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	And like I haven't done enough work.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Sunday, December 31st, 2023.
	This is your award-winning Kimo Nation Media assassination episode 1621.
	This is No Agenda.
	Running through the tapes and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas whole country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where they're all saying, Denmark had a queen?
	Well, yeah, she abdicated.
	I'm John C. DeVorex.
	You should have gone with the Masked Singer opening.
	I mean, that was better.
	You know, the Queen of Denmark abdicated.
	Who did she abdicate to?
	Does she have a youngling?
	Son.
	Oh, so we're gonna have the king.
	Yeah.
	I didn't know this.
	How old is she?
	82.
	Oh!
	Wow.
	She has a bad back and she says you get on her nerves.
	Yeah, and she must love her son, unlike Elizabeth, who hated her son so much, he hung on there.
	Yeah, I know, she lived forever.
	She's like, no, no.
	I'm not gonna, oh, damn it.
	Well, here we are, John, live, the end of 2023, running through the tape to 2024, not looking back, only looking forward.
	Yeah, take a quick glance in the chat room, do a count.
	Oh, okay.
	Let me see.
	Do an early count.
	Catch him off guard.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, hold on a second.
	Oops.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	Stop.
	Whoa!
	Choke out!
	Fifteen twenty one.
	For Sunday?
	Yeah.
	That's down a thousand.
	Well, I told you- This is why nobody works on these days except us.
	You should have started with- We're dedicated.
	You should have started with the Masked Singer opening.
	I'm telling you.
	I've done it twice.
	Ah, yes.
	A couple of Dutchisms for you, everybody.
	As tonight, we'll be eating Ole Buller.
	We haven't talked about the Ole Bull in a long time.
	No, but they're gonna bring Dutch in.
	I got a classic coming up.
	Yes, I have a couple other Dutchisms.
	Ole Bull, look it up, it's oil balls.
	Yes, oil balls.
	The Dutch are eating oil balls.
	And I realize that they have very different ways of saying Happy New Year.
	Oh, you just learned this now?
	No, I just never thought to write it down.
	Fifteen of these and I forgot to write.
	Here it is.
	Prettige jaarwisseling.
	Everyone says that.
	Prettige jaarwisseling.
	Which means happy year change.
	Which is kind of weird.
	And the other one is zalig uiteinde.
	Which means lovely ending.
	Have a lovely ending.
	I always thought it meant happy ending, but...
	Have a lovely ending.
	It sounds like something a mafia guy would say to someone.
	Hey!
	Have a lovely ending!
	Yeah, that's what they do.
	That's what they do in Holland.
	Well, to celebrate the end of the year, since nobody's listening anyway... I brought new clips, you just went to the archive.
	You must have spent... I got new clips, I got a couple.
	I finally brought the Al Gore one in, but I want to do a couple of these classics.
	Because I have some classic for New Year's, and this is the one I'll play.
	This is the classic Dutch New Year videos.
	Classic Dutch New Year videos, okay?
	Yes, you did indeed just witness a man fire a rocket from his ass cheeks.
	To you, this might seem a little crazy, or even borderline insane.
	But to the Dutch, it's just another New Year's Eve.
	The Netherlands, 364 days of the year, is quite peaceful.
	Normally, the closest the average Dutchie gets to war, or oorloch, is their Pikachu oorloch.
	On the 31st of December, this all changes.
	Their most beloved New Year's tradition is making their safe little country feel like a war.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh, nee!
	Nee!
	Nee!
	Oh, oh.
	Is that too wrong?
	It's not wrong.
	I forgot about the guy with the bottle rocket from his butt.
	That's a classic video.
	Classic, no agenda, classic.
	Classic video.
	Yeah, the Dutch go crazy with their fireworks and it really starts two weeks ahead of time.
	There was a report, I forget what station it was, And they had a reporter in Amsterdam for some reason.
	It was completely unrelated.
	I think it was even an Israel report.
	But the reporter was a British reporter in Amsterdam about Israel.
	And it sounded like she was, you know, in Israel with bombs going off.
	Because that's just what it's like in Holland for a full two weeks before and after the New Year's.
	And I have to say that Texas is a bit like that.
	And our dog, for as big a mouth as she has, man, she does not like fireworks.
	I'd say 90% of dogs don't like fireworks.
	I mean, she will not go outside with me to pee.
	She's like, nope, nope, nope, I'll just cross my legs.
	Is there fireworks going off now?
	Oh, for the past week they've been going.
	At least some douchebag at 11.30 at night or something.
	Hey, look at this!
	I mean...
	Yeah, we have a lot of firework stands, all like 290, which is the road, our main drag here.
	I mean, there must be 50 of them from between Austin and here.
	And, you know, they open on certain times of year and they're, you know, big containers just out there in the fields.
	And people love to get their blow up stuff, so to speak.
	They love it.
	They love blowing stuff up here in Texas.
	But the dogs?
	No.
	This dog is not having it.
	So that should be fun tonight.
	Oh, yeah.
	That's all it'll be.
	Well, there's a... Mimi has... There's some drug that you can legally give these dogs.
	Yes.
	It's called Benadryl.
	Well, beside... I mean, something... Well, Benadryl does work.
	Yeah.
	Oh, it works great.
	The dog's like, hey, man, happy.
	Whatever.
	Hey, lovely ending.
	She loves it, man.
	It's all good.
	So, okay, so you'll intersperse some of these classics throughout the show.
	I have classics the same way that Dutch guy has the fireworks.
	Yes, interspersed throughout the show.
	Well, let me start us off then with something that, of course, happened on a show day, which was on Thursday.
	They waited until we were done.
	You said last night that you're not convinced.
	Oops, sorry, not that one.
	That was good, good, good leading, Curry.
	We'll try it again.
	Just one week shy of the three-year mark of the January 6th Capitol siege, Maine's Democratic Secretary of State banned Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot and blistered Trump for his actions before and during the deadly riot.
	In evaluating the weight of evidence, it made clear that Mr. Trump was aware Of the tinder that was laid in a multi-month effort to delegitimize the 2020 election and Tinder then chose to light a match.
	In her 34-page decision, Sheena Bellows wrote, I'm mindful that no Secretary of State has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
	I'm also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection.
	I was in no way influenced by my political affiliation or personal beliefs about January 6, 2021.
	Trump's campaign slammed the order.
	His spokesman called Bellows a virulent leftist and a hyper-partisan Biden-supporting Democrat.
	Last week, Colorado's Supreme Court ruled Trump's name could not appear on that state's ballot because the U.S.
	Constitution prevents insurrectionists from holding office.
	While late last night, California joined Michigan and Minnesota, declining to remove Trump's name.
	And there are challenges filed in more than a dozen states nationwide.
	We really need a decision from the United States Supreme Court, the ultimate authority to interpret what the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution says, to determine whether or not Donald Trump is qualified to run for and hold the presidency.
	Yeah, I think that's really what this is about.
	They just want to add one extra little oomph to everything.
	Look at the Supreme Court!
	They're no good!
	They're no good!
	They're insurrectionists themselves!
	I can't imagine any other reason for this nonsense, other than we want Trump to win so he can take all the crap.
	Well, I'm beginning to think in that, in those terms, more than anything, which is that we're handing Trump the victory any way they can.
	It's what you do.
	It's what you do when everything's going to crap.
	And these guys, this is like a dubious, and even Newsom, who started, I mentioned, the newsletter discussed this, and Newsom started off, I remember clearly, and I think we even had a clip that he wanted to do this on our ballot here, but then he pushed back on the guys who did want it and figured, what's the point?
	It's not going to look good for him because he's still trying to nose out Biden and he can't look like some sort of a, you know, you can't call Trump against democracy when you're pulling these stunts.
	Well, he's not against democracy, he's an insurrectionist.
	That's the question CNN is asking.
	You said last night that you're not convinced the Supreme Court would actually take up the question of whether or not Trump engaged in an insurrection.
	That's one of the big questions, right?
	How do we quantify this under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment if he hasn't been charged criminally or convicted?
	Can they really not take up that part of it?
	Because that, to me, shows even further chaos.
	Hold on a second.
	Does that woman even understand how the Supreme Court works?
	It's Erika Hill.
	Oh my god, poor Erika.
	No, I don't think she does.
	She thinks it's just, you know, like people's court.
	Judge Wapner presiding.
	Part of it, because that to me, sows even further chaos.
	They can not take up the question of whether he engaged in insurrection, and I think they will not take up the question of whether he engaged in insurrection.
	If and when the Supreme Court takes this, it will be a valid procedure.
	They can not, which is what he says at first.
	Then he says they will not.
	Well, yeah, if they can not, they will not.
	Hello?
	You want to elaborate?
	I'm sorry, I have cedar fever.
	You want to elaborate?
	The Supreme Court can only decide on what's before them.
	It's not their job to do anything beyond that.
	So they have to decide whether it's legal or not for these ballots to be changed like this based on the assumption of those other courts.
	They can't start digging into Trump's background and deciding he's an insurrectionist.
	He got a couple parking tickets and they can't figure out how come he didn't pay those.
	I mean, they don't do that.
	That's not how it works.
	I kind of love that, the Zoom call that got out.
	insurrection if and when the Supreme Court takes this, it will be about procedure and due process.
	Was he given fair procedures under the state law?
	Is it even up to these states and secretaries of state to decide this in the first place or does it have to come from Congress?
	I don't think any way the Supreme Court touches the insurrectionist question.
	It'll be based on due process.
	I kind of love that the Zoom call that got out.
	And how does this even happen?
	And Everyone's Zoom call is always online.
	Get a clue, people.
	Get a clue.
	Use Jitsi or something.
	Get a clue.
	Everyone's always logging in and recording your calls and putting them online.
	They all have the same hairdo.
	They all have the same vapid look.
	They're all roughly the same age.
	All these Secretaries of State.
	Are they the Soros sisters as well?
	It's really odd.
	I think so, yeah.
	So of course, just to be completely partisan about it, Jesse Watters on Fox, he takes it to this extreme.
	Five years after the Civil War, pro-slavery Democrats filled the halls of Congress.
	And 15 years later, pro-slavery Confederates actually flipped the House.
	Fifty-one former Confederate soldiers or officials were elected into office.
	Even the Vice President of the Confederacy, Alexander Stevens, an arch-secessionist, landed a seat in Congress.
	Another Confederate, Rebel Lucius Lamar, great name, who literally drafted the Missouri Secession Plan, went on to serve as Interior Secretary, and was later appointed to the Supreme Court.
	But how is that possible?
	Because all week, we've been hearing how the Constitution bans insurrectionists from office.
	The 14th Amendment.
	How would Confederate soldiers be allowed to serve in government but not Donald Trump?
	Well, it turns out, Congress eviscerated the 14th Amendment 150 years ago.
	Because President Ulysses S. Grant believed national unity and reconciliation after the Civil War was more important than holding a grudge.
	This law has been hollowed out and has been sitting on the back burner for years.
	Well, that is until Donald Trump came along.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	I love how someone in the troll room... There's always one in the troll room who says, That's right, because the Dems and Republicans flipped!
	They flipped!
	Oh, the flipped bullcrap.
	Go back to your 1619 project.
	Oh, so Lincoln was a Democrat?
	Okay, well you can rewrite history if you have to.
	No, they flipped after LBJ.
	They flipped.
	Oh, LBJ flipped him.
	They flipped.
	So LBJ was a Republican.
	Flipper.
	He was Flipper.
	Flipper.
	Seems unlikely.
	So, of course, MSNBC, Alex Wagner.
	She actually, I think actually this is This is them saying, yeah, we need to have Trump on the ballot.
	Do you worry that having, for example, the courts, whether the Supreme Court or a state Supreme Court, decide to take a candidate off the ballot to Americans who don't read any of the rulings, who aren't as familiarized with the events of January 6th as perhaps you and I are, that that in and of itself smacks of authoritarianism?
	Do you see that at all or do you think that that's a merilous argument?
	I think that our system has already been worn down and eroded.
	Donald Trump should not be allowed to run for president again based on the other branches of government actually asserting themselves, right?
	He should have been impeached after January 6th.
	There's never been a clearer case for impeachment in the history of this country.
	If he'd been impeached, he wouldn't be allowed to run again.
	Wait a minute.
	They wanted to impeach him after he was no longer president?
	Don't you remember?
	Yeah, of course.
	The courts?
	Absolutely.
	By the way, there's never been such a clear case.
	Besides the fact that there's no evidence.
	He wasn't at the insur... What am I saying?
	He wasn't at the protest.
	Thank you.
	He wasn't, you know, he was in his car being driven away.
	He may have wanted to go to stop it.
	He actually said, don't do it, people.
	He tweeted.
	He told him not to do it.
	But he was part of the tindering.
	He was part of the kindling and the tindering and he lit the match.
	He lit the match!
	There's never been a clear case for impeachment in the history of this country.
	If he'd been impeached, he wouldn't be allowed to run again.
	Who is this guy?
	This is, um, you know, Ben Rhodes.
	The courts, absolutely.
	If you just look at the letter of the law, how is an insurrectionist allowed to get away with the Insurrection Act, right?
	But the reality is, we all know the Supreme Court is not going to allow him to be removed from the ballot.
	We all know that Congress did not assert itself.
	This question is going to be put to the American people, I think.
	Inevitably.
	Inevitably.
	Obviously, it's, you know, the Democratic thing, but... Obviously, we gotta do the Democratic thing, darn.
	Obviously, it's, you know, the Democratic thing, but we're only where we are with Trump because the other branches of government and the guardrails have failed.
	The guardrails!
	The guardrails failed!
	Okay, I've been thinking a lot about this because we kind of touched on this on the last show.
	I think we're both kind of in agreement now that they want Trump.
	They want Trump to take all the nastiness.
	They want to dump it all on him.
	And I was thinking, what are all the different reasons for this?
	So, you know, as you say 2025 is going to be, that's the cycle for a financial, as you call it, downturn.
	Yeah, downturn.
	I'm going to call it deflation.
	There's no way, no.
	It's okay.
	If that even begins, people freak out so much.
	Perfect for Trump!
	Perfect for Trump to deal with, but even taking it further, and I never thought that I would be in on this one, but the more I think about it, the more it seems like the logical The logical thing to throw onto Trump.
	Now, let's just take into account... You should throw under the Trump?
	Throw onto Trump.
	Onto.
	That thing is a new phrase.
	So, first of all, we have... Biden is toast.
	It's never going to happen.
	You know, we've got people out there screaming, he's genocide Joe.
	How many kids did you kill today, Joe?
	You know, that's not going to work.
	He's out.
	He's out.
	All of the people that were pro-Black Lives Matter are now pro-Palestine.
	You know, Biden is seen universally as the problem here.
	He's got to go.
	It's just there's no chance for anyone.
	No one wants it.
	Nobody wants to be a Democrat in this presidential election, as far as I can tell.
	But Trump, when we had the COVID, let's just call it crisis, He's a pushover.
	When push comes to shove, he relented.
	He went, okay, just two weeks to flatten the curve.
	I would call it choked.
	Choked is another way to look at it.
	So what if they could, they, the powers that be, and I think it's always the financial powers that be, what if they could create The ultimate crisis that would result in something that the financial sector needs.
	And I never thought I would resort back to the 1966 Cloward-Piven strategy.
	Oh, God.
	Hello, Glenn Beck.
	Well, Glenn Beck didn't have it right.
	Because he had it partially right.
	Cloward is dead.
	Frances Fox Pivens is still alive.
	She's 91 years old.
	I looked at a whole bunch of videos from her.
	I always thought it was Jeremy Pivens.
	Very funny.
	And, you know, I tried to get some good videos.
	She's just basically a Marxist, straight-up Marxist.
	Both of them were professors at Columbia.
	She's now an emeritus professor at some other university.
	And bearing in mind, just in the back of my head, what the former New York banker said, he said, we win over China because our population is growing.
	Which means, because he's a banker, that means they get to create money somehow for some reason, which is always the point.
	We have a liquidity crisis right now.
	They need reasons, just like with COVID.
	It was handy.
	We created $7 trillion.
	It was a handy little crisis we had.
	And Trump didn't stop that.
	He participated in that.
	So I'm going to read two pertinent paragraphs from Cloward Piven's 1966 paper, which she propagated throughout.
	Well, there's not a lot of video from her with the 60s other than arguing with Thomas Sowell.
	But in the 80s, she was in a lot of shows talking about this.
	And like a year ago on Amy Goodman, which is tedious to watch, there was nothing clippable.
	The title of the paper was The Weight of the Poor, A Strategy to End Poverty.
	And the strategy is based on this fact that there's a discrepancy between the benefits to which people are entitled under public welfare programs and the money they actually receive.
	And their whole idea was there's probably 8 million people, maybe even more, who deserve Um, uh, some kind of public benefits entitlements, but a lot of them don't even know how much they're entitled to.
	And their whole strategy, which is literally called the strategy in the paper, the strategy to end poverty, was to get the unions and all the worker groups.
	And of course, we've seen this now because the people on the streets, you know, ho, ho, hey, ho genocide, Joe, they're all from socialist workers party, all kinds of socialist, not jobs out there with professionally printed signs.
	The idea is to get so many people claiming welfare that they have the right to, that it creates a financial and political crisis.
	That's the idea.
	It was nothing else but... and they never really brought it to fruition.
	To make it simpler, the idea of these people, the idea was that you can crush our country by overwhelming the system.
	And that's kind of what's going on with the border, with this kind of a test case.
	You overwhelm the border with...
	All these people come barreling in and you can't do anything about it because you just let it happen.
	But overwhelming the system is a way to destroy the system.
	And the ultimate goal, as per the paper, what they call general basic income.
	Because that would flatten everything out, that would make it fair for everybody, everybody gets a basic living wage from the government, and that was the final ultimate goal of their strategy.
	And I don't think it's, this is not a test, this is the real deal.
	10,000 people a day!
	And that's just what we know of.
