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Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak.
This is no agenda.
11th 2024 this is your award winning get one nation media assassination episode 1624 this is no agenda and broadcasting live from the heart of the texas country here in fema region number six in the morning everybody i'm adam curry and from northern silicon valley where we congratulate the michigan wolverines i'm I'm John C. Devorak.
It's Crackball and Buzzkill in the morning.
Ah, yes, another sports ball reference.
Who is this?
To congratulate Harding, too.
Is that football?
Yeah, well, yeah.
The Wolverines, there used to be a coach around here, Jim Harbaugh, funny wins.
Now, in the olden days, when I was at another podcast, I used to request... You went to the games!
I used to request sweatshirts and championship sweatshirts and championship hoodies, anything.
But that ended.
I don't know why.
I used to be able to get the free clothing from the... No, you asked for it.
You used to ask for it.
You just forgot.
And we have Michigan Local 1.
Yeah, but you forgot.
You forgot to ask because you're just too busy with media deconstruction.
I'm probably forgetting to ask.
Yeah.
Yeah, you are.
But I'm going to ask for something.
This is an open invitation to anybody who wants to.
I'll wear it.
I'll wear it.
Around Berkeley, I'll be wearing a Michigan Championship thing.
Sweatshirt.
Hoodie.
Well, you asked for that, and I'm going to ask for some VAR AC Cusos.
Some what?
VAR AC Cusos.
What's that?
Ah, well you know what a QSO is.
A Q-So, Q-S-O.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Yeah, you're back on the... I noticed that you're thinking about hooking up that...
That new digital system that's loaded with.
Yes, VAR AC.
And then you can like do email over the ham radio waves.
Oh, it's not email.
Well, you can already do that, but this new digital mode.
You can chat.
Yes.
And you can leave messages for each other and you can relay.
So if you can't reach me, you can relay through another station automatically.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool.
And so I was real productive the other day.
I cleaned up the whole studio.
And I'm like, you know what?
I cleaned up the studio.
Oh, you got all jacked up, so you're going to do this now.
I already did it.
It's up and running.
Oh, and you're doing community.
Send me a note.
Yeah.
No.
Send you a note.
To what?
To the radio?
The rig that's in your drawer next to your phone?
I'm not going to send you that.
Yeah.
We're fasting this week, so I was very productive.
What?
Fasting.
Fasting.
Why?
For Jesus.
Of course.
What?
When?
Is that in the Bible?
I don't know anything about fasting on this day of the year.
Yes!
Well, it doesn't have to be this day of the year.
Yes, Jesus fasted for 40 days.
What are you talking about?
Are you going to fast for 40 days?
I don't think so.
I'm not Jesus.
No, no.
That's for sure.
This week, it ends on Friday.
Anyway, so I was very... So you're starving yourself or are you just eating at night?
Or are you sleepwalking?
I'm sleepwalking, exactly.
And so, by the way, I was really... I had a lot of energy.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to set this up.
So I'm up and running.
And I already got one ITM yesterday.
I was very excited.
What are you laughing about?
One.
Well, that's before I announced it on the show.
You want sweatshirts and hoodies?
I want ham radio contacts.
You want a hundred?
I'm sorry?
You want a hundred ITMs?
Oh, that'd be nice.
All I want is one sweatshirt.
I asked for a lot less than you.
Hey, let's just get straight to the big news.
This is the news everybody's talking about.
It's crazy.
It's off the hook.
We had just talked about this happening and here it is.
The moment you've been waiting for is finally here.
Don Lemon is back with a new show.
Mr. Lemon posted a note to X.
Sharing the new Don Lemon Show will be airing on Twitter soon.
The former CNN anchor wrote that X is the largest free speech platform in the world and that space for honest debate is needed without the hall monitors.
I'm going to predict something right now.
This is going to be a good show.
I think Don Lemon is going to surprise people.
Okay.
Oh, you have no opinion?
I predict it won't be a good show.
And he's not going to surprise anybody.
It's going to be a great show!
Absolutely.
No, I think he's going to surprise us all.
You watch.
You watch.
It's going to make Chris Cuomo jealous.
Uh, I don't know about that because I don't see how Don Lemon's going to make any money being on X. I mean, if he goes all sponsored... For all you know... Hmm?
Elon's writing a check and handing it to him.
Somehow, I don't think he's doing that.
I don't think he's writing any check to Tucker or any of those guys.
Why would he?
He doesn't have to do that.
When the milk is free.
And I don't know if you've noticed this, but Twitter seems to be having bandwidth issues or something.
Like, for the past two or three days, I click on a video and I just get a circle spinning around.
Nothing, you know, you have to wait.
There's something going on with it.
It's probably because somebody from their Prime video operation came over.
I can barely get a video off of Prime now.
Something went wrong!
You mean Amazon Prime?
Yeah.
Oh, really?
So you're through, what, your Roku, or how are you accessing it?
No, I'm accessing it through the app that specifically hooks to my LG TV, and it's got all the apps on there.
I got Netflix, I got everything.
You click Netflix, boots right up.
Amazon Prime, hardly ever boots.
I'd like people to start documenting this.
So you have a smart TV?
Yeah.
Well, don't sit in front of it in your underwear.
It doesn't have any cameras.
Oh, yeah, that's what you think.
That's exactly what I think.
I wouldn't trust that for a moment.
I'm not just watching TV in my underwear anyway.
If it was in the bedroom, I might be.
That's just how you podcast.
When I'm podcasting, yes, I'm only wearing shorts.
There it is.
All right, let's get to the real biggest news of the week.
I mean, this is the real one.
Researchers have confirmed, as if we didn't know, 2023 was the hottest year on record.
The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service looked at global temperature records going back to the year 1850.
Scientists warn that this year could very well be even hotter.
It's going to top it!
It's going to top it!
This is such a scam.
Oh, it's going back to 1850.
Well, if you look at... Was it last year when they went back 10,000 or 250,000 years?
Yeah, they decided not to do that because that was, you know, not verifiable.
But if you look at 1850, that's just around when the Little Ice Age ended.
Back in the 900s, the temperature was higher than it is now.
This is such a scam.
I'm so tired of this.
What's interesting, insofar as being a scam, is Nikki Haley's on board.
With climate change?
Yeah, and she's decided that because of the demographics that the younger generation is all in on climate change, and so she's going to start promoting the idea to pick up those voters, instead of doing what a leader would do, which is try to educate people as to what aspects of this are just totally scammish.
Bogus.
Huh.
Yeah, it's a big, uh, everyone says it's a buzz.
Everyone's a buzz about Nikki's new strategy.
Oh, really?
Well, all the buzz I got is, uh, is Chris Christie dropping out of the race and then the hot mic, hot mic incident.
Hot mic.
The phony hot mic incident?
Oh, you think it's phony?
That's interesting.
Oh, totally.
Hold on.
Tonight, Chris Christie announcing the end of his long-shot presidential bid, just five days before the first contest of the Republican primary.
It's clear to me tonight that there isn't a path for me to win the nomination.
Which is why I'm suspending my campaign tonight for President of the United States.
The most vocal Trump critic in the GOP field, the former New Jersey governor had focused his campaign on New Hampshire, but struggled to gain traction.
I'm going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be President of the United States again.
And that's more important than my own personal ambition.
And while Christie made no endorsement tonight, he already faces pressure to back Nikki Haley, whom he has publicly defended in the past, but has repeatedly criticized in recent days, including for not taking on Trump more directly.
When you ask her the tough questions, she doesn't answer.
Christie appearing to criticize her on a hot mic before his event began tonight.
And she's gonna get smoked.
And you and I both know it.
She's up to this.
On social media, Trump calling that a, quote, very truthful statement.
Christie's exit could give Haley a boost in New Hampshire, where polls show her closing the gap with Trump, and where a recent poll shows roughly half of Christie's supporters listing Haley as their second choice.
So this whole, the hot mic thing is not quite as interesting.
I mean, if you want to hear it, I have the whole thing, but it's just... That part you played is the best part.
Yeah, that's the best part.
But what I thought was interesting is, you know, because the general consensus is that Nikki Haley is being funded by big Democrat donors.
Anything, oh anything, anything to get rid of Trump because Nikki can do it.
And the way NBC categorized this hot mic was weird.
But just moments before Chris Christie started giving this speech, there was a hot mic moment.
We talked about it a little bit ago in the show in which he was apparently talking, presumably about Nikki Haley.
Apparently, presumably...
Saying, suggesting.
Saying, suggesting.
Again, presumably her.
Wow.
Could get smoked.
I mean, again, presumably her.
We're not sure.
We're not sure if it was about her.
We really don't know because, you know, he said she, but it could be anyone.
It could be the Vic.
The Vic.
Oh, in the show in which he was apparently talking, presumably about Nikki Haley, saying, suggesting that, again, presumably her, could get smoked.
Let me play a little bit of that hot mic moment now for people.
Oh my God.
Spent $68 million so far.
$59 million by DeSantis.
And we spent $12.
I mean, who's punching above their weight?
And who's getting a return on their investment, you know?
And she's gonna get smoked.
And you and I both know it.
She's up to this.
She's still 20 points behind Trump in the main show, right?
Yeah, oh yeah.
And he's still gonna carry on, right?
Yes, always.
I talked to DeSantis calling me.
Petrified that I would... He's probably getting out of it after Iowa.
Okay, there's a lot to unpack on that one, John Allen.
Chris Christie, of course, is still speaking on stage.
We're gonna listen to see if he does, in fact, make an endorsement, but there's two pieces to this.
One, and we gotta be careful here.
Gotta be careful.
We can presume he's talking about Nikki Haley based on that conversation.
There's only, you know, one person who's 20 points, one woman who's 20 points behind Donald Trump.
I mean, it's almost over, but...
This is crazy!
Presumably, he cites the exact amount of money she's collected.
Who else collected 65 million dollars, as he pointed out, besides her?
NBC has no problem talking about sources say when it comes to Trump or a thing like that, but here it is, plain on its face, and she's all like, presumably, we're not sure, could be, we have to be very careful.
You can presume he's talking about Nikki Haley based on that conversation.
There's only one person who's 20 points, one woman who's 20 points behind Donald Trump in New Hampshire.
Again, presumably Nikki Haley saying she's going to get smoked.
You are already seeing other campaigns pick up on this, including, by the way, Donald Trump himself, who, in the course of our conversation here in the last four minutes, said, I hear Chris Christie is dropping out of the race to say, said he was just caught on a hot mic saying she's going to get smoked, calling that a very truthful statement here, John, absolutely.
I mean, this is already creating, like, a whole political thing now.
The way she kept saying, presumably, maybe, we're not sure, couldn't be, could it be, tells me that something's up.
But what?
Well, they're disappointed.
They wanted Nikki Haley to win.
And now she's gonna get smoked.
Smoked, I tell you.
Smoked.
Well, I think they, again, I think this hot mic was a fake.
Really?
He knew it was hot and he was going to say something.
And what his complaint, what he was complaining about, Christie, besides the fact that we all know that he, for some reason, because Trump didn't give him a position, he was looking for something, he's pissed and he's trying to get revenge.
Is the fact that he says in that little commentary, in the hot mic, he says that she picked up 65 million dollars in donations.
Yeah.
Largely from Silicon Valley.
No, no, spent it on television.
That's what he was saying.
Spent all that money on TV.
But the number is there.
And he's had 12 million.
What he's trying to, I think, convey is that, hey, where's my money?
If you'd only given me money, I would've been Nicky.
Yeah, maybe.
Isn't he endorsing her now, though?
I don't know that he is.
I believe so.
Then he's a hypocrite.
Duh.
Chris Christie, hypocrite.
Anyway, that part of it doesn't matter.
I mean, and of course the funniest thing was that I haven't looked at the ratings.
You can't even get ratings anymore.
Oh no, we can't do overnight ratings because, you know, that would disappoint everybody.
I'll be waiting for the ratings.
So Trump did it at Fox News Town Hall, which I did not see, but supposedly pretty good.
He was entertaining from what I understand.
Even the Young Turks people were saying he was funny.
Which is odd for them to say that.
That is weird.
Very weird for them to say that.
Here's one small clip about his so-called revenge, retribution on day one.
A lot of time talking about retribution.
And so there are questions about how much a second term of a Donald Trump presidency, second term, would be about retribution and looking backwards and grievances and how much would be looking forward.
Well, first of all, a lot of people would say that that's not so bad.
Look what they did.
Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
The FBI Twitter hoax.
The 51 intelligence agents hoax.
All of these different hoaxes that they did, I mean, you know, a lot of people would say that's probably quite normal.
I'm not going to have time for retribution.
We're going to make this country so successful again, I'm not going to have time for retribution.
He sounds young.
Do you hear that in his voice?
He sounds younger.
Something's going on.
It could be the EQ.
Hmm.
It sounded, it sounded, well maybe it was a little sped up.
It just sounded younger.
Yeah.
So, you got anything from, uh, from these fabulous events?
Oh, I was, you know, I would... I'm like you.
You know, we get a jaded thing.
I didn't watch either one of them either.
Uh, I do have, I might have a Christie thing.
My version of Christie.
This Chris Christie weirdness from NTD is basically your report with it was something weird.
Good evening to you as well.
So just moments ago former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced that he's dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and this comes just five days before the first caucus in the nation right here in Iowa.
Meanwhile, Chris Christie, who's a vocal Trump critic, even in announcing the suspension of his campaign, promised to keep Trump out of office ever again.
Meanwhile, he actually might have helped boost Trump's chances just now by getting caught on hot mic, saying that Nikki Haley will get smoked.
Watch.
Because I want to promise you this.
I'm gonna make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again.
Wow!
And she's gonna get smoked.
And you and I both know it.
She's not up to this.
Wow!
That's weird!
So they say this is the hot mic bit and then they play a bit from... Yeah, they did.
They clipped in.
That's weird.
Yeah, it was very different.
Well, since we're doing foreigners, do you remember Ian Bremmer?
Remember that douchebag from, wasn't he from Iraq?
But he was, he was, wasn't Bremer the guy handing out the big stacks of money to everybody?
Maybe, yeah.
I think they had vaults of money.
The first Iraq, or the second Iraq war.
Yeah, he was handing out money.
So now he's a bigwig over there at the Eurasia Group, which is just another think tank that'll, you know, write up any papers you want for money.
And they created the list of the biggest risks of 2024.
The biggest risks.
Oh, that's a good find.
Now, do you think climate change is the top?
Oh, it has to be.
It's the number one threat to the world.
What do you call a threat, you know?
It's going to kill everyone.
Existential threat.
Existential is the word I'm looking for.
Well, no.
We begin the day going down the list of the biggest global risks of 2024.
Every January, we take stock of what threatened the world as we know it last year and what could do the same in the new year.
And this January is no different.
For 2024, some of the global risks are all too familiar, some to be expected.
And that's according to the Eurasia Group in its annual global risk report.
Joining me now is Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media.
Let's talk first about the U.S.
presidential election being risk number one.
You are not alone here in putting it at the top of the list.
I'd like to get your reaction to what a constitutional A law professor told me last night on this program when I asked about a possible Trump victory come November.
This is great.
So before he gets into it, they're going to lead in with this constitutional law professor.
I'm not sure who she is.
She's a DEI hire and she has her book behind her on the shot.
This is just a phenomenal piece of orange man bad dimension B nuttiness.
Take a listen.
Donald Trump becomes president again.
He's already decided he's going to wreak vengeance on anyone who opposes him, especially the so-called enemies he already has in the government and anybody who didn't vote for him before.
But he's also going to join with other strongmen, dictators around the country, I mean around the world, and create havoc around the globe.
It will not just rest within the borders of the United States.
There will be I would say, perhaps, World War III, if he is allowed to join with other dictators and put in place the nationalist themes that he's already advocated in the United States.
Now, what constitutional law was discussed in that clip?
This is just one crazy lady's opinion, but it kind of lines up with Eurasia Group.
What do you, what do you say to that?
I mean, are we talking about a risk that is so acute, so severe that we could be looking at another world war?
Um, let me walk back.
So you, this came from Deutsche Welle?
No, no, France 24.
Oh, really?
Because it sounds like one of the Deutsche Welle guys.
Well, let me double check.
You sure?
No, let me double check.
I'm pretty sure it was, uh, Where is it?
Because it makes more sense coming from... No, it's France 24.
I wrote it down.
France 24.
Okay, so this guy... I know who... Okay, it's the other guy.
It's interesting because it would seem more like it came from a propaganda outlet.
Oh, France 24 is not a propaganda outlet?
Well, no, but they're not a CIA control like... Not yet.
Maybe they are already.
They got Bremer in the house.
Let me walk back from the brink a little bit.
I think that the United States democracy is in crisis.
If you look at our report, we look at American trust In institutions from Congress and the executive to the media and the judiciary to the church and they have all been going down, down, down.
Nothing is stopping that.
The U.S.
is the one democracy in the G7 that does not have the committed ability to have a free and fair transfer of power in a legitimate national election.
That is a serious issue that we should not normalize.
And in the next few months, Donald Trump, who had tried to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, is enormously likely to become the nominee of the Republican Party.
And when he does...
The Republicans will be loyal to him and he will become much more powerful overnight, which means his policies.
His policies, not just domestically, but also internationally.
His willingness to go after Biden, his willingness to cut off the Ukrainians, his willingness to go after the Iranians, trade decoupling with the Chinese.
Those will become policies that the Republicans as a party will pursue.
And so this is not just about the coin flip of where we end up come this November, but it's also about the entire year where we're going to be in a much more divided, much more problematic policy environment for the U.S.
and for its allies around the world than people are expecting.
