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That's a great question.
Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, January 25th, 2024.
This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination Episode 1638.
This is no agenda.
Preparing for Texas.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas food country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're discussing the snubs of the Academy Awards.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
And that's it.
That is the exact difference between Texas and California.
We're here defending the nation.
You're arguing over show business.
That's it?
That's totally it?
That's it?
Yeah, pretty much.
And chips.
And chips.
Chips.
Ah, the snubs, really?
Is that where we go?
I can't even start with that.
Even though I have a report.
I don't feel like we can start with that.
You have a report?
I don't have a report, I just have the snubs.
I have a report.
I just have to ask the proverbial question.
Yeah?
How do you have a movie that's nominated, even though, believe me, I'm not a fan of this film.
A movie that's nominated for the best picture... Shhh, Phoebe.
Yeah?
That's right, dog.
The best picture... Yeah.
Barbie?
Yes.
But the director and the main actress don't get nominated for anything?
How does that work?
CBS has the answers!
Hi Ken!
To the legion of Barbie fans... Never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that, but also always be grateful.
The Oscar nominations were life imitating art.
Snubbed the two women who brought Barbie to life.
Greta Gerwig and lead actress Margot Robbie.
You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining.
Supporting actress America Ferreira was nominated, and so was Ryan Gosling.
The supporting actor said, there is no movie without Gerwig and Robbie.
Adding, they made us laugh, they broke our hearts, they pushed the culture, and they made history.
Could I just meet the woman in charge, your CEO?
Oh, that would be me.
This is a terrible look for the Oscars because it was a movie predicated on criticizing the patriarchy.
Hillary Clinton tweeted, while it can sting to win the box office but not take home the gold, your millions of fans love you.
Barbie is the highest grossing film ever by a female director, earning nearly a billion and a half dollars at the box office.
It did receive eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture with Robbie listed as a producer and Kerwig nominated for Adapted Screenplay.
I'm not good enough for anything.
Organizers have to do some soul-searching to ask themselves why they are getting results like this that are so prominent and such bad optics.
It's obvious.
Hollywood is full of misogynists.
What's obvious to me is that is that Margot Robbie in particular didn't put out It's just that simple.
That's the Hollywood way.
You and David Mamet agree.
David Mamet has been out on the podcast circuit.
That guy is hilarious.
Oh, but David Mamet is, he's really funny.
He's a piece of work.
He's a trumper.
Oh, he's a trumper, but he's also, he's just, he's almost like almost a self-loathing Jew.
And at the same time, he's just funny.
Yeah, he's very funny.
He used to come on the Michael Savage Show locally quite a few times.
Oh, I didn't.
You know what?
The kids would call him BASED.
That's what they'd call him.
The kids would say, he's BASED.
BASED?
BASED.
Yeah, he's BASED.
He's BASED.
And that's short for?
Well, it's just, that's not short for anything.
He's BASED.
B-A-S-E-D.
BASED.
BASED.
He's BASED.
Yeah.
All your BASED belong to us.
He's BASED.
And he would agree with that.
He would say, you know, she didn't put out, so there you go, so you don't win any awards.
Hollywood hates him, but he keeps writing these hit movies.
I know, they do hate him, but he described you once because he was asked specifically why he hasn't been cancelled.
He says at some point if you're above the fold, which is a newspaper term for above the fold where the newspaper should be folded, And you're up there in the ranks where you're actually making people money.
Nobody cares.
If you're making people money, they don't care your policy.
They don't care.
Just produce another.
That's right.
Well, okay.
We'll just stick with that for a moment in the M5M world to get it all out of our system.
NPR has a new CEO.
Did you know this?
No, I did not know this.
Catherine Marr is the new CEO.
She has a resume that does not quit.
Now she comes from, let me see, most recently, well she was on the board of the Signal Foundation.
She's a lifetime non-profitor, basically.
She was the chief executive officer of Web Summit, which sounds like something we would hate.
Probably.
I think it's a big conference that they hold in Lisbon or something.
Web Summit.
Yes, and of course before that she was the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Oh right, I did hear this.
I don't understand it because what does any of this have to do with broadcasting?
Well, it has nothing to do with broadcasting.
Listen to her resume.
Council on Foreign Relations.
Oh, there it is.
Never mind.
UNICEF.
National Democratic Institute.
World Bank.
Atlantic Council.
State Department.
Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
She's perfect!
She speaks.
Yeah, she graduated Arabic Language Institute in Cairo.
She's an expert on the Middle East.
Spook.
She's the best!
What more do you want?
I can't wait for NPR's coverage to change.
So why did they have to put a spook in at the top?
Well, they've done that before.
Why not?
It's great for donations.
That's what it's all about.
Ultimately, they want donations from big foundations?
Of course!
I think it's genius.
Hey, I could have gotten her on our board.
Our board?
We should have a board!
How messed up would that be if we had to do board meetings?
No agenda board meeting.
What are you doing tomorrow?
Ah, got a board meeting.
More, more M5M news.
Jon Stewart returning to the Daily Show.
Yeah, for Mondays.
Well, they'll start with just Mondays and then they'll realize that how much we missed him, how good he was.
He's no good anymore.
This is what I'm worried about.
I have a feeling he may have lost his touch.
Because, you know, he got all kind of like holier-than-thou on the, on his Apple show and got a little boring.
Well, the Apple show was terrible, but people have to realize that he left the Daily Show.
We've talked about this a little bit.
He left the Daily Show to become a big shot movie producer.
So he did a movie.
Yeah, during, right before COVID, wasn't that?
Well, it was, it was way before.
I think it was, it was 10 years ago.
So it was way before COVID.
But his first movie was kind of a break-even movie, and he was all jacked up about it.
And then his second movie was such a disaster.
He had a second one?
He did a second movie, and he had good people in the movie.
I think he had Steve Carell and other people.
The movie, I think the worldwide gross was like $300,000.
It was something ridiculous.
Something went wrong with distribution.
Something went wrong every which way and so he became, that was the end of his movie career because you can't produce, no one's gonna give you the reins to any production if you're gonna, this is what you come up with.
Dude, his Wikipedia is 8,000 pages long.
Yeah, well he's done a lot of work.
But the movie thing hurt him and he became unfunny all of a sudden and next thing you know he's doing that horrible show on Apple.
He's gonna come back.
I don't think he's gonna be able to... That's why they only gave him Monday, by the way.
The reason they gave him Monday only was because of this fear that I'm expressing.
Rosewater was the movie that you talked about, the first one.
Rosewater.
And then the, it was a 2020 movie so I can see where he could play it off as, oh it was COVID, was called Irresistible.
Steve Carell, Chris Cooper, some other people.
The film follows a Democratic strategist who tries to help a candidate win a local election.
Of course, it's boring.
Oh yeah, how thrilling that must be.
It's no Wag the Dog, I'll tell you that.
Anyway, so he's returning.
Well, that should be interesting because the style of The Daily Show, in a way, had some no-agenda elements in it.
When he was doing it.
It had some style, but then it just got all icky and a little smug, you know, a little too smug.
A little smug.
I think that's the key.
I'm trying to be kind.
Because, you know, we all watched it for years and it just got worse, progressively worse.
And then when he left, it just kind of ended.
So, I guess, anyway, he's back.
He's back at home base.
We're happy to have him back on Comedy Central, where he belongs.
Meanwhile, Texas is going to war!
Razor-wired defense lines were reinforced Wednesday in Eagle Pass, with the federal government still not sure exactly which areas along the border Texas will let federal agents access, and the Texas governor not giving an inch.
In a letter posted on X, Greg Abbott cited founding fathers James Madison and Alexander Hamilton not leaving states to the mercy of outside threats.
Because the federal government had failed to follow its constitutional duty to, quote, protect each state against invasion, Abbott wrote, it triggers the line acknowledging the state's sovereign interest in protecting their borders.
That authority, Abbott wrote, supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.
The Biden administration went to the Supreme Court to say they want to make sure that Texas cannot keep their borders secure.
Republican lawmakers in Washington expressed frustration Wednesday over any deal on a bill that might clear things up.
Next move in this standoff could come by Friday.
That is when Homeland Security wants to know, Doug and Nicole, what areas Texas is going to let them access along the border there, if any of them.
None!
None!
You just stepped all over my 3x3.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know you wanted- How- Listen, I'm from Texas!
You're the guy that comes in with the show business!
And now you accuse me of- I don't even look at your clips, bro!
Do you want to do the 3x3 right off the bat?
Let's get to it.
I do the Texas stories and you do the California stories usually.
Let's just roll with it.
And now it's time for 3x3.
Experiment 5JCD.
Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC.
The never-ending 3x3!
And before we get started with the 3x3, I want to thank, and this made me feel very happy because I think I got 60 or 70 emails, which shows you that people, because the 3x3 came at the end of the show.
Uh, near the end of the show.
When we discussed the origins, didn't we do it on the show?
We mentioned the... Oh yeah, but that's not how it works.
People hear like, there's wrong!
There's something wrong!
They do it!
They don't know!
Oh no!
Stop!
Stop!
I gotta stop the playback!
You know like that cat?
That cat gif?
I gotta email him right away.
And then I get another 20 saying, oh shoot, okay, here, you got it already.
Sorry for the email.
It doesn't matter.
I love it.
I love it.
You get 20 emails saying, it's this, it's this, and oh, I see you already talked about it.
It's okay.
I love it.
They write during the show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they're listening to the show and then they stop the playback and then email me.
That's fine.
I love it.
I'm not complaining.
I love it.
I, most importantly, I got a note from the creator of the jingle.
Brian in West Philly.
He says, Adam, I'm the producer that created the 3x3 jingle.
I'm sure by now someone has told you the music is the song Little Spanish Flea most famously played by Herb Albert.
It was truly great to hear the inquisition into where the song was from.
I've loved the show for a very long time and have had various jingles used and notes read over the years and every time the 3x3 is played it's a very special moment for me.
Man, I'm happy.
I can understand.
It's a great, it's one of the all-time classics.
It really is.
It's great.
Anyway, so I'm glad you care about what's going on here in Texas because we're about to have a big A big, well, they're calling it a quote, uh, convoy to the rally and Eagle Pass on February 3rd.
And I have a feeling we're all, we're all getting our, uh, we're all getting our AR-15s and going down the border!
Make sure we're secure!
Well, these 3x3 are from the networks, and this time Steve added Fox.
Plus, we have a plus.
It's a 3x3 plus.
But then I have a plus plus, which is a report from NTD, which kind of throws a wet blanket on all these stories.
No, you can't do that!
No wetness!
We're dry and ready to fly!
Yeah, that's the problem.
Let's start with ABC.
Tonight, a narrowly divided Supreme Court delivering a victory for the Biden administration, clearing the way for federal agents to remove razor wire fencing installed by Texas along 29 miles of the southern border.
In a 5-4 vote, the justices overturned an appeals court ruling that had blocked federal agents from removing the wire.
The Biden administration had argued that the razor wire prohibited federal agents from carrying out their duties under immigration law.
And that it's the federal government, not the states, that has primary responsibility under the Constitution for border enforcement.
But lawyers for the state of Texas had argued that the wire, which had been installed on the orders of Texas Governor Greg Abbott, had been strategically positioned for the purpose of securing the border and stemming the flow of illegal migration, and accused federal agents of destroying the wire to help thousands of migrants to illegally cross the Rio Grande.
ABC News was on the ground in September as Customs and Border Protection agents lifted or removed the wire as migrants arrived on the Texas side of the Rio Grande.
Administration officials and immigration advocates have called the wire dangerous and inhumane.
These graphic photos obtained by ABC News show some of the injuries caused by the wire, some requiring medical treatment.
While the court order today did not elaborate on the decision, four justices, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, voted to side with Texas and deny the Biden administration's request.
Terry Moran joins us now.
Terry, what comes next after today's decision?
Well, Lindsay, this particular case will go back down to the lower courts, but really today's ruling is just the start of what's expected to be a major battle at the court this year in several cases over the efforts by Texas and other states to assert more control over their international borders, with the justices deciding these issues against the backdrop of a crisis at the border and the presidential election.
Now, before you continue with the 3x3, just a little commentary.
What has actually been done in the courts that actually only has to do with the razor wire, has nothing to do with the border or anything like that, which is the funny part about it, but what it's done to the psyche of Texans I mean, I'm feeling this everywhere.
You know, we're ready.
We're gonna defend against it.
And by the way, douchebag in the troll room, yeah, I'll go.
I'll definitely go.
Sir Gene's gonna drive right through Fred, pick me up.
Eagle Pass, only a couple hours from here.
I'll definitely go.
This is gonna be a once-in-a-lifetime thing, I believe.
It's gonna be phenomenal.
It really is.
I don't think anything's gonna happen.
I don't think there's gonna be some great secession.
You know, people are sending me maps, look at all these states we're going to see.
No, I really don't think so.
But it's great in an election year.
It's great with migration being the number one issue Americans care about.
It is truly, I mean, we could not have asked for a better media spectacle to happen than this right now, where we are in this year.
Well, they're dramatizing it, that's for sure.
Of course, yes!
Let's go to NBC.
It's turned out of a legal battle at the southern border over razor wire installed by Texas officials to stop migrants.
The Supreme Court tonight giving the Biden administration a win in its effort to remove that wire fencing.
Laura Jarrett is here.
Laura, what's the practical impact of this?
Lester, the upshot is that border patrol agents should be able to start cutting down or moving this razor wire that Texas officials had installed at the border, and they should be able to do it right away.
Now, the Biden administration had gone to the high court over this, arguing the fencing's impractical and dangerous when migrants get stuck in there.
The justice is deciding to decide with the administration on this issue five to four.
Texas had originally installed the offencing to prevent illegal border crossings, arguing the Biden administration simply hasn't done enough to stop the number of migrants coming over from Mexico.
This case, of course, part of a much larger fight between Texas and this White House over border security.
Lester, tonight, the state saying in a statement, this fight is not over.
This fight is not over.
Even pool boy is all jacked about it.
Yeah, West Virginia's in!
It's great.
This brings out the American South somehow.
It's a great feeling.
It's a feeling of camaraderie.
They're spinning everybody up.
Yes, of course!
That's why I think the NTD report is so good, but that's coming up.
Let's go to, that was ABC, NBC, now we go to CBS, which will have a more broad and balanced report with actual facts.
CBS is doing pretty good.
Or, I think so.
Will they spin us up a little more?
Little gotchas in there?
Let's find out.
The border town of Eagle Pass has become the new epicenter in a legal clash between the Biden administration and Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the future of U.S.
immigration policy.
Earlier in January, the Texas National Guard seized this public park right behind me and has since heavily fortified it with armed soldiers, vehicles, razor wire, and fencing.
Texas has argued that the razor wire is repelling migrants from crossing into the country illegally, but the Biden administration has said that it prevents Border Patrol from processing migrants who are already on American soil.
The Supreme Court earlier this week allowed the Biden administration to cut and remove the razor wire assembled by Texas But Texas National Guard soldiers are still blocking Border Patrol agents from processing migrants in this public park in Eagle Pass.
In fact, we saw Texas soldiers this week assembling new coils of razor wire and fencing.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is also now arresting some migrants who cross into the U.S.
illegally here on state criminal trespassing charges.
The Department of Homeland Security has referred this matter to the Justice Department for a potential legal action.
Now, if I can just summarize for a second, here's what really, nothing really happened here.
Texas sued Biden, the administration, over razor wire, asked for a temporary restraining order.
The district court says, okay, you got it.
So the razor wire destruction stops.
Then the district court ultimately rules for Biden, say, oh, this is not converted into a full injunction, no longer valid.
So then Texas appeals to the circuit court.
The circuit court granted an injunction pending appeal.
To stop the razor wire destruction.
Biden appeals the injunction to the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court vacates mean Biden can continue destroying razor wire.
The underlying case doesn't really come up in the Fifth Circuit until February.
So there's really not that much that has happened.
It's really literally about the razor wire.
It's not like... Oh, you like saying razor wire.
Yeah, it's not like, come on, anti-legals!
That's not exactly what's happening, but it's the principle, and you're right, the media has... Well, let's hear what Fox has to say about this.
Is this Fox News?
Yeah.
Oh, this is local.
San Antonio.
Okay, got it.
Even though Border Patrol now has the legal ability to cut razor wire on the southern border, you can very clearly see it's still here and there's a lot of it.
Rows of it stifling migrants' attempts to cross and Border Patrol's attempts at doing their constitutional duty in defending the border.
The battle between Texas and the federal government is getting close to a breaking point.
Breaking point.
Just one day after the Supreme Court ruling, Governor Abbott tweeting this out, saying the Texas National Guard continues to hold the line, along with these pictures of the National Guard standing by the razor wire.
Instead of removing razor wire, Texas law enforcement was seen putting more up on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the verbal finger pointing rages on.
This administration's refusal to take its responsibility for this crisis, it's pathetic.
People on the other side of the aisle have been playing politics with this issue.
A week ago, federal officials told Texas law enforcement to vacate Shelby Park and allow Border Patrol access.
Now, eight days later, the park is still occupied.
Border Patrol needs access to state land in order to enforce federal law.
And most likely the Supreme Court is going to allow to enforce federal law.
Law professor Bill Pyatt says if the state continues to ignore and defy the federal government, Texas law enforcement could be held in contempt, facing a fine or even jail time for people who defy federal orders.
