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	I'm going nowhere.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorah.
	It's January 7th, 2024.
	This is your award-winning GiveOntation Media assassination episode 1623.
	This is no agenda.
	Deconstructing, decompression, and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where everybody agrees that the NFL season is too long, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
	When's the Super Bowl?
	Thank you.
	Oh, a couple months.
	Oh, that's too long.
	I thought it was January.
	Oh, wait, no.
	January's the Oscars.
	It used to be.
	As a matter of fact, it was, like, on the 14th, I think.
	See?
	I remember.
	I remember.
	It used to be.
	Yeah, I knew that.
	Yeah, now it's in February, March.
	I think it's February.
	Have you read about that conspiracy about the, uh...
	The Super Bowl logo that you apparently can see?
	Yeah.
	The colors determine who's going to be there.
	The colors that are in the newly designed logo at the beginning of the year are the colors of the teams in the game.
	Hey, your volume's low.
	I can jack you up here, but you're really outputting low.
	Did you change something?
	Nope.
	Let me check.
	Why do I even ask?
	Why do you ask?
	I never change anything because I don't use this whole rig except once a week, twice a week.
	I'm just going to jack you up here, man.
	It's regular.
	It's not, but okay.
	It is.
	I'm going to jack you up here.
	I can jack you up here, but normally I have you plus two dog biscuits.
	Now I've got you at five.
	So, just saying.
	Maybe it's the connection.
	No, it's not the connection.
	The connection?
	It could be clean feed.
	Connection is protection.
	Yeah, sure.
	Well, you got no protection here.
	This thing is no good.
	Well, anyway.
	So, it's okay.
	I just jacked you up a bit.
	I just want to make sure you gate the gate, man.
	Well, well, well, well, well.
	It was very hard for the M5M to admit what was really going on.
	Well, what's going on?
	Yeah, about this hole in the plane.
	There's a hole in the plane!
	The hole in the plane.
	When this story first appeared, I don't have any clips.
	You probably do.
	I do.
	Or maybe I do.
	I don't think I do.
	But whatever the case, when they first showed the shot of it from the inside of the plane, they made it sound like the side of the plane just flew like a hole.
	Yeah.
	Like a window.
	But it was a door.
	It was a door assembly.
	That's the point.
	And they never mention this until later reports.
	Exactly.
	Well, what's going on?
	You must have some thoughts on this.
	I do.
	First, let's play the most recent update.
	Flight 1282, carrying 177 passengers, was 35 minutes into its journey from Oregon to Ontario, California, when part of the fuselage was torn off, leaving a hole in the side of the aircraft.
	The pilot was forced to alert aircraft control to the severity of the situation.
	We're in an emergency.
	We are depressurized.
	We do need to return back.
	Passengers spoke of hearing a loud bang before emergency oxygen masks dropped.
	Video footage shot on board shows the dangling masks and a huge gap where the windows should have been and the passengers themselves staying remarkably calm.
	I look to my left and there's this huge chunk part of the airplane just like missing and the wind is just extremely loud.
	There's wind blowing everywhere.
	What was it?
	Everyone had this bit, and his shirt was sucked.
	They landed safely at Portland to the relief of all on board, among them, Evan Smith.
	There's not anything I have any control over.
	It's just wait and see what happens.
	And they said there was a kid in that row who his shirt was sucked off him and out of the plane.
	Everyone had this bit, and his shirt was sucked.
	I'm going to question that part of the report.
	There was that and the other one, which a lot of the late...
	I have a report for PBS.
	I have the PBS version from yesterday if you want to play that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Let me see.
	But the other thing they kept throwing into the mix was the cell phones.
	Yeah, yeah.
	A bunch of cell phones.
	Cell phones flew out.
	I question that because nobody's on their cell phone on these planes.
	Everybody's on their cell.
	When's the last time you flew?
	Covid.
	Everyone's on their cell phone.
	Everybody.
	They're watching movies.
	They're playing games.
	If you're watching a movie, yeah, then you wouldn't have People are on their phones.
	John, please.
	These days, there's no in-flight entertainment.
	You connect to the Wi-Fi, you can either pay for the internet, or you can watch the movies on your phone.
	How many laptops went out the window?
	You need to get out.
	You need to get out of the house.
	I'm going nowhere!
	Late today, the FAA ordered the temporary worldwide grounding of about 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9s until the planes can be inspected.
	It comes after a window blew out of a months-old 739 MAX 9 last night at about 16,000 feet, six minutes after the Alaska Airlines flight took off from Portland, Oregon.
	The rapid depressurization sucked a t-shirt off a child.
	No one was seriously hurt and the plane made an emergency landing safely back in Portland.
	How come no one interviewed the mom?
	Of that, they got everybody, everybody they interviewed, but they don't have the mom or the kid whose t-shirt got sucked off.
	I would think that would be one person you'd interview.
	And the second one, this report just came out yesterday.
	This is from yesterday's PBS Weekend News Hour.
	And again, it sounded like a window blew out when it was an entire door assembly.
	Well, yes, this, so... So what is the reason for covering that up?
	Well, because it's really the airlines who have made determinations about your safety.
	And this comes from our buddy Joe over there to Anilria, which is airline backwards.
	I have the hardest time remembering that URL.
	I have to look up his email every single time.
	E-N-I-L-R-I-A.
	Airline reverse.
	Anyway, Anil Ria, he says, okay, he says it was a door plug that came off because Alaska Airlines with every other single airline, except I think there's one, there's one, one of the low cost European carriers, when they receive these planes brand new,
	They have determined by law, and I don't know when this was, or by FAA regulation, don't know when this was determined, that you only need one emergency exit per 50 seats.
	So these planes come equipped with an emergency door right there where the hole blew out.
	But then they modify these planes after they come off the assembly line so they can put in a couple extra seats.
	And the door plugs that hold that assembly in place, minus the slide, minus all the stuff that you would normally have there, if the door plug, they should never blow out because the door plug is that basically a fake door that's been put in there.
	And it should never blow out because of its design, which is concave.
	But this plane had previous pressurization problems.
	Oh, they didn't mention that in the report.
	Good work, PBS!
	Good work, BBC.
	So, either they over-pressurized, which could have been for passenger comfort.
	16,000 feet, you're pressurizing at that point.
	You're pressurizing pretty quickly, actually.
	So, over-pressurization, then maybe they under-pressurized and the thing just blew right out.
	So, it's pilot error, probably, or aircraft error.
	That's possible.
	But the bottom line is, there should just be an emergency door there, the way it comes off the assembly line.
	Just to squeeze in a few extra seats, they're approved, of course.
	But if you have a hole in the plane where you have a door, it comes off the assembly line like that, maybe it would be modified them up front instead of putting a door plug in there.
	That's really, it makes no sense.
	Yeah, what's the point?
	They don't care about you.
	They don't care.
	They don't care about your safety at all, at all.
	So that's really what happened is, you know, this is a modified plane where they put a plug in there instead of the door.
	I will never sit next to that spot ever in any plane if I know it's there.
	Which you'd have to know because you can't really tell.
	And so the fact that they really didn't talk about a door in most of the reports, to me, a little suspicious.
	Yeah, that is very suspicious.
	Because when you see the sight of the plane, when they finally did show that, it's a door.
	It's a door, I know, I know.
	I love, so this news model had something else on her mind.
	Developing news now, Alaska Airlines is grounding its fleet of 736-9 MAX jets after... Really?
	736-9?
	Is that what you're thinking of?
	What a gaffe that is.
	How do you get from 737-MAX-9 to 736-9?
	I may have heard that a couple of times myself.
	Maybe there's just a bunch of jokers.
	Maybe.
	Maybe.
	Whatever the case.
	All aboard.
	Train's good.
	Planes bad.
	Woo-hoo!
	And just because it was a female pilot doesn't mean anything.
	In fact, it's probably the first officer who monitors pressurization.
	But there's lots of stuff going on with these DEI hires, and we've talked about it.
	You know, we know that a lot of ex-Navy and Air Force pilots can't get a job because, after they leave service, because you have to either be gay, black, or female to get a job.
	That's what all the airlines are hiring.
	And this was someone on X, was X-ing, slashing, tweeting to United Airlines, because this person knows what's going on with aviation.
	On July 29th, the United plane was nearly totaled after a hard landing.
	Who was flying that aircraft?
	Was it the co-pilot, a former flight attendant, who was fired and then rehired through United's DEI program, despite being on the list to not return to United?
	Am I correct that this individual failed multiple trainings, including simulator training?
	Am I also correct that United has covered up this DEI disaster and many others?
	Was the number two at the Denver Hiring Center also onboarded through DEI?
	Did she or did she not change fail grades for DEI hires because, quote, it makes the numbers look bad?
	Didn't the instructor who failed this co-pilot ask corporate why they passed him?
	This is a disaster that's going on.
	And of course, we know all the ATC guys are stoned and drunk.
	They told us so ourselves.
	That's great.
	So, you know, they're forcing people on the trains.
	That's what, that's always how it winds up.
	Get on the train.
	So, you've learned something here.
	You can sound smart now at the water cooler tomorrow.
	When everyone's talking about other stuff, you say, hey, you know what?
	That was an actual door.
	And they, uh, they, they take that door out because they want to jam more seats in.
	What?
	That's, that's a safety issue.
	That, that's what they should be looking at.
	Not, not anything else.
	But of course, you know, let's, let's ground, uh, let's ground the whole fleet.
	I'm sure I'm sure it's a problem.
	Modifying it after the fact.
	So there you go.
	You're up to speed.
	Sounds like it.
	Let's just do something completely, completely off topic from news because I was so I was so excited to get this clip this morning.
	Um, Norman Lear passed away last year, and we know that Norman Lear was part of the Hollywood... He started the Hollywood Foundation, which created a lot of propaganda.
	It was actually called the Norman Lear Foundation.
	Was it called the... I thought it was the Hollywood... I thought it was the Hollywood Foundation.
	No.
	Are you sure?
	Norman Lear.
	Yeah.
	Because we have a clip.
	I don't think there is a Hollywood foundation.
	Let me see.
	Foundation.
	Foundation Hollywood.
	That's what it is.
	Hold on.
	Lear Foundation Hollywood.
	Oh, no.
	I'm sorry.
	You're right.
	Lear Foundation Hollywood.
	That's what it was.
	Health and Society.
	So we've talked about Norman Lear, how influential his programming was, and I would say that we always thought the most influential was All in the Family, which really created this Archie Bunker archetype, which would have been a traditional Democrat back in the day, but was positioned as a Republican, and that really changed certainly the United States' image of what a blue-collar Republican looks like, right?
	When there was no such thing.
	Well he created that.
	He created that.
	MAGA.
	Archie Bunker OG MAGA.
	So Desmond Wilson.
	Most people won't know his name.
	He was Lamont on Sanford and Son.
	Legendary, legendary show with Red Fox.
	That was what it was called, right?
	Sanford and Son?
	They ran a junkyard together?
	Yeah, you got it.
	And so Desmond Wilson is interviewed by some podcaster because he was asked a question about Norman Lear by some M5M guy.
	And so he's got something in his craw about Norman Lear.
	And in this relatively short clip, he lays out just a little bit more of the genius of Norman Lear.
	What was the main point you were trying to The main thing was what a lot of people missed.
	I said, when I saw the, when my agent called me and said, watch the show, I said, I don't want to do television.
	As I said, and I watched the show, I came away thinking this is the beginning of the dissolution of the patriarchal system.
	And on the heels of that, the announcer tried to cut me off.
	I said, let me, let me finish.
	Because on the heels of that, came married with children.
	And then all of a sudden, parents became idiots and kids became all-knowing.
	Women, young women started calling their mother B-I-T-C-H word and rebelling.
	And it all started Norman Lear.
	I said, they asked me what I said.
	I will say this about him.
	He was a visionary.
	Right.
	But then when I heard about his political affiliations, it all fell into place and I knew that I knew I was right on the money.
	No, I said it went on and on and on ad infinitum and what we're experiencing now is the evolution of what Norman Lear started with All in the Family.
	And nobody got it.
	They missed it totally.
	They said, oh, Devon's talking about Norman didn't have... I said, you people have been so dumbed down like Malcolm said.
	Some of us, we're going to have to leave behind.
	You're too brainwashed to understand.
	Demond Wilson, not Desmond.
	Demond Wilson.
	I just love that.
	I never considered that it started with Sanford and Son.
	Makes so much sense.
	Well, he himself said it started with All in the Family.
	Right, but it was, yes, All in the Family, but really when the child-parent relationship broke apart was Sanford and Son, Married with Children, we forget that one.
	Yeah, but that wasn't Norman Lear.
	No, but it was a follow-on.
	It was the whole start of everything.
	It was the extreme version of everything.
	Well, to this day, I think Married with Children is a curious, genius level of programming.
	Oh yeah, and everyone loved it.
	Dads were proud of me.
	I'm like Ted Bundy.
	I sit there with my hand in my pants watching the TV.
	People loved it.
	It was great.
	Yeah.
	Little did you know.
	Little did you know.
	I'll just stick with transgenderism for a second.
	Just before you change the subject completely.
	I'm not.
	The new networks that have evolved from the open air digital system and if you get OTA There's MeTV, MeTV2, there's Antenna, there's a bunch of these networks and they've got no programming, they're not going to do any, but there is so much stuff in the can that they're recycling it.
	So the public at large is getting to watch old black and white material from the late 50s and mid 60s, including Ozzy and Harriet.
	And Leave it to Beaver, and these shows which have a completely different mentality than any of the programs that came after Luerman Lear.
	Right.
	And it's fascinating to watch some of these old dog shows that are, you know, some many of them are put together, especially Leave it to Beaver, they're put together so so beautifully by Producers back then who really knew what they were doing.
	As opposed to the kind of the slop that comes out today.
	It's very contrasty.
	I don't know what effect that's gonna have on the American psyche, but it's gonna have some effect.
	I liked the two shows I like.
	There's one that I can't find anymore really, but the one that I like on OTA is Gunsmoke.
	Gunsmoke's on a couple of channels.
	Yeah, of course.
	Heroes and Icons I think is that channel.
	How about Little House on the Prairie?
	Little House on the Prairie's on.
	I have not seen it.
	What's that on?
	Where can I find it?
	I love Little House.
	I can't remember which one.
	It's one of the networks.
	It's one of these screwy networks.
	I love Little House on the Prairie.
	I read those books.
	I thought that show was the worst.
	I hated Little House on the Prairie.
	Of course you did.
	And the fact that it's on now... Makes you mad.
	It makes me mad.
	It's so stupid.
	No, it was beautiful.
	Have you ever read the books?
	No, of course not.
	These are good books that Laura Ingalls wrote.
	This is about the pioneers.
	I mean, it was not the same as the TV show, Paul.
	Man, it was hard times back in the day.
	Well, yeah.
	When they were settling.
	Settling the West.
	Yeah, that's good stuff.
	I don't know if it started in the U.S., but there's a British group now.
	I want to stick in the trans-Maoism, which of course Norman Lear had a hand in as to where we are today.
	But I find this so peak-woke and so disturbing.
	That this has now taken the UK by storm.
	Drag Syndrome is celebrating their big premiere in Berlin.
	They're Britain's first professional drag collective for performers with Down syndrome.
	The feeling I get when I'm performing is being more myself.
	Hey, I'm Nick.
	I'm a.k.a.
	Nikita Gold.
	Dame Nikita Gold.
	I am Adam Wilde, a.k.a.
	Lady Mercury.
	Lady Mercury is a quite loyal lady.
	She likes to work and show off.
	Gaga as well.
	Nick, Adam and the other members of Drag Syndrome take on different personas when on stage.
	For them, it's a rebellion against society and a statement for more diversity and inclusion for people with disabilities.
	Plus, it's a whole lot of fun.
	Since the group was formed in 2018, the members have toured on several continents.
	They've also performed at the famous Glastonbury Festival, and for the fashion magazine, Vogue.
	It's still rare to see people with Down Syndrome performing on stage.
	The dance collective wants to encourage other people with disabilities to pursue their passion.
	This really disturbs me.
	I've worked with all kinds of downy... End of civilization, you're playing a clip.
	And by the way, instead of doing that, they should all be United Pilots.
	What?
	What did you say?
	I said they should be United Pilots.
	Good one.
	So, you know, I've worked with Downies in a lot of different situations.
	They're called Downies, by the way, in a lot of situations.
	And I'm sure that they love performing, but I'm pretty sure they're not necessarily drag queens, people who need to perform as women, which is usually gay men, usually.
	It's, you know, this is just making a mockery.
	It's so woke and so... Yeah, exactly.
	They should just put them up in the cockpit.
	If you want them on stage in drag, have them fly around.
	Yeah, I worked with a very famous Dutch downy band called the Josty Band.
	Did they ever tell the story?
	Nope.
	It's the Josty Band.
	J-O-S-T-I.
	You can look it up.
	They're still around.
	The Josty Band.
	Josty.
	And so they would perform, they would perform, I think I was doing a drive-in DJ show or something, and they were there.
	And the way that, certainly the keyboardists, they had a couple of keyboardists.
	They, on their keys, they had all colors, you know, so they would hit the right colors, orange, blue, yellow, you know, know what to play so they could remember what they're playing.
