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We're going into the bin, baby.
Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, January 28, 2024.
This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation Media Assassination Episode 1629.
This is no agenda.
Taking the P out of propaganda.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we call it Ruppaganda, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's all propaganda.
All of it.
All of it, all of it, all of it.
My goodness.
Texas is propaganda central right now.
Oh, why?
The convoy.
Eagle Pass.
Take back our borders.
I really, I must alert everyone.
This is... Abbott has been activated.
This is all politics.
There's nothing based in reality.
And everyone's getting all jacked up.
Really.
Did you see the photo of all the tractors?
Yeah, well... I consider it an AI photo because it's like, where is this thing where you have these tiers?
Like a hillside with tears and tears and tears, all with thousands of tractors.
Supposedly at the Texas border.
I'm telling you, of course people are going to show up at the border.
Let me run through a couple of clips, because this is... The battlefield is now between your ears.
This is... And you think, oh yeah, we're the good guys!
No, you're being propaganda.
We're talking about a two-mile stretch of border.
There's people walking across three miles down the road.
But oh no, it's gonna be take back our borders.
Texas responded Friday to Washington's demands for border access with demands of its own for the federal government.
Demands for proof, wrote Attorney General Ken Paxton, of the government's authority to turn a Texas park into a port of entry.
Any time you might spend suing Texas should be redirected toward enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the books, Paxton wrote.
A strong response came as Customs and Border Protection officially reported more than 302,000 encounters at the southern border in December.
The highest monthly number ever recorded.
More people than the entire population of the city of Plano.
Governor Greg Abbott said today he had asked the president eight times to help with no response.
Giving him constitutional authority to protect the state from an invasion.
Dallas appellate lawyer David Cole thinks the invasion argument has some weaknesses.
But he said Texas may be able to make an argument on exactly how much control over immigration the federal government actually has.
Cole agreed.
It is very awkward right now having military and law enforcement both on opposite sides of all of this down at the border.
The governor also noted today he believes all 25 states that are backing Texas in its efforts would be willing to send troops to help if they're needed.
All right, time to load them up.
Get it ready.
Locked and loaded.
We're going to the border.
Don't go.
Oh my God.
I thought you were going.
Well, I was gonna go until... First of all, we have boots on the ground.
Plenty of boots on the ground.
Obviously, people are sick of what's happening at the border, but this is nothing more than a Republican Party set up against Biden, of course.
And I think I can reasonably prove this.
I'm not quite sure what Tucker is doing, if he's really just a willing idiot in all of this, but he had Ken Paxton on, our state's Attorney General.
Isn't that the guy they tried to impeach?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
So what's the deal with him first?
Let's get a little background on this guy.
First of all, the Republicans in Texas tried to get this guy out, but now he's like their spokesperson.
Yes.
There was a battle for him, and I don't know, I don't think it was all the Republicans, but there was definitely a faction that did not like him.
And I have to say, at the time, it seems like a pretty reasonable guy, he's doing good things for the state, but now it's clear that Abbott is just a globalist shill.
You have to realize, you've got, seriously, from McAllen Airport, There's, there's, they're basically bringing in young age men, not to create an army inside of America, they're cheap labor!
And it's Republican and Democrat, you know, companies, you know, it's just companies!
Capitalists!
Our children are too lazy to go and work in crappy-ass jobs, and so we need to bring them in.
And they're walking right through TSA, this is all the United Nations Office of International Migration, and the faith-based organizations that are paid thousands of dollars for the immigrant resettlement program.
It's all a scam, and we're all being played.
And when I heard this short exchange between Tucker and Kemp-Paxson, it has nothing to do with what's going on with the immigrants in America.
It's about getting Biden out and the Democrats and blah blah blah.
It's just propaganda.
What would happen if Biden decides to, quote, federalize the National Guard of Texas?
Look, he can do that.
Any president can do that.
I think that that pretty much ends his election possibilities.
Not that they're that good now anyway, but this is becoming the number one issue.
When you come into a state like Texas that I think people can clearly see we're just trying to protect ourselves from crime and terrorism and a lot of bad consequences.
