.
	It had a very different type of plot.
	It had good cameos.
	I would say outstanding, not just cameos, but big, good actors.
	Well-known actors.
	The guy who produced it and stars in it kept true to his legacy.
	And it's a Christmas movie.
	Candy Cane Lane by Eddie Murphy.
	Very watchable.
	Very watchable.
	Very fun.
	Well, Murphy's no slouch when it comes to producing a movie or being in a movie that's watchable.
	Yeah.
	And it was a different take on a Christmas movie.
	It was, you know, a lot of black actors, but it wasn't like, look, we're all black actors.
	You know, it was just, it was good.
	It was a good movie.
	Well, that's probably a contrast to Sean Hannity's produced movie.
	Oh, no!
	Don't tell me!
	Which is only on Rumble, and he's so proud of it.
	And the title alone tells you where this movie's headed.
	It's called Jingle Smells.
	No, just stop.
	Stop.
	That's not true.
	Really?
	You think I'm kidding?
	Yes, that can't be true.
	Jingle Smells?
	Do you have a clip?
	No, I don't have a clip.
	Thank God!
	I didn't think of bringing a clip of that, but Kennedy is so proud of this.
	It's a movie that all the family, it's a good Christian values movie.
	Oh, brother.
	And it's on Rumble.
	Rumble or bitch shoot, one of the two.
	I get these mixed up, these platforms.
	Well, there you go, everybody.
	That's your holiday watching tips from your No Agenda Show.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage, saying good morning to you, the man who put the commies who hate our capitalism, he put the C's in that.
	Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora!
	In the morning to you, Mr. Adam McCurry.
	Look!
	In the morning to you.
	Roots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights.
	Hello there, trolls!
	The trolls are good.
	I'm really diggin' the trolls.
	I, you know, I've, I've really, I've, I've really changed my stance a lot.
	I love the trolls in the troll room.
	I'm feeling very good.
	Um, I like it when they say horrible things to me, um, uh, because I forgive them immediately, obviously.
	It's, it's, it's good.
	And it just scrolls off and then, you know, trolls do other things and they focus their attention on someone else.
	else we have 2031 trolls today that's 400 lotus but seems to be our new sunday number It's our new low.
	This is our new low, exactly.
	But it's, you know, we are two hours and 18 minutes into the show.
	I wanted to break earlier, but we are on such a roll, because this will be a very short donation segment.
	They're getting shorter as the days get longer, the donation segments get shorter.
	The donation segments get shorter.
	It's amazing how that works.
	Now you can join those trolls in the troll room.
	That's at trollroom.io.
	And remember to tune in early, at least two hours on Thursdays for Darren O'Neill's Rock and Roll Pre-Show, and on Sunday we also have the Bluegrass Show, which comes on four hours earlier.
	Which is, I mean, it's really good if you want to listen live.
	And now, Fountain has upped their game.
	This is all the new podcast apps you want to try out, by the way.
	Fountain has come up with a new version, which is banger.
	They do the live stuff.
	They give you alerts.
	Podcast Guru is upgraded.
	There's Podverse is doing fantastic.
	CurioCaster, Castamatic, all of this.
	This is the format of the future.
	We've been doing it for 16 years.
	But yeah, it's listening live.
	You've got the troll room right there And if you're if you're one of the 4% of podcast listeners who is using Google podcasts, I know sounds crazy Export your subscriptions to a modern podcast app today because that can that can help a an independent podcast app at modern podcast apps calm Yeah.
	Yeah, it's true.
	And people should go to ModernPodcastApps.com every so often.
	That's right.
	Just check up and see what's going on.
	Thank you, John.
	And you should also go to TooManyEggs.com because it's a great combo.
	You never know you need a big, fat, giant cookbook.
	TooManyEggs.com, yeah.
	These are all good tips.
	A little log rolling on the No Agenda Show.
	That's what you're supposed to do if you're doing a podcast is log roll which Joe Rogan doesn't do.
	It's interesting you bring that up because these apps have a new feature which is called the Pod Roll.
	I didn't make the name up.
	And now, so we have in our pod roll for the show, which shows up in the apps, we have DH Unplugged and I think I put Curry and the Keeper in there.
	If you have another one you want in there, let me know and I'll add it.
	It's exactly that same thing.
	It's log rolling only for podcasts, which is a great discovery mechanism.
	You can also follow us on, um, uh, what is that thing called?
	noagendersocial.com, which I no longer post on.
	Your favorite?
	No, it's not.
	It's very disappointing.
	I am now doing the three meme posts every so often.
	Is that what you're doing?
	Dedicated to you.
	Thank you.
	So you just post three mean things?
	Is that once a day?
	Three memes.
	Oh, memes.
	Oh, memes.
	Memes.
	To you is a mean thing, but memes.
	Memes, yes.
	Yeah, I post three.
	Honestly, I've been looking at the No Agenda Telegram channels now.
	I mean, that's better.
	To me, it's better.
	What happens is you... I don't even know you had a channel.
	Oh, I didn't create it.
	Somebody's got to send me an invite.
	Oh, no, you can just join.
	There must be 50 no-agenda channels and groups on Telegram.
	And I hate Telegram.
	But it's the signal-to-noise ratio.
	You're a hater.
	I can't post, I can't do a reply or anything.
	Everyone's like, it's negative.
	It's all negative.
	No one's nice to me.
	And you know, if you're not nice, then I'm just not going to show up.
	You have to be nice to Adam.
	That's what my wife told me.
	Yeah, but they're not.
	And, you know, I get all triggered.
	And then there's all these memes.
	And there's a lot of, you know, polarizing things.
