Thursday, January 4th, 2024, this is your award-winning game on Asian Media, Assassination, Episode 1622.
This is No Agenda.
Dodging the destruction and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I'm wondering the difference between abrosexuality, gender fluidity, and being starved for attention.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
You got to tighten it up, John.
You got to tighten it up just a bit.
You got to tighten it up.
A little tighter.
Now, what were those?
Sex-abrogation?
No, abro-sexuality.
Abro-sexuality?
What is ab... Okay, I give up.
What is abro... Of course you do!
What is abro-sexuality?
If you look it up... No, I'm not gonna.
It basically means what used to be called gender fluidity.
Oh.
But they had to come up with a new term for some unknown reason.
Oh, that makes no... well, that makes no sense.
And so there's an article floating around the net with... Remember when we said that in 1992?
So there's an article floating around the net showing this goofy looking girl saying, I've been abrosexual all these years and I never knew what it meant.
Oh, no.
And I look at what, who, I never heard of this.
And so I look into it and it's just another, it's another, it's a cry for help.
No, let's just, let's just be honest about it.
You were on TikTok again.
No, no, this was not on TikTok.
This was an article floating around the net.
The net?
I think we just gotta keep that in.
Where'd you find it?
It was floating around the net.
That's exactly what we used to say.
Floating around the net.
Yeah, floating around.
Yes, remember the net?
Ah, the good old days of the net.
The net.
The net.
Remember our slip and PPP connections to get onto the net?
Yes, I do, as a matter of fact.
You had to have your windsock stack?
Ah, the good old days.
And remember, if you get any company back in the early on, like in the 90s, there's always one person, usually a woman, who was the expert at surfing the net.
Yes.
In a company, yeah, she's the expert.
Was it really all the woman?
I don't think so.
I think in the beginning it was a dude.
My experience has always been a woman who is an expert.
She was the person.
She's the go-to gal.
In the company?
Yeah.
And she was probably the same person who could also make the printer work.
Just guessing.
Needs new toner.
What?
Well, it was wonderful to see.
It was fantastic.
Pretty much everybody fell for it and it worked very, very well.
That's right, everybody.
The Distraction of the Week rolled out.
Lester, we're just beginning to dive into the more than 900 pages of court records involving Epstein and his associates.
This is the first time deposition transcripts and other confidential material previously kept under wraps is coming out.
Some of the more familiar names here, Lester.
Former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Attorney Alan Dershowitz, magician David Copperfield, Governor Bill Richardson.
Now we're reaching out to comment to these men but none of them have been charged criminally with any ties to Epstein's victims and many in the past have denied wrongdoing.
Oh man, X was on fire!
Nick's was on fire!
It was crazy!
It's like, this is the list!
Who's on the list?
Listed nothing.
The list, oh yeah, it's all about the list, the list, the list.
Yeah, that's the list.
Everybody pay attention to the list.
But of course, we saw a couple things happen.
You even had in the, in the newsletter.
First we had the unredacted flight logs!
Extra pages!
No!
This is the client list!
How unredacted is every half of the other half the people blanked out?
The client list!
I was like, what is a client list?
What does that even mean?
Is it like the invoices or something?
What does that even mean?
Is it like the invoices or something?
Does he have the copy of TurboTax?
We can see the client list there.
Everyone was all over.
Oh!
Oh, this was my favorite story about the list.
Oh no, not Jimmy Kimmel.
Well, NFL New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers actually suggested live on ESPN's air yesterday that comedian and host Jimmy Kimmel will be on Jeffrey Epstein's client list.
Client list!
Which is expected to be released later this week.
Let's watch.
Bring it up.
Bring it up, Foxy or somebody back there.
Seats on it.
We have Super Bowl 58.
You'll see it.
The emblem put on the screen.
And then bring up 57 and 56.
This has something to do with the Epstein list that came out?
Feels like it.
Feels like it.
That's supposed to be coming out soon.
That's supposed to be coming out soon.
Look at this guy, he's been waiting in his wine cellar.
I've been waiting in my wine cellar for this thing.
A lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, are really hoping that doesn't happen.
Obviously a clip from this particular program was run on Jimmy Kimmel Show whenever Aaron brought up the list and then Jimmy mocked him for it.
Aaron has not forgotten about that but here we are sitting right in front of that nice bottle of scotch.
Kimmel slammed Rogers over these accusations, writing on X, Dear A-Hole, for the record, I've not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any list, other than the clearly phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can't seem to distinguish from reality.
Your reckless words put my family in danger.
Keep it up, and we will debate the facts further in court.
And as of this recording, we're still waiting on the release of that full list.
Rogers and Kimmel have history.
They don't like each other.
Hill, whatever.
So everyone's all over the list.
I'm stunned.
Everyone's all over the list.
That clip showed up on your behalf.
Oh, well, it actually showed up for a different reason.
But, you know, here's a question.
David Copperfield on the list, which is not a list.
In fact, it was definitely a list.
Where's the list?
There's no list, but it's a list.
It's the list.
People making a list.
But he, if David Copperfield was on the list, why didn't he make the list disappear?
I'm very disappointed in his skill.
Roan!
Roan!
So this is what it was.
First, we had to tease everybody, keep everybody a little pre-distracted with the extra 40 pages because President Trump dropped a document.
That's why everyone was distracted with the so-called list.
Give him lots of pages to look at, give him lots to read at.
Oh, this is with Copperfield.
Oh, it's Jimmy Kimmel.
There's a very good documentary piece of... What does he call it, actually?
Summary of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election in the swing states.
Have you seen this document?
Yeah, it's a beauty.
It's really good.
I mean, it shows all the fraud that went on with counts, recounts, machines that didn't have any receipts, no digital receipts, in-person ballots cast that were wrong.
I mean, everything about this.
Dead people.
A lot of dead people.
And it's a big list.
It's really the swing states, but it's big.
A lot about Georgia, of course.
And nothing, nothing on the M5M.
And very little actually on X.
and all other places because everybody was distracted by the list.
Yeah, because people, this is sex.
Sex versus, you know, voter fraud.
Let me weigh the two.
Which is going to get the most attention, sex or voter fraud?
Well, I think sex wins that one.
I mean, when you look at, there's literally nothing.
The only thing they had on the M5M was, you know, they brought some guy out who wrote a book about, you know, how Trump paid him to go and verify everything and Trump lied and paid him to lie and, you know, so they brought that guy on a couple of times.
I won't even bore you with that.
That was pretty funny.
Um, let's see... Did we have... No, I don't even think... Oh, wait, yeah, I did have, uh... You wanna hear Epstein clips?
Just for yucks?
Or you wanna skip it since it's dumb?
Well, if they're for yucks, I'll listen.
Yeah, for yucks.
Let's listen to this.
This morning, we're learning why attorneys wanted to depose former President Clinton in a now-settled defamation case relating to allegations against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his one-time paramour, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Paramour.
I love the term paramour.
Will you be my paramour?
Please be my paramour.
We know that Clinton has been publicly associated with Epstein before.
The first batch of previously sealed court documents related to Epstein were made public last night.
One from a lawsuit filed by Virginia Gouffre.
She's one of the women who say they were abused at Epstein's home in Florida.
New York, and on a private Caribbean island.
Gouffre's attorneys sought to depose Clinton as part of her 2016 lawsuit against Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, because her attorneys argued Clinton is a key person who can provide information about his close relationship with Maxwell and Epstein and disapprove Maxwell's claims.
This is just the first of what's coming out about these names that have been associated with Jeffrey Epstein for a long time.
Gouffre made no allegations of wrongdoing against Clinton, contradicting a previous claim when she said she flew with Clinton and the Secret Service in a helicopter.
According to Maxwell's unsealed deposition, she said the allegations that Clinton had dinner on Epstein's private island were 100% false.
Without Virginia Giffray's lawsuit, this stuff wouldn't have been exchanged because it was relevant to the claims.
And now the court has decided there's no good basis to keep this stuff under wraps from the public.
After Epstein's arrest in 2019, a Clinton spokesperson denied the former president knew about Epstein's crimes, denied Clinton was ever on Epstein's island, and said Clinton had not communicated with Epstein in more than a decade.
Also in the documents, deposition from a witness who said she met Michael Jackson and magician David Copperfield during her time with Epstein.
Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019.
His death was ruled a suicide.
The only thing that was really kind of funny about all this was Dershowitz.
He's a perv.
Dershowitz all over the place.
The funny thing about the Dershowitz thing is that when, if you look at the flight logs, and I kind of went over because I was kind of curious.
You went over the flight logs?
I'm looking at everything is all initials and code names, except Alan Dershowitz spelled out in all caps.
I know.
I found that to be a little peculiar.
And the other thing that's peculiar about the flight logs is they seem to have spent as much time and has never discussed.
But that flight with the with Maxwell and a couple of other girlfriends and Epstein, they were spending most of their time in Palm Beach or not Palm Beach, but Palm Springs.
Yeah, of course.
Good to hang out.
The whole thing is stupid and every network, all this attention paid to it.
And where's Elon Musk talking about the voter fraud?
I thought he was all about that.
I thought it was all about fair elections.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
No, instead what do we have promoted on X?
Well, Trump is exonerated because he didn't, he didn't have sex with anybody.
He just, he just, uh, you know, just met him for dinner.
It's so disappointing that people fall for this easy, easy program.
The minute I heard about the list, I'm looking the other way.
What's going on?
And Trump comes out with this, and it's in the show notes, if anyone cares to take a look at it.
No one cares.
It's well documented.
He would have won easily.
And you know what the worst part is?
You can't trust elections at all.
It's not about Democrats cheating better than Republicans this particular 2020, this particular cycle.
You can't trust any of it.
Our elections are bogus!
I'm not going to argue the point because I live in California where they're obviously bogus, but worse than California is Washington State with that moron governor they have up there who's like just a dork and he's doing, you know, he's like, he acts like a dictator.
And because it's 100% mail-in ballots, it's ridiculous.
It's just complete fraud up there.
Washington State is a, you know, you have to have, people have to be able to go to a polling place, they have to fill out a ballot that's a paper ballot that is collected and stored and can be recounted.
That's the only way you can do it legitimately.
And they do it in big countries that way.
But no, no, we can't do it that way.
We have to have this and that and machines and computers and let's do it online.
Let's have it on the Internet.
And the thing is that people don't care.
You're absolutely right.
Hey, I'd rather look at the list.
Who's on the list?
Oh, Jimmy Kimmel.
Oh, he was friends with Epstein's chef.
He must know something.
He can't be totally in the dark.
Pathetic!
It's pathetic!
It really is.
Just sad.
Yeah.
And if it wasn't that... Well, I do have one kind of an Epstein clip which is just a... It's like my kind of complaint about your buddy over there in Texas.
My buddy?
Which buddy?
Joe Rogan?
Alex Jones?
Alex Jones.
Ah, Alex Jones.
Okay.
So Alex re-released an old clip that he made.
I don't know why he bothered, but he put it on X because he's back on X and Twitter.
And so this is, I just want to play a little bit of it because I realized that Alex, the problem I've always had with him is that he'll just say stuff that's wrong.
And he, for example, he says, he says, here we are at the, and I don't have this part on the clip, but I can assure you can go back and listen to it.
He says, here is Epstein's seven story townhouse.
He says seven stories.
And then they, when they bring the camera up, it's clearly three stories.
Three, not even five.
And then he's got a couple other little gimmicky things in here that just make no sense.
But Bill Gates, who took control of all the major World Health Departments of the planet.
Bill Gates not on the list, oddly.
Bill Gates not on any of the documents of the depositions.
Nothing.
Weird.
Bill Gates.
Who is trying to force inoculations on us to bring in a world dictatorship, a world economy, a world social credit score, a world ID.
Bill Gates was, evidence shows, in charge of Jeffrey Epstein.
That's why Jeffrey Epstein had to die.
There were people above Bill Gates.
So we're here in New York City to investigate the roots of how the corruption and how the blackmail operates and to expose it.
But it is those doors that Prince Andrew was famously photographed staring out as young women came in and out.
It's those doors that famously Bill Gates was caught going into and having parties.
It's those doors that the system didn't want us to know about because they wanted to use that blackmail, that control, to control the people that control our lives.
And remember, many of the people that came to be compromised here and to engage in sex crimes did it as a gang initiation.
You've all heard of Crips and Bloods.
They gotta either kill another member of the other gang or like shoot some innocent person that works at a liquor store.
You've heard about the Mexican Mafia, you've heard of the Italian Mafia, the Hillbillies.
All of them have to commit a crime to be part of the club.
But in prison, you get killed if you're a pedophile.
Nobody puts up with that going after children.
This is the ultimate cult, because to get in their cult, you've got to abuse children.
And that's what this facility's about.
That's why Bacchus, the Roman god of debauchery and evil, is above the door.
And up on the top, there's images of little naked children dancing.
Okay, first of all, Bacchus is the god of agriculture.
The Roman god of agriculture and winemaking.
Oh, oh, you stickler for details.
And bachery, or debachery, is actually a term that was developed in the 1500s from the French word debacher.
I'm going to text Alex right away and tell him that he is wrong.
And it's just this kind of thing that bothers me.
He calls a three-story building a seven-story building.
He claims Bill Gates was in charge of the whole operation.
That'll be the day.
And then he goes on with, it's just this one little detail.
You don't know any more than he does if Bill Gates was in charge of any operation or not.
Believe me, Bill Gates is not in charge of an international blackmailing operation involving international spy operations.
I just don't know.
You act like you know him.
I do know him and I know what he's capable of and that's not one of the things he can do or would do.
But he's one of the main peons in the New World Order.
Well, that may be true in some way.
Okay.
Who do you think is the mastermind behind Bill Gates?
Because he can't do anything.
If he can't even blackmail people with sex, what can he do?
That's the easiest thing to do.
You know, the funny thing is, at the beginning of this spiel, Jones goes on about the people who are running the world, and he says the Club of Rome, which is impossible.
Yeah.
The Club of Rome may have something to do with a lot of this.
And then he says, uh, the British Royal Family.
Yeah, they're the reptiles, of course.
But he never associates the possibility that Prince Andrew is always in there.
No, that he's, that he's, that he's pulling the strings.
That he's the real guy running the whole thing.
Well, I'll take that as a possibility.
Okay, I'm done.
So, you know, people should know John and I never talk in between shows.
Quite frankly, you know, after three and a half hours, twice a week, we're kind of sick of each other.
John sends me his clips.
I don't listen to them.
I do look at the, um, just at the titles.
And we have a lot of overlapping topics.
I don't think we have overlapping clips, overlapping topics.
So if you don't mind I'll kick one off.
And then you can pick it up because I see you have a number of clips.
This is about the border crisis.
As we know, what is happening here in the United States is policy.
Policy is to allow people in, catch and release, parole, get work permits, temporary protective status.
Let them vote!
Let them vote.
The estimates are 10,000 people coming into the country.
Before I even go in there, it was interesting.
Um, one of the, uh, one of the stepdaughters, uh, calls yesterday says, Hey, I'm thinking about moving to London or the EU and, uh, you know, try my luck over there.
I said, Oh, that's great.
Have you thought about what it takes to get a visa?
Huh?
Yeah, you can't just... It's not the expected answer.
No, but people don't even... I think because if you live in America, it's like you've already been given this kind of this programming that, well, you know, if you need to come into America, then, you know, we welcome you.
I'm sure all countries do that.
And if you look at Europe and you look at the UK, although the UK is tightening down, it's like, migrants go in there all the time, so I guess I can go in.
No, no.
No, and if you look at the UK, I mean the quickest, besides...
Although it would still take quite a while, you know, if you wanted to marry somebody.
She even said, well, could you adopt me?
I said, no, I'm an American citizen.
The only reason I could work in the UK is at the time it was before Brexit and I was married to an EU national.
So that's the only reason why I could work there and live there.
But the fastest way to get a visa is you can get an agriculture visa for six months picking fruit.
That didn't go over well.
Anyway, so we have this stalemate in the American government, in Congress, which is mainly run by the Republicans saying, well, we're not going to give any money to the war machine for Ukraine and for Israel, unless you fix the border.
Gotta fix the border.
And unfortunately, I was right.
It's a scam.
And it's in this clip.
Tonight, amid a record number of border crossings, House Speaker Mike Johnson and 64 House Republicans touring the southern border, descending on Eagle Pass, Texas, to demand stricter immigration policies.
One thing is absolutely clear.
America is at a breaking point with record levels of illegal immigration.
December reaching that record high.
Sources telling ABC News there were 302,000 migrant encounters.
And until changes are made to border policies, Republican lawmakers are vowing to hold up emergency funds for Ukraine, Israel, and the border.
H.R.
2, Secure the Border Act, would resume construction of the border wall, change who qualifies for asylum, and limit the Department of Homeland Security's ability to grant migrants parole.
Our position is very clear, and we have made that clear again for seven months.
H.R.
2 is the necessary ingredient.
Why?
Because it has provisions that fix each of these problems, and these things work together.
And today, senators on Capitol Hill working to strike a bipartisan deal.
We're making progress.