Yeah, yes.
All these horrible things, horrible things, which sound good to me.
What?
Where's this list?
Was that number one and they just stopped?
Where's the top ten threats?
No, climate change was number four.
The rest of the list was dumb.
It was dumb.
Who cares?
Number one is all they want to talk about.
What, World War III?
Yes, Trump, World War III.
He's going to get together with other leaders around the world and wreak havoc.
Okay.
Okay.
Because that's all they can think of.
Let's make World War III.
Yeah, great idea, guys.
By the way, our constitutional lawyer, Rob, sent in some opinions from Law 360.
About the, you know, Trump and the 14th Amendment, Section 3.
Because, you know, he took that to the Supreme Court.
And, man, I mean, the title of this article is, Wary Justices Have Many Off-Ramps In Trump Ballot Dispute.
Here's some of the opinions, just so you know.
Let's see, Covington & Burlington LLP says, Special Counsel Matt Schepanka, That they would take the case comes as no surprise.
How they choose to decide it will be the court granted Trump's broad question of whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in its decision, as opposed to specific questions about Section 3's applicability and enforcement posed by a branch of the state's Republican Party, giving justice at least eight ways to overrule the state court's ruling.
This is a shoo-in.
Supreme Court is free to decide Trump's case in a myriad of ways.
It's going to be in his favor.
There's no doubt about it.
It has to be, because if it's not in his favor, the first thing that's going to happen is Biden's going to be kicked off the Florida ballot.
And that's a swing state, it's not Colorado.
Exactly.
And this is, it's like the season of reveal.
Now we find out that, was it Fannie Willis, the Georgia District Attorney?
Oh yeah, she's stooping her, the guy she hired to prosecute Trump.
Who sent the White House invoices?
How stupid are these people?
Do I have a clip on that?
I don't have a clip.
I was looking for it, but most of it was just, you know, Twitter outrage.
It was a funny story.
Oh, yeah.
Well, and also now she's been subpoenaed in that guy's divorce case.
Yes, she caused a divorce.
Yes.
So, homewrecker.
I didn't get a clip.
Nancy Pelosi now claiming that she begged for the National Guard troops on January 6th, which of course is emphatically not true.
She's the one that stopped it.
That's a lie.
Yes, she stopped it.
I'm telling you, this is the season of reveal.
All shall be revealed.
And a lot of people will pay attention.
Not all, but many will.
No, I think our show will.
Yeah.
I mean, it's crazy how things just keep circling back and people's heads are all filled with weirdness, particularly Democrats in Congress.
You saw Jayapal, member of the squad, trying to discredit Trump.
Doing this special session?
Eh, she did one.
We're going to talk about outrageous things that have happened or things that have never happened.
Let's talk about the fact that President Trump incited an erection.
Maybe that too!
You can talk about that too, I guess.
Which of course gives me the moment to play our mini-cut of all Democrats thinking about erections.
Into inciting an erection.
They feel the president has incited an erection.
For inciting the erection.
Incited the erection.
Alright, there you go.
an erection.
Did incite an erection on the Capitol.
For inciting that deadly erection.
Former President Trump incited an erection.
He worked to incite an erection.
There is no comparison to inciting an erection. Into inciting an erection. For inciting the erection. Incited the erection.
It was hard to get it aroused, and it is hard to get it aroused, but we got it aroused.
All right, there you go.
What are people thinking when they make a mistake like that?
What do you think they're thinking?
I guess.
They all have a hard-on for Trump.
Oh, there you go.
Very good.
Excellent.
Well, okay, so we might as well get all of the U.S.
news out of the way.
Let's skip to one thing that you kind of touched on.
Have we seen Lloyd Austin yet?
No, we still haven't.
We've only seen a statement that he said, oh, I'm sorry, I have to repent.
I've got to think about this.
Yeah, well, then there's the rumor, it's more than a rumor in some circles, that he's been killed in Ukraine.
This comes from Raw News, which said they got it from Russia.
No, well, raw news is a weird operation because it's really kind of a Babylon B meets real news.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's kind of so you don't know what's true and what's not true in there.
And that report is like got too many weird details.
But I got something which is a which is a podcaster does military history or something.
And he's Russia.
I think he's a Russian plant, too.
But he tries to explain some things, and he brings in some new terms, which is called making a legend, which means when you are illegally in some area and you get killed, your people make a legend as to how you died.
Oh, I never heard this, sir.
That's a good one.
I haven't heard it either, but let's play the Lloyd Austin clips from this guy.
He's got a deep kind of a Eastern European accent you have to kind of get into hearing.
NATO says that there is no NATO officers.
The Russians are saying that almost every month they manage to get this or that one.
And important thing is not about the situation.
We don't know who's lying, who's telling the truth.
The most important is if somehow another NATO officer enter Ukraine and he was hit by the Russian missile, what happens next?
You might find very interesting that if this officer is located in Ukraine or anyone else unofficially and if somehow he managed these or that Russian missile or anyone's missile managed to get him, There is a special group that start creating a legend.
Start creating a legend and for example if this or that night officers died then we can may find another car accident or let's say we may find another heart attack or we might find another let's say accident somewhere on the holidays as a result of this accident this or that officer died or something like this.
So anyway the legend should be.
You need to explain why this or that general of NATO army died in this or that circumstances.
And so this is the situation.
And now we're moving back to Lloyd Austin, because according to information we have, he disappeared from TVs on the 2nd of January.
The 2nd of January, I'll remind you, is the day when the Russians ended their massive missile strikes over the entire Ukraine, including Kinzhal, Iskander, and many other different types of missiles, like of Ha-series and so on.
And furthermore, I'll remind you that the Russians, according to their report, during those days managed to get another base, and at least, as I remember, one deputy of General Staff of Ukraine died as a result of another strike.
And few, let's say, bases with officers, NATO officers, also were destroyed.
Huh.
Do you know the name of this podcast?
I want to subscribe to it.
It's called Military Something.
I posted it on No Agenda Social, that entire, his entire spiel goes on for about an hour.
Is it video or is it only audio?
It's video.
And he's got maps and he shows you this and that.
Is it on Brighteon?
What?
Is it on Brighteon?
I got it off YouTube.
It's on the real deal.
I can't believe that they haven't taken that down yet.
This is horrible, this speculation.
Well, it's there, sitting there.
Anyway, no agenda social has a copy.
So here we go with the second part of this.
So very likely.
I'm not saying that this is like complete truth that we got this information somewhere from reliable sources or the Washington Post wrote about this.
No, we don't have this.
But everything, it's like a theory that very likely that Lloyd Austin during the, let's say, New Year holidays visited Ukraine and it was an official visit.
Maybe they wanted to discuss something with Zelensky without some official documents.
And as a result of Russian missile strike, as a revenge for Belgrade bombings, when Ukrainians were bombing Belgrade with cluster rounds, Lloyd Austin may be wounded.
And he was transferred, of course, to the United States of America.
Maybe he's in a very poor condition because of his health, and this is the reason why he was already dismissed by the Congress, and very likely that he's going to have a lot of problems, and very likely we're not going to see Lloyd Austin anymore.
Once again, I hope that all these talks I just provided is just wishful thinking, or it's just a theory, and from the other side, we wish Olloyd Austin to recover as soon as possible.
All right, so the thinking here would be, well, we have to make legend out of him because we can't actually... Well, first of all, who says he was killed by the Russians?
I mean, they've got guys popping off hand grenades all day long over there on their own guys.
Remember that, all these top brass military guys, like, oh here's a hand grenade in your cake.
Well, yes, I'm sure that's going on too.
But my understanding from reading the various things, and a lot of it BS, no doubt about it, you can't find anything on RT, so that's kind of makes you wonder.
But the Russians are always on the lookout for these NATO guys coming in to advise the Ukrainians, and then they assassinate them left and right if they can by just Pummeling, wherever they are, at whatever meeting.
And I guess someone got to see Lloyd Austin come through and said, well, this will be a good one.
Let's see how they explain this.
I'm laughing, but of course it's tragic.
So why wouldn't they just... If anything, unless it's all... Well, let's follow the logic.
The guy still has not cropped up.
Well, let's follow the logic for a minute, though.
Um, so, he's killed over there, why wouldn't they just say, oh man, he got killed, let's go, let's go bomb Russia, bomb Moscow?
Clearly there, nobody wants that, which just shows that this is not at all about Russia, really.
Well, there was no, okay, there was no announcement of him going.
It's like a top secret mission.
Why was he there?
Why was he meeting?
Why is our Secretary of Defense hanging out in Ukraine?
I mean, this is like Brammer when he was in Ukraine hanging out at the Maidan.
I mean, why is Sean Pan over there?
I mean, everyone's over there.
Everyone's in on this scam.
You know, I have two clips here that That may kind of show that we're getting really towards the end and I don't know what they're going to do with Lloyd Austin.
Actually, I want to play this.
Kirby, who is in the Pentagon, who should know much better is what's going on.
Doocy was grilling him.
And Kirby really kind of had a mini meltdown.
He couldn't handle the questions.
It's up to you and your colleagues and it's up to the American people to determine, you know, how much they're going to ascribe what happened here to our credibility on every single issue.
But in every way, Secretary Austin has been an exceptional Defense Secretary and he still has the full faith and confidence of the Commander-in-Chief.
Why didn't he say is?
Is an outstanding Secretary of Defense.
Why do I say has been?
You know what I mean?
If I were Lloyd Austin and I'm still alive, I'd be pissed about this.
But in every way, Secretary Austin has been an exceptional Defense Secretary and he still has the full faith and confidence of the Commander-in-Chief.
He has led the Department at an incredibly dangerous time for our national security interests and those of our allies and partners.
Has led the post as opposed to is leading.
All of this.
The commander in chief, he has led the department at an incredibly dangerous time for our national security interests and those of our allies and partners.
But if the administration is going to go to such great lengths to keep secrets about the defense secretary's health, how can anybody be certain that the administration would not go to the same lengths to keep secret problems with President Biden's health?
If if you could logically argue and you can't, but if you could logically argue that the minute he's 81 years old.
Wait a second.
Just give me a second here, bub.
I'll get there.
Give me a second here, bub.
What is that all about?
That's not very, that's not right.
That's not very professional, bub.
I wouldn't even call you bub.
That's just not cool.
Dude is bad enough.
...logically argue, and you can't, but if you could logically argue that... Wait a minute, he's 81 years old?
Wait a second.
Just give me a second here, bub.
I'll get there.
The administration made some sort of Machiavellian effort across this board to keep this from getting public.
Then I think your question has merit and certainly is a fair one.
I don't think it's a fair one because that's not what happened here, Peter.
What happened here is the Secretary of Defense, for whatever reason, I can't answer the question why, that information wasn't shared.
It wasn't shared widely in the department and it certainly wasn't shared with the United States.
It's not good.
It's certainly not good.
Which is why, again, we want to learn from this.
We want to make sure that it doesn't happen again.
We want to learn from this.
We want to make sure it doesn't happen again.
But how many of these guys are you going to get killed?
I might as well play the two mainstream reports I have and then get into what I really want to play.
We'll start with CBS.
Secretary Austin had surgery for prostate cancer more than two weeks ago.
But hid the diagnosis from his commander-in-chief until today.
The president didn't know about the diagnosis until this morning.
Austin underwent surgery on December 22nd.
CBS News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. John LaPook describes the operation which the Pentagon called an elective medical procedure.
When you take out the entire prostate, it is a major operation.
On New Year's Day, Austin began to suffer complications.
I also don't think that's really... If you're taking someone's whole prostate out, that's not an elective surgery.
That's like emergency cancer surgery, isn't it?
Well they also, that's interesting that the CBS would bring this in because my understanding was there was something lesser than that that took place and they're not really giving us good explanations and then there's the rumor again, we don't know this one way or the other, but they're not covering it because the report sucks.
Why would we?
Why would we?
Nobody at Walter Reed even saw the guy.
He's a hard guy to miss.
It's a hard guy to miss.
A hard guy to miss.
On New Year's Day, Austin began to suffer complications, including nausea with severe abdominal, hip, and leg pain.
Initial evaluation revealed a urinary tract infection.
Very rare for men, by the way, UTI.
This is an unusual complication.
Usually these surgeries, they are big operations, but people recover very well generally without any kind of a complication like this.
Admitted to the ICU with a tube down his nose to drain his stomach, Austin turned over his powers as Secretary of Defense to his deputy, but waited three full days before telling the White House he was in the hospital.
It is not optimal for a situation like this to go as long as it did without the Commander-in-Chief knowing about it.
That's not the way this is supposed to happen.
The White House ordered all cabinet secretaries to immediately report whenever they are not able to perform their duties.
And the Pentagon began a review of what took so long.
NBC had one other detail about the assistant secretary or the, yeah, the deputy secretary.
Which kind of contradicts what we've been hearing.
Supposedly she didn't know anything either.
No, she was on vacation.
Yeah, she was on vacay.
If this had been going on while she was on vacay, wouldn't she fly back immediately?
You'd think so.
Hey, if I was some second in command, I'm like, hey, I can be the top dog.
I can take over.
I'm coming back.
You bet.
Tonight, the mystery surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's secretive hospitalization revealed he was being treated for prostate cancer.
His doctors say he was diagnosed in early December, but defense officials say he hid the illness from top Pentagon officials and even the president.
Nobody at the White House knew that Secretary Austin had prostate cancer until this morning.
A statement from Walter Reed saying his surgical procedure on December 22nd was to treat and cure prostate cancer.
Wait, December 22nd?
Now that changes the timeline a bit.
All we know is about January and now the procedure was on December 22nd.
Prostate cancer until this morning.
A statement from Walter Reed saying his surgical procedure on December 22nd was to treat and cure prostate cancer.
They say he was under general anesthesia but released the next morning.
But on Monday, January 1st, Austin was rushed back to Walter Reed via ambulance with severe pain, suffering from an infection and fluid buildup that was impairing his small intestine.
On Tuesday, January 2nd, Austin was admitted to the intensive care unit and transferred some authorities to his deputy, Kathleen Hicks, while she was on vacation in Puerto Rico.
But Hicks and the White House were not told he was in the ICU until Thursday, January 4th.
Members of Congress, senior Pentagon leaders, and the public were not informed until the night of Friday, January 5th.
This guy shouldn't be in charge of our military now.
Well, I'm going to continue calling for a full disclosure.
I'm calling for a full hearing.
The Pentagon now reviewing who knew what, when, and why the White House wasn't told.
Clearly, we could have done better, and we will do better.
Here's what I'm missing.
I'm missing Hicks.
Why isn't Hicks out there saying, I know we're in two wars.
It's all good.
I'm here.
to hicks and why austin remains hospitalized tonight having now spent all of 2024 in the hospital doctors they're saying he's expected to make a full recovery but it can be a slow process here's what i'm missing i'm missing hicks why isn't hicks out there saying i know we're in two wars it's all good i'm here steady hand on the helm it's all good i'm I wish Secretary Lloyd Austin all the best in his recovery.
Everything's good.
I gotcha.
That's what we're missing.
Yeah, and you know what they're doing right now?
Looking for a double.
Oh, yeah.
Maybe the dad from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is available.
They're going to have to find a... The problem with this guy, and they may be something to consider in the future, you Democrats, don't hire a guy to do a job that is that big and that tall.
But even then, you would have Hicks come out and say, don't worry everybody, we're getting a double.
I agree, where's Hicks?
No, I'm not arguing about what you just said.
We're getting a double.
I'm just saying what they're more concerned about is finding a double or have them come up with a reason for him to die.
Well, the reason, first of all, Occam's Razor says this happened and prostate cancer is, of course, horrible and men die from it.
Yeah.
You know, this is not something that, you know, unfortunately, so I wish him no ill, but despite the mess-ups, they're just making it worse by not having the second-in-command come out while we're, you know, so-called at war in Ukraine, so-called at war in the Middle East.
We've got the Red Sea situation, we've got everything popping off, and we don't have anybody saying, don't worry about it.
Nobody!
Not even a stand-in!
Yeah, we got Kirby going all blah blah blah.
Poor Kirby.
You know, he may have been a good friend with this guy and he's probably beside himself because if the Russian story's true, the guy's dead or badly injured or wounded or whatever.
And now we have House Democrats.
This is obviously, we're getting fed bullshit by the media and nobody cares to look into it.
So the backdrop here is that there's a proposal now that has, I think, been negotiated between Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, Republican Mike Johnson, and the White House
For the spending bill, which includes almost $900 billion for the military, but lacks any specific budgets for Ukraine, Israel and the much discussed, well, we've got to change the border.
You know, that was supposed to be a fait accompli.
It's like, unless you change the policy at the border, we're not going to sign off on any money for these two wars that we're not involved in financing, paying for.
And so the first clip I have is Chip Roy from Texas.
And he was on Glenn Beck, and he's pissed about this.
First of all, greetings from West Des Moines, Iowa, where it's, I think, a balmy 20 degrees outside, and a snowstorm coming in.
But the real snowstorm coming in is coming into D.C.
that's going to hammer the American people.
The Republicans doing exactly what they always do, which is be the party of excuses.
The party will never find a way to not capitulate and spend more money that we don't have and rack up more debt.
So what are we doing now?
Under Speaker Johnson, right?
New Speaker, more of the same garbage.
We're going to have a bill that's $1.66 trillion.
That is almost, I think that's about $58 billion more than the disastrous Nancy Pelosi omnibus bill the Republicans opposed a year ago.