	But this particular gig, they had a confetti can.
	This confetti cannon goes off.
	There's confetti everywhere.
	They didn't know what keys to hit anymore because it was all over.
	Everything had all these different little colored balls on it.
	Ah, good times with the Downies.
	So anyway, I just found this disturbing.
	End of civilization.
	It's disturbing.
	It's disturbing.
	Like freak shows.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This like, uh, what is it?
	The Bearded Lady!
	Yeah.
	And a lot more of that anyway.
	The 18-foot man.
	With his midget wife.
	My goodness.
	So, um...
	Where do you want to go?
	I mean, there's been obviously been a lot of political news in the United States, mainly Trump and Biden.
	Biden did his big January 6th commemoration speech on January 5th.
	Yeah, that sounds right.
	Which is completely lame.
	He was definitely jacked.
	But he wasn't overjacked.
	Not overjacked.
	But I did, by chance, have dinner with some friends who are in the medical field here.
	I don't want to take it too far.
	And I said, what do you think he was jacked up on?
	Without skipping a beat, you know what my man says?
	Adrenochrome.
	No.
	Yes, and I say, is adrenochrome really that easy?
	Yes, in powder form, you can get adrenochrome in the United States.
	Powder form.
	Yeah, you can.
	People should look up adrenochrome in the Wikipedia.
	Yeah, he says that and probably some Parkinson drugs.
	Which, it's like epinephrine, like on steroids.
	Epinephrine and steroids.
	But he said, adrenochrome, Parkinson's drugs.
	He says, you got to be careful because you can take it too far.
	But he says he's definitely jacked up on that.
	But the first thing he said was, yeah, this is not the old Biden.
	This is a different Biden.
	Which I also thought, looking at his hair, this, I mean, did we lose the original Biden?
	This guy doesn't look like him anymore.
	Well, that's a good question.
	It's possible.
	I mean, we've seen enough movies that know that this is always in the script.
	Doesn't really look like the... Well, he's still got the same... When did we lose him, though?
	Did we lose him after the original election?
	Because he still has the same cadence and he still has the same... No, no, I'm not kidding.
	No joke.
	Not a joke.
	When the applause... And it's like he's triggered.
	When there is an applause line... Yeah, yeah.
	That was the OG.
	He'll say, no, I'm not kidding.
	No joke.
	He didn't say that at all this time, did he?
	Yes, he did.
	I didn't bring a copy with me, but he did.
	He did.
	The first round of applause he got, he says, no, I'm not kidding.
	And I was thinking about why does he say that?
	If you're a politician and you get a round of applause, have you been getting rounds of applause over the years for people telling you to just move along?
	Like, in other words, you said something, they, yeah, yeah, yeah, clap, clap, clap, go on to the next topic.
	So they're not taking you seriously?
	Because he'll say seriously when he gets a round of applause.
	I think we lost the OG Biden in the basement.
	Don't you think that's where the switch happened?
	Well, it's definitely the same Biden that got elected.
	And whether this is the original Biden, the real early Joe Biden, who was a real kind of a A wise ass and a snarky.
	Yes.
	As opposed to the Joe Biden who has hairy legs.
	I got hairy legs!
	That Joe Biden, I think that Joe Biden was swapped out before the election.
	If you're new to the New Agenda.
	Remember the show, in our show we played the drunk not drunk jingle.
	Yes, yes we did.
	And we played Biden clips and those Biden clips are reminiscent of what we're hearing today.
	If you're new to the Noah Jenner Show, don't worry, it gets better.
	It does.
	People are like, I'm new to this show and they're already talking about two Bidens?
	I don't know, man.
	I have a couple of packages here of his speech.
	I'll roll these out.
	ABC.
	Tonight, in his first major speech of the election year, President Biden made the case Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy.
	It's the first national election since January 6th.
	Insurrection placed a dagger at the throat of American democracy.
	Now there were some, there's some good writing.
	I liked dagger at the throat of American democracy.
	As writing goes, if I were writing for him, I kind of like that one.
	That moment.
	We all know who Donald Trump is.
	The question we have to answer is who are we?
	Another Interesting line.
	Who are we?
	I think that's well thought out.
	Of course, when he says that, I'm like, I don't know, you're one of the two Bidens.
	That's what's at stake.
	Who are we?
	Biden traveling to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, invoking George Washington's words to his troops at the dawn of the American Revolution.
	A sacred cause.
	That was the phrase he used.
	A sacred cause.
	Freedom.
	Liberty, democracy.
	Today, we're here to answer the most important of questions.
	Is democracy still America's sacred cause?
	Now, this was never, it wasn't democracy that was the sacred cause.
	Freedom, liberty!
	He says that too, but he has this thing about, you know, they're trying to push this idea, this democracy idea, and they're pushing it by trying to keep Trump off the ballot or try to arrest him.
	I think that's fascinating that everyone goes along with this.
	It wasn't about democracy.
	And besides, they hated democracy.
	That's why they became a republic.
	Yes.
	But that's the PSYOP.
	And I wonder if that still lands.
	It's almost like saying Hitler.
	It's so overused.
	Democracy, democracy, democracy.
	It's like, how do you even lose democracy?
	Something we never had to start with, but how do you lose it?
	And that was our sacred... What do you say exactly?
	That was our sacred... Sacred cause, maybe?
	Freedom.
	Liberty, democracy.
	Today we're here to answer the most important of questions.
	Is democracy still America's sacred cause?
	I think we need to ask ChatGPT.
	Can I be of assistance?
	Yes, let's see.
	So, ChatGPT, the question is, what is America's sacred cause?
	Is that what he said?
	Yeah.
	What is America's sacred cause?
	Let's see.
	ChatGPT says, the concept of sacred cause can be subjective and interpreted, blah, blah, blah.
	Some of the core values, Declaration of Independence, constitutional values, freedom and democracy, number three.
	Hmm.
	Down at the bottom, number five, American Dream.
	That's almost off the list.
	It's not even in the top three.
	Just getting by.
	Just getting by.
	Overtake it.
	Biden accusing Trump of using violence to cling to power.
	Trump exhausted every legal avenue available to him to overturn the election.
	Every one.
	But the legal path just took Trump back to the truth.
	Okay.
	That I'd won the election and he was a loser.
	You know, the scriptwriter's like, yeah, this'll really get his goat.
	We'll call him a loser.
	He hates it when we do that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Put it in.
	That's good.
	That I'd won the election and he was a loser.
	The president reminded Americans what Trump told that crowd on January 6th.
	He told the crowd to fight like hell.
	And all hell was unleashed.
	The whole world watched in disbelief.
	And Trump did nothing.
	It was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history.
	The president warning if Trump wins re-election, the worst could be yet to come.
	Trump's not concerned about your future, I promise you.
	Trump is now promising a full scale campaign of revenge and retribution.
	His words.
	Yeah, that was kind of weak.
	Hey, you know, I was looking at those rangers or whatever they were at the monument.
	Did you see any of that footage?
	No, I did not.
	So I guess they're, it seemed like park rangers.
	They had like park ranger hats on.
	It could have been.
	But they got like long hair, dudes with really long hair that didn't sit right with me.
	Sure it wasn't women?
	No, no.
	No.
	It was just like, hmm.
	You know, tats everywhere.
	Which is okay, I guess that's permissible.
	But when you think of Park Ranger, you're thinking of a guy that's, you know, that's got a buzz cut.
	No, you're not.
	I don't.
	Yeah, well, you don't think of a guy with a mullet.
	I think a guy, that's what I would think, yeah, the guy is a park guy, the dude likes to be out in nature, man, there's this chipmunk, let's go say hi.
	But that's not the guy you put up front and center, is it?
	No.
	No, no.
	We have park rangers.
	If you can't get anyone else, you got your DEI issue here.
	We have, yeah, that's true.
	We have park rangers in Gitmo Nation, so they'll let us know.
	Report from NBC.
	Tonight, the Supreme Court announcing it'll hear whether former President Trump can be banned from the ballot in Colorado because of his role on January 6th, taking up the Republican frontrunner's appeal of a Colorado court's ruling to kick him off the ballot.
	Mr. Trump arguing it's partisan election interference.
	The announcement coming just hours after President Biden visited the Revolutionary War site at Valley Forge, arguing democracy is at stake in November.
	This is not rhetorical, academic or hypothetical.
	Wait, no, the significance of the Revolutionary War Memorial.
	What is that trying to tell us?
	That we're about to have a revolutionary war against something?
	Against some China?
	What is the point?
	The point is, it might be a point with someone like Biden who's 80.
	It's pointless.
	It's totally pointless to the general public.
	It's been dumbed down.
	I would say if you went on the street and asked people what was Valley Forge, who was Valley Forge, where was Valley Forge or anything, you'd get a zero.
	Well, the democracy is still America's sacred cause.
	There it is.
	Democracy is still our sacred cause.
	It's not even number one on the list, Joe.
	It's the most urgent question of our time.
	How is it a question?
	It's not just a question.
	The most urgent question.
	How does it go from it's a sacred cause and it's a question?
	Yes.
	Well, the- How is it a question?
	The most urgent question of our time.
	It's the president's latest effort to draw a contrast with Mr. Trump, who he's warning is an existential threat.
	Trump and his MAGA supporters not only embrace political violence, but they laugh about it.
	Trump and his MAGA supporters.
	That's like deplorable level statement calling his MAGA supporters.
	Mr. Trump in Iowa firing back.
	That's why Crooked Joe is staging his pathetic fear-mongering campaign event in Pennsylvania today.
	Did you see?
	He's saying I'm a threat to democracy.
	He's a threat to democracy.
	I think it's good NBC put that in.
	And then finally CBS.
	Kicking off the election year in Battleground State, Pennsylvania, President Biden directly attacked his once and potentially future foe.
	America, as we begin this election year, we must be clear.
	Democracy is on the ballot.
	Your freedom is on the ballot.
	The president rarely invokes Trump so directly.
	Trump's assault on democracy isn't just part of his past, it's what he's promising with the future.
	Trump's not concerned about your future, I promise you.
	Trump is now promising a full-scale campaign of revenge and retribution.
	There's no confusion about who Trump is, what he intends to do.
	The speech was meant to remind Americans of Trump's involvement in the January 6th insurrection three years ago Saturday.
	Trump did nothing.
	It was among the worst derelictions of duty.
	Yeah, that's actually in Biden's favor.
	He should be talking more about that.
	the president's team believes it can try refocusing on Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results as the economy turns the corner.
	Inflation is easy.
	There was another positive monthly jobs report today.
	And gas prices are hitting recent lows.
	Yeah, that's actually in Biden's favor.
	He should be talking more about that.
	Yeah, well, he doesn't even know.
	Yeah, but let's go to that one.
	I want to play Capehart and Brooks because they analyze this.
	Okay.
	Capehart and Brooks.
	Is it just one clip?
	We're gonna go with...
	I'm trying to decide what these two, decision and democracy are, but let's go to K-Part on Trump.
	This is about the, this is the level of discourse you have in the liberal elite media and what they actually think.
	This clip is K-Part on decision.
	The Supreme Court deciding today they will consider former President Trump's appeal of the Colorado State Supreme Court decision to remove him from the ballot there.
	That was on the basis of the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.
	This, Jonathan, puts the highest court in the land squarely in the center of one of the hottest political battles this year.
	What's your reaction to them taking this case up and how it's going to unfold?
	They have to take it up.
	Because this is one of those questions.
	This ballot access question, primary ballot access question, and the immunity question has never been tested in our lifetimes or in recent memory.
	And the fact that Colorado and Maine have booted him from the ballot, Illinois is trying to join the effort, Minnesota and one other state that skips, Michigan.
	have said no.
	You have a patchwork of states and state decisions.
	And I think the prosecutor who you had on earlier makes a good point.
	What we have to look for now is whether the Supreme Court does a big, broad, universal decision or goes very, very narrow.
	For a court that puts a lot of emphasis and a lot of emphasis on The Constitution and what the Framers meant and strict originalist interpretation.
	I'm looking forward to seeing them maybe upholding the Colorado decision.
	That's not what they're going to be arguing about, but okay.
	He thinks they should uphold the Colorado decision.
	Nobody in their right mind thinks this.
	Including Brooks, who says he thinks the world would go nuts if that happened.
	But this guy thinks that they should.
	And he's a complete lunatic.
	And he's like one of the main analysts for PBS along with Brooks.
	And listen to this second clip from him where he talks about Trump and Biden's speech.
	Hold on a second.
	Do I have the right clip here?
	To be Capehart on Trump.
	Democracy.
	Democracy.
	I'm sure you all saw President Biden deliver that really powerful speech today at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania.
	He is making the threat to American democracy a central part of his reelection campaign.
	What did you make of the speech and also him centering that message for voters right now?
	Well, this is going back to the beginning.
	First, this was his fifth speech since his election on this theme of threats to democracy.
	This is going back to the beginning because when he announced he was running for president in 2020, he zeroed in on Charlottesville and talked about this was a fight for the soul of America.
	This speech today did not have that as the title, but that's what he's talking about.
	That's what he talked about today.
	That's what he's been talking about in the previous four speeches.
	And I think it is right for him to do this, to focus on that, because without democracy, none of the other things that Americans want will get done.
	Yeah.
	- Make a focus on the potential Republican nominee, someone who has said, even today, saying that, you know, "I'm only gonna be a dictator for one day." And all of the other plans that we know he wants to put in place if he wins election again, democracy as we know it will end if Donald Trump is reelected. - Okay.
	I have one Capehart clip, because Capehart not only is on PBS, but he's also on MSNBC.
	This guy is a piece of work.
	I mean, this is by far one of the best acting jobs I've ever seen from a news model, which of course he is.
	He brings on one of the Capitol policemen who has written a book This interesting dude, by the way, you know, really burly dude with a beard and a huge neck tat.
	And K-Part introduces him and then just falls apart.
	Joining me now in studio is Michael Fanone, former D.C.
	Metropolitan Police Officer, Courage for America Council Member, and author of Hold the Line, The Insurrection, and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul.
	Officer Fanone, I'm going to try to get through this.
	Thank you for what you did three years ago today.
	He has a hanky and everything!
	The K part is fantastic.
	He's an editor at the Washington Post.
	This is a shameful element in our news media, this joker.
	I've got to hear that again.
	I love how the voice cracks.
	He's got the hanky.
	He's so emotional about this man.
	He's a hero.
	He kept American democracy, held the line for America's soul.
	Officer Fanon, I'm going to try to get through this.
	Thank you for what you did three years ago today.
	Unbelievable.
	That was great.
	He's great.
	More K-Part.
	He's kind of the new Van Jones.
	Isn't Van Jones cry?
	Well, maybe he is the new Van Jones.
	That's an interesting point you just made.
	The second half of the K-Part group is Brooks.
	Yes.
	You know, you have K-Part and Brooks.
	They do this analysis every Friday on the PBS NewsHour, and there's two guys agreeing with each other 90% of the time.
	It's laughable.
	It's great.
	You get nothing out of it, but you do get to hear a few interesting things.
	Brooks is supposed to be the more Center right, even though he's just as left as the other guy.
	But listen to this, because you played a bunch of clips of Biden and his speech, and here we go.
	I want to play this.
	This is Brooks commenting on the Biden energy.
	David, I know we've talked about this before.
	I mean, the economy has been such a big part of their message, and even though the data show it is doing really well, like when you look at the big picture numbers, you've got 216,000 jobs added in December, the inflation rate's down at 3.1%, unemployment below 4% for nearly two years, and yet that isn't catching on with voters.
	Is this message going to resonate?
	It's important, but not enough, I think.
	I think it was a powerful speech.
	I think when he continues to give powerful speeches like this, he will further rebut the idea that he's out of it, that he's some doddering old grandpa.
	He's clearly an energetic guy with passion, with fervor, and with force.
	He's a guy running this administration.
	Where's the sound effect?
	He didn't have a Boeing or anything in there.
	Come on, you needed that.
	Ew, cute.
	I mean, please.
	Well, there was a lot about... We have an opinion, by the way, from our constitutional lawyer on this 14th Amendment Section 3, which I will get to.
	First, we need to have a little mini-cut.
	Now, I must spend a moment on something that will garner too much attention over the next few weeks.
	Baseless claims by the President and his supporters that there's been widespread voter fraud.
	Baseless claims of voter fraud.
	Baseless claims about voter fraud.
	Baseless claims about voter fraud.
	Okay, I think we got the message.
	Baseless.
	It's weak.
	Baseless.
	It has a base.
	It's a claim or it's not a claim?
	It's baseless.
	Whatever it is, it's baseless.
	But every claim has a base.
	It doesn't matter.
	Yes.
	There's a base to every claim.
	You make a claim.
	Unless you're claiming, I don't know what you could, what is a baseless claim?
	I mean, the fact that they put the talking point out there, the Democrats did, and did a good job of getting the media to parrot it.
	Baseless, baseless, baseless.
	It was successful.
	Good job.
	The word of the day is baseless.
	All right, got it, got it.
	So let's, of course, Trump is back on the Colorado ballot because the Supreme Court has said they will take the matter up.
	Former President Trump is set to be certified as a candidate on Colorado's primary ballot despite the state Supreme Court ruling him ineligible under the 14th Amendment.