	So I think the idea is, it's still going to take a while, the system is strained, but it's not collapsing yet, but you keep this going for 2024, I think we can get there.
	I think they can succeed with overwhelming the system.
	We're seeing the cities already complain.
	There's a lot of complaining.
	Is it overwhelmed?
	Not yet, but it will be if they keep this up.
	And there's no evidence that the Republicans actually want to fix this.
	I mean, this could be fixed today.
	One word, like, America's closed.
	If you're not coming into the proper channels, go away.
	We're not letting you in.
	That's it.
	It's just a policy.
	The laws are on the books, but they're all negotiating from the military-industrial complex.
	Like, oh, you know, we need to have money for Israel and money for Ukraine, but not until you fix the border.
	So they're all disingenuous.
	And I don't even think it's like one, it's not like some secret cabal that is putting this together.
	It's just all these different little pieces, some evil forces making this happen.
	And by the time it gets to the breaking point, Trump can be president.
	Bingo, boom, shakalaka.
	We get to the system falls apart and I think that then the suggestion will come and Elizabeth Warren and all these and Maxine Waters and all these people who have been doing this for a couple of years now are going to pop up and the best thing for them is going to be the central bank digital currency.
	The Federal Reserve will have, you know, it does take an act of Congress to put that in place in America.
	They will be ready for it.
	They've already tested universal basic income in 28 different cities.
	It'll be perfect.
	And Trump will go, because everyone wants money.
	Look at all the videos.
	Trump, he's my man.
	You've got the black guys.
	You've got the Hispanics.
	Like, yeah, Trump, because we got money under Trump.
	They want money.
	And Trump's going to give it to them because that's what will be presented to him as the solution to the crisis, just as flattened the curve was, just as the vaccine was.
	And I think he'll buckle or choke, as you say.
	And he'll go for it.
	That would be the plan.
	And the reason to have Trump now, you know, spurred on by these phony baloney, take him off the ballot, which only makes him more popular.
	I'm sure that there's leftists who are going, you know, that's not cool, man.
	And I really think that that would be a perfect, a perfect plan to try and destroy the system, the country, and get what they've always wanted.
	And I think most of Congress wants that.
	And then we can get rid of all the other welfare systems and just create money and give it to people.
	Here, it's in your app.
	You probably think I'm crazy.
	Well, you can blame it all on Trump after that happens.
	Yes, of course.
	Of course.
	Of course.
	No Democrat wants to shepherd that in or usher that in.
	No, you want that to be a Republican.
	Blame it on him.
	And Trump is the perfect guy for it.
	We already know that.
	That was the test.
	Oh, okay.
	He fell for it.
	Well, Trump would be, like you said, a good fall guy.
	He has already shown the ability.
	So, yeah, well, but of course you can't, you know, you never know.
	Different things can happen.
	It should be a great year.
	And Trump may have learned a lesson.
	It'll be a great year for the show.
	What lesson did he learn?
	He learned that people love him when he signs the checks.
	That's his benefit.
	Well, I'm hoping he learned more than that.
	He's also just a man.
	I mean, ultimately, he's just a guy.
	You know, he's not like some superhero.
	He's just a dude who sees what's going on.
	But is he strong enough?
	I don't know.
	I was watching the Gutfeld Show, which you don't like.
	And I have to say, Kat Timpf had a good, just one comment.
	She said that this thing had happened in Maine.
	All it does is add another five to ten minutes to Trump's set.
	She didn't write that.
	That must have been the writers.
	No, no, everything that's on that show is pretty much written by some good, some pretty talented writers.
	Who they keep off, they don't do a credit roll on that show, ever.
	No, why would you do that?
	Don't give away the talent.
	Because those writers would be poached so fast, they wouldn't know what happened.
	Yeah, you can't have that.
	So we don't know who's writing the show at all.
	And they don't say, I'm pretty convinced that the guys who are writing the show are some of the Kind of semi-comics that come on the show as guests, and that includes that Joe Mackey character, who is kind of a stand-up comic, but he's, you can see that he, because his material that he presents as himself on the show is exactly the same as everybody, I mean he's, I believe he's the head writer.
	To anyone who watches the show, they'll know what I'm talking about.
	I don't care.
	So the Wall Street Journal had this article, headline, Francis Collins has regrets, but too few.
	And it references a video.
	Francis Collins, he was Fauci's boss, if you recall.
	And a very, very weird dude.
	Remember, he was playing his guitar, making up songs about staying home and lockdowns, and his wife was dancing in the background.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah, that guy.
	Well, he was Fauci's boss.
	He was a part of a lot of the backroom dealing.
	Supposedly.
	And he resigned.
	He resigned before the crap started to hit the fan about Lies, gain-of-function research, etc.
	So I'm unsure where this video is from.
	The Wall Street Journal says it appeared on X, so I don't know where it's from.
	Hopefully, that's two videos.
	Hopefully someone will tell me.
	But Francis Collins is indeed leading the way in an apologist tour about what happened.
	And we start with this quick clip.
	As a guy living inside the Beltway, feeling a sense of crisis, trying to decide what to do in some situation room in the White House with people who had data that was incomplete, we weren't really thinking about what that would mean to Wilk and his family in Minnesota, a thousand miles away from where the virus was hitting so hard.
	We weren't really considering the consequences in communities that were not New York City or some other big city.
	The public health people, we talked about this earlier, and this is a really important point, if you're a public health person and you're trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life.
	Doesn't matter what else happens.
	So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life.
	You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people's lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recover from.
	Collateral damage.
	Collateral damage.
	This is a public health mindset and I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset and that was really unfortunate.
	That's another mistake we made.
	Wow.
	He's admitting mistakes.
	This is very interesting.
	And then he goes one step further and expresses regret around the Great Barrington Declaration.
	Now, you remember the Great Barrington Declaration was this open letter published in October of 2020 in response to the pandemic and the lockdown saying, hey, we got to stop this.
	This is not the way to go.
	You know, this thing is not dangerous.
	It's not, and by the way, the not dangerous thing, that went on for two more years, even though everybody, and you'll even hear Francis Collins agree that, no, it wasn't that dangerous.
	People over 65, yeah, we had to protect them.
	But everybody else, you know, you should get it and then you build up natural immunity.
	And that was the, that was the, The suggestion from several, were they, I think they were scientists, were they virologists?
	I can't remember what it was.
	It was a variation of people, but mostly virologists.
	And you recall that there was some back and forth between Fauci and Collins saying, you know, we've got to knock this, we've got to get rid of this right now, this is crazy.
	Of course, there's no mention of the fact that Pfizer was gearing up, you know, we had Operation Warp Speed, the vaccines were in their final testing phase, they were getting rid of all the paperwork of all the dead people, and we were ready to roll it out so we can't have any of that.
	He's not going to mention that other than his regrets here.
	So this was October of 2020.
	We had no vaccines.
	People were dying at high rates at that point across the country, but particularly in cities.
	I might add, being put on ventilators and killed.
	Or dying for other reasons, which is heavily documented.
	They died for getting in a car wreck, but they had COVID.
	Because there was incentives to the hospitals and the doctors, they got extra money if it was a COVID death.
	So everybody was dying of COVID.
	Yes, and I'm not even sure that Collins was aware of that.
	I don't think this was very... He may still not be aware of it.
	No kidding.
	High rates at that point across the country, but particularly in cities.
	There was a hope we might have a vaccine in another couple of months, but nobody knew if it was going to work.
	These three epidemiologists... That's interesting.
	So in October, they didn't know if it was going to work?
	I thought it was ready by October.
	But they held it back.
	You remember?
	It was like, oh no.
	They held it back past the elections because the Borla and all the heads of these vaccine companies didn't want Trump to get re-elected.
	Well, also Kamala Harris was even saying, oh no, I won't take a Trump vaccine.
	Oh no, I'm not going to take that.
	Everybody said, all the liberals said, we won't take the Trump vaccine.
	But once it became Biden vaccine, same exact product, it was fine.
	These three epidemiologists, very distinguished by their credentials, were convened in a gathering in Massachusetts by Scott Atlas, who was at that time advising the president.
	Very hated by the media.
	Hated, was a nut job, conspiracy theorist, crazy guy.
	And they put together this short declaration which said, let's stop with the closures of businesses and schools.
	Most people who are under 60 or 65, if they get the virus, they're going to survive.
	Let's not try to protect them.
	Let's try to protect those who are vulnerable, the elderly and maybe some others who are compromised.
	And eventually, the virus will run its course through the healthier people.
	And we will be able to get through this without so much damage done to daily life.
	It was sort of a letter rip as far as the younger people.
	Maybe it's not a great phrase, but it was different than what was currently being proposed.
	Different.
	That declaration would have been a great opportunity for a broad scientific discussion about the pros and cons.
	But that's not how it was presented.
	On the day it was presented, it was presented to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Alex Azari.
	It would have been presented And by the way, this is where Trump folded.
	He folded on this, even though I think since Scott Atlas quit over this, ultimately, he's like, no one listened to me.
	This was an effort to take a very fast track of something which would have potentially been a major change in national policy without the opportunity for any debate or discussion.
	And by the way, this is where Trump folded.
	He folded on this, even though I think Scott Atlas quit over this.
	Ultimately, he's like, no one listen to me.
	This is what we should do.
	As somebody who is deeply engaged in the federal effort to try to save lives, I saw this and I was deeply troubled.
	I regret that I used some terminology that I probably shouldn't.
	Conspiracy theorists is what you called them?
	That somebody should I put forward a devastating takedown of the dangers here, and I regret that.
	But I was deeply worried, and in a few days, no less than 14 of the public health associations of the United States, all together, wrote a scathing takedown of the Great Barrington Declaration, saying this would probably kill tens of thousands of people.
	We should probably see if there's any Pfizer or Moderna money involved with those 14 organizations that wrote this scathing response.
	And so, ultimately, that was the scientific discussion.
	But the effort was made by the authors and some help from Dr. Atlas to try to short circuit all that and get that into a policy decision without the opportunity for debate.
	So I don't regret saying this is dangerous.
	It was.
	He can't just say, I'm sorry!
	He can't just say it.
	He can't say, you know what?
	I screwed that up.
	I'm sorry.
	Which is too bad.
	But he gets close, and of course now he's really hated.
	Close is not good enough.
	No, but I mean...
	I have to forgive everybody.
	I'm not going to look backwards.
	They'll have to deal with it at the end of their road.
	When they have their happy ending, they'll have to find out what they get punished for.
	When they have their sudden death.
	Well, speaking of such...
	Pfizer is doing really odd promotional videos, and they're putting my YouTube, and I'm sure it's part of a package that maybe will be promoted by the morning teams in the new year, but they just completed their acquisition of CGen for $54 billion.
	CGen is an interesting company.
	Throughout history, the relentless pursuit of discovery has driven us to go beyond what we ever thought possible.
	But our greatest challenges still lie ahead.
	In the U.S.
	alone, one in three people will receive a diagnosis of cancer in their lifetime.
	That likely means you or someone you know will someday face this devastating disease.
	Notice the music and the explosions.
	That's why Pfizer is going all in on cancer.
	We have the game-changing science and scale to take on this disease.
	And now, with the addition of CGen, a world leader in a powerful cancer-fighting tool, we are pioneering a new revolution in cancer care.
	We will harness cutting-edge science and technologies to attack cancer from multiple angles.
	At Pfizer, we believe that time is life.
	Yes, change the trajectory of cancer as we know it.
	Turbocancers, those are very handy that they now have completed that acquisition.
	of cancer as we know it.
	Yes, change the trajectory of cancer as we know it.
	Turbo cancers, those are very handy that they now have completed that acquisition.
	They've got some more genetic therapies that they can use on people and I guess that's going to change the trajectory of cancer.
	I mean, problem, reaction, solution.
	Can't get any better.
	And then, they have learned a lot from Joe Biden's, you're gonna kill grandma if you don't take the shot.
	Remember that?
	Empty chair at the table?
	That's Biden's empty chair, yeah.
	They have taken it full on for their next campaign.
	Iowa is a wonderful place to raise a family.
	Everything moves a little slower here.
	We all know each other.
	This is home.
	I love it here.
	Hi, I'm Tammy Edwards, and I'm a mother of two daughters.
	I have nine grandchildren.
	I'm also a private music teacher and a substitute teacher.
	The wonderful thing about having my grandkids in this area is I get to see them all the time.
	I want to go to their soccer games, their dance recitals.
	I just don't want to miss a moment of their lives.
	The fall of 2019, I started to get this cough I could not get rid of.
	It took forever for someone to finally say, why don't we send you to a pulmonologist?
	And they said, you have asthma.
	And it wasn't long after that that I contracted RSV from my grandson.
	I went to babysit.
	My youngest daughter told me that they had tested positive for RSV.
	I just put a mask on.
	I thought I was safe.
	I had always thought, oh, that's a kid's thing.
	And the next day, my whole head filled up and it just started to go down into the chest, which terrified me with having asthma.
	I was sick in bed for a good 10 to 12 days.
	Lifeless.
	My chest was tight.
	I was coughing up buckets of mucus.
	How am I going to get through this?
	What if I die in the night?
	I was terrified.
	I began thinking, how am I going to be around children, which is my job, and my grandchildren.
	It just broke my heart.
	I don't want to be afraid that I'm always going to catch something from innocent little kids.
	I would just love for everyone to take this seriously, because you don't know how it will affect you if and when you get it.
	Going through RSVP wasn't in vain.
	Not at all.
	I can help other people.
	So there's my story.
	There you go.
	Mask doesn't work.
	Just so you know.
	I thought the mask would work.
	No, the mask doesn't work.
	I got it from my grandkids.
	If only I had known.
	If only I had taken... Yeah, if only I had ever heard of RSV before five years ago, personally.
	But okay, yeah, I know.
	It's been around.
	Everyone's noticed this.
	Well, it certainly is not something that old people had to take vaccines for because their kids are going to kill them.
	And that's just evil.
	This is another example of why these ads should be banished.
	From public viewing.
	Especially the old, you know, the crying on screen stuff.
	Then there's one more.
	It's a short one.
	We realize that here at Pfizer we have many medications that we sell you.
	We don't want you taking generics.
	No generics for you!
	My name is Lev Kubiak.
	I've been with Pfizer for just about six years within global security.
	We have a breakthrough goal to do as much as we can to eliminate counterfeit medicines.
	Counterfeit and illicit medicines are a problem in every country around the world.
	Right now we're seeing a rash of young people who are purchasing prescription medicines from online and unknowingly getting fentanyl-laced pills that can instantaneously kill them.
	I worry about the elderly people who are on a fixed income, maybe shopping for medicines on the internet, seeking lower prices, and get duped by criminal organizations into buying counterfeit medicines.
	The new campaign, No Fakes for Health's Sake, incorporates all of the elements into an effort to hopefully have a true breakthrough moment that would change patients' lives if no one fell victim to counterfeit medicines.
	That's right.
	Generic is the new counterfeit.
	Yeah, you're shopping for something cheap online from Canada, from India, they're counterfeit and they're gonna kill you.
	That's for sure.
	Yeah, that's for sure.
	And if that wasn't enough...
	We got a report today.
	COVID-19 could trigger a heart failure pandemic.
	Ah!
	Yes, it's the JN.1 strain is gonna kill you now.
	From heart failure.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, sure.
	It's the JN.1.
	I don't know how they can keep, think they can keep this going.
	I mean, I do like the idea that Pfizer is, because they've sent out the clot shot, as some people like to call it, or the ones that, sudden death, they're just double down because that's what you do.
	You can't ever back off on this or you're going to be in court.
	Oh yeah, they can't.
	They can't admit to it.
	And I think it's interesting what Collins is doing, because he's walking a fine line there.
	I know he's retired and everything, but is he trying to make good?
	Or what is he trying to do?
	Why is he doing that?
	Well, he's never worked for Pfizer or any of the big drug companies that I know of.
	Or am I wrong?
	I mean, everyone else has.
	I wouldn't be so sure about that.
	You don't think he's on any patents?
	You don't think he's getting anything?
	No.
	I don't know.
	And he would get all those million dollar awards for being a Christian in medicine or something like that?
	Maybe.
	That's not my question.
	In Japan though, there's something called caregiver fatigue.
	Elderly care.
	Increasingly killing off aged population to cut costs.
	Just kill them.
	Like Canada.
	Cut costs.
	That's one way of cutting costs.
	That's what's on the bottom line of the government.
	Great way of doing it.
	Great way of doing it.
	So I want to do a little climate stuff here.
	Oh, okay.
	And I want to start by talking.
	I had that clip.
	I said I promised to bring it.
	It's long.
	It's the Al Gore clip.
	It's long.
	Part of the reason it's as long as it is, because it's... I have to... What you're going to hear hasn't been sweetened by me.
	Has or has not?
	Has, it has.
	Oh, so you... Oh, yay!
	Everybody!
	It's a Christmas... It's a New Year's miracle!
	Blips and booms and bongs from John!
	Now, the thing is, I've decided what I'm going to do in the future is I'm going to run a laugh track under these things.
	Especially with gore.
	That's hard to do, to do a good laugh track.
	It takes some work.
	I've been trying for years and it is hard.
	It's harder to do than people imagine.
	You can do it with a, yeah, there's ways of doing it, I just haven't been able to get the rig set up properly.
	But here's Al Gore, this is, he's on, I believe this is PBS, and he's just on, and he's just allowed, they ask him a simple question of what do you think the future, what's in the future, the new head, the Disney News Hour guy asked him, and he's allowed to just ramble, ramble and ramble and ramble with bull crap.
	What can change in a day?
	A street.
	Oh, I'm sorry, wrong one.
	This one.
	I gotcha.
	The world doesn't act.
	What's the worst case scenario?
	Well, the scientists who warned us of these megastorms and the floods and mudslides and droughts and the ice melting and the sea level rising and the storms getting stronger and the tropical diseases and climate migrants crossing international borders in larger numbers, they were dead right!