Pyatt added that while Abbott is right in saying that this battle isn't over, the state of Texas was dealt a huge blow with the conservative Supreme Court ruling against them.
In Eagle Pass, I'm Matt Roy.
Roy, that was a boring report.
That was a good example of why, you know, the difference between network and local duds.
He'll never make the big time with that energy.
The local duds.
So let's go to, okay, the NTD report, which I think probably does the best job of wrapping up the whole thing, beats everybody, which is why I get so many clips from them.
But this is, the clip is called Texas versus Biden.
Homeland Security sent yet another letter to Texas demanding unrestricted access to Shelby Park.
The department writes the state has alleged that Shelby Park is open to the public, but we do not believe this statement is accurate.
Adding that Texas continues to restrict U.S.
Border Patrol's access to the park.
Now, the letter also cites a Monday Supreme Court ruling which says that the federal government is allowed to remove razor wire deployed by Texas.
And on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Texas Department of Public Safety commented on this Supreme Court ruling while talking to our sister media, The Epoch Times.
Watch.
This recent Supreme Court decision gives Border Patrol the legal authority to cut the Constantino Wire.
Now, it doesn't change operations as far as with DPS or National Guard and what we're doing right now at Shelby Park.
There is still restricted access to us U.S.
Border Patrol to enter the park.
Texas, meanwhile, continues to install more fencing and razor wire.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday told NTD he supports what state authorities are doing.
And so Texas is stepping up to defend our state.
I'm glad we are, but the reason Texas is doing so is because Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats affirmatively want this invasion.
The agency doesn't currently have a plan to take down the wire, although the administration went to court over the issue.
So the clearing process will start immediately or how does that work?
So it allows us to have access to the border.
Okay, so no timetable right now when that operation is over?
No.
The Biden administration previously explained that Border Patrol needs unrestricted access to all areas in case of emergencies.
That's for example to provide first aid to law enforcement or to illegal immigrants crossing the river.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll bring you first aid kits.
There's no plan, there's nothing.
This is all spun up over nothing.
There's nothing going on.
No, it's great.
This is great that everyone's spun up over something.
We're not sure what, but to the border we go.
We're off.
Now, this is a rah-rah moment, which is a complete political play.
I think using Article 4, people don't agree with me, but Article 4 I think is specious, because if people are let into the country by the border which the federal government controls, that's not technically an invasion.
But, you know, that can be argued.
It doesn't matter.
What's happening is, the people are standing up and saying, we're sick of it.
Now, will it factually change anything?
I don't know, but it would be pretty good video if there's hundreds of thousands of people at the border.
The flyer for this thing has people holding hands.
Oh, you got flyers?
Oh, there's flyers, yeah.
Oh, I need one for my collection.
Let's see.
It's the peaceful assembly The Southern Border Convoy!
And it begins January 29th and February 3rd at the final rally locations Eagle Pass, Texas, San Ysidro, California, and Yuma, Arizona.
I'm reading right from the flyer.
TakeOurBorderBack.com.
Calling all active and retired law enforcement and military veterans, mama bears, elected officials, business owners, ranchers, truckers, bikers, media, podcasters, and law-abiding, freedom-loving Americans.
I added the podcasters, I feel a little slighted.
They put podcast?
No, I wish they had put it in there, it would have felt better.
The time is now for we the people, with that, you know, constitutional font, to peaceably assemble in honor of our constitutional rights to call on our government to take action and secure our borders, make your voices heard America, roll with us!
What's the name of this operation again?
TakeOurBordersBack.com.
TakeOurBordersBack.com.
I'm all for it!
You know, we've been traumatized here in Texas.
We really have.
It's sickening.
And this is, of course, this is not just local, this is a worldwide thing.
France is rioting over immigration.
This is a dead site now.
TakeOurBordersBack.com.
Let me check.
I think that's what it is.
TakeOurBorder, singular, BorderBack.com.
Try that one.
So we got France, although France, I don't know, they're much better over there.
They got the people.
Maybe it's too late for them.
They've got the people arguing that they want the borders open.
France's history of civil unrest is well documented.
But now, as much as ever, many here feel the future of the country may be at stake.
Thousands have been protesting across France, including in the capital Paris, over legal plans for something called National Preference.
The plans will be considered by France's Constitutional Council on Thursday, a group overseen by President Emmanuel Macron.
The new laws cover migration, especially undocumented migrants, and they could see strict new rules on who can and can't live in France, and claim government help.
Last week, Macron touted change for the country, which he said was urgently needed.
France will be stronger in this world of upheaval if we're more united, if we relearn to share values, a common culture, a sense of respect in classrooms, in the streets, in public transport and in stores.
France is said to have hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants.
With the economy struggling, there had been suggestions some could provide much-needed labour.
A previous version of the law was supposed to streamline efforts to legalize many of these migrants.
As the far-right National Rally, which opposes such moves, gains popularity though, Macron's government has sought to take a tougher line.
Speaking last month, National Rally leader Marine Le Pen hailed French Parliament's passing of the law.
We can rejoice in this ideological advance, ideological victory for the national rally, as this priority for the country is now enshrined in law.
That is to say, the advantage given to the French compared to foreigners in our country in accessing social benefits, which today foreigners can access too easily.
The new laws could see undocumented migrants find almost $4,000 if they're caught.
Companies employing illegal workers could also expect large fines under the rules.
Thursday's meeting of the Constitutional Council may be based on legal principles, but the economic and political implications of it will be impossible to ignore.
In the Netherlands, in the Dutch Parliament, Geert Wilders had an interesting little stand-up sesh.
Sesh?
Yeah, we did a sesh.
His party won the most seats in the House.
They still haven't created a coalition, so the whole country is still kind of... Nobody likes him.
Oh, except for the people who voted for him!
Well, yeah.
Well, that's different.
No, the political class does not like him, and it was really interesting.
It was billed as a debate, and so he stands up there and he says, You know, the big cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, you know, were being overrun.
Now it's just all people with headscarves, which is always a popular thing to say.
And then he went straight into, hey, we're now known for export of drugs more than we are for tulips and cheese.
The macro mafia has control of the whole country, which is true, which we've talked about.
And then he winds it up with, let's stop with the gender cookie.
I guess there's the way they teach gender studies to elementary school.
Yeah, it sounds like here.
Yeah, the gender cookie.
And he says they're teaching kids about two-spirit and non-binary.
Stop with this nonsense!
And so, of course, that's all the debate was about.
You know, the opposition guy who's gay gets upset.
You don't like gay people!
And no one talks about the border.
It's crazy.
Remember, 40% of the of the world is voting this year.
And the incumbent elite are very worried about the uprising, the populism, etc, etc.
So it'll be fun.
Now people want me to do a live remote.
No.
Please.
But February 3rd is Saturday.
I think I'll go down and come back and do the show.
I will.
I was going to go, but I got a meetup in the Mallard Club in Albany.
You got a meetup.
I got it.
Why don't you hold the meetup at the border?
Yeah, you know, this is like the last thing I'd go to.
I never heard of this operation.
I wouldn't go to this thing in a million years.
It sounds like a setup.
Oh, that's interesting.
That's like a new J6.
Feb 3rd.
A new one.
There's no airport nearby.
I thought Eagle Pass used to have an airport.
I thought they had some small regional airport.
I know I could get my guy to fly me down.
That would be great.
Not only that, but when you try to figure out who this TakeBorderBack.com is registered to, it's done through a proxy, so they don't even give any information, so they're afraid to mention who they are.
In McLean?
It could be.
In McLean, Virginia, who knows?
All right, so we've got that going on, which is a great distraction from what I thought wouldn't even hit the mainstream, but it has, and I'm very delighted.
This is the Carrie Lake tape that came out.
Yeah, I have a clip of her.
I have a little bit on this.
I have several clips.
I'm loaded for bear here.
Well, if you're loaded for bear and you have the original, because I didn't clip from the original.
I did, I did.
Did you get a live feed?
I got it all, I got it all.
And there's also an NTD report.
The NTD report might be good to start with because it'll lead to all your clips.
Yes, I think that's probably a good idea.
Oh, here we go.
NTD.
This is NTD.
A major shakeup in Arizona.
The state's Republican Party chairman, Jeff DeWitt, has resigned.
DeWitt announced his resignation in a statement earlier today.
This came after Arizona's U.S.
Senate candidate, Kerry Lake, called for him to resign.
It all started with an audio recording the Daily Mail published on Tuesday.
It appears to show DeWitt presenting Lake with an offer of money to leave politics.
The conversation reportedly took place last March.
In his statement, DeWitt said he initially decided to fight for his job, but he said Lake's team sent him an ultimatum earlier today.
It asked DeWitt to, quote, resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording.
The former chairman said he's unsure of the contents of that recording, but he resigned as Lake requested so that she would stop what he called her attacks.
All right, so everyone, every, even NTD, I felt that the, the clips they took, the way they categorized it was weak.
They missed all the groovy bits.
Um, it focused on a couple of things.
This is local Arizona television, which I think did a reasonable job.
I even Clipped out the clip they had because it was a horrible quality.
This is a full report that kind of gives you the lowdown because this is not necessarily news.
She's been talking about this bribe for quite a while.
We are hearing for the first time tonight from GOP Senate candidate Carrie Lake about a recording she made that led to the chair of the state Republican Party to resign today.
Jeff DeWitt stepped down suddenly today after that audio was leaked.
It seems to reveal he tried to bribe Carrie Lake not to run for Senate.
Nearly a year ago, Carrie Lake took the stage at a conservative conference and made this accusation.
They came to my door and they tried to bribe me out of getting out of politics.
It's really happened.
I'm telling you this because this is how disgusting politics is.
Just this week, a leaked audio recording appeared to back up Lake's claim.
Arizona's family independently obtained a copy of the conversation between Lake and Jeff DeWitt, the chairman of the Republican Party in Arizona.
Lake has spoken about that conversation for months now.
So we asked Lake, why is the audio coming out just now, nearly a year later?
I had not listened to the recording.
To be honest, I recorded it and I never listened to it until a couple days ago.
I happened to listen to it and I was sitting there with some of my closest friends and staffers and I said, I want to listen to this video.
I've never listened to it before.
I kind of wanted to recall what had happened.
And I listened to it, and it was even more horrifying than what I remembered.
Today, DeWitt announced he was stepping down as leader of the state GOP, just one day after the audio first came to light.
Longtime political consultant Marcus Dellartino says what DeWitt did is not new.
What is new, the leaked audio gives the public a look at the inner workings of what sometimes happens behind the scenes in politics.
That view may not be pretty to some, but Darlatino thinks DeWitt could have handled the conversation better.
Adding to the intrigue, DeWitt also mentions in his resignation letter that he received an ultimatum from Lake's campaign.
Resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording.
So there's a lot of focus on that, and there's just a couple things here.
One, that sounds very disingenuous of her to say, well, you know, I just sat down with some close friends and like, you know, let me listen to that tape again.
Yeah, it sounds phony.
That's phony.
This is a vice presidential bid, in my opinion.
This is like, look, Trump, I protected you.
I'm pro-America.
I'm pro-Trump.
I can't be bribed.
Yes.
I can't be bought.
And the swamp, the swamp is everywhere, including the Republican Party.
So, I didn't think this was... Well, this guy was a Republican.
Oh yeah, but it goes all the way to the boys back east.
The boys back east.
Supposedly, yeah.
Well, that's what he said.
He said the boys back east.
The people back east.
Yeah, no, but again, supposedly.
We don't know what he said is true or anything in between.
We don't know any of this.
We don't?
We don't know, but I look at this guy and I'm like, oh yeah, a douche.
I mean, you can look at the guy and say douche.
The picture going around of him, yes.
I've been around, you know, it's like, you can look at a guy and go, yeah, douche.
This is not surprising at all.
Now, surprising to me was that NBC picked it up and did a report.
Tonight, the leader of Arizona's Republican Party resigning after a stunning new audio tape appears to show him trying to convince a close Trump ally not to run for office.
The Arizona GOP's chairman, Jeff DeWitt, heard in this audio urging Carrie Lake to not run for the U.S.
Senate this year, after she lost her race for governor there in 2022.
Our very powerful people don't want to keep you out.
In exchange, DeWitt says he could hook her up with a lucrative job.
So the ask I got today from back east was, is there any companies out there or something that could just put her on the payroll and keep her out?
DeWitt says the audio was selectively edited.
Is there a number at which I can be bought?
That's what it's about.
That's selectively editing right there.
It is to have all of a sudden her say, I can be bought?
I mean, you don't hear this guy.
They left the crappy audio in there.
NBC, a little shameful.
Is there a number at which I can be bought?
That's what it's about.
You can take a pause for a couple years.
Because Carrie Lake is not a public official, she is simply being asked to withdraw from politics.
It doesn't fall under the language of the bribery statute.
Lake, who often wears a mic, decided to run anyway after the audio was made public on Tuesday.
Lake calling on DeWitt to resign.
We can't have somebody who's corrupt.
DeWitt says Lake's team threatened to release a new, more damaging recording if he didn't resign.
Reached by phone tonight, DeWitt told NBC News that he was blown away by her recording their private conversations.
Lake's campaign denies it blackmailed DeWitt.
So there's, you know, there's other reports where, oh, Trump better look out, she can't be trusted, she'll record him!
Fully well knowing that this is a vice presidential bid.
Now, from what I understand, she was miked because she is always miked.
She always has her camera crew.
The camera was probably sitting there.
She or someone hit record and you can hear, you know, her jacket going over.
You can hear her dog, you know, doing whatever.
Either that or her stomach is growling.
I don't know.
But the things that were actually said in the full nine or ten minutes was much more interesting than what the news is playing it to be.
So I pulled a couple clips short.
I ran them through Adobe, through the enhancer, and I give it a B minus, really, but there's enough in there that warrants discussion.
And it starts right off with her saying, they want to murder me, and then Douchebag Jeff chimes in about the cartel.
They're going to try to have me murdered.
The stuff that came out last week is right about the cartel stuff.
They said the cartel's operating in 50 states right now.
And I believe that wholeheartedly.
I mean, we've always said the American economy would collapse without drug money.
There would be no economy.
We run on drug money.
HSBC was famous for whitewashing it at our borders.
It's all drugs, just like Holland, just like every other country.
Drug money is big.
And I'm not even talking about the legal drugs.
So to say, yeah, we've got the cartel everywhere, and be careful.
I believe it.
You know, the cartel.
I'm just calling the mob.
You know the guys who killed JFK?
What's going on?
Who is it?
What?
I'll just say there are people calling around and saying they can't breathe.
They're repeating.
So we say no, don't because I got offered to buy out.
Yeah, don't.
Because then we lose our ability to get things done.
Here's my problem.
Rather than just say, let's work with her, she's a great candidate.
Because they don't own me.
And it pisses me off.
They have a self-ownership ownership.
It's not control.
I know it's not control.
He says control is what the word is.
It's about being on the team.
Be on the team!
They want to be on the team.
They want you to be on their team.
But if they're pushing a globalist agenda, I can't do that.
So what do they want me to do?
Now, I think this probably was edited to make sure that she had something kept behind just in case.
And she puts all the juicy bits in, hey, if they're pushing a globalist agenda, I can't be on the team.
Which to me is like, wow, if they weren't, you would be on the team?
I have some questions about that.
Oh, that's a good, good, yeah.
There's a lot of that.
No, this whole thing to me stinks.
I thought that it felt rigged, it felt like a publicity stunt.
Yes!
This poor guy got caught up in it.
Oh, no.
I don't like her.
Hold on.
This is real.
What happens here is real.
The way it's been put together, It accentuates why Trump should have her as VP.
It's clear as day to me.
But when he says in this next clip, well, you know, if only, you know, if there's a company, we can get you on the payroll.
You know, I have no sound of him saying a million dollars, but that's exactly what happens.
That's what happened to Nimrod.
She got on boards and, you know, be our gal.
She was on Boeing's board.
How did that happen?
Yeah, you'll be on our board.
You make millions of dollars.
From the U.N.
to Boeing's board.
What does she know about aviation?
Does she have a flyer?
This is the swamp.
This is the system.
The ask to me was, this comes from, the ask I got today from Matisse was, that's his interest, was, is there any companies out there or something that could just put her on payroll and give her ground?
I said, fool, what do you want me to do?
Whatever we need.
This is about defeating Trump, and I think that's a bad, bad thing for our country.
Okay, alright, that's what you want out there.
And then she says something else interesting about this being consultants, and I fully believe that it's the consultants who are the ones offering her jobs and whatever else just to have her not run for Senate, to keep her on the team.
But then she does say something interesting.
I thought that was interesting.
If they're gonna steal the election, not the Democrats.
No, no.
all these things, whole things don't work.
They're paydated.
And I don't want to make a deal with these kind of people.
This is a hill worth dying on.
Whoa.
I know if they're going to steal the election to make me and our movement go away, I'm not letting them do that.
I thought that was interesting.
If they're going to steal the election, not the Democrats.
No, no.
Her own team going to steal the election.
I fully believe it.
I believe it really is this messed up and this rotten.
And then Douchebag Jeff was like, make me a counteroffer!
What's the number?
What's your number?
Is there a number at which I can be bought?
That's what it's about.
Can you take a pause for a couple of years?
No.
Do I go right back to work?