It is a hundred billion dollars more than what we would get if Republicans had the spine to walk onto the House floor and send a simple, year-long, continuing resolution over to the Senate that would trigger the cuts, albeit a meager in the debt deal last summer, it would trigger cuts That we could get 1.562 trillion in spending.
They won't do that.
Because they're all in the hip pocket of all the lobbyists and they hide behind our military.
And now, we're not going to get the border secure.
We're going to spend $100 billion more than we have to.
We're going to increase spending over the Nancy Pelosi spending deal.
And Republicans are going to go try to sell you and the American people that that's somehow a win.
Don't believe them.
This is what the American people are tired of.
And look, I'm going to call balls and strikes.
I call balls and strikes on Kevin.
I'm gonna call balls and strikes on Mike as speaker.
People should call balls and strikes on me.
That's the way it works.
Yeah, tough guy, tough guy, Chip.
So, balls and strikes, balls and strikes, I'm calling balls and strikes, but it appears that there's a gambit afoot.
And this is one that I predicted and I think it may be happening because the information now comes from Washington Post reporter Josh Rogin.
Wapo, wapo, wapo.
Josh Rogin?
Yes.
The actor?
No, R-O-G-I-N.
Rogin.
He's from Wapo.
And he was on the John Batchelor Show and he brought up a strategy which makes total sense In light of, you know, both the Uniparty and Washington D.C.
does not actually want to fix the border.
We know this.
That's why, I mean, this is why it hasn't happened.
They want it.
They need it.
The bankers want it.
We need people coming in.
We need it for a whole bunch of reasons, but mainly to be able to print more money, because there's people here who need money, and then we print money for everybody.
We need liquidity!
Open the borders!
So what do we do with Ukraine?
Ah, remember that $300 billion of Russian money?
Presuming that this goes through at the G7 meeting in February, I'd estimate that they're working on a presentation now.
Is any of it to be used for armaments, for what they need now to get through the winter, or is it all going to be designated for rebuilding?
Right, that's a key distinction.
This would only be used for mid to long-term rebuilding and reconstruction.
It would not be used to fund the war effort, and so it does not replace the need for Congress to also pass Billions of dollars in additional new military, economic, and humanitarian assistance for Ukraine just to get through this year.
What it can do is it can provide a political cover for Republicans who are scared of backlash from the GOP base and also give Americans a reassurance that there's an end to this commitment, that when it comes time to rebuild Ukraine, there'll be a pot of money that will be sitting there.
Now how that gets done, there'll have to be a mechanism, there'll have to be some sort of organization to distribute it and make sure it doesn't all go into corrupt coffers and all of that.
That's a multi-year effort all by itself.
So this is a very complicated set of policies that never really existed before.
But first you have to have a political will to do it and that's been the problem is that the biden administration didn't want to do it they saw they know that europeans didn't want to do it but now they really have little choice because uh if this is the way to get the republic some republicans at least those who want to support ukraine but are scared of political backlash to to vote for the ukraine aid then uh that's really the most important thing right now so uh it was always a good idea in my view and now it's a politically expedient one as well
so this will be decided in february at the g7 it's it's at that First of all, I don't know who is clipping the John Batchelor Show for you, but that's pretty wild that someone would be that dedicated.
But am I getting this right?
They're going to steal the Russian money?
Yeah, that you said would never happen.
I said it would never happen because it's just, it's, it's, it's opening Pandora's box!
Hello?
If they take and steal this money, it's not your money!
No, hello?
What do you think, look, would you rather that they steal it from you in taxes?
Or inflation?
Let them steal it from the Russians, everyone will be happy.
Eh, damn Russians.
You're going to have to pay the Russians back for this.
It's not going to really be stealing anything.
But that'll be for Trump to do when he wins.
They don't care.
At this point, they don't care.
But I think it's... Well, this is a continuation of the basic thesis that I think that we somewhat agree on, which is they're going to screw up as much as they can, knowing Trump's getting in no matter what you do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And put him in there and let him fix it.
Yeah.
Give it to him.
We'll see you in 2028.
When Nikki's a Democrat, or whatever, or Gavin Newsom, or whoever.
Yeah, she's a Democrat already, hello.
Whoever, whoever.
Did you see, they're fundraising in Silicon Valley.
I sent you one of, I get these things.
Yes, Draper, Draper.
Yeah, he's one of the big supporters.
Draper.
Oh, goodness gracious.
I did get this really funny clip that was on the X.
Of New York Congresswoman Clark.
She's a Democrat.
And she said, hey, keep the border open.
This is good.
It's good for me.
I'm from Brooklyn, New York.
We have a diaspora that can absorb a significant number of these migrants.
And, you know, when I hear colleagues talk about, you know, the doors of the inn being closed, Wow, she just said it.
Bring those bodies in!
I can use it for redistricting!
need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes.
And those members could clearly fit here.
Wow.
She just said it.
Bring those bodies in.
I can use it for redistricting.
I have a clip about the school, don't I?
In New York?
Yeah.
I don't know.
These are very poorly organized today.
I've got too many clips.
What's wrong with you?
What is going on here?
Something's wrong with you.
Well, the problem is I started clipping too early in the week.
Oh, that's bad.
I know, you have to clip at the last minute, otherwise you end up with a mess.
By the way, Michelle Obama, just speaking of Democrats, did this hour-long interview.
Yeah, everyone saw it.
And everybody's saying, she's running!
She's running!
You were right!
Big Mike 2024!
BigMike2024.com, everybody.
She's running!
She's running!
And it was Daily Caller who had the best headline and opening graph.
Quote, Michelle Obama has a big package for Democrats this election season.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama revealed her huge package on a podcast Monday that could help Democrats hold on to the White House in 2024.
She's ready to fill up Democrats' strategy sessions with a new twist on the same old tactics as she and her husband prepare to double team America with more fear and division.
Who wrote that?
You should be shameful!
We're not even that juvenile.
No, we're not.
That is so bad.
The clip is, Great New York City Moves Immigrants to Schools.
Gage Clipper.
Gage Clipper wrote that.
Yeah, oh, Gage Clipper, sure.
What?
There's nobody named Gage Clipper?
That in itself has got some sexual innuendo.
I loved it.
It's like, boy, you guys are really going all out.
Just go beyond anything the No Agenda guys would do.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
I don't want to switch topics if you have other things.
No, I got the clip.
It's a great New York City school thing.
Great is the word.
Okay, let's do that.
Students out and illegal immigrants in New York City has decided to turn a high school into a temporary shelter for illegal immigrants and the decision is forcing students into remote learning.
NTD's Jason Perry reports from the high school.
I'm here in front of James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York.
And last night, on Tuesday night, almost 2,000 illegal immigrants stayed in this high school overnight.
And because of that, the students, who usually attend school here, won't be learning anything today, on Wednesday.
They'll be taking their classes at home, remotely.
The reason these illegal immigrants stayed the night here is because New York was facing a severe weather alert of heavy rain, potential flooding, and winds around 70 miles per hour.
And given that they were staying in tents, 2,000 families with children moved to the high school out of an overabundance of caution.
The city had heavy rains and high winds overnight on Tuesday, but it's been clearing up on Wednesday.
Local elected officials are arguing that this problem was foreseeable due to vulnerabilities during severe weather, and that the location at Floyd Bennett Field was not a good place to set up an immigrant shelter.
And how are the parents feeling about the move?
The New York Post reported that at least one woman, said to be a local parent, shouted at the illegal immigrants as they arrived at this high school.
Moreover, what about working parents who want their children to have adult supervision while they're at work?
Many questions remain.
Since mid-2022, over 160,000 illegal immigrants have entered New York City, a so-called sanctuary city, and many of them have been bused from Texas.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the increase could destroy New York City.
Yeah.
New York City.
That's like saying destroy democracy.
New York City will be destroyed.
This is coming from Adams.
It seems so obvious now, the way it unfolds, and just presuming that, that, you know, politicians don't run.
They just do whatever they're told.
Everything goes to crap.
Trump becomes president and signs a whopper, a whopper of a stimulus, and then refinances the whole country.
It would be perfect to refi.
You know, he's a refi guy.
Yeah.
Now, he might go to, you know, to International Criminal Court for overvaluing the United States, but... So there was this other outrage, which also squarely fell on our camp, which was the Taylor Swift NATO op-op.
Did you catch this?
I caught part of it, but I didn't really pay much attention, because I'm kind of sickened by the Taylor Swift op in the first place.
So even Jesse Waters, you know, like, oh, Taylor Swift, you know, they're with NATO, and you want to use her as an op, and they play this very, very short clip.
Which to me is always like, mm, that stinks.
Let me go look at the full thing.
And it's actually, if they had taken three seconds to evaluate what's really going on in this clip, it's much better.
So the idea here is there's a presentation at the NATO, um, let me see, I have the, uh, the 11th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, also known as Cyber, Cy, CyCon.
Um, organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence.
And so they have this, this young woman, and she's presenting, um, influence operations, IO, influence operations, and how you can use them.
And she talks about, uh, utilizing famous people, which, duh, and they have a picture, and they have a picture of Taylor Swift.
Now had these, these, these, uh, well, Jesse Waters is, is M5M, but this was a lot of this was, and of course everyone tagging me, you were right!
No, it's much worse than that.
The woman who's presenting is Alicia Marie Bargar, or Bargar.
And now listen carefully.
She is a research engineer at Johns Hopkins.
There we go.
Even more interesting, This clip is from 2019, August 2019.
2019, August 2019.
We are now talking just a few months before the pandemic.
Now it becomes a little more interesting if you listen a little bit before that short clip and a little bit after.
Here's the intro.
Finally, you came in here wanting to understand how you just go out there and encounter that information.
She's got that same cadence that the advertising, whatever you want to call it, the Lisa Monaco.
She's part of the milieu of these douchebags.
Oh, it's much worse.
Remember, August 2019.
Finally, um... Johns Hopkins.
You came in here wanting to understand how you just go out there and counter an information operation.
Well, this is kind of the last step.
The network interventions are actually developed within the public health domain.
And so the ones I'm going to give you are going to provide examples from health.
So the idea is that social influence can help encourage or promote behavior change.
And the theory here is essentially that this sort of approach works as well with regards to misinformation.
Um, it's important to recognize that this could be, you know, this is an ethically concerning thing to go out there and try and change hearts and minds.
Um, but it's important to think about how would we actually do this in a way that would work with people.
So potentially as like a peaceful information operation.
So she's talking about information operation.
She's talking about health.
Well that's interesting.
Then from health, remember 2020, election year, from health she goes to politics with Taylor Swift.
So the first one that's the most famous and the most common is working with famous people or influencers to share information or a particular message.
So I include Taylor Swift in here because she's a fairly influential online person.
I don't know if you've heard of her.
Um, but, um, she's actually, this is a cropped image, but she's standing next to a, you know, go vote sign.
And actually celebrities, um, at least in the US, uh, regularly will post pictures of themselves with an encouragement to people to go vote.
And this has a measurable effect on voter turnout.
Now, when it comes to countering an I.O., the particular message, one needs to consider whether or not the opinion leader actually wants to share that message because it may or may not be popular and they may or may not know how to share it without accidentally increasing more misinformation.
However, this is one that's a relatively accessible and understandable approach.
Very successful, understandable, because information influence operations are normal fare, normal fare.
Now she's talking about health in August of 2019, she's talking about voting in 2019, and let's just bring it home, Johns Hopkins.
Finally, alteration, changing individuals or relationships within a network.
This isn't necessarily as, you know, to make it more clear, think of vaccination.
This is actually, you know, education or teaching people, particularly those in prominent areas from which they could spread misinformation, how to recognize it and counter it themselves can help stop misinformation in its place.
They were ready.
They were ready for vaccination hesitancy.
They were ready for health issues.
They were ready for an election year.
This is rife.
And, you know, oh, I just used Taylor Swift.
They probably can't afford Taylor Swift.
But this is, they were ready for this.
Isn't this around the same time as event 201?
I think 201 is the, this is 2019?
Yeah.
August 2019.
I was about to say, it's within a six month, I think, of the event, which was also Johns Hopkins.
August 25th.
Don't forget the map.
August 25th, 2019 was event 201.
And don't forget the map.
The map?
Yeah, remember the map, the death map that Johns Hopkins released?
Oh yeah!
And the numbers, well they had the numbers every day.
With the big globes all over the place.
Yeah, yeah.
The death map.
So Johns Hopkins is bad news.
Well, seems so.
That's where the guy that used to listen to our show for a long time, even though he hated the fact that we weren't Trump haters, he was out of Johns Hopkins finally at the end.
The economic hitman.
Speaking of influence operations, Norman Lear, influencer numero uno, Would you believe this?
He got saved one year before his death when he was 100.
And what did he say?
Well, I mean, he got in under the wire.
He won't go to hell.
He won't go to hell.
He got saved.
Yeah, we don't know that.
Yeah, I do.
I mean, if he really got... Well, you don't know that.
You haven't visited hell.
I mean, when's the last time you went to Austin?
There you go.
So I got some Bret Weinstein stuff that I thought was worth clipping.
I was hoping to stay away from that, but you had to go with it.
Believe me, my clips are well chosen.
Let me ask you a question.
Is that guy's forehead jacked with Botox or what?
I don't know what his problem is.
It's not moving.
I'm not a big fan of his.
No, I'm not either.
I mean, Eric, I can tolerate a little more.
I like Heather.
So, Brett was on Tucker, and Johnny brought some clips for us.
This reference is eluding me.
His wife, Brett Weinstein's wife.
Oh yeah, well he mentions her in here, but I don't think she was on here with him, was she?
No, no, but I like her on the podcast much more.
Yes.
Brett, why is your forehead not moving?
Peter Griffin after he falls on the ground.
Okay, um, yeah.
This is Brett Weinstein on Tucker talking about the Vaxx.
Now what irks me, I mean, this analysis is great, but somehow Brett throws himself into the mix.
Oh, he loves doing that.
As though he had something to do with anything.
No, no, he's the one that debunked COVID, he warned everybody for the Vaxx, he did not.
No, he didn't.
He was like all in.
He was Provax.
Yeah, I know.
He's very odd.
I find it, so I find these annoying, these clips, but I have them because I think he makes a couple of points.
Maybe, you know, he's like maybe touching the truth here, here and there, and it's worth listening to.
They're not that long, except for the last one, which is the, or no, the second one, which is kind of long.
But here we go.
Even if the thing had turned out to be harmless, nobody could know that it was, so it wasn't safe.
And for them to assure us that it was, was a lie from the get go.
That's what caused Heather and me to start looking into it.
And the deeper we dug, the crazier the story got.
Not safe and ineffective.
In fact, harmful and shockingly ineffective at everything that you might want it to be effective at.
So, the story is an odd one.
The fact that that small number of dissidents was able to upend the narrative, was able to bring people's awareness to the massive levels of harm and the ineffectiveness of the shots, is in some ways the most surprising element of this story.
And I think it truly surprised Pharma and its partners in social media, in government, in non-governmental organizations, I think they thought that they owned enough of the media that they could sell us any narrative that they wished.
And I think, surprising as it is, they didn't really understand that podcasts could possibly be a countervailing force of significance.
Wow.
Welcome to 20 years later, Brett.
Podcast.
Has he repented anywhere?
Has he said, hey, you know, I was wrong in the beginning.
I was wrong.
No, no.
He's just walking, waltzing right.
I mean, he, it would, I would be okay if he said, you know, even I thought in the beginning, well, vaccines, you know, this.
Well, a lot of, a lot of hotshots have done exactly that.
Yeah.
And it's fine to do that.
He, for some reason, he's kind of like one of those guys who could never say he was wrong.
He's just one of those professorial type that just can't say he was wrong.
In fact, he goes just the opposite and says, well, you know, I was probably right all along.
Yeah, exactly.
Go podcasting!
So go podcasting.
So he goes on with a little more of an elaborate spiel here in this clip.
Podcasts could possibly be the best invention ever?
A countervailing force of significance.
If you own NBC News, it's enough.
You would say, right?
You know, it's failing to update from the buying by the barrel aphorism.
So what happened?
Let's just stop.
Yeah, I have to say, yeah, go ahead.
I got to say something about that.
Do you know what the buying-by-the-barrel aphorism is?
I have no idea what that is.
Yeah, I figured.
The buying-by-the-barrel aphorism, which I don't even know if Tucker knows what it means, but it's an old saying that used to be, don't be talking about getting into a beef with a publisher, don't get into an argument by someone who buys ink by the barrel.
Ah, oh, interesting.
Gosh, thank you for that.
That's good, good knowledge.
That's an old journalism aphorism.
And so he just tosses it out there in kind of a lackluster way.
And I thought immediately that no one's going to know what he's talking about when he says, so I felt obliged to explain it.
But the funny thing is, I started thinking about that, the buying by the ink, buying ink by the barrel, because on the Internet, there is no ink.
So we all have the ability to buy ink by the barrel now because it's all just... Well, hold on a second.
You're, I mean, now you're making a fallacy because people believe that their phone is the internet and that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, that's the internet.
People have, we have an entire generation who don't know how to publish on the internet.
Point well taken.
So let's go back to the clip.
And I would like to point out that it was right at the beginning of COVID that I started, because it's not, podcasts were owned by Apple.
Apple started throwing people off around 2019.
In concert with Facebook and Twitter and everyone's throwing these guys off.
That's when I started podcasting 2.0.
So Brett Weinstein, The reason people can hear your podcast is because of me.
If it wasn't for me, no one would give you credit.
That's right.
Thank you.
Where's my Nobel Peace Prize?
Podcasts could possibly be a countervailing force of significance.