I don't think, and now these liberal sanctuary cities know the same problem.
They've got just a little bit of what we have and they know that this is real.
So I think it's becoming more, Americans are becoming more aware.
And I think if Joe Biden decides to force that onto us by taking over the National Guard, I think it's an automatic loss he's done.
And so, you know, in some ways, we have to suffer with the consequences for a few months if he does that, which I still hope he doesn't.
But in the end, he loses the election absolutely if he does that.
Oh, it seems like this is only about the election, Ken Paxson.
Tucker, please lead the witness some more.
Do you think it's possible that he will?
I mean, I guess it's possible to know, but what would you rate the likelihood?
You know, I don't know.
I mean, I don't believe... By the way, stop!
Anybody who says, you know, first they get into the topic and then they milk it, and then just to stretch it even more, is a question you can't answer.
What do you think is the likelihood, what's the percentage, one to ten they'll be next, or what is your, you know, just drag it out, that's a good catch.
Yeah, it's leading the witness, it's obvious, it's obvious.
Okay, we'll continue.
Do you think it's possible that he will?
I mean, I guess it's possible to know, but what would you rate the likelihood?
You know, I don't know.
I mean, I don't really think Biden's thinking about this much.
I think it's his handlers, whoever's behind the scenes making those decisions.
If I knew who that was, I could probably better give you an answer.
But, you know, I have no idea what he'll do because I don't think he knows what he's going to do.
And after he's done, I'm not sure he even would recognize what he did.
So if I knew who was making that decision, I could actually direct questions at him or somebody could.
I think that would be helpful.
But we don't know who's running the country right now.
No, I've never met someone who could answer conclusively who's in charge of the United States.
Obviously, it's not him.
It's only about who's in charge and Biden's gonna lose.
It's a lose-lose for him.
I mean, that was kind of embarrassing.
It's like, if you really want to talk about the problem, talk about the problem.
Clearly, the busing was the setup.
I'm not saying that that was wrong.
I mean, I'm not saying that I don't agree with, hey, give it to the Sanctuary Cities.
All of that is correct.
But we are being played.
And we're being played, and you called it on the last show, with the takebackourborder.com website, which seemed very sketch.
Sketch, I said.
It's sketch.
Sketch!
700,000 trucks.
And so this is Fox Business News.
They bring on a Texas representative.
I don't even know who this guy is, but he's a Republican.
And he goes too far.
And he shows his hand.
But even the setup, where first they show you the map, look at all these Republican states, all the governors, they're backing Texas.
Hmm, you think it's political?
Texas is now receiving support from 25 Republican governors, all backing Governor Abbott's border actions, blaming the Biden administration for the crisis.
I want to bring in Texas Congressman Lieutenant Colonel Keith Self.
Congressman, good morning.
Let's talk about this.
Trucker Convoy, you brought this up just a moment ago.
So this is called Take Our Border Back.
It kicks off Monday.
So you've got multiple starts.
You've got trucks leaving from Virginia Beach that are going to go through Texas, Arizona, California.
On the website, it describes the event as a peaceful assembly.
Encouraging all freedom-loving and law-abiding Americans to attend.
I saw that you posted on X to raise awareness about that.
You obviously just mentioned it a moment ago.
I understand that you're going to be speaking once they get to Eagle Pass.
I also see that it's going to go through Yuma, it's going to go to San Ysidro, California as well.
700,000 vehicles?
That's the prediction here.
How do you keep that, well, peaceful and on track?
That's a lot of trucks.
Well, the people that have organized this are the same people that went from California to D.C.
with the truckers.
Really?
I understand we're going to be joined by Canadian truckers, so these people are committed to a peaceful demonstration.
Now, pay attention to what he's saying here.
He's saying, oh, these are the people who did the trucker convoy to D.C., and then he says, and we're going to be joined by the Canadian truckers.
What?
Seriously, now.
The Canadian truckers?
They're going to... He is playing on visuals.
Oh yeah, the Canadian truckers.
Yeah, we're all for the Canadian truckers.
And he'll even bring in the farmers!
And on track.
That's a lot of trucks.
Well, the people that have organized this are the same people that went from California to D.C.
with the truckers.