We're closer than we have been, but this is a very difficult issue.
Overnight, President Biden placing the blame on Republicans, saying without funding, his hands are tied.
All right, so there it is.
Exactly as I predicted.
This is about HR 2.
All that you really need to do is say, we changed the policy so that you just can't come in and get parole.
We're not going to catch and release.
We're going to reject.
That's all that it would take.
I think Biden might have signed some executive orders that he would have to undo, but there's no necessity for any type of legislation.
But here it is.
But wait.
There's a little gotcha in there where he says that Biden says his hands are tied.
But in the last show, we played a clip where he's already been giving money to Ukraine that has not been approved by Congress.
And I made a big fuss about it.
Yeah, I don't care.
Because right now I'm about to tell you- I thought you should care.
Right now I'm about to tell you about HR 2.
And what is an HR 2?
This is a huge bill.
I mean, it's big.
Like, so- you say, how big?
It's big.
And the estimated cost, just the beginning, is $56 billion, which is not so much.
But let's just look at a few little items from HR 2.
U.S.
Customs Border Protection Technology Upgrades.
That's where the first money goes, and you know how much money they appropriated for that?
Just to start off with 2024 and 2025!
Magic number, 33 million dollars.
Right there, that tells you it's a scam.
They got the magic number.
They're gonna upgrade and add to license plate readers.
Vehicle and dismount exploitation radars, also known as VADER.
Three-dimensional seismic acoustic detection.
Advanced unattended surveillance sensors.
Mobile vehicle mounted man-portable surveillance capabilities.
Unmanned aircraft systems.
Drones.
Tunnel detection systems.
Fiber optic cable.
That's an actual line item.
And then of course we're going to change ID.
This will legalize what they've already been doing at the airports.
Collection of biometric information from certain individuals seeking entry into the sterile area of an airport.
That's you and me when you're going through TSA.
That's nothing to do with being an immigrant, illegal, brown skin, whatever.
Beginning not later than 120 days after the day of the enactment of this act, the administrator shall collect biometric information from an individual described in subsection E, and subsection E is the individual described in the subsection seeking entry into the sterile area of an airport.
That's everybody!
So there's your biometric collection, which they've already been doing, but now it's just legal and we're going to live with it forever.
And my favorite is the Employment Eligibility Verification System, E-Verify.
This has been a very contentious point, this E-Verify, in the past.
People don't want it.
It's been around forever.
But it doesn't really exist.
The conversation has been, now it will, now will be required That employment eligibility be confirmed through E-Verify for every individual who is going to work at a company.
This is universal identification.
That's what this is.
And this thing is huge.
There's all kinds of nonsense in there.
I didn't have time to look through it all, but have a look.
It's like 400 pages.
We don't need that.
It's a scam.
They're scamming us.
Well, it's nothing anyway.
I mean, if it was HB2, I think the whole thing is HR.
It's House resolution.
It's bullcrap from the get-go.
The whole thing is a ruse.
It will turn into full-on legislation.
You know it will.
This is Schumer.
Bill, this is Schumer!
It's Schumer.
That guy's no good.
Well, who is good?
Well, not the International Rescue Committee.
Just need to mention these guys real quick.
The International Rescue Committee is one of the main funders of this illegal immigration.
And I have their Form 990 here, which I always love.
Yay!
Yeah, it's a good one.
How much do you think the internet, this is, the president of this is David Miliband, because he seems like a guy who cares, you know, he's compassionate.
David Miliband, the ex-politician from Great Britain who was up there at the top of the possible Prime Minister wannabes.
And he came over, he was brought, this is the operation you're going to discuss, which I've looked into myself.
Is unbelievable.
You know how much he makes at the International Rescue Committee?
I don't know, a million or something?
Yeah, $1,086,979.
And then he gets some healthcare stuff.
And he's only the front man, according to most people.
Oh yeah.
So this whole outfit...
Receives this year, current year, so that would be 2022 that this was filed, $1.355 billion.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were short last year, only $924 million.
Disappointing year.
Disappointing year.
And you can see where it's coming from and what they give their money to.
Let me just scroll down.
Let me just give you some of the, how this, where this billion, billions of dollars comes from is just kind of fun and interesting.
So you know that, you know, who's really behind this is our own government institutions.
We have $177 million, I'm rounding up, $178 million from the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
They're on C Street in Washington.
Department of Health and Human Services, $123 million.
The Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, these are all U.S.
government organizations.
115 million.
Then the French, the European Union kicks in 75 million.
European Union Humanitarian Department, thanks, thanks guys.
Let's see, the U.N.
High Commissioner on Refugees, 45 million.
The Germans kick in 37 million.
The Swedes kick in 34.
But we're clearly the ones funding the most of it.
And then if you see where the money's going to, is it going to Venezuela?
No.
No, it's all going to Africa, East Asia, more Africa, Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa.
We're paying for this.
We're paying for this to take place.
And this is just one of the organizations that does this.
Yeah, they're a big one though.
I mean, where's the chance for this?
Hey, hey, ho, ho.
IRC has got to go.
Don't worry.
It's cool, though.
Ain't happening.
In California, as of the first of January, all undocumented immigrants are eligible for health care insurance.
How about that?
That's cool.
That seems righteous.
Well, you don't want a bunch of sick immigrants roaming around.
Come on.
A Dutch study says immigration is costing the state 17 billion euros a year.
Oh yes, and they're breaking down the walls of the government in Holland about this.
Not really.
No one cares.
No one cares?
No, no one cares.
Okay, go to my border clips.
This is border BS clip 1.
Dozens of House Republicans are at the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Their trip comes as Customs and Border Patrol saw a record high number of illegal crossings in December, around 300,000 crossings.
That is roughly the size of the city of Orlando crossing into the United States illegally in a single month.
NTD's Congressional Correspondent Melina Weiskup reports for us.
House Republicans have made several trips to the southern border, but this is the first time that Mike Johnson is leading a delegation as the Speaker, and it comes at a time when pressure is high, as right now the Senate is working on a deal with the White House.
They're trying to find common ground solutions.
Over immigration and border policy, how to change those policies to fix the immigration issue.
But House Republicans, they have their own list of demands, much of which includes returning to Trump-era border policies such as the Remain in Mexico policy.
This delegation was made up of around 64 Republican lawmakers from 26 states.
The Republican speaker They met with border patrol agents, they met with local residents, they viewed processing centers, all to get a grip of the current situation at the border.
Here's what those Republicans had to say about the urgency of the issue, arguing why their demands deserve to be met.
When President Trump entered the Oval Office, he put in the remain-in-Mexico policy, he ended the catch-and-release policy, he did the fundamental common-sense things that stem the flow.
It was down to a tiny fraction of what it is right now.
In December alone, it's the highest number in history.
And it's going to continue because they're showing no inclination at all to change it.
Neither are you, Mike Johnson.
Do you think he even reads the stuff?
I still have, I'm reserving.
I'm reserving my thoughts about him now too.
I'm not liking what he's doing here.
The greatest domestic threat to the national security and the safety of the American people is Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
And that last person you just heard from was Congressman Mark Green.
He's the chairman on the Homeland Security Committee here.
He says that next week his committee will officially begin those impeachment proceedings against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, arguing that he has failed to uphold his duty to secure the border But the DHS Secretary has pushed back, saying he simply doesn't have the money or the resources to 100% carry out his job effectively, saying that the ball is now in Congress's court.
Take a look at what he had to say.
We need additional personnel to advance our security at the border.
We need technology to advance our fight against fentanyl.
We need additional asylum officers to really accelerate the asylum adjudication process.
The Republicans argue that if Congress does give the DHS more money, that money will only be used to process more illegal immigrants and release them into the country rather than use the money to try to stem the flow of illegal immigration to begin with.
Reporting from Capitol Hill, Melina Wisecup, NTD News.
Yeah, there you go.
Just we need to process faster because we need to overwhelm the system faster, faster before Trump gets in.
We gotta start the collapse so he can win and we can blame it all on him.
Gotta go, gotta go.
And NTD's Jason Blair is down in Eagle Pass, Texas, where he spoke to lawmakers about the trip.
I'm here in Eagle Pass, Texas, right in front of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Now today, 64 members of Congress were here.
They were touring the area.
Why did they, 64 members of Congress, have to go down to Eagle Pass to go look at the border?
I mean, was this a fact-finding mission?
Were they confused?
Taco finding.
Were they confused about what's happening?
Just for tacos.
That's the reason they went for tacos.
I can't imagine any other reason, right?
You don't need that many people.
You need one guy and a camera crew.
It's... Do people still fall for this kind of dumb PR?
Oh, Congress is taking it seriously.
They're all roaming around this old group of 64.
It's too many, by the way.
64 went down, yeah, and Mike Johnson talking about it.
Oh, yeah, he's taking it seriously.
And NTD's Jason Blair is down in Eagle Pass, Texas, where he spoke to lawmakers about the trip.
I'm here in Eagle Pass, Texas, right in front of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Now, today, 64 members of Congress were here.
They were touring the area in an event hosted by Representative Tony Gonzalez.
Now, they spoke with local law enforcement.
They spoke with people here on the ground that are seeing the situation at the border every day.
They were speaking to ranchers.
They were touring facilities.
And afterwards, I got a chance to speak with a couple of them, and here's what they had to say.
Today we have members of Congress from 26 states, also American Samoa, and so we are here to learn the latest, and sadly the latest is... What is the point of saying we also have American Samoa here?
What's the point?
What's the point?
DEI?
I think you nailed it.
It's just not a bunch of guys from Alabama.
We're a diverse group, okay?
Today we have members of Congress from 26 states, also American Samoa, and so we are here to learn the latest, and sadly the latest is the American families have been at no greater risk of attack than they are today.
With the hundreds of terrorists that have crossed the border in the last year.
But during the Biden administration, every American family is at risk.
It's just inconceivable the madness of the Biden administration not understanding.
The Biden administration should be ashamed of themselves.
New Yorkers should be ashamed of themselves.
The thought of by instituting an open border for the sex trade, for human trafficking, for human slavery.
This is inconceivable in the 21st century.
It's interesting that not a single one of them will ever say the truth.
They always throw out, oh it's horrible, women and children being abused, being trafficked, being raped, fentanyl this, fentanyl that.
They never say, this is overwhelming our system.
That's the truth, and that's what they never say.
And hey, a key point.
There's no country that doesn't maintain their border, except the United States.
Have you seen Europe, numbnut?
Every other country maintains their border because they understand that it would lead to chaos, it would lead to victimization, it would lead to persecution of individuals, and so our border needs to be maintained as any other border in the world.
He forgot overwhelming the system.
They all know it.
They all know it.
It's great because we'll all get a basic income.
It's obvious, at least by these clips that we keep playing, that Trump's gonna get in again.
Very clear.
He probably should have gotten in.
You know, he'd be out by now.
He'd be, this would be his last year in office if they had not jobbed him on that, as shown by the documents.
Yeah, but then we wouldn't have war.
I mean, this is no good.
We needed, we needed a little stimulus.
We needed war.
We needed death, destruction.
We needed any stimulus whatsoever.
Yeah.
We could kill, if it's possible, he would have killed the country.
Yep.
Yep.
That's right.
Yep.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
And the very frustrating piece of it is it's correctable.
Now, the best way or the long-term way that the American people can correct it is by electing President Trump back into office or, frankly, any Republican.
But my preference is President Trump because he proved he could do it.
But secondly, if Biden would just correct course and just instill one provision probably of our HR2 legislation that we have.
We passed in Republican Congress, and that is remain in Mexico.
If you're seeking asylum, you need to do it in your first country of origin, your first country of asylum.
If you do that like all other countries do, or just about all, this problem would be reduced by 70, maybe 80 percent.
How about 100 percent?
Asylum is only supposed to occur at designated ports.
These guys, they're all just part of the system.
They've all been blackmailed by Bill Gates.
That's clear.
He's got them under his thumb.
Crazy Bill.
Yeah.
Well, that's it.
That's your border.
That's still ongoing.
My favorite thing going on this week is the fact that, you can play this clip, the Biden Threat to Democracy speech is supposed to be on the anniversary of January 6th and he had to put it, stall it, he had to put it off a day.
A major speech coming up as President Biden is seeking to draw a contrast with former President Trump.
That's as polls show Biden trailing Trump in key battleground states.
NTD's White House correspondent Iris Tao reports.
So we are expecting to see a major split screen moment this Saturday on the third anniversary of January 6th between former President Trump and President Biden.
President Biden is giving a speech on democracy at Valley Forge, a historic revolutionary war site near Philadelphia.
And the goal here is to try to convince voters that former President Trump poses a historic threat to democracy, one that Biden's campaign says has only grown more dire in the years after 2020.
Meanwhile, the White House today saying this about January 6th.
Watch.
What happened on January 6th was unprecedented, an attack on our core principles, an attack on our democracy.
What we saw was an attack on our rule of law.
And the White House tells us that President Biden said he also had lunch with a group of historians and scholars about, quote, the ongoing threats to democracy and democratic institutions here in America and around the world.
So we are really seeing President Biden's campaign here trying to jumpstart this year's campaign events with a theme About a fight for democracy and Biden versus Trump as we're getting closer and closer to a potential rematch between the two.
So that's going to be wall to wall on Saturday?
Well, no, because it's got, because of the weather, I guess it got stormy back there.
And so they're going to put it off.
So that whole symbolism of January 6th is lost.
But that's how they know it was already stormy.
Is it going to be stormy on Saturday?
Is that the... Yeah, that's what they think.
So we can't do the speech?
This morning's news has been put off, so the whole thing is a joke now.
Oh, that's too bad.
I think it may not be the weather at all, but they have a doctor that says, look, we have a cycle for what we can juice Joe up with.
Juice Joe, I like that.
And we can't juice him up for this Saturday or you're going to kill the guy.
We can't do it.
Juice Joe.
It's Juice Joe.
That's a good one.
Oh, I have a new chant.
Hold on, where's my chants clip?
There's a new chant.
We should be documenting these chants on a website.
Oh yeah, good idea.
I'll get right on it.
Here's the... Yes!
Get on it.
Genocide Joe chants.
Listen to this one.
Can you hear it?
Biden, Biden, pick a side.
ceasefire or genocide that's a pretty good one I like it.
Pick a side.
And they have a tagline here, too.
So the follow-up is, Biden, Biden, you're a liar.
We demand a ceasefire.
Yeah.
Demand a ceasefire.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it's not going to happen until every single Palestinian is out.
Ousted.
Ousted.
Completely ousted and rousted.
They can't, you know, why don't you, if you have a, I believe you have some Hamas clips, I have some thoughts on your initial theory about the Red Sea.
So I'd like you to kick it off and, you know, particularly if you've got Houthi stuff, that would be most relevant, I think.
I do.
I have both Huthi and Hamas stuff.
Well, let's throw it at me.
Well, let's start with the Hamas, uh, which is kind of... This is a screwball one.
This is Hamas leader plus more NTD.
Just a day after... Why do screwball?
Let's get down to the good stuff.
Is this good?
This stuff is all screwball.
Okay.
Just a day after Israel's reported strike in Lebanon that killed a Hamas commander, reactions are mixed.
Meanwhile, Iran, which is known for backing the terrorist groups fighting Israel, is now facing attacks on its own soil.
A pair of bombs in the country reportedly killed over a hundred people.
NTD's Jason Perry has the war update.
After the airstrike near Beirut that killed a Hamas leader, the Hamas terrorist group on Wednesday said the strike was an act of terrorism and a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty.
Innocent Lebanese civilians now find themselves caught in the crossfire.
There was an assassination which led to the death of leaders.
As you can see, we're surrounded by wreckage and cars.
It's harmful to Beirut.
It feels like an invasion of Beirut, an invasion of Lebanon.
Meanwhile, this Israeli man's father is currently being held hostage by Hamas terrorists.
And he thinks the airstrike that killed the Hamas leader in Lebanon has hurt the chances of his own father coming home.
Of course, this would not help.
It's only do the opposite.
So I don't know who's in charge and who's giving the order, but he's definitely not thinking about the hostage negotiation talks.
He said this about the approximately 100 hostages who remain in captivity.
I'm afraid that they are running out of hope there.
And the lack of hope might kill them as well.
Alongside the horrible condition, the starvation, the sanitary condition in Gaza, the Israeli bombing, the Israeli soldier who might accidentally shoot them, as happened before.
The factors that can kill him are growing larger by the hour.
And sadly, on Wednesday, Israel Defense Forces announced the death of another hostage.
You know, the reason why these clips come from NTD is because this has no legs.
The hostage thing that might have worked during the Reagan era, no one gives a crap about hostages.
It's not working.
They're trying to make this the focus and because, you know, if it bleeds, it leads.
But it's no good.
The hostages don't have the right chatter.
They don't speak English, of course.
You know, you don't have the family members that you can have crying unless it's translated.
It's not working.
The West is not buying into the hostage meme.
I have to agree with you.
So let's go to the Houthis.
The Houthis, yes.
The Houthis.
This is a Houthi-Suez discussion on shipping.
By the way, I wanted to mention...