If you own NBC News, it's enough.
You would think.
It's failing to update from the buying by the barrel aphorism.
So what happened was it turned out that a number of us were willing to make mistakes and correct them in real time to talk about this in plain English.
Wow!
A number of us, us truth-seekers, we were out there on the cutting edge, Tucker.
Can you imagine?
Oh, goodness gracious.
I mean, comparing what he did and how he did it to, like, Sherry Tenpenny and some of these other people.
Yes!
How about our show?
Within two weeks, we were like, this is a boom.
We were at the absolute beginning of the whole thing.
We caught it early.
And that's okay, because I don't need to be on Tucker telling him how great we are.
I would, but I wouldn't if you asked me.
I wouldn't do that.
Public.
We just cared about our own people.
That's all we cared about.
And to do so, you know, in Joe Rogan's man cave.
Man cave.
And the fact is people listened, because of course this was on everybody's mind, and what they were supposed to do to protect, you know, they'd been terrified, and what to do to protect your family's health was a question that everybody wanted to know the answer to.
So our ability to reach millions of people surprised those who thought they were just going to shove this narrative down our throats.
And this gets me to the WHO, the World Health Organization, and its pandemic preparedness plan modifications.
What I believe is going on is the World Health Organization is now revising the structures that allowed the dissidents to upend the narrative, and they are looking for a rematch, I think.
What they want are the measures that would have allowed them to silence the podcasters, to mandate Various things internationally in a way that would prevent the emergence of a control group that would allow us to see harms clearly.
So that's the reason that I think people as much as they want to move on from thinking about COVID.
Maybe stop thinking about COVID, but do start thinking about what has taken place with respect to medicine, with respect to public health, with respect to pharma, and ask yourself the question, given what you now know, would you want to relive a pandemic like the COVID pandemic?
Without the tools that allowed you to ultimately, in the end, see clearly that it didn't make sense to take another one of these shots or to have your kids take.
Oh, you're a national treasure, Brett.
We want those tools.
In fact, we need them.
And something is quietly moving just out of sight in order that we will not have access to them the next time we face a serious emergency.
Wow, I'm so happy you brought this clip.
Bullcrap!
I've fixed that.
It's fixed.
No, that's the point.
This is one of the reasons for the clip.
Then it's not me, it's a whole bunch of people.
You may have been sensing this same thing he's discussing that actually happened after you sensed it.
Yes.
And it probably took place during the weirdness around Alex Jones in particular.
That's exactly why.
It was a concerted, I mean, it was a conspiracy Literally.
They took off X-22 report.
By the way... Oh right, I forgot all about X-22.
The Spotify takes off at least two shows a day.
Yeah.
But now it's meaningless with the podcasting 2.0.
Correct.
I think.
Yes.
And I just thought...
The way he sees it is pretty much a confirmation of what you already did.
Yeah.
Which is, I'm not here to just compliment Caesar, but there you have it.
No, but, and I want to say, there are hundreds, literal hundreds of software developers who have their own day jobs and they've been working on this for the past three and a half years, amongst other things, for this very reason.
That's why they joined up.
It's like, this is bullcrap.
Apple's taking stuff down.
It's not reliable.
So we had to create a new index.
And we're now in the process of decentralizing it.
So they can't come and take it away.
There you go.
So let's go to part three.
It's almost impossible to exaggerate how troubling what is being discussed is.
In fact, I think it is fair to say that we are in the middle of a coup, that we are actually facing the elimination of our national and our personal sovereignty, and that that is the purpose of what is being constructed, that it has been
Written in such a way that your eyes are supposed to glaze over as you attempt to sort out what is under discussion.
And if you do that, then come May of this year, your nation is almost certain to sign on to an agreement that in some utterly vaguely described future circumstance A public health emergency, which the Director General of the World Health Organization has total liberty to define in any way that he sees fit.
In other words, nothing prevents climate change from being declared a public health emergency that would trigger the provisions of these modifications.
And in the case that some emergency or some pretense of an emergency shows up, The provisions that would kick in are beyond jaw-dropping.
So, I hope he explained how it works, because we've covered it extensively.
It's the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty, the World Health Organization Treaty.
Yeah, he does.
It goes on and on.
Which is already in place, and the thinking is that they can update that without it having to be ratified again.
Like a EULA.
Yeah, exactly.
Just like a EULA.
That's what set this sort of idea in place.
Within the document, it says we can change it.
And so once you agree to that, They just change you right from under you, pull the rug out right from under you.
Now he has a point about the climate change.
I don't think we played this clip, it's from a couple shows ago.
This is Ted Ross, who knows all about DEZ.
Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet.
Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions and account for almost one-third of the global burden of DEZs.
Forming food systems is therefore essential by shifting towards healthier, diversified and more plant-based diets.
If food systems delivered healthy diets for all, we could save 8 million limes per year.
Nordic countries have been trailblazers for many policy breakthroughs, including for linking climate and nutrition.
WHO is committed to supporting countries to develop and implement policies to improve diets and fight climate change.
Last year, under the leadership of the Egyptian COP 27 Presidency, WHO and our partners launched ICANN, the Initiative on Climate Action and Nutrition.
The ICANN baseline report currently shows low integration of climate and nutrition in policies, in funding mechanisms, and particularly in the private sector.
I'm therefore very pleased that over 130 countries have signed the COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health.
Together, we can protect and promote the health of both people and planet.
I thank you.
So, you already nailed it.
Stop eating beef.
Go eat your bugs.
World Health Organization, biggest donor, has always been the Gates Foundation.
Here's Bill Gates to back it up!
I'm here in July, and of course I flew in on my private jet.
Very, very important meeting.
The issue of you peasants eating bugs will be discussed at length.
That's never gotten the attention it deserves.
The issue of COVID-19 not killing off enough poor people and my vaccines not weeding out the rest of you bastards, which is a tragedy, of course.
We'll talk about using killer robots next to absolutely solve that problem.
Okay, now you're the one bitching about AI and now you're using it for the show.
Well, this is the only good use of AI.
Hello, this is the only good use of AI.
To follow up on the Tedros clip, here is David Icke.
Haha, Ike, yes.
Also on Podcasting 2.0 these days.
The Netherlands, the second biggest exporter of food in the world, is targeting farmers to destroy them and get them off the land, which is where all these farming protests in the Netherlands have come from.
At a time of food shortages and supply chain problems, you are targeting the second biggest exporter of food in the bloody world to destroy its farming base.
Why are you doing that?
If people depend on you for what's left of the food, you control them.
Where food is abundant and cheap, you do not control it.
Where energy is cheap and abundant, you do not control it.
Scarcity equals dependency equals control.
And that's why they're targeting the food chain, they're targeting energy supply, they're targeting everything.
Yeah, and this flows right into the big German protest, which is now turning into a strike, a multi-country strike.
Here's how Deutsche Welle characterized it.
Their intro alone tells you that.
Pay no attention, please.
Farmers across Germany have begun a week-long strike to protest the government's plans to cut agricultural fuel subsidies.
Lawmakers have already rolled back that decision after weeks of angry demonstrations.
Protests planned for the next seven days include rallies that will disrupt traffic in several regions.
A procession of tractors is expected to block off a central road here in Berlin, as farmers bring their frustrations to the government's doorstep.
Okay, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Meanwhile... And I'll give her this.
I've never been a big fan, but I'm starting to like her more.
Eva Flardingerbruch.
You know, she's the one that pops up everywhere.
She's the darling of the alternative media.
Not even right, just alternative media.
I'll give it to her.
She was out there in the snow on the big highway talking to the farmers, the truckers, people waiting behind, and I pulled the clip.
And this is the most frequent highway in Germany.
The most used highway in Germany?
Actually in Europe, to be honest.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
It's not normal to stand here, but no, we are sick of lies, we are sick of trying to get rid of our jobs.
It's not only farmers, it's the lorry drivers, it's the normal workers, everybody is sick of politicians who have no idea what they're talking about, who have no education.
Yes.
should look like.
And this is the result of four years trying to get in contact with politicians, talking to them on an equal level, but they won't listen.
And now we have no other choice than to demonstrate.
And it's our right.
One of the highest rights, especially in Germany, demonstrate.
We are not violent.
It's all friendly.
You can see we have a small gap.
people can drive I-foo, police, ambulances, everybody can come through.
But this is only the tip of the iceberg, to be honest, because all over Germany, we have, this is the West, we have Dutch farmers coming over to support us.
We have Hungarian farmers, Polish farmers, and we are all united in getting rid of politicians who are trying to get rid of us.
So I'll give it to Brett Weinstein there, indeed.
You'll only hear this on podcasts, and the Polish, so it's not just the farmers now, it's the truckers, bakers, and they're sick of it.
And of course, we have the rise of more conservative politicians, the Netherlands just had Geert Wilders, and immediately the media.
Brands that is far right!
You're far right!
In Germany?
Oh no, we gotta take it even further.
We can't have the Alternative for Deutschland, the AfD.
We can't have those guys starting to take over!
Far-right Alternative for Germany has been surging in pre-election polls, riding a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Officially, the party calls for faster deportations of declined asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
But this week, investigative media organization Corrective published hidden camera footage showing that AFD might be considering forcing out citizens as well.
In November, AFD leaders secretly met in a hotel with donors and members of neo-Nazi movements to discuss what they called re-migration.
It involves a large-scale deportation project targeting German residents of foreign origin deemed insufficiently assimilated, even if they have citizenship.
This shows that even high-ranking AFD politicians have expressed radical right-wing positions in a closed room, things they would never say publicly.
AFD said Wednesday that remigration would not become part of its official platform.
Nonetheless, the party remains fiercely opposed to immigration, even as the German economy minister has called for increased immigration to solve a shortage of workers.
The AFD faces risks for its far-right stances.
The party is under investigation in several states and at risk of being declared extremist, which would exclude it from elections.
Those of you who are Nazis, You're Nazis.
Go away.
You can't be in the election.
You're Nazis.
You want to deport people.
I'm sorry, re-immigrate.
Whatever that means.
Yeah, so, the media is not good for your health, people.
It really isn't.
They do not care about you, or themselves.
That's too dumb.
Only the dumbest people get into these jobs now, it seems.
I should not even discuss that.
Can I go back to AI for one second?
Yeah, I have one off clip that I could drop in here, but it would change the subject.
Well, let me just do the AI real quick.
Yeah.
Because the big consumer electronics show is taking place in Vegas, which of course... Oh yeah, AI is the theme this year.
It is the theme.
Yeah.
Back in the day, now, back in the day, you were kind of like a hero at CES.
I was?
Yeah, oh yeah.
You're writing.
I had parties.
I had a divorce party.
You did the chili cook-off.
That was Comdex.
Oh, was that Comdex?
Oh.
But see, everyone would wait for your snark to come out of CES.
People loved that.
Yeah, well, those days are over.
What do you mean?
What do you do twice a week here?
Yeah, well, it's a different audience.
I mean, people fawn over you, you know, going to the back of PC Magazine, as they do over me at Headbangers Ball.
I'm telling you.
Oh, Dvorak, I love that guy.
Oh, he's not dead, he's still here.
I love that guy.
So, what is, what are the, there's a couple things that we have always called bullcrap on.
Bullcrap.
What am I hearing?
Is that you?
I'm hearing some kind of hum.
I think it's coming from you.
What?
Are you buzzed?
Yeah, a hum.
A periodic hum.
It's like, are you leaning on something?
No.
So micropayments, like, oh, micropayments, you can do micropayments.
Well, actually, Podcasting 2.0 has micropayments, but we'll leave that aside.
The other thing is the smart refrigerator.
Oh yeah, it's back!
Hold on a second, is that... I'm telling you.
It's not only back, it's back with a frenzy.
Yes, and now they've... So whenever I hear this, I know that this whole thing is bullcrap.
The whole CES is filled with the stupidest... They got monitors with AI heads talking.
They've got robots that are serving drinks.
Really, this is... What ever happened to the talking cat that was at a YouTube channel?
That was some good AI.
That was good stuff.
So here it is.
Finally, it's here.
We've all heard the scary predictions that artificial intelligence could spell the end of humanity, but AI is already here, or soon will be, in places as common as a living room or the kitchen.
This high-tech refrigerator is powered by AI, and it also has eyes.
So the fridge sees I just put in a tomato.
A built-in camera allows it to see food that's put in and taken out, and it uses that information to give out suggestions.
So the fridge will be able to say, you've got these items, you should try this recipe.
Or, you have this food item that expires in two days, you should use it.
So AI allows the fridge to keep track of its contents in an environmentally responsible way.
Artificial intelligence is everywhere at this year's CES.
The huge popularity of ChatGPT has helped make it inescapable.
AI will soon be in our cars, too.
This French startup has attracted several major automakers by creating an augmented reality dashboard along with a virtual co-pilot.
What sets AI apart is that it will remember your requests and answers over time to know you better.
Conversations tend to be more intuitive And it's more effective than looking at a screen and pressing on it.
Oh, oh, it's more effective than pressing a button.
Is this really, this is really what this revolution is about?
I'm sorry, they've got nothing.
We've been hearing about this.
I mean, to me, this whole thing sounded like Macworld when the Newton came out.
I was there.
I was one of those dopes.
Oh, yeah.
It does handwriting recognition.
Kind of.
Let me squirt over my address, my contact card to you.
Well, I forget about squirting.
Squirting.
Squirting.
That was the word.
Yeah, squirting.
Good Newton Roche.
I wonder if I... I hope I still have my Newton somewhere.
Oh, you probably do.
I don't know.
Good auction item.
I've never got one.
I don't think I've ever gotten one.
I had two.
I had the original, which I went to Boston to go get.
I was so excited.
And then by the time I'm on the plane home, like, this thing kind of sucks.
Doesn't really, you know, it's like, oh, and it'll connect to a modem.
Have you ever tried to do your password writing on the Newton?
Trust me.
Impossible.
The whole thing is just, this is nothing.
That's all they had.
They didn't have anything interesting.
I looked at all the reports.
Nothing interesting.
Nothing.
Huh.
Yeah, I saw that report about the refrigerator cracked up.
Yeah.
You know, I don't want a refrigerator.
Why does the refrigerator not even know how to cook, let alone offer me recipes, suggest, hey, you have a tomato.
Why don't you do this?
Screw yourself.
I bought the tomato for a reason, not to get you to listen to your guff.
Yeah, I mean, if you just go willy nilly and just, oh, I just need some tomatoes.
I hope my fridge can help me out what to do with them.
I got no idea.
So I have a very short clip about the Alaska Airline thing.
Yes.
That was pointed out to me by Mimi.
Yes.
Yeah, I was wrong.
I was wrong.
I'm happy to say it, but I do have questions about this.
Well, you're wrong.
What do you mean you're wrong?
About less seats versus more seats?
Oh yeah, no, that's right.
We have just the opposite.
But I have a- We do have a note from a guy.
I could bring it up.
Several notes.
We have a note from a guy, and it was- the idea was to have more leg room.
It was just a- No, no, no, no.
Hold on a second.
This is where I- That's what he said.
I know, but this is where I disagree.
You need to have one emergency exit every 50 passengers.
Every 50 seats.
Right.
So, um, the reason they didn't have that is because there were less seats.
Right.
But the reason for less seats was to give people more legroom.
Up front, maybe.
All seats count, not just the seats in the back.
I think it's for the first or business class.
Believe me, no airline in their right mind is saying, oh, I want to give people more leg room.
I'm not going to argue that.
I'm just saying that's kind of what he implied.
A lot of them implied that.
That's not what this clip's about.
This clip's about something, what was the, now this plane took off, do you remember?
It took off, how long was it in the air before the thing blew out?
Uh, it was at 16,000 feet, so, um, uh, I don't know, probably, uh, 20 minutes?
15?
20 minutes?
And then it flew right back?
Yeah.
It turned around immediately and flew back, which I understand was 18 minutes to get back.
Yeah, that makes sense.
So, tell me how it works with this particular report.
This is the Alaska Air BS AC.
This morning, the door plug that flew off an Alaska Airlines flight in midair, leaving this gaping hole behind, now found after a three-day search.
The NTSB locating it in the backyard of a Portland school teacher.
The discovery coming as authorities reveal no data can be pulled from the cockpit voice recorder because it was completely overwritten.
At two hours, it re-records over it.
So we have nothing from the CVR.
That's correct.
It wasn't in flight for two hours.
Oh.
20 minutes up, 18 minutes back.
Where's the two hours?
Very good.
Yeah, someone messed up there.
This is a cover-up.
Well, I'm hearing- This may be the cover-up you may have suggested, which is a pilot error.
Well, so here- I'm getting more information, and I'm just- This is all information I'm getting from people who are aviators, and I trust them.
Some people will- I mean, I'm getting emails like, You're discrediting the show!
I'm a pilot!
It's okay.
It's that same guy.
No, it's a different guy.
Block him.
No, no.
Actually, that guy ended with, hey man, I saw you on Rogan with your witness to God.
God bless.
First he yells at me.
It appears that this is, so when it comes to the pressurization, there's two systems.
Pressurization is automatic, but there was a failure notice, and then there was a second failure when they switched to the second system, which would kind of be, hey, can you breathe?
I can breathe.
Yeah, I can breathe.
It's fine.
You feel okay?
Yeah, because, you know, you're talking about hypoxia.
And it was 16,000 feet, so at 16,000 feet you have ample time to do something.
You're not out of oxygen at 16,000 feet.
It starts to get a little wonky after a while.
But it appears that these bolts, that they were either not properly installed after maintenance, or from the factory for the door plug, and that the door was probably leaking.