	When they warned us about this and so we need to pay more attention to them now Here's one thing they say if we don't take action there could be as many as 1 billion Climate refugees crossing international borders in the next several decades.
	Well, a few million has contributed to this wave of populist authoritarianism and dictatorships and so forth.
	What would a billion do?
	We can't do this.
	We could lose our capacity for self-governance.
	Already we're seeing people driven from the places they've always called home, and we're seeing an expansion of areas in the world that are physiologically unlivable now because of the combination of heat and humidity.
	They're relatively small areas now, but if we don't act, they will expand to include most of India, large parts of Northern South America, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, the list goes on.
	The survival of our civilization is at stake.
	And it sounds dire, but it is dire.
	But, again, the good news is we can reclaim control of our destiny if we summon the political will and the courage and the moral courage to do it.
	You know, there's a European politician, Claude Juncker, who said, we all know what to do, we just don't know how to be re-elected if we do it.
	Well, this is why grassroots pressure from people who understand how high the stakes are is the critical element.
	And the good news, again, is people are rising up and demanding action.
	Your new CNN poll shows that more than three-quarters of Americans, including a majority of 76% of independents and more than half of the Republicans, support action.
	We just have to break the political power that the fossil fuel industry has exerted with its fixers and its lobbyists and its bags of money and its revolving door colleagues.
	But we can do this, Jake.
	We can do it.
	Do you remember back in the day when this first started, at least when we were doing the show, and there was another revival of Al Gore and Peak Oil, and people would say, you guys are getting money from the fossil fuel companies.
	You're getting money for it.
	That's what's going on there.
	Yeah, there's always those guys.
	And there's another good reason, another good way to, to, um, the Buffalo Trump.
	It's like, Hey, these are climate refugees, man.
	Put some money into climate change.
	Will you?
	I don't know if he's that stupid.
	Here's 12 years ago.
	This is the, I have two more Al Gore clips from 12 years ago, but he's actually improved his, his bit.
	I think, because he's got the climate refugees which he never discussed.
	Let's start with this one.
	This is the climate classic 12 Gore weather equals climate.
	The new information that I'll be focused on in this new version of the slideshow includes a lot of the new startling evidence linking these extreme weather events around the world to the climate crisis.
	It's really no longer a legitimate question for doubt or debate.
	I know there's some people that don't like to hear it put that way, but people around the world are suffering from the consequences of the droughts and the heat waves and the extreme flooding events and the unprecedented wind storms and the fires.
	It's really gotten to the point now where it's kind of absurd for Anybody to say, hey, nothing's going on, what's wrong?
	July was, in the U.S., the hottest month ever measured.
	And globally, nine of the ten hottest years ever measured have been within the last ten years.
	This is the 337th month in a row.
	Where temperatures were higher than the 20th century average.
	And the fact that the news media doesn't report it in that context, every night on the news now, practically, is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.
	Ah, there it is!
	Well, here he is, here he is again.
	This is the gore going on with climate reality.
	Again, over a decade ago, I think this is 2011, but this is This never ends.
	What can change in a day?
	A street can become a river.
	A mountain can become a mudslide.
	A forest can become kindling.
	Across the globe, cataclysmic weather events are occurring with such regularity that it's being called a new normal.
	But there's nothing normal about it.
	And there's something else that lies destroyed amid the rubble.
	The truth about climate change.
	Big oil and big coal are spending big money to spread doubt about climate change.
	They've been able to do so quietly, but not anymore.
	On September 14th, the world will join hands to create 24 Hours of Reality, an event that will focus the world's attention on the full truth, scope, scale, and impact of the climate crisis.
	To remove the doubt, reveal the deniers, and catalyze urgency around an issue that affects every one of us.
	Climate change is not your fault.
	The climate crisis is our problem, and real solutions can come when we address it together.
	Fossil fuel interests have money, influence, control, but together we have something that they don't.
	Reality.
	Join us for 24 hours of reality and show the world what can change in a day.
	So this was an event called the Climate Reality Day.
	It was supposed to be a yearly thing.
	It went on for 24 hours.
	I think it was in 2012.
	Wasn't that the channel he bought?
	Didn't he buy a cable channel for a hot minute?
	Yeah, he had Current.
	Current TV, right.
	It was called Current.
	Current, yes.
	And he had the climate reality...
	You can look it up on the Wikipedia, it's called Climate Reality.
	And it was a dud!
	It was a huge dud!
	They never got anywhere with it.
	Even Earth Day is still going on, but this thing dropped dead and it just didn't happen.
	And they didn't prove anything.
	Well, here's what we can expect in this new year.
	I think because everyone's out.
	It's funny, because of Trump probably, but they haven't done their typical thing.
	I only got science news.
	Who had the headline climate change made 2023 the hottest year on record?
	I haven't seen a lot of that from the television networks.
	And I did see concern over record, this is New York Times, concern over record high water levels in the Netherlands.
	Very scary.
	Most of the Netherlands is under sea level.
	So I read this headline and of course I speak Dutch so I go to all the Dutch publications.
	Do you know what the headline is there?
	I'm guessing not quite as severe.
	Who is the masked singer?
	There's not a single thing about it.
	It's like, oh yeah, there was a little concern last week, but everything's gonna be okay.
	They've dealt with this for a long time.
	They're not too worried about it.
	Well, the Dutch of all people, of course.
	They know how to do it.
	They built the whole Delta Works, the whole system.
	Something you in California could use!
	From Montecito, to the Bay Area.
	Waves as high as 40 feet are pounding the California coastline.
	In Ventura County, the surf flooded streets with debris, reaching several blocks inland.
	The fire department there saying eight people were sent to the hospital after this rogue wave smashed into a seawall, swamping a pickup truck.
	And in Santa Cruz, these children were nearly swept away by the gigantic swells.
	We've got high swells.
	We've got waves coming in directions we're not used to them coming.
	Even the most seasoned swimmer and surfer, this is dangerous water.
	On Thursday, coastal flooding warnings were in effect for much of central California.
	While evacuation orders were issued in several communities in Santa Cruz and Marin counties.
	It's a pure state of panic, to be honest, as far as the community goes, because you know there's plenty out there that are not prepared.
	Further south, lifeguards kept inexperienced swimmers out of the water, but many expert surfers took advantage of the rare opportunity to ride waves as high as a two-story building.
	Isn't this something that happens periodically in California?
	I remember reports like it.
	It happens all the time.
	Thank you.
	It happens at least once a year.
	It happens up here.
	It hasn't happened recently, but they had that special surfing competition.
	Yeah.
	They sent a note out.
	It's having ridiculous waves.
	Come on out.
	Surf's up, dude.
	We're going to have a competition.
	Surf's up, dude.
	Now, something I think is a little more rare, which I have the clip of, which is climate.
	The Chunnel got flooded.
	No, it's not the Chunnel.
	It's not the Chunnel.
	But, okay.
	A rare break in a key passage from Great Britain to Europe.
	Flooding has forced the closure of a rail tunnel between London and France, this after unprecedented flooding around the British capital.
	Eurostar, which operates trains from London to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam, cancelled all of its services in and out of the city, leaving hundreds stranded in railway stations.
	More travel chaos is expected as Storm Garrett continues to batter the UK with high winds and heavy rain.
	Notice the UK gets battered, California gets pounded.
	It wasn't the tunnel that's leaking, it's poor infrastructure in the UK that actually sprung a leak.
	Flooding in a tunnel under the River Thames has brought all Eurostar train services to a halt.
	Badger!
	disrupted the holiday travel plans of many people bound for London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.
	Strong winds and heavy rain have battered the UK and forecasters are warning of more stormy weather ahead.
	Music for the masses stranded at London's St. Pancras station.
	The flooded tunnel has brought Eurostar trains to a standstill and disrupted holiday plans.
	Many travelers are now scrambling to reach their destination as the clock ticks down to 2024.
	The Chaos.
	So you're telling me it's just a tunnel in England and not the shuttle per se?
	Yes, correct.
	So it was the crappy infrastructure of the British tunnel.
	So you're telling me it's just a tunnel in England and not the tunnel per se.
	Yes, correct.
	Yeah.
	It's their infrastructure.
	nature.
	But, you know, gotta close the channel.
	And maybe it is leaking from that... Well, they do have... their subway system floods every so often, too.
	Well, so does New York.
	I mean, all these things happen.
	You know what?
	Life is not perfect.
	It's not Disneyland.
	When you got something underground under a bunch of water... Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Things happen.
	It's not because of rising tides.
	Just back to Al Gore for a moment.
	You know, he entered this... his original entrance into the climate scam.
	Uh, was to set up a carbon credit trading market?
	Yeah.
	What was the name of that guy he was doing it with?
	The first one.
	Yeah.
	The guy, he died.
	The guy who originally set that up with him, I forgot who that was.
	He was the, I think he was the finance guy.
	He was necessary to make this thing work.
	And so when he died and it wasn't going to work anyway, early on.
	He was like the Adam Curry of carbon.
	You know, like, I always have all these great ideas and I'm ten years too early and everyone else becomes a billionaire.
	Yeah, that's it.
	Let me see.
	Who?
	Maurice something.
	It was Maurice.
	I think it was Maurice.
	Maurice?
	What was his name?
	Maurice makes a lot.
	CCX.
	CCX was the... What was that thing?
	Anyway, maybe the troll room knows.
	Maurice.
	Anyway, but that's also coming around because I'm going to... I have my one classic clip of my own, which I'll take back to almost one year ago, January, when the... That's not much of a classic.
	It's a classic light.
	When the Biden administration announced that they would be putting, they would be calculating, it's the new asset class, if you can remember?
	Yeah.
	The new asset class is, and in fact, I think you and Horowitz talked about on DH Unplugged, DH Unplugged, every Tuesday live.
	Well, he's so nice to promote us all the time, I feel bad.
	He promotes us all the time, every show.
	He does.
	It's called Log Rolling.
	Maurice Strong.
	It just came to me.
	No thanks to you, Troll Room.
	Maurice Strong was the guy's name.
	So, you guys are talking about the UK putting prostitution and cocaine on their balance sheet.
	Weren't you guys talking about that?
	Prostitution and cocaine?
	Yeah, just a couple years back.
	They decided to put that onto the balance sheet saying, oh, that's part of our GDP.
	I don't remember that, but... You don't remember this?
	It's something we would have talked about.
	Yeah, well I thought I heard about it again on DHL unplugged.
	I know we talked about it.
	I wonder if we have a clip of it.
	Let me see.
	You can't... Well, you know, technically... Here we go.
	Yes.
	Well, I mean, if you're going to put the drug trade on the balance sheet, that's going to pump up your GDP by billions.
	Prostitution, I don't know what the number is on that, but I don't think it's as high.
	I don't even know what the prostitution situation is anymore.
	It seems it's all online.
	Yeah, but it's still part of the GDP.
	Yeah, I would think so.
	Anyway, so the Biden administration decided, oh, we're going to put parts of the United States nature onto our balance sheet, which would be another great, because Trump, he's a macro guy.
	He would love this.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, we can just count that as a part of a GDP.
	It'll make my numbers look great!
	So central banks are also starting to understand nature has real value.
	Carbon, we already figured out.
	And carbon is moving very quickly into a system where it's going to be very close to a currency.
	Basically, being able to take a ton of absorbed or sequestered carbon and being able to create a forward pricing curve with financial service architecture, documentation.
	I just came out of a meeting this morning, how we're trying to accelerate that.
	To be quite honest, not to get very boring, but we're on financial topics and things, but there are going to be derivatives and you need is the documentation if you want to trade a derivative in the marketplace.
	And all of this actually matters for nature as well.
	I'm going to quickly hand off, but again, I want to talk about value one more time.
	I'm going to trade some shares of Yellowstone.
	Say what?
	I'm going to trade some shares of Yellowstone, and if you give me some shares of Yosemite, and then Yellowstone, I'm going to get some futures.
	hey, the UAE just bought a third of Zambia or whatever for carbon credits.
	This is exactly what they're talking about.
	It's crazy.
	Because the southern part of the world has value far greater than large elements of the northern part.
	And we start thinking about and putting prices on water, on trees, on biodiversity.
	We find where does that sit?
	I'm doing a lot of work out of Asia, and I say that my next-door neighbor, Indonesia, is the left-flung of the world.
	And obviously, Brazil is the right.
	And Africa, absolutely critical.
	And we need their natural capital as a system-based world more than we need that $66 billion we've got sitting in the basement of the Bank of England.
	So how do we, and I'm hoping this discussion today, at least from a central banker's point of view, on how do we start tokenizing?
	How do we start building systems that actually create, not only the value, but transfer that value around the world?
	So, this is what your No Agenda Show does.
	We had this one year ago, we talked about this, then we saw it, COP 28, what did we see?
	We saw the UAE buying large swaths of Africa for carbon credits.
	And you heard something else in there.
	Biodiversity is worth money.
	Well, let's give you a jingle from seven years ago.
	We are ahead of the curve.
	Here it is, Wall Street Journal.
	I thought that was a lot older than that.
	2017.
	Oh yeah, so it's seven years old.
	Wall Street Journal from May 29th, 2014.
	Drugs, prostitution add 10 billion pounds to the UK economy.
	Overall of how GDP is calculated to include contribution of illegal activity.
	And they still, they still suck.
	They still can't make it work.
	And they put hookers and blow on there.
	That's pathetic.
	It's great!
	Yeah, everything.
	Oh, we're gonna tokenize it.
	Well, that sounds fantastic.
	Tokenize everything.
	And we were talking about the gas, no more gas homes, no more gas in new buildings.
	You talked about that on the last show.
	Did you get a clip?
	Last show was a clip.
	Yeah, well here's a follow-up.
	So the state of Illinois is ringing in the new year with what else?
	New environmental regulations.
	On January 1st, the land of Lincoln will be the first state to require all new homes and apartment buildings to be equipped with electric vehicle charging stations as the quote, right to charge movement gains steam.
	Currently, 10 states already have a right to charge policy in place and a number are expected to grow as blue states look to jumpstart the Democrats forced transition to EVs.
	Right to charge movement.
	Right to charge.
	When did we not have the right to charge?
	It's a movement, haven't you heard?
	Is there some suppression going on that we need the right to charge?
	I'm wondering.
	I didn't look this up, but I'm sure that this is some great industry right to charge.
	Is the charging station that has to, which is expensive, that has to be built into new homes, is that going to be in the garage?
	Here it is.
	Right to, that's everywhere.
	Right to charge laws.
	Right to charge Plugin America.
	There's your group right there.
	PluginAmerica.org.
	Those guys.
	About.
	Aboot.
	Is this in the garage?
	Yeah.
	Where you're not supposed to put your electric car anymore because the insurance won't cover your house when it burns to the ground?
	Oh man, I can't believe I didn't clip that.
	There was a great clip of this lady who got a loaner car which, let me see, it was her Mercedes loaner car and it exploded in her garage.
	It was, it was EV.
	The whole house, the whole second story of the house.
	Yeah, I think this is it.
	Let me see if I can bring this up.
	There was, yeah, this is it.
	Nightmare for a local family.
	They say an electric car sparked this fire that destroyed their home.
	And it wasn't even their car.
	It was a loaner.
	The homeowner told us they had the loaner while their personal car was being serviced.
	This happened in Nocatee in St.
	John's County.
	Take a look at the video again.
	Look at what's left behind.
	Almost nothing left of the car itself.
	The whole house is burned down.
	And so she had a charger, she had an EV, and then the loaner EV she got exploded in the garage.
	And this is a Mercedes.
	These cars will not be insurable.
	People will not...
	Well, they're going to be, yeah, insurance is going to be outrageous.
	They can't, this has to stop.
	I mean, Amazon has decided to pull its electric little trucks and they're going to move back to diesel.
	Yeah, the Rivians.
	Yeah, we had our insider tell us about that.
	No, not the Rivian.
	They have a bunch of different kinds of electric vehicles.
	They're impractical.
	Yeah.
	Yes, they are impractical.
	It's like a golf cart.
	It's like a golf cart that doesn't look stupid.
	It's good for tooling around town.
	If you're going to go to the store, you're not going to drive more than 30 or 40 miles.
	They're fantastic.
	Yeah, I can see that.
	I can see me getting a little golf cart for Fredericksburg.
	In fact, I'm going to get a golf cart.
	You should.
	I think you'd be looking... There he goes, that guy!
	He's a weirdo.
	One of those with a Rolls Royce front end.
	And I'll be waving to everybody like the Queen.
	Hello!
	Hello!
	Put Tina on the back.
	Yeah.
	Sure.
	Sure.
	So I have a couple more... I got another classic little segment here.
	Classic clips.
	Classic clips.
	Let's start with today's news.
	This is today.
	This is the new news.
	This is from WNT.
	This is what's going on.
	Because of the New Year's, you know, we've got to consider what's going to happen.
	We've got to be careful.
	Heading into New Year's Eve, police across the country are on alert from New York City to Washington D.C.
	to Los Angeles.
	The NYPD deploying thousands of officers to watch over an expected crowd of one million in Times Square.
	ABC's Aaron Katursky, here in New York.
	Tonight, the nation's largest police force is expanding security measures for New Year's Eve amid what the NYPD calls a heightened and dynamic risk environment fueled by the Israel-Hamas war.
	We will be out here with our canines, our horsebacks, our drones, our helicopters, our boats.
	What?
	Anything in particular worry you?
	Pro-Palestinian demonstrators could disrupt festivities in Times Square, like they did during the Thanksgiving parade.
	Authorities will also be watching for potential acts of terrorism after last New Year's Eve, when an alleged ISIS sympathizer attacked officers at a checkpoint with a large knife.
	Today, the FBI took us inside the room, where they'll have eyes on the crowd.
	Anything in particular worry you ahead of Sunday?
	I would say no, nothing right now.
	Nothing's worrying us.
	It's just that we have to get it right every time.
	Outside New York, the FBI is eyeing a broad set of potential soft targets at other New Year's Eve celebrations, including fireworks barges in San Francisco and outlaw motorcycle gangs that have been warring in Las Vegas.