I finally realized what really bothers me about that Houthi militant video with the helicopter landing on the ship.
You mean the video of the helicopter that you're obsessed with?
Yes, I finally realized what it is.
If you look at this video, at the beginning, you see the horizon does not move.
And you're so the the the shot is supposedly on the tail boom of the helicopter and it's moving left and right and it's getting down beyond to the ship.
But I mean I would be very surprised if they had a GoPro on a gimbal.
Because that won't work very well with any type of downwash or rotor wash.
I mean, now I know that that helicopter, it looks like it's inserted into the shot.
It looks just like a drone shot.
And they inserted this helicopter because when you see the helicopter moving and the camera is affixed to the helicopter, the horizon doesn't move.
So that, and of course that footage is from 2022, that's beside the point.
But the whole thing is phony baloney.
All right.
Okay, well, we'll hear about this again in the next show.
Yes, we will.
You'll find some other anomaly.
Well, I've got, there's lots of, there's lots of anomalies.
The Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are impacting global supply chains and causing oil and freight costs to rise.
How seriously should the U.S.
be taking this as a national security issue?
Joining us now to discuss, we have Jim Nels, supply chain consultant and economic analyst.
To begin, the Red Sea crisis is now spilling over into African ports that are swamped with all these ships that have been rerouted.
Now, fuel prices are expected to rise as a result, but give us a sense of what the economic fallout is here.
Well, if you look at the stretch of the ocean between the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aden, they call it the I-95 of the ocean.
You get about 21,000 ships a year that travel down there.
About $9 billion a day of commerce traverse the Red Sea.
So the economic impact is quite large.
It also includes anywhere from three to eight million barrels of oil a day.
And that's why we're seeing oil start to increase.
Oil's up a couple of bucks today.
It was down the other day, but I think we're going to continue to see it rise as more and more shipping companies say, we're not going to traverse the Red Sea.
We're going to go around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and add 14 to 21 days of the supply chain.
And what impacts do these shipping delays and rerouting have on national security?
On natural security, we'll start to see store shelves maybe not have as much as you would like to have on there.
You may not be able to get some of the products that you'd like.
You're not going to see what we saw during COVID.
But the bigger concern is the inability to get oil through the Red Sea.
And when you start to combine this with the issues that we have at the Panama Canal, the Panama Canal right now is running at 50% capacity because of very low water levels.
So between the Panama Canal and the Red Sea, we're starting to see a very large backup of shipping and we'll start to see congestion at the ports.
We saw what happened with that in 2020 and 2021.
So there are some national security implications, but hopefully we can get this resolved quickly and we're not going to see anything to the extent that we saw back during COVID.
Does anyone come up with a possible increase in consumer goods analysis of this obvious increase in shipping costs?
It hasn't shown up in the debate, but there was a little gotcha in there that just kind of like, wait a minute.
Why is the Panama Canal water level so low when the oceans are rising?
It's climate change.
Climate change means the oceans are rising.
You have the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, both oceans, they should be rising, making the Panama Canal flooded.
As opposed to so low that half the ships can't go through.
I know, it's also record cold in Scandinavia.
Because of climate change.
So just shut up about it, alright?
It's climate change.
There's one answer and it's always the right one.
Climate change.
The other right answer is clip two.
And speaking of COVID, we saw ship supply lanes hit, especially as factories in China ground to a halt.
What can we expect to see this time in terms of the Red Sea?
Is this a type of warfare attacking the shipping lanes?
It's definitely a type of warfare by attacking the shipping lanes.
Fortunately, with the Red Sea, that's primarily a route between Europe and Africa and Europe and Asia, so it doesn't necessarily impact the U.S.
Or is it just like, you know, celebration?
Well, it's definitely a type of warfare by attacking the shipping lanes.
Fortunately, with the Red Sea, that's primarily a route between Europe and Africa and Europe and Asia.
So it doesn't necessarily impact the U.S. to a great extent, again, except for natural resources such as oil.
Over the long term, though, we'll start to see more and more things impacted in the United States.
But what we can't afford is to start to see huge backups at the ports because, especially in the United States, our ports are so inefficient.
It takes forever to unload a ship.
And we just can't afford to have that happen from a national security perspective.
Set up with the national security.
Is it not also true that we are exporting tons of oil right now?
Well, we have to.
Sure, of course we are.
We're producing more oil than ever before.
Because that's...
By the way, this notion that we suck at unloading ships is beyond me.
I look over here.
I can't see a port more modern than Oakland.
Who is this guy that's talking?
Who is this guy that has this knowledge?
Oh, okay.
Good.
You have to go back to clip one to get his name.
But it's like...
Was that like a dig?
Or was that to say we should buy more of this gear from China to unload ships?
As though we haven't got enough of these weird-looking cranes?
I guess.
I've just found that to be off-putting.
Let's go to clip three.
Where is this from?
Is this NTD?
Yeah, they do these interviews with these different people that don't get interviewed elsewhere, and I find the discussion to be a little more interesting than the stuff you'd get from the networks.
And now, it seems the 10-country coalition to stop these attacks hasn't been that successful.
Now, in the 80s, the U.S.
launched Operation Praying Mantis to attack Iran.
What would it take now to stop the Houthis?
Here we go.
It would take something similar.
So, Operation Praying Mantis was launched by President Reagan after a United States warship hit a mine that was placed in the Gulf by Iran.
We decided to destroy two of their oil platforms and we sank half their navy.
We need to do something like that today and it has to be done against Iran, not against the Houthis.
The Houthis don't do anything without Iran's permission, without their funding or without their weapons.
So we need some sort of major strikes into Iran to show them that they have to stop this.
I'll give the Biden administration credit.
So far they've shown great restraint because they don't want to expand the war in Israel beyond Israel and Hamas.
Make up your mind.
But it's now time for them to step up and say, no more Iran and we're going to punish you for doing this.
If you do it again, we'll punish you a second time and then a third time.
They're becoming that petulant little child that thinks that they can continue to steal candy from the grocery store and it's time for mom to tell them no more stealing candy.
This guy's an idiot because the Biden administration has appeasement.
That's what Obama did.
Their whole strategy with Iran has been appeasement.
Let's keep giving them money so they don't become friends with China.
That's their strategy.
Remember that just before October 7th, of course it wasn't a payment, but I remember, it wasn't that long ago, there was a release of funds, which was Iranian money.
Which was, of course, immediately blamed for this attack.
But that's the whole strategy.
The Biden, the Obama, Biden strategy has always been appeasement.
Well, and, you know, because, you know, they're two weeks away from a nuclear bomb, so.
Two weeks.
All right, let's wrap it with this last one.
And would something on the level of Operation Pringmantes be permissible nowadays, seeing that Operation Pringmantes was deemed unjustified back then?
Why should we care what other people think?
We have to protect our own interests.
That's what we need to do.
Israel doesn't care what the world thinks about what they're doing with Hamas.
We shouldn't care what the world thinks about what we do to protect our national interests.
All right.
All right.
I've got to jump in here.
There's a couple of things happening in the backdrop that we haven't been paying attention to.
It also really hasn't, it certainly hasn't been in U.S.
news.
And let's just go back to the Genesis, October 7th.
The first thing we heard was, it's like 9-11 times a thousand.
And I will agree that it was like 9-11, because like 9-11, no matter what you think of, you know, Building 7 falling out of sympathy for Buildings 1 and 2, no matter what you think about, was it planes or explosions or whatever, it was allowed to happen.
It was not a mistake.
And that was the same with October 7th.
It was allowed to happen.
And we've forgotten that already.
It was insane how that how the border walls and gates and fences and how it was completely unprotected.
That was that made no sense.
We've already forgotten that, but it made no sense.
And I think That there was a much bigger strategy at play here by morons, by absolute morons.
I'm looking at you, Blinken.
I'm looking at the Kagan's.
I'm looking at, you know, of course, with the Kagan's comes Newland.
But all these neocons slash neoliberals who brought in Netanyahu to do part of their dirty work, because the one thing we forgot is in August, there was an announcement that was made that was completed just this past week.
The BRICS group of emerging countries on Monday officially welcomed five new members to its ranks.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Iran and Ethiopia were invited to join the group in August 2023 at the 15th BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Argentina was also invited but backed out at the end of December.
The group was created in 2006 by Brazil, Russia, India and China, with South Africa joining in 2010, and has become an important platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries.
The newly expanded BRICS has a combined economy worth over $28.5 trillion.
We're about 28% of the global economy.
On January 1st, Russia took over the BRICS chairmanship from South Africa.
Okay, so Putin is now running the BRICS.
And the BRICS didn't matter until the BRICS mattered.
And why does it matter?
Because Egypt and Saudi Arabia Jump into this BRICS thing.
And it was already... They'd been invited.
LCC, who has now been re-elected for his third term, with an unbelievable 90% of the vote, because that's not rigged.
No one likes LCC in the West.
This guy is no good.
They don't like that he's a part of BRICS.
He obviously controls the Suez Canal.
So let's go to... Let's go to Pakishwarma.
Who used to be on WhyOn and now she's on FirstPost or whatever.
But she still does good stuff.
So we had this Operation Solidarity do whatever we say in the Red Sea Group that we were running.
And everyone's like, yeah, I don't think so.
Especially Saudi Arabia, who are supposed to be our buddies!
The Red Sea Coalition has two major problems.
One, it's taking time.
The White House says more warships will enter the Red Sea.
But the question is, when?
There's going to be a whole lot of hardware in the Red Sea now, naval hardware, not just from the United States, but other ships, other ships from other nations to counter these threats.
So let's see where it goes.
I mean, it's up and running now.
Let's see where it goes is not a sound strategy.
It doesn't scream confidence, which brings us to the second problem, the participation.
It's called the Red Sea Coalition.
But how many Red Sea countries are part of it?
None.
The only Arab member is Bahrain.
No Saudi Arabia, no UAE, not even Egypt, which runs the Swiss Canal.
Now the UAE is understandable.
It mostly uses the Persian Gulf, so the Red Sea is not as consequential for them.
But what about Saudi Arabia?
Around 36% of its imports come through the Red Sea.
Its modern hub, Jeddah, is located along the coast.
So why hasn't Riyadh joined?
Officially, there is no reason.
But looks like two factors influenced the Kingdom's decision.
Factor number one is Iran.
Riyadh and Tehran signed a peace deal this year.
They decided to normalize relations.
So the long-time rivalry is on pause.
But joining the Red Sea Coalition could have changed that.
Iran has questioned this 10-nation force.
They say it will soon face quote-unquote problems.
Maybe Riyadh did not want to risk that.
Factor number two is the Houthis themselves.
They're fighting a civil war in Yemen.
On the opposite side is a Saudi-backed government.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman started this war.
But looks like he's had enough.
He's looking for an exit.
In September, Riyadh hosted a Houthi delegation.
It said the talks were positive.
So there is hope of a clean withdrawal.
But if MBS joins the coalition, maybe not.
So that was brokered by also China was involved in that deal.
So and we talked about it briefly because all of a sudden the civil war ended and Saudi Arabia is like, yeah, we're not fighting in Yemen anymore.
It's all good.
These guys all joined the BRICS and and they're trading oil in local currencies.
And I think they're like, you know what?
Screw these guys.
We have 27 trillion now.
We got Putin running our show.
Clearly, the West has not been successful in bleeding Russia dry by kicking them off swift by the Ukraine war.
And when you kick Russia off swift, I'm sure everyone went, uh, well, these guys might kick us off.
So it didn't matter until it mattered and they grew big enough.
And now they have some power.
And of course, China's in there.
They have their own priorities, like economic diversification, building futuristic cities, or even preparing for the FIFA World Cup in 2034.
And for that, MBS needs peace.
It's a tough balance.
Because he cannot walk away from the US alliance or the Red Sea.
Even China is spooked.
Around 60% of China's exports to Europe go through the Red Sea.
So Beijing says, civilian ships must be protected.
China has always advocated safeguarding the security of international waterways and opposed acts of harassing civilian vessels.
We believe that all the parties, especially the major countries with influence, should play a constructive and responsible role in ensuring the security of the Red Sea waterways.
That statement could be important.
China has close ties to Iran and Iran basically controls the Houthis.
So Beijing could pull some strings.
It's a question of how far the Houthis are willing to push.
They know that America is reluctant to escalate.
They know the Saudis are half-hearted.
So the Houthis basically hold all the cards.
Imagine that.
A ragtag group of militants are holding trillions of dollars hostage.
Imagine that.
So, please everyone go to redc.noagendanotes.com just so we all look at the map for a second.
We need to look at this map so you understand this is my fireside chat moment.
Redsea.noagendanotes.com.
And you can see where all of these countries are, and you can see where the US has its strongholds, and you can start to understand that we really don't control anything at this point, but we saw this coming.
When I say we, that's the West, mainly the stupid idiots, the neocon nutjobs who are running everything since they kicked Trump out.
And now we go to Al Jazeera, and we have a warmonger on there, ex-Pentagon guy, whatever, and he kind of lays out what the issue is, and that will focus us on what's happening with Israel and Hamas, and Palestine, where we're all chanting, and we're all upset, and we're all choosing sides.
It's much bigger than that.
The Pentagon says more than 20 countries have agreed to participate in a US-led coalition in the Red Sea to stop Houthi attacks.
The Red Sea is one of the world's most important shipping routes for oil and gas between Asia and Europe.
In the south, the narrow Bab al-Mandab Strait between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden.
12% of the world's trade and 10% of global oil carried by ships goes through the strait.
The Suez Canal The Suez Canal connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea.
It is the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia.
15% of the world's maritime traffic passes through the Suez Canal.
Since November, the Houthis have targeted vessels near Bab al-Mandab, forcing major shipping and oil companies to suspend operations through the Red Sea.
Rerouted vessels will have to make a longer journey all the way down the east coast of Africa via the southern tip of the continent.
Alright, so that's the intro.
Now the Pentagon douche will actually lift a little bit of the veil as to what the strategy was here, which I believe goes back to a purposeful invasion, and there's... Alex Jones will be the first to say that Israel created Hamas, and I'm kind of on board with that now.
Because when you hear what the strategy really was, which was to squeeze Egypt, it starts to make sense that there's some real fear about the petrodollar's weakness against all these oil countries that are now in bricks, just added this past week, who are all joining together and are going to They're going to withdraw from the U.S.
dollar and from our rules-based order?
Well, David DeRoche is a professor at the National Defense University and former Pentagon Director of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, and he's joining us on Skype from Washington, D.C.
Very good to have you with us on Al Jazeera.
Mr. Dhirosh, we've had a number, I think 12 of some of the world's biggest shipping companies are no longer taking this route.
British Oil Giant, British Petroleum also isn't.
They made that decision before the US formed this task force and since it's been formed, none of them have started using the route again.
Yeah, that's right.
So, you know, capital is cowardly.
And I think that, you know, it makes sense to avoid an area where there's a threat to see what happens and see how it takes hold.
So I would expect it to take, you know, some time before procedures are established and before there's a level of confidence.
I mean, bear in mind, these are unarmed commercial ships that are being attacked with weapons of war.
in time of peace.
That is a war crime.
And they're of nations.
They're flagged and crewed and owned by nations that have no connection with the conflict at all.
So it's going to take a while to figure out what the capabilities are.
These guys want risk.
But the big loser here is Egypt, which is going to lose 30 percent of its hard currency assets from Suez Canal transit fees as long as this is closed.
Yeah.
And yet Egypt is not joining the task force.
And the Houthis are saying that they are only targeting vessels that are in any way linked to Israel.
So that appears to me to have always been the strategy, is to squeeze Egypt into not joining the BRICS, into being...
Listening to what we have to say.
And before I get to the payoff, there's one more clip here, which is Somalia, who also joined BRICS.
And what is Somalia doing?
They're going to set up a base right down there, right near Djibouti, in this illegal republic of Ethiopia, joined the BRICS.
And they're going to set up a base.
Right underneath Djibouti, which is supposed to be our spot, in the illegal or unrecognized republic of Somaliland.
The world's most populous landlocked nation wants access to the sea, and Ethiopia is now pinning its hopes on an agreement with Somaliland.
This will be the starting point for our cooperation with the brotherly people of Somaliland to grow and develop together in cooperation and to ensure our common security.
Ethiopia says the memorandum will allow it to use the port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden to establish a military base, paving the way for commercial operations.
So that's the setup right there, and of course Victoria Nuland was in Somalia.
Just a few months ago, trying to talk them out of doing this, Ethiopia, trying to talk them out of doing this, and Ethiopia went, yeah, okay, we won't go through Somalia, we'll go through Somaliland and set up a base.
Whose base?
It's not going to be the Ethiopian base.
We know exactly, it's going to be, the whole region is going to be BRICS land.
So, I believe the strategy was, To get Hamas to create this atrocity, and maybe it wasn't even intended to be this bad, but they did it anyway, that's what went down.
But now they want to kick them out.
Israel wants to kick the Palestinians out.
The whole point has been, kick them out, go to Egypt, go to Egypt, go to Egypt.
Egypt's saying, nope, nope, we don't want them.
And there's reasons why.