And that's where the warnings came from.
So there was all kinds of issues.
But what I'm hearing now from Air Force and Naval Airmen is they're all, they're all giving up on Boeing.
They're all training on Airbus.
Because they want careers after, you know, after their service, they want to be on Airbuses.
There is a huge distrust of Boeing in the aviation community.
And we've always talked about, it could be sabotage for all you know, we've always talked about Airbus versus Boeing.
And Boeing has had a couple of problems.
Well now the inspectors are going out and finding these bolts are loose.
Loose bolts, yeah.
How does that happen?
There's no quality control at Boeing?
Makes no sense.
Or is it sabotaged?
Because this is revisiting something from listeners.
Years and years ago.
And producers, this was over a decade ago that you brought forth this thesis because we started to see planes dropping from the sky.
First a Boeing and then an Airbus.
And then a Boeing and then an Airbus.
That's right.
It would be one for one.
We keep in score.
Yeah, as if it was like, okay, it's like watching the mob.
You know, you killed Billy, you know, so Vinny's gotta go.
So it was like that.
Yeah.
Well, then there's this story.
And for anyone who ever dropped their iPhone and had a crack, a head scratcher tonight.
Sean Bates from Oregon, out walking, he found one of the iPhones sucked from that plane at 16,000 feet.
He called the NTSB.
The screen was not cracked.
In fact, it had a message about the passenger's baggage.
Incredible.
Incredible is right.
Come on.
Okay, I believe it's possible.
No, I believe it's possible, but why not get the person whose iPhone it is?
If it's unlocked, you can see who it belongs to, get that person.
This is the same as, where's the kid whose t-shirt got ripped off his body?
Yeah, who was that?
Where's that?
Yeah, that bothers me too, that, you know, although they're so lazy.
Yeah, he found an iPhone.
What, the guy, once you get a hold of the guy, it's too much work.
And who knows, all of this could be bull.
I mean, I love how calm everybody was with that big gaping hole.
That was pretty amazing.
That was a very calm cabin.
Yeah, you seem to be seeing at least one or two people shrieking.
We don't have any of that.
And supposedly, and this was another weird one, the decompression event was so severe that the cockpit door blew open.
That's not supposed to happen.
That's supposed to be reinforced.
Yes, that's right, that was reported.
Reinforced, you know, so people with box cutters can't get through.
Oh boy, we're getting real deep now.
All over.
And we can't trust anything, because the reporting is so poor.
All will be revealed this year.
This is the year of the big reveal.
I'm telling you.
It's all gonna happen.
All this is gonna happen.
Yeah.
I got this report that Epstein lost docs.
Oh goodness.
Another distraction of the week.
It's a good one though.
I'm all in.
The newest batch of unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents released Tuesday show the high costs allegedly paid for sex with a teenager.
Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein accuser, said Epstein paid her $15,000 to have sex with Britain's Prince Andrew in 2011.
She says she was 17 at the time.
Prince Andrew has repeatedly denied they had sex.
He has also denied that he ever met her.
The 1,482 pages released are the last set to be made public.
They include several depositions from Ghislaine Maxwell, one from Epstein, one from Giuffre, and another from Sarah Ransom, an alleged adult victim of Epstein.
The records are part of a defamation lawsuit brought by Giuffre against Maxwell, Epstein's longtime companion.
The case settled in 2017.
Included in the heavily redacted documents are allegations Jouffre was directed to have sex with other high-profile men, such as Glenn Dubin, a billionaire hedge fund manager, and billionaire retail magnate Les Wexner.
Both men have denied Jouffre's claims.
Former President Trump was also identified in the depositions.
Dufresne said she met the former president but didn't see him doing anything improper.
But Ransom claimed in 2016 emails to a New York Post columnist that Trump was involved in Epstein's sex trafficking.
She later retracted the claim in a follow-up email.
The world is in so much peril in so many ways, but yet this is what occupies everybody.
Yeah, well, the better part of this is what Jim Gaffigan said at the Globes.
Oh, hold on a second.
So Gaffigan goes up to give some awards out, and this is what he said.
I can't even believe I'm in the entertainment industry.
I can't.
You know, it's so unlikely.
I'm from a small town in Indiana.
I'm not a pedophile.
You know?
I just... I don't know if that's a new category here, but... We decided we were not going to watch that.
Like, just really, I didn't want to watch it.
I just didn't.
Now I missed that.
That's pretty funny.
He's doing a Ricky Gervais there.
Yeah, he pulled one off.
He got away with it.
Somebody also was out there insulting Taylor Swift.
That was the host.
Yeah, that host was terrible.
Did you watch it?
You watched the Golden Globes?
I watch all these awards shows.
What I did is I had it taped.
Ah, okay, so you sped through all the boring.
Were there any... So I heard about the Gaffigan thing, so I went and got that and then the rest of it I talked to some people who watched the whole thing and they told me what to look for.
Was it any good?
The Gaffigan thing was the main thing.
Was anything else, was it any good?
No.
Were there any movies that we had heard of?
That's the main thing.
Yeah, Oppenheimer won most of the awards and then Barbie won a couple.
Yeah.
And then there's a couple other things and most of the same old same olds are all sitting there in the audience and you know.
Yeah.
Meanwhile... It wasn't really that much of a killer event.
No, no one cares anymore.
The entertainment business in the mainstream, I think, is dead.
I don't even know why Taylor Swift goes to that.
Why is she going?
She got suckered into going because they created a whole new category for her heiress movie.
She won!
To get her to go.
Did she win?
I don't know, to be honest about it.
But whatever the case is, I look at these things and say, these guys are shooting themselves in the foot because, for example, the Emmys, more of the awards go to cable shows.
Broadcast TV is given the short end of whatever is short.
Stick.
I don't get why they're doing that.
They should be on broadcast TV.
And they give everything to cable.
Cable have their own awards.
Cable has awards.
I don't get why they're doing that.
They should be on broadcast TV.
They should be promoting broadcast TV with awards.
But isn't it streamers as well?
Like podcasts, for example.
Podcasting awards being given to people who are just repurposing old PBS shows.
They shouldn't get any awards for that.
That's why we should do podcasting awards and do it right.
So the Podcast Hall of Fame awards or induction ceremonies taking place in a couple of weeks in Florida at PodFest.
Podfest.
Podfest, yes.
And our buddy Michael Butler being inducted into the Hall of Fame.
And rightly so.
I think rightly so.
Did he ask you?
Well, he's been doing that show forever.
Did he ask you to induct him?
No.
No, he asked me, and I declined.
So I'm not gonna do that.
No, he didn't ask me anything.
Oh, I figured... He thinks I'm a schmuck, I guess.
No, he loves you.
What are you talking about?
Well, he could've asked me.
I would've done it.
Wait, you go to Florida?
Uh, yeah.
Police!
And meanwhile, the firmament still impenetrable.
The first U.S.
mission to land on the moon in more than 50 years is in jeopardy tonight.
Just hours after this morning's launch, Astrobotic Technology, the private company behind the mission, said the unmanned spacecraft developed a critical fuel leak.
The issue could prevent the Peregrine Lander from touching down February 23rd, as planned.
Yeah, it's not gonna make it, of course.
It's gonna crash land.
Yeah.
Yeah, whatever.
If it was even launched, but there's nobody in it so it could be launched.
Well, there's a DNA, you know, some company who does a burial on the moon for you.
So they had ashes and DNA of former presidents.
Well, it's gonna get buried deep.
It's not gonna crash into the moon.
You don't think it's even on its way?
You don't think it's even launched?
They can't get past the firmament, no way!
And now, on the heels of that... A commercial robotic mission to the moon will not make it to the lunar surface.
As NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports, the probe has suffered a critical failure.
The small probe was launched on Monday by the company Astrobotic.
Shortly after reaching space, it ran into trouble.
The company quickly realized that the spacecraft's propulsion system had sprung a leak, causing it to tumble.
They've regained control, but have continued to lose propellant.
They now say they only have enough fuel to operate for about another day and a half.
The mission was the first of a series of NASA-backed commercial flights to the moon.
NASA hopes that these companies will one day ferry equipment and experiments to astronauts on the lunar surface.
Separately, the space agency announced it is pushing back its first mission to send astronauts to orbit the moon since the Apollo program.
It will be delayed until 2025.
Jeff Brumfield, NPR News.
Blow your nose.
Yeah, or something.
Or stop using what you're using.
So, everything's failing.
And then Elon's rockets blow up.
Oh, that's a success.
I'm sorry.
It's considered a success.
We can't do it.
50 years ago.
We walked on the moon.
I'm sorry.
Jumped around.
Hit a golf ball.
Again.
The golf ball.
Forgot about that.
Driving around in the in the in the Lunar Rover.
Was that what it's called?
Was it called the Rover?
Yeah, the Rover.
Yeah, driving around and like a doom buggy.
Bouncing on the moon.
It was great.
Not a problem.
Now the richest guys in the world can't make it happen.
The season of reveal is upon us.
Everything, everything's gonna come out.
And quantum computing's gonna be the next big thing.
I know that you are now starting to see what I'm seeing.
No, I mean, I saw something, but I'm not... I'm still not into the... I'm not all in, because it's such a laughable technology.
Let's do a 3x3.
Oh, that's a good idea.
And now it's time for 3x3!
Oh yeah, baby!
Experiment by JCD!
It's a big experiment!
Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC!
John has three clips from the big networks ABC, NBC, CBS and we're going to compare them.
Do they come from one talking point?
Are they from the White House?
Is there collusion or is it just dumb, dumb journalism?
Well as we pointed out in not this last newsletter but the one before, We have a producer that is an ex major major media network news director and retired.
Yes and told us that basically they get all the stuff from one main source, the same clips they get it just here's your tape go put it together put your own guy or gal in there good to go.
Yes, and that's what we're seeing with these clips.
What is the topic for today?
This is about the judges, the Trump federal judge story.
It'll reveal itself with the ABC clip.
Today, Donald Trump looking on in court as his attorney tried to convince a skeptical panel of judges that the former president should have complete immunity from prosecution for trying to overturn the election he had lost.
This was the central argument from Trump's lawyers.
To authorize the prosecution of a president for his official acts would open a Pandora's box from which this nation may never recover.
Never.
Judge Florence Pan immediately challenging that argument.
Could a president sell pardons or sell military secrets?
Those are official acts, right?
It's an official act to grant a pardon.
It's an official act to communicate with a foreign government.
Trump's attorney claiming a president must be impeached and convicted by Congress before he can be charged with a crime.
Could a president order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?
That's an official act in order to seal Team 6.
He would have to be, and would speedily be, you know, impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution.
Judge Penn pressing again.
Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival who was not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?
If he were impeached and convicted first.
So your answer is no.
The special counsel prosecutor pounced.
What kind of world are we living in if, as I understood my friend on the other side to say here, a president orders his SEAL team to assassinate a political rival and resigns, for example, before an impeachment?
Not a criminal act.
President sells a pardon, resigns, or is not impeached?
Not a crime.
I think that is extraordinarily frightening future.
Trump sat there emotionless, often taking notes and passing them to his attorneys.
He did not appear to make eye contact with special counsel Jack Smith, who was also in court.
But he nodded emphatically at times, and when it was all over, he addressed reporters.
The president has to have immunity.
And the other thing is I did nothing wrong.
We did nothing wrong.
You know, the sad thing is Tolar, Tolar sends me, I rarely use them because sometimes it's just not usable, but he sends me the C-Span clips and there's definitely people In our country, who are psyoped by this, who now think Trump might use SEAL Team 6 to kill his rivals.
I love that one.
I mean, how do you even come up with this theory?
Oh, SEAL Team 6?
You don't need to have the Chinook go down to assassinate someone with SEAL Team 6.
That's crazy.
What's interesting is, I'm surprised nobody brought up the fact that Obama had authorized the killing of two American citizens.
Yeah, dad and his son.
Dad and his son, and then also, I think there was another guy killed in the process.
If Trump was found guilty of any of this stuff, I don't see why some Republican can't get in office and then find Obama guilty of premeditated murder.
They should have also mentioned that, you know, Obama killed SEAL Team 6.
We all know that.
Yeah, and there's also that, yeah.
Minor, minor point.
Supposedly.
So let's go to the same report, NBC.
Tonight, a ruling expected any time from the federal appeals court, which appeared deeply skeptical today of Donald Trump's efforts to derail the case about his attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
I did nothing wrong.
Absolutely nothing wrong.
I feel that as a president, you have to have immunity.
So they reversed the report and put the ending at the beginning.
Yeah.
Okay, alright.
Nothing wrong.
I feel that as a president you have to have immunity.
The Republican frontrunner watching on in court has his lawyer John Sauer urge the three-judge panel to break new legal ground and find the former president immune from prosecution, emphasizing everything he's been charged for took place when he was still in the White House.
We have the prosecution of the chief political opponent who's winning in every poll and is being prosecuted by the administration that he's seeking to replace.
While the Justice Department argues nothing in the Constitution supports shielding Mr. Trump from prosecution now.
Never before has there been allegations that a sitting president has, with private individuals and using the levers of power, sought to fundamentally subvert the Democratic Republic and the electoral system.
It would be awfully scary if there weren't some sort of mechanism by which to reach that criminally.
Judge Florence Pan, a Biden appointee, posing stark hypotheticals on what a future president could do if Mr. Trump's view prevailed.
Could a president order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival?
The answer, in Sauer's view, yes.
So long as the president was impeached and convicted first.
Pinning much of his argument on the Senate acquitting Mr. Trump at his 2021 impeachment trial.
A position DOJ cast as frightening.
What kind of world are we living in?
The president has a unique constitutional role.
He is not above the law.
Yeah, the same clips, they just reversed the order.
It's pretty good.
I think, honestly, from an editing standpoint, I think it was good to bring in the Trump thing first, get that out of the way, and not leave it last.
But the ABC, I liked the SEAL Team 6 at the beginning better.
I think that would have kept people watching if I was to edit this.
Well, they definitely scrambled these.
These exact same clips just scrambled.
Let's go to CBS, which I still maintain does the best job of, I'd say, creating a dramatic moment.
After arriving in a motorcade through the rain, Donald Trump sat in the front row as his attorney argued the 2020 election conspiracy criminal case against the former president must be dismissed.
To authorize the prosecution of a president for his official acts would open a Pandora's box from which this nation may never recover.
A trial judge rejected his claim of presidential immunity last year, saying a former president doesn't enjoy a get-out-of-jail-free card, which the prosecutor echoed today.
The president has a unique constitutional role, but he is not above the law.
The appeals court appeared skeptical too, with one judge calling it paradoxical for a president to swear an oath to uphold the law, yet be allowed to violate the law.
Judge Florence Pan posed a pointed hypothetical to Trump's attorney.
Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival who was not impeached, could he be subject to criminal prosecution?
If he were impeached and convicted first, The judges also pressed Trump's attorney when he acknowledged the former president could be charged if he had been convicted by the Senate at his 2021 impeachment.
If Donald Trump could have been impeached and convicted, and therefore could be prosecuted, then how can they argue immunity at the same time?
It's a contradiction.
Though he claimed he was forced from the campaign trail by the case, Trump appeared in court voluntarily and addressed cameras at his former D.C.
hotel after.
I feel that as a president, you have to have immunity.
Very simple.
Same clips.
It's all the same.
It's all the same.
Well, it also brings up, and I'll reiterate my comment about why has Obama not been indicted for murder?
Who cares?
I do.
I don't want him murdering people.
No, I understand that, but that's old shows.
Here's the mistake they're all making.
The media in particular, if the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group, if they could afford us, if they could hire us, we would say they're using the wrong words.
They keep saying, Donald Trump tried to overturn, overturn, overturn.
The word they want is overthrow.
They're making a mistake here.
Overturn is a legal process.
If it was violent, they should use the word overthrow.
The first one to do that is smart.
Because it's just... Well, it fits into what their real narrative is.
I agree with you.
That would be a much better use of the... a much better term to use if we were doing political consulting.
That's what we'd advise.
Because we know what we're doing.
Meanwhile, this is the drivel that your M5M shovels down your throat all day long.
An investigation is underway in Colorado following reports that Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert got into a physical fight with her ex-husband at a restaurant.
A source tells the Daily Beast that Jason Boebert called police, claiming he was the victim of domestic violence.
Police confirmed the investigation last night.
A statement from Lauren Boebert's campaign said she did not punch her ex in the face and no one was arrested.
So dumb.
So dumb.
You know, I believe this is all true.
She seems like the type.
I mean, I don't want to generalize, but she does seem like the type.
I think reports are out today that it didn't happen.
Why is this news?
Who cares?
Who cares?
It's gossip.
It's TMZ.
Yes.
Well, that's what it's become.
Now, what should happen Is this, I mean, I'd love to see this happen in American television studios.
Tonight, this is the chilling moment armed men stormed the set of a public TV channel in Ecuador, firing off guns and waving apparent explosives during a live broadcast.
The studio crew taken hostage for at least 15 minutes on air as the country watched.
Police later surrounding the station, arresting several suspects.
And across Ecuador, fiery blasts rocking multiple cities, this one engulfing a police car.
The wave of violence beginning just hours after Ecuador's president declared a state of emergency, following a prison escape by notorious Los Torneros gang leader Adolfo Macias.
The government battling with what they say are at least 22 different criminal groups angered by that state of emergency.
Tonight, authorities say at least seven police officers have been kidnapped.
Ecuador, once known as one of South America's most peaceful countries, seeing an explosion in recent years of organized crime-related violence linked to Mexican drug cartels.