	I want to bring in senior Washington reporter Devin Dwyer along with senior reporter Catherine Falders for more.
	Catherine, why is Colorado's Secretary of State certifying Trump on the GOP ballot, despite that ruling?
	Right, so this is tied up in the courts a bit here, but the bottom line is, if an appeal of that was... I like how they just gloss over that.
	You know, it's like, well, it's tied up in the courts a bit here.
	That's the whole point!
	Right, so this is tied up in the courts a bit here, but the bottom line is, if an appeal of that was filed before today, he's essentially back on the ballot.
	We know the Colorado GOP appealed to the U.S.
	Supreme Court, that was on December 27th, and then Trump's attorneys effectively appealed this on Wednesday, January 3rd.
	So that put him back on the list.
	That's why he of course is scheduled to be certified on this ballot today.
	So until the Supreme Court, and I know Devin can talk more about this, but until the Supreme Court essentially picks up the case and acts by either refusing to review the case or by somehow siding with the Colorado Supreme Court, he is essentially, effectively on the list.
	I love the essentially, effectively.
	Okay, so we got that part.
	It's hilarious.
	Essentially, effectively.
	Let's bring in Devin.
	He'll explain what's going on here.
	Kevin, when could the U.S.
	Supreme Court take the case?
	And what's at stake here?
	This is ABC.
	Well, Diane, the justices are meeting right now for their first regularly scheduled private conference of the year.
	This is when they consider petitions like President Trump's petition and vote on whether they'll decide to even take up this case.
	Now, ordinarily, something like these Trump appeals, which just came in in the past few days, are sort of too soon to be considered in a conference like this.
	But we know that the parties, as Catherine mentioned, have asked the justices to expedite this.
	They want a decision quickly.
	And that decision could come as soon as later this afternoon, whether they will expedite consideration, not necessarily that they'll take the case.
	But the justices are not on any fixed timeline, so they can rule whenever they want to.
	And they're going to want to be careful.
	This is a historic case, a highly divisive and political case, one of the biggest cases politically that they will have heard or had a chance to consider since Bush versus Gore 20 years ago.
	So they're going to want to take their time and potentially take some off ramps here.
	Well, I've been talking to our constitutional lawyer, Rob Forber-Jag.
	He's been around.
	And I put it all in the show notes, his entire opinion is...
	It's quite lengthy.
	He really broke it all down, this Section 3.
	He's analyzing the text, the way you read it.
	Of course, you have the traditionalists who say we have to read it in the context of when it was written.
	He goes through all that, but he says, I believe that Section 3 likely does indeed apply to the President, even though it's a close call.
	But, that probably won't be the issue.
	The issue will come down to, okay, then if Trump was an insurrectionist, which has yet to be proven somewhere, section 5 comes into play, which reads, the Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
	And you're already kind of hearing that narrative spin up, where, okay, the Supreme Court can say yes, they'd apply it to the President, but, and they probably would put a but, Congress has to determine what sanctions you put on this, and to my knowledge, that has never been done.
	And when it says the Congress, I'm presuming that's, I don't know what rules that would go under.
	If it's a straight up and down majority vote, or if you need a super majority, obviously it would be the House of Representatives and the Senate.
	So that could be, you know, the House would probably say yes or no, and the Senate would probably say yes based upon straight party line votes.
	But I think this could actually be a gambit.
	And possibly.
	Because Trump wants this.
	He says, I want to know, let's get this out there.
	Does this apply to me?
	It could be a boomerang effect.
	If, you know, there's a lot of this, what's that guy from Louisiana?
	The gruff guy?
	He's on the, he's on the, he's on some important committee.
	Not me, Kennedy.
	No, no, no, no.
	Different guy.
	I forget his name.
	Bald guy.
	He's kind of a tough guy.
	Tough guy.
	He was on Tucker.
	So he claims that there were approximately 200 federal agents inside and in the crowd on January 6th.
	If that somehow comes out and they have some kind of, we have a year to do it basically, and we have some hearings and then it's determined, well hold on a second, this was a scam, well then Biden would be directly involved in an insurrection.
	And then it could apply to him!
	Wishful thinking maybe, but there's something up with Trump wanting this so quickly.
	Yeah, yeah, we want this, we want this.
	There's something going on here that I think it'll come down to will Congress do this?
	Does Congress have the power?
	And so now, of course, we have to start determining if, well, two things really.
	Really what Trump, did Trump start an insurrection?
	What was his role?
	And George Stephanopoulos.
	They had a rundown and I guess they got Jonathan Karl to report on Dan Scavino and others who were under oath.
	Good morning and welcome to this week.
	As we mark three years since the January 6th insurrection, the 2024 election is shaping up to be a referendum on what happened that day and what it means for the future of our democracy.
	That was the theme of President Biden's first campaign speech Friday as he blasted Donald Trump for January 6th.
	Blasted.
	Trump did nothing.
	Was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history.
	It's opening the border.
	An attempt to overturn a free and fair election by force and violence.
	And in Iowa this weekend, Trump responded with repeated lies about the 2020 election and calls to free the convicted January 6th rioters whom he called hostages.
	This morning we have exclusive new reporting on what Trump was doing at the White House on January 6th as the rioters surged through the Capitol.
	Chief Washington correspondent John Karl starts us off.
	Good morning, John.
	Good morning, George.
	Exclusive, exclusive inside detailed reporting.
	Now, Scovino We have to remember John Carl, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, head of the Correspondence, the whole thing.
	Yes, exactly.
	Super lefty.
	Dan Scavino was the White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
	Before that he managed Trump's Westchester Golf Club.
	They should have thrown that in.
	I don't know why they missed that interesting detail.
	You know, you're right.
	It's dumb.
	I don't get why they keep missing stuff like this.
	They're sloppy.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Well, Jonathan Karl, I guess he had his marching order, so he just did what he was supposed to do.
	Dan Scavino has known Donald Trump since he was 15 years old.
	Worked for him for more than three decades, starting as his golf caddy.
	Nobody inside the White House outside of That's good.
	The golf caddy is great.
	The great Dan Scavino, most powerful man in politics.
	Great editing.
	I mean, this is good.
	That's the sound bite you want.
	Who helped manage Trump's Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts is also one of just a handful of people who were with Trump on January 6th as the attack on the Capitol was unfolding.
	The January 6th committee wanted to talk to him, but he defied their subpoena.
	After a court battle, he did finally talk to special counsel Jack Smith's team of investigators.
	Scavino's office was just outside the Oval Office, and sources familiar with the investigation tell ABC News Scavino told investigators he went in to see Trump as soon as he saw the violence had broken out at the Capitol.
	Now remember, he's already said sources familiar with the matter, so this is all conjecture that comes now.
	The next 50 seconds is all just whatever sources familiar with the matter said.
	No one's on record.
	And he described Trump sitting in his small dining room next to the Oval Office, his arms folded, staring at the television, watching live coverage of the attack on Fox News.
	This is beautiful!
	There's no, there is literally, this is baseless, there's no evidence, it's just sources.
	This is baseless.
	Sources familiar with the matter, now describing, you can see Trump sitting there, arms folded, scowling.
	Arms folded, yeah.
	Scowling, looking at the television.
	I can't believe it.
	By himself.
	By himself.
	Like a crazy man.
	Like a crazy man.
	Trump was angry, Scavino told investigators, according to the sources, saying the election had been stolen from him, and that his supporters were, quote, angry on his behalf.
	As has been described by the January 6th committee report... Wait, hold on a second.
	Scavino comes in and he says, the election was stolen from me and they're acting on my behalf.
	What kind of dialogue is this?
	Well, it's propaganda is what it is, of course.
	That's how you set the narrative.
	That's how you get people to sit there and look at a half-dead guy who's president and go, yeah, four more years.
	Stolen from him.
	And that his supporters were, quote, angry on his behalf.
	As has been described by the January 6th committee report, other advisors came in to see Trump as well, including White House lawyers, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and eventually his daughter Ivanka Trump, all urging him to make some kind of statement telling his supporters to leave the Capitol.
	The sources say Scamino described Trump as non-responsive, and his demeanor as, quote, very unsettling, as he continued staring at the TV.
	Soon, he told investigators, all of the advisers left the room, leaving Trump alone.
	Oh, please.
	You know, this is reminding me of the narrative that was created.
	And people older, you might even remember this, during Nixon's, just before Nixon quit, he resigned from the presidency because he was going to be impeached.
	And the media created, and this goes back, by the way, there are media deconstructions.
	We could have been doing this show 30 years ago and it wouldn't have been much different.
	They created the notion, and it's again, unsubstantiated, but it became fact.
	It's kind of like, it reminds me of the J. Edgar Hoover and Address, which turns out to be bogus.
	Nixon was crawling around on his hands and knees in the White House.
	I do remember that.
	Yes, I remember that.
	Yes, I was young, but I sure do.
	And we get that stuck in our mind because the media created the image of Nixon crawling around on his hands and knees.
	There is no evidence of this.
	By the same token, I always have the image of President Obama smoking cigarettes in the residence watching basketball games.
	I mean, that's also, I'm sure that's bullcrap too.
	Yeah, probably.
	That's the image that was created of him.
	He may have quit smoking.
	No, he never quit smoking.
	But I'm sure he watched a lot of basketball.
	He loved it.
	Okay, so now we continue with Jonathan Carl's report.
	It's great reporting, Jonathan.
	It's just fabulous.
	And John, this all comes, of course, as Donald Trump is still making the 2020 election central to his 2024 campaign.
	Yeah, and George, this is a very important point.
	According to our sources...
	Yeah!
	Yeah, I heard that too, and I usually catch him better than I do, but that was obvious.
	Why is he laughing?
	Well, I don't know if he's laughing, but he's more like... Yeah, and George, this is a very important point.
	He is laughing.
	That's laughing.
	He knows it's not an important point.
	He's making this up.
	He's a liar.
	Yeah, and George, this is a very important point.
	According to our sources, Scavino was asked directly... Our sources?
	I mean, this is not journalism.
	It's just not!
	Who is your- Gossip!
	I mean you could even say a source in the White House, a source- Give me the- This is our source, this is gossip!
	Whether or not he- This might as well be TMZ.
	He saw any evidence that there was vote fraud enough to overturn the results in any state, he- Wait a minute, wait, let me go back here.
	Let me see what he's actually saying.
	And George, this is a very important point.
	According to our sources, Scavino was asked directly whether or not he saw any evidence that there was vote fraud enough to overturn the results in any state.
	He said no.
	Variations of that exact question have been asked by virtually everybody who served Donald Trump at the White House, and under oath, they have said over and over again that none of them saw any evidence that the election was stolen.
	They may have said different things publicly, but under oath they deny any knowledge that the election had significant fraud.
	This is fantastic.
	So you take some unrelated people who were under oath and said no, no, no, and then they tie that to Scavino, which is something sources say.
	It may all very well be true, but, I mean, come on, this is not journalism, Jonathan Karl.
	But the other thing is, why are they still fussing about this?
	Even Hillary, after the 2016 election, and everybody was denying Trump made the, you know, one, it was the same thing.
	And they were in the Trump denialism, and he was not the legitimate president, and he's not my president, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	After two years of that, within two years, that ended.
	This is never ending.
	What is the reason for this too much object?
	You know, what is the old phrase where you object too much?
	You're accused. - Just complaining too much.
	You doth, you doth protesteth too much.
	The lady doth protesteth too much.
	I think that's what it is.
	Well, I think it's coming down to a showdown.
	Then I have the clips that will possibly show us that this is true.
	We have the current Speaker of the House versus the former Speaker of the House.
	It's going to come down to who do you trust the most.
	Of course you have the trials that could take place with Jack Smith's investigation.
	You also have the Supreme Court taking up this challenge to President Trump on the 14th Amendment.
	Do you believe that Donald Trump engaged in insurrection?
	Yes, I think that he engaged in an insurrection.
	I think that he incited an insurrection.
	And again, that he would not stop what was going on.
	As his own people said, this is your legacy.
	Smoke coming from the Capitol is your legacy.
	Yes, I do believe that.
	Who said that?
	I do believe.
	Who said that?
	This is your legacy.
	Was that sources?
	Who said that?
	Never heard it.
	I never heard it.
	All I remember, which they don't want to bring up, especially with Nancy Pelosi there, they don't want to bring up the fact that Trump requested National Guard troops at the Capitol just to prevent such a thing from happening, and she refused to bring them in!
	How come that's never brought up as some sort of thing that maybe defends him?
	And that her daughter was there with her documentary camera crew to document this historic moment?
	There you go, that's another element.
	Pelosi is the smoke and gun here, because she is part of the plot.
	And again, that he would not stop what was going on.
	As his own people said, this is your legacy.
	Smoke coming from the Capitol is your legacy.
	Yes, I do believe that.
	And it is a most unfortunate situation.
	Our founders, Poop!
	Poop!
	Poop on the floor!
	Was there blood?
	I didn't realize that at the same time we could have a rogue Senate and Congress.
	I do think that after all this happened, poop on the floor of the Congress, defecation, blood.
	Poop.
	Poop on the floor.
	Poop.
	Well, that's like San Francisco.
	She should be used to it.
	Poop on the floor of the Congress.
	Defecation.
	Blood.
	Disrespect for the people who maintain the Capitol.
	Coming after Pence.
	Coming after me and the rest.
	Pence?
	Coming after me and the rest?
	Wow, this is getting good, Nance.
	A great majority of the Republicans in the House voted not to accept the results.
	So, Madam Speaker... Okay, so this is good.
	Because she's floundering a little bit here at the end.
	We have a second clip.
	And I have a feeling that she's not sure that the case is as tight as people would like to believe it is.
	That he clearly participated and incited an insurrection.
	Madam Speaker, if you believe he engaged an insurrection under the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment, you believe he's ineligible to be president.
	Those laws, those are up to the states.
	They have different laws from state to state.
	I don't think he should ever have been president.
	Did you say something?
	Yeah, I said no.
	It shouldn't be up to the states.
	I mean, if it's up to the states, I hope that Capehart's right and the Supreme Court says, well, it's up to the states and let the states do it.
	That means that Biden will be taken off the Florida ballot.
	Just saying, DeSantis already said, if this is the case, we can take Biden off the Florida ballot because he's derelict of duty for stopping the hordes coming in from Mexico.
	I think she's waffling here.
	She's waffling, she's stuttering, she's not certain of the case here.
	This is not airtight.
	Those laws, you know, those are up to the states.
	They have different laws from state to state.
	I don't think he should ever... It's the Constitution.
	But nonetheless... Who sniffed there?
	Was that Nance?
	I don't think he should ever... It's the Constitution.
	But nonetheless...
	I need a toot.
	George, step back.
	Hold on a second.
	I'll be good in a second, bro.
	I don't think he should ever have been president.
	It's the Constitution.
	But nonetheless... Wow, is he even thought to talk like that for a second?
	Speak to state.
	I don't think he should ever have been president.
	It's the Constitution.
	But nonetheless...
	I just got a hit of some Romans.
	There is a view of the Constitution in Article 14, Section 3, that he should not be able to run for president.
	But that's not the point.
	The point now... That's not the point!
	Okay, what's the point?
	Again, different states have different laws.
	We don't think in California that it applied in our state.
	That's what the decision was made here.
	But anyway, not to go into that because that's very intricate.
	Not to go into that?
	Interesting.
	Yeah, you're right.
	She does not want that to happen, but she sounds worried about it.
	But it's very clear.
	Well, hold on a second.
	Stop.
	She said that's not the point, and she was going to say the point.
	Does she say the point?
	She missed the point.
	She moved to California, talking about California.
	But that's not the point.
	If that's not the point, what's the point?
	Let's figure it out.
	Able to run for president.
	But that's not the point.
	The point now is, again, different states have different laws.
	We don't think in California that it applied.
	In our state, that's what the decision was made here.
	But anyway, not to go into that, because that's very intricate.
	What is very clear is that the American people want us to honor our oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
	I, you know, being from Baltimore, I'm proud of the National Anthem, and in it it says, That our flag was still there.
	We have to prove through this campaign and tonight that our flag is still there.
	With liberty and justice for all.
	And not have an acceptance of confederate flags under Lincoln's dome.
	With a president sitting in the White House doing nothing to stop the violence.
	To stop the violence.
	He talks about the big steal as he engages in the big lie.
	This is my point.
	She has nothing.
	She has no point.
	All she says is, well, the states.
	That's not the point.
	The states is not the point.
	Well, let's go to the current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
	By the way, crazy guy.
	Believes in God.
	He has a sky daddy.
	Gotta be careful of this guy.
	No separation of church and state.
	He's very wookie scary.
	So we'll bring in Margaret Brennan from CBS to grill him.
	2021, you were the lawmaker who circulated the legal brief known as the Texas amicus brief, challenging the 2020 election outcome in a number of states, which by CBS editorial standards makes you an election denier.
	Ooh, he's an election denier by CBS standards!
	By CBS, she says, by CBS editorial standards.
	Yes, yes.
	It makes you an election denier.
	Yes.
	So in other words, doing what's legal and proper and going through the process of putting together this brief, By going through that process by their editorial standards.
	Yes, they have standards?
	That's amazing.
	You're an election denier because you did the work.
	It's great!
	Who runs this country?
	CBS News.
	We have the standards.