	We're the most blocked and hated group on the Fediverse.
	Yeah.
	And it shows.
	Yeah, we are the blocked group.
	The Fediverse does not like us.
	The whole Fediverse is a joke.
	Well, there's that.
	But it's something about hate the game, not the players.
	It's something about social media that just, it's broken, it's evil, it's the devil.
	No, I think you're onto something and I brought up the Marshall McLuhan concepts and I think you nailed it.
	It's the medium is the message.
	Yes, and I'm happy to, I mean, I love our community.
	I love No Agenda.
	In fact, We have, you know, we did this meetup, the Super Spreader Seething Infected Human Resources meetup.
	The Indiana, the Infected Indiana meetup.
	Yes.
	And I asked, and this will be our end of show because we didn't really get any new mixes.
	So I asked, you know, instead of just saying, because, you know, there's a lot of people there and you do just the, you know, two minutes of people thank, you know, like, hey, it's me, it's me, it's A lot of kissing, a lot of handshaking, a lot of hugging, a lot of control.
	I'm talking about the Meetup Report.
	That's what I meant.
	Right, so instead of that, I said, why don't you do a Meetup Report and tell us what you're thankful for?
	And that shows the real No Agenda community, and I'm going to play that as our end of show.
	Oh, that's sweet.
	It is, I know.
	I knew you'd love it.
	It's about six minutes.
	I thought it'd be right after the good news, too.
	Oh man, there's so much good stuff coming.
	If you leave now, you are bad and stupid.
	But the trolls don't leave because the troll room is the place where you can do this stuff.
	I love it.
	Troll me all you want in the troll room.
	It's perfect for that.
	It's ephemeral.
	It goes away.
	And you can do that in a modern podcast app too.
	So, Value for Value is what we've been running on.
	I think by now you've realized that if you got this far and you're a first time listener, or maybe second time, you're like, how do these guys do all this stuff without getting the platform?
	Well, we don't.
	We don't have a platform, first of all.
	What were you going to say?
	We create our own platform.
	That's what everyone should do.
	It's not impossible.
	Yes.
	Instead of relying on a third party, We spend the money to create our own platform so nobody can kick us off of it because we own it!
	Yes, and we do this with our producers who help us in many ways.
	A lot of the technology stuff that has been done we haven't done.
	We've never built a website for ourselves.
	That I can remember.
	Maybe one of the first ones.
	All of that has been done by producers as part of our time, talent, and treasure.
	And the way it works with Value for Value, which is a concept which is catching on in all kinds of areas.
	Music now.
	People are seeing it as truly the way out because Silicon Valley's model is give us all your content and we'll give you nothing.
	That's their basic.
	That's what Spotify does.
	That's what they've done to musicians.
	That's what they do.
	That's what social media is.
	Mark Zuckerberg, like, yeah, give me all your Instagram posts, give me your reels, TikTok, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me, and you get nothing.
	So you're working, you're a slave, you're working for them.
	So instead, we just say, hey, if you got any value out of this show, if you learned anything, if you laughed even, if you cried, if there was something you didn't know, you know what, even if you got mad at us, that's valuable.
	And eventually you'll say, I need more of that.
	Well, you'd do that.
	You're a hate listener with a couple of shows.
	Yes.
	And what I do is I force myself to listen to the pivot ads.
	I do that to help them.
	I wish I could just give them money.
	I'd gladly give them money with a message.
	I hate you.
	Here's 50 bucks.
	I'd give them 500 from time to time if I had the money.
	You bet.
	I hate you.
	Here's some value back.
	Now one way, speaking of websites, let's see.
	Sir Paul Couture has been running for many years.
	I just opened it.
	Is it running?
	Is it up?
	Nope!
	He's been running noagendaartgenerator.com which has been just a fabulous resource with almost 30,000 pieces of art since he started that and we had something before then and there was some horrible incidents that happened.
	He's actually changed this a couple of times.
	Yes.
	He has changed infrastructure.
	Went to headless Drupal and then I went to just headless.
	Ruby on Rails.
	Whatever.
	So he is taking advantage of the explosion in the data center to bring everything back up, we hope.
	With a new system, which he was planning anyway.
	Whatever.
	We love you, Sir Paul Couture.
	If you can get it back up, you can.
	If not, we have a backup.
	We can always import that into a new system.
	We'll work it out.
	That's part of the value for value system as well.
	Since we didn't contract someone for thousands of dollars a month.
	And it gives us something to complain about, but at the same time we know he's a coder.
	It's content.
	It's content.
	And that's the way it is.
	Yeah, it's content.
	It's content.
	But we don't have to get all mad because we're paying I'm paying you for this.
	What are you doing?
	This is horrible.
	Your service is no good.
	I knew we should have gone with Azure.
	The consultants told us AWS.
	No, no, there's none of that.
	We're just like, okay.
	All right, man.
	We know you're working.
	Yeah, whatever.
	Yeah.
	We love you.
	It's the way.
	Hey, whatever.
	Hey, man.
	Yeah.
	So part of that come our wonderful artists.
	And so they've jerry-rigged some system.
	Now, noagendasocial.com has been very handy for this.
	They've been posting their artwork there, tagging Sir Paul Couture, and so we have been able to at least get some submissions.
	There's probably more work now than ever.
	Oh, tons of work.
	Tons of work.
	Yeah.
	And we always select something from the offering that we have there, from the value that is returned to us by ours.
	And we love all the value.
	We can only choose one, of course.
	And we will review it.
	We'll give you value right back, reviewing your work.
	We'll tell you why we didn't choose it.
	And we want to thank Darren O'Neill!