	The FBI telling us today, Whit, there's nothing that should keep anyone away from Times Square on New Year's Eve.
	There are no specific threats.
	Do not be alarmed, citizen.
	No specific threats.
	Let's go to, hey, ten years ago, classic 2014 New York City New Year's celebration.
	You sprang it on me, here we go.
	National Guard in place, bomb sniffing dogs and radiation detectors in the crowd.
	Police will also be monitoring hundreds of cameras in Times Square from inside this command center.
	This as protests against police are expected across the country from New York to LA over what protesters are calling oppressive police tactics.
	Already in St.
	Louis, a group arrested after storming police headquarters.
	And back here in Times Square, the people here can't leave and come back, and no backpacks will be allowed anywhere near here.
	Again, the concern is that more than a million people will be here tonight, Elizabeth.
	Alright, Gio, thank you so much.
	We're going to turn now to news.
	Wait a minute, you're telling me this is like a package they do every year?
	Oh, well, that was for 2014, let's go to 2015!
	His name is Emmanuel Luchman.
	He's 25 years old.
	And what the FBI says he planned to do was to carry out an attack at a restaurant in the Rochester area tonight, New Year's Eve.
	And he was in touch with and directed by, according to the FBI, an ISIS member overseas.
	His plot was to carry out this attack using pressure cooker bombs and knives to have a couple of people and kill them, Jim.
	The FBI really says, though, that this guy has got a long criminal history in New York, including for robbery and for mental health issues.
	And he plotted with a couple of FBI informants, including one who was paid $19,000, another paid $7,000 for their work helping the FBI with these cases.
	He recorded a video yesterday pledging allegiance to ISIS before carrying out what he planned to carry out this attack today in Rochester.
	That's interesting.
	that we're not going to do We never heard after, you know, after the pressure cooker bomb in Boston.
	The only thing that happened is the Instapot gained great popularity.
	Instapot, you had one.
	Of course, Instapot was the bomb.
	Oops, I'm sorry.
	Instapot, that became a thing.
	Oh, I need an Instapot.
	But wasn't like people were worried that, oh yeah, there's a lot of people buying up Instapots, they could be turning into bombs just like Boston.
	Isn't that interesting?
	While we're looking at the past, let's go to Belgium in 2014.
	Overseas tonight, Belgium on alert.
	Threats of a possible terror attack forcing authorities to cancel New Year's Eve fireworks in Brussels.
	The decision today following the arrest of two terror suspects accused of plotting to attack police, soldiers and huge crowds celebrating the holidays.
	Authorities saying the plan may have been inspired by ISIS.
	Now, if anybody remembers 2014, this is pre-Trump, pre, you know, this is right in the middle of Obama.
	They had cancelled fireworks everywhere.
	The Seattle Space Needle didn't have them.
	All around the country, oh no, we can't have fireworks because ISIS.
	Let's go to CNN.
	Yesterday, in New York City, security, always tight, has been increased this year.
	While officials stress there is no specific reporting regarding any threats, a joint threat assessment based on analysis from 10 law enforcement agencies warns the Israel-Hamas conflict has created a heightened threat environment.
	Therefore, the intelligence community remains concerned about lone offenders using online platforms to express threats of violence against Jewish, Muslim, and Arab communities, as well as committing simple Unsophisticated attacks that are difficult to detect in advance.
	The assessment obtained by CNN reminds police that massive live televised events remain an attractive target for foreign terrorist organizations as well as domestic violent extremists.
	It's a threat stream that will be monitored minute to minute leading up to midnight New Year's Eve in multiple command posts.
	From the NYPD's Joint Operations Center, to its Intelligence Bureau, to the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, gathered in an operations center in Lower Manhattan.
	We know what their tactics are.
	We're going to make some adjustments to our tactics.
	No one's getting to that ball.
	I can put it to you that way.
	Stay safe, citizens.
	Stay safe.
	Don't worry, we're vigilant.
	Man, they're just freaking everybody out all day long.
	Don't fall for this.
	This is horrible.
	Don't fall for it.
	And these protests, which, of course, there will be protests.
	Of course.
	It will be pro-Palestine protests.
	Because we've had them at the airports.
	They're everywhere.
	Now they're even blocking highways in the Netherlands.
	By the way, it's not unique to America.
	The Netherlands?
	Oh yeah, the Netherlands.
	Oh yeah.
	They're blocking the A10 or A12 highway, which has a, they literally have a blockade where the ambulances have to get off the highway to get people to the hospital right there, and they're blocking it like morons.
	In America, this all comes from the critical media, literally, I mean, the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies.
	And I have their website right here.
	It's very, very graphic heavy.
	And their affiliated organizations, it's amazing how many.
	Five Elements SF, Abolitionist Teaching Network, Academia Cesar Chavez, Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Borderlinks, Brocada Filipino Men's Healing Collective, Community Responsive Education.
	Community Voices for Public Education.
	Education for Liberation Minnesota.
	Educators for Anti-Racism, Inc.
	El Griot.
	It's on and on and on and on.
	Yeah, all from the same website designer and the same five people.
	And here's a little information about this tool kit.
	The tool kit, I have a link in the show notes if you want to get your tools to use to get involved.
	Last month, the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies shared a link to its critical media literacy rooted in ethnic studies, a curriculum toolkit for Palestine.
	What kinds of lesson plans and resources are we seeing here?
	Well, a good way to think about this is, for people who have seen these holiday disruptions of people blocking the roads to get into JFK Airport, or the airport in Los Angeles, or the airport in Chicago, that's largely what this is.
	So, in addition to this toolkit, you know, being about totally anti-American, totally anti-Israel, totally against Western values, and, you know, the usual stuff we hear about, the oppressor versus oppressed, etc.
	It calls for action, and the action that it calls for is what we were seeing in the streets with people blocking traffic.
	It also, you know, has petitions for students or staff to send to elected officials, and these are petitions that accuse Israel of genocide.
	So again, the language, it's very extreme, and if you can imagine sort of the most extreme protests and demonstrations that people have been seeing just across the country, the language is largely the same as what we're seeing in this toolkit.
	Yeah, so it's just in the classrooms, it's the teachers hand it out.
	We got a note from one of our teachers this morning, um, who says, you know, all the teachers are no good.
	They've got Che Guevara posters.
	Yeah, I got that note.
	They've got, uh, yeah, let you read a little bit of it.
	Oh, okay.
	Hold on a second.
	And of course it's, uh, it's anonymous.
	Uh, let me see here.
	Uh, yes.
	Oops.
	Boots on the ground.
	I got it here.
	I got it here.
	Um, Anonymous.
	Students are way behind, but more interesting to me is the fact that the vast majority of teachers are utterly unimpressive people who have an extremely limited, very often left view of the world.
	There are at least two teachers who have Che Guevara posters on the walls in their classrooms, which amazes me that they think that the butcher of Castro should be an idol to look up to.
	Many, not all, have trans flags in their rooms or on their classroom doors.
	Many of them have no control over the classrooms.
	Students in my room behave much better than most any other room in the school.
	I attribute that to the high standards both for me and my students, which most teachers don't have for themselves or their students.
	Clear rules, expectations, a genuine connection.
	I'm often told that I'm their favorite.
	Well, of course.
	I told this fine teacher, I said, get into the homeschooling movement.
	You know, all those parents can take their kids out of that school.
	You shouldn't have to suffer this idiocy.
	I think all the schools are that way.
	Yeah, I think you think.
	Well, not the homeschools.
	Well, no, homeschools are homeschools.
	Yeah, they're homeschools.
	But this stuff, this is so crazy.
	And this flows right into the magical AI.
	And I love people who are telling me that I'm so wrong.
	You better learn, Curry.
	Otherwise, it'll be too late for you.
	Too late.
	The AI's gonna eat me.
	So, I went into ChatGPT.
	Now, I don't pay for anything.
	So I get the 3.5.
	I don't get the 4.
	But I said... Cheap, cheap bastard.
	I said, tell me a good Jewish joke.
	And ChatGPT said, here's one!
	Why did the rabbi bring a ladder to the party?
	Because he heard the drinks were on the house!
	Hope that brings a smile!
	Then I said, tell me a good Muslim joke!
	I cannot fulfill this request.
	I strive to be culturally sensitive and respectful of all religions and beliefs.
	Muslims, like any other group, except Jews, should not be stereotyped or mocked.
	Jokes that target a particular religion or group can be hurtful and perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
	Instead, I focus on humor that brings people together and celebrates shared human experience.
	If you need assistance or have a different topic you'd like to explore, feel free to ask.
	I'm not in agreement generally with your take on this whole thing, but I'm in total agreement with your take on the ridiculous verbosity, which is a good word for this.
	That's a good word, verbosity, yes.
	That this system has.
	There's no reason to go on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
	That's the giveaway.
	Nobody talks like that.
	What do you mean, what is the giveaway?
	What do you mean by that?
	The giveaway, well you said it yourself, when you did something for Tina, and she says, you didn't do this, this was AI.
	Oh, it works that way.
	Because it went on and on and on and on and on about bullcrap that's got nothing to do with anything.
	And it's what it does.
	The setup is too long.
	This sort of conclusion that it got on that one is too long.
	It's yak, yak, yak.
	No one does that.
	It's not the way people write.
	But I think you also agree with me that this is a dud and we're just waiting for the pivot, which may take another year.
	Then, of course, all the money is in the compute, in the cloud.
	That's what Sam Altman is doing.
	He's going to start a chip company, and that's where it's all going to come from.
	Well, that'll be the dud.
	If anybody thinks you can just go start a chip company unless you're From a chip company and you've been there a long time and you're stealing stuff that that's what happened with Intel it was the two guys were Royce and Moore were hot shots at Fairchild And they went off and they took the idea of an integrated electronics as opposed to just Transistors and they went off and did their own thing.
	They were gonna get sued by Fairchild, but then Here's the way the story is told to me.
	Fairchild was going to sue the two of them for starting up a new company, developing microprocessors.
	And then Shockley, which Fairchild turns out to be started the same way Intel was started, the guys left Shockley Semiconductors and started Fairchild.
	And Shockley said, hey, you sue them, I'm suing you.
	And that was the end of it.
	And nobody's been sued since, except AMD.
	Well, the problem is there's a culture and I don't I don't think we've really picked up on this just a little bit with the effect of altruism, but there's a culture in Silicon Valley.
	Where these types of people, Sam Bankman Freed, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Andreessen, all these people have these wild, you know, fantasies.
	A lot of them are microdosing ketamine and other hallucinogenic drugs.
	And they go into venture capitalists with a PowerPoint and you just put in, you know, all these terms and words and, you know, hey, we're going to change the future and you need to be part of it.
	And venture capital investors who are idiots.
	You and I have dealt with them.
	They're just me too, guys.
	Remember Juiced?
	Remember Juiced?
	We were told, oh, podcasting is no good, you gotta be like Juiced.
	Come on, you remember Juiced?
	J-O-O-S-T.
	I remember Juiced.
	J-O-O-S-T, I believe it's spelled.
	Yeah, oh, you gotta be more like that, they said at Kleiner Americans.
	That was the biggest dud ever.
	Right.
	Because, and we could mock, listen, we call a lot of things right.
	I was using Amazon's Alexa way before anyone was even looking at it and I said if this had Apple's logo on it people would be losing their crap and we used it and it was using for three years before it caught on and then we said this is gonna end and we were right about that.
	Mastodon.
	Very early on the Mastodon train.
	Oh, podcasting.
	You know, so when people say, you don't know what you're talking about.
	I'm running 11 models at home.
	It's no good.
	The crap hallucinates.
	I like your voice, the guy that's always bitching.
	I don't know who that guy is, but he sure hates you.
	He's on No Agenda Social.
	We mocked virtual reality, augmented reality, Google Glass, glass holes.
	Oh, that was a loser from the get-go.
	Blockchain bullcrap.
	We called out FTX and SBF as bullcrap and we've been right about this.
	But now we've gotten to this AI thing and this is almost concerning.
	The people running these companies who are getting a lot of money and of course subsequently go sit in Washington DC with the smartest people in the world.
	Who knows what they're coming up with.
	But policy is being written.
	This is money.
	There's so much money.
	The D.C.
	people are all horny about it.
	And then we come to this article that I think you also received called Tescreel.
	Yeah, you should read that one.
	That's actually kind of interesting.
	Well, I have a couple of clips regarding this.
	Tescriol, T-E-S.
	Yeah, explain it first.
	Explain the whole thing.
	So Tescriol is what they call a bundle of terms for the Silicon Valley people like Bankman Freed, like Elon Musk, like Sam Altman, blah.
	A lot of it has to do with, you know, kind of like queer, quasi-gay, sex cultish type people.
	And I think you can put Elon Musk in all of those categories.
	But it's an acronym for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singulitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, and Effective Altruism, and then Long Termism.
	And all these people, it's really, they're all in on kind of a Jules Verne, Wernher von Braun, like, you know, we can all live forever.
	It's really their fear of death, let's put it that way.
	They're all microdosing, they're afraid of dying, but they figured out, we're so smart, we can get billions of dollars, and we can save ourselves from dying by, you know, uploading our brains into the cloud.
	Yeah.
	But this is really, but it's true, it's true.
	So there's been a couple of people who have jumped out of this and say, well, these guys are nuts and crazy, and I want no part of it.
	And it's not for the reasons that you and I think they're nuts and crazy.
	This Emil P. Torres, please note, he has to have a P in his name, Emil P. Torres.
	I have to do the same thing with my C. Yeah, but he's not doing it because there's another Torres out there.
	Emil P. Torres.
	He is blowing the whistle on this crazy group because he says that they're threatening AI researchers.
	They want to kill AI researchers.
	Everything about these people, all these people are crazy.
	So anyone who wants to, they're into accelerationism.
	We have to, it has to go fast.
	Don't worry about it.
	This is what OpenAI was supposed to stop with all these ideologues.
	They kicked all of them out.
	Remember that role?
	Remember the lady who was from Australia, you know, like 20 years old?
	And yes, we have to be careful.
	No, no, they just they just wanted to accelerate and they can do any anything they need to.
	And the money people are all in.
	Here's an explanation of the acronym.
	OpenAI has a huge amount of money from Microsoft.
	And then Amazon just gave Anthropic four billion, if I remember correctly.
	So if you look at the origins of these There's a sense in which big tech is not like other domains where there's lots of money and really powerful companies like fossil fuel companies.
	I mean, you're gonna have to live with it, because this guy is one of them, and this is how they all talk.
	This is how Altman talks, Bankman Freed, they all talk like this, and we just have to live with it.
	Well, and as you know from my clippage, you can make Musk talks like that too.
	Yes!
	What is, you know, if you ask the question, what is motivating these fossil fuel companies to do when they stop?
	Now that you mention it, it's a milieu.
	Oh, it's a big milieu.
	And Marc Andreessen, P. Marca, he has this, I don't know if it's silly, he had it in his Twitter profile.
	Test realism forever.
	I mean, he's a money guy.
	They all are all in on this.
	Yeah, it was a mistake.
	The question, what is motivating these fossil fuel companies to do what they're doing?
	It's profit.
	That provides a comprehensive and complete explanatory picture of what's going on.
	With big tech, that's only half of the picture.
	The other half of the explanation concerns the techno-utopian vision, which is at the very heart of the Tesco bundle.
	Do me a favor for the audience and just spell out TESCRIAL, what each stands for, just for a second.
	Sure.
	Yeah, it's T-E-S-C-R... I don't have to do that.
	I just told you what that is.
	Let's go into the... So, it's really, they want to build perfect humans.
	What does that remind you of?
	Now you can build the perfect, or let's put it, the perfect human race.
	It reminds me of Hitler!
	You know, I mentioned the test girl movement goes back, you know, basically 30 years to the late 1980s, early 1990s.
	But transhumanism, again the backbone of this bundle of ideologies, that Traces its genealogy back to the early 20th century.
	So, you know, in the work of like Julian Huxley, J.B.S.
	Haldane, J.D.
	Bernal, there are a bunch of others.
	Do you know any of those authors?
	Any of them?
	Yeah, most of them.
	Oh, what are they?
	Are they nut jobs?
	Well, one of them was Huxley, I think he mentioned.
	No, he didn't say Aldous, Adolphus Huxley.
	No, no, just different Huxley.
	Well, play those names again.
	You know, in the work of, like, Julian Huxley.
	Joanne Huxley?
	Oh, Julian.
	Julian Huxley.
	Yeah, he's famous.
	Very famous.
	Famous for what?
	What kind of stuff?
	He was a transhumanist ahead of his time.
	He was, I think, the brother of Algis.
	The Huxleys are all related.
	Oh, by the way, Jared Lanier.
	Another one of these guys.
	You know, weird, weird sexual, like, you know, weird gay-ish type.
	Jared Lanier is an interesting character.
	I do know him.
	He is, uh, he has dreads.
	Yes, he does.
	And he's kind of a, let's say, stocky.
	People like... He's a stocky... I'll just summarize.
	Jared Lanier is a stocky guy who has dreads.
	They're long, and he never showers.
	He's the father of virtual reality, John!
	People like Molly Wood... He's promoted this.
	People like Molly Wood Fawn.
	Oh, I got to interview Jared Lanier.
	I've had good chats with him.
	Yeah, but he also talks difficult.
	JBS Holding.
	JBS Holding?
	Any idea?
	No, no.
	Many of whom were very prominent and important eugenicists of this first wave eugenics movement.
	So Julian Huxley, for example, he's the guy who popularized the term transhumanism in the 1950s, 1960s.
	And, you know, so after the atrocities of the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s, even after that, eugenics persisted.
	So there's continuity across the 20th century with the eugenics movement, which a lot of people don't realize.
	And transhumanism is basically eugenics on steroids, at least with respect to its goal.
	Because the old eugenicists, they wanted to just perfect the human stock.
	And also to prevent humanity from degenerating, which is a big concern among many people.