And David, that state of emergency will remain in place for at least 60 days, which gives the country's military the right to enter some of the prisons there, criminals inside of which responsible for so much of the violence we've seen recently.
The footage was really interesting.
So this gang breaks in, and they shoot a couple shots in the air.
And they all got hoodies on, they're throwing gang signs.
And the audio guy is out there micing them.
He's like, hold on, hold on, let me mic you up.
I want to get it all right.
He's putting the lavalier on.
That's great.
Now, I have the same Ecuador report, but it's kind of slanted differently.
It's pretty much the same, but it's also put it, this is NTD, so it'll be different.
Put it into context.
This is MTD.
Ecuador's president says the country is at war as drug gangs hold more than 130 prison staff hostage.
Police have made at least dozens of arrests and confiscated weapons, molotov cocktails and ammunition.
We are practically living in a state of war against terrorism.
These are not organized crime groups.
They are terrorists who are financed by drug trafficking, trafficking in people, organs, and arms.
On Tuesday, armed gangs unleashed a wave of violence around the nation.
In the worst of these incidents, gunmen with explosives stormed a TV station on air.
Police arrested the men.
The violence prompted President Daniel Naboa to name 22 gangs as terrorist organizations to be hunted by the military.
The violence began after a major gang leader apparently escaped from prison over the weekend.
Ecuador is planning new high security prisons for gang leaders.
The president plans to release two of the designs tomorrow.
He also plans to begin to deport foreign prisoners to reduce prison populations.
The Biden administration is monitoring the situation.
Oh, send them here.
Send them up north!
That's about right, but when did Ecuador go from becoming the darling country of John Perkins, the economic hitman guy, and a potential landing point for Julian Assange or Snowden or whoever, no Snowden I guess.
To this.
This is what changed.
I don't know, but right next door, El Salvador, they got rid of all of that.
It's now become one of the safest countries.
Well, El Salvador is nowhere near Ecuador.
I thought it was near Ecuador.
No, El Salvador is in Central America.
Where's Ecuador?
It's in South America.
They're not neighbors?
No.
Well, that's... Ecuador's on the west coast of Central, of South America, near Peru.
Alright, well, people, you don't have to send me emails about how stupid I am.
Hmm, okay.
It's next to Honduras and Guatemala, that's what I was thinking of, Guatemala.
Another fine country.
So I got that poster of me from the American Library Association, which our anonymous librarian so kindly sent.
Yeah, that's great.
Yeah, it's very nice.
And from that, somehow we were talking about Little House on the Prairie.
I don't know why.
Well, I don't remember exactly why either, but first of all, there's a huge Little House on the Prairie community.
There's a podcast, the Walnut Grove cast, oh yeah, none of that.
But here's what she said, Little House on the Prairie, they had a, there was an award, the Wilder Medal was stripped Her name was stripped off of the award in 2018 because of racism in her books.
Oh, please.
How about that?
When is the Mark Twain Award for humor going to be kicked off and changed to something else?
Oh, you know what?
That's a good idea.
Yeah, it's about time.
We need to get rid of that.
Who accepts the award must be a racist.
Yep, yep, yep, clearly.
I had an interesting continuing advertising war going on between the pharmaceutical companies.
I'd like to play these two.
As you know, Eli Lilly has decided for their death-bound, I'm sorry, Zep-bound product, that they will go direct-to-consumer.
I think they even purchased a telehealth outfit to do this.
I'm not sure.
But it doesn't really matter because telehealth is, I mean, we saw this, the rise of telehealth during COVID and all you need is just for some dude to say, you know, some doctor dude, I think you can just be a provider or whatever.
You can be an RN or you can just say, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It looks like you just go through a couple of questions online and then they say, we'll prescribe it to you.
So NBC had the pro Eli Lilly ad, which is couched as a news story.
Both Ozempic and Manjaro are drugs for treating diabetes, but also used off-label for weight loss.
Wigovi and ZepMound are now the approved versions of the two drugs.
So there you go.
There's a discrediting of the competitor.
Oh, they're off-label.
You don't want to use the most popular drug.
The category is known as Ozempic.
Yeah, that's off-label.
You really want to have the approved drug.
You want death-bound approved.
The two drugs specifically intended for fighting obesity.
But as Lynn discovered, securing a prescription for any of these drugs can be a challenge.
Eli Lilly's CEO, Dave Ricks, says his company is now trying to change that.
I think a lot of people think of obesity as an issue of willpower.
It's not.
You know, 40% of adult Americans have excess weight or obesity.
That's a big number.
The pharmaceutical giant today launching LilyDirect, a website where patients can find a doctor in person or via telehealth who can, if appropriate, prescribe certain medicines, among them ZetBound, which can then ship directly to the patient's door.
Obviously there are going to be questions from people about safety, about oversight.
Can you explain the role of physicians and just healthcare professionals in this?
It's a critical part of how the site works and these drugs need to be used under the supervision of a physician and we're just offering more choice in that regard.
Are these independent physicians?
Will they get any kind of incentives for prescribing Zep-Bound or your drugs?
How does that relationship look?
Yeah, key question.
There is no financial relationship between us and the physicians or the online telehealth platforms.
In clinical trials, patients taking ZepBound lost 21% of their body weight.
Approved by the FDA in November, Wall Street analysts expect it to bring in billions of dollars in sales this year.
Alright, so we need to combat this.
As Novo Nordisk, we can't have this.
These guys are weaseling in.
We pioneered this.
This is bigger than the whole GDP of our country.
Yeah, they're muscling in.
Yeah, so if the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group were asked to have a counter campaign and with focus on television and we need some online components, what do you think we should do?
Find someone who died from the other product.
Well, that would be great, but we don't want to discredit the whole sector.
We want to make people afraid of online.
Online.
Oh, that's a good strategy.
Yeah.
And I tell you, why don't we get Sharon Osbourne?
Because she had such success with our product.
Let's have her do a slick Sleekly edited and produced mini-show where she can discredit everything that comes from online and just make sure you use Ozempic, which she uses, and look at her!
She's as skinny as a rail!
With so many people turning to Ozempic for weight loss, its Danish manufacturer launched WeGoV, a near-identical jab approved specifically for weight loss.
The NHS has recently approved its use here in the UK, but there's no strict rules on how doctors prescribe it, including crucially ensuring patients make lifestyle changes too.
Generally, if you have a BMI of 35, which is above being obese, Or you can have a BMI of around 30 plus have a couple of health-related issues such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels.
Whilst having this criteria is important, it does make Dr. Ids worried that people who really want to get their hands on it will seek to buy Ozempic or Wegovi without medical supervision on the black market.
People will become frustrated, they will find a way around it, and that has now developed the black markets for these, you know, unverified, untested compounds that are claimed to be semaglutide.
People have become malnourished, become very sick.
You need supervision by a qualified healthcare professional, a doctor.
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency recently launched a campaign warning about the online sale of counterfeit medicines, including weight loss injections.
Being able to get access to these weight loss drugs off prescription could have serious consequences, not least for those with eating disorders.
So we know that people with eating disorders who are often obsessed about losing weight, they'll try anything and will find it far too easy to find these jabs online.
From the people I've spoken with today, you realise that these drugs can be very helpful to people who want to lose weight.
But they can have very serious consequences if used in the wrong circumstances.
They're easy to get hold of online and it's worrying that counterfeit jabs are available on the black market too.
So they've introduced black market, online, counterfeit, get rid of the compounding.
You need to do this officially.
Do this the proper way, people.
Do it like Sharon, who looks like death warmed over.
I'm sorry, she does not look good.
I'm sure when she looks in the mirror she disagrees with you.
And I remember her as this roly-poly, you know, British housewife in 1988.
No, I mean, it's unhealthy the way she looks.
Really, it's... Well, the anorexics keep seeing themselves as too fat.
Too fat, yeah.
Something happens to your brain where you look at yourself and you go, I'm still too fat.
It's horrible.
I mean, it's a horrible disease.
A mental disease.
So.
Anyway, we do have a Hail Mary from the French.
You know, Macron is just not cutting the mustard.
No one likes him, he's making all the wrong moves, and so they need to bring in a fresh, young face.
Well, France now has a new prime minister, and a young one.
That's 34-year-old Gabriel Attal.
The former education minister is now the youngest prime minister in recent French history.
He's also the first one to be openly gay.
Atal is going to replace Elizabeth Bowne, who resigned Monday after almost two years in the job.
Now, that cabinet reshuffle had been in the works for some time now.
Macron's hoping to give new momentum to the last three years of his presidency that have been rocked by a series of controversial moves over pensions and immigration.
There you go.
He's 34 years old.
Young guy.
Handsome guy.
First one to be openly gay.
Like, that's important to know.
Yeah.
For some reason.
Well, I don't know why.
I think they have to say that, otherwise somebody will bring it out.
They've been trying to keep it a secret.
Yeah.
Hey, I got some podcasting ads.
Oh!
Oh, where did you get these from?
iHeartRadio?
Now, iHeartRadio is the one that's not bankrupt, right?
That's Odyssey.
Odyssey, who are two billion dollars in the hole.
Somehow.
It's easy.
First of all, they borrowed the money to buy CBS Radio.
That's where the debt comes from.
And then they started all kinds of, they bought podcast companies.
That wasn't for billions of dollars, but they bought podcast companies.
And the advertising market is running away.
They're going to TikTok.
They're running away from radio.
It's still a big industry, but it's hard.
It's hard to make that work.
It's expensive.
Do we have the letter from the guy that has the TikTok experience you want to read?
Yeah, I actually do.
Well, what he was saying, you mean the guy who said that TikTok is filled with State Department people?
Spooks.
Spooks, yeah.
American spooks.
That's why it hasn't gone away.
Enter the whole Johns Hopkins lady.
Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Mariola Janik.
She's at TikTok.
There's a whole bunch of them.
I put the link in the show notes.
People look at it.
State Department's Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.
I mean, there's just lots of spooks in there.
They finally got smart.
That's what you want to do.
Yeah, hopefully Trump will shut it down.
Why?
He'll screw everything up.
I love TikTok.
I mean, not that I watch it, but I think it's great.
Wait a minute, you're always condemning me for pulling TikTok clips.
That's why I love it.
Now you love it.
Now you change it.
I love it because you pull those nutty clips.
We have an end of show mix from your last one, even.
Here we go with...
I think the political one, Pod, you can play.
I got three of them.
Could you not say Pod?
Could you just say?
No, I put Pod on the name of the clip.
It's triggering me.
You and your Pod.
Okay.
I don't like using it, but I use it to make a shorter name for the clip.
Okay.
Just a circumvention.
Okay.
Pod ad politics for pop.
Hey, this is Prop from the Hood Politics for Prop Podcast.
And this is what we do here.
We take all these highfalutin political ideas and things in the news and explain it to you in a language that we all speak in.
Just like, I don't know, take filibuster.
Believe it or not, you already know what that is.
Because if you've got a mama that don't play no games, you've been filibustering your whole life.
Okay, so no.
No, listen, listen, listen, before you make your decision, what happened was everything said after that is filibuster.
You just trying to stall her out to avoid the inevitable.
Congress do it all the time.
See, you already knew.
So listen to her politics with props on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
OK, so no, I would say go listen to Jen Briney instead.
What is what is her podcast again?
What is Jim Briney?
Congressional Dish.
If you want to learn stuff like that and get a very good insight into the political process in the United States, then that's the podcast.
Not this.
Yo mama, what is that?
No.
No.
That was dumb.
Okay, next one.
I'm sure nobody listens to it.
Okay, let's go with Victory Light, another podcast.
Yo, what's up?
It's your buddy, Kid Mero, the human durag flat, you know what I mean?
The plantain supernova, you feel me?
The God himself, your favorite Dominican uncle.
And I'm back!
The greatest blog of all time, Victory Light, is now the greatest podcast of all time.
What?
And I got some friends with me.
Victory Light is a throwing, so get your cup ready, because it's about to run over.
You can listen to Victory Light on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, Or wherever you get your podcasts at.
What is this podcast about?
I have no idea.
It's the greatest of all time.
Well, it's not, so goodbye.
I'm sure it's not.
So let's get away from these guys and go to this one.
This is like...
The Village of Nothing Much, this goes to the other extreme of podcasting.
Tune in to the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much.
Like, easy listening, but for fiction.
If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness in everyday life are all around you.
I'm Catherine Nicholai and I'm an architect of cozy.
Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness.
Listen, relax, enjoy.
Listen to stories from the Village of Nothing Much on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Okay, well I have a suggestion.
While you're listening to this podcast, do it in the bath and then bring in the toaster.
She's the architect of cozy.
Oh, man.
Oh, brother, brother, brother.
You know, that's not what the kids want.
What the kids want, what the boys want, they want OnlyFans.
Have you seen the money that these OnlyFans models claim to be making?
I think they're probably making close to whatever they're saying they're making.
I'm not going to disagree.
$52 million in three years, this one... Where was it?
Where was this?
And she now has an AI version.
And the AI version will do anything.
She could afford to buy an AI company.
This is better than hooking.
Yes.
But it's so destructive for young men.
It's really apparent.
I mean, we used to have to go out in the woods and we hid our magazine and we put it in a plastic bag and put it under leaves.
Oh, I remember doing that.
No.
Go on.
What else are you going to confess?
Well, that's all we had.
That was it.
And we shared one magazine.
Oh, look at this.
Oh, man, that's great.
Look at this.
Now kids are blowing their lunch money on this stuff.
Stop it.
Yeah, especially the AI version.
Oh, that's just dumb.
Yeah, but this is what it's become.
I mean, and of course it starts because parents are putting their kids on the screens at an earlier and earlier age.
In fact, America's most trusted and favorite doctor had a bit about this on ABC Good Morning America.
All right, let's talk to America's favorite doctor, shall we?
Of course.
All right, let's talk about this new study that's taking a look at how screen time can impact the sensory development of toddlers.
What do we need Yeah, so this just published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics is going to get the attention of anyone with a small child or a baby.
Let me take you through the findings.
They did a review of sensory processing data, I'll go into what that means in a second, from about 1,500 children ages 1 through 3.
What they found, basically an association, not cause and effect, between the amount of screen time and their odds of having a sensory processing difference.
At 12 months, they had twice the odds of a sensory processing difference when they tested these children, around 4.
At 18 months, for each additional hour, that odds rate went up by about 23%.
By 2 years of age, every hour increased the odds by about 20%.
According to the Academy of Pediatrics, we have to be crystal clear.
Zero screen time of any kind for babies under the age of 12 months.
When you're talking about 18 to 24 months of age, they're limiting it to one hour.
And it has to be quality as well as quantity.
They're keeping an eye on.
So shared screen time and what they're watching makes as much of a difference as how much.
I'm not gonna lie, this like sent me into a whole panic because I have a two-year-old at home and there's really, I mean, some days there's like nothing you can do except for here.
Can we please have a moment to do something to keep you safe?
You are right.
It should not be a guilt-shaming issue because sometimes you don't have another choice.
No, you're on your own and you're stuck.
Horrible.
Two-year-olds are like challenging.
Yes.
We love them.
What is the...
I missed the premise.
The premise is stop using screens as a babysitter.
Yeah, no, I understand that that's the goal.
The premise, what is it doing to them that's negative?
They said something about it causes something and I don't know what they're talking about.
Sensory processing issues.
What does that mean?
That they can't, that they're so sucked into the screen that they don't understand how to process the real world with their senses.
I find that hard to believe.
Oh, John, it's so bad.
It's so bad.
These kids in school, they get... No, I know the kids in school, they're on the screen too much.
Yeah, they get autism.
But then they can't walk?
Or what, they can't, what do you mean they can't, their sense of balance is gone?
Walking is not one of the five senses.
They have sensory processing.
They can't smell?
They have issues with comprehending speech.
They have issues, yeah, with all kinds of stuff.
Of course, this is bad.
Look.
Well, I'm not saying it's good.
Well, okay.
I just wonder what the premise is.
I'm skeptical.
Of what?
Of the premise.
That they can't walk, talk, smell, they can't feel right.
It probably would have been better if they said, your kid will become retarded.
That would have been better.
Well, that makes more sense.
That would have been the way to go.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage, saying good morning to you, the man who put the C in Chris Christie's hot mic!
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore!
Well, good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feed in the air, fish in the air, subs in the water, and dames and knights out there.
In the morning, to the plugs, falling out of the air.
Hello there, trolls.
Good to have you all aboard this company.
That was hard.
I saw a couple of really small ones scurrying away.
1819.
1819 for today's count.
How are we on that?
1819.
That's right on the money.
That's pretty good, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you know that 42% of the listeners of the No Agenda podcast listen to all of it?
62% listen to half of it.
They're the ones that are going to be voted off the island first, obviously.
That's actually, those numbers are not that bad, actually, for a three-hour podcast.
This is where you have a response.
Yeah.
I think it's great.
I did a test on No Agenda Social.
I had a poll.
I used the polling feature.
And I said, how many people here on No Agenda Social Um, listen to the show.
And I and and the poll was the poll was irrelevant.
Because the question I had that what I have I had.
Let me see what my poll was.
The Okay, I had four to eight times a month.
About two times a month, and sometimes.
So sometimes had 7%, about two times a month had 4%, and four to eight times a month, 89%.
But that's not why I did the poll.
I wanted to see how many people would respond.
Now we have 10,000 people on Knowage and the Social.
How many people do you think responded to, with an answer at all?
Any old poll about 100 maybe?
No, please. 500.
In my mind, that means that we only have 5% of the people on No Agenda Social who actually care.