And I could have just given you this, but the WhyMinutes guy on YouTube did it so beautifully, I'm just gonna play his explanation in clips.
Why aren't more Arab countries in the Middle East taking in Palestinian refugees?
The onset of a renewed war between Israel and Hamas has led to fears that millions of Palestinian people living in the Gaza Strip may be forced to become refugees.
But despite the fact that Gaza shares a border with Egypt, the Egyptian government almost immediately ruled out any possibility of accepting Palestinian refugees.
In fact, Egypt is currently constructing an even larger border wall with Gaza than the one it currently has in place.
Now, many outside observers have asked, Why Egypt, a majority Arab and Islamic nation, would turn away the Palestinian people.
And of course, many have pointed out that it may serve the political interests of many Arab nations to refuse to accept Palestinian refugees because it allows them to then blame Israel for any sort of humanitarian crisis that unfolds.
But the thing is, historically, many Arab nations have accepted Palestinian refugees.
And that may be why Egypt doesn't want to now.
So, this is a little bit of a history lesson.
Every single time countries in the Middle East accepted Palestinian refugees, bad things happened.
It started in Kuwait.
I'm pretty sure this was our doing as well.
Decades earlier, the Palestinian groups operating in Jordan had come to openly call for the overthrow of Jordan's monarchy in the aftermath of the Six-Day War.
At the time, the PLO maintained its own separate army on Jordanian soil and used that armed force to- I'm sorry, I misplaced the order.
Jordan first.
So chaos.
Armed gangs of PLO militants drove around the capital of Amman, robbing families and businesses in the name of collecting financial assistance for the ongoing war of attrition against Israel.
When members of the Jordanian police and army tried to defend their citizens from these attacks, they were attacked and killed.
The Palestinian political network operates as a state within a state, with militants repeatedly using Jordan to launch rockets into Israel.
The Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine even went so far as to hijack multiple planes, diverting the flights to a Palestinian-controlled airfield in Jordan, where the passengers were held hostage.
By September 1970, the Jordanian army had finally had enough.
A full-scale war with the PLO broke out, and after 10 months of fighting, the Palestinians were driven out of the country.
Yet, as a parting gift, a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September assassinated the Jordanian prime minister.
Now we move forward a few decades to Kuwait.
Decades earlier, the Palestinian groups operating in Jordan had come to openly call for the overthrow of Jordan's monarchy in the aftermath of the war.
Wait a minute.
I'm sorry.
This is... I want to say something.
I hate this.
Here it is.
For example, in 1991, the Kuwaiti government actually expelled nearly 300,000 Palestinians in the aftermath of the first Gulf War.
And this represented an astonishing 18% of Kuwait's entire population.
So what was the reason?
Well, the Palestinian Liberation Organization had actually supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait a year earlier.
And this support only grew after Iraq began attacking Israel with rockets throughout the war.
After Kuwait's liberation, the government considered much of the Palestinian community to be complicit in the Iraqi occupation of their country.
And in response, nearly all Palestinians were deported in just a few months.
Get out!
And then finally, Lebanon.
Sadly, the story doesn't end there.
Because the PLO then moved into Lebanon, where they allied themselves with Marxist and Socialist movements that were seeking to overthrow Lebanon's conservative Maronite Christian government.
The presence of thousands of Palestinian militants flooding into the country completely destabilized Lebanon and plunged the entire nation into chaos.
Less than four years after the PLO was expelled from Jordan, Lebanon found itself in the middle of one of the most bloody and chaotic civil wars in Middle Eastern history, from which it has never fully recovered.
In short, Palestinian organizations have not just attacked Israel, they have sowed unrest in many of the neighboring Arab and Muslim countries as well, and this has led those governments to the conclusion that allowing for mass immigration, or even just refugee camp resettlement within their borders, would lead to domestic unrest for their own countries.
This is why nobody wants the Palestinians, and this is why... And by the way, what should have been added to that is the Palestinian protests in this country.
Yes!
Yes, exactly.
Color revolutions right here.
They got so desperate that the IMF, through Bibi Netanyahu in December, offered debt relief to Egypt in exchange for taking the Palestinians.
Hey, you know, you guys have got a lot of debt, you know, it's a problem.
And, you know, why don't you take these Palestinians?
We can probably get you some debt relief.
This backfired.
Egypt is going to weather the storm.
El-Sisi got re-elected.
He's like, no, I don't trust in you guys.
And I think besides the West, the U.S., Britain, because Britain is part of, you know, they really do all the shipping.
They insure all the shipping.
We're douchebags!
We tried to squeeze them, and they're not gonna stand for it.
And this was set up, this is what, in my mind, this is what October 7th was all about.
And everything else is distraction, and it's working very well!
Because we're all yelling about which side, who's genociding worse.
And then you have just this massive corridor.
Now, what can we do?
The Houthis are not blocking any ships that are part of BRICS.
They're only blocking ours.
And I think that initially the idea was, oh, we're going to screw Egypt.
We're not going to go.
No more fees, because it's like $9 billion a year.
And they have nothing in Egypt.
They have to import food, everything.
We'll squeeze these guys.
And I guess they got enough from China and probably from Russia, now in charge of the whole coalition.
They went, you know what?
We're going to weather it.
We're going to stick it out.
And I don't mean, you have to be careful, because a cat driven into a corner can make weird jumps.
That's another Dutchism for you.
Someone could do something really stupid.
But I think this was always the idea.
This was the hegemony of the U.S.
petrodollar trying desperately to break the BRICS coalition and it failed.
And now everyone's screwed.
That's my story.
Yeah, well I don't know if everyone's screwed because the BRICS coalition is just going to be dominated by China and it's going to fall apart.
I wouldn't count on it.
You know, that's what people have been saying since it was started.
What, 2005?
It hasn't really done much.
But this is news.
They just added these countries.
It's desperation.
The desperation was October 7th.
I'm not the desperation was October 7th.
That was the desperate move.
Well, I think, yeah, I can see the desperate move being October 7th as a or I can see that as being a desperate move amongst other desperate moves.
But it was, uh... You know what they're trying now?
It's poorly, poorly, uh, it was a bad idea.
Now they're trying to get the refugees to be accepted by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Hey, Congo, you don't want that!
Can you imagine what that'll do for battery prices and everything if they succeed at that?
That's interesting.
I didn't catch that.
Yeah, that just came out.
Let me see.
Is that the same as the British trying to move all their immigrants to Rwanda?
I would say so.
Yeah, it's an interesting idea.
Well, it's just starting now.
It's just kind of starting, this news.
It came out, I think, yesterday.
And people are starting to hear about it.
But yeah, they had some backroom conversations.
Well, what do you guys think?
Are they moving their strategy?
Or I don't know what they're trying to do.
But sadly, for innocent Palestinian people who keep electing douchebags, you know, you're not wanted.
And this is why.
And what gets me is how easily everybody fell for the programming.
While we literally have the Palestinian protests doing what they've done in all these other countries.
Be careful.
Adam at Curry.com.
Yes, please.
I have one last clip that says migrant story.
I'm not sure what this is.
Okay.
A new year and a new set of buses carrying migrants to various cities.
This is kind of like just wrapping us from one end to the end.
This is about our migration?
Yeah, I guess.
A new year and a new set of buses carrying migrants to various cities across the U.S.
This weekend, 350 asylum seekers flown in from the southern border boarded buses to Chicago after landing in Rockford, Illinois.
Their transportation north, arranged by Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said on Face the Nation, city officials were given no notice.
The rogue buses that are being dropped off across this country in the middle of the night, leaving people with no real support at all, no coordination with the local municipalities, that type of chaos is certainly dividing our country.
Chicago is just one city dealing with the influx and now cracking down on buses, bringing in migrants without advance notice.
Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued an emergency order to restrict bus arrivals.
But that hasn't stopped busloads of migrants now being dropped off at train stations in New Jersey, with easy access to the city.
Adams says the migrant crisis will cost New York $12 billion by 2025.
This comes as the U.S.
Border Patrol manages a record migrant surge.
Agents are processing a quarter million new arrivals each month in December, hitting an all-time high of 300,000 migrants.
We're full.
Don't come.
CBS News has learned that the White House is open to immigration reforms, including an authority to expel migrants and suspend asylum law in exchange for aid for Ukraine.
Start deporting people here who should be, you know, deported, then you'll turn things around pretty quickly.
You know, it's so bad in Texas.
Little Fredericksburg had someone murdered two days ago.
Murder capital of Texas.
I mean, and it was, you know, drug deal related, and the guy comes into a store.
And the guy working the store was probably, you know, dealing drugs and it's all immigrant-related.
Boom, shot dead.
That doesn't happen often in little Fredericksburg.
Doesn't happen in most little towns.
No.
None of this is good.
But, you know, luckily now, you know, with this H.R.
2 and when that becomes legislation, then part of the bill will be that you can be stopped and asked for your papers if you're suspected of being an illegal immigrant.
So that's, that's a, that's a real, I have an issue with that.
Because, you know, I don't want people, you can't just be stopping people in America.
So show me your papers.
You have to have some.
You gotta have the right German accent.
Probable cause.
Don't.
Show me.
No, don't do it.
Your papers, papers.
Our German listeners are already traumatized enough.
They are not.
Anyway, here was the beautiful story of the past week, which, of course, also had everyone distracted, jumping up in joy.
Hey, this is great!
We're owning them!
Six months into her tenure, Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced her resignation in a letter, writing, it is in the best interest of the school so it can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge.
This is difficult work.
Gay's resignation comes nearly a month after she and the president of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT faced widespread condemnation following this testimony at a house education hearing on anti-semitism on college campuses.
The answer is yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard Code of Conduct, correct.
Again, it depends on the context.
Republican Chair Elise Stefanik, a Harvard alum, posted two down, referring to gay and pen president Liz McGill, who also resigned days after the hearing, which Harvard Law student Jonathan Frieden attended.
There's a lot of people and a lot of Jewish students who view this as a good thing, as a victory, as a step in the right direction.
And then there's a lot of us that are also asking, but what next?
Gay was the university's first black president.
She was criticized by many in the Jewish community for her response to anti-Semitism on campus after the Hamas attacks in Israel.
She faced more scrutiny from some donors and conservative activists following allegations of plagiarism in her dissertation and several articles, which she denied.
She wrote, it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor, and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.
This is higher education being attacked by a mob rule.
I think it's something that we should be very wary of.
You know what I like about this moment?
I'm sorry.
You know what I like about this season?
This is the new term.
I want to use season.
This season in our lifetime.
What I like about this season is the unveiling of all the evil and the corruption.
And I think it kind of started with Trump with fake news and then, you know, just all the stuff that he was yelling about.
And now, you know, the COVID stuff, it's being unveiled.
People are starting to understand.
It's slow and not everyone can actually commit to saying, oh man, we got scammed.
Most people are credulous.
Yeah.
She'd buy into everything.
So she had to resign.
People are starting to realize how scammy everything is.
She didn't totally resign.
She's still on the faculty making $900,000 as they like to endlessly point out.
Well, yeah, that's part of what we need, is we need more things to argue about.
But my favorite thing during this whole thing is the changing of the word plagiarism to duplicative.
Yes, when you change language like that, bad things happen.
In this season, now, it was kind of interesting, the Daily Wire had undercover video I didn't get the audio because it's always... Undercover audio is so bad.
Of Pornhub employees.
Saying, yeah, you know, we inject trans and gay stuff in there to, you know, just in case somebody wants to convert.
It's all programmed.
In case somebody wants to convert.
Yes, because, I mean, can you imagine if you're a young boy and just going there to whack off to some chicks, you know, you might actually have deeper feelings you don't know about.
So we like to add, you know, put some bi and gay and trans stuff in there.
It's all programming.
And people... I like that people are starting to learn about this.
It takes years for the general population to start to figure stuff out.
Wake up.
Yeah, it takes five... Wake up, people!
It takes five, six, seven years.
But it's happening.
It's happening.
Well, you're the optimist today.
Oh yeah, and I mean, no thanks to the stupid memes on No Agenda Social, but otherwise, it's happening.
It really is.
Here's another good one.
New law in California now requires major retailers to have gender-neutral toy aisles.
Governor Gavin Newsom signing that legislation into law in 2021, going into effect yesterday.
It applies to retailers that have a physical store in the state that sells child care items or toys.
They also have to have at least 500 employees.
Stores that do not comply will face a monetary fine.
I love that.
Before you get off the track too much, I do want to play this clip.
This is a clip, again, from NTD.
It's NTD Day.
And this is a discussion about the Harvard president, that woman.
But instead of having your average jokers on, you know, the Brooks and Shields, let's have some Jewish guy on.
All right.
Reactions are coming in after Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned.
Joining us now to share his thoughts on the news and comments on American higher education, we have Rabbi Abraham Cooper.
He chairs the U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom and is Associate Dean at the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Very much President Claudine Gay has resigned.
This is following backlash on both allegations of plagiarism and also her testimony on antisemitism.
She is, however, staying on as faculty.
What is your reaction to all of this?
Well, my first reaction to her resignation was it should have happened immediately when she said those words where Suddenly the issue of genocide was a matter of context, and when the potential victim are Jews, I think not only Jews recoiled in horror.
On the other hand, when you read her statement, it's sort of an indictment, she thinks, of the system, and that she's a victim of racism.
I think I would tend to Identify with those who say that she wasn't a victim of racism.
I think she was placed in the possession of precedent as president because Harvard perceived this would be the best way to go to go forward, but not necessarily based on academic credentials.
She should have been gone immediately.
And we'll see, you know, how long she'll stay on in terms of being a professor, because the second issue, which I'm not an expert on, thankfully, plagiarism, you know, that's something that each university has to deal with.
And I think it would be difficult for someone to stay on long range when you have that kind of cloud that's hanging over you.
Did you ever look into the plagiarism stuff?
I haven't found any specific examples, but I did hear an interview from one of the women, a black author, who was plagiarized.
And she went on and on about this being a Abhorrent because of the backing that the woman got for the plagiarism and that's when they came up with the word duplicative.
Yeah, she didn't do the quoting right, she didn't do the attributions right, she didn't do these things right, which is ludicrous if you're an academic.
If you're an academic and you're writing academic stuff, you do the citations, you don't take credit.
The problem with plagiarism is you're taking credit by the way you use the words for somebody else's ideas.
Yes, stolen valor.
Stolen valor.
And I don't have the specific examples, but this woman claims there were 50 or 60 examples.
And this woman being black could make the assertion that the racism thing was bullcrap.
And of course, we're all distracted here by the argument now, well, the replacement president has to be black and a woman.
Let's get a black trans woman.
That would even be better.
Be fantastic.
Actually, that would be better.
And I think this is another part of the big unveiling, you know, that, oh, there's higher education.
It's bogus.
It's a bunch of douchebags running the show.
It's too expensive.
You don't get anything for it, except, you know, debt, which you now have to actually pay back.
There's another one Joe didn't fulfill.
Well, with some people he did.
Some people have somehow gotten out from under.
Now, there's been some of that, but not, not, you can't take credit for it, because, you know, if anyone, you can't like, hey, we did that!
No, no, no, no, because that was QT Josh.
By the way, from the air traffic control community, community, you know, the anti-Israel, pro-Palestine protesters were at JFK Airport, and they were blocking that again, in New York, and they launched a balloon And the air traffic control had to reconfigure runways because it was... This is highly illegal.
It's a massive felony to do what they did.
Yes.
And nothing.
Nothing.
Because they're all, I don't know, are people afraid to go?
Look at people, look at Kuwait, look at Iraq, look at Jordan.
You're nuts.
These people are no good.
They're not.
I am a great icon.
They're no good.
Anyway, just spice things up in the spook state.
What is the spook state in America, John?
What's the biggest spook state?
Virginia.
Well, no, I mean the spook state where all the presidential spooks go.
Well, they all end up in California eventually.
Utah!
Yes, Utah always has the spook candidates.
Yeah, that's true.
They always have a spook candidate.
It's a useless one, too.
What's the point?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
has officially filed enough signatures to make the 2024 presidential ballot in Utah.
It's the first state where he has qualified so far.
Kennedy is now running as an independent, sparking questions about how he might affect the general election outcome in November.
Yeah, I'm sorry for Bobby.
I have the same clip, but instead of that, that one was from PBS.
Uh, this is the one from NTD.
Uh, what is it?
What is it called?
RFK, probably RFK.
Uh, oh yeah, got it.
Over in Utah, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
successfully qualified for the state's presidential ballot.
Kennedy's press secretary announced that he reached the minimum threshold of 1,000 signatures.
Now he needs to qualify in 50 more states.
At a press conference in Utah on Wednesday, he said some states refused to cooperate.
Those are Maine, New Hampshire, and North Dakota.
This is something that would never happen to a presidential campaign from a major political parties.
Kennedy said the major political parties have an undemocratic lock on the presidential process.
If Kennedy succeeds in getting on all of the state's ballots, he may qualify to get on the debate stage for the general election and potentially take a significant number of independent votes from the major party candidates.
The key was the getting on the presidential debate if they have one.