	In fact, one of the theories of how racial groups evolved involved this notion of degeneration.
	And, you know, a lot of the worst aspects of the 20th century eugenics movement, I think, are still kind of all over the place in the industrial movement.
	But transhumanism itself, that is a version of eugenics.
	If you ask a philosopher, it's uncontroversial.
	And by the way, that's perfect with our U.S.
	history.
	Hitler got the eugenics idea from us.
	Yeah?
	No, we're always into that stuff.
	Yeah, we had, you know, prettiest baby contests at fairs and everything.
	Nah, nah, nah.
	Miss America.
	And then, you know, we were sterilizing black people.
	Eh, you know, we can't.
	Wasn't there even a Supreme Court justice who at one point said, three generations of this is enough?
	I don't remember, but it wouldn't surprise me.
	And then, of course, Hitler started writing fan letters to these people, the American Eugenics Society.
	And then he was like, I'm going to gas some Jews.
	And the American Eugenics Society went, oh, oh, dude, no, no, dude, we're going to be real quiet.
	I don't think they were saying, oh, dude, but yeah, to that effect.
	We're gonna be quiet for a little bit here.
	Stop it.
	Ixnay on the Asingay, okay?
	We can't do that.
	But it's still the culture and it's now moved to Silicon Valley and they're also, I love this guy, they're also colonialists because, you know, space.
	I mean, one of the ways that These ideologies and this movement has impacted the world.
	Can you stop for one second?
	Of course.
	I have to say that listening to this guy's pattern of speech, let's put it that way, Really makes me cringe, because that, you're right, this is a milieu type of speak.
	It's a funny kind of a chatter.
	People should know, if you ever hear somebody that talks like this, and there's plenty of them in Silicon Valley.
	Kick them in the shins.
	These are people that have issues.
	Yes!
	This guy probably doesn't, I don't know if he, he may be a virgin.
	There's a large part of that.
	Remember we had a note from one of our producers who was in this movement early on in Austin.
	There's a big big contention in Austin and he says ultimately it was really just weird sex stuff.
	If you didn't have the billions of dollars And it's all about, you know, the long-termism is it's okay to kill people now as long as the future humans can live.
	We only really need, this is literally the literature, we only really need 40,000 people to survive a nuclear holocaust on earth to create the humans of the future.
	This is the kind of stuff they're talking about.
	I don't want to go off on these theories.
	No, please.
	You have the history.
	Let's take these guys and try to summarize what their issues are.
	They're very uncomfortable around women.
	Yeah.
	And this nervous pattern, this type of speak that they've developed.
	Chicks don't dig that, by the way.
	I would hope not.
	I mean there are chicks like this too, but generally speaking they don't find each other.
	So I'm guessing there's a contingency of... it sounds like it's a pattern of... the pattern of speech is a pattern of a frustrated male.
	Possibly, yes.
	Yes.
	And this is bad.
	We don't need males like this.
	With a billion dollars.
	With a billion dollars from venture capital.
	That's exactly the point.
	And this is why I'm going to summarize.
	This is why prostitution should be legalized in California.
	Back to what I was saying initially, which is that a complete explanatory picture of why these companies like OpenAI and DeepMind and so on are explicitly trying to build artificial general intelligence is because they see AGI as the shortest route from where we are right now
	To a techno-utopian world, in which we completely re-engineer humanity, we colonize space, and ultimately we subjugate nature, we exploit the vast resources of the cosmos, which people in the test group movement refer to as our cosmic endowment of neg-entropy, or negative entropy, usable energy.
	Yeah, again, through all of these movements and ideas of the past, which were really toxic and caused tremendous harm, and pretty much everybody acknowledges that now, and then there's this sense that, well, we've moved on, but we haven't.
	You know, eugenics is still alive and well in the testicle movement, and this notion of manifest destiny that continues, you know, the colonial mindset That persists as well in this notion that we need to go out, colonize space, and, you know, people say, well, you know, we're going to go to exoplanets where there aren't life forms, and so it's fundamentally different.
	Alright, so now here's my summary, and I have one more clip and a shorty.
	These are people who have no faith, which is okay.
	You don't have to believe in Jesus or God or anything like that or Allah or whatever you want.
	And they are desperate because everybody needs something.
	You can believe in climate change, you know, whatever your religion is.
	And they're so desperate that they want to create a digital God.
	And it's either Well, here's the explanation.
	In fact, a lot of the people who are working on AGI, particularly over the past two decades, so people who have been there from the beginning, they would argue that it's not just about this sort of grand moral aim of maximizing value within the accessible universe, but there is a self-interested reason for building artificial general intelligence as soon as possible.
	If we build it in a way that is controllable and its creation occurs within our lifetimes, then we live forever.
	Maybe there are ways to upload our minds that don't involve AGI.
	That's possible as well.
	There are different routes.
	Maybe we develop John, I think that these people are really, you know, we have the cryogenics movement.
	These guys, they're afraid to die.
	They're afraid of their own mortality.
	via Wi-Fi basically to a computer.
	So that's one possibility. - John, I think that these people are real, we have the cryogenics movement.
	These guys, they're afraid to die.
	They're afraid of their own mortality. - Well yeah, if you're a virgin. - But also maybe we just create this artificial God, this superhumanly, quote unquote, intelligent system.
	And since everything is an engineering problem, according to these individuals, then we just delegated this task of curing the problem of aging.
	And then, you know, maybe about five or ten seconds after we say, could you cure aging, the super intelligent machine goes, okay, I figured out how.
	Here's how I'll develop the therapies right away.
	So, if we get AGI within our lifetime, this is what they think, then we get to live forever.
	So, there's a huge reason to, yes, you want to be cautious and try to safeguard against the AGI.
	Causing an existential catastrophe.
	But also, you don't want to just like, you know, put the brakes on indefinitely.
	I mean, there's a small group of doomers who want to do that.
	But most people in this field would reject that position because they want to live forever.
	And this is, this is, when I heard this, I'm like, oh, light bulbs are going off.
	So it's a bunch of soy boys growing up with no faith in their life.
	They're, of course, most humans are afraid of death.
	They're like, oh, but there's an end, I'm gonna die, I'm afraid of that, what am I gonna do?
	And their solution is, well, I'll create a digital god through AGI, the big promise, which none of these demos which I'm seeing, which do rap songs and people with six fingers and flowery language, it's demos.
	There's no AGI anywhere, but we want a digital God, and who's leading that pack?
	All of the people have been uploading articles, best quotes from different articles, videos, to X. All of that can be trained on, and effectively, now you have this remarkable repository, and I wonder what you, how you think about that, again, and how you think the creative community, and those who were the original IP owners should think about that.
	I don't know, except to say that by the time these lawsuits are decided, we'll have Digital God.
	So, I should ask Digital God at that point.
	There he is.
	Eugenicist number one.
	Elon Musk.
	Oh, don't.
	We'll have a Digital God.
	He's all in on this.
	He's got the neural link for your brain.
	Oh yeah, I'm going to help people who are blind.
	I'm going to help them see.
	Bullcrap.
	He's got the most money.
	He reminds me of Trump.
	Big talker.
	Right, but the belief, and then everyone who's going, no, this is not going to work.
	You're assuming that he's sincere.
	Yes, I am.
	I think he's very sincere.
	I really do.
	I don't.
	I'm completely oblivious to that.
	I have no No confidence in his sincerity.
	I think he's full of shit and he does it on purpose.
	Okay, then let me ask you this.
	Do you think that what he has done for the EV industry is positive for the world?
	By creating electric vehicles and an entire movement of things that blow up in your garage?
	You're asking me this question because we had a clip on the show already where he says he's done more for the environmental movement than any single person by developing this.
	No, I think he's totally insincere about that.
	What do you think he's doing?
	He did it for the money.
	He saw, all he does is he sees government money.
	It's all government money and subsidies that made that company what it is.
	And he also knows how to exploit personality.
	So he had a bunch of people, you know, everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to everybody else.
	When he rolled out the first little Tesla, that little sports car that was, you know, mediocre.
	And it was, it was actually, you know, just a, uh, what is a Lotus with a, Electric engine.
	And he's a PT Barnum, as far as I'm concerned.
	I don't see anything other than that.
	Well, there's a lot of people and a lot of money flowing towards all of his grand ideas and the space exploration, we're gonna colonize Mars, it's all these things.
	Yeah, he wants to move there, he wants to be the first person on Mars, he'll die there.
	I remember that.
	Do you remember that?
	Yes, I'll just take him at his word.
	I think he's one of these.
	I think he's weird.
	I think he is a eugenicist.
	He wants perfect people, he wants everyone to be perfect.
	I think he's deathly afraid of dying.
	Yeah, I think he's one of them.
	I really do.
	Okay, I mean I think it's a reasonable position.
	Neither one of us have sat down at dinner with him so we don't know him and so we have to speculate.
	Yes.
	And that's as far as we can go with it and you know people have to note that that's the situation.
	Just a, um... I'm speculating about one thing.
	I have the positive attitude.
	I have the Christian attitude.
	And you have the satanic attitude.
	Yes!
	No, I have... Condemning the poor man who don't even know.
	Wow!
	Wow!
	No, I have the Christian attitude because he is the Antichrist.
	Do not worship false idols.
	Wow, I can't believe you said that.
	That was funny, though.
	I can't believe you said that.
	The common is it's funny.
	There's this whole thread of, um, from Emmett, uh, Emmett Shear.
	He was the guy who was, um, he was the, uh, CEO of OpenAI for about 12 hours.
	Yeah.
	And so he, he's on X of course.
	Then he starts off by saying something completely insane.
	Let me see.
	He was talking about, um, hold on a second.
	I have it here.
	He posts this thing.
	These guys are also full-on Marxists.
	I'm not against inheritance for children with wealthy parents.
	I'm in favor of inheritance for every child.
	That might take spreading out, say, half the inheritance money each year more equitably.
	Which seems fine.
	If the United States took 50% of the total inheritance and spread it out evenly among all people turning, say, 25, that would be $61,000 for each person.
	Far more equitable start at life for everyone.
	These guys are insane!
	That's pure redistribution of wealth Marxist theory.
	Yes.
	Yeah, I don't know how these guys all of a sudden this whole group became communists.
	Especially with all the money that they got using the capitalist system.
	Well, it's guilt.
	Some bias people, you know, a lot of these guys are guilty.
	They're microdosing.
	They know they didn't do enough to become billionaires.
	They didn't do jack.
	They got lucky.
	They're in the right place at the right time.
	They're all microdosing hallucinogenics.
	And they're doing that.
	I think that's a problem.
	That has something to do with it.
	So.
	Huh.
	Well, let's change subjects and go to a 3x3.
	Oh, about time.
	And now it's time for 3x3!
	Experiment by JCB!
	Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC!
	Well here we go, now this time it's about Nimrod.
	Heh heh heh, Haley.
	brings them all together the three networks do they have the same script are they in collusion the white house give them all the information is that the cia will find out as john gives us a three by three well here we go now this time it's about nimrod hailey nimrod hailey they all they seem to be preoccupied with her gaffe or her inability to as predicted something at a yes public forum who Who cares?
	As if this makes any difference in the world.
	But yeah, they've got to do a big report on it.
	And here we go again with NBC and ABC with the exact same report.
	Starting with who?
	NBC.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	No, um, you've answered my question.
	candidate Nikki Haley in cleanup mode after leaving out slavery as a root cause of the Civil War in New Hampshire on Wednesday.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	No, I'll keep answering my question.
	Thank you.
	Next question.
	Haley spent Thursday attempting to explain what she meant.
	Wow.
	Hold on a second.
	They've now, they've taken everything out that goes from the guy saying, what can you say about civil warrants, I expect you to say something about slavery, and she goes to the next question.
	She talked for five minutes.
	Yeah, we played the real clip, I think, last show.
	Wow.
	On Wednesday.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	No, you've answered my question.
	Thank you.
	Next question.
	Hayley spent Thursday attempting to explain what she meant.
	Of course the Civil War was about slavery.
	And made clear the role slavery played in American history.
	We know the Civil War was about slavery.
	But it was also more than that.
	It was about the freedoms of every individual.
	Her opponents seized on the comments.
	President Joe Biden responding, quote, it was about slavery.
	And GOP rival Ron DeSantis arguing she isn't ready for the big stage.
	The minute that she faces any type of scrutiny, she tends to cave.
	As governor of South Carolina, Haley pushed for the removal of a Confederate flag on display on the Capitol grounds after a mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, carried out by a white supremacist.
	It's time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds.
	She made that decision after intense pressure by African-American leaders in the wake of the massacre.
	The firestorm comes as Haley is gaining ground on the clear frontrunner, former President Donald Trump.
	Trump has routinely used divisive rhetoric and recently made racist comments about migrants and minority groups.
	They're poisoning the blood of our country.
	That's what they've done.
	But Trump's controversial words have done little to change the trajectory of the race.
	And these comments come at a make-or-break moment for the Haley campaign, with polls showing Donald Trump leading by more than double digits, and just 18 days to go before Iowa, and less than 30 days before New Hampshire.
	Wow.
	That's great.
	What a bunch of bullcrap.
	Okay, well let's go to a very similar report, almost the exact same opening, almost the exact same opening on ABC.
	Tonight, Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley under fire for failing to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War at a New Hampshire town hall.
	What was the cause of the United States Civil War?
	Well, don't come with an easy question or anything.
	I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run.
	The freedoms and what people could and couldn't do.
	It's astonishing to me that you answer that question without mentioning the word slavery.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	Today, the former South Carolina governor who removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol after nine black churchgoers were killed in a mass shooting, trying to clarify.
	Of course the Civil War was about slavery.
	But the backlash was immediate.
	President Biden responding, it was about slavery.
	Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who's also faced fierce criticism for suggesting African Americans benefited from... You could almost run those, that bit right there, you could almost run them together, we'd say the same thing at the same time.
	I know it's amazing.
	Slavery pouncing on Haley's remarks.
	Not that difficult to identify and acknowledge the role slavery played in the Civil War.
	And yet that seemed to be something that was really difficult.
	I don't even know what she was saying.
	Haley's GOP rivals quick to attack.
	Some people say I should drop out of this race.
	Really?
	primary state of New Hampshire.
	Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie launching a new seven figure ad campaign in the Granite State as he trails behind, saying it's he, not Haley, who can beat Trump.
	Some people say I should drop out of this race.
	Really?
	I'm the only one saying Donald Trump is a liar.
	With just 18 days until the first votes are cast in Iowa, former President Trump is still the clear front runner for the Republican nomination.
	Tonight, President Biden's campaign is attacking the entire GOP field, accusing them of pandering to the most extreme fringe of their base.
	Wow.
	They brought Christie in, who says Trump's a liar, except when he says he's going to be a dictator on day one.
	Then he's not a liar.
	I'm using your material here.
	Yeah, no, that's exactly what I say.
	Is he a liar or isn't he?
	If he says he's going to be a dictator, is he a liar?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, these guys are bullshit.
	Okay, so we go to CBS, which again scrambles the story.
	A little better than everybody else.
	I have to say, doing these now, thanks to Steve, I have come to the conclusion that of all the three networks, CBS is the best.
	Scott, good evening.
	Major, good evening to you.
	Trying to spring it up said Nikki Haley has been fighting for months to win the spotlight.
	But tonight, she's beneath a glaring one and taking the heat.
	Nikki Haley, who's been surging in the polls in New Hampshire, now faces a rising wave of criticism over this response to a question at a town hall event.
	What was the cause of the United States Civil War?
	I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run.
	The freedoms and what people could and couldn't do.
	Wow, they cut her some slack on that one.
	They cut out the whole, why do you ask me an easy one?
	That's interesting.
	Yeah, that was a plus for her.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	The former South Carolina governor was blasted by both parties.
	President Biden posted it was about slavery.
	And Haley drew similar criticisms from her GOP opponents, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
	This is not a candidate that's ready for prime time.
	On the radio today... I mean, of course the Civil War was about slavery.
	And back on the stump, Haley tried to clear up her answer.
	We know that.
	That's unquestioned, always the case.
	We know the Civil War was about slavery.
	But again appeared to equivocate.
	Let's not forget what came out of that, which is government's role.
	individual liberties.
	And she criticized the voter who'd asked the original question as a plant of the Democrats.
	The fact that Nikki Haley has had such a stumble on an easy question, you know, is dismaying to those who would like to see her continue to climb in the polls.
	Haley today touted her decision to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina's capital in 2015 after the mass shooting at an historically black church in Charleston.
	Her critics today resurfaced quotes Haley gave in 2010 in which she defended the flag as a symbol of heritage.
	Wait a minute.
	So she's so dumb that she then goes, but I took the Confederate flag down alienating a lot of people.
	She's so dumb is the key operative word.
	This reminds me of something.
	The Dean's scream, this is Haley's comment.
	Haley's comment, ooh!
	I get it, Haley's comment.
	Do you mind if I just try something here for a second?
	Hold on.
	I want to try something with the ABC and NBC.
	Hold on, let me see.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	Today, the former South Carolina governor, who removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol after nine black churchgoers were killed in a mass shooting, trying to clarify.
	Of course the Civil War was about slavery.
	But the backlash was immediate.
	President Biden responding.
	Okay, President Biden, let's see.
	And how about this one?
	Of course the Civil War was about slavery.
	And make clear the role slavery played in American history.
	We know the Civil- But it was also more than that.
	It was about the freedom- It's on the comments.
	President Joe- Okay, hold on.
	I don't know what you're up to.
	I'm gonna play him at the same time.
	Biden responding, quote, it was about slavery.
	And GOP rival Ron DeSantis arguing she isn't ready for the big stage.
	The minute that she faces any type of- Pretty close!
	Yeah, it's getting there.
	Pretty close.
	Pretty close.
	Wow.
	Haley's comment.
	She's done.
	Toast.
	Haley's comment.
	You like that, huh?
	Yeah, it's just cute.
	The Dean's scream and Haley's comment.