I understand we're going to be joined by Canadian truckers, so these people...
We're committed to a peaceful demonstration that we've had enough.
The American people have had enough.
We're demanding that the Biden administration do its job, enforce the laws on the books, and secure our border.
Eight million people during the Biden administration?
That's more than the population of Ohio.
This is the time for us to rise up as the American people and demand that our president do his job.
All right, so he, I don't believe this for a second.
I do not believe there's going to be 700,000 trucks.
They set that number out there.
The number is being propagated everywhere.
And then of course, the Fox Business News model asked the obvious question.
His answer is quite interesting.
Congressman, I love the fact that people are standing up and using their voices peacefully, but we know that bad actors in the past have co-opted these types of events and done everything they can to make the peace-loving Americans look bad.
Are you concerned that there might be some sort of co-opting of this convoy?
That's always a probability, but you learn as you do these events.
What?
That may be a possibility, but why would you say that may be a probability?
That's always a prob- No, I said possibility.
No, he said probability.
That's always a probability, but you- Probability.
I don't like that.
I don't like that.
I don't like it.
Always a probability.
But you learn as you do these events.
So they now know that that might have been in the past.
So they've got measures in place to make sure that does not happen.
And I am hopeful that that will not happen because this should be a peaceful movement of the American people joined by other nations if they want to come.
This is the Canadian farmer, Trucker.
This is the German farmers.
This is the French farmers.
Really?
This is the Dutch farmers.
This is a movement well beyond the United States that people are simply tired of the overreach of their federal governments and we're pushing back.
Now is the time.
Well, how many federal governments are there besides ours?
How come they always say, I've noticed this before, recently, I don't have any clips, but where they're referring to like the French federal government or the British, and they say, well, the federal government.
They don't have federal governments.
They don't have federal governments, exactly.
So a couple things here.
So, you know, the Biden administration, I don't know if I actually have a clip of that, I think I actually do, said, oh, we're stopping all LPG export licenses.
And immediately that's, oh, they're trying to screw with Texas.
I don't think so.
I think what Biden is trying to do is keep lots of gas in America and maybe do something about inflation.
Lowering natural gas prices.
It doesn't seem like that was a punitive move.
All these messages everywhere.
And then, of course, what do you do on the other side?
I agree.
They should be putting that gas into play here.
Yeah.
Well, and that's what they're doing.
It has nothing to do with... Just stopping the export license doesn't mean they stopped the pumping.
No.
And so, immediately, we get vice.
I want to remind everybody that Vice went bankrupt and was purchased by one of its major debt holders, Soros, Soros Investments, for $200 million.
They wound up buying it for like $2.
And here is their headline, Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border is Calling Itself an Army of God!
Experts say that the Christian nationalist rhetoric adds a dangerous dimension to the standoff between Texas and the federal government.
And this is written by Tess Owen.
And let's look at some other Vice News stories by Tess Owen.
Hmm.
Extremists call for civil war and succession over Texas border ruling.
Far-right congressman explains there aren't enough white people joining the army.
Republican wants schools to call animal control on furry students.
Come on people, get a clue!
That's a good one, actually.
So this is a war for your mind, and well, let's get some Joy Reid to balance out the coverage here.
Something called Take Our Border Back Convoy noted this online today, and here is a pullout just of the text in this invitation.
It says, Calling all truckers, bikers, law enforcement, Veterans, military, elected officials, business owners, ranchers, and freedom-loving Americans.
It's supposed to start in Virginia Beach on Monday.
It's separate rallies on February 3rd near Eagle Pass, Texas, Yuma, Arizona, and San Ysidro, California.
They're saying it's supposed to be a peaceful convoy and active Act of activism.
But the lineup of people sounds a lot like the lineup of people who were at January 6th.
It sounds like the same people that were at January 6th.
It's a lot like the lineup of people who were at January 6th.
Right, listen, as long as it's peaceful, I support people's right to protest.
Yeah, you know how that is.
They don't like what's happening on the border, by all means protest as long as it's peaceful, right?
As long as it's peaceful, right?
As long as it's peaceful, right?
By all means, protest.