I don't think they're going to have one.
Now, another unveiling.
Do you think people will notice?
Hey, what was different this year?
No one had a debate.
Hasn't Biden already kind of said he's not going to debate?
Yeah, but he's not going to debate an insurrectionist.
Here's the problem.
What happened because of these corrupt elections of 2020, including Arizona, where the The candidate, the Republican candidate, Carrie Lake.
Yeah.
The Democrat wouldn't debate her.
They never had a debate.
You're right.
She never stepped out of her basement just the way Biden did.
And she won!
So now everyone's looking around saying, why should we have debates?
I mean, Biden doesn't even sit in the Oval Office anymore.
He's in that TV studio.
Yeah, most of the time.
I mean, it's all fake.
And I, yes, I'm optimistic.
I feel that there's a great unveiling and people are starting, their eyes, they're using their eyes to see and their ears to hear, slowly, slowly, but we have to be careful because, you know, how many emails, I don't know, I get a lot of emails, you're on the wrong side of history, Curry.
You're not on any side of history, we're doing a podcast.
You're a Zionist, Curry.
Yeah, you're protecting the Jews, you're protecting the Zionists.
Zionist bastard.
And it was the same thing.
We took flak for climate change.
Oh my God.
How much flak did we take for climate change?
We took about a year or two's worth of flak for climate change.
People were leaving.
I can't listen to you.
You don't care about the earth.
You're on the wrong side of this.
That's a good one.
There's still one or two people that feel that way.
And then it was COVID.
You're an anti-vaxxer, horrible person.
There's people who showed up and found solace and comfort in our COVID coverage who are now going, I can't listen to the show with all the protectionism of Israel.
What are you talking about, man?
And I always say, it's okay.
Leave.
Go away.
Come back.
I welcome you with open arms.
No, no.
No hard feelings.
Another cheek, man.
He's another cheek guy now.
I'm totally another cheek guy.
I forgive everyone who says these things.
I have given up my right to be offended.
Yeah, okay.
Police investigating after a series of bomb threats made against six state capitals nationwide.
It started with a bomb threat emailed to the state capitol.
Hold on a second.
A bomb threat email.
Don't they get emails all the time like this?
But now all of a sudden it's breaking news.
A bomb threat email to the state capitol in Atlanta, Georgia.
And then there were similar threats in Michigan, Mississippi, Kentucky, Montana, and Maine.
Capitals were evacuated.
No explosives were found in Michigan.
The capitol building was closed for the rest of the day as a precaution.
Yeah, and a 13-year-old was caught giggling after the fact.
What?
Yeah, because the 13-year-old sent the email?
Yeah, it had to be.
Yeah.
Well, I have a wow story.
I have the wow clip for the day.
Oh, okay.
Because I just found this to be wild.
Hold up alone in a tent deep in these frigid Utah mountains.
Tonight, a Chinese foreign exchange student has been found safe after police say he became the victim of a suspected cyber kidnapping scam.
He was cold, scared, and relieved when we found him.
His family in China said they had received a photograph of their son indicating he was abducted and that they had sent roughly $80,000 to bank accounts in China as a ransom.
Police believe Kai's virtual kidnappers are in China and had been manipulating him for weeks, threatening to hurt his family.
As part of the disturbing scam, they say victims like Kai are ordered to isolate, then monitored via FaceTime or Skype, and coerced into taking photos of themselves to make it appear they are being held captive.
Authorities say if you or your family are ever threatened, go right to police, don't send money, and stop all contact with suspects.
I thought this was the most unique scam imaginable, because I've not heard of this sort of thing before where you talk somebody into basically kidnapping themselves.
That's the best part.
Yeah.
And then you show the people that you're trying to get the money from the fact that he's kidnapped, but he's not really.
I mean, this is like, this is way beyond the, oh, you have to run over and get a gift card to pay your IRS taxes, which is a real gem that people have fallen for.
Yeah.
I wanted to say something about this because somebody, I helped someone just earlier this week who had fallen scam to, I suspect pig butcher.
It was unbelievable to see.
Re-explain pig butcher.
So if you've received a text that says, hey, I have your number in my phone, but I forget, what's your name again?
Or, I know we met.
Or, hey, you want to go play tennis today?
And usually it's going to be a hot Asian chick.
Typically.
Then she'll send a photo pretty quickly.
We've actually tried to get them to talk on the show and then they hung up.
And this is a long game.
The long game is that this woman will go back and it's always like, what's her name?
It's like Lisa or Tiffany or it's all kind of the Elaine.
Tiffany, I think it's Tiffany.
That's a classic.
Always kind of the same name.
And it'll go on for, and it's all from China.
Then it will go on for a long time and she'll be showing you all the, you know, her cars, her expensive wines, and they say, oh, but I do this all with crypto trading.
You know, it's Bitcoin, don't you know?
And then, you know, so you'll wind up exactly, you know, getting a gift card or using your debit card.
Not credit card, but debit card.
And you'll be sending money to a website that looks like an actual trading platform, and you will get 10x.
This is what happened to this person.
And it went from $45,000, that's the amount that went in, believe it or not, and it was $433,000 within only three months.
Like, it's amazing.
This Bitcoin thing is crazy.
Although Bitcoin hasn't gone up 10x.
And then of course, you know, you realize eventually that you've been scammed and that, you know, this is, this is, there's no way to get your money.
Your money is gone.
It was never in there.
Your money was taken long ago.
Then they may even try to, as long as they can keep you from wanting to withdraw the money, then you'll keep putting it in.
And, you know, and it looks like you're winning.
You're winning.
This is fantastic.
I can't believe it.
I'm winning.
This is so great.
It can become very elaborate, and then eventually you're screwed out of lots and lots of money.
And I wanted to say that as the No Agenda community, we are very well trained on language.
I mean, when you get an email, you can identify the scam just by a misspelling, weird grammar.
Then there's obviously mouse over the email address.
What is his email address?
What is the link?
What is this?
All kinds of weird stuff.
A classic is your credit card's about to expire for your Netflix.
All these things.
And it worked through text message.
But I think what happens is people often are so embarrassed That they, and this might have happened to this particular person, that you just kind of keep going in the scam.
And you're embarrassed to tell anybody that, I think this is a scam but I'm not sure, particularly older people.
If there are any... Well, it is embarrassing because it's like you have all this worldly experience and you got caught by some punks.
Yeah.
And a stupid scam that just was too good to... Too good to be true.
Too good to be true, to use the phrase.
Yes.
Yeah.
But particularly for if you have any older people around you, you know, checking on them, checking on... And by the way, the Pretty Girls is always a good lure, even though it's probably some dude.
There's a bunch of this going on.
I ran into this myself, by the way, on LinkedIn.
Oh, I'm sure that's a prime place for scamming dudes.
What happened?
Tell us the story.
So there's some pretty girl sending me these notes and I was thinking, what is, who is this idiot?
And so I looked at her and I did a little research because she did give enough away that There are other examples, other people, other names within all on LinkedIn.
I should turn these people in.
Yeah.
They're all on LinkedIn.
All of them from the same company.
And the girl's head in her photo is the same as five other women.
Wow.
Well, that's an outrage.
It's an outrage!
Yeah, this is everywhere.
Yeah, and it's just, it's annoying, and it's insulting, and you know it's some dude.
Now, were you on your female profile, or your Mark Pugner profile?
No, I, you know, my female profile, which was a gem, I have kind of abandoned it, because everybody I know, you know, they'd write this poor girl, it was me, it was with a fake head, and phony baloney bio.
And they'd write asking her out, and it was like, dude, I know who you are!
You're asking this phony person out!
It was terrible.
If I, you know, I spilled the beans on these guys, they would be humiliated.
I have to say, it's borderline very creepy what you were doing.
I wasn't really interacting that much.
It was like fishing.
It's like you throw the line out there and you don't do anything, you just let it sit.
And you get a bite.
And it's just like, oh my god, who's biting on this thing?
This lure is not even real.
It wasn't meant to be creepy.
I had some reason for doing it.
Yeah, you were trying to spy on somebody.
That's what you do.
And it used to be Mark Pugner, which kind of got out once you gave that out.
Yeah, once Mark Pugner was in the loose!
He's in the wild!
That was a great alias.
That was a great alias.
Mark Pugner, and there's still, I get Mark Pugner emails all the time.
Yeah.
But you know, it's amazing how Tina tells me this, because she still has her LinkedIn profile.
It's amazing how many people hit on her.
It's so creepy.
Dude's just trolling LinkedIn to hit on the, once she, because you know, we do a podcast, once you put in there, podcaster, oh, oh my God, it got even worse.
How did it get worse?
More dudes hitting on her.
Because she's a podcaster?
A hot podcaster.
Is that the deal?
If you're a podcaster, you're a hot podcaster.
I don't see any women hitting on me.
You're not a hot podcaster.
No, of course not.
Women don't hit on men.
Except when it's a scam!
Yeah, well that's for sure.
Definitely.
If men don't realize that at some point...
Now there was a funny thing in the Jeffrey Epstein thing, which brought to mind.
I guess Stephen Hawking ended up on Epstein Island a few times, and I guess it got a lot of attention, and I wanted to bring up something, and I want the parents to put away, push your kids aside, because I'm going to talk about a little aspect of this.
Alright, close those ears.
People should realize that this does take place.
It's called a novelty fuck.
Oh, John.
And there are people that just attract novelty, you know, these women, because it's like, it's part of a clique.
Hey, did you get to screw that guy?
Yeah, and then they talk about it.
You know, Stephen Hawking would be one of, probably a top drawer guy, and so far as that's concerned.
And you'll recall, when I was living in Los Angeles, I once had dinner one table over from Stephen Hawking.
Remember that?
Yeah, I remember.
And his nurses were hot!
Yeah, no, the guy was a horned dog.
There's no doubt about that.
Can you blame him?
Can you blame him?
No, I don't blame him in the least.
Good for him, the way I see it.
But yeah, you'd think that the guy who was that brilliant would kind of be on to the whole Epstein scam.
Or maybe he just didn't care.
Maybe he didn't care.
He was like, I don't care.
He probably knew.
He'd know he was on to it and said, wow, here's an opportunity for me.
Who's going to fault me, for God's sake?
Who's going to condemn me as a creep?
Let's get back to a more serious topic in this season of our life.
Climate change!
Next tonight, the rapid rise of respiratory... Sorry.
Big Pharma!
Next tonight, the rapid rise of respiratory illnesses across the U.S.
31 states now reporting high or very high levels of COVID, flu, or RSV.
Hospitals in at least six states reinstating those mask policies.
Here's ABC's Victor Okendo.
Tonight, some major hospitals across the country are bringing back indoor masking policies as respiratory illnesses surge.
The good news is that we have prevention for all three of these big viruses right now.
COVID, influenza, and RSV.
And of course, that is vaccination.
According to an ABC News count, hospitals in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington State, and Wisconsin now masking.
31 states plus Washington, D.C.
experiencing high or very high levels of respiratory illness activity.
Sania Shuler in Arizona says her 7-month-old daughter, Maylani, was in the hospital last month with RSV.
When it comes to your child not being able to breathe necessarily, I think it's like the most scariest thing you could probably think of.
Flu diagnoses were up 16% the week ending December 23rd.
The CDC estimating 4,500 flu-related deaths this season and COVID-19 related hospitalizations are at their highest in a year.
Doctors stress it's important to be mindful of those who are at higher risk and say more mask mandates or recommendations could return.
We're just trying to be good citizens and keep our people or keep our friends who, you know, we care about from coming down with an illness.
And experts say this time of year with holiday travel and gatherings, a steady increase in respiratory illnesses is common, typically peaking in January and February.
This year is no exception.
And how do we still buy into the masking stuff?
How do we still buy into it?
People are getting mad.
I see people online like, no one's taking this seriously.
We have, especially because they're not masking.
No one's sick!
We're dying!
People are dying!
Tonight, some of the nation's top hospitals bringing masks back as respiratory infections spread across the country.
Admissions are up and folks are getting sick and getting admitted to the hospital for things like COVID, influenza, and even RSV sometimes.
Yeah!
In Wisconsin, a nearly 15% jump in positive COVID tests.
The University of Wisconsin now requiring healthcare staff, patients, and visitors to wear face coverings during all patient interactions.
We are seeing an increase in the number of patients admitted with respiratory illnesses.
Compared with the number of patients admitted around Thanksgiving time, we're up about 40%.
31 states plus Washington D.C.
seeing high or very high levels of respiratory illnesses, including COVID, RSV, the flu, and the common cold.
Flu hospitalizations were up nearly 50% in the last week.
The CDC estimating 4,500 flu-related deaths this season alone, with the number of infections growing or likely growing in every state.
Hey, yeah, what?
Whatever happened to the 30,000?
No, that's coming.
It's not in February.
It's coming.
It's coming.
We're going to get to those numbers.
They're going to try something.
You know, this is like the last gasp here.
We've got three things you can die from, people.
Hospitalizations are at their highest in a year.
We are holding some patients in the emergency room, waiting a bit.
And I would say every hospital in the region is doing that.
In the region?
Because of just the amount of sick people that we're seeing coming through the doors now.
It's crazy.
All of this as millions coast to coast gather tonight for New Year's celebrations.
I would just urge everybody to be mindful and to spread good cheer this year, not viruses.
And keep in mind, winter just started, so we'll likely be seeing even more infections in the coming weeks.
I remember a time before COVID, when people got sick, it would say, oh, it's going around.
And you know, and where's Bob?
Ah, he's got that bug, he's home.
And sometimes it would be a puking bug, remember those days?
Oh man, this is bad.
Stomach flu.
Yeah, stomach flu is as bad.
And just harkening back to that exact same period that you're discussing, when was RSV ever, ever mentioned?
I want to find a clip.
That we played on this show where RSV was ever mentioned before the COVID crisis.
Oh, I don't think it ever was.
You won't find it?
No, I don't think it ever was.
So why did that change?
Because they have a vaccine.
If you have a hammer, you gotta go find some nails.
Hello?
That's easy.
No, I'm actually gonna... I'm looking at bingit.io.
Maybe the trolls can help out because there's so much RSV in the lat... No, I don't have... Really, it's... I'm still in the 1500s.
No.
I don't think there was ever anything about RSV, but that... but that's beside the point.
You know, and it used to be like, oh, it's going around.
Hey, man, we only... there's 10 people out this week.
Yeah, it's that bug.
But when you add fear to it, And you add a weakening of the immune system with these god-awful vaccines, which I think, are they now all mRNA-based?
I don't know, but a lot of them are.
Yeah, and, you know, it's like, hello, get a clue!
It's not a vaccine.
No.
I'm sticking with the old definition.
Gene therapy.
So, you know, but then, you know, I just, I remember that, and you said, but this is a bad flu season.
Yeah, it's bad.
I remember this.
I remember at school as a kid, you know, everyone's snottering and sniffling and then the flu, the stomach flu and kids be puking.
We'd all run off to the hospital.
Hey, Billy's mom, can you come pick him up?
He's sick.
That's what it used to be.
Yeah, I remember that.
Of course, we also didn't have peanut allergies and all, you know.
We also were eating garbage.
It's like we have a new diet.
It's called the Garbivore Diet.
And we're just eating garbage, processed food, junk.
No one cares anymore.
You know why?
Because Epstein's List.
Epstein's List.
New year, new concerns about a spike in COVID cases.
Our volume has really surged.
And I attribute that to not just COVID, but influenza, RSV.
I'm not seeing as many people fully immunized as in past years for flu, for COVID boosters.
And so it makes them much more vulnerable.
The rise in infections has prompted at least five states to reinstate masking requirements at health care facilities as a new variant spreads across the country.
Cases are up at least 25 percent in Los Angeles County, where emergency room physician Dr. Anjali Kampen says she's happy to see the mask mandate return.
It really helps to protect the vulnerable people that are sitting out there in the waiting room right now.
The CDC says the new COVID vaccine is the best tool to stay protected against serious illness.
But vaccination rates are at an all-time low.
Less than 20% of adults have received the updated vaccine.
And tonight, there's also a growing number of flu and RSV cases, with 31 states seeing high or very high levels of respiratory infections, leading to worries that a triple virus threat could strain hospitals.
Are you concerned that these numbers will continue to get worse?
We're not at the peak yet this winter.
I'm still seeing numbers increase.
Right now, it seems like every other patient I'm seeing in the emergency department is one of these viruses.
Here in California, the first child flu death was recently announced.
Doctors say it's not too late to get vaccinated for both the flu and COVID to help protect your family.
The earliest mention of RSV, this is interesting, is No Agenda episode 1300.
1300.
That was December 3rd of 2020.
That's the earliest.
So we were already well into COVID.
Let's hear what it was.
When it comes to upper lung respiratory infections.
Oh, it's RFK.
The ferrets had a brilliant, robust, and durable antibody response.
But then something horrible happened.
And those ferrets were challenged when they were exposed to the wild virus.
They got horribly sick.
They got inflammation throughout their bodies, and they died.
And the scientists remembered that something very similar had happened in the 1960s, where they had developed a vaccine for RSV, which is very similar to coronavirus.