	What a dope.
	And then, oh, but I removed the Confederate flag.
	Dope, dope, dope.
	Yeah, I mean, she knuckles under.
	Yeah.
	She knuckles under.
	I want to feel bad for her, but it's hard.
	Well, she's unpleasant.
	And she's a warmonger.
	We know that from her performance at the various debates.
	So we don't need another... She's basically a Democrat.
	And even when she worked for Trump as the UN ambassador, and when she quit that job, then she turned on him like everybody else.
	Trump picks all these people that stab him in the back after they leave.
	You know, if you don't like working for the guy, quit and just shut up.
	You know, I mean, I don't know what, I just don't get, I don't get the whole have to stab Trump in the back thing without real, any real explanation.
	Well, he's a, he's a bad guy.
	He's a, he's a crook.
	There's never, he's an insurrectionist.
	The whole thing baffles me.
	He might not be likable as a boss.
	Let's move to Israel Hamas because you wrote something in the newsletter which I thought was really good.
	Wait a minute.
	Let me say that like Professor Scott Galloway.
	That was really smart what you wrote.
	So smart.
	You're such a smart man.
	Before you do that, I have a Scott Galloway clip I want to interject.
	Oh no.
	I don't even have one.
	I don't know that he, I don't know that this hasn't been rigged.
	This was sent to me by one of our top men producers.
	Top men.
	And I don't know if this was rigged, if it was put together by AI or whatever, but I believe it to be true.
	And this guy, you know, I never had much to think about him until you started playing these clips, but when I hear this condescending a-hole say the following thing, it really is galling.
	So, the reason I have an iPhone... I think we all have iPhones because we want to communicate our worth as a mate.
	If you have an Android phone, you're kind of signaling to the rest of the world that life hasn't panned out the way you'd hoped.
	That if you had been just a little bit more successful, you'd have an iOS, right?
	Seriously.
	Yeah, he said that.
	I've heard it.
	I remember this episode.
	That's exactly what he says.
	That's unbelievable.
	No!
	No, it's not.
	Yeah, it's the award-winning tech podcast, John.
	You should know better.
	So, in the newsletter, I really like this, you had a conclusion about the so-called Houthi militia attacks in the Red Sea.
	Yeah.
	Would you care to share that with the group?
	Yeah, this has been expressed on some various obscure newsletters and other people have kind of suggested it.
	I had added a couple of my own thoughts to it because it's always been baffling to me why we haven't done anything about these Houthi attacks because we know we have satellites in the air.
	It's not cloud cover.
	We know exactly where they're coming from.
	All we need to do is send an F-16 over there and blow up these two or three sites.
	There's nothing we haven't done.
	We have cruise missiles that could do it.
	It's not a big deal, but we don't.
	And so it turns out, at least according to the scuttlebutt, That Israel has been trying to pressure Egypt into taking Palestinian refugees.
	Just take them.
	Nobody wants to take these people.
	I don't know why they're so offensive, but nobody, no Arab nations want to take them.
	Israel's been trying to put the screws to To Egypt to get him, take him, take him, take him.
	So since they're not taking him yet, Israel made a deal that we're going to cut off traffic through the Suez Canal, which is going to cost Egypt 6 billion.
	I had to do a little research to get these numbers.
	They cost about $300,000 to get a ship through.
	If you have a big ship, it's going to cost you $300,000 to go through the canal.
	It's good money.
	But you'll save about a million in fuel going the other way around Africa.
	And it turns out to be about six billion total or more to the bottom line of Egypt's GDP.
	So the idea is the Americans are just letting these things, these shots come over.
	That's why we're not firing back or doing anything about it, even though we don't mind killing Iraqis or we don't mind killing, you know, being in Syria with five bases.
	None of that bothers us.
	But this, oh, we can't do anything this time, whatever theory that amounts.
	Oh, we can't.
	I don't know why we can't, but we can't.
	So that explains it.
	We're in league with Israel saying, OK, we're going to let these missiles keep coming in.
	We'll shoot the ones that are aiming at you.
	We'll shoot them down.
	It's good practice for us.
	But we're going to not do anything about it until there's a deal made and Egypt says, OK, we'll take the Palestinians, let the ships go through, will you?
	So, I have found this video of the Houthi militias, which I still... Your favorite.
	Still doesn't look real to me, and it's purely based upon how this helicopter lands.
	I mean, all of it looks... it's shot to look like video game footage regardless.
	That's just a new thing.
	You know, with a camera on the tail boom of the helicopter as it's landing, with the GoPros mounted, and it's all first person, you see the guns, it's like... There's a shot of one of these militias down in the hold, and it's completely empty by the way, and he's holding up his gun, talking on a walkie-talkie, it looks just like I mean, even the motions are kind of herky-jerky, so it could be a combination of it.
	But this footage was already shown in 2022, so it certainly wasn't from a recent attack in the Red Sea.
	So that much we know is bullcrap.
	But it was played around the world as, oh, look what's happening.
	I think you nailed it.
	With this, uh, you know, and it's not just, it's not just they want, they want all of the Palestine, all of Palestine go to Egypt.
	They want it all out.
	All out.
	Recently, I think they've made this thing get out.
	Here, here's a, this is a clip from, uh, where is this from?
	France 24.
	Yeah, well, the Philadelphia corridor that goes along between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is considered to be a very strategic location, since this is where we have the Rafah crossing.
	The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt is the only connection between the Gaza Strip and the rest of the Arab world.
	Now, Israel believes that under this area of the Philadelphia area, we believe in Israel that underneath there are tunnels.
	These are tunnels according to which Israeli military sources say ammunition and a lot of the long-range missiles have been coming in from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.
	And therefore, it's important for Israel to have this kind of control and to destroy them.
	I can tell you at the same time, the Egyptians, they have been denying this.
	They have said that they have acted against these tunnels and that this is unacceptable.
	They do not accept the Israeli notion of taking over this area.
	They say that there should be a border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, and that if Israel takes over the Rafah crossing, this will further deteriorate the situation inside Gaza.
	One has to mention another thing, that once Israel will take over this corridor, this means that there will be heavy fighting there, because Hamas is going to give a heavy fight in this area, And also, this is an area which is very crowded with Palestinian population.
	We have to remember that the Israeli military has been pushing the residents from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south, all the way to Rafah, all the way to this area.
	So in order to take over, we should expect many casualties.
	Get them out.
	That's the message.
	Get them all out.
	And you know how Lex's wife, Fariba, is always saying, oh in Iran, we all know it.
	America and Iran are working together.
	Well, Muslims in Iran, Muslims in Egypt.
	Two different Muslims.
	Oh yeah.
	Shia in Iran, Sunni in Egypt.
	So, they don't like each other.
	Which is also the Iran-Iraq issue.
	So, of course, they would be, oh yeah, no, we'll pretend we got some drones, and we'll say, oh yeah, no, we did that.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
	We were funny.
	Oh, the Houthi rebels, militia, with their pristine uniforms, pristine boots, completely new, beautiful, looking good.
	And I think if you listen to Kirby, He's just waffling around, pretending like, oh, is this escalation in the region?
	Well, you know... And joining us now more to discuss is John Kirby, the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications.
	John, good morning, it's good to have you.
	So let's start there with that news about U.S.
	helicopters firing on Houthi boats in self-defense and killing the crews.
	How serious is this escalation and could it draw the U.S.
	into a potential direct conflict with these Iranian-backed militant groups?
	In the region.
	In the region.
	We don't seek a conflict wider in the region.
	We certainly aren't looking for a conflict with the Houthis.
	The best outcome here would be for the Houthis to stop these attacks.
	Why not?
	Why not?
	You got Operation... What was the operation called?
	Stupid operation name that everyone walked away from because they all know it's bogus.
	The outcome here would be for the Houthis to stop these attacks as we have made clear.
	Oh please Houthis, stop the attacks.
	We don't want a conflict in the region.
	Over and over again.
	We have formed an international coalition now.
	of more than 20 nations in an operation called Prosperity Guardian.
	There's ships and aircraft from countries around the world that are going to do what we have to do to protect that commercial shipping.
	It's one of the most important, most vital commercial waterways in the world.
	And we have an obligation with our allies and partners to keep the flow of commerce moving there.
	The Houthis should stop these attacks.
	Yeah, but why don't you go strike them?
	We've got everything.
	We've got missiles.
	We've got satellites.
	We strike Iraqis.
	Strike them.
	We do it in Iraq.
	We do it in Syria.
	Why don't we do it in Yemen of all?
	Strike them.
	Hell holes.
	But John, what about a preemptive military strike?
	Is that on the table?
	Surgical strike in the region!
	I won't say what's on or off the table right now.
	I'll tell you just a couple of things.
	One, just to reiterate what I said before, we're going to do what we have to do to protect shipping.
	Number two, we've got significant national security interests in the region just on our own, the United States.
	And we're going to put the kind of forces we need in the region to protect those interests, and we're going to act in self-defense going forward.
	Again, I'm not ruling anything in or out.
	But we have made it clear publicly to the Houthis, we've made it clear privately to our allies and partners in the region that we take these threats seriously, and we're going to make the right decisions going forward.
	Yeah, which is not... We're going to make the right decisions going forward.
	Which means what does that mean?
	Nothing!
	Means we're going to do nothing.
	Because... Well, we're going to do something once this agreement is made.
	Well, meanwhile, our liquid petroleum gas is much cheaper, our oil is going to be cheaper, The way I see it, people saying all the way around, going around the long way.
	Nah, this is bullcrap.
	And I'm pretty sure that we'll get that.
	Is there another Iran deal on the table?
	You know, some more money?
	This is another reason people should subscribe to the newsletter.
	I'm just stunned that everybody... You nailed it.
	Nailed it.
	It's a small percentage.
	Well, it's fine.
	So meanwhile, back at the ranch.
	Judge Andrew Napolitano has Max Blumenthal on, who I presume is Jewish.
	Blumenthal.
	I presume he is, too.
	This is what, Napolitano's podcast?
	Yeah, yeah, of course.
	It's a podcast, which I think will be nominated.
	For most amazing Jew hate in a single podcast episode.
	This was really interesting.
	One event we covered was the return of something like 80 to 100 corpses to the Gaza Strip to a cemetery in the southern city of Rafah.
	These were corpses of people whose bodies had been stolen by the Israeli military.
	Many of them had been stolen from the Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip.
	In Gaza City, from other cemeteries, ostensibly because the Israelis were looking for their own hostages.
	But we have this history of Israeli organ theft, of the theft of body parts, which is well documented and admitted by, for example, Dr. Yehuda Hiss, a state pathologist at the Abu Kabir Institute in Israel.
	There are reports.
	Even by CNN about this?
	Dating back decades, Israel is an international center of the illegal organ trade.
	Israelis have been prosecuted in Israeli courts for this.
	And the Gaza Ministry of Health and Euromed Human Rights Monitor have alleged that these corpses, when they were returned to Israel to be buried in a mass grave, because there's no room left in the cemeteries, had body parts missing.
	How do they do this?
	I mean, do they bring the body to a... Cut them off!
	To an Israeli morgue and an Israeli mortician opens up the body and removes the organs and then they bury the body in a mass grave?
	Well that's what the Gaza Ministry of Health is alleging.
	What Dr. Yehuda Hiss said was that we removed corneas and took organs and other body parts without the permission of the people who had been killed or their families.
	And this included Palestinians who had been killed by Israeli security forces, people were killed in road accidents, and even Israeli soldiers.
	This is great!
	I gave you a clip of the day for digging that one up.
	Oh, there's a part two, but I'll take the clip of the day first.
	That's a good one.
	Yeah, that was a good find.
	Check out part two, part two.
	Israel also has the largest skin bank in the world.
	Yeah!
	And it uses that skin bank to graft the skin of, for example, burn wounds that Israeli soldiers are enduring in the Gaza Strip as thousands are being wounded in this sort of faltering military assault on Gaza.
	The Israeli Skin Bank is accused of stealing body parts as well.
	So this is a crime against humanity that goes to the essence of Israel's assault on the personal freedom of Palestinians.
	Their families don't even have the right to bury their own Their own family members who were killed.
	And that's also part of the psychological war on Palestine that Israel seeks has all has traditionally sought to prevent the burials of Palestinians, especially those who they consider to be quote-unquote terrorists.
	That is great.
	Well, I have my two Gaza clips.
	You know, I'm just I'm just thinking, you know, I there's donor bone in my jaw.
	And I thought maybe it was from the Uyghurs, but now I'm thinking it's probably some Hamas.
	He could be part Jewish.
	No, Hamas!
	Oh yeah, you could be a terrorist at any minute.
	If I start yelling Allah Akbar, then you know what's going on.
	It's the Hamas.
	People might want to read the novel Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov to get the idea of what could happen under such circumstances.
	So I have two Gaza clips and they're super short because I have a comment to make about each one.
	Israeli tanks pushed deeper into the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip today, with residents saying airstrikes hit two urban refugee camps.
	The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reports at least 165 Palestinians have been killed since yesterday.
	Okay.
	Finally, somebody says it correctly, the Hamas run health ministry.
	Oh, good point.
	Nobody has done that before.
	They always just say, oh, the Palestinian health ministry.
	No, the Hamas.
	So these numbers could be completely bogus.
	There's no reason to suspect that Hamas is not lying through its teeth about all these numbers we've been hearing.
	The genocide.
	So I thought that was an eye-opener.
	So that's part two of the continuation of the same clip.
	Israel has not responded to reporting that it attacked refugee areas.
	This comes after U.S.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved a $147 million emergency weapons sale to Israel, bypassing Congress for the second time this month.
	What?
	He just had that in his back pocket.
	Hunter had it in the bank account.
	Second time we bypassed Congress for money?
	That's unconstitutional!
	He should be impeached!
	Oh, there we go.
	That's PBS.
	That's pretty amazing that PBS did that.
	I was kind of stunned by that short clip.
	By the way, the clip of the day goes to Neil, the other half of the Jones Brothers.
	The Jones Brothers, like, bringing the heat.
	The Jones Brothers.
	They want to do their own show.
	That's what's going to result.
	That's the long-term thing.
	They do a show themselves.
	Screw us.
	That's our exit strategy.
	No, wait.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	You're seeing this all wrong.
	Look at the opportunity.
	The Jones Brothers do the show.
	We executive produce.
	Oh, and we don't do anything except collect money.
	I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in Tescrial.
	Ladies and gentlemen, 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.
	In the morning to the Jones Brothers.
	Chips and seed, boots on the ground, feet in the air, snubs in the water, and all the names of knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
	Hey, hey, we went up.
	We gained some trolls.
	200 jumped on board.
	1774.
	Okay.
	For a New Year's Eve show?
	Sunday before New Year's, people are having family dinners.
	Who knows what they're up to.
	Well, they're not hanging out.
	We're the only people that work on this day anyway.
	Pretty much.
	The kind of scrub crews that we're seeing on all the networks, including Fox, is pretty amazing.
	Yeah.
	Now, I think it's...
	I think it's worthy that we do this.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	You know, because otherwise... I do too, in fact.
	Ah, show beer.
	What are you drinking?
	Hopefully it's not just seltzer.
	Nope, it's not, as a matter of fact.
	This is... Buble.
	Oh!
	Boublé!
	Wow, that has some natural flavors, I'm sure.
	No, it's actually, I'm going to read it.
	It says, just boublé.
	This is unflavored sparkling water with electrolytes.
	Read the ingredients.
	I guarantee you it says... So this is a tribute, a tribute to the Idiocracy movie.
	Oh.
	I can read them.
	Okay.
	Oh.
	Water, calcium chloride, and potassium chloride.
	Yeah, yum.
	In other words, water and salt.
	Water and salt.
	Well, good.
	But it's non-flavored?
	I thought Buble always had flavors.
	No, no.
	You can get the unflavored.
	That's what I got.
	And you get that Frank Sinatra voice.
	You start singing.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	That's Buble.
	Buble.
	Buble does the commercials.
	Yeah, he does the commercials.
	Or he's done commercials for the water.
	You are, yes.
	Not back here.
	Well, Trolls, thanks for showing up.
	We appreciate you.
	Many of you are logged in at trollroom.io, where there's always a party going on there 24-7.
	It's also part of the No Agenda stream, so that runs 24-7, and there's podcasts on there, lots of live shows.
	For instance, like Wednesday night, Nick the Rat comes on.
	Before the show, Darren O'Neal, who, I have to say, Darren also worked today.
	He showed up, he was sick, but he still did the show.
	How'd he sound?
	I didn't get to hear him.
	He sounded congested, congested, but he did the show.
	I dare no deal.
	I guess a rock and roll show.
	You know, we got the bluegrass show before that on Sunday morning.
	There's lots of, lots of live shows.
	It's, it's cool.
	And you can be a part of that by going to trollroom.io or using a modern podcast app, podcastapps.com, where you get alerted.
	So you get an actual ping.
	Oh, wait a minute.
	That's the bat signal.
	Boy's alive.
	Ah, the boy's alive.
	Gotta listen live.
	Or if you miss that, if you, if you can't attend, then you can just, uh, Get the podcast version when it comes out.
	It's all in one app.
	You don't need to have separate apps.
	And God, please don't use YouTube music.
	That's the devil right there.
	Do not use YouTube music.
	Export your OPML file, your subscriptions to any of these modern podcast apps.
	Value for value.
	That's how we've been doing it once again.
	A full year of value for value.
	And I have to say I'm very happy.
	Even though it's often a roller coaster ride for us, with ups and downs, the podcast industrial complex is collapsing upon itself.
	It's folding.
	So man, you imagine if we had any ads, if we had corporate money, Oh, we'd be dead!
	Well, first of all, we wouldn't have been on the air for 16 years because I'm sure we would have said something that pissed too many people off.
	In the first couple years we've said so much stuff that if we stopped counting how many offensive things we've said that could get us thrown off if we had somebody telling us to.
	You guys are saying the wrong thing there.
	It's kind of offensive.