Don't.
10 million, 20 million, 30- no, no, no.
A billion?
No.
This is not about money.
This is about our country.
I think it's disturbing that they would even- that anybody would think this is- To be fair, even me, even me, I'll say this.
I want a fresh face right now.
For the reason that I've never seen anyone- I can't think of a single person in the federal race who have lost, granted, a lot.
I can't think of it.
If you can think of it, tell me now.
I am not going to let these people who hate our f***ing country tell me not to run.
You should call them and tell them to get behind me.
I can wear, and they should get behind me.
I will say the words.
Now what you're hearing, and I have one more clip, what you're hearing here as well is a professional...
Media broadcaster.
She knows.
Everything she's saying, she's thinking about as she's saying it.
This is not a conversation that she's having with him.
She's thinking, this is great.
I'm going to have him say all this horrible stuff.
I'm going to use this when it's right for me.
And I'm going to goad him and I'm going to put in all my little gotchas.
I mean, you know what I mean, John?
That a broadcaster can do this.
That's what she is.
She's a broadcaster.
Well, that's why I think this whole thing is somewhat phony.
She's saying things that you wouldn't have in a normal conversation.
Correct.
She's saying it as a professional.
You're right.
As a professional broadcaster, she's just, she was like, she's interviewing him in a kind of a funny way.
Yes, yes, yes.
And the last clip.
I just, I just like it when he's like, don't tell anybody.
Why is this not?
They're going to try to have me murdered.
But he sings world land.
If that stuff that came out last week is right about the cartel stuff, then.
All right.
This is the cartel's offering.
Hold on a second.
I'm sorry.
This should be later on here.
How do I screw that up?
Of course.
They're trying to, like, there is.
Check out.
And this is about getting Trump out.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
It was about DeSantis, getting DeSantis in.
Getting DeSantis is getting Trump done.
You're reading too deep into it.
Well, let's see what happens.
Maybe my case will go through.
Maybe they'll do the right thing.
I hope so.
I do too.
That's my first goal.
But they can't have me in the governor's office because then we're going to root out some of this corruption.
You know what it is?
The people don't get to choose their elected officials unless they're pre-approved by the SWARP.
This is great.
She's doing the whole thing.
And the SWARP doesn't pre-approve of me.
You need a strong party to help you.
I think you should go public with this and then say, hey, these people don't want to... I turn my key in my car and...
So he's like, no, no, no, no, I can't go public with this because then I turn the key and my car goes, could it blow me up?
So he, that was real.
Her thing is, and you know, at a certain point she's like, okay, I got to go.
I got to go work on my book.
Yeah.
It's like, yeah.
I'm surprised you didn't give the title of the book.
So while I completely believe that this swarminess is rife throughout all politics, this is absolutely the way it goes.
People are told to shut up, sit down, get on a board, you know, and it's probably a little more subtle than that.
Like, hey Nimrod, come on to our board, come over to the Boeing guys.
Yeah, you know, you're going to be great for 2024.
Why don't you come over here?
We'll get you some stock.
Get you, you know, you're on the board, you have expenses, a million dollars, you know, you can be on the comp committee.
Well, back to the basic thesis that you have.
My clip that I have of this is Carrie Lake.
This is from her live yesterday.
She was live.
In Insta live?
Was it an Instagram Live?
An Insta-Live?
No, it was actually done on Twitter.
Oh, okay.
To everybody who is running on the Republican.
No, wait, stop.
Sorry.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
This is.
The other one was bad enough, but this is worse because she really makes it clear that what she's trying to do is get Trump's attention out of it.
And I think that's what happens in this clip.
If she didn't get it the first time, this thing went on for hours.
But it was mostly what you're going to hear here.
To everybody who was running on the Republican ticket.
I wanted everybody who was Republican to win.
And so I said, I can't agree to those asks.
And we literally said, thanks, but no thanks.
And somebody who had been in politics for a while, who was on our campaign said to me, I've never seen anybody in the history of my time in politics who said no to a million dollars because they didn't want to do a few simple things.
But I didn't think it was simple to say I'm willing to turn my back on President Trump.
I'm willing to turn my back on other Republican candidates.
I'm not willing to take somebody's money with a whole bunch of strings attached.
So that was one example.
There's been probably others that I can't think of right now.
Oh yeah, I can't think of the other one.
So there was no dollar figure mentioned in the 10 minutes of audio that I saw?
No.
So there was this million dollars, so she's very smart to put out to this guy, and when she just did it again, oh there's probably more, I'm not sure, you know, so you kill me, there's more to come.
It's swarmy, at the same time it's fantastic.
I think she's, I think she's smarmy.
Yeah, shmarmy.
That's the word I'd use.
Yeah, shmarmy.
Completely.
She exudes a certain greasiness I don't like.
Yeah, she's a good Republican and she wants to be Vice President.
It would be great because then she doesn't have to really win any office because she hasn't won any office.
And it would be great if she debated Kamala.
Can you imagine?
Maybe.
But the point is, is that no one's going to be doing any debating in this go-round from the looks of it, so I'm not... Yeah, we're not getting object about that, no.
But I don't like this woman.
I don't think that she's sincere, and I think she's... But Arizona's filled with this type of people.
I mean, they just... Hello, Arizona!
It's a mobbed up state.
John at Dvorak.org.
Is Arizona a mobbed up state?
They know it.
Everyone who lives there knows it.
Really?
Yeah, it's a... Seriously, all the, you know, witness protection and everything else, they pushed a lot of people down to Arizona.
The place is just crawling with mobsters.
You see him at the grocery store.
You do?
Uh, hey.
Goomba.
What's your name?
Might be.
Where you from?
Phoenix.
I grew up in Phoenix.
Where you asking?
You asking where I'm from?
I'm from Phoenix.
Get out of my face.
Well, I think it's an interesting move.
All eyes on Orange Man Bad now.
Let's see what he comes up with.
I don't know if he's going to respond.
She left enough in there for him to say, look, everyone's corrupt.
They're corrupt.
Yeah, he'll work it into his act.
Into his set.
Yeah, he has a couple things that I picked up from his set.
Of course, from New Hampshire, where he won.
And I might add that I have it here from AP.
AP called New Hampshire 27 minutes faster than they called Trump for Iowa.
It's like, yeah, he's the winner.
He's the winner.
I mean, it used to be like, let's see, you know, Nikki Haley, she still has a shot.
Could still happen.
Oh, by the way.
Now, will I ruin your relationship if I play a little bit of that song?
Only if you play the rap part.
I have the rap part.
Set this up.
Set it up for us and I'll play a little bit of the song and then I'll play the rap part.
Silicon Valley's heavy into Nikki Haley because she's a, uh, a shill, a shill.
She's a shill for the Democrats and they don't run it.
And a lot of these guys, especially the, the super rich ones that are running a lot of these, uh, venture capital firms, they don't like the idea of just, they don't like Trump.
No, I don't know exactly why.
And they can't express why they say, well, he's, you know, they just don't like him for, you know, he's, he's, no, I'll tell you why, because they all ultimately want to be ambassador to France.
And they know that if they're pro-Trump, their chances of ever being an ambassador are zero.
Well, Trump's got to put people, he still has to pick ambassadors.
Yeah, but you have much more chance, you know, it's like the Kleiner guys, he was all like John Doerr.
John Doerr and the big shot Democrats, they find somebody with it in mind that they're going to become ambassador to France and that is one of the goals.
Yeah, of course.
Now, in this case, we have another venture capitalist who I know, Tim Draper.
I've had a meeting with him.
I've had a meeting with Draper.
He used to come on my Silicon Spin show quite often.
I've been out to lunch with him.
Has he been to your house for dinner?
He has not been to my house for dinner, but I did have dinner with him in Korea.
Oh, just you and him together or with other people?
I was at the table with him and we mocked people.
Well, the boomerang is coming back.
So he, but Tim, when he gives speeches, and I actually recorded a few of these, when he gives his speeches for whatever group, whatever agency, and he is one of the, probably one of the smarter venture capitalists, and his dad was a venture capitalist, so it kind of runs in the family.
He, at the end of his speeches, he'll do a rap.
And it's like, oh my God, what are you doing?
And so he'll go there and do it.
And he's, I'd say, a functional white CEO rapper.
Yeah.
If that makes any sense to you.
Barely, barely, but I got you.
He can get through it, but in terms of being, you know, Jay-Z or something, he's not.
So he sent out, they've decided that they're going to do a musical number about Nicki because they're big Nicki fans.
Hold on a second.
So they sent out this newsletter, News Blast, which you get, And it's like they're hanging in Maui and I know exactly what happened.
They're in Maui with a bunch of hangers on.
Oh man, Tim, I got a studio.
You know what we should do?
We should do a song, like something that could be a hit that we get on the radio and to promote Nikki.
Hey, Tim, I got a studio and I've been a songwriter all my life.
The studio here in Maui, you know, it's perfect.
Yeah, come on, let's get the gang together.
We'll meet you in the studio tomorrow morning.
We'll do a song.
And then some guy is like... Well, before we continue, I'll back you up a little bit with some other stuff, which is that there's a number of mavens that are in the venture capital community and throughout Silicon Valley that all see themselves as great musicians.
Well, hold on.
Do you remember?
There used to be the famous jam session at Esther...
What's her name?
Esther... Esther Dyson.
Esther Dyson had her conference in Arizona.
I've been once.
And it would be, you know, the dude from Microsoft and someone from Oracle and all these... Paul Allen fancied himself as a hard-hitting metal guitarist.
And they'd do a jam and it was like one long, you know...
It was terrible.
Thin Lizzy.
One long Thin Lizzy riff.
And they'd all be like, yeah, man, I'm here for the jam.
Yeah, I'm here for the jam.
Esther's jam.
It was horrible.
It was cringe.
It was very cringe.
So the gang gets together and they're like, OK, let's write it.
Let's do some lyrics.
It's got to be inspirational.
And we're going to title it the Nikki Haley Anthem.
It's an anthem.
It has to be big.
And you know what?
I'm gonna do something really cool.
Do you remember that song, Hey Mickey?
I'm gonna use that beat a little bit to get people's attention.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's great.
Oh, you know so much about music.
The radio guys will love it.
Oh yeah, I know Scott Shannon over there at CBS.
I'm sure he'll play it.
Yeah!
Let's play!
And let's do something real, like people can sing along!
Hey, this is, it sounds great, that beat!
Yeah, man!
Oh, I'm diggin' it!
Yeah, baby!
We need you Nikki right now.
We need you Nikki right now.
Oh, the families are hurting!
Yes, we need more freedom.
Oh, this is great, you guys!
This rocks!
More tambourine!
And then, of course, since he's paying for it, Tim, man, Tim, brah, we've been thinking about this song, you know, and we think it's missing something.
We're thinking it needs something in the middle.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I could do a rap.
Yeah, man, I've seen you rap at all the conferences.
Okay, why don't you write something down, and I'll give you about 35 seconds here in the middle, and you just, just rap it, man.
You are, I mean, Jay-Z will love it!
There's lots of noise in politics.
People hitting each other with great big sticks.
But Nikki Haley stands above the press.
She's been fully, fully put to the test.
With Trump, the bully, who's afraid to fight against five-inch heels with twice his might.
And Biden, who's dying to drain our reserves.
When voters come out, he'll get his dessert.
Great!
We need you, Nikki, right now to save the nation.
That was great, Tim.
I love how you called Trump a bully in your rap.
That's some smack right there, bro.
So, uh, this was one step above the, uh, let's get social.
I mean, how, how tone deaf are you that you put this out?
And like, yeah, this is great.
So it's the, one of the most embarrassing, this is what billionaires do with their money.
You got a rocketry, one of the two.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, at least this is funny.
Post the rocketry.
It's not like... Goodness gracious.
It's, no, there's nothing you can say.
They could have done a, let's put it this way, it's a sucky job.
They could have, they're gonna do this at all, they could have at least tried to do something decent.
This never works out.
It's the same when people say, hey, I'm going to get Michael Bolton to write a song for our product for the commercial.
It sucks.
It always sucks.
It's a lot of money, but it sucks.
Anyway, so Trump is in New Hampshire and he says a couple of things.
This is the one that I like the most because he's an anti-war guy and he just punched that home.
We wanted to stop terror from coming into our country, but I couldn't talk about it because I didn't want to do that, and then the following day something happens.
So I went four years keeping my mouth shut on that particular subject, but now I talk about it all the time.
We had no attacks.
We didn't have a World Trade Center.
We didn't have the attacks like you've seen, and certainly that you see in other countries.
And by the way, now we're getting involved again in the Middle East.
Look what's happening.
You're getting involved.
Here we go again with the Middle East.
We spent nine trillion dollars.
Killed millions of people, including our side, their side, millions of people.
Nine trillion dollars.
You know what we got?
Nothing.
What?
Nothing.
You got death, you got blood, you got nothing.
And it's just, we spent our blood and our treasure, as they say.
Our blood and our treasure.
And our blood is more important than our treasure.
Man, it's a shame.
It's a shame.
I beat ISIS.
You're right.
Thank you for telling me that.
You're right.
I was getting to that, but it's very good.
He's sharp, this one.
Thank you.
We did.
We beat the hell out of ISIS.
It was supposed to take four to five years.
We got it done in four months, I'd say.
Four months.
100% of the ISIS caliphate.
It was interesting, I was on the way home from dinner with friends and I'm in the car and all the cable news stations were running him live, including MSNBC.
Which, of course, the minute he brought Vivek on, they cut away on MSNBC, Fox stayed with it, CNN also cut away, and Trump was making a big deal out of, hey Vivek, Vivek, you get 30 seconds, 30, 60 seconds, that's it Vivek, that's all you get, that's all you get.
It's like, you know, bring up the brown kid to talk for a minute.
And then later, he said, oh, Vivek wanted me to say this.
He is very important, Vivek.
He alerted me to this.
It's very important.
And this I do for Vivek, because he's very big into it.
I happen to agree with him.
But he said, could you mention this?
I will never.
He said, I love Vivek.
I love him too now.
I didn't love him when he was running, but I like him now.
It's amazing the way you can like somebody when you win, right?
But Vivek is great.
He's really great.
But he wanted this and I'll give him full credit for it.
It's very important, actually.
I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency.
There you go.
Good for you.
He should have said, I'll refi the country.
That's what I'm waiting for.
I'm going to refinance everything.
Don't worry.
I'm going to get us down to a lower mortgage rate.
It's probably doable.
Yeah.
And then I'm going to wrap up American politics with... Now, you and I, we rarely converse in between shows.
We had a quick email back and forth because someone sent us this clip.
I think I said that first, you said it was Roger Stone.
I think Stone came after me.
Before you wrap, by the way, there's some New Hampshire clips I want to play just to mention it.
Yes, you came up with this thesis that I mocked and continue to do so.
Well, yeah, it's good to mock it.
I mean, look, we have BigMike2024.com, so mock all you want.
If she's running, we're golden.
Well, the website is.
They sell t-shirts.
Yes.
We'll turn it over to the No Agenda shop and let them do it.
Let them do it, yeah.
I have the pool boy clip if you want.
You had... I'd like to get the date on this because I know Roger Stone has been promoting it and I'm not sure that you acknowledge that or you think that you did it first and Roger Stone came later, which is... I'm not going to say it's not possible.
And that you may have invented this nonsense.
I hope so.
That they're going to run Michelle Obama.
Yes.
Which is a ludicrous concept.
Well.
Even though you're semi-serious about it.
Well, let me play this.
47 seconds.
This is a pool boy.
Who has all of a sudden woken up.
Everything is out the window.
All our predictions.
I got no idea what's going on.
It is a wild election year.
Wild!
It's only just begun.
We're about to complete the first month of 2024, giving us 11 more.
The election is very, very close.
I mean, less than a year away.
Now who's going to be the Democrat nominee?
Joe Biden?
Perhaps.
Maybe not.
Could it be Michelle Obama?
Some speculation now that Michelle Obama may already be working her way to a 2024 White House bid.
Last night, Roger Stone speculated on Timcast IRL.
And he has speculated well before this, I'm just making sure that's clear.
But he mentioned on our show, he sees a possibility Michelle Obama enters the race, and I agree.
He agrees!
Alright.
Pooh boy and I agree.
So, I thought I would, just because we are the Noah Jenner Show, I would bring an explanation of the mechanism and how it would work.
Because whether it's Michelle Obama or not, there is a mechanism which is very plausible within the Democrat Party, and Jim Rickards has an explanation.
And so I'm going to play that.
The only threat to democracy I see is coming from the Democrats, because one-third of the delegates at the Democratic National Convention are what they call superdelegates, who are not elected.
I mean, these are the pro-democratic process.
One-third of the delegates are not elected.
They're handpicked.
They're party leaders.
You know, down in Brazil, you know, elected officials, Dick Durbin, the senator, Nancy Pelosi, still in the House, believe it or not.
But also down at the state level, governors, county chairs, loyal Democrats who are in the system who can be counted on are handpicked as superdelegates.
But it's a third of the total.
Well, that's not enough to get the nomination, but it's a huge block.
So what you do sometime around May, I would expect, you put together a delegation, a small delegation.
It might be, you know, Durbin and Pelosi in Brazil or, you know, Mark Elias.
He's their big shot lawyer who, you know, kind of – Does everything possible to change the election laws so you can have a fair election.