It's an upper respiratory infection ailment.
They had skipped the animals and given them directly to 35 children.
And the children again had developed a very robust antibody response.
But when those children were exposed to the wild virus, they got very, very sick.
Much sicker than unvaccinated.
Oh, what are the chances?
What are the chances?
I bet you if you go look at this RSV vaccine, they might have skipped the ferret test.
What are the chances that kids who have been vaccinated for RSV are getting sick from RSV?
Or old people for that matter.
These people are sick.
They don't care about your health.
Well they're not doing the proper testing anymore, that's obvious.
No, no.
And the FDA, they're just an extension of them.
No, the FDA is corrupt, as is the CDC at this point in our history.
Yes.
Yes.
Why don't we just say it?
They're corrupt operations, and they're just doing the bidding of the big pharma companies.
They're doing nothing more than making as much money as they can on behalf of their shareholders, which is what you're supposed to do.
That's the general idea.
But you don't want to do it by killing half the population.
I think that that behooves other people.
I think they just find it great.
It's like, yeah, let's just kill them off.
That's why we bring in more illegals.
To compensate.
Have you ever seen the world in this much disarray in your years?
Well, I mean, since that's all we study on this show, no.
But if I had been more aware of what was going on, and studied it more like we do on this show because we put a lot of effort into these news stories and deconstructing them, it's probably been this way the whole time.
Oh boy, you only used to care about phones.
Remember?
That's why I saved you.
I never cared about phones.
Yeah, I saved you from Twit.
I saved it.
All he does is bitch about phones.
He's reviewing every stupid phone that comes out.
Android phone is an Android phone.
Hello?
Well, bitching is caring.
It's a different kind of care.
I used to love watching you bitch and moan about phones on Twitter.
That's when the show was great.
Well, I'm a professional bitch-a-moner.
Yes, you are.
I got an idea.
Let's do this.
And now it's time for 3x3.
Experiment by JCD.
Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC!
That's right, John's got a couple of clips here from the three networks.
Will they have the same script?
Will they be getting their information from the studio staff at the bogus Oval Office?
Did they collude?
What is going on with our news?
Well, we know all of that is true, and here we go.
We're going to have ABC, CBS, and NBC all discussing the top Hamas official killed in Lebanon.
And let's start with ABC.
Tonight, a massive explosion rocking the Lebanese capital, Beirut, killing the top Hamas official.
Video circulating online showing the fiery scene of the blast in the Beirut suburb of Dahiya, a Hezbollah stronghold.
Salah al-Aruri, the second-in-command of Hamas and a senior leader in the West Bank, among at least six people killed, according to Lebanese authorities.
Lebanon's state-run news agency says Israel carried out the attack which, if confirmed, would mark a major escalation and would be Israel's first attack on Beirut since 2006.
Israel Tonight declining to comment.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened to kill Aruri before the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7th.
Today's blast in Beirut follows weeks of cross-border attacks in southern Lebanon and northern Israel between Hezbollah fighters and IDF soldiers.
And David, everyone bracing for retaliation from Hamas and Hezbollah, and concern is high tonight that this war could escalate into a wider conflict.
Did you see that, um, is the Hezbollah dude who has that Like that cricket bat stuck in his belt?
No.
Yeah!
I don't recall a cricket bat.
Yeah, well, I'm sure it's a... It looks like a paddle.
Huh?
I think it's the... Maybe it's for his 40 wives.
No, it's the weirdest thing.
This guy... Dude has like... It's like a cricket bat in the troll room.
Tell me, is that the guy... Is that the Hama... Is that the Hezbollah guy?
Hezbollah guy.
Let me see.
Yeah, onward with NBC in the same report.
Exactly.
Tonight, the fiery aftermath of an apparent assassination.
A senior Hamas leader killed in what Hamas says was an Israeli drone strike on a Hamas office in Beirut.
Saleh al-Aruri was a deputy head of Hamas on a U.S.
wanted list, accused of involvement in multiple terror attacks.
Hamas saying seven people were killed in the strike, including two commanders.
Israel won't say whether it was responsible, but only one country is at war with Hamas.
Israel is at war.
Whoever did this?
Has a gripe with Hamas.
Israel's military has vowed to hunt down Hamas leaders worldwide, saying they're living on borrowed time, following the October 7th Hamas terror attacks that killed 1,200 people.
Tonight, as protests erupt in the West Bank, Israel is bracing for potentially massive retaliation.
Not just from Hamas, but from Hezbollah, another Iranian-backed group allied with Hamas that's also targeted Israel.
The new Israeli foreign minister today declaring, we're in the midst of World War III against Iran and radical Islam.
The assassination raising the stakes for Israel's cabinet, which postponed a meeting to discuss Israel's new plan for Gaza after the war.
An Israeli official telling NBC News the plan involves local Gazan clans or tribes handling civilian governance, like doling out aid, while Israel controls security indefinitely.
This is Israel signals the war is entering a new phase, with thousands of Israeli troops on their way out of Gaza, even as Prime Minister Netanyahu says the war will last many more months.
Palestinian groups are calling for more protests tomorrow over the assassination, including in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
I love how they had the same sirens.
So they had, on this report, they did add a little piece, a couple of pieces of new information.
One of them, they're gonna track down all the Hamas people worldwide!
Which means they're gonna probably go to Harvard. - Yeah. - So let's go to the other one, which is the last one, which is CBS, which every time does vary it enough Let's see if they have the siren at the beginning and if it's structured the same.
An explosion rocks southern Beirut Tuesday evening, killing seven Hamas militants, including a top commander and founder of the group's military wing, Saleh al-Aruri, a man wanted by the Israelis and Americans.
The U.S. government had a nearly $5 million bounty on his head.
Since Hamas' brutal attack on October 7th, Israel has been engaged on multiple fronts, from Lebanon to Yemen, Iran, and the U.S.
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fire missiles and drones toward Israel and are attacking commercial ships by sea and air, threatening to disrupt the world's economy and send oil prices soaring.
Shipping giant Mersk will now sail around the Horn of Africa to avoid the Red Sea, adding thousands of miles to the journey.
In recent days, the U.S.
Navy destroyed three small Houthi boats attempting to board a container ship.
In response, Iran says it sent a destroyer to the region.
Iran analyst Seema Shine believes this is all part of Iran's plan to end the war in Gaza.
The other steps that might be done is to bring the U.S.
to put pressure on Israel to stop.
And they think by putting pressure on the United States and the international shipping lanes, they can achieve that objective.
It is one of the ways that they believe that might put pressure on Israel to stop.
Israeli officials say the war could last throughout the year until Hamas is destroyed.
But many Palestinians wonder what price they'll have to pay until the fighting ends.
And tonight Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah condemned the assassination of Ela Rouri as a serious assault on Lebanon and vowed that his killing will not go unpunished.
They had an extra little effect there at the end.
Screaming woman?
That was the screaming woman, not Pop was dynamite.
Let me hear it again.
Israeli officials say the war could last throughout the year until Hamas is destroyed.
It's a gem.
CBS, man.
They're on top of that.
Well, the Screaming Woman effect is quite valuable.
It's a scary season in the region.
I wonder what the point of, what the Screaming Woman being placed at that spot in the report is supposed to accomplish.
These things are all done for a very specific reason.
Because by that, it's almost near the end of the report.
You're starting to zone out.
You need some... Uh, the wake-up call.
Yeah, yeah, a very blood-curdling scream.
Yeah.
Yeah, we have our own version of that.
We have plenty of blood-curdling screams we have in the archives.
Whoa, it sounds like the same one!
Hold on, let's go back and listen to that.
That was a goat!
Maybe it was a goat that was screaming.
Let's listen, let's listen.
Moss is destroyed.
I think it was a goat.
Wasn't a lady?
I mean, that is exactly our goat scream.
It's destroyed.
Same level, man.
The pitch is a little different at the beginning.
Not much, not much.
Not much is very close.
Just a little.
Goats do sound different.
Obviously, it was a Palestinian goat.
It reminds me of this- AdamMcCree.com.
No, John at Dvorak.org.
No one can even spell Dvorak.
Don't worry, treat me like I'm John's intern.
Go ahead, send me an email.
Hey man, John's blocked me.
Maybe you can send this to him.
I'm not.
Okay, I'm not.
Don't block anybody.
Yeah, okay.
I forgot this clip, which is important because not only ...is the gambit to ruin Egypt by sending the Palestinians in, led by Hamas.
But Bibi is not doing well!
Tonight, as Israel entered the new year intercepting Hamas missile fire at midnight, new signs the brutal war may be entering its next phase.
The IDF now withdrawing some troops from Gaza to rest and prepare for the long fight ahead.
Israel now says it expects to last the entirety of 2024.
And the defense minister today saying some residents in southern Israeli communities about three miles from the Gaza Strip can return home.
Our troops know their mission and their performance is excellent, he says.
So life will return to its course in our southern communities.
But the life those communities once knew will never be the same.
Never.
The Hamas-run health ministry says an Israeli airstrike today killed 15 people in central Gaza, bringing the death toll close to 22,000.
The IDF, meanwhile, expanding its operations, releasing video of its canine unit searching for weapons, explosives and Hamas operatives.
They say they found this weapons stockpile in a kindergarten, while children in Gaza sharing their New Year's wishes.
I hope that we will return to our homes, Amal says, and that the war will end and I will sleep on my bed instead of sleeping in tents.
Oh no.
So much heartbreak now, almost three months into this war.
Marcus Moore joins us now from Tel Aviv.
And Marcus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already facing pressure abroad and at home over this war.
And now his government hit with a major setback.
Yeah, this setback is being seen as a major blow to Netanyahu.
As you know, he has been trying to weaken the country's Supreme Court justices, and that has really divided the country.
We saw massive protests over the summer.
Well, today the court narrowly voted to overturn a key part of that overhaul, and that decision adds a whole new layer to the tensions that are already gripping this country.
I never understood how that could get changed anyway.
If the Supreme Court in Israel can override any laws written, then how could you think that they would agree with some law that would restrict their power to do that kind of stuff?
We have to do a deeper dive.
Some, I don't know, a couple months ago I did a fairly deep dive on this and had some clips, but we never played them.
But this is actually, it all stems back to some judge that went back in the 90s, I think, and he was very famous.
And he started implementing all kinds of rules changes to make the court the supreme leader for all practical purposes and very woke.
And it's become a huge roadblock for Netanyahu and any other conservative that might try to run Israel.
We'll get to it.
Again.
At first I thought, well, this was just a dumb idea.
But then when I started looking into it, no, this Supreme Court in Israel is a roadblock to progress.
It's a horrible operation.
For anything.
Yeah, for anything.
Okay, let's shift gears a little bit.
There was some news out of Ukraine, which you should know right now that the weather in Ukraine is horrific right now.
The people, the soldiers are freezing to death.
They cannot supply them through waterways because they're all frozen and it's, you know, the fighting season has to end because there's just nothing that's, it's not working.
So that, yeah, some drones back and forth, sure.
But this, this was rather interesting.
Ukraine and Russia have completed the biggest prisoner exchange since their war started.
The United Arab Emirates arranged the swap today.
Ukraine's President Zelensky shared video of some of the 230 Ukrainian soldiers who were returned.
The Russians recovered 248 prisoners.
So, that seems like a positive development.
Yeah, that was an a- well, I have a clip of this, but it's a little longer with a little more detail.
Well, can I play- can I play my PBS clip first?
That was the PBS clip.
I'm an NPR clip, I'm sorry.
I'm an NPR clip, which is interesting.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is promising that Ukraine... Volodymyr?
Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is promising that Ukraine will respond to the massive Ukraine assault.
What?
Didn't he say Volodymyr Ukwaine?
Let's listen one more time.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is promising that Ukwaine... Yeah!
Ukraine!
Ukraine!
We quain!
We all be quaining.
We'll respond to the massive aerial assault launched by Russia yesterday, that assault killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 160.
NPR's Elisa Nadwarni reports that foreign leaders and the UN Security Council have expressed outrage and reiterated their support for Ukraine.
In a video address, Zelensky did not provide any details of how Ukraine would retaliate.
But Russia's defense ministry claimed that Ukraine sent drones and U.S.-made missiles into Russian territory.
following the attack.
Ukrainian officials have not confirmed that claim.
Wow, that was a crappy edit.
President Joe Biden was among those condemning the attack, the largest since the war began.
Biden urged Congress to approve billions of dollars in funding for Ukraine that's currently stalled.
According to the Institute for the Study of War, Russia will likely continue to launch large-scale aerial attacks.
Wow, that was a crappy edit.
Listen to that.
Billions of dollars in funding for Ukraine that's currently stalled.
According to the Institute for the Study of War, Russia will likely continue to launch large- Get your crap together, NPR.
Large-scale aerial attacks to beat down Ukrainian morale and limit the country's military capabilities.
Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News, Lviv.
An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council has overwhelmingly condemned Russia's aerial assault.
Countries, including the U.S.
and Britain, say hitting civilian infrastructure violates the international rules of war.
Kholovsky is the European Union's ambassador to the Council.
Russia's ongoing systematic airstrikes against civilian objects and critical infrastructure in Ukraine are unacceptable and they must stop.
Such intentional attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure add... It's a war crime!
War crime!
Everything is a war crime.
Every time I hear one of these reports and the fact that they pinpoint something and blow it up, I'm reminded of one of your clips where they discussed the fact that the attack in Kiev from the Russians was actually blowing up a meeting of a bunch of guys doing drone technology, a conference, an international conference of drone makers, and Russia gave them one.
So they leave these details out, so we don't know any.
These reports stink.
We don't know any of the details of why.
They're just randomly shooting in there.
And we know that President Biden gave, didn't he give a couple hundred, or was it to Israel or Ukraine to give a couple hundred million?
Well, it's both.
Right.
I don't know.
We have to look at that clip from last show.
Well, while we have this stalemate, They found a new route to, you know, pay off the military-industrial complex.
Listen to this gambit.
Remember, who funds NATO?
We do.
America.
The largest portion is funding from America.
Check it out!
NATO beefing up its own security as Russia increases attacks on Ukraine.
The alliance will help buy up to a thousand US-made Patriot missiles so members can better protect themselves.
A majority of the missiles will go to Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain.
NATO says it will continue its policy of providing lethal support only to member states.
But the move could free up other ammunition that allies choose to give to Ukraine.
This is so bogus.
What is it that one resolution in NATO, if one country is attacked, you have to go after Russia?
Article 5.
Everyone goes after them?
So what's the point of taking a defensive posture?
Get rid of all those missiles and see what happens if Russia attacks Poland, let's say, or France?
Or Spain?
I don't know if Spain's got anything to do with this.
Why are they getting Spain's getting Patriot missiles?
That makes zero sense.
If Russia attacks Spain, you nuke Moscow!
Hey, whatever happened to the neutron bomb?
Remember that?
Yeah.
The neutron bomb in the 80s.
I remember this.
I think it was banned.
It was a great idea.
It was banned for that reason because it was such a good idea.
Yeah.
It was a bomb that would explode and it would only kill people, not the building.
So there was no rubalization.
Yeah, but we have since learned after doing the show for 16 years that the whole idea is rubalization.
We got a boots on the ground from Uza in Poland since you brought it up.
She said, I just watched the Polish news.
I remember Donald Tusk is back in control.
We remember Tusk.
Tusk from, remember when the... Oh yeah, Tusk.
When half of the Polish government was killed in that plane crash?
Yeah, they killed by the Russians.
Yeah, including the... Where was NATO then?
Yeah, including the central bank, the woman who ran the central bank in Poland.
So he says, I was just watching the Polish news.
They're happy because there's less trash than years before.
Their analysis is that people don't have so much money to spend, especially for food, so there's less trash.
And they sell it as good news, because less trash, well, that's the mindset of the green fascists over here.
Don't get me started what happened to Polish media since the left took over in the elections, immediately after shutting down every critical TV show, etc.
So, they're done, they're toast.
Oh.
Yeah.
With rigged elections they are.
But something else, did you see the, so the Zloty that, you know, Poland doesn't use the euro.
The Zloty all of a sudden, like, drops 25% in value a couple days back.
It was this huge just boom, like, against the euro, against the dollar.
But it was only on Google, and I think it was Google Charts.
And Google said, no, that's just a glitch.
How does that even happen?
They get their data from external sources.
Something's weird, because Poland was freaking out.
Because, of course, that went viral right away.
Like, what happened?
Are we about to get devalued?
I don't know.
It might have been a message.
I don't know.
Something weird going on with that.
You okay?
I need to change, well, I need a... A lozenge?
I'll need a lozenge, yes.
So, uh, let's change topics for just a quick, uh, respite.
Ooh, good word, good word, yes.
So I'm listening to do what you do once in a while.
I don't do it that often.
I go and listen to random podcasts.
And so if you go to iHeartRadio, they can't get ads so they do house ads for more podcasts.
Because we're in podcast industrial complex winter.
There's no more ads.
So here we go.
I want to play a couple of them because I think they're hilarious.
Oh, good.
Good work.
Oh, I love this.