	Brief.
	Challenging the 2020 election outcome in a number of states.
	Which by CBS editorial standards makes you an election denier.
	That's nonsense.
	Can I get you on the record on that?
	I've always been consistent on the record.
	Did you read the brief?
	Did you get a chance to read what we found?
	Homina, homina, homina.
	I have read extensively some criticisms of that.
	You've read commentary about the brief, but not what we submitted to the court.
	But you recognize that President Biden won the 2020 election.
	Can you just put that aside as an issue?
	President Biden was certified as the winner of the election.
	He took the oath of office.
	He's been the president for three years.
	The argument that we presented to the court, which is our only avenue to do so, was that the Constitution was clearly violated in the 2020 election.
	It's Article 2, Section 1, and anyone can Google it and read it for themselves.
	The system by which you choose electors to elect the President of the United States must be done by the individual states, and the system must be ratified by the state legislatures.
	That is plain language out of the Constitution.
	So you still have issues with the validity of the 2020 election?
	The Constitution was violated in the run up to the 2020 election.
	Not always in bad faith, but in the aftermath of COVID, many states changed their election laws in ways that violated that plain language.
	That's just a fact.
	We presented that argument and those facts to the court, and it was never directly addressed because of the Texas litigation.
	But that was the only vehicle we had to present that issue squarely to the court.
	So she has not read the brief, and of course he's right.
	This was discussed ad nauseam about the changes that were made.
	But that doesn't matter because, you know, Liz Cheney.
	Your colleague Liz Cheney, your former colleague, wrote, Mike Johnson and our Republican leaders have played a destructive role.
	You, she says, convinced 125 other Republican members of Congress to sign on to an amicus brief that many never read.
	That made numerous false factual and constitutional claims.
	like you didn't read it like she didn't read it the menu this brief that many never read that made numerous false factual and constitutional claims how do you respond to that and the impression he should respond Margaret, you ignorant slut!
	That would have been funny, but no, man of God won't do that.
	That you might have contributed in some way.
	I don't spend much time responding to Liz Cheney's criticism these days.
	Liz Cheney worked with the Democrats on the January 6th Select Committee to make all of this even more politicized than it was.
	She was a close friend and colleague before she made those choices.
	Which is why she was surprised, she said.
	Well, I'm surprised that she's giving that criticism, because during that process, Liz and I were in constant dialogue about that, and at one point, she even considered signing on to that bill.
	I'll tell you that that is a fact.
	To that amicus brief.
	And we talked about that at great length, and we had a difference of opinion on the law, and people can agree to disagree on that, but I'm telling you that the plain language of the Constitution has never changed.
	And a laugh tale.
	A laugh tale.
	Why is Mike Johnson laughing here?
	Because the Constitution hasn't changed?
	It's ridiculous?
	We talked about that at great length, and we had a difference of opinion on the law, and people can agree to disagree on that, but I'm telling you that the plain language of the Constitution has never changed.
	What do you think that's about?
	Why is he all jitty?
	What's he all laugh-telly about?
	I have no idea.
	That one I'm baffled by.
	Well, I think it's because the Constitution hasn't changed.
	How about this?
	I'm so certain of what I'm doing.
	You morons!
	The Constitution hasn't changed!
	And people can agree to disagree on that, but I'm telling you that the plain language of the Constitution has never changed.
	And what happened in many states by changing the election laws without ratification by the state legislatures is a violation of the Constitution.
	That's a plain fact that no one can dispute.
	Okay, we'll wrap it up.
	How do you make sense of the idea that you still Have issues with the validity of the 2020 election.
	But you have to negotiate and talk with the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
	This is water under the bridge.
	I mean, when the Supreme Court passed on the Texas litigation and did not address the issue, I believe in the rule of law.
	This is our system.
	We move forward.
	I work with President Biden as the President of the United States.
	I think that he will be a one-term president.
	But, you know, this discussion about what happened in 2020 is yesterday's news.
	There's something there that we don't understand, but Mike Johnson does.
	The Supreme Court passing on that somehow has something to do with this.
	Maybe our constitutional lawyer can explain.
	But, regardless, we need to sigh up the American people, at least people who watch MSNBC, and explain how an alternate slate of... basically how the electoral system works.
	Because Nancy Pelosi was partially right.
	She said, you know, our Constitution was set up to deal with a rogue president.
	It was really set up to make sure that no nut jobs become president.
	That's what the Electoral College is about.
	The confusion in the United States is that you vote for the president.
	You don't!
	In fact, the states, most states I think, you'll have to correct me John, Can send a whole bunch of other people to Washington D.C.
	for a whole different candidate.
	It's not even up to the voters.
	Am I correct?
	I think it's technically possible.
	I don't know the mechanism anymore.
	It doesn't happen.
	So it's kind of, it hasn't happened before.
	I'm thinking maybe it happened in the 1800s.
	No, I think this is what was happening.
	States were sending alternate slate of electors in the mainstream media known as fake electors.
	Yeah, they would use the term fake.
	So Roger Stone does understand this process, speaking of Nixon, and Ari Melber pulls it all apart.
	One Trump ally who's actually flown under the radar, even in the coup case that I just mentioned, is being brought by Smith.
	And yet he's a very famous figure, Roger Stone.
	You may recall he was flanked by Oath Keepers on January 6th.
	He's seen right there outside a DC hotel.
	Now, we reported on Stone discussing and coordinating a plot to try to get states and electors to overthrow the results that had Trump losing.
	And Stone discussed this idea about Trump trying to just push forward alternate electors, like a type of government fraud that then could sow chaos, that could somehow help them steal the race on the 6th.
	You may remember, some of this has now been further documented, some of it happened.
	Here's what we have on tape.
	Any legislative body may decide on the basis of overwhelming evidence of fraud to send electors to the electoral college who accurately reflect the president's legitimate victory in their state, which was illegally denied him through fraud.
	Now, That is what he was saying.
	Separately, and over time, we know that electors who pushed actual fraud have now been indicted or civilly sued in several states.
	Stone denies wrongdoing.
	He says that states could legally exercise Yeah, he never, for fake electors.
	Alternate, alternate slate, yes.
	Fake electors, no.
	Right.
	I want to make sure you know that he previously posted online that he never plotted the seating of fake electors.
	Right.
	I've interviewed him before, and we welcome him to come back on The Beat if he wants to discuss the story, but that is his public response to some of this.
	Yeah, he never, for fake electors, alternate slate, yes, fake electors, no.
	Right.
	Right.
	Right, right, right, right, right.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
	Yeah, but he, but this Mel Burr, Mel Burr Toad, whatever his name.
	Yeah, he's a lawyer, by the way.
	The hip-hop lyric quoting lawyer.
	Yes, he's so cool.
	These guys are just twisting.
	They're called alternates.
	Yeah, they're called alternates.
	And so I think this fits in with Mike Johnson saying, you know, the Constitution was violated.
	Trump sent alternate slate, and they have now been indicted or civilly sued.
	That means, okay, so no one's in jail, no one's been convicted of anything, of any wrongdoing.
	Certainly not to being an alternate slate.
	I don't know.
	I mean, will this ultimately come down?
	So you think something's up?
	Yes!
	There's just too much discussion.
	Yeah, Nancy Pelosi is not sounding confident.
	And Mike Johnson sounds overly confident.
	Yeah, he's cocky.
	Yes, he is.
	Yes, he is.
	Well, you know, we've seen this kind of thing.
	This reminds me of, what's the guy that's doing that one committee who keeps coming on things, and he's so overconfident, it's ludicrous.
	He hasn't done anything, really.
	One committee?
	What's one guy's name?
	He's kind of got the round, kind of a cube head.
	Cube?
	Cube head guy.
	What topic does he... He's running one of the investigative committees of the House.
	House Investigation of Something, of Biden.
	He's the one that's doing the Biden family investigation.
	Yeah, the Comer?
	Comer?
	Comer!
	Yeah, that guy.
	Yeah, Cubehead.
	Cubehead Comer.
	Boy, we're not shallow.
	No, not us.
	We're not superficial.
	Well, speaking of appearances, let's go to Nimrod.
	Haley's campaign recently sidetracked when a voter asked about the cause of the Civil War and she did not mention slavery.
	An answer she later clarified.
	What do you say to people who say that you've really had challenges when it comes to talking about race?
	We were the only Indian family in our small southern town.
	I was teased every day for being brown.
	So anyone that wants to question it can go back and look at what I've said on how hard it was to grow up in the deep south as a brown girl.
	The Civil War has always been known about slavery.
	I misread it and thought he was looking for a bigger answer going forward.
	You got duped Nimrod.
	Duped.
	Brown girl in the ring.
	Fa la la la la.
	She got duped.
	She got duped.
	It's over.
	Done.
	She should send money back.
	Some Silicon Valley boys I know personally that are largely responsible for this.
	What do you mean?
	They talk about her, she is the element, she is the push forward by the billionaire class across the country, and Silicon Valley is part of it.
	Oh, I see what you mean.
	They don't care.
	I got invited to some events, like, as if.
	I got invited to an event with Nimrod as well, here in Texas.
	Yeah, well, Texas is a... At the ranch!
	At the ranch!
	Come on over to the ranch.
	One of the billionaire oil guys.
	Sure.
	I should have gone.
	Just to sniff it all out.
	Eh, it'd be a little weird.
	I wouldn't feel comfortable.
	No.
	Should have sent Tina.
	Go sniff out Haley.
	See what's going on with her.
	There's no good.
	Just a little topical change of pace here.
	You know about Lloyd Austin?
	Yes.
	No one did.
	Well, they still don't.
	Here's the Lloyd Austin is down clip.
	Here we go.
	Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been in Walter Reed Medical Center since Monday, but the Pentagon didn't disclose it until last night.
	And there are reports that he spent four days in the intensive care unit.
	Austin spokesman Major General Pat Ryder said he was admitted for complications from an unspecified minor medical procedure.
	Today, Ryder said Austin resumed his full duties last night while still in the hospital, but couldn't say when Austin would be released.
	This doesn't seem like a big deal, but it is a big deal.
	Fully vaxxed, fully boosted.
	This guy calls shots, and not speaking of, but he calls the shots on, he doesn't have to talk to the president.
	About all the things that he's doing in the two wars that we're involved in.
	And even when he went in, the deputary, deputary, the deputy, the deputary, it's a new term, I'm gonna write that down, deputary.
	Yeah, me too.
	It's the nature of our show, people.
	Yeah, that's how we do it.
	The Deputy of Defense, she was on leave!
	So he should never have, it's like, you know, if the President is going to have anesthesia, then temporarily the Vice President has the helm.
	There's a whole process for that.
	And the same for the Defense Secretary.
	This was a gaffe.
	Something was very wrong with this.
	He may be dead already.
	Is what some people think.
	Others think he's been incarcerated.
	I love that.
	I love that one.
	That's like QAnon.
	He's been incarcerated.
	I love the incarcerated.
	Well, I heard that the minor operation was he had his balls removed.
	Thanks, Marty.
	I have a couple more details on this.
	There are questions tonight on why top levels of the federal government were not immediately told U.S.
	Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized following complications from an elective procedure.
	The 70-year-old has been at Walter Reed Medical Center since January 1st.
	A source tells the Wall Street Journal Austin needed to be admitted No!
	to the intensive care unit.
	Among those who did not know until three days later, the president and the national security advisor, Jake Sullivan.
	Well, tonight, Austin released a statement saying he could have done a better job informing people and he takes full responsibility.
	President Biden says he has full confidence in the defense secretary.
	So this is interesting.
	So in this report, they say Lloyd Austin said, Oh, I didn't do that right.
	So is he in the intensive care or not?
	Listen again.
	Well, tonight Austin released a statement saying he could have done a better job informing people.
	So is he awake?
	Is he okay?
	Can he come to the balcony and wave if Austin released a statement?
	Or was it the Pentagon?
	Tonight, a U.S.
	official confirms to NBC News that the Pentagon did not inform senior officials in the White House's National Security Council for three days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center on New Year's Day.
	Walter Reed?
	I mean, I'm telling you, the incarcerated bit is good.
	The news not shared with the American public until Friday, when the Pentagon announced that Austin was hospitalized for complications following a recent elective medical procedure.
	And NBC News has learned the 70-year-old Austin not just hospitalized, but also in the intensive care unit for at least four days, according to two senior administration officials.
	Asked why his stay wasn't disclosed sooner, a Pentagon spokesperson tells NBC News, this has been an evolving situation in which we had to consider a number of factors.
	Adding Secretary Austin is recovering well and he resumed his full duties.
	The Pentagon declining to explain.
	This is different now.
	They're saying he's back on the beat.
	But why isn't he out on the balcony waving?
	Adding Secretary Austin is recovering well and he resumed his full duties.
	The Pentagon declining to explain what Austin's procedure was and what complications occurred.
	The lack of information strongly criticized.
	When presidents have issues, other cabinet members have issues, the public is notified.
	So there's no real justification.
	It's unacceptable.
	America's commitment to Israel is unwavering.
	The Secretary in Israel as recently as mid-December as its war with Hamas raises tension in the Middle East.
	On Thursday, the U.S.
	carried out a strike that killed an Iran-backed militia member in Iraq while Austin was hospitalized.
	Allie is in Delaware tonight traveling with the President.
	A U.S.
	official, Allie, just moments ago tells me that President Biden was not informed about Austin's hospitalization for three days either.
	And you're hearing from the Secretary himself tonight in a statement.
	What's he saying?
	That's right, Peter.
	The Defense Secretary taking full responsibility for what he says were his decisions about disclosure, saying in part, quote, I recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed.
	I commit to doing better.
	This stinks.
	It does.
	Something's very... We need him waving.
	I mean, who's running the war machine?
	Maybe the war machine is like, hey man.
	Well, I think the war machine could do fine.
	How about this?
	How about the military-industrial complex?
	Like, went in the hospital, you know, put a little machete, a little knife to the throat and said, hey man, you're not doing it right.
	We need more orders.
	We need to sell some gear.
	Hmm?
	Maybe that's why he didn't tell anyone, because he didn't want that situation to occur.
	That's what he was afraid of.
	Oh, that's even better.
	Hmm.
	Don't let him show any weakness.
	Don't tell Biden whatever you do.
	No, shh, shh, shh.
	That's the way I would go.
	Don't tell Biden whatever you do.
	He might poop his pants.
	Oh, I'm out now.
	I'm fine.
	Don't, uh, I'm so, oh geez, we didn't tell Biden.
	Oh, that's a shame.
	It's all good.
	It's all good.
	Uh, okay.
	Since, uh, since that clip brought up Israel, um, I think we have, yes, this was an interesting development.
	The Israeli defense minister went on a PR blitz, and what you're not seeing in this is all beauty shots of him looking really, this, that guy, he does look kind of badass.
	He's got a look, yeah.
	He's got the shades on with the helmet.
	He's got Prime Minister written all over him.
	Exactly!
	That's what this clip is about because he outlines a new phase of the Gaza War to the press before he presents it to the cabinet!
	Yeah, well, yesterday evening, Israel's Defense Minister, Yoav Garanta, unveiled his plans for the post-war running of Gaza, first to the press, then he submitted it to Israel's War Cabinet.
	Now, under his plans, the war would continue until all hostages have been released.
	And until Hamas has been completely eradicated.
	The plan then sets out how after the end of the war, Palestinian organizations would take over the running of the Gaza Strip.
	It does not, however, specify which organizations those would be.
	It does, however, say that under no circumstances would that be Hamas.
	It also says that there will be no Israeli civilian presence in the Gaza Strip after the war it does however say that the Israeli military would continue to be able to carry out operations in the Gaza Strip if necessary to maintain security.
	Now I think also worth pointing out that at this stage this is not official Israeli government policy it is just a proposal that's been put forward by The defence minister, that would have to be approved by the War Cabinet for it to become policy.
	And another big question mark that the plan doesn't appear to tackle is whether or not Palestinian civilians who fled northern parts of the Gaza Strip to flee the fighting, whether or not they would be able to return to their homes, bearing in mind that much of the northern Gaza Strip has been completely flattened by months of intense fighting and bombardment.
	I mean, just imagine Lloyd Austin starts laying out policy to the press about what we're going to do in a war, any war, before the president.
	Netanyahu's on loose sand here.
	Something's going on.
	Yeah, I agree 100%.
	Almost completely.
	Including this, which we discussed one or two shows ago.
	After more than 12 weeks of war in Gaza, a fundamental question remains.
	What is to become of the Strip and its people?
	Now, Israeli media reports allege the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has held secret talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo for a, quote, voluntary resettlement plan.
	The Times of Israel, which published the report, says a senior Israeli official has denied that any such discussions have taken place.
	But Israeli cabinet members have repeatedly raised the idea.
	I call on the Prime Minister and the new Foreign Minister.
	This is an opportunity for planning an immigration project and to encourage the migration of residents from Gaza to countries of the world.
	So they got all kinds of guys out there saying stuff without the President.
	His whole cabinet is doing press briefings.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, this is kind of like the Federal Reserve when every board member starts yacking away about the economy.
	No, it's a little worse.
	His cabinet is just doing, you know, we got to do this.
	We got to get something going and send him to the Congo.
	I love this Congo idea, by the way.
	Yeah.