They'll talk to the chief of staff and they'll go to the White House and sit down with Biden.
Maybe it'll be done privately.
Who knows?
Well, I mean, it will be private.
Maybe it'll be, you know, some other location.
And they'll just say, hey, Joe, it's over.
It's over.
You don't have the physical capacity.
You don't have the mental acuity.
You don't have the strength.
You haven't run a campaign.
You're not really running a campaign.
That's true today, by the way.
Show me where the Biden campaign is.
I mean, so there isn't one, really.
So you're done.
Now, just to be clear, that does not mean they want him to resign as President of the United States.
He can finish out his term, which runs to January 2025.
It does mean they would want him to withdraw from the race for nomination for the November 5th 2024 election.
And then they would basically kind of hold a gun to his head and say, we're ready to pull the rug out from under you, etc.
You got to step aside.
So there is a mechanical way of doing this, which according to Rickards would start in May and would finish, the dagger would go all the way in at the convention in Illinois this year.
If Biden does that, and notice I said if because there's a whole other set of issues about whether he would actually do it.
But if Biden does that, then this would all be coordinated in advance.
The superdelegates through some representative could say, you know, nice job, Joe.
We understand why you're stepping aside.
We, the superdelegates, endorse Michelle Obama.
Now, that gets you a third of the vote right there.
No primaries, no elections.
We're for Michelle.
Then Biden, at the same time that he steps out of the race, would release his delegates.
He would say, hey, all you pledged delegates, people we handpicked, whatever, got elected in primaries, you're now free agents.
Do what your conscience tells you.
But the truth is, they'll do what the leadership tells them.
And then most of those delegates would just go along with the superdelegates.
At that point, it would be Michelle by acclamation and proclamation.
She wouldn't have to run in any primaries.
Why get your hands dirty with that?
And then you'd come up to the Democratic Convention in August.
It would be a coronation.
Michelle, Michelle, Michelle.
She'd be the nominee and run in the election.
Now, that's mechanically how it would play out.
So that's how it would work if they were going to do it.
If they were going to do it with anybody, it would work that way.
This is funny to me because it harkens back to the micro dots on the ballot and the Steve Pchenik theories about how we're going to do this and the military's going to march in and take over and oh my god.
I'm not saying that I'm believing this.
I'm saying that I called for this a long time ago.
No, I didn't say you would.
What did I say?
I didn't say that.
I'm just saying it harkens back.
Yeah.
This is better.
To this convoluted nonsense, which is not going to happen.
Biden is going to run.
And if anything is going to happen, Biden would be the one that would coronate somebody else.
He'd say, OK, I'm not running, but I want this guy to run.
And it's not going to be Michelle Obama.
What do you mean?
If he says, I want this guy to run, it could be Michelle Obama.
No.
Yes.
If he says this guy, if he says this guy.
Geez, a quarter.
Hello.
Hello.
Stay with the program.
So let's, uh, let's go back to, uh, yeah, you got me.
Gosh, I hate it when I have to explain the punchline.
You have to explain the jokes.
So I got a couple of, uh, New Hampshire Trump rap clips from NTD, but one of them has a tidbit and it's the tidbit I want to get to.
So I want to play these two clips.
Okay.
This is a, the Trump, New Hampshire rap.
Cause he did win.
The New Hampshire GOP primary on Tuesday set a new record for voter turnout.
More than 300,000 voters cast their vote, and they were closely divided between registered Republicans and undeclared voters.
But a more moderate voter base here did not stop Trump from securing a double-digit victory against Nikki Haley.
And so that means this is effectively a general election testing ground.
And if he wins by a reasonable margin, that predicts a landslide in November.
According to data by the Associated Press, Trump won about 7 in 10 voters who identified as conservatives and those who are registered Republicans.
Nikki Haley, meanwhile, performed better among undeclared voters who are not affiliated with any political party.
And just about half of those who voted for her say they are conservatives.
This race is far from over.
Haley's already campaigning in South Carolina on Wednesday as Trump is set to hit the campaign trail again this Saturday in Nevada.
Meanwhile, President Biden on Wednesday touting a long-awaited endorsement from the United Auto Workers.
Look, I kept my commitment to be the most pro-union president ever.
I'm proud you have my back.
And now the chances for a Biden-Trump rematch are ever higher.
President Biden saying after Trump's win in New Hampshire that it's clear that Trump will become the GOP nominee.
He adds that personal freedoms and democracy are at stake in November.
You know what's really bad?
Every single time someone says Nikki Haley, in my mind I hear, we need you Nikki, right now.
Luckily that hasn't happened to me.
Well that means they've done their job.
Yes, it's an earworm, I'm telling you.
Top ten.
Uh, so here's the same continuation, except it's got a little tidbit in it.
Meanwhile, CNN's exit poll shows young Republicans made up Trump's strongest age group in Tuesday's primary.
60% of voters age 18 to 29 voted for Trump, a sign that the former president is expanding his voter base in areas where he previously lacked. 16?
Wait a minute.
16 to 29?
18.
Oh, I thought she said 16.
I could have sworn she said 16.
Well, play it again.
It's only 16 seconds.
Meanwhile, CNN's exit poll shows young Republicans made up Trump's strongest age group in Tuesday's primary.
60% of voters age 18 to 29 voted.
18 to 29.
I was confused.
I'm like, how can that be?
That's a big deal that nobody else covered.
That's huge!
Nobody else covers it.
That's the people who are supposed to be liberal, just by age group.
Yeah.
It's those evangelical kids, that's what that is.
It's probably because they hear stuff like this from Biden.
I have one Biden clip today.
Oh yes, this is a good one.
We'll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson.
Don't mess with a man in America unless you want to get a benefit.
What do you think he said?
I think he said, don't mess... I know exactly what he said.
Oh, let me hear it again.
We're going to teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson.
We're going to teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson.
Lesson.
Lesson.
Don't mess with the men of America unless you want to get the benefits.
Don't mess with middle America unless you want to get your benefits?
No.
What does he say?
Don't mess with the women of America.
Oh, really?
Play it one more time.
I guess you're right.
Don't mess with a man in America unless you want to get the benefits.
Unless you want to get some benefits.
Yeah.
What does he say?
I don't know what that's got to do with.
It's got something to do with Margot Robbie not getting the award.
I'm sure of it.
The funny thing is that whole movie, Barbie, is about the patriarchy.
You know the board of Mattel, which by the way, it was a female CEO for 25 years.
She only just recently gave up the ghost.
The board is 60% women.
60% women.
You know, like.
I love women executives at the highest levels achievable by anybody.
Still moaning about the patriarchy.
Yeah.
Well, that's what the Barbie movie was.
The way they see it, they're not getting enough money.
Yeah, well, there's that.
We're not in the club.
We're not allowed to go to the Maui studio.
Draper.
Do you have anything else on Donald Trumpster there?
I do have an analysis of the New Hampshire stuff, but it's not that interesting.
There's one story that we haven't covered.
Which is the videotape that was released by Messi, I think?
By who?
Messi.
What's his name?
Messi?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Congressman Massey.
Congressman Massey.
About the pipe bomb that was at the Democrat headquarters.
Oh yeah, this pipe bomb issue is still floating around.
It hasn't been covered well, and as a huge exception for me actually, I'm going to play the analysis from Sagar, who did a pretty good job of just wrapping it up and doing it quick.
Those guys still doing that podcast?
Yeah, yeah.
It appears they're pretty successful.
Huh.
I like Sagar.
I'm not so sure about her.
She irks me for some reason.
I'm not sure what it is.
Crystal ball.
Crystal ball.
Footage of the Capitol Hill area on the day of the alleged bomb was discovered shows that approximately at 1.05 p.m.
in broad daylight, a man in a backpack approaches nearby police and Secret Service agents to tell them that he thinks that there is a bomb that is currently nearby a bench in the DNC.
That man, it was later revealed, is a plainclothes Capitol Police officer.
The officers in the video Which was released in the congressman Thomas Massey, do not immediately react when they're told this alarming information.
Now keep this in mind, Vice President Kamala Harris is actually inside of the building at this time.
They are supposed to be on high alert.
And yet, as Darren Beattie at Revolver News notes, Note how casual and unperturbed both the Metro officers and Secret Service officers are.
Ask yourself whether this is how you would imagine the Secret Service would normally respond to the discovery of a bomb right outside of the building housing their protectee.
Now, the bomb first appears on camera approximately five minutes after the police were tipped off.
After that, police officers still allow, actually, a passing group of pedestrians, including kids, to walk by.
A police officer then walks up to the bomb, he takes a photo of it, Then, before alerting others, he holds up his thumbs up.
The video actually cuts off right around there.
But the facts we can take away are this.
The cops were tipped off to the presence of the bomb by an undercover cop in a hoodie.
That did not appear at all alarmed by it, even though the vice president was inside the building.
Three years later, nobody knows who this man was, and they also don't know who planted the bomb.
So this story was broken wide open by Revolver News.
I think those guys are pretty good actually, Revolver News.
They seem to be doing a good job.
Although I keep forgetting to go check out what they're doing.
Well, because they're not mainstream, you know.
I'm looking for laughs and like, oh, you got something real, man?
Okay.
And so here's the wrap-up of this pipe bomb, which, by the way, I have seen several analyses that it is exactly the kind of pipe bomb that the FBI uses or builds in training.
It looks exactly the same as their training materials.
Like, what are those giveaways?
The rest of the facts are pretty crazy.
As Darren Beattie has written, the official narrative from the FBI is that the pipe bomb was actually placed on the bench outside of the DNC at 7.52 p.m.
That was the night before by a man in a hoodie.
It was not discovered until a full 17 hours later when the tip-off came.
Add in this detail.
The pipe bomb was one of two.
It's a mere 15 minutes earlier at 12 40 p.m.
A random pedestrian allegedly nearby found the first at a Capitol Hill Club in Washington DC, which is nearby to this location.
Meaning that the two bombs, which were allegedly placed there 17 hours earlier, according to the authorities, were somehow discovered within mere minutes of each other.
Even stranger, according to the report, is that the two pipe bombs were equipped with one hour mechanical timers.
So while they included live explosive material, if they were planted 17 hours earlier, they were never actually seriously armed to explode because they literally couldn't.
All of this, let's just say, is odd.
It doesn't prove anything, but it gives us a few possible scenarios.
Yeah, well, we can think of the scenarios.
Bogus!
And they screwed that one up, you know?
And they forgot there's... Bogus is not a scenario.
That's my scenario!
It's a word.
It's bogus.
That's a perfect scenario.
Bogus!
Bogus!
There is one more... The whole January 6th situation was bogus.
There's one more interesting piece of news.
This is the Fonny Willis saga.
Oh, I have this clip too.
From about the...
Well, why don't you play your clip?
No, wait.
What's yours?
Mine's about the PR person.
I thought this was fascinating.
Oh, no.
This is not the PR person.
This is one more step in the trials, which With her boyfriend.
Yeah, with her boyfriend.
This is not good for Fonny.
She is one of the nation's most recognizable local prosecutors, charging former President Donald Trump and 18 others with election interference in Georgia.
But tonight, Fulton County D.A.
Fonny Willis is facing a separate court battle of her own, involving allegations she financially benefited from a romantic relationship with Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, a high-profile member of the team prosecuting Trump.
Willis is now fighting a subpoena to testify in Wade's divorce proceedings and today a judge ordered those divorce records unsealed.
It all stems from a bombshell court filing by Trump co-defendant Michael Roman questioning the process by which Willis hired Wade and alleging Wade used money earned from the DA's office to fund vacations with Willis without providing direct evidence.
A separate filing by lawyers for Wade's estranged wife included credit card records showing Wade purchased airline tickets for himself and Willis to travel together.
All of it is giving new fuel to critics of the Georgia election interference case.
These are corrupt people.
Willis has not responded to the allegations but appeared to defend Wade while speaking at a recent Martin Luther King Day celebration.
I appointed three special counselors.
It's my right to do.
They only need to have one.
Meanwhile, Willis called the subpoena an attempt to harass her.
How do you respond to her allegations?
It wouldn't matter who she is and what position she holds.
If she's having an affair with my client's husband and he's spending my client's money on that relationship, I'm gonna find out about it.
And a judge has given Willis until February 2nd to respond to the allegations in a court filing.
Her office tells us she plans to do so.
That guy is dope.
Are you going to go book tickets in her name on her card?
How dumb are you?
Come on.
I know.
He is dumb.
He's dopey.
He probably has some other benefits that she likes.
Well, I mean, I have some analysis, but I want to hear your clip first.
Well, first of all, this is my WTF clip, which is like, what?
This is one of those, another obscure piece of information, like the boys in the band all voting for Trump.
This is about, again from NTD, this is about Fannie Willis hiring up a PR firm and then stiffing them.
Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fannie Willis reportedly hired a service to track media coverage of herself and her office days before announcing the probe into former President Trump.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reports that it obtained documents that show on February 8, 2021, Willis received an invoice for a $10,000 contract with a New York-based media monitoring service.
Three days later, on February 11th, she announced in a letter to four state officials, including Governor Brian Kemp, that she had opened a criminal probe into Trump.
Fulton County data shows a one-time payment of $10,000 on May 28, 2021 for the service.
The service had sent multiple past-due invoices.
Willis reportedly said in an email to the company, until your company jumps through the county hoops, it is impossible to pay you.
Oh, what an idiot!
But the thing about this, if you just kind of deconstruct it, she hired a clipping service, basically is what this is, to monitor all the coverage she's going to get from the Trump indictments so she could pad her resume and have a scrapbook for herself, showing all the things that she did.
Based on all the clippings they're going to pull out of the New York media and elsewhere.
I just thought this was deplorable.
Isn't that doing your job?
That fits right into an analysis that Mo gave me yesterday.
We did a show yesterday, Mo Fax with Adam Curry.
And with his analysis, he says, What's happening here is the DEI, the Affirmative Action, the Soros sisters, that all the, let's just call it what it is, the Democrats, said, okay, we're bringing all the black women in, bring them all in, bring them all in, and now it's, okay, show us what you can do.
And Fannie Willis was given a couple jobs.
Her main job Was to clean up Atlanta.
There's a lot of with Young Thug and there's a whole bunch of big drug cases and big issues that were going on in Atlanta.
And then it turns out that she had an affair with Young Thug when she was his defense attorney or alleged.
And it's kind of like, you got to bring down Trump.
And if she doesn't, nothing lost, but if she doesn't, then you're out.
And according to Moe, he says this is happening with all the black women who were brought in under the guise of, you know, all right, you're it, you know, we fought for you, you're the best, and you're black, and you're a woman.
Same goes for Joy Reid, same goes for a lot of black women who have been brought in, and now is the test.
And if they can't, he even took it as far as Sonny Haasen on The View.
He said, if they can't bring down Trump, and if they can't make this happen, they're all out.
They're all going to get fired next year.
Which, I'm kind of buying that analysis.
Boy, if you listen to Sonny Hoskin, she's really grabbing for anything she can to condemn Trump.
And it kind of fits in with what's happening in general as DEI is now experiencing a backlash.
And for those who don't know, diversity, equity, inclusion.
Students at Florida State University speaking out after the state's Board of Governors, which oversees the public university system, approved banning the use of public funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, or DEI.
So we're here to protest that, show that that's not popular, like students don't want this.
The board defining DEI is any program, campus, activity, or policy that classifies individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Florida is at least the fifth state to take such action, while nearly two dozen other states consider the issue.
Governor Ron DeSantis has long criticized DEI programs.
I think the way it's actually practiced, it stands for discrimination, exclusion, and indoctrination.
And it's wrong.
Opponents say this new law will have an immediate impact.
It intimidates, threatens, and in some cases eliminates multicultural student centers, Jewish student unions, black student unions, Hispanic student unions, and of course LGBT student unions.
This regulation is silencing people from being themselves, silencing our freedoms.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, it's going away.
New York Times headline.
Facing backlash.
Some corporate leaders go under the radar with DEI.
It's ending.
People are sick of it.
And I think most of it comes from the airlines, and specifically United.
I think that guy, the CEO, who was in drag, I think that was a tipping point.
You might be right about that.
That guy, that drag queen who's the CEO of United is an embarrassment.
Yeah.
It's just an embarrassment.
And you know, again, at the dinner table, it's, well, you know, it's really cool.
Cool.
You're from the millennials.
People don't like even the slightest idea that their flight may be compromised by something.
And that someone might possibly be in there who doesn't belong in there.
No, of course not.
Get a plane up at 35,000 feet, just floating around in the air, just going along.
You know, this is not, people don't like that to begin with.
I mean, we're flying to Dallas.
What's holding this up?
We're flying to Dallas after the show, and I got my instructor and everything.
I'm going to be flying up.
It's only an hour and 15 minutes.
And you should know what the question she asked me about the instructor.
You know, people don't like the idea, just the lightest, slightest idea that, well, you know, and we know from the Navy pilots that you can't get a job.
You have to go to the job fair, and even though they have more hours, more experience, it's women, black women, which is the best, LGBTQ, even with less hours, they get hired before them.
And doesn't mean that they're not qualified, but these guys are more qualified just by flight hours alone, which in aviation means something.
A lot, yeah.
So, you know, people don't like that.
However, the United guy, he's smart.
He's like, oh man, I gotta get off this drag tip.
What can I do?
Let me think of something.