	Who likes crappy music?
	Stand by.
	He nailed it.
	He could do art every show.
	He nailed it with the no agenda threat level indicator.
	This was just great.
	And the levels were low, raised, high, Trump, and swift.
	For Taylor Swift.
	Nailed it.
	So we're at Taylor Swift threat level.
	It was great, Darren.
	Thank you.
	It was just fantastic.
	There were a couple others that we discussed.
	A lot of them were good.
	Dame Kenny Ben's McPartner was, I liked that piece a lot.
	You liked the blinking lights.
	Yes.
	The Altair computer.
	Yeah, why didn't we choose Dame Kenny Benz?
	That was the Big Mac, works of those Zempik.
	Why did we not choose that?
	Because Darren was better?
	We didn't choose it because we liked Darren's better.
	Period.
	And I think it was because of the Swift joke.
	Now, Neswork spent a lot of time on the Crocs discussion, which was interesting.
	Yeah.
	And you know why that was interesting?
	Let me just go back and remind everybody of where that came from.
	Go back to episode 1614.
	That's very inexpensive.
	I wouldn't know.
	You don't get it.
	You wear Crocs.
	I don't wear Crocs at all things.
	No, you wear Speedos that look like Crocs.
	I don't wear Speedos.
	I don't even know they make shoes.
	What are the shoes you had that looked like Crocs?
	Alright, so that was the conversation.
	And as part of that tremendous value, one of our producers said, oh, let me take you back to episode 910.
	Hmm, what could be in that episode?
	First.
	Yeah, the keyboard was.
	The keyboard's on the floor.
	So I had this problem happening on the Horowitz Show.
	What, the keyboard?
	You're losing the keyboard?
	The keyboard's on the floor, and I kick it with my... This happened on our last show.
	You didn't notice.
	With your croc.
	You kick it with your croc.
	I don't wear crocs.
	I wear Speedos.
	Oh, oh no!
	Oh, what?
	What happened there?
	Okay, there was a brand of shoes that they had at Costco once, that were made by Speedos, and they had a slight resemblance to a Crocs shoe.
	Now, I... Does Speedos imply other garb?
	Yeah, but we knew it was about the shoes.
	I have put in the safe, I zipped up that information and I am now in denial as to the fact that those were Speedo shoes that I had five years ago.
	The kids call this receipts.
	I'm really happy that the producers out there have nothing better to do.
	Then dig up slight gaps.
	Oh, that's value for value right there.
	That's how it works!
	Do you get it now?
	Do you understand?
	That's value for value.
	Thank you to our artists for submitting your artwork.
	We really appreciate it, all of you.
	I mean, we have a, there's a little extra side issue to the art generator being down.
	All of those beautiful chapter images that Dreb Scott does so diligently for every single show, which he's been doing it for hundreds of shows.
	I think probably about 100 and over 100 shows.
	They were all linked to the art generator images.
	So those, of course, are temporarily down as well.
	So he's been working with some other systems.
	Because what he does is he takes a lot of this artwork that we did not choose and puts it into the chapter images for each individual show.
	Thank you for that, Trev.
	And thank you, artists.
	We appreciate you so much.
	And we also want to thank, of course, the treasure deliverers of value.
	And that means our executive and associate executive producers.
	And then a very short list, which gets us to the 50s before we get into our meetup reports.
	And we kick it off With Baron Not Sure from Monument, Colorado.
	Comes in with a Satchel of Richards.
	That is 1-1-1-1-1.
	And it's a switcheroo.
	Hey Adam and John, he writes, Baron Not Sure here.
	I would like to call out my sister, Mary Rochelle.
	As a douchebag!
	But I can't let her be the last one in our family, so I would also like to credit this donation to her, so she can get a de-douche.
	That's a nice man.
	That's a nice brother right there.
	Uh, can she get an... Ooh, I didn't have this one.
	An Obama you might die.
	Sorry, I don't know why I missed that.
	How'd I miss that?
	You might die.
	Yes.
	What else do you want with that?
	Two to the head.
	Oh, goodness gracious.
	I really fell down on this one.
	And little girl yay.
	Yeah, I'm looking for two to the head here.
	Where's two to the head?
	I've got it.
	While you're doing that, I'll read the rest of the note.
	Thank you.
	And little girl yay.
	Please name her Dame Marie, and she's on the list, until she finds something else more fitting.
	It'd be up to her.
	For the round table, she needs some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
	That way we got one.
	We got a nice Chianti.
	Thank you guys for your courage and for everything you do.
	Mark Retchel.
	And your jobs karma is here as well.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Karma.
	I'll continue with Aaron Brzezinski in Etowah, Tennessee.
	Or Etowah.
	One of the two.
	Aaron in Tennessee, this donation gets me a knighthood.
	I'd like to be known as, and by the way, he came with 333.34.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Ahab Knight of the Seven Seas, and for all of your real estate needs in Hawaii, contact my old friend Cynthia Harrison at Venture Sotheby's International.
	That's a nice plug for your old friend Cynthia Harrison at Venture Sotheby's.
	We need green crackers at the table.
	That's right.
	The old ones I left there are green now.
	Jim Bobway and Viscountess Marianne Schneeberger from Shotzi Land, 33333.
	Thanks for everything you do, they say.
	Tomorrow is our 10th wedding anniversary and they never had a fight.
	So I'm wishing my wonderful wife, Viscountess Marianne Schneeberger, all my love.
	Love remains lit, Jim Bobway and Viscountess Marianne Schneeberger of Shottsy Land.
	That came in as a direct bank transfer.
	Oh, how does that work?
	Well, it's fine.