	Yeah, we got a call from sales.
	We got a call from sales.
	The BMW people didn't like the German jokes.
	Okay.
	Okay, we're sorry about that.
	So no, we just give you the value, all of it.
	There's no gimmicks, no tricks, no tote bags.
	Now, of course, you can get to all kinds of cool things at noagendashop.com.
	We have no contract with them.
	The artists deal with them directly.
	They get their art, they put it together.
	That's one of the many ways that value is created.
	I wonder how they're doing.
	Haven't heard from them in a while.
	I noticed.
	But that's why I want to mention them, because people should go to noagendashop.com, get all kinds of cool merch.
	Merch.
	There's no licensing deals.
	None of that.
	From time to time the shop donates some money.
	Whatever.
	We're happy with it.
	We have people doing all kinds of things.
	Void Zero running the infrastructure.
	They have caps.
	They have caps.
	Beer cozies.
	Beer cozies.
	We should get one for Horowitz when he's on his fishing trip.
	Beer cozies.
	He's always on a fishing trip.
	I know.
	Guy catches more fish.
	And then he throws it back.
	Yeah, I was very disappointed because he catches some of the fish I've always wanted to try, like a wahoo.
	Yeah.
	And he has to go give it to the natives.
	Weird.
	That's like, you know, I have friends here, we have friends here who are, well, they say they're hunters, but obviously smuggling blood diamonds and ivory or whatever into Texas.
	And so they'll pay money to go shoot an elephant.
	And then the whole, then they give the elephant to the town.
	And you know, they'll get like a steak.
	Elephant steak.
	And then that's it.
	So they pay.
	Have you ever had elephant?
	No.
	I would love to try it.
	How is it?
	It's like chicken?
	It's kind of tough.
	Whatever cut I had, it was not... I'm not craving elephant.
	Moose is the meat I want to eat.
	Moose is great.
	Moose and reindeer?
	Reindeer is terrific.
	I will say this about reindeer, not to belabor it.
	It's a little bloody.
	Reindeer is probably the bloodiest, I mean, meat you can ever imagine.
	It really just runs all over the place, but it's fabulous.
	Well, that's because you had Rudolph.
	You want to get Donner.
	You want to get one of those older ones.
	Rudolph, the red-blooded reindeer.
	Anyway, so all we do is put the value out there for you.
	There's no paywalls, no levels or anything, no subscriptions.
	It's just, you know, all we do is do our best every single show.
	And then if you assign any value to that in your life, if it did anything for you, if it made you smile, it made you cry, if you learned something, if it made you think about something, if it just got you through a difficult time in your life.
	Then send us some value back.
	You can do that whenever you want, however you want.
	We accept treasure.
	We also accept time and talent.
	As I said, the Jones boys help us out a lot.
	We've got Void Zero on the infrastructure.
	We've got Sir Daniel on the meetups.
	And a lot of you send them boots on the ground reports.
	All kinds of stuff.
	I think the best example of a podcast, we are interactive with our audience.
	You're not listeners, you're active producers.
	Subscribe to that newsletter.
	I think our interaction with the audience is there's nobody that comes close.
	No, no.
	But the thing is, we make it look easy.
	Not everybody can do this, Jones Brothers, before you get any ideas.
	But it's been honed over 16 years, and we've done that with you.
	The show started off very differently.
	And we're doing, we believe, what you want.
	And for that very reason, we're going to thank some suppliers of talent and time, which is our artists.
	And there you go.
	NoahJenArtGenerator.com, Sir Paul Couture.
	Now on the fourth version, I think, of the Art Generator.
	And we're very pleased.
	And of course, we also have our artists and we're going to critique some of these submissions and also congratulate the winner, if you want to call it a contest.
	The art that we picked for episode 1620, we titled that Yoko Swifto, How Could We Not?
	And I mean, this was a classic.
	For a number of reasons.
	One, it's a comic strip blogger.
	Two, it was not a butt, which is amazing.
	That's a huge diversion for a comic strip blogger.
	He didn't do a butt.
	But he does like poop emojis, and it was a poop emoji with the recycle arrows.
	And that was, of course, for the California poop water recycling, that you will not be drinking your own feces.
	No, no, no.
	No, it was.
	It was for the Japanese deciding to make poop.
	Oh, you're right.
	Steak poop.
	You're right.
	I'm sorry.
	I forgot.
	We just have water recycle.
	We haven't recycled the poop here yet.
	Not yet.
	It's coming, though.
	Well, we'd have them by re-electing Gavin Newsom, but besides that.
	Whoa!
	So we thank Common Street Blogger, and oh, and another, it was of course AI, which made it even more exciting for us.
	But that's only because- For you especially.
	There wasn't much else to choose from.
	I mean, so Common Street Blogger flooded the zone with poop emojis, thanks.
	Then we had, what did we have?
	We had the Chat Times from Dame Kenny Benn.
	We got it, but it wasn't, I mean, yes, it was the Time, New York Times suing ChatGPT.
	Yeah, that's cute.
	It was cute, a little bland.
	You actually, you were stuck on the recycling variant from Commissar Blogger with all the fruits and vegetables.
	Yeah, I thought that was a better looking piece, but it didn't make any sense.
	No, we needed poop in there.
	It had to have some poop involved.
	So we had the two poop ones and we decided the one more colorful poopy one was the one we chose.
	And it's also the colorful poopy one had a bigger smile.
	It did.
	And a good smile.
	The other one looked depressed.
	The other poop.
	We like the happy poop.
	Yay, I'm steak now.
	Let's see, there was, what else was there?
	The Masked Goat by Nesworks.
	I like the cheese, the Davey Cheesecake.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Very difficult to understand.
	No, you would never get it.
	No.
	People have to have an inkling.
	Stop putting Joe Biden and Trump and all these... Don't use heads of politicians.
	99% certain you're not going to get chosen.
	Yeah, I would agree.
	It was the shaft.
	And that was it, it was kind of low, low on the level.
	Yeah, we didn't have a good selection.
	Oh wait, no, we did have the Clip Custodian Bunsen burner.
	Oh yeah, you liked that one.
	It was a nice piece, but it was, it really didn't, we needed sterno.
	It really was sterno that I was going for, but I said Bunsen burner and he probably was creating it already.
	So, and that was really the selection.
	Poop Burger.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	That's not going to cut.
	So I see that we already have a quite a large selection for our New Year's Eve selection that we'll be picking right after the show.
	Thank you to all of these artists, of course.
	We appreciate everything that you do.
	And at home, you can play along with the game.
	You can just go to noagendaartgenerator.com.
	It's interactive as well.
	You can refresh during the show, actually see these art pieces update.
	You can go look at individual artist profiles.
	I think the artist profiles could be built out a little bit more, a little more information about the artist.
	It seems like now it's just the name.
	The artists have to chip in.
	They gotta chip in?
	Well, they gotta, who are they?
	A lot of artists won't tell us anything.
	Well, they could have a little bit more, but there's no, I don't think there's any place for some information.
	Oh, well, yeah, there's that.
	Yeah, it's just, the old art... They should be done like a wiki, maybe like a wiki page where the artist can go and just write his own bio.
	I mean, they have a little icon so they can upload their profile pic.
	But I'm looking for a little more, you know, just a little bit more or possibility.
	I don't know.
	I have Paul Couture in the background listening going, like I haven't done enough work.
	You've done more than enough, Sir Paul Couture.
	We appreciate you.
	So thank you again to all of our artists.
	Now let's go to the treasure portion of the show.
	We had a special promotion.
	1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3.
	I don't think anyone did this.
	Did we get any?
	We got a couple 1, 2, 3.
	Yeah, they were at the beginning.
	It's 1, 2, 3.
	No.
	It's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
	Which I'm not going to complain.
	I'm not going to complain.
	The next one is 1, 2, 3, 2.
	You know, it's 123-013.
	Yeah, well, you know, it's a combination.
	No, it's not even close!
	1, 2, 3 is right at the beginning.
	It's huge.
	It was supposed to be 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3.
	Yeah, well, I know.
	Somebody could have done that.
	Nobody did.
	R.S.
	Bagwell, we appreciate you there in Louisville, Kentucky.
	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
	As I said, I'm not complaining.
	He says, this is my annual contribution.
	That's a great way to do it.
	Yeah, he does this one every year.
	He comes in at the end of the month.
	I love that.
	I love that he's doing that.
	And that's a good way to do it.
	And it really helps us at the end of the year.
	You know, it's like when everyone's kind of, you know, I ain't got Christmas gifts, etc.
	All he asks for, he says, is Jobs Karma, the original Pelosi one.
	Well, of course, that's the best one.
	Because of the past Jobs Karma I've received, I can continue donating like this.
	Cordially, R.S.
	Bagwell.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Jobs Karma.
	Game Amy and Baron John in Jefferson, Wisconsin.
	1-2-3-0-1-3.
	Okay.
	This donation of 1-2-3-0-point-1-3 is a split between Baron John the Fabulous and Baronettess Amy of the Central Iowa Bike Trails to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary.
	This, the 1000 takes me to Baroness status.
	And who's this from?
	Well, I guess it's Amy.
	Takes me to Baroness status.
	I'd like to be known as Baroness Amy of FEMA Region 5, if that's allowed.
	Indeed it is.
	The 23013 for John makes him an associate executive producer.
	John, I guess we can do that.
	We can put you both as executives.
	You're truly fabulous and I love you so much.
	Thanks for hitting me in the mouth back in May 2012 and introducing me to the best podcast in the universe.
	JCD and Adam, thanks for being my commuter companions.
	Good to be in the car with you.
	Can I get a Reverend Manning Boomshakalaka, a Little Girl Ye Boomshakalaka, and a Yak Karma.
	I love y'all.
	Baroness Amy of FEMA Region 5.
	You've got... Karma.
	Known as Nick's Kid.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
	You've got Harma.
	Known as Nick's Kid.
	Nick's Kid.
	Anonymous from Charlotte, North Carolina, $5.50, $0.33.
	We got your message.
	Happy New Year, gentlemen.
	Thank you for another year of valuable media deconstruction.
	Also, George Washington's eggnog recipe from the Too Many Eggs book, TooManyEggs.com, was a big hit over the Christmas holiday.
	Thank you, Mimi!
	No jingles, no karma.
	Anonymous.
	Another satisfied customer.
	George Washington.
	I forgot to make that one.
	I remember seeing it.
	I completely forgot.
	I feel bad now.
	How does it go?
	What's different about it?
	It includes wooden false teeth.
	Wooden teeth.
	Okay.
	Lee North in Overland Park, Kansas.
	369.
	John and Adam, I figured out 1-2-3-1-2-3 was a show day about eight months ago and have been looking forward to this day ever since.
	And he gives us three, six, nine.
	For some reason.
	Well, three, six, nine.
	You'd multiply it by three.
	One, two, three multiplied by three is three, six, nine.
	Oh, there you go.
	Nice.
	There you have it.
	I like it.
	On a side note, Jobs Karma has worked like gangbusters.
	Thank you.
	Stay safe.
	R2-D2 Karma, please.
	VR Lee North.
	You've got Karma.
	Another sequential donation from Benjamin Ettinger, Atlanta, Georgia, 34567.
	Thanks for everything!
	No jingles, no karma.
	Thank you!
	Ryan Antony... Antony... Antony Odie.
	Antonetti.
	Antonetti.
	Good try.
	Antonetti in Pembroke, Massachusetts.
	That's 33333.
	Oh, it says right here.
	Antonetti.
	You read ahead.
	It does.
	Cheater.
	The executive producership is a switcheroo for my father, Mark.
	We work together doing service work and spend many hours in the truck together.
	I put him onto the show a few months ago so we could listen to it together and he loves it!
	Nice.
	It's gotten to the point where he asks me if I listen to the new episode.
	Oh yeah.
	Now look, I have one question on behalf of him.
	He listens to Dan Bongino, use code Bongino at checkout.
	He'd like to know why you guys rip on him.
	Why not?
	Use code Bongino.
	Doesn't that say enough?
	Have you listened to Bongino enough?
	Who, me?
	I mean, I listen to Bongino's show when I hear it enough.
	I'm in the car.
	It's a good show.
	It's okay.
	He's a little bit... He's spun up.
	That's why I don't... He's spun up.
	Exactly.
	He's spun up.
	He's all spun up.
	A little much.
	A little much.
	Too much.
	Too much.
	It's good AM radio stuff.
	A little much on the spun up.
	Anyways, thanks for all you do.
	The entertainment's excellent.
	We always have a laugh listening to the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you for your courage, Ryan and Tonetti.
	Thank you, Ryan.
	And Mark, thank you very much.
	Sirlo Bee, Windsor, Berkshire.
	Oh, that's the UK.
	It's 333.33.
	As promised, I've donated 333.33 to the best podcast in the universe.
	Could I request the following jingles, please?
	Biden whole load, F the EU, and little girl yay, and a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Could I also request a title change as JCD never says my original knight name, Sir Elongated G-String, a title I took as a lover of the bass guitar when I've donated in the past.
	Could I now be known as Sir Low B?
	Done.
	And hope this satisfies Mr. Dvorak's bass name phobia.
	Many thanks.
	Many thanks, Sir Lobey.
	I'm going to give you the whole load today.
	Yay! Yay!
	And you got it.
	There it is.
	William Alston, El Paso, Texas, 333.33.
	Happy New Year.
	Home of many migrants.
	I bet.
	Happy New Year.
	None of them listen to the show.
	Ox health karma for all of us appreciating the extra gifts from family gatherings.
	I personally picked up a cold from my niece and nephews while visiting over Christmas.
	Sorry to hear that.
	It's not good.
	I just had a thought.
	Maybe we should have flyers at the border.
	Say welcome to America.
	Listen to the No Agenda Show.
	That's not a bad idea.
	For your instructions.
	To learn how this country works, listen to the Noah Jones Show.
	You know, the latest thing in a Mexican channel down in San Diego, supposedly, there's no verification this is going on, but it makes sense.
	The immigrants coming into California are given $2,200.
	Oh yeah, and they go out of the country and come back again for another $2,200.
	It's called looping.
	Yeah, and they've been doing it, they make like $8,000 a month by going in and out four times.
	And they've been doing this, it's like that's their job now.
	I don't know if it's true.
	Universal basic income is coming.
	Welcome to America.
	Listen to the No Agenda Show wherever you get your podcasts.
	René Bernhardtsgruete, St.
	Gallen in Switzerland.
	333, thank you both for the critical, entertaining, and funny news analysis.
	Have a nice New Year's celebration and a good start into January.
	That's right, we're running through the tape straight into 2024.
	We ain't looking back.
	Zachary Montgomery's not looking back.
	He's in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
	This donation brings me to knighthood.
	Knight me, Sir Space Daddy.
	Big thanks to Sir Tactician of the Fresh Coast and Brian.
	People, go to NA Meetups.
	Come stop at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte for the monthly Thirsty Third Thursday Meetup.
	Please call out John as an extra mega douche.
	Douchebag!
	And also call out Caleb as a douchebag.
	Douchebag!
	Business karma for our real estate investment company.
	Much love.
	Peace!
	Well, if you need that kind of karma, we're gonna have to add a goat!
	You've got... karma.
	Alright.
	So Khabarious Kerner from Honeybrook, Pennsylvania is our first Associate Executive Producer, and he's cute.
	202.40.
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	Tell us you heard about it on no agenda for 24% off.
	Alright.
	Jobs, karma, where the goat?
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You thought.
	Karma.
	Sir Jeff comes in with the best note from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
	20223, Happy New Year!
	Sir Jeff of Pennsylvania, Route 33.
	Ah, one of the best.
	One of the best, for sure.
	And we go to Sir Luca, Walla Walla, Washington, 20202.
	Nice.
	Belated Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, fellas.
	Thank you for another year of media deconstruction.
	Double karma request here.
	Health karma, the Yak variety, and a TPP jobs karma.
	Sir Luca of the Southeast.
	Well, okay, because it's you, Sir Luca.
	We love you.
	You've got karma.
	Jobs.
	You've got karma.
	And finally, we got Linda Lupatkin, our friend in Lakewood, Colorado, always comes in with asking for jobs, Carmen.
	She wants to tell you that for a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume needs and job search needs.
	That's Image Makers, Inc.
	with a K. Image Makers, Inc.
	with a K. Or just find Linda Lou Patkin on the producer list.
	She's up there.
	Have a happy and healthy New Year.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	All right, Executive and Associate Executive Producers, thank you.
	These titles are real, these credits are real, so you have these titles.
	Exec or Associate Executive Producer of Episode 1621.
	You can use them anywhere.
	Credits are recognized, which is a global thing.
	You really can use it everywhere.
	Which would mean you could put it on your LinkedIn, put it on your resume, or go to imdb.com, or start one even.
	You can start an imdb.com profile with that and add to it as you go along.
	Collect all 16.
	Thank you to everyone who came in under $50.
	That is usually for reasons of anonymity if you're at the $49 or $49.99 level.
	We see you there.
	We appreciate you.
	We do read any notes personally if you send them, so we do see it.
	Not many people do.
	And of course we have the sustaining donations, which you can make up yourself.
	We have a couple of suggestions at noagendadonations.com or dvorak.org.
	We've got meetups and a nightingale more coming and John will take us through to the 50s.
	Yeah, starting with Blake Thomas out of Kansas City who went to a sumo tournament in November.
	That was the big November tournament.
	$157.57.
	He sent us some pictures.
	Top-notch heating!
	And I guess this is and air conditioning.
	If you're in Manti, Utah, you might want to check him out.
	$155.55.
	Kim Winship, $127.17.
	John Taylor, $127.17.
	Daniel, this is the one, two, threes, by the way, that have been added the extra money.
	Good.
	All right.
	John Taylor, Daniel Mudge, $127.17.
	127.17.
	Daniel, this is the 1-2-3s, by the way, that have been added the extra money.
	Oh, right.
	John Taylor, Daniel Mudge, 1-2-7-17.