	Congo is great for batteries and all kinds of stuff.
	And it's easy to spark some crap over there.
	Meanwhile, Somalia Somalia, you recall that Ethiopia, a new BRICS country, said, well, you know what?
	We're going to open up a base right under Djibouti.
	That's our turf, Djibouti.
	Right there by the, where the Houthis are causing trouble by the opening of the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
	And they said, we're just going to open this base in Somaliland.
	Which is not an official country, but they've organized and pretended it is, and Somalia, well, they got a call from Victoria Nuland.
	On Saturday, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohammed signed a law nullifying the memorandum of understanding signed between the government of Ethiopia and Somaliland.
	The symbolic move comes as Ethiopia and the breakaway Somali region signed a deal on January 1st.
	As part of the High Economic and Political Agreement, Somaliland plans to lease a 20-kilometer stretch of land along its coastline to landlocked Ethiopia.
	Somaliland President Moussa Bihi Abdi said the deal included a statement that Ethiopia would soon recognize the territory as an independent country.
	That is where the bone of contention lies.
	Somaliland is a self-declared republic.
	It has taken issue for years with the process and the legally binding character of the State of Union Law, which was to form a unified country after Somalia and Somaliland respectively gained independence from Italy and Britain.
	The AU chairperson urged Ethiopia and Somalia to engage without delay in negotiations to settle their differences.
	I'm sorry, it's Africa Today, but you can't get any other reporting about this stuff.
	Our media... Even Africa Today could find a spokesmodel that could do a better job than that woman.
	They have better ones.
	This is like the weekend team or something.
	Hey!
	You get in here.
	I know, it's horrible.
	But let's just summarize it for us.
	Okay, so Somaliland claims independence and they are the Republic of Somaliland.
	They are in the eastern tip, just the tip of Somalia, and they've done a deal, apparently, with the BRICS.
	And they said, well, you know what, we're just going to work with Ethiopia, a recent BRICS member, and we're going to just create a base because, you know, Ethiopia is landlocked.
	Ethiopia doesn't need a port, and I'm not talking about a port, it's a base, a military base.
	So I'm going to presume China or somebody else would have a presence there.
	This cannot, this will not stand under Djibouti.
	Which is right above it.
	It's too close.
	Yes.
	It's like right next door.
	Can't have that.
	No.
	They shoot down the drones as they take off.
	With a pistol.
	I have one more.
	I think this is the clip here.
	I'm not sure.
	There was a great Nat Pop.
	Let me see.
	Is this the Nat Pop clip?
	Yes.
	Blinkin'.
	So Blinkin' is back in the region.
	He's in the region.
	Look, my president is brain-dead.
	I've got my defense minister is in the hospital.
	He's being de-balled.
	I've got to do something.
	I'm the boss!
	U.S.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he wants to make sure the conflict in Gaza doesn't spread.
	This morning, he traveled to Jordan as part of a week-long diplomatic tour aimed at calming tensions.
	Blinken says he's particularly concerned about exchanges of fire on Israel's northern border with Lebanon.
	U.S.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken's week-long whistle-stop tour is aimed at calming tensions that have spiked.
	I love they call it a whistle-stop tour.
	That's kind of weird.
	U.S.
	Secretary of State Antony Blinken's week-long whistle-stop tour is aimed at calming tensions that have spiked since Israel's war with Hamas began.
	This is not just workaday diplomacy.
	There is genuine concern that the conflict is already escalating.
	We have an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading.
	Far too many Palestinians have been killed, especially children.
	This is interesting language.
	Far too many Palestinians have been killed.
	We figured it would be a thousand.
	That would be okay.
	Is this not weird?
	Far too many.
	Far too many.
	Well, how many was okay?
	Was there a level that was agreed to?
	like well you can kill a couple of them we have an intense focus on preventing this conflict from spreading far too many palestinians have been killed especially children far too many uh remain incredibly challenged in terms of their access to food This far too many is bad language.
	To water, to medicine, to the essentials of life.
	As the wheels of diplomacy turn.
	There it is.
	The essentials of life, water, food, and then a big tank explosion right after it.
	To food, to water, to medicine, to the essentials of life.
	As the wheels of diplomacy turn.
	In Gaza, there's been no let-up in the past three months.
	Israeli strikes claim more lives, food and medicine are increasingly scarce, and entire neighborhoods are reduced to rubble.
	The UN's humanitarian chief said Gaza has, quote, simply become uninhabitable.
	But Israel says that it is making progress.
	Yes, progress.
	But far too many.
	We had agreed only 1,500 dead, particularly children.
	Man, they just went above and beyond.
	Can't believe them.
	No good.
	Somebody's trying to make the thing spread somewhere.
	I believe it's the Russians.
	To take the pressure off of the Ukraine situation.
	They gotta resolve that.
	So they launched 200 missiles from Hezbollah, supposedly.
	Yes.
	Because these numbers are all dubious.
	But they supposedly launched 200 missiles.
	What's the point?
	They had to be told to do this.
	They didn't want to do it.
	Of course not.
	And Lebanon doesn't like the idea, but they're doing it anyway.
	No, Lebanon doesn't want any... Lebanon can't use much more problem.
	So... They're... Somebody's trying to... Somebody's trying to stoke issues.
	I think... And I believe it's the Russians, because they're trying to get us to... Interesting.
	Well, it makes sense.
	I mean, we can't... The Russians are sick of this stupid Ukraine war, and they want to get that resolved.
	You know who's sick of the Ukraine war?
	The Ukrainians.
	Oh, is there any left?
	No men to fight.
	And it's cold now.
	It's very cold.
	It's no longer the fighting season, so they're just doing drones.
	And the drones have a flaw.
	These are pre-programmed drones, a lot of them.
	So they fly a set route, and the guys just sit there and wait.
	Okay, done.
	Here comes another one.
	Yep, done.
	Here's NPR with the talk of this expansion up north.
	Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border.
	There are air raid sirens blaring across northern Israel today.
	Lebanon's Hezbollah militia says it fired dozens of rockets across the border this morning, and it's calling this just an initial response to the airstrike that killed a Hamas leader this past week, as you mentioned, in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
	Israel says it has sent tanks, artillery, and airstrikes across the border into Lebanon for the past few days.
	Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Galant inspected troops yesterday at the Northern Command, and then he recorded this video clip.
	In which he says Israel prefers a political settlement with Hezbollah rather than a military one, but that we are, quote, close to the point where the hourglass will turn.
	Hmm.
	Well, the sad thing is if you ask the Israelis or the Palestinians or the Lebanese, no one wants death and destruction.
	This is turf wars of probably just all money related.
	We have another area breaking out with issues.
	Mostly caused by us.
	What?
	No, say it ain't so.
	What is this about now?
	Serb elections.
	Now there's all kinds of weirdness going on in Serbia.
	The Balkan nation of Serbia is a flashpoint in Europe's struggle between democracy and autocratic leaders.
	Russia's war in Ukraine heightens Serbia's importance as it resists Western pressure to join sanctions on Russia.
	Now the nation is being torn apart by protests accusing the government of authoritarian president Alexander Vucic, who's a strong Putin ally, of widespread voter fraud in last month's elections.
	Ali Rogan has more.
	In central Belgrade, chants of Vucic, you are a thief.
	More than two weeks after what protesters say was a stolen election. - Okay.
	Vucic declared a sweeping mandate for his Serbian progressive party following wins in parliamentary and local elections that he called ahead of schedule.
	But international observers say Vucic's ruling party dominates Serbian media coverage and intimidates independent journalists, giving him an unfair advantage.
	On election day, there were reports of violence, ballot stuffing, and allegations of people getting bused in to different cities to vote.
	Since the vote, protesters have amassed in Belgrade, demanding the results be annulled.
	They've paused for Orthodox Serbian holidays, but will likely resume in mid-January.
	People are on the street, dissatisfied with the election fact, which is obvious.
	Everyone confirmed it.
	There has been a serious disruption of the electoral process, and that is why the elections have to be repeated.
	Opposition coalition leader Marinka Tepic has been on a hunger strike since the election.
	She addressed the crowds on December 30th just before she was hospitalized.
	I'm sorry that I can't say much.
	The only thing I can say is that I have already said everything and that these elections must be annulled.
	Why was she hospitalized?
	What happened?
	She's on a hunger strike and she's about to drop dead from lack of eating.
	Well, so does he think this has to do with Serbia's location?
	I think Trump should have gone on a hunger strike.
	He would still be on it.
	Do you think that this has anything to do with Serbia being right next to Hungary?
	It's got something to do with it.
	They try to explain it.
	They never do a full job.
	The Serbian guy who won, by the way, is just a Casper Milktoast character.
	And he's just trying to I don't know whether he won or not or how fraudulent the election was, but it's just they run this story I believe on PBS to kind of give us some parallels to what Trump might try to do.
	He's like Trump because this guy likes Putin and you know because everyone has to hate Putin or he's no good and we're part of what's going on here.
	Let's listen.
	These clips are interesting as it gets on with When they started discussing it with our people.
	Here's part two.
	Sorry, let me rewind that.
	Vucic has defended the results.
	He and Russia say the protests were being controlled by the West.
	We want to steer our own politics here.
	We don't mind paying the price for all the rubbish and lies because we know what the cost is.
	The election process will be concluded by the institutions of the Republic of Serbia.
	For more on the implications of these election results, I'm joined by Edward P. Joseph.
	He teaches at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and served for a dozen years in the Balkans, including with the U.S.
	Army.
	He has observed and organized numerous elections in the region.
	Edward, thank you so much for being here.
	First of all, can you tell us a little bit about what sort of leader Aleksandar Vucic has been, both internally within Serbia and with regard to other countries?
	President Vucic is the classic autocratic leader.
	He's attempting to establish thorough control of Serbia with the veneer of democracy.
	And that's what we see in these recent elections.
	This is what is known as illiberal democracy.
	His neighbor and his mentor and patron within the EU, of course, is Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary.
	Told you!
	I told you it had something to do with that.
	So this guy, this guy that they're talking to is from Johns Hopkins and he organized, what is an American organizing elections in these areas?
	What is that?
	Explain that to me.
	Okay, I will explain it to you.
	I will explain it from this article.
	One election system vendor in Serbia.
	Guess which one?
	Dominion.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	They even have a software development office in Belgrade.
	There you go.
	Just a little point.
	A little point.
	And then Orban, of course, who's still seen as the fly in the globalist ointment, is a bad guy for some reason.
	He's not on board with any of the bullcrap.
	He's not, and this guy's like, I guess, one of his protégés, and this is an issue with us.
	Us, particularly.
	Let's go to clip three.
	And Orbán set the model for this, where there's a veneer of democracy, where you hold elections, but the elections are actually meaningless because the ruling party controls, has such dominance over the media landscape.
	The opposition is weakened.
	The media are hugely dominated by the ruling party and independent journalists, activists are intimidated and that's what we've seen in search.
	That sounds like us!
	Yes!
	Hmm.
	What's the latest?
	There's some, I think it was a Pew or one of these guys did or Gallup did a research on the media, a political affiliation and something like 95% of everyone who's in the media today is a Democrat.
	Yeah.
	Well, that sounds like a recipe for disaster.
	Where's the 10%?
	Show me that.
	It's not Fox News.
	No.
	Well, yes.
	Newsmax.
	I'm sorry.
	Newsmax.
	There it is.
	One American News.
	No, that's it.
	One American News.
	One American News, yeah.
	With that over-made-up girl.
	CERB elections rigged.
	And there was nothing requiring these elections to be held at this time, so why did he call for these elections at this time?
	Well, that's exactly right.
	These are, again, early elections, and the best explanation for them is that President Vucic, as a result, in large part, mistaken U.S.
	policy by the Biden administration, was in a crisis.
	Where are we there?
	late September, there was a shocking confrontation in the north of Kosovo.
	This is where NATO troops, including U.S. troops, are deployed.
	And there was this Kosovo police patrol happening upon a Serb militia group, heavily armed, that could not have entered into Kosovo without Serbian authorities known.
	And, of course, that immediately cast suspicion on President Vucic himself.
	And this attack, which led to a shootout.
	So we can go in there, but the next door neighbor can't go in there.
	Oh, you mean Hungary?
	No.
	No, Serbia.
	Right.
	Is the next-door neighbor to Kosovo.
	Oh, yes.
	So they can't go in.
	We can go, we're there, and UN's there, but they can't go in.
	Okay.
	I just wanted to make sure that everyone got... There's been problems in the region in the past.
	Well, so we should go in.
	Of course!
	We created the problem.
	And of course, that immediately cast suspicion on President Vucic himself.
	And this attack, which led to a shootout in the North, killing a Kosovo police officer and three Serbs, was a huge shock.
	Because it showed, in fact, that the U.S.
	policy of trying to supplicate, of placate President Vucic and somehow bring him over from an autocratic, pro-Hungary, pro-Russia orientation had failed.
	It was that crisis, very likely, that President Vucic wanted to put behind him, reestablish his authority as the sole preeminent political figure in Serbia, and move forward.
	But it turns out that that is not going to be quite as simple as he thought.
	Right, so it's strategic for the region, and we want to make it into someone who dances to our pipes.
	Exactly, of course!
	Orban's enough of a pain in the ass.
	We don't need this joker.
	Where do these guys get the time to think about all this?
	I have no idea.
	Johns Hopkins is part of the problem.
	Where's Victoria Noolan?
	Let me see.
	Victoria... She's probably been there.
	Victoria... Well, you look at her.
	I played the last clip.
	So let's talk a little bit more about U.S.
	policy towards Serbia and the different priorities that the United States is balancing.
	How have they approached Alexander Vucic?
	What do you make of their response to this crisis?
	I would say this about U.S.
	policy, which has, again, brought us to this brink.
	President Biden has gotten the Balkans right consistently.
	President Biden himself understands the region, and he set off his administration with the words that we are in a challenge of democracy versus autocracy.
	So President Biden has gotten it right, but his administration has gotten it completely wrong.
	They've abandoned that.
	So we have a disparity in the Balkans, where the United States treats Serbia's neighbors to a much harsher, higher standard.
	And I should point out we've had two violent confrontations in Kosovo this year.
	We've had potential issues in Montenegro, which is a NATO ally, and now within the government there are pro-Russian elements within that NATO ally.
	And we have a brewing crisis, possibly even beginning this month, in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
	So this is the mistake of the Biden administration, has been to treat President Vucic to this different, softer standard.
	On the belief that somehow we can bring him over.
	Instead, what it has done is it has projected fear.
	The US basically projecting fear of Belgrade, which President Vucic correctly interprets as weakness and takes advantage.
	And this all goes, of course, to the benefit of his ally, which is Russia.
	Yeah, well, we had clips of problems brewing in Serbia, I think.
	Didn't they?
	Wasn't there something like something with their money?
	If I recall, hold on, what is this?
	Let me see.
	I don't remember the money thing, but I do know that this situation is, I find it interesting that he says that Biden's got it right, but the administration's got it wrong.
	Which says to me again, like everyone else says, Biden's not running anything.
	No, no.
	This is, well.
	The coverage was good, but we don't understand it.
	No, there's no, we have no... Well, no, but at least we're familiarizing ourselves.
	Are there Serbs in the audience?
	Come on, Serbs.
	Talk to us, Serbs.
	The Serbs hate our show.
	How about this?
	Even though we break up the show a little bit differently, very short donation segment today.
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	No entry.
	Second half of show.
	That's right!
	Second half of show is back!
	Finally!
	Woohoo!
	That's right, everybody.
	Second half of show.
	What's going on out there in the universe?
	And now to our number one trending story on CBSMiami.com.
	It involves talk of alien sightings at Bayside Marketplace.
	On New Year's Day, there was a massive police response in downtown Miami.
	More than 50 young people armed with sticks began fighting.
	Police say juveniles were also setting off fireworks, causing chaos.
	So now people are posting online saying that police weren't there to handle a group of rowdy teens but rather 8 to 10 feet tall shadowy aliens.
	Conspiracy theories are saying a big creature could be seen standing in front of the entrance to the shopping area.
	Bayside today the phrase is Miami Mall and aliens of Miami have been among the top 10 searches on Twitter's trending tab.
	Twitter of course now called X.
	And Google News even has several reports questioning the event.
	So we reached out to the Miami Police Department.
	They issued a statement saying in part, quote, there were no aliens, UFOs, or ETs.
	No airports were closed.
	No power outages.
	Face palm emoji was included in the statement.
	Yeah, obviously a cover-up.
	Cover-up by the Miami... obvious cover-up by the Miami police.
	Because there's no way you would have this... I mean, there were hundreds of police vehicles.
	They had at least four helicopters hovering overhead.
	It was obvious this was not just some kids fighting at the mall.
	These were eight to ten feet aliens with fire sticks.
	And we have eyewitness reports all over TikTok.
	Hey, by the way, whatever happened to getting rid of TikTok?
	Where did that go?
	Why did that stop?
	I thought TikTok was dangerous to democracy.
	Serious question.
	Trump would have gotten rid of it, but no, it's just benefiting the Democrat Party.
	Oh.
	So the lobbyists worked it out then, I guess.
	Yeah, there's some cash changed hands, perhaps.
	Well, we need to be talking to people about this because everyone was all in.
	We had hearings.