I know!
Screw Boeing!
The CEO of United Airlines says he's disappointed with the ongoing manufacturing problems at Boeing and his airline will consider buying alternative planes in the future.
The Chicago-based carrier is one of Boeing's biggest customers.
But United CEO Scott Kirby tells investors the airline will... Can you stop it for a second?
Yeah.
I think we should mention, and I'm pretty sure I'm right on this, United actually was developed as a company by Boeing to move some of its aircraft out.
So Boeing is the father of United.
I think this is in the report somewhere, isn't it?
It's a short report.
This is a big deal.
Consider buying alternative planes in the future.
The Chicago-based carrier is one of Boeing's biggest customers.
But United CEO Scott Kirby tells investors the airline will report a bigger-than-expected first quarter loss because of the grounding of all 737 MAX 9 jets.
That happened after a door plug blew off an Alaska Air flight earlier this month.
Kirby calling that the last straw.
It says Boeing needs, quote, real action to restore its previous reputation for quality.
I wasn't in there, but I think you're right.
Now, United has already ordered Airbuses.
They have already.
But at this point, it doesn't matter what it is.
Oh, it's a Boeing.
It's a Boeing.
It can be an Airbus.
Oh, it's a Boeing.
It's just all Boeing.
And this is my favorite.
This one happened.
Tower, the 75 on the runway just lost a nose tire.
What?
Is that worse?
Sounds like we've got a problem.
Yeah, we've got a problem.
Looks like we'll try to taxi clear if we could.
Yeah, we're flying a Boeing.
Roger, if you'd like, start your taxi down the runway and just let me know.
Yeah, well, the wheel's coming off this biatch.
This is all, to me, these events are all part of the, really, the random number theory.
And they happen in bunches.
And if you remember my favorite series of bunches was out of the blue, Delta Airlines kept landing at the wrong airport time and time and time again.
Yeah, yeah.
How does that even happen?
Oh, it happens more often than part of this.
The incidents happen all the time.
Every day there's something.
Every day there's someone landing on the taxiway.
These things happen regularly.
But when the media is ready for it, it's almost like, hey, I just bought a 10-speed bike.
I see 10-speed bikes everywhere.
It's the media ready to catch it.
That's what's going on.
You know, do wheels fall off?
Does stuff happen all the time?
You don't usually hear about it.
You just don't.
But now, and you've got to question the media's motives, which may, there may be an anti-Boeing sentiment.
We've always, always looked at Boeing versus Airbus as a fight to the death, which it is.
It is.
You know, the same way That with Big Pharma, who's responsible for the opioid crisis?
I mean, if you just ask anybody, who really is responsible for killing all those people with opioids?
Yeah, it's not even a company, it's the family.
The Sacklers, it's only the Sacklers.
And the Sacklers, I think they paid six billion, it's a small company, they paid six billion dollars and they couldn't be attacked themselves and so they wouldn't, you know, they only had to do a... and what's left of it is still selling opioids but But then under the radar you get... And Johnson & Johnson has reached a deal to settle investigations into the marketing of talcum-based baby powder.
The Wall Street Journal says J&J will pay about $700 million and was accused of misleading consumers about safety.
Women died over that.
There were deaths over that stuff.
And then this one.
New here at four, the Attorney General in the state of Washington announces a nearly $150 million settlement agreement with drug maker Johnson & Johnson.
It comes more than four years after that state sued the company over its role in the opioid addiction crisis.
Opioid overdose deaths have risen across that state with a little more than 2,000 in 2022.
That's more than twice as many deaths as 2019.
That's only one state.
That's just one state.
They're on the hook for billions of dollars, and it's still the Sacklers.
You know, because we had two movies about it.
Yeah.
That's the idea.
That's what you do.
And you don't hear about Walgreens, who were involved in basically a pill mill.
They all got together and made a movie about somebody else.
That's the way you do it.
Yeah.
And then get Batman to produce it and star in it.
What's his face?
Batman.
Batman.
Keaton.
Michael Keaton.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
The way the media is used to obfuscate, promote propaganda.
It's all propaganda.
All of it.
That's why we're going to go to the border.
We're going to fight.
Fight Biden.
We're going.
Yeah.
I do have some more Big Pharma stuff, which is Interesting.
You played the Brady Bunch on the last show, which was great.
You know, when the measles was just something you got and you were, you know, you had a scratchy throat.
It's a nuisance.
It was a nuisance.
You had to stay home, which was cool because you'd have to go to school.
I got the measles.
Well, you know, we have an epidemic on our hands, John.
Physicians today know that measles is more than a nuisance.
Measles used to be a- Literally more than a nuisance.
What are you talking about, Dvorak?
You have no idea.
Physicians know Measles is more than a nuisance.
They're pulling clips from the 50s now.
Physicians today know that measles is more than a nuisance.
Measles used to be a rite of passage for kids.
It's a potentially deadly and highly contagious childhood virus that causes a telltale rash.
A vaccine introduced in the early 60s helped nearly eradicate the disease, but it's making a comeback.
That's because of a decrease in immunized children nationwide.
And according to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, where there's a current outbreak, during the 2021-2022 school year, 94.3% of kindergartners in Philadelphia County were fully vaccinated with the MMR vaccine.
Last school year, that dropped to 92.8%, below the 95% needed for- But he's saying you can vaccinate 92% of everybody.
It's not enough.
But they're gonna get it anyway.
They're gonna get it.
It's an epidemic.
It's an outbreak.
Because, does this thing not work?
MMR vaccine.
Last school year, that dropped to 92.8%.
Below the 95% needed for herd immunity.
Below the 95% needed for herd immunity.
What?
I thought herd immunity was...
94.8 is needed for herd immunity?
Bull crap!
What do you mean herd immunity?
That's just a made-up number.
Yes.
That's really a wake-up call because the real number... No, it's not a made-up number.
It's a wake-up call.
That's really a wake-up call.
95% needed for herd immunity.
Wake-up call.
That's really a wake-up call because the real number in many communities is probably far below 93.
Dr. Peter Hotez is co-director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.
He says outbreaks like this one are more likely when the rates drop.
Measles does not typically occur among highly vaccinated populations.
So in that sense, low vaccination rates are the indirect cause of measles.
My concern is that we're still going to see additional measles cases.
And I worry that when you talk about up to 20, roughly 20% of measles cases require hospitalizations.
If this continues, we're going to start seeing hospitalized kids.
Oh, I'm gonna die!
A trend that we could see nationwide, where MMR vaccine levels have been dropping over the last few years, and now are at 93.1%.
We're just seeing now this is the tip of the iceberg.
We're going to be seeing this in communities across the United States in the coming weeks and months, because of the spillover of the U.S.
anti-vaccine movement to childhood immunizations.
It's the anti-vaxxers!
It's the podcasters!
Stop them!
We're gonna see deaths!
And it's spreading to Europe!
Ring surge in measles cases has shaken Europe, with the World Health Organization issuing a strong warning.
There was nearly 45-fold increase in measles cases across Europe last year.
With a total of 42,200 infections resulting in hospitalizations and tragically five measles-related deaths compared to just 941 cases in 2022.
Measles-related deaths.
Measles-related.
Not from measles, but measles-related deaths.
That's a good catch.
Vaccine hesitancy is causing a concerning crisis in measles cases.
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly hampered vaccination rates, dropping from 96 to 93% for the first dose of the MMR vaccine.
Oh, what?
There's two doses of the MMR vaccine?
I thought there was only one.
One shot and done.
Now there's two?
In the UK, health authorities are particularly troubled about an outbreak of highly contagious measles in the West Midlands, which could rapidly spread to other areas with low vaccination rates.
We're talking to those parents and reassuring them that actually if they bring their children on time at one year of age and at three years and four months and get the vaccine, it's the best way of protecting that child and the other children that they have and their local community as well.
It makes no sense.
If your child is vaccinated, then you don't have to worry about the community.
It's your kid.
Look, if you want your kid to get the measles, then it's fine.
But no, no, somehow you're gonna- it's the same bullcrap as the- as the COVID vaccine.
If you don't have the vaccine, you're gonna spread it to the vaccinated, huh?
By the way, Eric- Eric PP- Eric- There's a good little sub clip, play it.
Put it on the list.
Oh, oh.
Uh, Eric PP in the troll room says that measles is more than a nuisance clip, it's from a Merck public service room.
Huh.
...that this piece.
Physicians today know that measles is more than a nuisance.
So they're literally just taking old Merck footage now and putting it into so-called news reports.
But that's okay, because in the UK, we're just going all out, we're just gonna, you know what?
You need a mask.
As the winter weather closes in, seasonal illnesses are running rampant.
In the last four weeks, NHS England reported one in 24 people were likely to have tested positive for coronavirus.
It's why long COVID sufferers like Jez are warning of the dire effects that the infection can still have.
I think we're going to continue to see large waves of Covid.
Certainly we're seeing people getting reinfected just a number of weeks after a previous infection.
So this idea of immunity that might last you a year or two is no longer applicable.
Even more scarily what we're seeing is that people who've maybe had two or three infections before and recovered no problem on their fourth or even fifth infection developing quite debilitating long Covid symptoms.
You got your ten shots and you got your fifth infection.
You're fine until the sixth infection, maybe you got some issues.
I love the guy's name, Jez.
Long Covid Simpsons.
Jez was an avid Marathon runner, but after catching Covid in 2020, he's been left with severe long-term effects.
Long Covid has left him unable to work for nearly four years.
The rest of the symptoms are incredibly debilitating, from absolutely crushing fatigue, to headaches, dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath, skin rashes, and one of the hardest is what's sometimes called brain fog.
NHS hospitals like this one have seen a growing number of patients flocking to their emergency departments with respiratory infections, including a new variant of Covid.
As a result, accident and emergency wards in parts of the country have had to declare a critical incident.
And now, medical experts are calling for face coverings to be made mandatory once again to prevent the wider spread of infections.
Ah, face coverings, of course!
Of course, because that stops infections.
We know that by now, don't we?
You know who has the long COVID and is bitches about it on the air?
On the air?
So he's one of the pundits.
Major, I'd say, even though he's been pushed to a lesser market, but he is still one of the major pundits.
Cuomo?
The Cuomo kid?
Exactly.
Yeah.
Well, I feel bad for him.
He's got long COVID.
He's bitching and moaning.
He puts a lot of COVID experts on to complain about how nobody cares about the long COVID sufferer.
We know so much about COVID, but we can't figure out long COVID.
I feel so bad for people who just are psychologically psyoped into this belief.
Anyway, something we've been tracking.
We've been tracking.
America's favorite doctor, Dr. Jen, is going to bring us a little update.
So let's talk medical news.
Obesity and loneliness in the news.
Why?
Yeah, so you've heard me say before, it's really important when you look at two things that affect a lot of people to look a little deeper and see where there's overlap.
So this latest study published in JAMA Network Open really highlights that.
They looked at over 300,000 adults In a UK database who reported over 12 years of feeling lonely or isolated, 23% of the study population also had obesity.
And what they found is that people with obesity had higher levels of loneliness, higher risks of death, higher risks of cardiovascular disease.
So again, things that affect a lot of people but do so more in certain populations.
And big picture here in the US, you guys, last year the US Surgeon General Declared loneliness an actual public health crisis.
He gives some actionable tips for anyone feeling lonely or socially isolated.
And remember, you don't have to be alone to feel lonely.
Number one, don't multitask.
Really focus on connection with other people.
Even committing to a 10-minute phone call during the day.
And if you are struggling and feeling lonely, reach out for a professional.
It's also a good reminder to check on people.
You just never know what people are going through.
Regardless of their age.
I mean, obesity and loneliness.
Go figure.
Really?
Dr. Jen?
Oh.
You know the answer is Ozempic.
They just haven't plugged it yet.
Yeah, exactly.
So I've been looking at the Dream Team.
Remember the Dream Team?
No, I don't remember the Dream Team.
You're talking about the COVID Dream Team with your buddy with the scarf?
No, the Dark Horse Dream Team.
Uh... Weinstein.
Oh, Weinstein!
His Dream Team.
You know, he's like, oh, the Dream Team.
We gotta get you, Tucker.
Tucker?
But what is Tucker doing?
Tucker's on a worldwide tour.
He's doing speeches, he's doing podcasts, he's speaking at political events.
I don't know what Tucker's up to.
I mean, I understand that he's probably promoting his network.
His, uh, his platform.
Which...
He has some good stuff, but... Well, he's definitely spending money enjoying himself.
I think he's making money.
It's not the time of the year unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere to be traveling a lot.
He was in Canada.
He was in Canada at a political rally.
Burr.
Burr, indeed.
Send me to Rio.
So the Dream Team, according to Brett Weinstein, is... By the way, his wife, she was being interviewed the other day.
I listened to it.
Heather?
Yeah, she's... I think she's his handler.
The way she looks at him, I think she loathes him sometimes.
Like, I can't believe I have to be married to you.
But anyway, it's my job.
Well, handlers sometimes give off that vibe.
Yeah, she does give off that.
She's from Los Angeles.
She was trained as a classical pianist.
All these things I didn't know about her.
But they've been high school sweethearts.
So they've been together a long time.
Anyway, the dream team as Bret Weinstein, which for me was an immediate throwback to The intellectual dark web that his brother had set up and he was gonna be in it.
All the smarty pants and you know and for me the dream... We know these people.
The dream team is... I went to Berkeley this is where you know these guys a lot of them come at this kind of thinking is rampant.
What do you mean this kind of thinking?
This kind of thinking that you can do this.
This also stems from Ayn Rand.
The dream team?
No, the idea that you have the Gulch.
Oh, Galt's Gulch?
Who is Galt?
Galt's Gulch?
No, that's not what he's saying.
He's saying that we need to have the smart, you know, the smartest people, the best reporters like you, Tucker, and we need Jordan Peterson, and we need all the smart people, and then we'll bring in the smart people like me, and Heather, and other smart people, and we can fight them, we can fight the new world order.
Fight what?
What?
Oh, they're going to fight the New World Order.
Yeah, they're going to fight the system.
Do you remember the clip where he's saying the dream team?
Yeah, dream team, intellectual web, all this stuff.
So then I was looking at the Santa Fe Institute, which could be some of the research that led to the Santa Fe Institute.
And right there on the homepage, it says, we are the dream team.
I'm like, well, that's a coincidence.
Are there ever coincidences in the kingdom?
I think not.
So I got boots on the ground from one of our producers, and my family member was intimately tied to the Santa Fe Institute, being a good friend of Murray Gell-Man.
Isn't Murray Gell-Man the guy who came up with the Gell-Man amnesia theory?
I thought it was Gell-Man.
Yeah, well, it's Gell-Man, Gell-Man.
Gell-Man.
Maybe that's how you, if you're cool, you know, if you're at the Santa Fe Institute, you hyphenate your name for some reason.
Gelman.
Who was one of the key founders.
You could be Curry.
Curry, yeah.
So that could give you a lot of background, may not interest you, but I would say you're not far off on your take on what goes on there.
Originally, SFI was about physics and complex systems research.
They have truly brilliant and wonderful people like Jeffrey West and Fred Cooper there.
However, since David Krakauer took over as director, who is of the same vocation and discipline as Brett, which is the evolutionary biology, there's definitely been a change in the atmosphere of ideas being discussed.
And then he sends me a link to a documentary Um, which is, most of it is with Krakauer.
And this guy, he has his, uh, his bite, his teeth is a bit like Richard Branson.
You know?
If, if, you know, that's kind of like that, that upper lip that kind of doesn't open up above his, his upper teeth.
Which is just, uh, just an anomaly.
Some of it you've noticed.
Yeah, I noticed stuff like that.
Also, being in New Mexico, not far from the Epstein compound, Jeffrey Epstein donated money to this outfit.
So, you know, already suspicious, of course, let's just throw that in there.
Gotta throw some Epstein in.
And I just pulled the clip from the beginning of this documentary where he takes the documentarian to this rocket That looks like a rocket from Tintin, if you know the comic.
Yeah, a cartoon rocket.
A cartoon rocket, but it's a real rocket standing there.
And just listening to this tells me that these guys are nuts.
The basic premise of this rocket is, child, last remaining human on the planet.
Wants to get into the stars, escape from the Earth, which is plagued or something.
And doesn't understand that a rocket that has no engine will not fly.
So this is a rocket with no engine.
And so it's a symbol of the striving to succeed.
Yeah.
But doom tells them a failure.
And I like that poetic idea that the whole enterprise has a bit of that character.
You know, scientific institutions, especially mathematical ones, can feel a little bit forbidding.
And many people's experience has been traumatic.
But I think if you drive up to a safari and you see this absurd rocket, you know, that could never fly, I think it just, it makes you feel slightly more at ease.
Yeah.
It is a signal to people that we are Trying to enjoy what we do.
Mm-hmm.
And that there are mysteries here that are confounding, even to the brightest minds who show up and have no idea what the backstory is.
Exactly.
Yes, if you came onto the campus and saw this, you'd think, what the fuck?
You know what I'm saying?
He's a spook.
I don't know if he's a spook.
He's creepy.
I'm gonna tell you why.
Oh, okay.
I did not glean this from the documentary.
I was born in Hawaii.
Grew up in southern Portugal.
Moved to London, England for secondary school.
Really?
So this accent is phony?
No, he was raised in England.