	Straight, swift bank transfers work fine.
	Oh, that works.
	Oh yeah, it works, no problem.
	Except from Russia.
	I don't know about Russia.
	Oh yeah, because they've got to cut them out.
	Drat!
	Indy No Agenda Meetup came in again in Greenwood, Indiana with another $333.33.
	This is a switcheroo from December 4th, the Indy No Agenda Meetup on behalf of Please Pirate LLC and NPAIN 2007.
	I'm not going to give out email addresses.
	Please Pirate LLC is the parent company for the band Dead.
	We are a value for value band from Cincinnati, Ohio.
	The band consists of Baron Scoops and Douchebag Nate.
	You can find us at the www.pleasepiratemedia.com and youtube at youtube.com at at please pirate.
	If you like rock music and no agenda themes, you might like us.
	Karma for all and a de-douching for no... You've been de-douched.
	You've got karma.
	I met those guys.
	I met those guys at the meetup.
	Very nice.
	Um, actually talked with them for quite a while.
	And they were like, hey man, we got a small box with some of our, you know, some of our merch and stuff.
	And can you take that with you?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	We just had carry on.
	They come out with like, you know, this huge box.
	I'm like, no, you're gonna have to send that to the PO box.
	It was a little bit too much.
	Uh, but their stuff is good.
	And I agree.
	You, you will like them if you like, uh, if you like rock music and no agenda, you like those guys.
	$300 from Garrett Hampton, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma says thank you for the many years of media deconstruction.
	Your early coverage of the Common Core Education Standards nightmare many years ago was a huge eye-opener for my wife and me and was pivotal in our decision to homeschool our kids!
	Another human resource saved or created.
	So many of our current cultural and political problems can be traced to the massive failure of the public education system.
	Parents, Christmas break is the perfect time to bring your kids home from school for good!
	That's not nice.
	If you considered homeschooling but have no idea where to start, we have the perfect resource for you.
	Oh!
	No Agenda Producers can stream Schoolhouse Rocked!
	The Homeschool Revolution for free at SchoolhouseRockedMovie.com slash ITM.
	Schoolhouse Rocked!
	That's not rock, but rocked.
	Movie.com slash ITM.
	After many years of chipping away, this donation brings me to Knight status.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Thinking Dad, guardian of the home educators, and would love sushi and unsweet tea at the round table.
	No pagan karma or jingles for me, thanks!
	God bless!
	Garrett Hampton.
	God bless you, Garrett.
	Thank you.
	You're going to read the next one, but first I'll read this one.
	Linda Lupatkin in Lakewood, Colorado, and 200 bucks, jobs, karma she wants.
	And then she says, believe it or not, she says the following.
	For a remarkable resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all of your executive resume and job search needs.
	And then she iterates, that's Image Makers Inc.
	with a K, ah, dot com, or just find Linda Lou Patkin under the show's producers list.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Very nice donation here from Arend Krijpel from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, associate executive producer with 200.
	He says, about three years ago, my douchebag friend Fritz DeLonga hit me in the mouth with some stories about COVID.
	He also mentioned his high school friend and my idol from my teenage years, Adam Curry.
	That's how I found out about the No Agenda Show.
	Since then, I've been hooked, and a steady listener of your podcast, creep up the great work you do, you guys do.
	Could you de-douche me?
	You've been de-douched.
	And call out my douchebag friend, Fritz.
	Douchebag.
	Who I have here on board with me on my KLM 667 flight to Austin today.
	Adam, if you happen to have time for a cup of coffee tomorrow or Saturday, I will be honored to meet you.
	Well, this is interesting.
	Because Frits de Lange, not only, well we didn't go to school together, he was my neighbor for many years in Nes on the Amstel, that's even before I lived in Amsterdam, and he's a 747 captain, as is Arendt, and he reached out to me, he texted me, and he said, hey I'm going to be in Austin, and you want to hook up and have some coffee?
	I said, well I live in Hill Country, can you guys come out here?
	I texted him back, and he didn't text me back.
	So, somehow we missed the communications, and I'm really sorry.
	Yeah, because... Well, they'll fly back out there again.
	There's nothing more fun than hanging out with 747 captains, because we could have learned a few things, I'm sure.
	So, tailwinds guys, thank you very much.
	Sorry we missed each other.
	And that is it for Executive and Associate Executive Producers for Episode 1615.
	These credits are real, which means they're recognized anywhere credits are recognized at all, which of course is Hollywood.
	But it's very impressive on your resume.
	You can stick it right there on your LinkedIn profile or open up, if you don't have one already, an IMDB profile, imdb.com.
	Unlike the douchebags in Hollywood, if anyone questions the validity or what you did as a producer or executive producer, we'll vouch for you.
	Let us know.
	We'll take care of you.
	And thank you again for supporting No Agenda Show 1615.
	John's going to take us through the 50s and I'll get our meetups done.
	I will begin by saying the total number of donations over 50 today is 29.
	Yeah, that's not a lot.
	We have... A million people who listen.
	We have a million, well, almost a million people who listen.
	900,000.
	And we have 29,000 on the mailing list, which means on the mailing list alone, one out of 10,000 people contributed to the show.
	Well done, everybody!
	Thanks for that.
	One out of 10,000.
	Well, how are you doing on that value for value?
	It's good.
	One out of 10,000 sends us something.
	Thanks.
	Well, I love my job and I love my truck.
	Yeah, okay.
	I will redo the math.
	It's one out of a thousand, but it's still low.
	Mary Rochelle in Bauxite.
	What a great name for a town.
	They must have, I'm guessing there's aluminum in Bauxite, Arkansas.