	TikTok is bad.
	China's killing our children.
	Scott Adams, he's commenced.
	TikTok is going to ruin America.
	But yet it's still here.
	And this is where we find eyewitnesses to this event.
	So, since nobody's gonna talk about it, I figured, you know, fuck it, like, you know what I'm saying?
	There are some expletives in this that I didn't have time to cut out.
	I was, uh, I was down in Miami for, uh, the New Year's, you know what I'm saying?
	Me and my girl, I got a little timeshare, we was down there on a, um, like a mini-vacay, you know, just to... I love this guy, by the way.
	Me and my girl, we had a timeshare down in Miami, little vacay.
	Start the New Year's off right, so anyway, we happened to be at that mall, so, um...
	We at Foot Locker or whatever.
	Next thing you know, you start hearing all this commotion outside.
	Sound like fire, like firecrackers or something.
	So, you know what I'm saying?
	I, you know, I grab her close.
	I'm like, yo, we about to get up out of here.
	Cause I, you know, I originally thought that they were shooting.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I thought, you know, some type of, um, gunfight had broke out, whatever the case is.
	Cause you know, we're not familiar with Miami.
	We're not familiar with the city.
	So I'm like, damn.
	I ain't even got my Blick so you know.
	I got my Blick.
	I guess that's a Glock Blick.
	We about to swerve.
	Swerve baby!
	It's like crazy like we just see all these people running like you know fat fat fat No cap!
	you know, old ladies, like, I'm talking about moving, you know what I'm saying, like, yo, old people even move, I'm talking about moving, so, you know, my girl, she's like, what's going on, I'm like, fuck all that, we out, like, I'm not gonna ask no questions, we just gonna follow the crowd, next thing you know, you know, real, like, gunshots start going off, so, you know what I'm saying, like, like, gunshots start going off, so, you know what I'm saying, like, we trying to, we trying to follow the crowd, get out
	I look back, I look back, no cap, yo, no cap, I look back, it looked like, like, like, a big-ass shadow, but it was solid at the same time, like, a few, like, a few shadows, but they were solid at the same time, and it almost looked like they was coming our direction, like, they was and it almost looked like they was coming our direction, like, they was chasing us, but they was disappearing and reappearing closer, so, I'm So we start really moving.
	The next day, you know, we start hearing more gunshots.
	Like, these dudes start firing at this shit.
	Get outside, mad police, all that.
	You know what I'm saying?
	They start, the police is, like, trying to get all the people that ran out the mall.
	They, like, trying to, like, detain these people, whatever.
	But, you know, me and my girl, we ended up just, you know, sliding past all that and everything like that.
	But, you know, a lot of people saying, why didn't nobody film and all that?
	When that type of shit is going on, Him saying shit like that?
	Like some paranormal?
	Nobody thinking about no phone.
	No!
	No, there's a bunch of John C. Dvorak's with no phone at all!
	So they didn't get any, no video.
	See, this is the problem.
	I don't care what monster you're gonna see coming in and out of dimensionality as he describes it.
	Someone's gonna be pulling out their phone.
	Well, we didn't get any pictures of any teenagers shooting either.
	So, this is very suspicious.
	Well, here's what's going on.
	This is just the beginning.
	Wait, let me stop you.
	Okay.
	It's a movie coming out that has something to do with something about this sort of thing.
	That would be great.
	It's a movie.
	It's bullcrap.
	If I could roll out a movie trailer, that would be the best right now.
	No, this is Project Bluebeam.
	This is where we start to, and of course you're going to use TikTok.
	As you said, it benefits the elites, the Democrat Party, and that's why TikTok is not gone yet.
	No, this is where we start to bring, Joe Rogan will be all over this, this is where we start to bring in the aliens, people have seen it, clearly, eyewitness, and eventually these aliens will start talking to us and then we can get rid of religion and we can all go towards the aliens and we can follow the New World Order.
	That is, and you'll see more of these craft in the air that'll all be projected.
	Project Bluebeam is, has, I call Project Bluebeam now activated.
	It's activated and it's biblical.
	It's been predicted.
	It's been predicted.
	This is, it's all, it's all coming now.
	This is just, just the start.
	We'll keep an eye out then.
	Bluebeam activated.
	Yes, I will.
	I will stay on the beat.
	Yes, this is all yours.
	Thanks.
	Unless there's a local phenomenon that takes place, which I will use a regular camera to film.
	Yes, you will.
	You'll go out right away.
	Now, there was another interesting legal case.
	By the way, I do have a tick.
	If you don't want to go into it, if you're not following up, I have a tick tock clip.
	Talk.
	Talk.
	Tick tock.
	Hold on.
	This is some lunatic.
	This is a lunatic that's threatening everybody.
	You guys should just be arrested immediately.
	But unlike your clip... Yes.
	I took care of the profanity issues.
	I'm glad you did.
	I apologize.
	I'm sorry.
	I missed it.
	I didn't have time to do it.
	I do wish death on transphobic people because they wish death on me and have caused death to many, many, many of my brothers and sisters in the trans community.
	I want to stab all of you to death as many times as I can.
	I want to stab you in the throat and twist it like I'm carving a Uh, I'd say decaf.
	I want to shred you into tiny pieces.
	I want to tear your bones out from your body.
	I want to scoop your brains out with a spoon.
	I want to eat your flesh.
	I'd say decaf.
	Decaf may be a good idea for this person.
	I mean, minimally, but I just want to show you how it's done by a pro.
	You didn't do that.
	The clip came that way.
	Yes, I did.
	You did that?
	Yeah.
	Well, that's pretty good.
	The clip was extremely, well, you could tell it was very profane.
	This is the problem with social media these days?
	I mean, if you go on X, you just go on X for five minutes, you're seeing people kill each other, you're seeing murders, you're seeing deaths.
	It's terrible.
	It really is.
	And then you have these doofuses like threatening everyone.
	Yeah, and not that I'm against free speech, you should be able to, I mean, that's actually threatening.
	I don't think that, I think there may be limits to what you can do there.
	I'm all for free, you know, open news media, but it's not like a, it's not a healthy thing.
	To be going on social media and looking at all this stuff.
	I agree.
	And TikTok, as you know, I've loaded up the app once or twice and I deleted it immediately because, you know, you stop for one second on, oh, this is kind of, let's see how this guy gets killed.
	Oh, oh, man, that's horrible.
	And then you get five more.
	And then you scroll in and scroll in and scroll in.
	Yeah, because you're watching them.
	You shouldn't be watching them.
	No, exactly.
	It's very unhealthy.
	I do not have an app.
	I never use an app.
	I go on the web browser.
	It goes on the browser and then I type in tiktok.com and it brings up a... I'll search for something specifically and maybe I'll find it or I won't.
	Now do you look for crazy transgender people?
	Is that your search term?
	People send those to me.
	This was sent to me by one of our producers.
	Dig this guy!
	This is something that I saw this morning.
	It was on MSNBC, the Katie Fang Show.
	I've never seen her show before.
	It was a miracle because I was watching it live on YouTube TV while taking a shower or shaving.
	Did you electrocute yourself?
	No, no.
	And I'm like, oh, I wish I had this clip of this guy and of the situation.
	And lo and behold, MSNBC had the whole show up on YouTube.
	So I was able to get these two clips.
	And we know what's going on here, but I just wanted to accentuate the point of what's happening in this particular case.
	In May of 2022, rapper Young Thug, whose given name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams, and 27 other defendants were charged in a sweeping 65-count indictment, accusing the suspects of being part of a criminal street gang named YSL, or Young Slime Life.
	The RICO indictment alleges Young Thug and other YSL members committed crimes like murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, theft, drug dealing, carjacking and witness intimidation.
	Young Thug is charged with 8 out of the 65 total counts.
	Since his arrest, Young Thug has been in the Cobb County Jail for nearly two years awaiting trial.
	And in November, prosecutors secured a win when the presiding judge agreed to allow them to use relevant rap lyrics in the trial as evidence.
	But the use of these lyrics raises the question of whether that's constitutional in the first place.
	After all, Johnny Cash didn't get arrested for singing, I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
	Okay, just an idiot.
	So, what was not in this report at all, and which you won't hear, but I want to circle back to it, is this is about drill rap.
	And this is something I learned from Mo.
	We talked about it extensively when that whole gang got arrested in New York.
	Drill rap is very popular.
	This is where gangs are indeed killing each other and then make hip-hop songs about it.
	The sick part of this is the music industry He uses this drill rap once something starts hitting the algos in YouTube, then it hits the algos in Spotify, then they sign these drill rappers to a sub-label of a major label, and they're making money off of it.
	We've talked about that.
	I don't know if you remember.
	They are literally making money off of black men killing each other and glorifying it.
	It started in the UK.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's huge over in the UK.
	It's big in America.
	And what's disgusting about it is that this is the music industry.
	They are promoting this.
	They are propagating this.
	They do not care.
	And so, of course, they bring in the hugest music industry douchebag lawyer to defend it.
	Joining me now is Scott Grebin, criminal defense attorney in Georgia who previously represented Kenneth Chesbrough in the Fulton County election interference RICO case.
	So let's focus a little bit on some of these lyrics.
	They include, quote, got a lot of followers, a perfect leader, I'm a boss, I call the shots.
	Another one.
	For slimes, you know I'll kill.
	Another one.
	And I never killed anybody, but I got something to do with that body.
	Now, wait until you hear this guy's defense.
	Scott, what happened to the First Amendment in this case?
	I think the problem here is that rappers are not given the same artistic license as other artists are in music and other industries.
	I always give the example, you just gave an example about Johnny Cash.
	I'd like to give an example about the actor Joe Pesci.
	I think for a minute Joe Pesci is prosecuted for some sort of violent crime.
	Would the prosecutor try to admit evidence of some of his scenes in his movies like Goodfellas, like Casino, where he's engaging in violent acts, where he's threatening violent acts?
	Of course they wouldn't.
	And if they did, the judge wouldn't let it in.
	Why?
	Because everybody knows that Joe Pesci is playing the part.
	He's playing whatever character he's playing on that movie.
	Well, guess what?
	So is Jeffrey Williams.
	This man is not named Young Thug.
	This man is named Jeffrey Williams.
	And he's playing a character too.
	So when he says those things, I'm the big slime, I had something to do with that body.
	How is that any different than Joe Pesci saying, hey, you looking at me?
	I'm gonna kill you on Goodfellas.
	It's really not.
	And for some reason, and I think there might be arguments as to what some of those reasons are... Oh, racism!
	Rap artists are not given the artistic license and freedom that these other artists are.
	They should arrest all these record executives, arrest the labels, arrest the Spotify executives, arrest YouTube people responsible for promoting this.
	This is really atrocious.
	It's so just sick!
	And this is how these guys defend racism.
	Fascinating clips, I think.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Because the argument is logical.
	I think it's totally logical.
	But the background indicates otherwise.
	In other words, if you don't know about what's going on...
	At the base.
	It's not baseless.
	But at base level, you know what's going on.
	The argument is specious.
	Yes!
	But the fact that you throw the specious argument out there because it makes nothing but sense, because it's logical, makes this interesting.
	Thank you.
	I think everybody out there would at least find some level of interest in that crazy thing you just brought in.
	Yes, I would hope so.
	We'll never discuss it again, I hope.
	Well, you never know.
	There is one more TikTok-related clip.
	I actually had this for the last show.
	Vape Wars, yes, it's your vape.
	Wars, wars on a vape.
	Vain, the cigarette.
	That's right, everybody, the vape wars.
	So cute.
	Now, even discussed on DH Unplugged how big tobacco companies bought up vape companies.
	What did they buy that vape company for?
	Like 20 billion dollars?
	Some outrageous amount of money.
	And they wrote it off for 400 million?
	Like, okay, that was, we failed it.
	And if you look at the statistics, cigarette smoking is back up, it's on the rise!
	But we still have these idiot kids vaping, which in my, from my research, is healthier than smoking.
	There may be other issues, but I'm a vaper, and I like it.
	I enjoy it.
	I stopped smoking tobacco and other plant products, which I feel are perfectly fine for people to smoke, but it wasn't for me anymore.
	But vaping?
	Oh, no, no.
	We're taking money right out of the big tobacco's pockets, which directly affects the Master States Agreement.
	Which is the money that states receive as compensation for all the people who are dying from cancer.
	This is the agreement, this is what the big tobacco agreement was all about, and so we have taxes, and those taxes, you know, the states can take these taxes because, you know, we have to pay for people who are dying of smoking cigarettes, and we can't have that go away, and it seemed like the kids were stopping to smoke, and then we had to stop that, especially menthol, because, you know, black people smoke and that, so we can't have people vaping menthol!
	So let's get these kids off the vape.
	A new trend on TikTok.
	I just want to tell you one more reason you should stop vaping.
	Encouraging people to stop vaping.
	But this time, it's not about their health.
	It's aimed at helping workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's artisanal cobalt mines.
	Smaller scale operations where the work is often done by hand.
	These mines have dangerous conditions and even child labor, according to humanitarian groups like Amnesty International.
	I'm quitting vaping.
	The reason it's still happening is because of how much we consume!
	TikTok creator Christina Narkai heard about what happens in these mines and says she was so outraged, she had to do something.
	And he just kept saying, don't buy new electronics.
	And I'm like, I already do that.
	You know, what else can I do?
	And then I found just to quit vaping.
	Cobalt is a key element used to make lithium-ion batteries, which much of our technology depends on.
	Things like smartphones, electric vehicles, and most e-cigarettes.
	I would buy a vape pretty much like once or twice a week.
	Two-thirds of the world's cobalt supply comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa.
	But most of that is then sent to China, where it's refined, before it's sold to battery manufacturers, and then brand-name companies buy those batteries.
	I'm telling you, TikTok is a valuable property.
	Hold on a second.
	First of all, artisanal mines, I love that.
	Small batch, baby.
	Small batch.
	And so we got that in play.
	And the other thing is one vape device, it probably, one Tesla probably accounts for all the vape devices ever manufactured in terms of battery use.
	But we got to sigh up the children into not vaping.
	Get back on the stick.
	Get back on the tobacco stick, children.
	TikTok is a valuable property, and it pains me to say it, but we have to pay more attention to it.
	Hey, you're talking, you're talking, you're preaching to the choir here.
	This is what I've been doing.
	Yeah, but yours is always kind of the same.
	It's always some nut job with eyeshadow.
	It's like, you know, come on, man.
	We have to look at other things TikTok is doing.
	Wow.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	In the morning to you, the man who put the C in the cube head.
	Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMaria!
	Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	Also, in the morning to all fish at sea, boots on the ground, subs in the water.
	Subs in the water!
	And all the dames and knights out there.
	In the morning to the trolls in the troll room, who've been quite active today.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, okay.
	21.53.
	2153.
	That seems better.
	Yeah, we're 300 low.
	Yeah, but better than last time.
	Yes, they're 1900 or whatever we had last week.
	Oh no, 1775.
	No, it was bad.
	That was really bad.
	No, it was bad, bad, bad.
	The trolls hang out in the troll room at trollroom.io.
	You can...
	Go there yourself, troll around, do whatever you want, hope you feel good about it.
	You should, it's fun.
	It's ephemeral, so you know, it's like, comes and it goes, and no one's gonna make any trouble for you at all.
	You can also get a modern podcast app, save yourself some trouble.
	They update within 90 seconds of the No Agenda Show updating, and there's probably It's probably about 400,000 podcasts that update within 90 seconds on the modern podcast apps.
	You get all kinds of, you know, you get transcripts which you can search, you get album art, you get chapter art, you get all kinds of fun stuff.
	By going to podcastapps.com and move away from the big boys.
	Move away from the legacy apps.
	Screw those guys.
	Get on with the independent developers.
	Those small dudes, small batch, artisanal.
	The artisanal apps of Podcasting 2.0.
	There you go.
	What you could also do, of course, especially for artwork, You could go to noagenartgenerator.com if you wanted to, and over there you could refresh and see stuff updating in real time because we're a value for value podcast, which means no corporate, weird, creepy money, no advertising.
	All we do is put everything out there, all of this media deconstruction.
	I think today we're probably about 69 or 72 clips, depending on how much we play after the break.
	You know, thought goes into this, work goes into this, we put it all out there, we weave it together in the womb of No Agenda, and we present it to you.
	Free of charge.
	The value is right there.
	If you find anything valuable about what you've heard, consider sending that back to us in time, talent, or treasure.
	We'll get to the treasure, but when it comes to time and talent, our artists are top-notch.
	And I believe Sir Paul Couture has done some extra work for us and has upgraded some servers and he actually posted something this morning.
	Are you happy now?
	You happy now, you complainers?
	Happy now.
	So we want to thank the artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1622.
	We titled that Juiced Joe, which of course is right.
	He was juiced up.
	And Darren O'Neill brought us the artwork that we used.
	Yeah, he lamented it.
	What do you mean?
	On the No Agenda Socials.
	He lamented it?
	What do you mean?
	Yeah, he says, uh-huh, they picked my crappy piece of art, go figure, something like that.
	Those kind of words.
	Well, we'll strike it from the record.
	No, he didn't think much of it himself, it sounds like.
	Well we liked it, it was the media deconstruction.
	Why did we like it?
	Because there was nothing else.
	It was a fallback piece of crap.