I don't know what his accent even is.
He attended the Royal Holloway London School where he earned degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Then he went to Oxford.
Then he's floated around.
He's been in one crazy operation after another.
If you look at his wiki page, it's just like, wait a minute, what is this guy?
Who is this guy?
Why does he have all these jobs?
The giveaway, the spook giveaway, besides the background, which makes him sound like his parents were spooks and he probably just got in on the deal.
This is all just spot the spook stuff, I could be wrong.
But generally speaking, when you're looking at a wiki page and there's lots of missing information that should be there.
Since you got all these details about everything else, but we don't have his parents name, we don't have his wife, he doesn't have the little box on the side that everybody has.
With a spouse and children.
Spouse and children box is missing.
No way!
There's all the little earmarks.
By the way, we know from listening to various CIA agents, it could be MI6 too, which is probably more likely.
Does it say this article is a stub?
It doesn't even say that!
It's a dead giveaway.
But he, but it's one of those things where they don't, the agencies, the intelligence agencies around the world, don't know how to deal with this particular problem, which is presenting the person, if they become too famous, which this guy is, how do you put it up on a wiki page without making it look like he's a spook?
Or maybe we just take stuff out, we don't put too much stuff in, they don't know what to do.
But it's, if you, The two of us have been looking at this long enough.
He's a spook.
So the idea is to put him in there to keep an eye on these guys who are nuts!
Exactly.
We don't want these.
Yeah.
Come on, everybody.
We don't want these.
What did he call it?
What's it called?
The... Dark Club or whatever it is.
The Dream Team.
Dream Team doing any damage.
These guys are dangerous.
No.
I love that Epstein gave the money after he had already been convicted for his transgressions.
Yeah, so the money was just transferred.
Yeah, it wasn't a lot though.
I think it was like $250,000 or something.
Oh, that's nothing.
Not to these guys.
Just a shut-up fee or something.
But there's a lot, you know, and there's hours, it's like 20 minutes of interview with one of these, the smartest brains in the world.
And they're talking basically about, you know, there's, it's obvious that there's a creator of the multiverse, anything but God, you know, it can't be God.
The creator of the multiverse.
The creator of the multiverse.
I'm like, uh-huh.
Okay.
No, anything but God.
No, I can't say that.
Well, no, they can't do that.
No, they can't do that.
They're atheists.
I mean, come on.
Oh yeah, obviously.
Be realistic.
By the way, the numbers are in!
A new report on religion in America reveals a new first when it comes to a religious affiliation.
28% of Americans say they have none.
According to the survey, they now outnumber Catholics and evangelical Protestants.
The nones include agnostics, atheists, and those who believe in a higher power, but don't attend religious services.
That's not as bad as, I mean, the way they make it sound.
That's bullshit.
That's a bad, no.
That number's bogus.
They included those who don't attend religious services.
Doesn't mean you're an atheist.
Exactly.
It includes atheists and people who believe in a higher, but even then it's what, 28%?
I thought it would be much more than that.
I did too.
I would think it'd be more like 40.
It's, well, it sounds like it's probably under 20 because of the people who, Cal, Cal University, or not University of California, but if you're in the state of California, it's gotta be 50%.
Ah, but those are all Satanists.
That's all it is.
Yeah, exactly.
You're a Satanist.
They're all Satanists.
They're all over the place.
It's a plague, I tell ya.
You know, they... Yeah.
Hey!
I'm getting closer.
It's starting to happen.
What, you're becoming a Satanist?
No!
I'm switching topics.
Deutsche Welle reports!
Moving to the war in Ukraine now and a potential new source of funding for Keefe's defense effort.
The United States is reportedly looking into the possibility of seizing some $300 billion in frozen Russian assets.
The Biden administration is exploring that idea as future U.S.
funding So there's the $300 billion that would be a huge violation of international law for them to take that, to seize that, and to give it to Ukraine.
But it comes on the heels of the balcony wave!
The security of the entire international community is on the line in Ukraine's fight.
fight against Russia.
That is the first time in 20 months the U.S. has had no money to offer since Congress hasn't authorized more aid.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is urging allies to help bridge the gap until then.
The security of the entire international community is on the line in Ukraine's fight.
And I am more determined than ever to work with our allies and partners to support Ukraine and to get the job done.
NATO has agreed to help replenish the military supply of member countries who aid Ukraine.
It was Austin's, by the way, first public appearance since he was hospitalized for two weeks after complications from prostate cancer surgery.
I don't call that a public appearance.
He was on a video call, sitting down.
You know how tall he was.
Could be some midget that looks like Austin.
Well, the ear, the right ear, which is folded at the top, that was in effect.
So it did have the floppy ear, the floppy right ear.
Yeah, well, I'm sure there's no hallmarks.
I mean, you're going to stick with this.
Stick with it, they're still looking for him.
I like the set dressing that had a little stand in the background.
Well, like I mentioned in the newsletter, the guy was at his house.
Why would he have this seal from the Defense Department on the wall in his house?
And a paper shredder underneath.
It looked like a paper shredder underneath.
Just got done shredding some paperwork.
And then on the paper shredder, there's a little stand with two flags, with an American flag and a Ukrainian flag.
Yeah, I think that was a nice touch.
The set dressing.
I mean, is that his house?
Yeah, it's supposed to be from home.
That was his home.
Zoom call from his home.
So you're going to keep this up?
You're going to keep it up?
Until I see him standing.
Until you see him standing.
And there's somebody tall next to him that's 6'4".
I mean, they could jerk him up probably a couple of inches with some lifts in his shoe.
Oh, goodness.
The guy's huge.
Yeah, well, he's lost weight.
He definitely looks like he's lost weight.
I do have the Ukraine prisoner.
Yes.
Well, yeah, you'd lose weight.
I mean, I'd give him that.
Ukraine prisoner plane shot down from talking about Ukraine.
Today, a Russian military plane crashing near the Ukrainian border.
The Kremlin is accusing Kiev of shooting the plane down, saying all 74 people on board were killed, including Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Russia offered no evidence, and Ukraine didn't immediately confirm or deny it.
This footage was posted on the Telegram messaging app and verified by Reuters.
The plane was shot down near the village of Yablonobar in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.
Russian state media said six Russian crew members and three guards were on board at the time.
The plane was an Ilyushin Il-76, similar to those seen here, designed to airlift troops, cargo, military equipment and weapons.
Near the scene, locals said they heard two explosions before the plane fell from the sky.
The second one was more audible.
After that, we all ran outside, even the doctor, in case any help was needed.
It crashed far away from the village.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed its radar operators had detected the launch of two Ukrainian missiles at the time the plane was downed.
Details of who were on board are not confirmed yet, but Moscow and Kiev have regularly sought prisoners since the war started in 2022.
Ukraine says it's still investigating the incident and cautioned against spreading unverified information.
Yeah, I have an ABC report about this, which again was surprising to me because we can't have the Ukrainians doing something wrong.
That's not okay.
Tonight, the moment a Russian military jet plunges out of the sky, seconds later exploding into a massive fireball.
Moscow calling it a terrorist act, saying Ukraine shot the plane down and that 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war were on board.
Video showing the wreckage in the Russian region of Belgorod near the Ukrainian border.
Witnesses say they saw the plane on fire before it crashed.
Ukraine and Russia were due to carry out a prisoner swap today, similar to this one earlier this month.
In a statement, Ukraine didn't deny shooting the plane down and said the Kremlin did not request safe passage for Russian planes over Belgorod, which was repeatedly done for prisoner swaps in the past.
Ukrainian officials suggesting Russia deliberately compromised the safety of the prisoners in an effort to, quote, destabilize Ukraine and weaken its international support.
David, tonight Ukrainian President Zelensky saying Russia is playing with the lives of POWs.
Zelensky did not deny Ukraine shot the plane down, but he also could not confirm whether those prisoners were on board.
This may be a prelude to a rumor that's been going around that Zelensky is about to kick out his military chief, Zaluzny.
And the person they would bring in is pretty much Victoria Nuland's guy.
Well, that would make sense.
Yeah, but people are a little worried because he's the kind of guy that might deploy a nuke.
Or bomb the nuclear plant.
We have all the regulations all set up.
Remember Graham, Lindy Hop Graham, and who else was it?
Who was a Democrat on that bill?
Or that resolution that, oh, if Ukraine blows up the nuclear plant and we get a nuclear cloud over Europe, then we can go in and nuke them all, nuke them all to Kingdom Come.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They could try this.
That would be the most idiotic thing to do, but I could see somebody going along, especially with Nuland involved.
They got to get rid of this Biden guy.
Well, Biden was heckled.
Yeah, it's about time.
It starts right off.
This is from TRT, the only place you can get these clips.
He was speaking and there was a well-coordinated genocide joke.
Joe and I had a chance to sit down.
Notice how they have the counter crew ready so the minute someone jumps up.
Yeah, they're right on the money.
Genocide Joe!
Four more years!
Four more years!
Genocide Joe!
Yeah, that's not staged.
No.
This is going to go on for a while.
They got this plan.
I'm sorry this is taking so long.
Get him out!
Trump!
Trump!
Look!
Look!
He just throws out for no reason, Trump!
Like he has Tourette's, Trump!
Look!
And then they do, let's go Joe.
Oh brother.
Let's go Joe.
I like the guys like, genocide Joe, how many children did you kill today?
That's a great question.
It really is.
So, talking about Genocide Joe, I do have some clips from Israel-Hamas newest update with a kicker, which is kind of another one of those little tidbits.
There's a lot of NTD today.
There's a lot of NTD.
I'm just saying, there's a lot of NTD.
Today is NTD day.
On Wednesday, Israel Defense Forces released a video of a Hamas lookout who was preparing to attack Israeli forces.
And then the IDF struck the target.
Israel defense forces are facing strong resistance in Khan Younis, one of the final strongholds for Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
But despite the intense battles, the IDF continues pressing forward, even just days after Israel's bloodiest day in the war.
On Tuesday, Hamas released what's believed to be a video of Monday's deadly attack.
The video shows a terrorist firing a rocket-propelled grenade at this building, where IDF troops were said to be inside, setting up explosives to demolish it.
And reportedly, that building and a building next to it collapsed, killing 21 Israeli troops.
And even after such a devastating loss, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears undeterred, as he spoke at Israel's parliament on Wednesday.
We have set out the objectives of the war, and they remain in force.
There is not, nor will there be, any compromise on what affects the safeguarding of our existence and future for generations.
Okay, uh... Did you see that, um...
The IDF, like 20, 25 people got killed as they were setting something up and it blew up?
Yeah, I think that's what was reported in that particular... But what exactly happened?
They don't, they never tell us anything.
Hold on, I have ABC, maybe this explains.
Israel reeling tonight after losing 21 soldiers in that attack in the Gaza Strip.
According to the IDF, a unit of reserve soldiers was preparing to demolish a pair of two-story buildings in Gaza Monday in the buffer zone Israel's carving out near its border.
Hamas video showing the moment its fighters fired an anti-tank missile that would trigger a chain reaction and then a massive explosion.
Israel's chief of staff at the scene today announcing an investigation has begun with 24 soldiers killed yesterday.
It was the deadliest day for Israel since the war began.
It comes as Israel lays siege to Gaza's second largest city.
Bombs exploding over the skyline.
Bullets piercing the area's largest hospital.
Inside the hospital, this boy's sister killed.
He screams, Don't tell me my sister is dead.
I want to play with her.
The streets filled with the echoes of machine guns.
Families now fleeing, some running hand in hand.
Bundles under their arms.
Cars piled high with bedding.
Others moving on donkey cars.
And with hunger now soaring in Gaza, Qatari mediators are saying that worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza are now complicating efforts to negotiate a ceasefire and hostage release.
This is really incredible.
ABC took it from the deadliest day for the IDF and then turned it into a little boy screaming, don't tell me my sister's dead, I want to play with it.
We need to call the Jews who run the media and tell them they're not doing a very good job.
Yeah, where are these Jews that run the media?
They're not doing a very good job.
They don't seem to be very good at this.
Well, let's go to part two of this, because this is the part that doesn't get another little more evidence and stuff doesn't get reported.
This has got a little kicker in here about what's going on in Iraq.
Also on Wednesday, Netanyahu met with the UK's foreign minister, David Cameron, who also met with family members of the hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip.
Many of the family members have been advocating for a ceasefire to release the hostages.
But an Israeli government spokesperson on Wednesday said this.
There will be no ceasefire.
In the past, there were pauses for humanitarian purposes.
That agreement was breached by Hamas.
Also on Wednesday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with the President of Iran, which backs the terrorist groups currently fighting Israel.
The terrorist groups have also been attacking U.S.
forces in Iraq, Iran's neighboring country.
The Iran-backed group, Kataab Hezbollah, attacked U.S.
forces at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on Saturday and Wednesday, injuring at least four U.S.
personnel.
In response, the U.S.
struck the terrorist group's headquarters, storage and training facilities for rockets, missiles, and one-way attack drone capabilities.
Iraq now finds itself in a tough... What's a one-way attack drone capability?
The drone, it's got enough gas just to barely get there, I guess.
Training facilities for rockets, missiles, and one-way attack drone capabilities.
Iraq now finds itself in a tough position, being an ally of both the United States and Iran.
A spokesperson for Iraq's prime minister said the strikes undermine years of cooperation, violates Iraq's sovereignty, and contributes to an irresponsible escalation.
Yeah.
I've talked about this before, but the Iraqis are trying to get us out of their country.
Yes.
Why are we there?
Why are we there?
Why are we in Syria?
We got like five bases in Syria.
This is like a violation of sovereignty.
But the Iraqis are sick of us being there.
I thought we left.
Martha Raddatz had the Iranian foreign minister on, in what she called a one-on-one.
I thought what he said there was pretty interesting, because this is ultimately the idea.
The idea is before Trump gets in, let's blow up a lot of stuff!
Because then when Trump comes in, we'll soak him for all the money we need to build up our defenses.
It's gotta be something like that.
We're not in nuclear war yet, but it's scary enough.
These people don't care about dying children.
They really don't care.
They just don't.
War is a racket.
We asked Iran's foreign minister about the targeting of commercial and U.S.
Navy ships.
Are those attacks you support?
This is the decision that the Yemenis have made in support of the people of Palestine.
I think what they did and the decision is a brave one.
But the minister denies... By the way, it's that stupid helicopter footage again.
Oh yeah, on the tail boom we're gonna land on the ship.
The decision is a brave one.
But the minister denies Iran is giving Houthi rebels weapons despite evidence.
The Pentagon sent out pictures of those weapons showing they were from Iran.
This is a show that they put on TV.
If the United States has any information about this, then they have to provide the documents to us.
The U.S.
has warned Iran not to escalate the situation, but the minister told us that may well happen.
What do you think the chances are that Iran and the U.S.
spill over to the other parts of the region, it's very likely that it will widen. - What do you think the chances are that Iran and the U.S. will be at war? - We don't really want the war, the scope of the war to expand.
You cannot continue the war in the Gaza and the West Bank, to militarily engage with Yemen, and then still talk about how you don't want the war to widen.
But we don't really want a war, that really stood out.
Martha Raddatz with us here in New York, and I know the U.S.
is warning it's prepared to take further action to protect American troops and facilities, but what more do we know about the targets hit tonight by the U.S.? ?
They hit a storage facility where there were drones and missiles and rockets, they say, a headquarters and a training facility.
But this is going to go on for a long time, David, these strikes and counter-strikes, because it's not yet working.
There was an interesting article that was sent to me in Front Page magazine, which has, of course, its backers.
The facts of the article seem to be correct, that when Blinken came in, Secretary of State Blinken came in, one of the first things he did was he took the Houthis off the terrorist organization list, which enabled all kinds of NGOs and USAID to send money to the Houthis.
Yeah.
And you know that there's been these calls for, hey, put them back on the terrorist list.
And they're not doing it.
Now they're saying, oh, but... But no, they did.
No.
Yeah.
No, I don't think so.
I think they have a 30 day period where they're going to listen to all complaints.
I understand they put it on a kind of a special category terrorist list.
A sanction list.
A special sanction list.
Well, no, there's a terrorist word.
The word terrorist is involved in this.
Well, not according to this article, so I don't know.
When was that article written?
January 23rd.
So unless it just happened?
Well, of course, the article has to be written before then.
It's pretty recent.
It could be late.
But what it says is there was a 30-day specially designated global terrorist category which does not ban providing material support.
And they have a 30-day review process where special licenses will be given, including USAID and its partners, to do business with the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hamas in Afghanistan and Gaza.
And what is going on?
When I hear the Iranian foreign minister say, that's a TV show, you gotta kind of think he might be telling the truth.
To what end?
Money!
Just spend money!
Every time we... Fire off a missile?
Send another ship in there?
Whatever!
Actually, those 155mm shells cost a fortune.
I'm sure they're not cheap.
I'm sure they're not cheap.
And just be afraid, everybody.
Well, the war is a racket, Comet.
It's probably apt.
That's right.
Was it General Smedley Butler?
There's one thing that happened in December, which is just now starting to get a little, just a little bit of reporting.
So little that I had to go to the well, W-I-O-N, to get a report on it, to get an actual clip.
Do you remember when Hillary Clinton was running around, hair on fire, about the law of the sea?
This is years ago.
Only vaguely.