	1-21-13 and there's a birthday and there's a switcheroo birthday call for Alex or Rochelle, Rochelle.
	And he needs a biscuit for his birthday.
	Well, not just a biscuit for the birthday.
	Isn't there a de-douching in there as well, I thought?
	Is there?
	I think so.
	You've been de-douched.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	Okay.
	Elizabeth Gunther, or Gunther.
	Probably Gunther in Texas.
	Round Rock, Texas.
	100.
	Michael Butler in San Francisco.
	Guess who?
	Michael Butler.
	Rock and Roll Geek Show, baby.
	That's right.
	And he says he's no longer a douchebag.
	You have to de-douche him.
	You've been de-douched.
	And may I note that this January he will be inducted into the Podcast Hall of Fame.
	He will?
	Yes.
	And rightly so.
	He is one of the OG's way back when.
	He's definitely been doing it forever.
	Rock and Roll Geek Show, Michael Butler.
	Thank you very much, brother.
	Sir Bryce, I should go visit.
	I've been to his house.
	It's a very interesting part of town.
	You used to be buds.
	You used to get beef together.
	Yeah, we used to actually... Buy a cow.
	Well, we also bought a pig together, and I think it was a pig that wrote the story.
	He tells the story because I couldn't, I was doing, I think I was working on this show.
	He went out to the auction, and it was either a cow or a pig, but whatever it was, the story is he went to the auction and he... He bought a pig.
	He bought the animal, but he was a low bid, and not only was it a low bid, he got the thing cheap.
	We had it butchered.
	It had three legs.
	No, no.
	It was a fine animal.
	But the thing was that he had to mention that the little girl who sold the animal was in tears.
	And he kind of thought that was kind of fun.
	And then when did you drop him as a friend?
	You just said, screw it.
	Is that when you dropped him as a friend?
	You're like, I'm not calling you anymore.
	No, no.
	Somehow he got into butchering and I haven't really talked to him since.
	That's right, he was doing meats for dogs.
	Oh yeah, and actually since we now own a kennel, you should get in touch with him.
	I think Butler should provide the treats.
	I agree.
	Okay, I'll get a hold of him.
	Brian Tobiasen in Gardner, Kansas, 8D808.
	Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina, 8008.
	And he says, boobs are the original stress balls.
	Curiously, this donation segment is so short that he's right up against it with 6006.
	And he doesn't have a comment on that 6-0-0-6 donation.
	Daniel Mudge, Fairbourn, Ohio, 6-0-0-6, Baron of BNA in Nashville, Tennessee, 59.93.
	Sabode Peth in Metairie, Louisiana, 55.10.
	Well, there's a nice note.
	Let me just read this because this just shows you how this is value.
	And we got value back.
	Thank you.
	I've been dealing with serious medical emergencies with my elderly parents since November 30th.
	I was listening to the Global Donut episode in the hospital today and laughed for the first time all month listening to you and Adam break down NPR.
	Thank you.
	And thank you.
	The Global Donut.
	Paul, uh, Vrae, Vrae, uh, Paul Vraegdenhil.
	Vraegdenhil.
	Vraegdenhil.
	I'm sure he doesn't pronounce it that way in Madison, Wisconsin.
	But he did contribute $55,000.
	Garris Corporation, I think it's Garris, I don't know.
	Arlington, Virginia, $53,000.
	He's a job karma for the Sir Chris of the Pike, and we'll put that at the end.
	Cameron Ling in North Branch, Minnesota, nuts, $51,061.
	Bad idea supply.
	And for some reason, we don't know where they are anymore.
	$50.50.
	And now we have, I love the idea, by the way, a bad idea supply.
	William Kidwell in Dover, Delaware, 50.
	These are all 50s, just the name and location.
	We're going to wrap this up quickly.
	George Wushut in La Vernia, Texas.
	Kapek Chiropractic, PLLC in Kapek, Michigan.
	Check them out if your back's out.
	Paul Dubois in Kerhonson, New York.
	William Spain in Springdale, Arkansas.
	Nadia Borg in San Marcos, California.
	Steven Shoemake in Xenia, Ohio.
	Michelle Petty in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Margarita Andenhood in Orangevale, California.
	And that wraps our donation segment up for show 1615.
	Next show is 1616.
	That should give you some ideas.
	Yeah.
	Will he give us some ideas?
	I can't think of any.
	Now I have a, this is a second winner of the IndyNA Meetup email.
	I'm just going to read this because I'm not sure what the back office wants me to do, but there's a whole bunch of raffle winners and their donations are coming.
	So this is from John Jones.
	I'll read it.
	Oh, hey, Adam and John, just want to thank Adam and the Keeper for coming to the Indianapolis Meetup.
	I was one of the lucky winners of the raffle for an executive producer level donation.
	So he wasn't on the list today, was he?
	Well, there was somebody on the list from there.
	We have to make these, this has to be consolidated.
	We can't stretch out one meet up over 10 shows.
	Yeah, well, especially because I don't see it here.
	So, well, it'll be in for Thursday.
	So John, it'll be in for Thursday, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Because all those are executive or associate executive producer levels.
	So, we'll work that out.
	John Jones, we'll work it out.
	Don't worry about it.
	Thank you very much to our execs, our associate executive producers, and of course everybody who came in under $50 for reasons of anonymity or perhaps you're on one of the sustaining donations.
	They really help during donation days like this when it's, you know, the total is $29 above $50.
	Um, you can do any type of number you want.
	You can do, um, you know, something periodic, once every week, once every show day.
	Um, just make it something recurring.
	We're very appreciative.