As long as it's peaceful, right?
But this idea that trying to spark some sort of civil war, that's a real problem.
That's not a small thing.
And when you look at that map, you see a lot of places where there are very few people.
And the places in between places are the places that are angry.
They are the places where the power doesn't reside in the culture.
And therefore, and they want to be separate from the places where it does reside in the culture.
The biggest universities are not there.
The biggest cities are not there.
They feel overwhelmed.
But you cannot, you know, plan to break away from the United States just because you feel overwhelmed.
You have to win the argument.
And that is where they are failing.
Yeah, I think a lot of people forget.
What?
Yes.
What argument is he talking about?
He's just talking poop.
He has nothing to say.
He's overwhelmed.
But you cannot, you know, plan to break away from the United States just because you feel overwhelmed.
You have to win the argument.
Who wants to break away from the United States because they feel overwhelmed?
But this is the propaganda.
Oh, they want us to see it.
Did he just throw that in?
Yes!
Yes, I want to secede.
Break away from the United States just because you feel overwhelmed.
You have to win the argument, and that is where they are failing.
Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that what originally sparked the notion of civil war was an election.
It was the election of Abraham Lincoln, who the slave-owning South did not want to be the President of the United States.
They feared he'd take away their money-making human bondage industry.
Yeah, human bondage industry.
Okay, well let's just throw a couple more on top of it.
Let's bring in the ladies from The View.
We need to do more of this.
More!
Tim Scott shocked a lot of people because he claims to be a man of faith, just like Mike Pence claims to have been a man of faith.
They have every religious person scared that they're coming for their religion while the devil takes their soul.
They are not even walking in the path of, as Tim Alberta said, you can either take up the sword with a strong man like Donald Trump or you can walk in the path of Jesus.
They're quoting some kind of scripture here, John.
We've got to pay attention.
Yeah, they're butchering some sort of scripture and calling Donald Trump a strong man.
Strong man!
Strong man!
The devil takes their soul.
They are not even walking in the path of, as Tim Alberta said, you can either take up the sword with a strong man like Donald Trump or you can walk in the path of Jesus.
They have all completely turned their cheek on their faith.
I was thinking about it.
Turned their cheek on their faith.
This is a new one.
You know, these women on the view are a bunch of atheists.
I love turning their cheek on faith!
This is fantastic.
They're a bunch of atheists, and then they go off every once in a while.
I don't know what the point of going in the other direction is.
It's baffling to me to listen to these people.
Well, that's why it's fun.
They have all completely, you know, in their cheek, in their face.
I was thinking about all of this today, and it's like, you know, Trump is in the way.
I was thinking that smoke was coming out of my ears.
I was thinking about all of this today.
And it's like, you know, Trump is in the way of the Times.
You know, like when Ronald Reagan was around and John Kennedy and the rest of them, there was a certain decorum in the atmosphere.
There is total chaos now because of social media and all of the things that any anonymous idiot can make a statement.
He is what many people realize that they were.
This is really up to us.
It's not up to the media.
It's not up to us at the table.
It is strictly in your hands.
What country do you want to be in?
What country do you want to be in?
Do you want to be in a country where people can live up to their potential no matter what their faith is, no matter what their visual is, no matter what their proclivities are?
Is that the country you want, where you can be who you are?
Or do you want to be in a country where the man says, day one, I'm going to be a dictator?
Oh, misquote.
Dictator!
Come on!
So, they're just... And you know, again, just go listen to C-SPAN in the morning.
You'll hear Democrat line, he's gonna be a dictator!
From day one.
From day one.
You'll hear Republican line, Biden's letting a man ruin the country!
Just to prove Gummy Nerd is 33 wrong, because he's such a douche in the troll room.
Gummy Nerd, 33?
Yeah, he's a douche.
He's a douche?
Yeah.
Is he a guy or a girl?
You may have misgendered him.
Yeah, I hope I did.
Adam isn't even aware that the Canadian truckers are ruling on the future.
Yeah, I am, douche.
A federal court has ruled the government's use of the Emergencies Act during the convoy protests back in 2022 was not justified.
The CBC's Corinna Roman is live in Ottawa.