So here they're both 30 second ads.
And this is the first one is for a podcast ad for Celebrity Memoir.
The Celebrity Memoir holds up a mirror to society.
That's why we started our podcast, Celebrity Book Club with Steven and Lily.
Where we read celebrity memoirs.
Wow.
I can't, I'm attracted to that.
The voice tells me this is a podcast I'm going to love.
cultural analyses from the text, from Jessica Simpson to historical figures like Helen Keller.
Isn't that a delicious mix of highbrow and low?
It certainly is.
Listen to Celebrity Book Club with Stephen and Lily on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Wow.
I can't.
I'm attracted to that.
The voice tells me this is a podcast I'm going to love.
Celebrity memoirs.
Here's a podcast ad for reasonable shady.
Music.
This is Giselle and Robin, and we're the hosts of Reasonably Shady on the Black Effect Podcast Network.
This is the podcast that you want to listen to, to feel like you're in the living room with your girlfriend, you're driving in the car with your girlfriend, you're having that good girlfriend talk.
We do hot topics.
We talk about reasonable and shady things.
So get into it.
Join us every Monday for Reasonably Shady and tune in to the latest season of The Real Housewives of Potomac.
Subscribe to Reasonably Shady on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Wow.
Hot topics.
You want to be in the know, listen with your girlfriends.
Hey, John, should we listen to a podcast later?
You and me, girlfriend?
No, the idea is as if you were with your girlfriend.
Oh, oh, it's a surrogate for my girlfriend.
My girlfriends, oh cool.
You got more of these?
No, I should collect a bunch of them though.
Yes.
They're very funny.
Yes, I love this.
Well, you know, it's collapsing.
The whole podcast industrial complex is collapsing.
No one wants to advertise.
Well, you would know.
How's the numbers doing?
Oh, the numbers are horrible.
Well, tell us more.
Well, I mean, people are losing their jobs.
There's no money.
I think the number of episodes that were published in the last month was down 20%.
Nobody's listening to these crappy podcasts.
No, of course not.
No.
They're all too busy listening to the best podcast in the universe.
In the universe.
With that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who just put the C in Celebrity Memoir.
Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend, the other one, Mr. John C. DeVos!
Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air.
Subs in the water!
And all the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Oh, hold on a second, trolls.
Ah!
There we go, that's better.
Show me countries!
Oh, there's so many of them. 1775.
1775.
Under, above.
If it was 25 more, I'd say it was normal.
We're in pretty good shape.
I checked 30 minutes ago, it was 1825.
And once we got into those podcast ads, people tuned out.
They dropped off right away.
Just like that.
Just like that.
You can become a troll.
Everyone wants to be a troll.
Be like a troll.
It's good for you.
It's very healthy to be a troll.
Why?
Because you can get it all out.
Go to trollroom.io.
It started early, before we even hit the opening of the show.
Trolls were already all over me, spewing their troll sap.
Like what?
Oh, just saying horrible things.
What?
I don't remember.
You're always saying that, but you never exemplify anything.
I gave you the last show, I said one of the best ones was even Jesus is tired of Adam's conversion.
That was a good one.
That is a good one.
Thanks for the reminder.
I told my pastor that.
He thought it was a good one too.
He said, that is good.
It is a good one.
That's a good one.
Yes, so you can go to TrollRoom.io and then you can not only listen live to the podcast, and that's 24 hours a day by the way, this trolling, you can troll anybody.
We recommend you troll Darren O'Neill before we start the show.
He was a maniac today.
He was good.
You think so?
Yeah, I thought he was rocking it, yeah.
You didn't like it?
You tuned in early, you were on much earlier.
Well, I thought he, I think, I don't know, I kind of agree with Ben Rose about what happened.
What's that?
There was some stuff he played he should never play again.
Like what?
I don't know, I don't remember, I can't remember the name of these weird metal bands.
No, metal bands.
He played good, he played an acoustic version of Billy Idol, Eyes Without a Face.
That was good.
That was good stuff.
Now, what I recommend, Is you get on board with the new infrastructure because it's all collapsing.
It's all collapsing.
They're kicking people off left and right.
And that's not going to get any better.
I mean, I'm surprised we're still on Apple.
Because, you know, the things we say, it's just it's it's outrageous.
And now we're making fun of them.
That's not that's even worse.
We don't make fun of Apple.
When do we do that?
What are you talking about?
We make fun of the podcast that, you know, the podcast industrial complex.
They're all about it.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
Do you want to have the latest features?
You want to be notified within 90 seconds of us updating the show.
You want to get a notification.
That's phenomenal, by the way.
When we go live.
You want to make sure that all your favorite podcasts are uncancellable, which John keeps saying I'm going to get a Nobel Prize for, but I'm not sure, man.
I don't know if I'll live to see the day.
Oh, yeah.
Forbes wrote me up.
It was a little thing, a little blurb.
Forbes?
Yeah, a little blurb in Forbes.
What did they say?
It was about value for value.
Read it.
Geez, I mean, I'd have to go find it.
Oh, you didn't have it at the ready?
No.
Oh, here it is.
Forbes.
Forbes.
Now.
That's it at the ready.
No, I actually went into my browser and typed in Forbes and it came up.
Now, may I remind you that ever since the infamous Howard Stern incident, Which happened about 12 years, 14 years ago.
You were very mad at me.
No, I was just slightly irked, but you blew up.
Condemned my children.
Ever since that moment, I have made sure that I always mention you.
Well, you can mention me all you want at Forbes, they're going to write what they want.
That's my point.
Curry just celebrated the 16th year of his No Agenda podcast.
Now, there's a link to it, that's good.
So, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
A show with nearly a million episodes and listeners per episode.
He said they didn't want to take any advertising money, so they just asked listeners to pay $5 a month subscription fee.
After disappointing results, they asked the listeners to simply pay what they wanted, then they could.
After three to four years, Curry was able to live off the income and focus entirely on his show.
Wow.
That concept is what started Curry down the path for value for value.
What's really bad is I used to work for Forbes.
You'd think they'd give me some chops.
Who was the writer?
New guy.
New guy.
And actually, Mickey Koss, he's a new guy.
He just left the army and this was his first gig.
So they edited the crap out of him.
That's what they did.
He doesn't have the juice to say, hey man, you're not doing it right, man.
To reinforce podcast decentralization, Curry started podcastindex.org.
Again, they didn't mention Dave Jones or the hundreds of developers.
But then it says, so independent app developers will be able to get everything they need through a platform without censorship.
And then I went into how we're changing the music business, and here's the finishing quote.
Curry told me that artists are now making more in a week than they made from years on Spotify.
That's probably true.
It is.
I truly believe that because of value splits, this is why the community has stayed together.
It keeps things fair, validating, encouraging, and encouraging, he concluded.
Anyway, but I'm below the fold.
Does the guy talk about your pretty eyes?
No, they do have a nice picture of me looking all important.
On a, like, on a panel.
You know, looking off into the distance, like, with my hands up.
Like, it was this big!
Like, this fish was this big!
You should see this picture, it's pretty funny.
Now, of course, this was all part of a different article, of an article that starts off with Jack Dorsey, of course.
So maybe people will read it thinking, Jack Dorsey, oh, I gotta read that.
The Web 5 economy.
Are you kidding me, Forbes?
Web 5 economy?
What happened to 4?
What happened to 4?
I don't know.
Forbes has done away with Web 4.
I don't know.
Anyway, the point being, you want to get a modern podcast app.
Forbes says so, right there.
Forbes says it's the way to go.
So how could you not do it?
PodcastApps.com.
So let's talk about that value for value model that we started about a little under 16 years ago.
That's true, but we added to it and of course I told them all about it.
By the way, the original offer was $2 a month.
I'm sure I said two, but you know, it's like they edited it down.
And I also said... Because after all, with a million Listeners?
Yes.
$2 from each and every one of them would be $2,000,000 or $24,000,000 a year in income.
It makes nothing but sense.
I would have a jet plane on each foot.
It would be great.
Just $2.
$2.
That's $2.
Yes, I do have a beautiful smile now.
Thank you.
Now, the way the model actually works is time, talent, and treasure.
And we say, look, we're just giving you all the value up front.
The value is what we give you in all the analysis, everything we bring.
You know, we are not afraid to be controversial, to go against our audience.
So, you know, that number, that fluctuates.
People leave like, I'm rage quitting this.
These guys suck.
Pick a side.
So, you know, so if that happened, then we would lose audience and then we would lose money and sponsors would walk away.
And the sponsor, we'd probably get, you know, people start posting media matters.
These guys, these guys are Zionists.
These guys are anti-vaxxers.
These guys are MAGA, which we're not.
And then it wouldn't be for my pillow.
We'd have no advertisers.
That's right.
And people would be like, you guys are a little too controversial.
I don't want to be a part of that.
And it's better to advertise on TikTok.
We'll go over there and spend our money over there, which is where everyone's going.
That's the whole thing.
Everyone's advertising on TikTok now.
So, but it doesn't have to be money.
Not everybody, you know, feels driven that way, but also it's sometimes much more valuable if you do something for the show, for the production of the show, which is why no one's called a listener.
You're not fans.
Most of you are definitely not fans, but you're producers.
You help produce the show.
And you can do that with your time and your talent, and we love what the artists do.
The artists create artwork for us, and the entire art generator was created for us, maintained for us by Sir Paul Couture.
So let's thank the artists for episode 1621, appropriately titled, Haley's Comment.
That was such a good title.
The art was, uh, well, it's just something that felt right because we want to do a Happy New Year's piece of art.
We're very traditional in that regard.
And it was from a new artist who has only been on the Art Generator for six days when, uh, when we picked her art, I presume it's her, Susanna Lea.
And it was this really nice 2024 Happy New Year, gold sparkly lights, traditional, big and bold.
We liked it.
Now, we looked at lots of other stuff.
Do you have the Art Generator open here, John?
No, it's crashed because all these boiler producers went to it.
It's going slow for me, too.
It hasn't crashed.
Did you get the cloud?
No, I haven't got the splash screen, even.
No.
Stop going to it, trolls.
NoahJennerArtGenerator.com.
Don't go there.
Don't go there.
But that's the, I mean, I love that it's new, and I love that Paul Couture listened to him, he made the artist profiles more accessible.
But there's something up with the speed of it.
It's, uh... It's written in fourth.
Paul Couture will get that joke.
Yeah, some people, lots of people will get the joke.
It's probably, it probably has AI.
Oh, there it is.
Okay, I'm getting the splash screen.
Boom!
I got the splash screen.
Alright.
Here we go.
So let's take a look at the other pieces that were submitted.
Oh man, this is, this is taking, I should have had it up before.
Famous last line.
So we can't discuss the art today?
No, and then we won't discuss the art unless it pops up in a little bit.
But we appreciate Susanna Lea, a new artist.
She had a couple of pieces she put up there.
There were other pieces that were totally valid.
I thought there was a lot of usable pieces.
You know, I'm so...
Bored by the AI stuff, even though it's usable.
It's just, I mean, doesn't everybody see this just AI?
We're going into this, this, this season.
AI funk.
AI funk, yeah.
It's a season of boring.
It's just boring.
Everything's so polished.
You can always tell that it's AI.
I miss... Oh, I got a gateway timeout bad.
It's a dud.
In some ways, it's too slick.
Yeah, I think there's too many elements it's trying to load.
No Agenda Social was also down yesterday, which was great.
It was great.
It was great.
Yeah, it was great.
I'm like, oh, good.
Everybody take a breather.
Take, you know, have some rest, you know, collect your thoughts.
They're all over there on Twitter, X. Like, bro, I got to be part of over here, you know, because just in case doesn't come back, who cares?
And then the minute it came back, what got posted?
Memes.
More memes.
Interesting.
I do three memes every so often, I'll put three memes up.
I know, I've started commenting again and I'm regretting it already.
I'm noticing this, yeah.
And I'm regretting it because people say horrible things.
Like what?
Don't be so sanctimonious, so self-righteous.
That's about right.
And then what's the guy who said that I made millions of dollars by being the right guy?
Oh yeah, I like that one.
With what?
That's what I was wondering.
When did this happen?
Let me know, please.
Alright, let's thank the treasure part of our producers in the three T's.
Time, talent, and treasure.
And let's start off with a big thank you.
To Dame Mamakon.
Oh, she has a handwritten note.
I saw this come in, so let me grab this for a second.
Dame Mamakon.
I think she wrote a card.
Yep, it's a nice card too.
Okay.
The card said, this is a printed card, it says, hoping that everywhere you look this season, you find little reminders of how much you're cared about and how much you're wished a beautiful, joyful Christmas.
Thank you, DaymamaCon.
The carnage from the vaccine is ongoing, she writes.
Strokes!
80% clotting, 20% bleeding.
Anything heart, afib, to myocarditis, to heart attacks, new cancers, or...
Cancers coming out of remission, infections that are out of control, anything on the nine-page list of side effects from the Pfizer clinical trials.
The only question that needs to be asked, was my loved one vaxxed?
Is there diagnosis on this list?
Check out howbadismybatch.com for more info.
Wow.
Wow.
And then he says, I love your show.
I wouldn't be without it.
Your hard work is very much appreciated.
DaymamaCon, $500.
Thank you, DaymamaCon.
We appreciate you.
And that donation is highly appreciated.
Yeah.
Cute card.
Okay, onward with Chapp Williams, who actually gave two donations.
No, no, Blaine.
Oh, Blaine.
Okay, you get Chapp.
Blaine in Houston, Texas, 333.34.
Happy New Year's.
Gents, please deduce.
You've been deduced.
Keep up the good work.
Blaine in Houston.
Short and simple, thank you very much Blaine in Houston.
Then we get Chap Williams with two donations, so actually Chap should be higher up on the list, of 33, 333.33.
And so that makes 666.66.
Hmm.
No note, so that means a double up karma for you.
and so that makes 666.66.
Hmm.
No note, so that means a double up karma for you.
You've got double up karma.
Carl Reinhart is in Sioux Rapids, Iowa.
And she came in with 333.
Please accept this donation from Scott Reinhart.
He's actually a switcheroo.
Doesn't say so, but it is.
I'm from Sioux Rapids, Iowa.
Pronounce Sioux Rapids for John.
Oh.
As opposed to what?
What else would I say?
You have issues, I guess.
It's Si-oh-ooks.
Si-oh-ooks Rapids.
Scott turns 66 on 1-4-24.
He's on the birthday list and his wife thinks it's time for him to become an executive producer for his favorite podcast in the universe.
There you go.
Beautiful.
I love it when people do that.
People who know agenda together stay together, people.
Then we have Dame Anne with an E. Are we already an Associate Executive Producer?
Yes, we are.
That was fast.
233.33.
Dear John and Adam, after 25 years of practicing, I shook off my blues and saw red, so I moved to Florida.
I've started a holistic health practice in the Tampa Bay area.
Anyone who needs homeopathic herbal nutrition or functional medicine for themselves or their family should contact me.
I offer free phone 15-minute consultations and discounts on services for anyone mentioning N.A.
Check out Elegant Health.
Just Elegant Health.
Thank you so much for another year of excellent content on the best podcast in the universe.
Wishing you all and all the producers health and happiness for the season and beyond.
Love, Dayman with an E.
Sir Sandy's up with, and he's in Castlegar, Castellegar, Cas, Cas, whatever.
He's in BC, British Columbia, Canada.
222.22 RhoDux.
A little value return to the best podcast in the universe.
Thanks for keeping me amused, informed, and out of harm's way.
Happy New Year to all of Gitmo Nation, even the douchebags!
Sir Sandy, the knight who says ney.
Eli the Coffee Guy, Bensville, Illinois, roadox222.22.
I'm starting the year off right with a donation to return value to the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you for a great New Year's Eve show.
Classic media deconstruction beats the heck out of Anderson Cooper drunk on Times Square.
Bro.
I mean, I just, let's stop for a second.
1987, I did MTV Live from Times Square, when you could easily get killed in Times Square.
Those are the good old days.
And the format that, I mean forget Anderson Pooper and what's the other guy, the real life, the producer.
Yeah, that guy.
So, Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve.
Dick Clark has left us, he died what, 15 years ago?
Probably longer.
A long time ago.
Ryan Seacrest is the host.
He's been hosting it ever since.
He took over the whole Dick Clark operation.
He runs the whole, he, I think he actually, I don't know, I think he bought some of it or all of it or, but still it has to be, they have not changed anything with this format.
No.
They still have the same dumb people in the audience, the same, oh we got engaged!
That's always the same every year.
LL Cool J, still doing his thing, grabbing his crotch for the past 30 years on stage, the same guy, he'll always show up.
There's chaff.
And then they always, and after that, oh the countdown, and there's an ugly ball this year, and then they all, oh now we're gonna cut over to the party in Los Angeles, which was taped two and a half months ago, the people are never in the right mood, they don't really have all the right gear on, it's so...
Boring!
Do something different.
I mean, they should have had some kind... You know what?
A Palestine protest would have been welcome this year.
Play the pet peeve jingle for you.
I wasn't prepared for that, but yes, I will play that.