	Sarah Gardner, Dame Sarah, 1-2-7-17.
	Derek Chenille, 1-2-7-17.
	And now we have Trent Martz in Mainville, Ohio, 1-2-3.45.
	Needs a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	Probably some F Cancer Karma at the end would be appropriate.
	I'll do it.
	I'll do it for sure.
	Shelly Winky Winky Winky Winky Winky in Fort Wayne.
	123.23.
	Sir Brian Tobiasen in Gardner, Kansas.
	Sir Brian Tobias in Gardner, Kansas, 1, 2, 3, 18.
	123.18.
	Greg Clifton in Morgan Field, Kentucky, 1, 2, 3, 12.
	And now here's the pure 1, 2, 3s, including Sir Corky in Oulu, Florida, 1, 2, 3.
	Stephen Rivas, 1-2-3.
	Paxton Sanders, 1-2-3.
	James Little, 1-2-3.
	Did we get enough of these?
	Yeah, I think we're pretty good.
	Yes, we did.
	Dame Dane, 1-2-3.
	Sir Toothfairy, 1-2-3.
	Sir DC, 1-2-3.
	Sir Chad Ferrell, I can just name these names, just names and locations, whatever I have left.
	Chad Ferrell, 1, 2, 3.
	No jingles, no cameras, of course not.
	Sir Crash EMT, our buddy.
	Um... It says Happy New Year, and that's the end of the 1, 2, 3s.
	Okay.
	Aaron Landerville, Brandon, Florida, 1-11-11.
	Sebastian Distigter, 8-0-0-8.
	Oh no, I'm sorry, 8-dot-8-8.
	Because here's a 8-0-0-8 from Kevin McLaughlin.
	8-0-0-8.
	Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs.
	Sir Eric, 8-0-0-8 in Punta Gorda.
	Gary Blatt in Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, 7777.
	Sir N. Getty in Placeau, Placeau, France, Placeau, Palace, Palaceau, means Palace of Water, 7746 in France.
	One of our few Frenchmen that actually listens to the show.
	Yeah.
	They get good news in France.
	Raleigh Hawk in Anna, Illinois, 6969.
	Sir Becoming Heroic in Sharerville, Indiana, 6886, which is jiggly boobs.
	Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana, 6502, which is a chip, by the way.
	Early chip, the Apple II, had a 6502 in it.
	Jamie Buell in Vista, California, 6006 small boobs, according to Kevin McLaughlin, who's back again with 6006.
	Sarah Arnegard in Middleton, Idaho, 60.
	Peter Chong in Lakewood, Washington, 5510.
	Sir Chris in Sachse.
	Is it Sachse?
	Texas, 5333.
	He is the protector of psychotic sausage dogs, which is all of them.
	Justin Kaler, Bluffton, Indiana, 59.
	We finally got to the 50s.
	I'm going to redo these and we'll be done.
	Justin Kaler in Bluffton.
	Ray Howard in Kremling, Colorado.
	David Steele in Mobile, Alabama.
	Kyle Mahn in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	Ryan Sharp in Huntsville, Alabama.
	Julie Minadeo in Costa Mesa.
	Koen Den Bek in Neuenen.
	Noonan.
	Noonan, or Nooner, Holland.
	Justin Heiner in Vinegrove, Kentucky.
	Dotted Mind in Lincoln, UK.
	Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado.
	Adam Fitch in Albany, Ohio, needs a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	David Hudson in Lombard, Illinois, and last on our list, good list, 63 of them actually, Lisa Shuver in Kansas City, Missouri.
	I want to thank these folks for making the show.
	1621, the last show of 2023.
	Yes.
	A good show.
	Thank you all so much.
	We appreciate the value you sent back.
	It is really appreciated.
	And also for those who give their time and their talent.
	Thank you all for making the show a reality.
	We love it.
	We probably couldn't do much else in life.
	There's no other job we can have except executive produce the Jones Brothers.
	That's on deck for us.
	Executive strategy.
	Thank you again for becoming producers here of the No Agenda Show!
	Our formula is this.
	When we go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	And the F cancer is requested.
	You've got karma.
	And we do have a couple of birthdays to celebrate.
	Sir DC wishes his human resource a very happy birthday.
	We'll turn to, actually turn to today, Sir N. Getty celebrates today.
	Sir Eric wishes Dame Rachel a happy birthday.
	Trent March is celebrating.
	And I'd like to say happy birthday to my sister Tiffany who celebrates on January 1st.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the Best Podcast in the Universe!
	We have a title change.
	Dame Amy has upgraded.
	We have a title change.
	Dame Amy has upgraded.
	She becomes a Baroness.
	Woo!
	Baroness Amy of FEMA Region No.
	5.
	Thank you very much, Baroness Amy.
	We appreciate you so much.
	We have Jay Parker, who is about to be knighted, and I have a note from him.
	He came in with a completing donation.
	His knight name will be Sir Tenly Consistent.
	Sir Tenly Consistent.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Total donations over 1,140 by subscription.
	I've followed you guys since the early 200s or so.
	Wow.
	Been around, brother.
	I stopped listening for a few years.
	I was just busy and I was young.
	And once I came back, I donated to every episode since!
	Thank you very much, John and Adam and all the producers and dudes named Ben and dudettes named Bernadette.
	As well as a big thanks to the Keepers for keeping these boys going!
	Thank you very much for TooManyEggs.
	TooManyEggs.com.
	And please, please, please, John, finish that vinegar book!
	Round table.
	Just the good old mutton and mead.
	And before we go to our knighting, I got a note from Kaz T, who became a dame, and she's very mad at me.
	Sent a very, very angry note.
	There are no dame rings!
	Dames are only allowed to get knight rings.
	Please stop misleading us.
	I was rather disappointed to be misgendered by no agenda.
	Well, What?
	Yes, because she said, how come my ring doesn't say dame on it?
	The rings don't say knight either, do they?
	Not that I know of.
	No.
	She feels, she wants a dainty little dame ring.
	I'm like, that's insulting to the dames.
	Have you seen the royalty?
	Have you seen the rocks and the big bands that the queen has?
	Yeah, nobody wears a little dainty ring anymore.
	They don't need a dainty ring.
	And we want you to be of equal value as the knights, which you are.
	So, I'm sorry you felt misgendered, but I just, I just, I just reject it.
	I reject it.
	You're not having another ring designed.
	Bring out that blade.
	The big one.
	The big one for the dudes.
	The big one for the dudes.
	There we go.
	J.A.
	Parker up on the podium, sir.
	Zachary Montgomery, both of you have qualified to become Knights of the Norwegian Round Table.
	You can select a dame ring if you want.
	But, why don't I just get on with the ceremony.
	I'm very proud to pronounce again, the Sir Ken Lee Consistent and Sir Space Daddy!
	Both of you are welcome here at the round table.
	We've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
	We have some Fish Pie and Felicio, Polish Potato Vodka.
	We've got Diet Soda and Video Games.
	We've got Sir Harless and Howl Doll, Redheads and Rise, Organic Macaroni and Plasticizers, Sparkling Cider Esports, Bong Hits and Bourbon, Ginger Ale, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, Breast Milk of Pabloman as...
	Requested lots of extra mutton and meat.
	Beautiful.
	Go to noagenderings.com and you can select from the knight and dame rings.
	Yeah, they're the same, but it's in the eye of the beholder and the wearer.
	It is a signet ring, so when you hit someone in the mouth, it'll leave a lasting impression.
	And you can also use that to seal your important correspondence with the provided sealing wax and a certificate of authenticity.
	And thank you again for supporting the best podcast in the universe, your No Agenda Show.
	beat up you know as we discussed 2024 should be a very interesting year so you want to have your community you want to know where people are that you can trust on you can support one another and support each other towards love and good deeds together you know And you've got to continue meeting together.
	This is a habit that you need to You need to do it.
	Get in the habit of going to these meetups.
	And encourage, that's my word for this year, encouragement.
	I'm going to encourage everybody to do things.
	And one of those is going to the meetup.
	You won't regret it.
	It's kind of the companion to the show.
	And you know what?
	If you hit your dad in the mouth, bring him to a meetup.
	We've got lots of producers who bring their parents.
	It's fun.
	And we've got younger parents who bring their human resources.
	It doesn't matter where you're from, where your upbringing is, you will find your crew, you will find your community, your family at a No Agenda Meetup.
	Take, for example, the Frozen Hellscape Meetup.
	Here's a report.
	This is Sir R here in Hayward, Wisconsin at the Not-So-Frozen Hellscape Meetup.
	Chill evening.
	I am here with... This is Lauren.
	Thank you for your courage.
	First time meetup.
	Have a great day.
	So, first time meet-up, he met somebody.
	Even though it was just one.
	That's how they start out.
	Before you know it, you've got a KC meet-up.
	Hey, it's Mish Pish.
	And we're here at 403 Pinball Game Room.
	I came here thinking I was gonna win and all, but it ain't looking too good.
	Hello, it's Lee.
	I'm the reason why she is losing, because I'm the winner.
	In the morning guys, this is Pinball Gypsy.
	This is the first meetup I've been to in Kansas City.
	Was down at one in Austin and this was awesome and an amazing time because I ruined everything.
	Spencer Wolfe for Kansas City here.
	My New Year's resolution, more KC meetups in 2024.
	Greetings, No Agenda community.
	We wish you the best from Chief's Kingdom.
	This meetup was an op, but definitely not a scam.
	Kyle from Omaha here at the Limp Wrist Pinball meetup at Kansas City.
	Johnny.
	I love pinball.
	What was your favorite pinball game?
	The Godzilla game.
	You like the Godzilla game?
	Can you say, in the morning?
	In the morning.
	Pinball Gypsy!
	That is actually... I follow her on Noah's in the Social.
	She always is putting up her pinball scores of different pinball machines she plays.
	She's quite interesting.
	We've got a meetup happening tomorrow, actually.
	That's the BVI Shut Up Slave New Year's Day meetup.
	That'll be in Tortola, Virgin Islands at Smuggler's Cove.
	Go to Nigel's Boom Boom Boom Beach Bar.
	You know what's going on there, know what I'm saying?
	I'm looking forward to a report from you guys.
	On the 4th of January, that's next Thursday, our next show day, Five Forks, first Thursday Noah Jenner Meetup, 6 o'clock at Bullwinkle's Tavern in Simpsonville, South Carolina.
	And the Mile High Meetup takes place in Denver, Colorado at Lincoln's Roadhouse.
	There's many more to come throughout the month of January.
	February, I see April on there.
	March should probably be filling up pretty soon.
	Again, Connectionist Protection, this is where you need to go for your family, for your community.
	For your crowd, for your crew.
	No Agenda Meetups.
	Go to noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find a meetup on that list near you, why don't you start one yourself?
	It's easy and always guaranteed a partay.
	Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You wanna be where you won't be.
	Drink it all, hail the flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	I'm sorry.
	I only have one ISO, and I don't think it's very good.
	I only have one.
	No, this is, this is, this is bad.
	This is bad.
	I thought we were... It's a random number that happens all the time to us.
	Should I play mine first?
	Yeah, sure.
	Oh, it's such a silly thing.
	See, I told you.
	Sucks.
	Sucks.
	All I got is seriously.
	Seriously.
	Oh, man.
	Is that all we got?
	It's time to go into the archives and pick a classic.
	Pick a classic!
	What do you think?
	I don't know what he's saying.
	That's what I'm concerned about.
	Ah, let's do it.
	Let's live dangerously.
	Who cares?
	We can do it.
	We can do this!
	We can do this!
	Good news, everyone!
	That's right!
	We will leave the old year and enter the new with some good news.
	John, once again, has selected something that Mimi pines over in between taking care of all the dogs in the kennel.
	Okay, here we go.
	Now this one is two minutes, right on the money.
	Okay.
	Cut down from four.
	Oh goodness, local report I hope.
	Obviously, here we go.
	A Goodwill store changed the lives of two local families thanks to a shared memory card from a camera.
	Originally from Chesterfield, Jordan Vermont is a senior at Mizzou studying education and is a self-proclaimed amateur photographer.
	This is the Goodwill in Manchester, where it all started.
	Jordan and Sharon Vermont, her mother, decided to go shopping during Thanksgiving break for Jordan from Mizzou.
	She asked her mom if she could buy a camera that was more than 20 years old from the technology section.
	And when we got home, she said, Mom, there's a memory card in here.
	And I said, wow, I hope the people didn't leave pictures on that.
	I wonder what's on there.
	It was full of someone's family photos from 2009.
	Jordan said she wanted to send these pictures to whomever they belonged to.
	So, Sharon posted on Facebook asking if anyone knew these people.
	They're from 2009, so I didn't know if some of the people in the photos weren't around anymore.
	Jordan was right.
	My dad has been gone for five years, and yeah, very sad.
	And then my aunt passed away two years ago.
	Pat and her husband Phil bought the camera back in 2001.
	After cleaning out their basement in Manchester, they donated it to Goodwill in November.
	I lost my mom three years ago, and I just was thinking, you know, if somebody had found pictures of her, I mean, I would be so grateful to get them.
	As was Pat, who bumped into a friend she hadn't seen in 10 years at a local craft show.
	Then... Two days later, I get a text from her saying, um, is this your family?
	And I'm like, oh my gosh, yes, it is my family.
	Social media, bringing together Totally magical, and like I said, very exciting and just crazy.
	I mean, it's such a small, small world.
	It really is a small place.
	She thinks of other people more than herself.
	And she was the one who said, Mom, we have to try to find out whose pictures they are.
	That just showed me what a beautiful soul my daughter has.
	See you and your son.
	Aw, that's so cute.
	Reporting in Manchester, Annie Kroll.
	Aw.
	That's nice.
	That is good news.
	I like that.
	It's finding old pictures.
	Voices from the grave.
	What do you want?
	Good news.
	When do you want it?
	Now, please.
	Your final good news, everybody.
	Your final good news of 2023.
	And I think it was a good year.
	Yeah, it was crazy and people got all mad and spun up.
	But it doesn't matter.
	We had a good time here at No Agenda.
	I think it was a better year than 2022.
	Yes, exactly.
	Oh, much better.
	Hey, we were walking around.
	We were free men and women again.
	Thank you all so much.
	We wish you a very, very happy new year.
	A very lovely ending.
	For all of you.
	Remember those oil balls.
	We'll have a donut hole, one of the two.
	And we'll end it up with some end of show mixes from Professor JJ there in China, Rexo, and Drew Steele.
	Thank you, Troll Room.
	We love you.
	We'll see you on Thursday, because even in the New Year, we'll kick it off right.
	We'll get started.
	It's going to be a good one.
	It's going to be a lot of fun.
	We'll all be here for the ride.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in FEMA Region No.
	5 in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Happy New Year, everybody!
	Remember to stay tuned to the stream.
	We got the Lotus Effect live to get you ready for New Year's, probably taking you through the countdown.
	Until next year!
	Adios, mofos!
	Ahui, ahui!
	And such.
	This is the round of competition that ultimately determines their fate.
	The ladies will have to demonstrate their ability to answer a thought-provoking question, especially when the whole country is watching.
	To begin with South Carolina.
	Nikki Haley is facing a barrage of criticism, but for something she didn't say.
	A national drive to push back!
	What caused the Civil War?
	I personally believe... ...did not mention slavery.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	I personally believe...
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	for the question.
	And we will much.
	Because Salma.
	About debt.
	Be committed.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	What was the cause of the United States?
	South Africa and Iraq, everywhere like that.
	And what do you want me to say about slavery?
	So we will be able to build up our future.
	Nikki Haley is facing a barrage of criticisms.
	But resist, we must.
	Especially when the whole country is watching.
	We begin with South Carolina.
	Thank you very much, South Carolina.
	What do you want me to say about slavery?
	I personally believe that the commitment is.
	I stay out too late.
	Got nothing on my face.
	That's what sheep will say.
	That's what sheep will say.
	I don't follow mandates.
	I just look the other way.
	At least that's what sheep will say.
	That's what sheep will say.
	Mm-mm.
	But I keep breathing, can't start quarantining.
	It's like I got this freedom in my mind, saying not without a fight.
	Cause the government will say, say, say, say, say that a mask will mitigate, mitigate, mitigate, mitigate.
	But I'm just gonna take, take, take, take, take.
	Take it off, take it off And the Karen's gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate All the rules I'm gonna break, break, break, break, break But I'm still gonna take, take, take, take, take Take it off, take it off If I barely even sneeze And if I do it's allergies That's what they don't see This whole thing is overblown
	Make the rules up as they go And they think that we don't know They think that we don't know But I keep breathing Can't start quarantining It's like I got this freedom in my mind Saying not without a fight Cause the government will say Say, say, say, say That a mask will mitigate
	But I'm just gonna take Take it all And the Karen's gonna help Take it off.
	All the rules I'm gonna break, break, break, break, break.
	But I'm still gonna take, take, take, take, take.
	Take it all, take it all.
	Hey, hey, hey.
	Just think, while you've been getting down and out about the media and the dirty, dirty elites of the world, you could have been getting out into the streets.
	to the streets.
	My best friend brought his new girlfriend.
	My best friend brought his new girlfriend.
	She's like, oh my God, please put on a mask.
	She's like, oh my God, please put on a mask.
	To the lady over there with the crazy eyed stare, just come over, baby.
	To the lady over there with the crazy eyes there, just come over, baby, give me a break, break, break.
	Give me a break, break, break, break.
	Yeah!
	Yeah.
	Cause the government will say, say, say, say, say that a mask will be a gay, gay, gay, gay, gay.
	But I'm just gonna take, take, take, take, take.
	Take it all, take it all.
	And the parents gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.
	All the rules I'm gonna break, break, break, break, break.
	But I'm still gonna take, take, take, take, take.
	Take it all, take it all.
	Take it all.
	Happy Schwanza.
	Get her out of her house.
	Whatever it is you celebrate.
	Happy Schwanza.
	The Best Buy.
	A podcast in the universe!

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