Well, I don't think people... Look, I would say what you've got is 500 people that at that moment, in that slice of time, were online.
Most people aren't just hanging there just all the time.
10,000 people online?
No, it's not going to be that.
I think the number is higher than... I guess 100.
So you think it's a good number?
I think it's a great number.
Oh man, how can I discredit this if it's a good number?
What do you want to discredit it?
Just everybody.
Everybody who's posting memes, basically.
I'm just trying to discredit meme posting.
You're just a meme hater.
Bad memes.
And that's what most of them are.
No, not the ones I use.
No, yours are the worst.
No, they're not.
What do you mean they're the worst?
My memes are picked, they're selected out of selections of selections.
It's like panning for gold.
You have to go through the sluice and then you get the gold nugget at the very end and that's what I'm posting.
I'm posting the nuggets.
Okay, so your nugget is...
When rioters did this, Democrats did this, so spare me your bullshit.
Wow, John, that was dynamite.
Next one.
If you want me to trust the science, then stop telling me this is a man, this is a woman, this is an expert, this is healthy.
You think that's... Those are the ones online.
I'm talking about the ones they use in the newsletter.
Weekly meme blasts.
You have John Bolton with woman's hair.
Nikki Haley hair, I guess.
This is a waste of storage space, a waste of bandwidth, and a waste of intelligence.
Hey, by the way, did you get the birthday?
Because I just noticed that Jay sent an extra note in.
Yeah, the one that you told me to get.
No, the one that she just sent in herself for Angela de Cicero.
There's another one?
Yeah, this is... Wait, that's the one that I put in there, isn't it?
Let me check.
Let me check.
And where's my birthdays?
She has a new note she sent in for this.
No, I don't have that.
No, well, no, I don't have this.
Well, that's why I'm telling you, so you can put it in.
Oh, brother.
Yeah, but this is where I'm sorry.
Okay.
All right.
How does this stuff?
Oh, she just missed it.
She's slacking.
This is how it starts.
This is how it starts.
They emailed three shows ago and she's up to the opinion that she can do, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I know what you're saying.
Yeah, exactly.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
The stuff we always say, don't do it because it always fails.
Yeah, it's a fail.
It's a potential for failure.
So, Trolls, good to have you here.
I love you all.
I do.
I love the Troll Room.
It's my favorite place.
I love it when people troll away.
That's great.
It's fantastic.
Do all the trolling you want, please.
Do it at trollroom.io, noagendastream.com, or, and today I will promote the new version of Fountain, the Fountain app.
Man, they really cleaned it up.
That's one of those, that's one, the two-man team out there trying to save podcasting so Brett Weinstein can be heard.
Give that app a shot.
It's really good.
The new version is fast.
I had some problems with the first version.
And with that, of course, you can get, you know, you get updated within 90 seconds of us posting the show.
You get alerts when we go live.
I mean, we have chapter images, transcripts for those of you who want to read along and learn the proper way to spell John C. Dvorak, which is John C., obviously.
That's your A.I.
right there.
PodcastApps.com.
Value for Value is how we have supported ourselves for the past 16 years.
I talked about it.
Today on the Tom Woods podcast.
You did Tom Woods today?
I did it on Monday and he dropped it, as the kids say.
He dropped it today.
He dropped it in competition with our show?
He was supposed to drop it yesterday.
Yeah.
He was very complimentary.
That's rude.
He was very complimentary about the show.
I didn't have to prompt him or anything.
Oh, so he did some log rolling.
Pod rolling.
Ah!
I can't believe I said it.
You used pod.
I did.
That was a fun little chat.
Remember to use promo code Tom Woods.
I told him we had Tom Woods donations.
He said, what?
I said, yeah.
People love you so much they come in and give money to us, Tom.
Well, thanks, boys.
He's got his own thing going on.
He's value for value, in a way.
I mean, he's not open-ended like we are.
Is he the one with the mug club?
No, that's Crowder.
No, Tom's a Mises Institute guy.
Yeah, I know.
He's a Hayek maniac.
Yes, I like him.
He's also into death metal.
Did you know that?
He's in the death metal?
Death metal, yeah.
Like hardcore death metal.
That's what he likes.
He goes to concerts.
Jeez.
Well, he should put him together with, he should have our boy on the show.
Which one?
Our pre-show guy.
I don't know why his name's eluding me.
Darren?
Darren, yeah.
Darren O'Neal.
From now on to be known as our pre-show guy.
There you go, Darren.
Pre-show guy.
Sorry, Darren.
Darren, thanks for years of service.
It just happens.
I'm old.
I'm old.
I'm in my 70s.
Years and years of service.
You got a birthday coming up.
I'm getting older.
I don't know what to do.
Years and years of service, Darren.
I can't reverse it.
We salute you.
Our pre-show guy.
Yeah, that's right.
Our pre-show guy, everybody.
Think of the show!
Think of the show!
Yes, yes, yes.
Well, we also want to thank, what are those people called who make pretty pictures for the show?
Artists.
Artists, yes.
I got that.
The artists who deliver us time and talent in return for the value they receive from the show.
Some of them also give us treasure and donate, which we love.
We always love to thank and highlight the artists that brought us the artwork for the previous episode.
Now we had a new word, deputary.
That was the title of the show of 1623.
And the art was from Francisco Scaramanga!
Who we hadn't seen for a hot minute.
He's back.
There were a lot of thematic pieces of art, but Francisco really brought it home with the huge alien, the Miami cop car, had the shopping bags with 33 on it.
And I can now go to the No Agenda art generator, which is fast.
Thank you, Sir Paul Couture.
He probably put some cluster on it.
He was tired of us complaining about this.
Complaining.
How does it work now, boys?
Yeah, he was irked about the fact that he had to do this extra work.
It's fast.
It's fast.
I love it.
It's beautifully fast.
It's ten times faster, just noticeably.
It's great.
It really is great.
I love it.
So we chose... Well, we picked this art.
You should tell... Why did we pick this art?
Well... I remember.
Okay, tell me.
I don't remember.
Because it's... Scaramanga does a real art.
Yeah, it's not AI.
Everything else was AI.
You could see it all over the place.
Pretty much.
And you in particular, of course.
Yeah.
We agreed on this piece because it's...
It's like real art.
It's like he spent a few minutes drawing out these characters.
This wasn't done by A.I.
from what we can tell.
If it was, we don't think so.
No.
But everything else, all the other aliens that we saw on here were all A.I.
aliens.
And it's not so much that, you know, I'm not against tools like A.I.
I mean, Photoshop, it has A.I.
in it, but the stuff it does, you could arguably call that A.I.
But the AI art, like, you know, comic strip blogger, we chose him once or twice and he just goes off the road.
Look at all the pretty swirly colors.
Well, he also had a competitor with Scaramanga's piece, which is Aliens in the Mall, which was clearly AI.
Yeah.
And it was, it didn't have any, the thing that we've discussed is that it had no, there's no soul.
Yeah.
It's soulless.
Soulless, oomphless.
Um, appreciated what Schwatz-Schwadl had done, which was some frightening drawing of some guy with a... Yeah, you had a thing for this piece.
Spun-up spinach is what it was called.
Yeah.
Well, because it was clearly hand-drawn with crayons, I don't know what it was done with.
That's interesting.
I'm seeing some other pieces that I didn't see before.
Did we see... I guess we did see the...
You know, we had a lot of planes with doors and phones falling out.
It's hard to do art that is humorous.
You know?
It's subtle.
I don't think... AI just doesn't have humor.
You know, that's not baked into it.
No, it's not possible.
Well, not according to Sam Altman.
I haven't seen any AI that's hilarious.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe that's it.
Maybe AI doesn't understand the concept of humor.
And how could it?
Because it can't understand.
The word understand implies a certain human trait.
So basically AI can't possibly have.
So it's even worse than a two-year-old on a screen.
That's pretty much the same.
No, it is a two-year-old on the screen.
Exactly.
Well, we liked it.
It was titled ET Needs New Vinyl.
It was a good piece, Francisco Scaramanga.
We liked it.
It was very good.
And we should mention that Dame Kenny Benn won the competition last year.
Oh, she was the top artist for all of 2023?
Yeah, and we've decided we... I've got a mouse in my pocket.
Yes.
You and I largely decided before some time back... Oh yeah, this is why people should listen to the donation segment.
We are going to send her, since we have the diploma template for the PhD, we're going to send her a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Wow.
For album art design.
Exclusive.
Only one in existence.
Yeah, I think, yeah.
Well, it's because we came late to the, I mean, whoever, I don't even know who won the year before, before, before, but she gets the first one.
But if it does, we'll continue, we'll do this as we go on.
And I'm wanting to give one, also a Master of Fine Arts for website design to... To who?
Oh, this is interesting.
How about we do degrees for podcasting?
Instead of awards, we give them masters, we give them PhDs in certain topics.
Now there's a twist!
I'm not going to start giving, we're giving these away to people who have contributed to the show to an extreme.
Dame Kenny Benn has contributed to the show and so has Darren for that matter and some of these other people.
This is a, this is just a reward for their contributions, not the, because we think somebody's podcast is good.
I just thought it'd be cool to have a PhD in pre-show dude-ness.
Thank you very much.
You know, PhD in douchebaggery, I think is something we should consider.
There you go.
There you go.
Are you going to give me that?
Is it on the way?
Is it in the mail?
Is it coming?
It is, as a matter of fact.
Now that you got it, you figured it out.
Thank you very much, Francisco Scaramanga.
a thank you to all of the artists who diligently are there during the live show doodling around.
I thought I was going to sneeze.
It didn't come.
Sorry.
Sounds like you went off the air.
Dead air.
That's what it felt like.
It almost happened.
This is a damn cedar.
Thank you all.
NoahArtGenerator.com.
Thank you Sir Paul Couture for making it lickety split and nice and fast.
Thank you Dame Kenny Ben for being the number one for 2023.
We'll see how it goes for 2024.
We appreciate all of you because that's how Value for Value works.
You listen to the show.
You enjoy the show.
Whatever you get out of the show, you can put it back in so many ways by hitting somebody in the mouth.
You can organize a meetup.
You can give us boots on the ground.
You can give us clips.
You can give us just insight.
Everybody's an expert at something.
That one thing that you're an expert at, when it pops up, please email.
Reach out to us.
Let us know.
Especially when we say something off, you know?
Let us know so we can be better.
That is the modern media property.
It's a collaboration.
You're not listeners.
You are a producer.
Everybody is a producer.
If you're not, then you're just a douchebag.
Eventually they're going to get it.
Everyone else will get a clue that we're doing it right.
I don't know if we'll still be around, but yeah, eventually someone will figure this out.
Yeah.
Now let's thank the producers who came in with treasure to support us through financial means, which you can do by going to noagendadonations.com, dvorak.org, slash NA.
And we always like to highlight and award our top donors of each episode with their appropriate titles, just like Hollywood.
You can be an executive producer or associate executive producer.
And Scott Billick is in Milford, New Hampshire.
Came in with a computer number, 1024.
Isn't that a megabyte?
Or a kilobyte?
Kilobyte.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
And he says, one kilo dollar for the best podcast.
Long enjoyed the show, and now the Mastodon community.
He is Tex Pipe, T-E-X-P-I-P-E.
No jingles, I'd like to be known as Sir Render of the Granite Town, as I've been involved in GPU chip design since 06.
Wow.
That's interesting.
Does he work for NVIDIA?
I wonder.
Maybe he'll let us know.
Well, thank you.
We appreciate it.
AMD has some chip designers.
GPU guys, too.
I bet they do.
I'd like to know.
James Moran, meanwhile, from Jackson, California.
Nice little mining town.
333.33.
No, no, just karma.
So give him a double up.
Okay, we'll do that.
You've got Farmer.
And then we move on to Frank Born from Milton, Georgia.
My Uber ride verification code was 0033.
I knew that while I'm not a douchebag, it was time.
I was approaching boner status.
Time to donate!
And he says he liked the jingles.
There's no real conflict.
He'd like a that's true and two to the head plus Two to the head, plus a yak karma, and he says, memes rule!
Sure.
There's no real conflict!
That's true.
Oops, hold on a second.
We had a misfire on the two.
There's your yak karma.
There you go, sir.
You've got... karma.
David Lerman, Austin, Texas.
Hey, Austin.
Right down the road.
Mm-hmm.
333, and he says, donations well overdue, please un-douche me.
You mean a de-douche that?
I have to guess so.
You've been de-douched.
Thanks for all you both do.
All the best.
David Lerma, Austin, Texas.
Thank you very much.
Sir Cal, there he is.
Sir Cal of lavenderblossoms.org in Northville, Michigan with 272.27.
272.27.
That's a nice number.
Happy New Year!
And Go Blue!
What's blue?
What's Go Blue?
It's the Michigan Wolverines.
And we congratulate them.
I do.
I do.
Go Blue!
Sir Cal of LavenderBlossoms.org.
Definitely check out LavenderBlossoms.org for all your fabulous CBD products.
And he grows them all himself.
He grows it all there in Michigan.
Good man.
Rob Morera in Salem, New Hampshire, 23391.
Hi, TM.
Rob from Salem, New Hampshire.
My birthday's landing on a show day and I'm turning 33, so I knew I had to donate.
This is my second donation and brings me nearly halfway to knighthood.
After my first donation, I had received an email from a colleague while working for Siemens who lived in Japan by the name of Joshua Simmers, who I quickly learned was his fellow No Agenda listener.
I had requested jobs, Karma, at the time, which worked, and now I'm looking for one of their competitors.
Now I'm working for one of their competitors.
For jingles, can I get a don't come, I'm going to come, that sounds pretty good, and a relationship, Karma, because clearly I need a girlfriend.
Yes, exactly.
Is he of no agenda social?
Can you, can the girls, can the ladies hit him up over there?
Here's to you guys not finding an exit strategy and keeping many of us sane and informed throughout 2024 and beyond.
Rob.
Do not come.
I'm gonna come.
I think that sounds pretty good.
You've got karma.
Wow, and we are well into the Associate Executive Producers short one again today.
Brandon Brown from Amelia, Ohio.
$200 no note.
Associate Executive Producer title for you and a double up karma?
You've got And finally, Linda Lou Patkins, back from Lakewood, Colorado.
Jobs Karma, she's asking for.
For a striking resume, she says, that hits people in the mouth, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all of your executive and resume and job search needs.
She reiterates that that's Image Maker's ink with a K. Like, ink.
Right.
Or just find Linda Lou Patkin under the show's producer list.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Well, there you go.
Those are our Associate and Executive Producers for Episode 1624.
You can proudly display this anywhere that credits are recognized, or not.
Just put it somewhere where you're proud of it.
I see a lot of it on LinkedIn.
You can put it in your social media profiles.
Business card.
Put it on your blog.
Or you can use it as an official credit for IMDb.
That's where people go for media productions.
This is real.
I think it's probably a thousand now.
A thousand on imdb.com.
So you can join that ranks of producers of the No Agenda podcast.
And we'll thank everyone through to the 50s right now.
Starting with Alex Kiefer from Arvern, New York.
He's going to set up a recurring donation of some sort.
Greg Hoy in Pacifica, California, 133.33.
Jennifer Williams from Davy Crockett National Forest.
Is that right?
There's a Davy Crockett National Forest in Texas?
I was unaware.
I was unaware there was a forest in Texas.
We have plenty of forests!
133.33.
Nice.
She says she's been listening for over three years.
Anonymous in Columbus, Ohio.
125.
Bruce Schwalm, our buddy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
1-2-3-4-5.
Sir He Him in Flowery Branch, Georgia.
Uh, 1-11-24.
Wait a minute.
He says, listener, since the days of the 2006 Mac Mini, the show wasn't on then.
Oh, 2007.
Sorry, it seems like a long time now, but I appreciate it.
Okay.
So, from day one.
Nice, sir, he, him.
I'm glad you're still here.
I'm glad you're still here.
Not overboard.
Christine Lyons in Ocean View, Delaware.
111.11.
By the way, he, him was 111.24.
Brent Bauckham in Garland, Texas. 111.11.
Donald Gates in Wilmington, North Carolina.
100.
James Woodhouse in Delmini, Saskatchewan.
100.
Kevin McLaughlin, our buddy in North Carolina.
He is the Archduke of Luna.
8008.
Boobs are the greatest invention of all times!
Daniel Smith in Dayton, Ohio.
6886.
He calls this a push-up bra donation.
Which is a very interesting... That is creative.
Creative, yeah. 6886.
Sir Don in Chandler, Arizona, 6-0-0-6, which is the small boobies donation.
M. Jill Jaunty in Omaha, Nebraska, 60.
PayPal.
Thanks PayPal.
No, I have to assume this is just some sort of a rebate or something for whatever.
$57.98.
Thanks PayPal.
And it comes through.
It does.
As a donation.
Yeah.
Anonymous in Bothell, Washington.
$55.55.
Needs his job.
Mr. Karma will put that at the end.
Baronet tests salty for Manchester, New Hampshire. $55.55.
Tony Helfst in Fort Worth, Texas, 5510.
Jared Cicciarelli in Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming, 5250.
Christopher Jones in Paris, Texas, 5115.
Bad idea supply!
We still don't know where they are, but they donated $50 and 50 cents.
I want to fill up on some, so... You need some bad ideas supplied?
Yeah.
Why?
Cat Pack Chiropractic in Cat Pack, Michigan, $50.
And these are all $50 donors from here on out.
Name and location, William Kidwell in Dover, Delaware.
Sir George Wooshitt in La Vernia, Texas.
Nadia Borg in San Marcos, California.
William Spain in Springdale, Arkansas.