	You can find out more about that at noagendadonations.com or devorek.org slash na.
	As requested.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	And thank you again for everybody who supported us here for the No Agenda Show, episode 1615.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, slave!
	and now i understand why that was on the list uh Why that John Jones donation was there.
	Because he has a birthday and he wishes his human resource Desmond a happy birthday who turned one year old on December 6th.
	Baron of BNA wishes his smoking hot wife Jessica a good one, and that good one took place, or takes place tomorrow on the 11th, and Marie Rochelle wishes her brother Alex Rochelle a happy birthday.
	We say happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	We have one dame and we have two knights, so that'll be a nice blade here for them.
	Here you go.
	Oh, ow!
	Careful.
	Oh, there we go.
	Marie Rochelle, Aaron Brzezinski, and Garrett Hampton all up on the podium.
	All three of you are about to become Dame and Knights of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Thank you so much for your contribution, and I'm very proud to pronounce the K-D as Dame Marie for now, Sir Ahab, Knight of the Seven Seas, and Sir Thinking Dad, Guardian of the Home Educators.
	For you, we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys, and Chardonnay, along with that fava beans and a nice Chianti, green crackers, sushi, and unsweet tea.
	Also, we have Gates, Pensake, Vodka, Vanilla, Bong Hits, and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider, and Escorts, Jindreal, and Gerbils, Fresno, Capablum, and of course, we have the Mutton and Meat!
	Head on over to NoAgendaRings.com.
	That's where you can look at your handsome rings and beautiful dame rings for knights and dames.
	You can size your finger and there's a guide on how to do that and you can send that off to us.
	We need all the information please.
	And of course that comes with wax to seal your important correspondence with seeing as they are signet rings and a certificate of authenticity.
	And thank you for becoming the most recent knights and dame of the No Agenda Show.
	And we have a couple of meet-up reports.
	The first one is, this is the second annual holiday meet-up, Gore Melts.
	Hi, this is Tom and Alex's sponsy holiday meet-up.
	Macaroni and cheeps are melting together at Gore Melts!
	Hi, this is Marshall coming to you 60 miles south of Spook Central.
	We thank you for your courage.
	In the morning, this is Dame Troll Chicken.
	Look, here's the deal.
	I'm on the offensive.
	Life is a scam.
	In the morning, this is Rob from Richmond.
	This is Sarah from Richmond.
	I've got ants.
	In the morning, another Chris from King George.
	This is Roger Roundy.
	Stop the hammering.
	And I'm Roundy.
	This is Tom Starkweather.
	Happy to be here.
	Connection is protection!
	We're protection.
	Yes, Tom Starkweather and his much better half, Alex, and the whole crew there in Spook Central.
	Thank you all very much.
	Here's the Five Fork First Thursday Meetup Report.
	Alright, this is Sir Matt with the Five Fork's First Thursday No Agenda Meetup.
	In the morning to ya.
	Hey, this is Gary.
	My wife didn't want to come, but she's curious what this is about.
	So when I get home, I'm gonna give her the whole load.
	In the morning, and thank you for your courage, and we are not drinking seltzer.
	Hey, this is Joe.
	I'm just trying not to get rousted.
	Hey, this is Drew.
	It's my first Meetup, and everybody has a tiny amygdala, and I love it.
	Don't eat me, Joe Biden!
	You're scary!
	So scary!
	And, of course, we'll have that six-minute What You're Thankful For Meetup report from Indianapolis.
	Of course, besides that we got the COOF or RSV or Zika or Ebola, whatever it is, pick your choice.
	We had a great time, and we really love all you guys out there.
	It was a lot of fun.
	We have one meetup happening on Thursday, nothing today.
	On the 14th, the Mile High Meetup, 6.30 Mountain Time, Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
	Up until Christmas, let's see, Gloucester, Virginia, Epping, New Hampshire, Fort Worth, Texas, Cincinnati, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, Columbus, Longview, Texas, Alfredo, Georgia, North Carolina, Sofia, Bulgaria.
	Hello, Sofia, I do want a report from you.
	After Christmas, Indonesia, Lombok, which is next to Bali on the 28th, Hayward, Wisconsin, the Virgin Islands, Tortola?
	Virgin Islands?
	I'll be on January.
	Tortola.
	Tortola on the 1st.
	Nice.
	Denver, Colorado.
	Fort Wayne, Indiana.
	Indianapolis, Indiana.
	Oh, two.
	Spread it out by a week, luckily.
	And Albany, California.
	That's to get John out of the house meetup.
	And Anna, Texas on the 8th, which will be for the big solar eclipse.
	Those are...
	Uh, just the meetups that I have listed.
	There's many more at noagendameetups.com.
	One of those great, uh, No Agenda producer, actually, Knight Daniel, um, um, managed and set up that whole website, which is much better than meetups.com, which we were using back in the day.
	So it's noagendameetups.com.
	Wait until you hear the wonderful human resources our end of show mix and what they were thankful for.
	I think that when you hear that, you will say, yes, this is a group so diverse.
	If every meetup is like that, I need to be at one.
	And you know what you do?
	It's the perfect companion to your No Agenda podcast.
	Go to noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find a meetup near you, start one yourself.
	It's easy and always a party.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	Yeah, that's the one.
	That's the one.
	I only have one ISO.
	Oh!
	Oh, goodness.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same It's like a party I love my drug and I love what I do Yeah, that's the one That's the one So I only have one ISO Oh, oh goodness Okay Oh.
	Shall I play it now?
	Yeah, you might as well.
	What the hell is that?
	Nice fry.
	What the hell is that?
	That's pretty good.