She was like, the law of the sea, this is important, we have to get this through, the law of the sea, the law of the sea, the law, it's very, the law of the sea, we need this.
And I think our, I looked for some clips, I couldn't find anything, so it's older than 2014.
So it's a long time ago, which makes sense.
She was Secretary of State then.
And it was something about the continental shelf and what belonged to each country.
Yeah, those were mining.
Yes.
Well, it's official now.
America has grown.
Moving on for now, the United States has grown in physical size by more than 621,000 square kilometers.
It happened last month after the U.S.
Department of State added six regions.
Submerged in the offshore area, also known as Extended Continental Shelf, to the total landmass of the U.S.
The land added to the U.S.
territory is nearly twice the size of Spain, according to the U.S.
Geological Survey.
America's Extended Continental Shelf includes six other regions.
These are the Atlantic East Coast, the Pacific West Coast, the Bering Sea, the Mariana Islands, and two portions of the Gulf of Mexico.
The area is in fact an important maritime zone, holding many resources and vital habitats for marine life.
And according to a think tank, the ECS extension is crucial for America's efforts to secure its territorial rights in the Arctic region, while highlighting America's major economic interests in undersea territory, which is rich in oil, natural gas, minerals and sea life.
So the one that's interesting is the Bering Sea, which is up there by Alaska and the North Pole.
And this is... Russia's not happy!
Surprise, surprise!
Russia feels that that's their turf.
And so this is going to come to a head.
Well, they're going to have to be in a treaty.
We're not going to be able to do one if we keep having these proxy beefs with Russia.
And if we take their money...
Oh, we steal their money, forget it.
Yeah.
This money stealing is not... What if we take that $300 billion, which is within the US financial system, it's just numbers, but it's within the financial system, you know, they got kicked off of SWIFT, so we have that money.
If we take that, do you think any country will ever want to be in our monetary system again?
No, this would ruin everything.
This would cause a worldwide depression.
Enter Trump!
This would be the trigger.
They'd pull it off just before Trump got in.
No, I think you need some time.
You need some time to pull it off.
The world has to be psyoped about it.
We've got to all understand what it means.
Russia's got to make a stink.
Then other countries make a stink.
They would do this somewhere around summer.
It wouldn't be right before.
No.
We need some time for everything to... I mean, it's not going to collapse overnight.
Well, yeah, the set-up Trump for this is getting more obvious as time goes on.
That's why Biden's running, not Michelle.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage today.
In the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the continental shelf.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore!
In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, all the ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and the dames and the knights out there.
Oh, this is pathetic.
1719.
Are we down again?
1719?
Yeah, we're down.
We're down!
We're down!
What did we have last Thursday?
Hold on a second, let me see.
We had 16-something last Thursday.
Yeah, 1620.
So we're up.
We're down from the average, which should be 1800.
Well, that's a Sunday.
That's a Thursday number.
And then Thursday...
Yeah.
Sunday is 24 to 25.
What's everybody doing, Trolls?
Yes, I know it's Thursday, and we're talking Kamearing Thursday to Sunday, people.
Well, those Trolls are in the Troll Room, and we're happy to have them there.
We love our Trolls, because they're very helpful.
They eventually found out that the 3x3, you know, they did help live on the air.
That was cool.
We got that.
There's all kinds of trolly business going on.
Always keeping me on my toes, keeping me awake.
We love you.
We love you trolls.
You can join them by going to trollroom.io or more importantly, get a modern podcast app.
Do you know that almost 50% of the people who listen to this podcast are on a modern podcast app?
I love my job and I love what I do.
PodcastApps.com, where you'll be alerted when we go live.
Many of them have a chat room.
You get the dynamite chapters from Dreb Scott.
There's transcripts.
And we also, well, when we release the show, 90 seconds later, the modern podcast apps will let you know.
All of those old podcasts, the legacy ones, you're an hour later, you're like, what's going on, man?
Upload to Apple.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's their problem.
Spotify.
Don't let your favorite podcast be deplatformed and you lose them.
That won't happen with one of those.
And for that very same reason, we are Value for Value.
I heard you on a Value for Value podcast yesterday.
Oh, you heard the Grimerica thing?
I did.
Really good for you.
I wanted to compliment you.
I thought it was a really good appearance.
I can do good work.
Yeah, your sound was weird, though.
It was light.
It was light.
Well, that's their side, not me.
I could have put it through some devices on my side.
I didn't know it was going to sound crappy.
And you know what the worst part was?
They're not on Podcasting 2.0.
Well, that's weird.
Yeah.
I mean, they're available, but they don't have all the features.
I gotta hook those guys up.
Well, they want you back on.
Well, I'm going back on.
And this was, I was a little surprised because they had me booked for February 18th or 19th, I think.
I'm like, oh, okay, now it's time for me to do it.
And then, all of a sudden, oh, we got JCD!
I'm like, oh, oh, I'm second fiddle here.
Well, that's possible, but I didn't do it on February 18th, 19th.
No, you did it earlier.
Yeah?
Yeah.
So, I thought I was the main attraction.
Oh no, they had to have me on first.
I'm the set-up act.
I'm like the opener.
You get to be like the headliner.
The opening act.
It was good.
I really enjoyed it.
It was a good appearance.
People should listen to that, to Grime-erica.
It's quite interesting.
So they are value for value, just like we are.
And you talked a lot about value for value, actually, with them.
Yeah, I did.
They wanted to talk about stuff like that.
Yeah, and you gave them good pointers.
I did, I thought.
Yeah, and you said, you know, people just don't want to ask.
That's always been my argument.
Yeah.
People don't take it seriously.
They kind of, hey, if you want to give us some money, go ahead.
There's a tip jar.
It's a tip jar thing.
And that's no good.
That makes your podcast very short-lived.
Yeah, because nobody gives tips.
No, you got to lay it out.
You got to say, hey, look, we're putting the value out.
This is what we do.
You got to hound them.
You do.
No, it's important.
It's really important.
Now, you didn't talk much about the treasure or the time and the talent portion, which is really big.
And we have Void Zero right now working on upgrading all our servers, which are 10 years old.
I didn't even realize how old they were.
I love it when he says, the upgrade will be seamless.
There'll be no disruptions.
Yeah.
Wow.
I love Mark, but every, it's a foregone conclusion.
You know, it just is what happens.
It just, and it's okay.
We understand.
It's never seamless.
I love that guy.
And he's like, yeah, I'll be moving something today.
No, no, not today.
Yeah, go do it on a show day.
Now, there's so many other things that people do for us, and also we have, you know, people who help us out with clips and insight.
You heard some of the boots on the ground.
And our artists, our artists, it's just so wonderful to have New, fresh art for every single episode.
It really gets attention.
I mean, there's no way we could... This is the point of Talent and Time, is we couldn't afford to have artists do this.
There's just no way.
Could not afford it.
We also get cool stuff in the P.O.
Box.
I got Mike Riley's gift, which is a whole bunch of his books with your blurb on the back.
I also got a Texas Hot Glass flute.
She sent me one of those flutes.
Pretty cool flute looking, but did you try playing it?
Yeah, yeah.
Phoebe gave me a very weird look.
She did not like it.
She wanted me to stop.
I got a little bit out of it, but not much.
I'm going to practice on it.
I'm going to practice on it.
And then I want to thank everybody.
Somehow now I'm the hero of THOTP.
T-H-O-T-P.
I'm the hero of the T-H-O-T-P community.
What does that mean?
Little House on the Prairie community.
Oh yeah, you're a big fan.
I guess you've been watching reruns.
I'm getting stickers and fake dollar bills from the Olsons.
It's a very tight-knit community.
I had no idea.
I love it.
You know, you're the leader.
I want to be the leader of the Little House on the Prairie community.
So back to the artists.
Thank you to the artists who are always giving us lots of choices.
We chose for Dame Kenny Ben, who was, I believe, the leader of the leaderboard last year for all of 2023.
She just came in with the perfect piece, which was a nice cartoonishly drawn Airline, which of course had to be a Boeing, just looking at it, and tail number 33, and it's called the Totally Safe Airline, and its engines are on fire.
It just had all the elements.
I don't know if there was anything else.
Did we have anything else that we looked at that we thought was... I'm looking now.
Let me see.
A lot of A.I.
art.
There was something I remember that was... Oh yeah, you liked the Radio Flyer newspaper, but you couldn't read the writing on it.
Yeah, well, I liked it, but I didn't vouch for it, so that wasn't... Well, it wasn't going to happen because of the...
I thought Scaramunga's Juggies Yogurt was funny, but also no, we're not gonna use that.
We already get so much crap about boobs.
Yeah, we had the big boob art recently.
Yeah, let me see.
We got a note that I was requested to put on there.
Yeah, there's a note.
You wanted me to read the boob note.
Alright, here it is.
This is from Lynn.
Adam and John, I enjoy your show.
I've donated several times.
I must comment on the boob donation discussion in the last issue.
Oh, now it's an issue.
What I believe the father was trying to say about his daughters was not that they are no longer listening to the show.
They are no longer listening to the show, capital letters, WITH their father.
As a teenage girl.
Oh, she's a teenage girl.
We got one of those teenagers.
We have an unbelievable demo.
We do.
I can completely understand that.
When I was young, even listening to songs on the radio like Maggie Mae.
Oh, she's not a teenager now.
When my father was around, it would be embarrassing to hear the song.
I could listen to it all night long if I was alone, but it was embarrassing to listen to with my father.
Since you are both males, I think you missed the point about the girls not wanting to hear the boob discussion with their father present.
I think she's right.
I think that's a very good point.
And that's understandable.
That's understandable.
We don't talk about boobs that much.
No, it's just a boob donation.
I mean, what happened is because of this, we've been talking about it.
Because of the backlash.
Because of the controversy.
Strange.
The backlash.
Thank you very much to Dame Kenny Ben and all of the artists who submitted artwork.
We appreciate you so much.
Thank you to Sir Paul Couture who has made the art generated just one snappy piece of code.
And thank you to everybody who delivers time and talent to the show.
It is invaluable, really.
This is part of the secret.
Of why this show has been going.
We're now in our 16th year.
16?
17?
Is it our 16th year or 17th year?
16th year.
We're heading toward our 17th anniversary.
And the secret is that we don't have high expenses.
You know, we don't have producers that we pay because that would never work.
It would not last.
We'd be bought up.
You know, one of those bought up Spotify things where everyone got fired.
Then again, We would have been fired, can you imagine?
I was thinking about this the other day and my talking about yellowing up.
Oh yeah, that was a good one.
That was genius.
Welker.
I'd be out.
You can't say something like that.
No.
No, and how many complaints they got about that?
About that?
None.
Zero?
Exactly.
Zero.
Because zero.
This reminds me of when I was at PC Magazine, I wrote a column called, Who's on First?
And it was HU.
And it was a Chinese, it was a joke.
It was the whole sketch done with Chinese names.
Racist!
Racist!
The whole bit was done with Chinese names, so it was Hu's on first, and I don't remember all the names, but they're all Chinese names.
And Xi is a good name, the head of Acer at the time.
Xi's on second, it went on like that.
Yeah.
And so it goes to one of the editors, I won't say who.
So you sent this in to be published and you figured, oh, they'll do that, no problem?
No, I figured there might be some pushback.
And so one of the editors sheepish pushback, I might add.
You know, this is kind of, don't you think this is a little racist?
I said, you know, especially it's about Taiwanese, it's about Chinese have a sense of humor, you know.
Oh, boy.
Oh, yeah.
That's even more racist just saying that.
I said that.
And I said, just let it play.
You won't get any letters.
I guarantee it.
And he reluctantly ran it.
You know what we got for pushback?
None.
Nothing.
So they ran it.
Just like, there wasn't one person that said anything about it.
And I know it was red.
Yeah, but when it came time to fire you 20 years later, I'm sure someone went, hey yeah, that guy's a racist.
I hate the Chinese.
Anyway.
So you come for the donation segment, but you get JCD stories.
This is why you're still here.
This is why you're still here.
Who was on first?
Let's thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1628.
Bruce Randall comes in at the top there from Richmond, Virginia with $350.58.
And he says, I can brag to all my fellow retiree friends that I'm a producer on a popular show!
Helps prove retirement's about more than getting older and fatter while riding our Barco loungers.
What an opportunity!
Plus, it helps me feel less of a douche.
Oh, Bruce.
Thank you.
Do you think he needs a de-douching?
That was a little unclear to me.
Just give him one.
You've been de-douched.
Might as well be safe than sorry.
I agree.
Sir Single Sculler in South Bend, Indiana.
I guess he's a boater.
A single sculler.
What's a sculler?
Is it a sailboat?
You know, isn't that the guys that scull, the guys that were put, you know, on those, those, uh, boats that race, you know, and you pull the oars in this.
Oh, isn't that a skiff?
That was sculler.
Sculler.
Hmm.
Sculler.
I don't know.
Well, maybe the checkout room knows.
JRE Donation.
Found y'all's COVID.
Hold on.
Morgan Donation.
Might as well do it properly.
Panchal's COVID and vaccine analysis very helpful and made me feel that I'm not crazy.
However, everything since has been so much better.
There hasn't been much history to go on except for Fauci, but great job.
I'm actually very confused by his sentences there.
Yeah.
I like the Africa information and would like more from Europe.
This is him!
This is the guy who likes the Africa information.
Donate more and we'll do more Africa clips.
He wants a biscuit on his birthday too to the head and his birthday is January 25th.
We got him on the list.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
There we go.
And Anonymous from Bemidji, Minnesota.
I have been to Bemidji.
You've been to Bemidji?
It's a very small airport and I went to Bemidji because I had to fly, I flew into Bemidji and then I took like a little, very small airplane to some, goodness, maybe it wasn't Bemidji, some radio station, some top 40 radio station.
Hey everybody, good morning, it's the Bemidji Morton Show!
And we're already at our Associate Executive Producers.
And Anonymous says, no jingles, but I could use an R2D2, Karma.
Thank you and keep up the great work.
You've got it.
You've got... Karma.
Zachary Simon in Baytown, Texas.
So there must be a bay around there.
24568, ITM Gents, thank you for hosting the best podcast in the universe.
I was hitting the mouth after hearing Adam on the higher side chats.
Hiresite chat donation!
A while back, and I've been listening ever since.
As the bonus, I also found out this Christmas that my cousin Steve's a loyal listener, too!
How about that?
I know this is no coincidence, and he had to donate.
I wonder how that went.
I wonder how that went.
You know, did someone just say something?
Like, hey.
What did you say there?
Douche?
You, uh, ITM?
How does that work?
What is the exchange of code words that brings you to this knowledge?
My belief is that it's always the same.
It's, hey, I got to listen to this really fabulous podcast.
You should at least check it out.
But what is it?
No agenda.
Oh, man, I've been listening to that for a long time.
Hey, you think that's how it works?
Yeah, that's how it works.
And is it that voice?
That's the voice.
It's like my wife says.
To listen to this show, you have to have a part-time job.
Or like a full-time job like a trucker or someone who works at a bakery.
We have a lot of blue-collar workers because they need to be occupied and stay up to date and laugh.
They need to laugh.
They need to laugh a lot.
They need to laugh a lot and hug.
And hold hands and tell each other a secret.
This donation, he continues, should grant me knighthood.
Can I please be knighted, Sir Zach of the Town of Bays?
Finally, can I get some wedding karma as I'm marrying my best friend, Kristen, on April 26th?
Love is lit.
Thanks for all you do, Zach.
Of course, Zach.
Congratulations on the nuptials.
You've got karma.
Trevor, Peace River, Alberta, Candanavia, short row of ducks, 222.22, Grimerica donation!
Oi, eh?
Grimerica, I did an oi and then an eh.
An oi!
John, you got a Grimerica donation.
After listening to John C. Dvorak on episode 639, I've decided to end my douchebag streak.
Well, de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
Shout out to Darren and Graham.
Grimerica needs your support.
ITM from Trevor in Peace River, Alberta, Canada.
I hope they don't freeze my bank account.
Eh?
Alright Trevor, thank you.
Thank you Grimerica boys and girls.
Matt Higginbotham in Stilwell, Kansas, 21060.
In the morning!
This will be a switcheroo donation, as this still makes me a douchebag.
This goes to my best friend, Ethan Reinke, who is getting married this week.
I'm the best man, but I can't attend the wedding, because it's in South Africa, where his wife is from.
Hmm.
Figured this would be the best wedding present anyone could ask for.
Aww.
I agree with that.
Should we give him a de-douching as well?
Since he says, I don't recognize the name.
He still, I think he's relishing being a douchebag.
Yeah, but does Ethan get a de-douching?
Oh yes, I guess he would.
That's the wedding gift.
It's the producership and... You've been dedouched.
And if that wasn't the intent, happy wedding day from Adam and John.
That's your present, that's your gift right there.
Yeah, there you go.
It says week one of marriage and they've never had a fight.
That's right.
Congratulate, congratulations and love you man.
Jingles, bomb them.
Judge Jeanine, I'm gonna come.
Signed off, Matt.
Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again!
I'm gonna cum!
Jason Young in Rocharon, Rocharon, Rocharon, Texas.
200.
I want to plug my smoking hot wife's new business.
Hope my wife, my NA family can help out.
A necessity for anyone having trouble sleeping on planes.
It's an innovative pillow that holds you while the seat supports your weight.
Go to sloop.travel.