Lewis Hollingsworth, who I believe needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Margarita Edenhode in Orangevale, California.
Francisco Perez in Portland, Oregon.
Stephen Schumach in Xenia, Ohio.
Michelle Petty in Grand Forks, North Carolina.
North Dakota, sorry.
John Spade in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Andrew Grasso in Mineola, New York.
Tim DelVecchio in Blandon, Pennsylvania.
Corey Cunningham in Warrington, Virginia.
Joseph Rizzi in Trego, Montana.
And last on our list is Corey Jackson in Watertown, Tennessee.
And good old Jason Deluzio in Miami Beach, Florida.
I want to thank these folks for making show 1624 a reality show.
A reality indeed.
A reality indeed.
And of course, thank you to everyone who came in under $50.
We would love you just as much.
It's value for value, so whatever you send back, we presume that's exactly what you find the show to be worth, and that $5 may be a lot for you, it may be... $5.50 may be nothing for others.
It doesn't matter.
This is how the system works.
If everybody did it, it would be great.
But unfortunately that doesn't happen.
We don't read any notes under 50 for reasons of anonymity to keep a good cutoff there.
We see people with $49.99.
We will not mention you.
And thank you to those who are on the sustaining donations.
Those are highly appreciated.
And we have a note from Gabe Grider.
Now I am going to mention him because he has been on a sustaining donation.
He says, Guys, I can't wait to see y'all at the roundtable.
My latest donation of $33.67 completes my apprenticeship and should yield me my knighthood.
I turned another year older Tuesday and could not continue on without a knighthood.
I earned this the hard way, purposefully not taking advantage of reduced prices in the past.
I initially had producer anxiety blocking me from donating.
I've never heard of this.
I wonder how often that turns up.
Well, let us know.
Send in a donation, let us know.
I wanted to make my first donation as executive producer.
My wife donated years ago on our wedding anniversary, first called out my douchebag status, but I didn't donate until Sir Spencer started the KC meetups in early 2020.
I could not attend as a douchebag, so I started an affordable monthly donation.
This is how you do it, people.
I've been a listener since episode 750, something after being hit in the mouth by Pinball Gypsy!
That's the one account I enjoy following on No Agenda Social, Pinball Gypsy.
I have one art credit, episode 1251, so you've already sent some value that way, and had art picked by John 11 times for the newsletter!
Wow!
I'm still in V4V debt to the show, and the monthly donations will continue from my wife's damehood.
Thank you to the producers that keep the content flowing and the community thriving.
Please knight me as Sir Gabe, Blue Collar Knight of the Building Trades.
At the round table, I would like some Top Shelf Organic Pina Coladas.
I didn't get the Top Shelf.
Well, that would be the rum, right?
The pina colada is just mix?
We just have mix.
We just have some mix.
And get out the celebratory AK-47s for some Nat Pops after the ceremony.
I will take a proper de-douche it.
You've been de-douched.
And would love a peace and love karma from my mother Merrily as she traverses the end stages of Alzheimer's and some travel karma for myself as I'm on my way to Virginia to visit her today.
Absolutely, and thank you so much.
Roundtable is ready for you.
You've got karma.
Thank you all once- Yes?
The Jobs Karma is coming up.
Yes, I have the Jobs Karma right here.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Thank you all once again for supporting the No Agenda Show.
With your donations for Fortune 1624.
Our formula is this.
Whoops.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, play.
Shut up, slave!
Shut up, sweet.
It's a birthday, birthday.
Oh, no, I'm a champion.
Oh, yeah, we have the amended list.
It's all perfect.
Mitchell Steinfeld celebrated on the 7th.
We say belated happy birthday also to Andrea Vagas, who shares her birthday with King Elvis.
On January 8th, Gabe Greider celebrated on the 9th.
Rob Morera, his birthday is today.
And Angela Di Cesario is celebrating today as well.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
We have a note from Sir Trickles of Greenwich.
we have a note from sir trickles of greenwich he says only after doing some end of year life admin that i realized i finally crossed the threshold of baron several months ago could i claim my protectorate of the tri-county area of bedfordshire hertfordshire and buckinghamshire and therefore be known as baron trickles of beds hurts and bucks i would i would say yes not a
You will now be known as that baron, as that baron trickles of beds, hurts and bucks.
And thank you for your continued support of the best podcasting universe, the Noah Jenner Show.
So we have one, no, we have two nightings today.
So let me get my, I have this, I thought this... Here you go, here's mine.
Oh, that's a nice one.
I do like that one.
Scott Millick, Gabe Greiner, both of you ready to enter that exclusive club of the No Agenda Knights and Dames here at the Roundtable.
I am very proud to pronounce the K-V-S, Sir Render of the Granite Town and Sir Gabe Blue Collar, Knight of the Building Trades.
Gentlemen, for you we have Hookers and Blow, we've got Rent Boys and Chardonnay, I've got some top shelf organic pina coladas with the mix, AK-47s and Nat And by request, there it is.
That's your AK-47.
Gentlemen, please go to noagenderings.com.
You can see, anyone can go there and take a look at the rings.
They're both for knights and for dame.
We've got ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk, and pablum.
And, of course, the mutton and mead.
And by request, there it is.
That's your AK-47.
Gentlemen, please go to noagenderrings.com.
You can see anyone can go there and take a look at the rings.
They're both for nights and for days.
They're unisex.
Unisex.
That's a term we haven't heard.
Remember those terms?
Unisex.
When did that fall out of favor?
Now, what was it again?
Unisex.
This shirt is unisex.
Oh, unisex.
Unisex, yes.
I think unisex, I think it came out of favor during that era when the term metrosexual showed up.
No, unisex was long gone.
Unisex when I was a kid.
You know how I remember?
Oh, this is traumatic.
My mom made me wear a purple... A dress?
No, a purple see-through shirt to school when I was like six or seven.
Ooh, that's bad.
Yes!
And she said, don't worry, it's unisex.
This is where it all went wrong.
NoAgendaRings.com.
Your ring will be shipped to you, the address you provide, and the size of your finger, the one you want to wear it on.
It comes with wax to seal your important correspondence, and of course, a certificate of authenticity.
NoAgendaRings.com.
Thank you for becoming Knights today.
We appreciate it.
Thank you all for supporting us here at the best podcast in the universe, which you can do in so many ways, including organizing a meetup.
No agenda meetups.
Oh, the trolls like that story.
Yes, that's what's wrong with Adam.
Yes, indeed.
To this day.
The purple unisex shirt.
That's what's in it.
Makes nothing but sense.
A sad meet-up in Denver as Sir R was bidding adieu to the Denver region.
This is Sir R here in Denver, and I'm signing off from Denver.
Look forward to checking out the North Georgia meetups in Alpharetta.
This is Cory.
We're gonna miss Sir R here in Denver.
Hopefully he'll bring light to other locations.
This is David, some say Paul, in the morning.
Sir Soothsayer here.
Safe travels, Sir R. This is Colin.
It's been fun learning about the Adrenopope.
Wishing Sir R all the best in the morning.
T-Dawg here wishing Sir R all the best in Georgia in the morning.
Colorado Care Bear, tears again falling for Sir R. We're gonna miss you.
Cousin Vito, yeah Sir R's great.
See you around.
And John and Linda Lipatkin, can we just say the sexual tension has gotten too far.
If you boomers could get a room, we'd all appreciate it.
Denver Meetup, out.
Wait a minute!
Linda has a man named John?
Who knew?
How about that?
So, Linda Lupatkin, we need a picture.
We need to see what she looks like.
Thank you, Sir R, for being there at that meetup.
Thank you for the Denver meetup report.
We always appreciate those.
These are cool things to attend.
It costs nothing.
Everyone kind of pays their own way.
Sometimes, if you're going to have a big group, you just go to a bar and say, hey, I'm going to bring in a lot of people.
Is that cool?
They say, yeah.
And usually, you get a personal server.
And that server, like the indie people, they will welcome the No Agenda crew back every single time.
Yeah, it's really a lot of fun, and this is the community you want.
We're going to have a very severe winter coming up.
Texas, apparently, is going to be frozen out again.
I'm glad I have the generator.
You know, I'm never going to use it.
You know, it'll never happen.
But just in case, whatever happens, whatever goes down, lockdowns.
If you didn't get the generator, you'd be in trouble.
This is true.
It's like getting your car washed just before it's about to rain.
Exactly.
By the way, just to change the subject, or not change the subject, but to go back to your thing, I did an Ngram view using Google Books on unisex.
Ah, yes.
There's a term that showed up around 1964.
Right, when I was born.
Skyrocketed and peaked around 1980.
It skyrocketed and peaked around 1980.
Wow.
And it hit the peak in 1980 and then dropped like a rock until around 1990, looks like around 1990, then flattened.
Flattened the curve.
Huh.
So it's still in play.
I think we should bring it back.
Well, I don't know why.
Why not?
It's still up there.
You watch, Target will soon have unisex clothing.
They already do.
Connection is Protection.
You want to be a part of these meetups and you can go to the Northern Wake County Stitch and Bitch.
That's today.
6 o'clock at Compass Rose Brewing in Raleigh, North Carolina.
So hurry on up.
The Arcade Party is happening on Saturday in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Reclaim Arcade, 1.30.
Also on Saturday, the Treasure Valley Meetup, 3 o'clock at Powder House Brewery, Garden City, Idaho.
Hutchman is your organizer.
Also on Saturday, another Flight of the No Agenda Meetup.
This has got to be... This is number 8?
That's weird.
No, it's got to be much higher than that.
He's done, it must be 48, I think.
No, maybe it was 38?
Anyway, it's at the Proud Bird, Los Angeles, California.
Leo Bravo organizes those.
The Hooey Hooey & News Meetup, 4-15 on Saturday at the Newsroom Pub in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
No idea why it's so specific, but be there.
And the Central Ohio Meetup takes place on Saturday at 5 at Dempsey's in Columbus, Ohio.
And finally, on the next show day, Sunday, the Indy, Noah Jen, the New York's Resolution Revolt Meetup Three o'clock at Grand Junction Brewing in Westfield, Indiana.
Of course, Eminem of the Greenwood will be organizing.
Marc and Maria, Sir Marc de Maria, it's great.
We just got the pictures.
I think I sent you one of the pictures, didn't I?
Did I send you the link to all those pictures?
Oh yeah, I linked it as a Flickr page.
Yeah, it's a Flickr page, exactly.
Yeah, there you were.
But I mean, did you see how many people were there?
It was huge.
And how beautiful they looked?
They're all beautiful.
Who knew?
Who knew?
I mean, I knew because the keeper... Oh, except for that one guy.
Yes, that one guy, unfortunately.
No Agenda Meetups.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
Sir Daniel put that site together.
Another perfect example of value for value so that you can easily schedule them and find them.
Find one near you.
If you can't find one in your near vicinity, you can't wait to attend the meetup.
Organize one yourself.
It's real simple.
It's free.
And of course, it's always guaranteed a party.
noagendameetups.com.
Why don't I do mine?
Because I can't even remember what they are for the ISOs.
I can't even remember.
So they may not be good.
Everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
All right, why don't I do mine?
Because I can't even remember what they are for the ISOs.
I can't even remember.
So they may not be good.
I have never thought about that.
No.
How about this one?
We are unimpressed.
Hmm?
No.
And then... We are 100% not a scam.
That quality's too bad.
Well, it's kind of... I couldn't hear that.
I think the best one... We are unimpressed.
That's the best one.
Yeah, I don't like that either.
It's a downer.
It's a bummer.
Yeah, you're right.
It's a bummer.
It casts aspersions on the show.
Bad idea.
What am I thinking?
So let's go with, I got a couple.
One sure-fire winner, but you never know.
Silence Podcaster.
Silence the Podcasters.
Silence the Podcasters.
Okay, well you don't like that one.
Then you'll like this one, Wow Wow.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Yeah, that's the one.
That's the one.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Nothing at all.
Good one!
And now it's time for... That's right!
We're always looking for a good story to keep you, to tide you over with good cheer and good vibes and good feelings until the next No Agenda Show.
We don't want anyone to leave depressed at all!
It's all just...
Just stories, people.
Don't worry about it.
Your life is not affected.
You're good.
You got your family, you got your friends, and now you have a good new story.
What do we have today, John?
So I took your advice to make something that was less about someone almost dying.
Yeah, yeah.
But I couldn't find anything super banal, which is, I think, what you're looking for.
But I found this, this is a good news story, and I love the accents.
This is about the moose that was saved.
Finally tonight, a maritime couple is being celebrated for a keen eye and quick action that led to a most Canadian rescue.
CTV's Alana Pickrell picks up the story.
Jolin Lavois spends most of her weekends in her side-by-side, exploring New Brunswick alongside her husband Claude.
Typically, she rides shotgun and keeps an eye on everything nature has to offer.
But even after a lifetime in the outdoors... This was a first for us.
This Sunday brought a brand new experience when she spotted a moose out on the ice.
She wasn't making any noise or anything like that.
She was very quiet.
A young moose.
So when we got and we looked down, we could tell that she was just...
Sprawled out on the river like on the ice and couldn't move so we knew her legs were fine then at that point but again it was just to try to figure out what was the next step.
A few minutes later two peace officers joined the couple as they worked to safely get the moose back onto the bank using a ratchet strap from their side-by-side.
At first we were wondering about the ice thickness but then my husband said well you know that animal has to be at least 400 pounds so he says I can go on the ice so he asked the peace officer to just basically hang on to the straps so that if something like if the ice was to break he could pull him back.
While the entire rescue mission only took about 30 to 40 minutes it's an experience that will surely last a lifetime.
I grew up in the country so like I see those animals like a lot and often enough but I mean it was still surreal to see one stranded on the ice but just to say that we were able to get it to not to shore but on this on the bank and to kind of give it a little pet and you know she be on her way it was it was good.
Alana Pickrell, CTV News, Rogersville, New Brunswick.
I think any good news story that involves moose is always good.
I am pro moose.
And thank you for that.
It made me feel good.
I think you're right.
The accents really, that gave me the warm feeling.
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.
Good news!
We'll have another good news story for you on Sunday, and that wraps up our media deconstruction for today.
We're happy to do it for you.
Please remember to support us at noagendathedonations.com, dvorak.org, slash NA.
And coming up next on that modern podcast app, or at trollroom.io, we have Rare Encounter.
That's ColdAss and Abel Kirby, known as those AfterStream guys.
We got end-of-show mixes coming up from... Who do we have here?
Oh yes, we have Steph Jacobson, who takes your trans TikTok clip and does a number on it.
We got Mike Petera.
And to wind it up with our election season, which starts now, Rexo.
Rexo on the wheels of steam.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, in my unisex purple shirt.
Here in FEMA Region No.
6, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're having another nice day.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Sunday right here for more of your media deconstruction.
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Until Sunday, adios mofos, a hui hui, and sas!
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 f***ing pumpkin.
I want to shred you.
I want to tear your f*** bones out from your f*** body.
I want to scoop your brains out with f***.
I want to eat your f***ing flesh.
I want to stab all of you to death.
I want to stab you in the throat and twist it like I'm carving a f***ing pumpkin.
In fact.
I say decaf.
Decaf would be a good idea for this first.
It's the people's corner, created by geeks.
And you can see it double by half in a week.
That's why I'll never be money.
No, no way.
You don't believe me?
You can count the days to the crash.
Now if everyone buys, we'll all be free.
But the government law doesn't want it to be.
That's why I'll never be money.
No, no way I'll never be money.
Honey, you don't believe me?
You can count the days to the crash.
I got the big horn blue.
I get so stressed out in election season.
Sometimes I wish I was sleeping.
Like the majority of this country living in dimension BN.
I get so stressed out in election season.
No doubt going off the deep end.
It's torturing.
My screen time's up even on the weekend.
I can't seem to put my phone down.
I could read this tomorrow.
No, I gotta know now.
We're living in the greatest movie of all time.
I don't wanna miss a scene.
I don't wanna slow down.
Every fourth Halloween, I don't even dress up.
Cause every fourth Halloween, I become a whole clown.
Political junkie, addicted to the news cycle.
So excited, waiting for the next to roll out.
Man, election season.
I hate myself.
So embarrassing.
I become someone else.
Possessed by demons.
I should get some help.
This has got to be detrimental to my health.
Adam and John, please save me.
I feel like the world's trying to drive me crazy.
Twice a week is good, but I could use y'all daily.
If nothing else, just during election season.
Cause I get so stressed out in election season.
Sometimes I wish I was sleeping.
Like the majority of this country living in dimension BN.
I get so stressed out in election season.
No doubt going off the deep end.
It's torturing.
My screen time's up even on the weekend.
And when it's over, no matter the conclusion.
I will make a bunch of promises to myself.
That I probably won't keep like a New Year's resolution.
Like next time, I don't care who is running, I'm not gonna do this.
Four years later at a Sunday service, losing my mind, listening to Kanye tell me that this is the most important election of our lifetime.
And you know I'm right back in it.
I will fall victim to election season.
Just a slave to the system.
Listening to no agenda.
Break it down with their never-ending wisdom.
Thinking, what if this country gave in to that Kanye vision?
How do you think of worst directions to be driven?
When Trump won, that was such a breaking tradition.
To make the decision to run away from these lifelong politicians.
I'm already getting so stressed out in election season.
Sometimes I wish I was sleeping.
Like the majority of this country living in Dimension B.
And I get so stressed out in election season.
No doubt going off the deep end.
It's torturing me.
My screen time's up even on the weekend.
The best podcast in the universe.
Peace.
Wow.
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