	Let me see what I have.
	That's a wow.
	And, uh... If you love America, you throw money in its hole.
	You throw money what?
	In his hole.
	That's disgusting.
	It is.
	I don't wear Crocs.
	I wear Speedos.
	That's an ISO.
	That's an ISO if I ever heard one.
	Uh, I would say, well, I think there's a toss up there.
	We have, uh, the vocal fry.
	Yes.
	Hold on.
	Vocal fry.
	What the hell is that?
	Yeah.
	And then.
	That's a wow.
	I think the wow is better.
	Really?
	I was going to say the vocal fry, actually.
	Well, use the vocal fry.
	I think, I think that's a little bit better.
	Let me, uh, let me just listen to it again.
	What the hell is that?
	It's a good fry.
	It's a gray fry.
	It's a decent fry.
	It's a good fry.
	Let me see, what time is it?
	Yeah, it's almost that time.
	I would say it is that time, so... It's time!
	What time is it?
	You know it's the time.
	It's the thing, man.
	It's the time.
	What time is it, everyone's saying?
	Well, it's the time!
	And now it's time for...
	Good news with JCD.
	Good news with JCD.
	This is how we end every single show these days, to get you in a good mood and feeling great for the few days in between shows because we know the world can be tough if you don't have your media deconstructors right next to you all the time to hold your hands.
	So good news will put you in the right mood.
	What do you have for good news, John?
	Another animal story.
	Oh, this is good news.
	Here we go.
	Our feel-good Friday starts with a heartwarming story out of Oktibbeha County.
	A courageous cat is reunited with his family after he was missing for two years.
	Two years?
	Fish sticks!
	The Oktibbeha County Humane Society shared how this incredible feline found his way home.
	It's all thanks to a microchip.
	This is a small device implanted under a pet's skin, carrying vital information like contact details.
	It became Fish Stick's ticket back Back to his family after a long separation.
	The animal shelter says this story highlights the importance of microchipping your fur babies.
	A simple act can make miracles like this one happen.
	A good news story from JCD.
	Happy vibes for you and me.
	And we all feel better now he's done his bit.
	So back to reality, that's turning to shit.
	Beautiful!
	Beautiful, John.
	That was beautiful, man.
	I really loved it.
	Nothing like a cat story.
	A fur baby story.
	The cat disappeared for two years, and they're talking about how great these chips are?
	Why didn't they get the cat back home, like, you know, within a month?
	Cat didn't want to go home.
	Cat's like, no!
	You name me Fish Dicks.
	Yeah, Fish Dicks.
	That's the problem.
	Don't name your animals like that.
	I'm sure the cat didn't like that name.
	Yeah, give your animal a good name, people.
	Don't do anything like that.
	Alright, time for me to hit the Advil.
	But, here's your real good news.
	We'll be back on Thursday with another jam-packed episode full of media deconstruction to help you get a better view of your world which is distorted by those douchebags and mainstream media and many alternative media turns out these days.
	Can't trust podcasts anymore.
	It's getting crazy.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Coming up next on NoAgendaStream.com, TrollRoom.io, and on the Modern Podcast Apps, our buddy Nick the Rat, with Episode 415, From the Sewer.
	And remember, we've got our Indie Thank Yous coming up right now.
	Until next time, remember us at Dvorak.org.
	In the morning, everybody.
	Adios, mofos!
	Hello, this is Dame Maria.
	And this is Sir Mark at a super amazing meetup.
	We are so thankful for the wonderful tribe we have here, and especially from Adam and Tina joining us today.
	Merry Christmas, everyone!
	Gary from Greenwood.
	I'm thankful for, obviously, my health, my family, my friends, and Noah Jenna podcast and friends.
	Shannon, visiting from Fort Wayne.
	Is that climate change in your pocket?
	Are you happy to see us?
	We are thankful for TooManyEggs.com.
	This is Mike from Fort Wayne.
	I'm thankful for Tito and Adam and doing the No Agenda podcast and all the producers that make it happen.
	May very well be the secret to saving this nation.
	This is Damon Maysvall from Indianapolis and I'm thankful for Amazeballs.
	This is Mike the Polymath from Westfield, Indiana and I'm grateful for podcasts.
	Check mine out, Easy Peasy Podcast.
	Hi, this is Sir Robert, and I'm so grateful for the Podcasting 2.0 project.
	Thank you, Adam.
	It's Sir PBR Street Gang.
	Thank you.
	In the morning, John and Adam, and I'm most thankful for the Advent season.
	In the morning, Dame Trinity having a great time.
	So thankful for all the people that showed up and for Sir PBR Street Gang for 36 years.
	Hey, this is Guzman of the Midwest from Brownsburg, Indiana.
	I'm most thankful for No Agenda Nation.
	Dame Cindy of the Tito's from Carmel, Indiana.
	Thank you for your courage.
	I.T.M.
	John and Adam, Nader from Indianapolis, and I am thankful for my mother.
	Hi, I'm Sir Rip of the Maple, that's Sir Rip of the Maple with a K, and I'm thankful for, um, uh, in the morning!
	Sir Ted from Indianapolis, and I am forever grateful for my partner of 40 years, my wife Dame Doreen Adele of the Snickerdoodles, who wishes she could be here rather than being at home recovering from knee replacement surgery.
	I love you, Dodie B.
	Ryan D'Asio from Fishers, Indiana.
	I am most thankful for my laughing wife and two human resources.
	Sir Larry here from Columbus, Ohio, and I am thankful for Central Ohio Meetups going on a year and a half.
	Michelle from Broad Ripple, thankful for my family.
	We are five generations strong.