S-L-O-O-P dot travel.
I actually saw this.
It's an interesting concept, yes.
Sloop.travel.
What is it?
Well, it's like a... Sounds like a big giant thing.
No, it kind of drapes around like a sash.
And so you kind of, you can drift off to the side.
I'm looking for a discount code.
Code Bongino.
Sloop.travel.
Yeah, I need one.
Thank you.
Yeah, well, what, for your plane rides?
When's the last time you even were at an airport?
COVID.
Okay, good.
You can read the next one, but let me read this one first.
Linda Lipatkin in Lakewood, Colorado.
$200.
Jobs Karma.
For a remarkable resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
That's ImageMakersInc.com.
Or just find Linda Lou Patkin under the show's producer list.
She came in with $200, just so I could do that.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
And we have Jon Bai, Jon Bai, Jon Bai, Golden, Colorado, our final Associate Executive Producer with $200.
I would like a de-douchey, please.
You've been de-douched.
My pal Jason Smith from Iowa called me out last week.
Note that he has fallen back into being a delinquent douche until he called me out.
Thanks for reminding me of how much an oppressor I am.
Twice a week.
And thank you to these executive and associate executive producers of episode 1628.
Of your No Agenda Show.
All of you are now officially betitled with these executive or associate executive producer credits, which you can use anywhere where credits are recognized.
Your LinkedIn profile, any social media profile.
Of course, your resume works very well.
Acelina Lupatkin.
Or if you go to imdb.com, I think we are topping a thousand now.
These are very real credits.
You can open up an account, no questions asked.
And if anyone does have questions about your producership, we'll vouch for you.
Unlike those douchebags in Hollywood.
Thank you for supporting us.
John's going to take us through to the 50s.
I'm going to start with Bill Durkin, who's got a couple of birthdays.
He's got it.
He's sighted in Greenfield, South Carolina.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
But I do want to read this.
It's always optional under the $200 mark.
But this one he says, John brought up the rank stack ranking at GE last week.
But he, I guess he's an ex-GE guy, says what really hurt GE was the Six Sigma.
I remember that vaguely.
I remember that, yeah.
Six Sigma from 2000 to 2010.
I have so many stories about this BS program, I have to sit down and write it up.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm interested.
There's a lot of people in our audience who sometimes just go, hey, Six Sigma, for some reason.
Like this Tourette's.
Rita Harrington's up.
She's in Sparks, Nevada.
1-2-1-3-3.
Robert Petta, Sacramento, California.
105-35.
Ian Field, 100.
Joshua Huffman in Blue Springs, Maryland.
Missouri.
Blue Springs, Missouri, 100.
Brath.
Bra- Broth.
Broth.
Like broth.
Yo broth.
Broth.
Uh, Greenfield Park, New York.
88-66.
He wants a Jobs Karma, give it to him at the end.
Jobs Karma works too, he says.
Jobs, karma, works too, he says.
Jason Marr in Vancouver, Washington, 8008.
Steven Rivas in Roland Heights, California, 8008.
Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina.
He's the Archduke of Lunar, lover of American boobs, 8008.
Says nothing says I love you like a pair of boobs.
Ronald Scholl, 8008.
We got a lot of these today because of the controversy.
It's a promotion.
It's been a successful promotion.
Ron Schull's got a birthday call at 8-0-0-8.
His 44th day today, actually.
That's what he says.
Sir E, 8-0-0-8 in Blairsville, Georgia.
Benjamin Parry in Ankeny, Iowa, 7-7-7-7.
Ray Costello, 72-72.
Now he needs a de-douching badly.
Faye Costello, 7272.
Now, he needs a dedouching badly.
You've been dedouched.
Chuck in Anniston, Alabama, 7227.
And he's going to have a birthday of 72 years old.
And that's with a, get it?
72?
Yes.
Anyway, KJ6LNG wants to meet.
Hey!
Hey!
No, we had a chat.
We had a chat on the VAR AC.
I recognize it.
WJ4Kilo.
Isaac Henry in Kennewick, Washington, 69-56.
Number 103, mentioning the Spanish flea.
And he mentions number 103, mentioning the Spanish flea.
Matthew Elwart in Weatherford, Texas, 6006.
Eric, NRP, FPC.
Need some car karma.
We'll give him that at the end.
Edward Bala in Dublin, Ireland.
Thank you for your courage.
5678.
Matthew Martell in Brumal, Pennsylvania, 5555.
Some of these donations may be coming in because now we offer Stripe.
Yes, that's right.
We have donations and you can just go to noagendadonations.com and you see the option of using PayPal or Stripe.
So we'll get people coming in from, you know, some of these places where the PayPal stops working.
Matthew Martel and Broomall5555 needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
He also needs sales karma for everybody.
We'll put that at the end.
Gregory Clifton, Morgan Field, Kentucky 5510, Barron Sir Henry, Rancho Palos Verdes 5242, Forrest Martin 5005.
Forrest Martin, $50.05.
Now we go to the $50 donors.
Starts off with Tatiana Prince in Hollywood, Florida.
Now, she keeps protesting these donations to PayPal and there's an issue here.
I don't know why she keeps donating.
I can't figure out what's going on with her.
Michael Sykora in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Kyra Paravel in San Rafael.
Alex Delgado in Aptos.
Michael Romano in Sebastopol.
Greg Huff in Austin, Texas.
Gaucho Woodworking!
Check it out.
In Redondo Beach, California.
James Farrell in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
Brian Hummel in Wimberley, Texas.
Charles Boyd in San Marcos, Texas.
Samuel Cannarday in North Riverside, Illinois.
Diego Lopez Crane!
In Ithaca, New York.
Fall Line Farm, Columbus, Georgia.
Amy Grohl in Burien, Washington.
John Walter in Wenatchee, Washington.
Brent... Brent of the Beltway in Cabin John, Maryland.
And, uh, is he got anything here that he wants?
Oh, he wants some... okay.
Sir Jackson in Leveland, Texas, and he needs some Jobs Karma, and that concludes our list of donors to the $50 limit.
And thank you all for helping this show, making this show a possibility.
Yes, and thank you to everyone who came in under 50.
We have our $49.99.
That's because it's guaranteed anonymous.
We will not read anything under that level.
And of course, mucho gracias and much love to everyone who comes in with these sustaining donations.
You can set that up yourself.
You can find some ideas at noagendadonations.com.
And as John mentioned earlier, we have multiple ways now, including the Stripe, if PayPal is not your cup of tea.
Or if you just don't like them, that's possible.
Or if you can't use it in your country.
And thank you, we really appreciate all of the support that you've given us with your time, your talent, and your treasure.
And here is the Jobs Karma.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
And thank you again to our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1628.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Order. Order.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up.
And remember, it's noagendedonations.com.
Well, we do have a couple of birthdays.
A lot of Bill to start off with.
Bill celebrated yesterday and he also wants to wish his twin sister Beth a happy birthday, which was yesterday.
And his nephew Patrick also celebrated yesterday.
It's a Bill family bonanza on the 24th.
Sir Single Sculler celebrating today as is Ronald Shull.
And Chuck turns 72 on the 27th of January.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
One night, um, do we, oh yeah, yeah, we did have the, we had his night note.
He didn't request anything special, but we do have a beautiful blade all sharpened up for him.
Here you go.
Oh, nice.
Okay, Zachary Simon.
My dear friend, please come over here, just like everyone else who completes The $1,000 total aggregate donation.
You are now welcome to the Roundtable of the No Agenda Dames at night, and I'm very proud to pronounce the K.D.
as Sir Zach of the Town of Bays.
For you, my friend, my sir, we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
Perhaps you'd like some Diet Soda and Video Games, some Polish Potato Vodka.
We've got some Harlins and Haldol on offer today.
Also, Rubinous Women, Rose, Gates, and Sake.
That's where you can size your finger.
There's a handy guide there and send an address.
We can send off your ring, which is a Cignet ring.
milk and pablum, but I already see you sipping on the mead and munching on the mutton.
Go to noagendarings.com.
That's where you can size your finger.
There's a handy guide there and send an address.
We can send off your ring, which is a signet ring.
We send along some wax, which is, you know, you can melt that and put that signet ring in there to seal your important correspondence.
And, of course, to top it all off, we have a Certificate of Authenticity.
Welcome to the Roundtable of the NOAHgender Knights and Dames, and thank you, our newly-minted sir.
Yeah!
The No Agenda Meetups!
When you hear those pharma discussions, like obese and lonely, you need to go to No Agenda Meetup.
Don't take any pharmaceutical products.
Go to a No Agenda Meetup.
Your loneliness will be gone.
We can solve that easy.
Easy.
Find one near you.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
People of all shapes and sizes, colors, religions, lengths, genders, everything shows up and you all have one thing in common.
It's the No Agenda Nation.
You're all a part of it.
You all see through the scams and you love discussing with people while having a libation.
And we get some reports from people who have done just that Here's Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Hello Adam and John, this is Shannon in Fort Wayne.
Is that climate change in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Sir PBR Street Gang, thank you for your courage.
Keep fighting the good fight.
Dame Trinity in Fort Wayne, having a great time.
Jared from Fort Wayne, have a great day.
In the morning, Shelly from Fort Wayne.
Another good meetup at Crazy Pins.
Boy, it was crazy.
I'll bet it was.
Over in Boston, the Red 33, Red 33, Sir Nathan Lee has the report.
In the morning!
Oh, uh, thank you.
In the morning, uh, we are the Red 33, Red 33, uh, Boston New Agenda and, uh, go ahead.
Yeah, and this is Sir Karen.
Sir Karens by Count of Greater Boston.
And this is also Baronet Nathan Lee, First Horseman of Armageddon.
And as always, we are extremely grateful to the show and let the winers whine.
Adam and John are doing the work.
Thank you for your courage.
You are welcome.
Thank you for yours.
Always organizing those Red 33 meetups.
And the Dirty Jersey Whore is up in Texas in the northern part, I believe.
Here's his report.
Uh-oh.
Okay, we've done some production work, clearly.
Here we are at the Zinfo Kitchen Collective in Kilgore.
Mid-month, monthly meet-up.
And this is Dirty Jersey Whore.
I'm going to pass the phone around.
It's not really a phone, but we'll fix it in post.
In the morning, this is Anonymous.
In the morning, this is Rudy out of East Texas, getting lost in the woods.
In the morning, this is Patty.
In the morning, this is not the Jenga Champion.
I am the Jenga champion.
In the morning.
Also, we do have a spook here. - Yes!
Yes, I own it.
Anonymous, the spook.
Okay.
I get that.
I guess they thought Nat Pops would add to the report.
Thank you very much, Dirty Jersey Whore.
Today, there is a meetup in North Georgia.
It's the monthly meetup at 6 o'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta.
The local 843, the International Brotherhood of Mouth Hitters, meets at 11 on Saturday at the Earth Fair of West Ashley.
That's in Charleston, South Carolina.
South Jersey Meetup, Orange Man Bad Summit, 1 o'clock on Saturday at Miller Ale's house in Mount Laurel Township.
I've been there before.
The Three Mile Isle EVAC Zone Good News Meetup.
Those guys are always doing their meetups.
3.30 at Evergreen Brewing, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
And on Sunday, the next show day, Ski In, Ski Out, 1 o'clock, Salt Lake City.
That will be at the Viking Yurt in Park City, Utah.
And finally, on Sunday, the Don't Be a Douchebag Meetup, 5.30 at McNelly's in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
There are many more meetups around the world, including Ireland, including the Netherlands, including Malaysia, even more in Texas.
As I said, it's around the world.
Go to noagentomeetups.com.
Find your tribe.
Connection is protection.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
It's very easy!
Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You wanna be where you won't be, triggered or held to blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
It is indeed like a party.
And I have to admit, I have exactly zero ISOs.
No.
I fell down on the job.
Slacker.
Yep, I fell down on the job.
I was flight planning.
One of these should work.
Well, okay.
Which one do you start with?
Start with blah blah.
Blah blah blah.
Okay, we get it.
That's cute.
It's cute.
Uh, how about can't wait to vote for Joe Biden?
I can't wait to get to the polls to vote for Joe Biden!
Yeah, that's just too long.
I mean, that's, it's four seconds.
So it's, and, and I can't believe your last one is five seconds.
You know the rule.
No, I hear it's four.
What else do we know about this population, 18 through 24?
They are stupid.
See, I would just, I would just, I would go with just this as the end of show ISO.
They are stupid.
See, I could live with that.
Okay, cut it out.
Turn it off.
Should we do that?
Alright.
Sure.
That's better.
That's better for me.
Ah, almost at the end of the show.
You know what that means.
And now it's time for...
Yes!
Every single show we'd like to leave you with some good news so you feel good until the next show because people always complain like wow man there's so much horrible things going on in the world you make us laugh but am I supposed to feel good after the show?
Yes!
We want you to feel good with some good news.
What do you have?
So, even though you didn't like the four-second clip, this I've decided I want the good news clips to be under a minute.
I'm with you on that.
Don't you think?
We should be able to pack enough good news into under a minute.
Yeah, so here we go, a dog rescue in Oahu.
New at 6 o'clock and trending tonight, a heroic dog rescue by Honolulu firefighters.
You can hear them coaxing Kila out.
Now this is a scene on Wednesday after a two-year-old pit bull terrier got stuck in a storm drain in West Oahu.
The Hawaiian Humane Society says the dog Kila was on a walk with her owner when she broke So glad to see that.
That is awesome.
Firefighters from Waianae's district.
They are true heroes.
storm culvert that kept getting narrower.
Kila ended up getting stuck several yards in.
The Hawaiian Humane Society and the Honolulu Fire Department responded and take a look.
They were able to get her out safely.
After four hours of digging, they were eventually able to reunite her with her owners safe and sound.
So glad to see that.
That is awesome.
Firefighters from Waianae's district.
They are true heroes.
You know what?
They go above and beyond.
I know!
Besides fighting fires and saving lives.
And I'm talking to the owner.
Kila is safe and sound tonight.
They're so grateful.
She'll probably think twice before chasing another chicken.
Or maybe she won't.
You know what?
Whenever a newscaster says, that's awesome!
You know that was a good news story.
It was just awesome.
What do we want?
Good news.
When do we want it?
Now, please.
We could use some new good news jingles, by the way.
Happy if you could send us some.
We'd like that very, very much.
That concludes our broadcast today.
Coming up next on No Agenda Stream and on your modern podcast app, we've got Bowl after Bowl.
So stay tuned for that.
And we have end of show mixes from Professor Jay Jones, who's on a roll.
We got Producer X with a really cool one about democracy.
And Sir Ike Piggott, Sir Chris Wilson, and Ned in an old collaboration on one that you will recognize if you've been around the show since, I don't know, 2017 or so.
So, we look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
I'm flying off to Dallas.
I'm flying, so I should be back on Saturday.
We hope.
That'll give us another show.
You never know.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA-RE-man, RE-man, FEMA-RE-man, FEMA-RE-man and Region No.
6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Remember us at noagendadonations.com.
Until we meet on Sunday, adios, mufosa, hooey, hooey, and such!
This is how we end the day so that you can walk away from the show feeling good about yourself, feeling good about life, Kind of a sad story.
Bus lines in America carry more passengers each year than the Amtrak railroad system.
Kind of sad waiting room and a few folks waiting for the 809 to come into town.
Uh-huh.
What's happening to these bus stations?
All across the country, the bus stations are closing.
And if they're not gone where you are, they soon will be.
Because they're distalt.
The average income of bus riders is under $40,000 per year.
This is the craziest thing ever.
Real estate hustlers Figured out a way to make a lot of money.
To buy the often run-down bus station for no other purpose than to tear it to the ground.
I feel good now.
I'm kind of inspired by it.
Once upon a time, investors tried to make money by serving a broad middle class.
Because the gestalt, they don't see it that way anymore.
It's the craziest thing ever.
The money to be made is either abroad or else serving the people who get money from abroad.
All across the country, the bus stations are closing.
Because the gestalt.
And if they're not gone where you are, they soon will be.
I feel good now.
I was kind of inspired by it, quite frankly.
Forget all this talk about rumors on the internets.
In a democracy.
Democracy.
Throw it.
It's a democracy.
The machine.
Difficult to control.
I can guarantee that something's not so wrong.
Now let's look at the record.
Prohibition has found a new line of endeavor for the underworld.
They brought life to the bootleggers.
And the bootleggers begot the hijackers.
And the hijackers begot the racketeers.
My friends in the radio audience.
The only cure for the elder democracy is more democracy.
It is democracy.
Democracy.
The machine.
The machine.
One of the most important things we're doing in this administration is transformation.
We need to be lighter, quicker, move more quickly, period.
And we're paying attention to it.
We're making progress.
Some really interesting technologies.
Thanks.
It's a democracy.
It's a democracy.
Thanks.
Oh, Mom, please.
I know all that democracy jazz.
There's still hoods.
Hoods.
Yeah, we're doing we're doing a lot tonight.
We'll be right back.
Yeah, we can barely see dimension from the server blocks.
Ah, let me know.
I'm trying to.
No.
He's the seed back in.
They're rocking.
We're rocking.
Gonna rise to beat me to the sound.
They're running.
We're shining.
No gym.
Soldier can't stop it.
Master Dawn.
Master Dawn. Master Dawn.
Master Dawn. Master Dawn.
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