	So I'm going to be on Darren's side on this.
	Most is because people are posting AI stuff.
	Oh, no, they're all posting AI stuff.
	And then a bunch of people are doing Disney stuff because of the release of Steamboat Willie.
	We already said no, we're not going to do that.
	We said no to that.
	We're not going to pick it because we don't want Disney going after us.
	Disney's already making trouble about people.
	You know, demonetizing, deplatforming YouTube videos.
	You know, someone created an AI art generator.
	That's all about Steamboat Willie.
	Oh, I'd love to see that.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, everybody's a prompt engineer now.
	Yeah, that's what it is.
	Prompt engineering.
	The stuff that was real was correct to record.
	It wasn't great.
	It was, you know, it was an old, what was it like?
	It looked like a 286 computer with the best podcast on the net.
	I mean, I understand.
	It's cute.
	You know, a lot of people did Hawking's art, which, believe me, was not great.
	Then we had, uh, I mean, it's just, it's AI stuff.
	It's not, this is, this is my problem.
	I mean, there's lots of stuff being created, but this has no soul.
	That's no soul.
	That's what it is.
	Soulless.
	It's soulless, baseless, soulless art.
	Yeah, it's, uh, right.
	It's not good.
	It hasn't got any oomph.
	Ah, yes, it's oomphless.
	It's oomphless and soulless and mostly not funny.
	That's the worst part.
	And I think what happens is because it's slick... Oh, it's very slick.
	A lot of it.
	Not all of it, though.
	No.
	Some of it's crappy.
	It's slick, but the real artist's like, oh, they'll probably choose this.
	This is so slick.
	I could never do this.
	Well, you could.
	You could.
	Well, you know, I've used these art generators and you do one, the AI art, and you do them and you get a bunch of, sometimes you get selections, you get maybe a few to look at.
	And you look at them, you go, wow, that's pretty impressive.
	Yeah.
	And that's exactly what you said.
	I don't think I could do this piece, so I'm going to submit it.
	Exactly.
	Yeah.
	But it's oomphless and soulless.
	Pretty much.
	It's kind of just junk spot, junk spot art.
	Yeah.
	And it makes me sad because we've had, you know, probably 27,000 submissions up until the AI revolution.
	And it just sucks.
	I mean, I'm, you know, people get mad at me.
	By the way, we should probably, we forgot to do a mea culpa about the Panama Canal.
	Oh yeah.
	Do it, because you said it.
	Well, the Panama Canal is largely filled and released water from this big giant lake, which I forgot about, which is where the canal kind of goes next to this lake fills and the lake is down because of the drought in Panama.
	And so that's causing issues with the canal, the way it's engineered.
	So it's not just ocean water going through there.
	I don't see why you can't just bring more ocean water in.
	But what's interesting is, you know, I'd say 60% of people said, oh no, you're wrong.
	You know, I lived there or I looked it up, you know, it's like, oh no, it's actually, it's a series of tubes and it's fresh water.
	But there's people who say, I can't believe.
	That's that same guy.
	I don't even know why he listens to the show.
	It only took five seconds to research this.
	And they send it to me!
	Yeah, that's the, by the way, that's the best part.
	And so I reply and say, I'm not John's intern, and I copy you.
	Yeah, you did that.
	Yeah, I saw that.
	You always CC me so you make sure that I'm aware of your ire.
	Yes, because it, I mean, people, we're just dudes.
	I mean, yes, we are the Creative Aura Consulting Group.
	Yes, we're pretty good at media deconstruction, doing it for a long while.
	We're fallible.
	No, we make a mistake a month, at least.
	Oh, more than that.
	But the snark of it.
	I'm sorry.
	Do your own podcast.
	And by the way, speaking of value... It turns out to be harder than it looks.
	Curry DeVore at Consulting Group Time.
	We got a note from Elsie and Tully.
	I just want to read this.
	In the morning, this is Elsie and Talia, ages 16 and 12.
	Hey, John.
	This is probably one of our youngest producers.
	We love the show.
	We love the show, and it has entertained us on multiple road trips, so we thought we would contribute in the form of jingles.
	Our mom is going to send in some money to de-douche our dad, but hasn't got to it yet.
	Come on, mom.
	What are you waiting for?
	So that we'll be the first in our family to contribute.
	We enjoy messing around with audio and stuff, so we hope you like these jingles.
	Also, would you give us some advice?
	We'd love to hear it.
	So I'll just play what they sent to you.
	I'll play one and we should give them a little critique.
	Here it is.
	You know what fracture starts with?
	F. You know what people starts with?
	P. You know what FP also stands for?
	What?
	Free Beach!
	Woo!
	so it's a it's a it's a good a good start it's a start They need to drop their music back.
	I couldn't hear the words.
	I couldn't hear your voices.
	You know what?
	Hello?
	So that should be very low.
	I mean, you know, there's no reason they have a booming bed on top of everything.
	It's annoying.
	Yes.
	But if it was in the background very low while you guys were singing in the foreground with a little less echo, I might add.
	Yes, that was also a problem.
	Echo was a little bit too much, yes.
	But you know you could probably run it through one of those filters and take the echo completely out if you wanted to.
	But yeah, they got the right idea.
	You got the right idea, kids.
	We're glad, yes.
	I mean, how rare is it, though, that you get young people at that age who are doing audio production?
	None.
	Zero.
	Never happens.
	That's why I thought it was worth playing.
	I like that.
	Good start.
	Good start.
	So that's your time, that's your talent, and now it's time for the treasure in our value for value model.
	So we're going to start with our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	Short list today.
	I would say this.
	I would say this to be a performative here.
	I would say, I will say this.
	You will say, yes.
	We have a million listeners and we have 30,000 people that subscribe religiously to the newsletter and we had a total of 28 donations over 50 bucks.
	This really is pathetic.
	We are very appreciative though.
	Why don't you take the first one, since there's no note, and then I can do the one that's very long.
	Yeah, which is probably what I was going to suggest.
	I have no idea why there's no note, but we have a $2,000 donation.
	After I just complained, we have a $2,000 donation.
	Yeah, I was going to say, way to go.
	It sounds like I'm a pig, but the fact is that the...
	Yeah.
	The fact is, yes.
	The fact is that, you know, there's like one guy.
	Other people are overcompensating for the freeloaders.
	Yeah, there's like one guy.
	So, I mean, he's a great guy, but I don't, you know, Paul, why in Corpus Christi, Texas?
	is the guy and he comes in with two thousand dollars with no note that we could find and i'm sure he'll come in with a note when he feels like it and we'll be glad to read it when he does that but we'll give him a double up karma until that happens you've got karma all right then we go to brad renick brentwood tennessee 1222 which is also
	So quite nice.
	Fellas, fellas, consider me to be, consider me sir to be thirsty, because yes, this is, uh, we're in, uh, insta, instant night level here.
	Sir to be thirsty.
	Sir to be thirsty.
	I discovered you during COVID working for a major trillion-dollar global company.
	Well, that's... that narrows it down.
	To two.
	Which is Apple and... Amazon.
	What a weird time.
	And there was a ton of pressure at my company that's based in California stateside.
	Apple.
	They forced our hands during that period and to this day I feel disgusted with myself for taking the shot.
	I waited a year and finally caved to do it to keep my job, one of my biggest life regrets because I never cave.
	Just not what I do.
	I went out of my way to find the one place in town that served the J&J and did that one.
	You're probably okay actually.
	No issues, but I don't know.
	Yeah, no issues, but I don't know.
	Well, you know, the J&J would cause like immediate blood clot death.
	Yeah, or not, or you're okay.
	Or nothing, you're good to go.
	My wife is a pediatrician and for at least a solid 18 months I fought her tooth and nail on what she's doing and what is reality.
	Uh-oh, does this end in divorce, this story?
	First half of that was me catching up to what's really going on when you guys showed up in my life.
	We took a lot of walks after that argument, so much so because she was certain that what she's being told prescribed and recommended is accurate.
	I mean, we fought hard.
	I'm a sales guy.
	She's a doctor.
	Who wins that?
	Sales guy should win.
	Anyways, while she hates a lot of your machinations with the noises and you're obnoxious, she finds me obnoxious, too.
	Over time, though, she's completely flipped.
	She's flipped.
	You guys were an integral part of that, and she is representative of what Adam has mentioned many times before.
	They all go by recommendations.
	There's no debate on this.
	Nobody actually questions anything.
	It is pretty crazy once you dig into all like this.
	I agree with Adam.
	Excuse me.
	Südkeit.
	Danke.
	I agree with Adam.
	You can't force the apology and rub it in their faces.
	At least not in this case.
	Yeah, that's right.
	You must forgive.
	Doesn't mean you have to reconcile, but just forgive because you're the one that is... you're eating yourself up over that.
	Let it go.
	But she's not even recommending the shot for kids now, whereas this is still a thing everywhere else in my town of Nashville.
	It's wild!
	They won't give the shot.
	Lucky they never did.
	I made sure she never provided that.
	Okay, now I have to scroll a little bit because...
	Yeah, no, it's too long.
	Yes, it is.
	But it's a good note.
	We went to dinner tonight and as we rolled down the highway, I said, can we put on no agenda?
	She said, sure.
	That's big.
	Thanks, guys.
	It's a kind of a quick note there.
	Well, thank you, brother.
	And and you will indeed be knighted today.
	And I'm glad that you and your wife are on good terms.
	We love that.
	Even though she thinks we're she probably still thinks we're obnoxious, but We are.
	Hey, what can I tell you?
	You have to be obnoxious at some level to get an audience to stick with you, because obnoxiousness is part of personality.
	Ooh, yes, yes.
	Don't you think?
	It's charasma.
	Not necessarily good personality, but you know.
	It is what it is.
	I hate listeners.
	It is what it is.
	Diane B's not one of them.
	She comes in from Ashington, Great Britain.
	I don't even know where that is.
	I mean, I know where Great Britain is.
	I never heard of Ashington, but that's where she's from.
	Mm-hmm.
	Jobs Karma for MNX Security UK and all our security officers who work through Christmas and New Year.
	Best Wishes for 2024.
	She came in with 333.44.
	Jingles.
	Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, 33's the magic number.
	Executive Producership for Diane B. Loves Lit.
	33, that's the magic number.
	It's the magic number.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	All right.
	Now we move to Archie Brentano from Tigard, Oregon.
	333.33.
	We love these numbers.
	Hello, JCD and Podfather.
	With this donation of 333.33, I've donated a total of $1,001.
	Or 33.
	Oh, is that a binary or 33?
	Oh, this switcheroo is on behalf, is for my better half, Mandy.
	All right.
	Hold on a second.
	So I'm going to put Mandy in that switcheroo.
	Hold on.
	I presume her name is Brentano, but it doesn't matter because she'll have a... You're making presumption.
	You assume.
	Yeah, it doesn't matter because we list her Dame name.
	Henceforth known as Dame Yeno.
	Until she puts up treasure to change it.
	That's how you get them.
	Please credit her with this executive producer credit.
	It has been a long journey and I'll be proud to have her at the roundtable for jiggles slash jingles, little girl yay, TPP jobs karma, and a yeah no.
	So if you don't mind I will I'll do the, yeah, no, and then we'll do the TPP Jobs Karma with a little girl, yay.
	Yeah, no.
	Jobs!
	You've got karma.
	Yay!
	Boom.
	I'll take the next couple, including Ann Williams.
	I'm sorry, I forgot to say something here.
	Request for the roundtable, almond, dairy, and vanilla, plus put her on the birthday list for January 7th and give her a biscuit.
	Nothing is too good for my day.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	There you go, sorry about that.
	She's on the list.
	Ann Williams is up from Pagewood in New South Wales, Australia.
	222 and she's got no note.
	So she gets a double up Karma.
	You've got Karma.
	That follows with Linda Lou Patkin.
	She comes in on Saturdays and she came in right on time again from Lakewood, Colorado.
	We're wondering now how long this will continue.
	Yeah.
	She comes in with 200 bucks every single show and asks for jobs, Karma, and likes to say, for a remarkable resume that gets results, go to Image Makers, Inc.
	.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
	That's Image Makers, Inc.
	with a K.com or just find Linda Bupatkin under the show's producer list.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	And we're almost there.
	Two more.
	One more associate executive producer, Sir Mike the Fortunate from Foo Cave Arena.
	I think that's the way you pronounce it.
	North Carolina 200.
	Switcheroo, switcheroo.
	John Adam, a belated birthday present.
	Credits to my keeper and best friend Dame Kelly the Resolute.
	The info on the Middle East situation on the last podcast was exceptional.
	The podcast gets better and better.
	Keep up the good work.
	Jingles.
	Judge Jeanine, bomb them again.
	Obama, you might die.
	Little girl, yay.
	From Sir Mike the Fortunate.
	Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.
	You might die.
	Yay!
	At last, Is Lynn, Lynn of the Garden State, that's in New Jersey.
	ITM John, she writes, she sent a card, nice card.
	It's a card you can tell by the noise.
	ITM John and Adam sending you both a note of appreciation for your work to keep us all calm in this crazy world.
	I need to start off 2024 with my first donation.
	No agenda.
	There you go.
	So she does request a de-douching.
	No, we can do that.
	You've been de-douched.
	She continues, happy to return some of the value you have provided me on my long... on my long commutes to work.
	I'm requesting the de-douching which she just got and a double up karma for everybody, Lynn of the Garden State.
	You've got...
	And that is our Executive Associate Executive Producers for show 1623.
	And these are credits that stay with you for the rest of your life.
	It's almost like herpes.
	Forever you will have the... Better though.
	Much better.
	You will be an executive producer or associate executive producer of episode 1623 of the best podcast in the universe.
	You can put it in your LinkedIn profile, any profile really, any social media if you want to.
	Of course you might get harassed if you're, if you, you know, you know how it is on LinkedIn.
	You could put it in your resume.
	Resume.
	That might actually, Linda Lou Patkin might agree.
	Put it on your resume.
	Or go to imdb.com.
	You can open up a profile if you don't have one, which you probably don't, but there's hundreds and hundreds of executive and associate executive producers of the No Agenda Show because they're real, they're recognized, and they're yours forever.
	And John's going to take us through the 50s, it'll go real quick, and then we'll knight a dame and a dame, and we've got some meetups, all kinds of stuff to talk about.
	Yeah, you know you're in trouble when your first donor in this list is Kevin McLaughlin.
	Yeah, yeah. 8008.
	He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of American boobs.
	And then Jeremiah Spiewak in Highland Park, Illinois comes in with what he calls pointy boobs of 7007.
	Oh, pointy.
	This is new.
	This is a new one.
	Totally new.
	And then it follows with Grace and Insurance.
	Grace and Insurance in Aurora, Colorado.
	6006 small boobs.
	So we have three boob donations in a row, all of different donation amounts.
	Meanwhile, we have Eli the Coffee Guide, gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.
	Yeah.
	So I've been, I had one this morning.
	Yeah.
	But let me just say Bensonville, Illinois, 5650.
	Yeah.
	So I had one of these gigawatt cold fusion.
	Yeah.
	It's made with SnapChill technology.
	Whatever that is.
	I'm, I'm a jacked.
	I've been jacked all morning from this stuff.
	Really?
	It's, it's interesting because you think it'll be, I mean, it is, all it is, is coffee and water.
	That's all it is.
	Okay.
	A refreshing cold coffee experience.
	They don't mention how much caffeine is in here, but I guess they don't need to because it's just coffee.
	Coffee and water, that's all that's in there.
	But man, I, it's like, it's, it's hardcore.
	You gotta be careful.
	Well, they're mostly, I think, a bean operation, although they do have a bunch of these canned drinks, which are a good idea.
	I think you can make a lot of money from canned drinks.
	Oh, really?
	Well, it's a professional product.
	Michael Gates, yeah, they're slick.
	Michael Gates, 50, by the way, ITM 20 for 20% off your order.
	I'll get that in there.
	52.80 from Michael Gates.
	Stephanie Schmidt in San Francisco, 51.50.
	And she's still a librarian.
	Oh, oh my goodness.
	I got a note.
	I gotta read this for a second, sorry.
	I got a beautiful present from the anonymous No Agenda librarian.
	She sent me, and this is 35 years ago, she sent me an original poster that I did for the American Library Association.
	Mint, complete mint poster, MTV guy hair, the whole deal, Adam Curry for the American Library Association.
	I was blown away.
	35 years ago, and she was able to find one, because of course, she's a librarian.
	Yeah, that's what they do.
	Yeah, thank you.
	In fact, I love my job and I love what I do.
	Josiah Thomas in Ankeny, Iowa, 51.
	And boom, we're right at the $50 donors level right now.
	And I'm going to read them off the name and location, starting with Michael Labarra in Williamston, Michigan.
	Alex Zavala in Kyle, Texas.
	Oh, Alex, Sir Alex.
	Matthew Smith in Colchester, Suffolk, UK.
	Ryan Tiernan in North Providence, Rhode Island.
	Jonathan Ferris in Liberal, Kansas.
	Kelly Hubbard in Plymouth, Minnesota.
	Donating my winnings from Fantasy Football.
	I'm good for her.
	Nice.
	She knows how to play.
	Justin Cruz in Tehachapi, California.
	Justin.
	Justin.
	Stefan or Steven.