	This is Sir Scoops coming up from Cincinnati on Mount Dead.
	I'm most thankful for the banter between two dudes keeping us sane for 16 years.
	Please pirate.
	This is Douchebag Nate from Cincinnati, Ohio on the top of Mount Dead.
	I'm most grateful for my partner in crime, Baron Scoops, and our construction of the Deadverse.
	April Kyle, Carmel, Indiana, and I am thankful that we are not locked down and we are here gathered together.
	In the morning, this is Dave, the broke air traffic controller.
	I'm most thankful for my job that I can not only drink, party, and smoke on the weekends, but also while on duty.
	In the morning, this is the anonymous controller from Franklin, Indiana, and I am also thankful for my job as an air traffic controller.
	Now let's get these drinks going.
	I gotta be at work by 10.
	This is John Jones from the Court of Lindiana, and I am thankful for my human resource Desmond, who's turning one year old in two days.
	This is Jed from Greenwood, and this Wednesday I have dinner with the Foam Finger Executive.
	This is Sir Brian with an eye from Austin, Texas, and I am thankful for my AI-generated girlfriend.
	Hi, I'm Dame Karen.
	And I'm Sir Bradley.
	From LaGrange, Kentucky.
	We're thankful for each other and for the best podcast in the universe.
	This is Raymond H. from Holt, Michigan.
	Glad to be down here in Indy.
	I am thankful that I have not had to eat the bugs yet.
	John from Vincennes, Indiana.
	And I'm grateful for no agenda.
	Hello, I'm Joshua Crom from Carmel, Indiana.
	And I'm most thankful for my sobriety.
	Anarco Daniel from Indianapolis, Indiana, I'm most grateful for my smoking hot wife.
	Riley Stone, Indianapolis, Indiana, and I'm most grateful for my parents.
	I'm Regan, I'm from Indianapolis, and I'm most grateful for my siblings and my parents.
	My name is Keaton Stone from Indianapolis, and I am thankful for my family.
	My name is Macy, I'm from Indianapolis, and I'm thankful for Christmas school.
	Kurt Butler, our single scholar from South Bend, Indiana.
	I'm grateful my parents are still alive.
	Hi, I'm Chris Keller.
	I'm from Streamwood, Illinois, and I'm most grateful for my health, my family, and having the opportunity to be retired and enjoy it.
	In the morning, my name's Leisha.
	I'm from Carmel, Indiana, and I am most thankful for my job, my boyfriend, and just being in a good place in life.
	Sarah Ohio Blood from Nye, Ohio, and I'm thankful for Adam and Tina.
	And I'm the Bloke Sheila, Rebecca Mansell-Pladle from Nye, Ohio also, and I'm thankful for my faith and my family.
	Hello, this is Sir Mikey Boss, the Irish Catholic sinner in town from Evansville.
	I am most grateful for my reversion to the faith in 2017 and for being here among the No Agenda Tribe.
	I'm Sean.
	I'm Carrie.
	We're from Avon, Indiana, and we're thankful for being here.
	Hi, I'm Karen, and I'm from the region, a.k.a.
	St.
	John, Indiana, and I'm thankful for the hubby, the family, and the smarts to know when to resist.
	Sir Jake, Madison, Indiana, most thankful for Speckhoek.
	Sir Trent from Zinesville, Indiana, and I'm most thankful for six-fingered AI women.
	John from Bloomington.
	Thankful that Bitcoin isn't quite to 200,000 because Adam is still podcasting.
	Paul O'Connor from Bloomington, Indiana.
	Thankful to have all you guys with me.
	Hey, this is Kristen from Bloomington, and I am thankful for Carbon Credits, my family, and the best podcast in the universe!
	This is Joe, driver's ed student of the quarter from Zionsville, and I'm thankful for my smoking hot wife, Nicole.
	Brittany Shavers, Zionsville, Indiana.
	I am also thankful for Joe's smoking hot wife, Nicole.
	Hey, this is Connor slash Nyoruko from Arcadia, Indiana.
	I'd say what I'm most grateful for would be my family, both the natural and the no-agenda family.
	This is Kyle from Zionsville, Indiana.
	I'm grateful for my amazing parents who followed me and my wife all the way to Zionsville from Florida.
	I'm Steve Shaver.
	I'm from Zionsville, Indiana, and I'm thankful for two friends that have opened up an independent health surgery center that are breaking the mold.
	I'm Nicole Molinaro from Zinesville, Indiana, and I'm thankful for God and critical thinkers.
	In the morning, I'm Sam from Paris, France, and I'm most grateful for all my friends here in Indianapolis.
	Hi, this is Sir Becoming Heroic from Cherville, Indiana, and I'm thankful that I never had to partake in the jab.
	Hi, I'm Brooke from Carmel, and I'm most thankful for my relationship with Jesus Christ.
	This is Sir Spooky from Chicago, Illinois.
	I am most thankful for all of the caretakers out there.
	My name is Rory from Detroit, and this Christmas season I'm most thankful for long-lived family members and long friendships.
	Andrea Diazio from Fishers, Indiana, here with my smoking-hot husband, and I am thankful for him and my two human resources.
	This is Anthony Seven, Viscount of Hamilton from Westfield, Indiana, and I am most grateful for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
	Sir Craig of the Dark Moon from Westfield, Indiana, I am most thankful for my smokin' hot wife.
	Hi, this is Dame Amy of the Shining Sun from Westfield, Indiana, and I'm most grateful for my smokin' hot husband.
	Hello, this is Waldemar Zielinski, and this year I'm thankful for the birth of my Lord and Savior, Victoria Newland.

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