I don't see Curry's pet peeve of the day.
Anyways, anyway.
And last Thursday's show, Eli the Coffee Guy says, John guessed correctly, the name of one of our coffees, our kite and key blend pays tribute to Ben Franklin!
Oh, very good.
And he'd like to thank all the producers for supporting their small business, which is Gigawatt Coffee Roasters.
And if you use ITM20, you'll get 20% off.
Happy 2024 to all of Gitmo Nation.
It's shaping up to be an exciting news year.
No jingles, no karma, stay caffeinated!
Eli the Coffee Guy.
Yeah, you're going to take the next one, but I'll take the last one right now, which is Linda Lou Patkin in Lakewood, Colorado, and she wants some jobs karma for everybody.
And she says, for a remarkable resume that gets results, she's convinced if you go to ImageMakersInc.com, that's ImageMakersInc with a K by the way, You'll get some executive resume job search needs solved.
That's ImageMakersInc.com or just find Linda Lou Patkin under the show's producer list and people have responded positively to her.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Hey, no ad-libs, okay?
I'm ad-libbing.
No ad-libs.
Giving her her money's worth.
And Michelle Meyer from St.
Cloud, Minnesota, $200, our last associate executive producer.
My daughter kept sending me clips, so I had to start listening.
And of course, donate.
I do not want to be a douche.
You've been de-douched.
That is our rather short list of Executive and Associate Executive Producers.
We, of course, appreciate you, and these titles are recognized.
Everywhere credits are recognized.
They're valid.
Your LinkedIn profile, hey, you'll get lots of dudes hitting on you.
Also, your resume, or you can open, if you don't already have one, you may not, open up an IMDB profile.
It's recognized over there as well.
And obviously, we thank everyone who came in under $50, which John will talk about right now.
We're going to rattle them off, starting with Dreb Scott, our buddy.
1-2-7-1-7.
Dreb Scott.
George Walther.
1-2-7-1-7.
Kurt Martini.
1-2-7-1-7.
And he needs a de-douching.
George Walther, 12717.
Kurt Martini, Martini, 12717.
And he needs a de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
And then we have our 12345 from Gergana Yankova in UK.
She's in the UK.
No.
You've met her.
David Kelly in Leitrim, Ireland.
1-2-3 is all part of the 1-2-3 donation.
This is the leftovers.
That's right.
Which is also the 1-2-7-1-7.
Jason Shepard, 1-2-3.
Ash, Ash in Texas, 1-2-3.
Daniella Pompeu in Los Angeles, California, 100.
Brian Mickey in Prague, Oklahoma, 100.
Baron Ladekin in Houston, Texas, 100.
John Robinet, 100.
Kevin McLaughlin's up.
And he's back with wordage.
Yeah, he came up with 8008, and he says, I love the Constitution of the United States, and boobs, not always in that order!
He's the Archduke of Luna, so he gets red no matter what.
That's right.
Brandon Logan, Delroy, Ohio, 8008.
He says, the trans meme in the newsletter got me good.
What was that?
I'm trying to think.
Oh, by the way, stop.
Did you see Dave Chappelle's new stand-up?
Yeah, we just watched it yesterday.
I thought it started off very strong.
His opening joke was fantastic.
No, the opening joke was stunning.
Unfortunately, that was on social media, so it was like, that's the worst thing to put out is your opening joke, which is shaggy dog, at least.
Yeah, it's a shaggy dog, but it was well-structured.
It was really good.
And then, since he refers to it, did you see the latest Chris Rock stand-up?
No, no, I haven't.
I haven't.
Because Chappelle refers to it, and the Chris Rock one is actually quite good.
Is it brand new, or is that one that came out?
I don't know if it's brand new, or it came out before Chappelle's.
But it's a 2023 stand-up, and it's the one where he's in Baltimore.
Yeah.
Oh, you did see it?
I did see that one, yeah.
The thing about Chappelle is it didn't end strong.
You know what I mean?
No, it fell apart.
That's what I meant to say.
Let's just be honest about it.
It fell apart.
Yeah, it was disappointing.
It was good and then...
Yeah, it did.
It fell apart.
Yeah, he probably could have put another six months into it.
Needed the money.
Brian Kaufman doesn't need the money.
Scottsdale, Arizona, $75.75.
Daniel Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, $72.72.
And Kevin McLaughlin's back, $6.006.
Nevada, 7272.
And Kevin McLaughlin's back, 6006.
And he says, the per show small boob donation streak now comes to a close.
Okay, he's stopping.
Ah, he's stopping the small boobs.
And you know what?
He's done.
Let me just salute Small Boobs of America.
Thank you for being here for the past year?
How long has he been doing small boobs?
Uh, at least a year.
We appreciate you, Small Boobs.
No, I have a tribute.
There it is.
Okay, that's the end of 5606.
Bye, boobs.
Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, 58.
Bye, boobs.
Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, 58.
Bradley Fox in Presque Isle, Maine, 5555.
And this is a switcheroo birthday donation for Joe Iris.
I race.
Or Irachi.
Or something.
He's on the birthday list, so you're going to have to pronounce it later.
Brian Furley, $55.10.
Sir Tom Darry in DeForest, Wisconsin, $55.10.
This is a double nickels on the dime.
Troy Funderburk.
In Spokane, Washington, 55.
Scott Nelson in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 50.01.
And that brings us to the $50 donors.
And I'm going to just read their names and locations.
And they're all $50 donors, including Jordan Hojno in Salem, Oregon.
Kyle Tacky or Tack in Yankton, South Dakota.
He also has a happy birthday call to Binger Newman, telling him to stop being a douche.
Ron Bellari, or Belair, in Nepeen, Ontario, Canada.
Gordon Meyers in Dripping Springs, Texas.
Dripping Springs.
Adam drives right by my house whenever he goes to Austin and he's never stopped by once.
Well, send me your address.
I'll stop by.
Angela DeCassero.
Angela DeCassero.
Cassero.
Somerset, Massachusetts.
It's pronounced DeCicero, dummy.
DeCicero.
She needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Jacob Martinez in El Monte, California.
Kurt Patrick in Ninemo.
B.C., which I slightly mispronounced, but I've been there.
Charles Peterson in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
James Shermeta in Napanoc, New York.
Lynn Malinowski in Stafford, Virginia.
And Aichi Kitagawa here in San Francisco.
Brett Farrell, who I believe is in Oklahoma City.
William Dolgage in Bristolville, Ohio.
Could be Dolgag.
Brian Watson, Sir Brian in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Walker Phillips in San Rafael, California.
And last on the list...
Baroness Dame Knight in Edmonds, Washington.
I want to thank these folks who are helping us out on show 1622!
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Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
It's your birthday, birthday.
Oh, no, I can't.
Kyle Tack wishes Binger Newman a happy birthday.
He celebrated on New Year's Eve.
Brad Fox says happy birthday to Joe Irachi, or I-Race.
He celebrated yesterday.
Carla Reinhardt wishes her husband Scott Reinhardt a very happy one.
He turned 66 today.
Brian Mickey says happy birthday to Eri Kiyuragi.
There we go.
And we say happy birthday to Dame Lisa Bemrose today.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
Now before we get to our knighting, I will read Mark Drummond's note.
He says, I request a spiral cut ham to be added to the food table.
It's not a food table.
It's the knight and dame round table.
And that's all he said.
So I'm going to bring out the blade, which we'll cut the ham with.
And if you could... I got my spiral blade right here.
Nice!
All right, hop up, Mark Drummond.
It's good to see you here.
We've seen you on the list for many, many weeks and months in the past, as far as I can recall, and thanks to your support of the Noah Jenner Show, the best podcast in the universe, in the amount of $1,000 or more.
I'm very proud to pronounce it, Casey.
Simply as Sir Mark Drummond!
That's right!
For you, sir, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, a spiral-cut ham!
Also, we've got redheads and ryes, pepperoni rolls and pale ales, beer and blunts, brisley and hotties and cachacha, cowgirls and coffin varnish, rubaness, ruban and rosé, gazes and sake, vodka and vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, fresh milk and pavlova, and of course the mutton and the mead!
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They are unisex, but they all hit the mouth just as well, and it's a signet ring, so it leaves a nice mark when you do it, or you get some sealing wax included so that you can seal your important correspondence with your signet ring, and as always, it has a certificate of authenticity.
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No Agenda Meetup!
Another thing you can do to be an integral part of the No Agenda experience, the No Agendaverse, is to organize a meetup together.
I love when people organize meetups.
Tina and I are thinking of doing another Nashville meetup in a couple of months.
Because it was so big, so many people in that area were looking forward to it.
But first, a reminder that it is where you find your community.
It's a companion to the show.
You need to discuss these things.
You need to work on your trolling skills, quite honestly.
You can do that in person.
With other No Agenda producers by going to a meetup, noagendameetups.com.
We have one taking place today, the Five Forks First Thursday No Agenda Meetup at 6 o'clock at Bullwinkle's Tavern.
That's in Simpsonville, South Carolina.
Also, the regularly scheduled Mile High Meetup, 6.30 at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
And on Saturday, the Fort Wayne Bluffton Aubin Busco Arcola J6 Insurrection Free Club 33 No Agenda Meetup.
Work on the name, people.
That's in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Ziano's Italian Eatery.
It's in the private back room.
And remember, there's no sex in the champagne room.
Come up in January.
Los Baños, California on the 20th.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rochester, New Hampshire on the 11th.
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Fredericksburg, Virginia on the 13th.
Garden City, Idaho.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Westfield, Indiana.
Indiana is filled with no agenda meetups.
Whatever you do, Make sure you go to at least one.
I guarantee you, you will not be able to stay away from the next one.
noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
It's worth it, and it will be a party!
Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You wanna be where you won't be, triggered or held lame.
It's like a party.
Don't you?
It's like a party.
Every single time, it's just like a party.
This is the moment in the show where we take a look at some ISOs to end our fabulous programming with.
Do you want me to start?
start.
I only have two.
Okay, play yours.
Oh, holy cow.
I like that one.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's huge.
Mm-hmm.
That's all I have.
I like the first one's better.
Yeah, I like the first one's better.
All right, well let's go.
I got three.
Oh, okay.
So let's start with crazy.
Crazy it is.
That's crazy.
Okay, yeah.
Let's go to not know.
I did not.
Oops, sorry.
I misfire.
I did not know that.
Mm-hmm.
And then last is the old classic, oh, another version of wow.
Wow!
I mean, I gotta be honest with you, I think the holy cow.
Oh, holy cow!
I think that's kind of... All right, go with that.
Yeah, you okay with that?
Yeah.
We have consensus.
And now it's time for...
Yes!
This is how we end the day so that you can walk away from the show feeling good about yourself, feeling good about life, feeling that a human experience is still available in our modern mainstream media known as the M5M.
John has been scouring the earth for a good news story.
I want to credit Jay with finding this one.
Oh, okay.
Well, good.
Keep him working.
Keep him working those kids.
This is a strange story about how a cat Saved a dog and I have a comment to make explaining this clip after we replay it.
A story you don't hear every day.
A dog is alive and wagging its tail thanks to the family cat who scared off two attacking coyotes.
News 4's Caitlin Ogle shows us the video.
This is little Oakley.
She recently got her stitches out and she's back to her normal self.
But she's alive all thanks to her sister, Binks.
It was kind of inspired by it, quite frankly.
Oakley is a white dog.
Binx, a black cat.
They're polar opposites, but they're family.
This wooded backyard is Binx's domain.
She was a neighborhood cat, just showed up when she was about two months old.
November 30th, while the family's two other big dogs were also outside, out of camera view, Lane Dyer says he led the six-year-old Havanese out to go to the bathroom.
Out of nowhere was attacked by a coyote.
Then another coyote appears.
But see that to the left?
Well, that's Binx saying not in her backyard.
Jumped down and scared him off.
It's the craziest thing ever.
That gave Oakley enough time to run inside.
Cut her open.
She was gushing blood, you know, from her chest and her side.
The Dyers rushed Oakley to the hospital.
She was stitched up and her leg was put in a splint.
Doctors telling family Oakley may lose the limb.
Thankfully, it's still intact.
But while waiting for her recovery, the Dyers tried to figure out what happened.
Thankfully we had security cameras.
We were able to go back and actually look to see what happened.
It was inspiring to see just our little outdoor cat just jump at two coyotes that were attacking this little dog who she loves and run them off.
Now Oakley is back to her old self doing tricks.
And eating treats, while Binks keeps a watchful eye on the woods.
In Edmond, Kaitlin Ockel, Oklahoma's News 4.
Oh, I feel good now.
I love that a cat saved a dog, and she might lose a limb.
A cat saved a dog, now we'll do, I had to watch this, and I have to, what I'm thinking, is the coyotes weren't that big anyway, but the coyotes don't have, they're not like dogs, and they have this enemy, the enemy, the cat in the house.
The coyotes probably saw this.
The cat came running like a banshee at those two things.
And just as a quick response, the coyotes took off like rockets because the gestalt, the gestalt of the charging cat was that of a cougar.
And all they saw, they reacted to what they thought might be a cougar, which is their enemy.
Huh.
Well, I have a question.
Is it coyote or coyote?
It's either.
You can pronounce it either way.
I think Coyote is the way you should pronounce it.
I'm going with Coyote now, just to make people... Well, Coyote's a... That's more of a Texas way of pronouncing it.
I'd say Coy... I got a coyote in the back yard.
We took a shot at him, but he shot back.
A good news story from JCD.
Happy vibes for you and me.
And we all feel better now he's done his bit.
So back to reality that's turning to shit.
That's right, everybody.
You'll have to wait another couple of days until you get a good news story from JCD.
But you know it'll be worth it.
Because you go into the rest of your week feeling good about life, about humans, humanity, and about dogs and cats, usually.
Sometimes a baby.
It's a great thing.
It is.
Not easy to find these, but we find them.
We scour the net.
We scour the net.
Floating about the net is where he found it.
Coming up next on NoahJennerStream.com and those modern apps that you're using, we have Angry Tech News.
Oh!
That's Sir Ryan Bemrose.
Oh, I can't wait.
I didn't know about this show.
Angry Tech News?
I like it.
I like it.
End of show mixes, Professor Jay Jones, Stefan Jakobsen, and the False Flags, also known as Sir Rob Ducifer.
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General Michael Flynn calls out Netanyahu and the Israeli military leadership for clearly standing down.
But the point is, and so these governments all need a boogeyman.
I'm your boogeyman.
Somebody had had a bunch of the troops stand down.
I mean, this is 9-11 all over again.
I'm your boogeyman.
Breakthrough, overrun, go in.
Israel supports Hamas.
There's a lot of back-channel wink-wink going on here.
suitcases full of cats.
It is true.
I'm your boogeyman.
And so these governments all mean a boogeyman.
No, I don't support a mosque.
You are 100% right.
We don't support a mosque.
I'm your boogeyman.
I looked it up.
Israeli intelligence created a mosque.
General Michael Flynn calls out Netanyahu.
Let's be clear.
There's no way.
I'm your boogeyman.
Israel supports Amash.
It is true.
I looked it up.
No, I don't support Amash.
I'm your boogeyman.
I mean, this is 9-11 all over again.
But the point is, I'm your boogeyman.
Suitcase is full of cash.
There's a lot of back-channel wink-wink going on here.
I looked it up.
And so these governments all need a boogeyman.
Breakthrough, overrun, go in.
I got hairy legs.
I got hairy legs.
That turn.
That, that, that, that, that, that, that turn.
Turn.
Oh, fuck off.
But I got hairy legs.
But I got hairy legs.
That turn.
That, that, that, that, that, that, that turn blonde in the sun.
Bye.
Man, I got hairy legs.
Man, I got hairy legs that turn, that, that, that, that, that, that, that turn, turn, oh, no, no.
Man, I got hairy legs.
I got hairy legs that turn... that turn blonde in the sun.
The kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again.
Jeffrey M.C. didn't kill himself.
He was a victim of an Arkansas.
Jeffrey M.C. didn't kill himself.
He was buddies with Clinton.
Prince Andrew, too.
He had a stable of girls for you to peruse.
But now we'll never know who.
Because he didn't kill himself.
Jeffrey MC didn't kill himself.
Jeffery Emsi didn't kill himself!
And I don't care what Bill Barr said, cause Jeffery Emsi didn't kill himself!
He had a big ol' plane, the Lolita Express.
Padded floors, and no secret service.
But the Festo who flew, that's why he didn't kill himself.
Jeffrey M.D. didn't kill himself.
Well, Bob Mueller got a sweetheart too.
Jeffrey M.D. didn't kill himself.
Jeffrey M.D. didn't kill himself.
These things don't hang themselves.
Christmas lights and drywall.
These things don't hang themselves.
And I know someone else who didn't hang himself!
And I know someone else who didn't hit himself.
Debra empty didn't kill himself.
But someone pushed him!
We had a master plan.
For a master race.
Eugenics are just lame.
At his New Mexico place.
But we'll never know who.
Cause he didn't kill himself!
place but we'll never know who cause he didn't kill himself every accident kill himself every accident kill himself He was the victim of the Arkansas!