	Steven Ray in Spokane, Washington.
	Robertson Home.
	Robertson Home!
	In Flint, Michigan.
	Edwin Misurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
	Rachel Ribbe.
	R-I-B-B-E in Canton, Ohio.
	And this is a switcheroo dedouche.
	My husband.
	You've been de-douched!
	He's got a birthday and he's gonna get credit Andrew and she says this is her favorite douche bag but he's been de-douched so it's no longer true Person of Merit Comics in Columbus, Ohio.
	And last on our short list, very short list, Sir Jackson in Leveland, Texas.
	He needs some Jobs Karma.
	We'll give Jobs Karma for everyone who needs it here at the end.
	And that's it?
	That's it.
	We're done.
	I'll do the jobs.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	I got a rather sad note from producer Robert.
	Robert Roberts.
	He says, Adam, I've been waffling on whether to ask this.
	My friends Ben and Jess Stone, Ben was an avid listener, were killed in a car wreck on the 29th of December.
	Their four kids are okay, but I guess they're with them now.
	One, three, six, and eight years old.
	The company they work for had a lot of listeners as well.
	This has been a tragic and heartbreaking loss.
	I was hoping for prayers and love and light.
	I'm sure that everybody is praying for the kids and for, of course, Ben and Jess and you.
	I don't like these notes, but I did want to share since we are the big No Agenda family.
	And thank you very much to all of our producers, especially those who are always there with the sustainable donations.
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	Thank you again for being supporters of No Agenda episode 1623.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out.
	We hit people in the mouth.
	World.
	Order.
	Shut up, Slade.
	Shut up.
	It's your birthday, birthday.
	I'm so much champion.
	And we always have a couple of birthdays to celebrate.
	Archie Rentano wishes his better half, Mandy, a happy birthday.
	She's actually celebrating today.
	Rachel Ribby wants to say happy birthday to her hubby, Andrew.
	Now, he'll be 30 on January 10th.
	And Sir Mike the Fortunate says happy birthday to Dame Kelly DeResolu.
	Maybe it's her birthday today.
	Regardless, happy birthday.
	And we say happy birthday to all of you people on behalf of No Agenda.
	Uh, oh, sorry.
	We don't, let me see, do we have any, uh, no, no, it's just, uh, uh, one day, one night, so, uh, that's good.
	There you go.
	That's, ooh, that's, I like that.
	Combo, it's a combo.
	Combo.
	Mandy, come on up!
	Brad, Brad Reddick, both of you are about to be knighted and named.
	And, of course, you are now knight and dame of the No Agenda Roundtable.
	I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as Damiano and sir to be Thirsty.
	Thank you both so much for supporting us.
	And, of course, we have some beautiful things from the Roundtable for you.
	We've got Almond Dairy Vanilla along with our Hocus and Blow and Rent Poison Chardonnay.
	It's a classic.
	Head on over to noagenderings.com and let us know what size you need and give us an address to send it to you.
	Okay, box and the LeBong hits in bourbon.
	Sparkling cider and escorts.
	Ginger, ale and gerbils.
	Breast milk and pablum.
	And we always love the mutton and mead.
	Head on over to noagendarings.com and let us know what size you need and give us an address to send it to you.
	Along with that, because it is a signet ring, you'll get some wax to seal your important correspondence and, of course, the certificate of authenticity.
	Welcome to the Knights and the Dames of the Roundtable.
	We are very, very, very pleased to have you here.
	Well, John mentioned it earlier, the No Agenda meetups, he says connection is protection, which is true, but really these meetups, which is, it's part of the entire No Agenda
	Experience really is one thing to listen to the show a lot another is to to go to a meetup and and meetups are everywhere and the great thing about it is if there's no meetup near you you can start one and you'll be amazed how many sometimes just one person but a lot of people get a lot of it's amazing how many people will go to a meetup if you just you know go to a bar doesn't really cost any money just go to knowagentomeetups.com it really These meetups, they keep you anchored.
	It's where we can all get together.
	You already know who you are, who the people are who will come, and you can encourage each other.
	You can't get that from just an online experience.
	You need to do that as a part of your sanity, really.
	And we only have one that is coming up on the 11th.
	Wow.
	There's nothing until then.
	That'll be Thursday.
	The Northern Wake County Stitch and Bitch meet up 6 o'clock at Compass Rose Brewing in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Coming up...
	In January, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
	This is the 13th.
	Garden City, Idaho.
	Los Angeles.
	Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
	Westfield, Indiana on the 14th.
	On the 18th, Denver.
	Charlotte, North Carolina.
	On the 20th, Rochester.
	New Hampshire.
	Fort Wayne, Indiana.
	Oh, that was going to be on the 6th, so that moved to the 20th.
	Cincinnati.
	San Diego.
	Anchorage, Alaska.
	Kilgore, Texas.
	January 25th, Alpharetta, Georgia.
	The 27th, Kilkenny.
	Oh, Kilkenny, Ireland.
	There you go.
	Tulsa, Oklahoma on the 28th.
	In February, we've got Rogersville, Alabama.
	Fountain, Colorado.
	Albany, California.
	February 17th, Higgin' Em in Connecticut.
	Singapore on February 22nd.
	I'm looking forward to...
	To getting a meetup report.
	And we love meetup reports, so please consider recording short little bits of people talking about how much they love the meetups.
	NoahJenOfMeetups.com is where you can find all the meetups.
	You can schedule one because if you can't find one, you start one yourself.
	Guaranteed a party!
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want to be.
	All right, I have to.
	I have two.
	No, I have three, actually.
	Three.
	This one's no good, because it's not clear enough, but I'll play it.
	They love a penis joke.
	See?
	I know you couldn't hear it.
	I heard it.
	You heard it?
	It was Kara.
	Kara Swisher.
	Kara Swisher saying they love the penis joke?
	She's, she's vile.
	She's always talking smack.
	I have this one.
	That'll make your eyeballs rattle.
	Okay.
	That's too echoey.
	How about this?
	What a fussy little douche!
	I know, it's not great.
	What do you have?
	I have, uh, three.
	Okay.
	Like you do.
	Yeah.
	I have fire.
	Fire.
	Little short.
	Fire.
	Little short.
	Little short.
	There's fire.
	Short.
	We never use fire.
	It's short.
	Okay, then try this one, which is longer.
	This is loon.
	Laser-eyed loons!
	I like it.
	I can hear it.
	Yeah, it's good.
	Laser-Eyed Loon.
	That sounds like us.
	Yep.
	It does.
	And then the old classic, another version of it, Wowl.
	Wowl.
	No, no.
	I don't, those are too short.
	I like the Laser-Eyed Loon.
	I like that one.
	I think, I think that's a winner.
	And I hope you accept my decision.
	And now it's time for Goo.
	Good news, everybody!
	John does a lot of work just for the regular portions of the show.
	I mean, for those of you who are listening, those of you who support it, what a show!
	You've got the second half of the show and another good news story to make you feel good.
	Yes, we do.
	This is about poor little Charlie.
	Who almost died in the car, but he was rescued.
	Oh, thank God.
	At 15 months old, little Charlie here loves to eat his veggies, drop some for his furry friends, and help mom clean them up too.
	Everything makes him laugh.
	He's so cute.
	But last month, this bundle of joy in his mom faced a terrifying situation when he suddenly broke out with a high fever in the middle of the night.
	We jumped on E-470 and I heard something in the back.
	Pulling over as fast as she could, she saw her baby having a seizure.
	Something that's never happened before.
	If he hadn't been convulsing, he would have looked dead.
	It was lifeless.
	And so I grabbed the phone and I called 9-1-1.
	In a minute and 20 seconds, she says a dispatcher was able to ping her location and get the nearest deputy directed as soon as possible.
	Moments later, she says a team of fire and EMTs met them calmly, helping get Charlie to the hospital for help.
	They were so sweet.
	So my gratitude came from like, I've never needed it.
	And but when I did, gosh, they were so amazing, so quick.
	I was just in awe.
	Gratitude they got to share in person with the firefighters, EMTs, deputy and dispatcher.
	Misty credits for helping not only her son, but her too, Briott.
	We talk to people on the worst days of their lives.
	So when it ends up with a happy ending, it's very exciting for them to come up and let us know and let us meet them.
	Get to put faces to names.
	But it's their faces, their compassion, and quick response this family will never forget.
	I'm praying for you guys every day.
	Like, you are stuck with us and baby Charlie for the rest of our lives.
	Nicole Fiero, Fox City One.
	To be honest, I mean, it's a good news story.
	It is.
	I prefer not to be medical issues where people almost died.
	I mean, I like the, I just like the, like a cat did something cute, you know.
	It's the only good news stories you've come up with so far is like something horrible happened.
	We can't can we just have like, you know, like, I can't save a dog in the last one.
	I know, but it's always saving a life.
	Good news stories can just be there was a nice event or everyone had fun.
	You went soft to good news stories.
	I don't want the, almost died, but luckily he's saved my life.
	I mean, that's boring.
	We need something that's... Okay, everyone out there who helps me find these stories now knows that Adam is picky.
	Yes, I am.
	He doesn't want good news stories, which that was.
	He wants good, lame news stories.
	At least one a month.
	I need one.
	That's not a problem.
	I get plenty of those.
	Alright.
	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.
	I actually have a very good news story.
	Good news.
	Good news?
	People who were on the juice?
	And when I say juice, I mean the, uh, I mean the, the GLP juice.
	That's right.
	Good news, everybody.
	If you're using the weight loss drugs, good news.
	In our Healthy House today, the use of semaglutide drugs, things like Ozempic and Wegovy, don't appear to be associated with any kind of a higher risk of thinking about suicide compared to any other medications for weight loss.
	Researchers looked at 100 million patient records backed by the National Institutes of Health, and according to their findings, six months after starting the meds, people taking the drug to lose weight had a 73% lower risk of first-time suicidal thoughts and a 56% lower risk of recurrent suicidal thoughts.
	For people with type 2 diabetes, the reductions were 64% and 49% respectively.
	The lower risks were also observed three years out from taking the medications.
	And these findings come just days after the FDA said it was going to review reports of suicidal thoughts among people using semaglutides and similar medications.
	It's good news.
	You don't want to kill yourself.
	This is good.
	70% less.
	I didn't know that was an issue.
	I thought the problem with that stuff was your stomach froze up and you dropped dead.
	Well, if you don't die, at least you won't be killing yourself.
	It's good.
	It's good.
	Everybody's happy.
	I think it's, and you know what?
	There's even better news.
	I mean, in America, I think New Zealand's the only other country that allows direct consumer advertising of pharmaceutical drugs.
	That is correct.
	New Zealand doesn't really count.
	But now they're taking it one step further.
	This is the ultimate.
	This is the future.
	This is how they really want to do it.
	Some interesting news today.
	Drug maker Eli Lilly launched a new online service, sending medications directly to consumers.
	The new service, called Lilly Direct, will ship the company's new anti-obesity drug to patients who have a prescription, and they will also offer some of the company's insulin drugs for people with diabetes and a migraine medication.
	Just send it, just do direct.
	We don't need, we don't need a pharmaceutical industry.
	We just do a little telehealth.
	Cause you know how that is.
	Like, you know, you fill out a form on, on the website.
	Um, yeah, that's all you need.
	You don't need a doctor anymore.
	Well, you have to have a prescription.
	Yeah.
	They'll just, they'll just ask you a few questions, fill out the form.
	Boom.
	You've got a prescription.
	This is what, this is great.
	I think they finally got it.
	You'd think that maybe it would be smart to go check with a doctor, you know, make sure that your doctor feels it's appropriate for you to have this.
	Well, you think with these guys having the advantage of being able to advertise in the one country in the world that's allowed, they would bring everybody in and share the wealth a little bit, but no.
	Now they decided to take all the money themselves.
	They're asking for cruising for a bruise in here.
	It's not going to work out.
	And by the way, it's not even an American company.
	Is it Novo Nordisk?
	That's true, you're right.
	This should be illegal.
	They're screwing our business.
	They're screwing our drug business.
	Well, this should be... Yeah, should be verboten.
	Should be cut, cut, should be verboten.
	Exactly, verboten.
	And then, uh... This is the worst tease of the week.
	I mean, I've heard bad teases, but this one is... I mean, if we did this, if we did this, people would be mad at us.
	Megyn Kelly.
	It's all fascinating, and we're not done with Jeffrey Epstein.
	I can tell you that for a fact.
	I can't tell you how I know, but I can tell you for a fact we're going to hear a lot more about Jeffrey Epstein in the coming year, and you may be even hearing from him Directly.
	More on that as I'm allowed to tell you.
	As I'm allowed to tell you.
	As I'm allowed.
	What is that?
	As I'm allowed.
	What is that bull crap?
	Who's pulling her strings that she has to be allowed?
	I don't like it.
	I don't like it.
	It's not cool to do that.
	As long as I'm allowed.
	That's the worst tease ever.
	That's like click- That's not a good cheese at all.
	That's like clickbait, don't you think?
	Are you either, uh... Can you tell us?
	Tell us, just tell us.
	No, can't tell us.
	What do you mean you're loud?
	No, can't tell us.
	Who's telling you what to do and what to say?
	No, can't tell us.
	Get back on her show and call her out on this.
	I have a feeling I'm not gonna be called anytime soon.
	Yeah?
	However...
	Tomorrow, I will be doing the Tom Woods Show.
	Tom Woods!
	That's right.
	Tom Woods Show tomorrow, everybody.
	I mean, I think it takes a day or two before he actually airs it, but I look forward to that.
	I like Tom.
	Tom's a good dude.
	He's a good dude!
	Coming up next, end of show mixes, Jesse Coy Nelson, Sir TJ the Raffle with his human resources, and Rolando Gonzalez.
	Up next, another live show.
	This is an important one.
	You want to stay tuned on your app or at trollroom.io.
	It's the Battle of the Douchebags live!
	With Sir Seatsitter, Lavish, Booberry and Nam.
	I mean, hello!
	Could it get any better?
	That's your No Agenda stream.
	That's your Troll Room.
	We love it!
	And we will be back on Thursday to bring you more media deconstruction, coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain without a phone, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Please remember us.
	We can use the help.
	Dvorak.org slash NANOagendaDonations.com.
	Until Thursday, everybody, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey!
	And such.
	No, no, no.
	I'm sorry.
	No, no, no!
	You might die.
	Not that many of you are going to die, so don't worry about it.
	No, no, no!
	Don't!
	Let him go!
	Come on!
	All right, God save the Queen, man.
	God save the Queen, man.
	God save the Queen, man.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Don't let him go. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Don't let him go. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	Don't let him go.
	All right.
	God save the Queen, man.
	It's all going to be over soon.
	Okay girls, what did we learn from today's episode?
	That you're a d-bag!
	What?
	No, I'm a proud knight!
	Oh, um... That John's not funny!
	Oh, well, that's normally true.
	But anything else?
	Let us think!
	Everything's a scam!
	What's a scam?
	Everything's a trick just to get your money!
	Everything's a scam!
	Well, if it's on the TV.
	How could they just lie like that?
	All the time, they've been trying to control the masses.
	That's just a scare.
	It's a war for your mind, you won't find.
	It's propaganda!
	This is a scam.
	Moon landing, JFK, everything is run by the CIA.
	Everything's a scam.
	They just want to pray, watch your family.
	Everything's a scam.
	It's on the mainstream.
	Three, two, one, go.
	Have you heard the show?
	Everyone's talking.
	Curry Dvorak deconstructing.
	That's their job pointing out stupidity.
	What's an awesome?
	No agenda community!
	The media just lies and lies.
	And Curry Dvorak can show you why.
	Value for value is their way.
	They ain't in it just for the pay.
	15 years and awesome producers.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Shut up, slave.
	Everything's a scam.
	Everything's a trick.
	Just a get your money.
	Everything's a scam.
	If it's all on the TV.
	We found a scam.
	No way!
	But that's a scam!
	That's an epic scam!
	It's a scandal to me.
	This is a scam.
	I would say that's a massive scam.
	More people are entering the United States illegally this week.
	40% of them crossing are families, 60% adult men.
	African men arriving at the southern border.
	Additional enforcement actions are urgently needed.
	CBP tells the outlet that there have been 45,000 encounters at the border since Monday.
	The sheer number of asylums in the town of Eagle Pass.
	In Eagle Pass, Texas.
	Eagle Pass, Texas, is one of the busiest border entry points in the country.
	Hundreds of people wait in the cold to be processed by U.S.
	border officials.
	I don't know anyone who is saying this system is working.
	That's some shit down there.
	Monday was the highest day of encounters ever recorded.
	I did not know that.
	Many say they're heading for sanctuary cities.
	It's going to be extremely painful for New Yorkers.
	The mayor now wants to cut tens of billions of dollars from education in order to deal with the influx of illegal immigrants.
	In recent weeks, border police have been recording almost 10,000 people crossing the border every day.
	Officials here told us they did not have the manpower or the resources.
	That's why we continue to say we need help.
	Meanwhile, Texas is now reportedly adding anti-climbing technology to expenses in Brownsville.
	Straining immigration services.
	They need funding, and they need more authorities.
	I open report.
	Thank you very much.
	The best podcast in the universe!
	Adios, mofo.
	Dvorak.org.
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