And Corinna, you've been reading over the decision, which runs nearly 200 pages.
So we're just all kind of getting our heads into it.
But so far, what have you been able to glean from it?
Okay, so let's just go over the language that the judge used in terms of his conclusion.
This was actually quite an interesting take that happened, and I think it's worthy of two clips.
That, you know, Trudeau going after the truckers, taking their money.
Blocking their money was completely illegal, and they're humming and humming and humming about it.
Saying, I have concluded that the decision to issue the proclamation, that would be the invoking of the Emergencies Act, does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness, justification, transparency, and intelligibility, and was not justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.
Now, obviously, that is news that he found very differently than the public inquiry, the Rouleau Commission, which found the government was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act, Andrew.
And of course, you know, in this 190-plus pages, there are many, many reasons, and he goes over the arguments of both sides, just to give people a sense of what parts of the Charter we're talking about.
We're talking about Section 2B, which is the freedom of expression, Section 8, which is search and seizure.
I did not find that there was any infringement on the right to assembly, because even though, of course, you know, people were restricted in where they were allowed to go, that is, you know, allowed.
There's a reasonable limit.
But in terms of freedom of expression and search and seizure, that's where he found there were infringements.
Actually, it might have been BlueDouche33.
I don't know.
Someone named Douche.
Yeah, I know about all this, but so what?
What difference does it make?
What do you mean?
At this point, what difference does it make?
They can't, you know, make Trudeau bend over and take 20 lashes.
Well, it was really, it was Chrystia Freeland who was in charge of this operation.
I do have a... Yeah, she resigned, I think, didn't she?
Well, she came out to apologize or some horrible thing.
She's a horrible woman.
She's not apologizing here.
So, we are aware of the court decision.
We have discussed it.
You notice the cadence?
Oh yeah.
This is the same milieu of Susan Rice, Lisa Monaco, they all have the same exact, they're all part of some sort of a, some sort of an underlying milieu.
Didn't she go, there was something about her background that I recall.
Let me look it up while we listen to the clip.
So we are aware of the court decision.
We have discussed it with the Prime Minister, with cabinet colleagues, with senior federal government officials and experts.
We respect very much Canada's independent judiciary.
However, We do not agree with this decision and respectfully we will be appealing it.
I would just like to take a moment to remind Canadians of how serious the situation was in our country when we took that decision.
The public safety of Canadians was under threat.
Our national security, which includes our national economic security, was under threat.
Under threat?
It was a hard decision to take.
We took it very seriously after a lot of hard work, after a lot of careful deliberation.
We were convinced at the time.
I was convinced at the time.
It was the right thing to do.
It was the necessary thing to do.
I remain and we remain convinced of that.
So, she says it was necessary, there was a national emergency.
That's actually the part that is most damning, as there were issues in Ottawa, but no way was there a national emergency.
And in terms of the justifiability, Andrew, you'll recall that there was a lot of talk about the CSIS definition of a national threat to security.
And what's interesting is the judge found it doesn't actually matter whether or not CSIS said that there was a national security threat or not.
I mean, that should be given weight.
It's something to actually consider, but it's not the sole reason to invoke it.
So you might say, well, then why did he say they were unjustified?
And again, Andrew, I've only read parts of it, but from what I gather, It really comes down to this was not a national emergency.
That the police and the provincial authorities in different regions, whether we're talking about Alberta and Cootes or whether we're talking about Quebec or Windsor, they were able to deal with the problem at hand.
But really the problem was Ottawa.
And that means it wasn't a national emergency.
And he talks as well about some of the financial penalties they brought in in terms of seizing and freezing bank accounts.
Because that affected people beyond just the people they were trying to affect, that itself was an overstep.
But he does say that the cabinet had the right and the power to invoke in terms of that is within their power, but they did not have the justification.
It was an unreasonable...
Yeah, I got it.
Then again, so what?
Well, you said yourself to our friendly Canadians of Grime-erica is that they're good at complaining and maybe they'll complain enough.
Yes, I did bring up that passage.
When they complain, and they keep complaining, you know, that's very offensive.
They're complaining about me.
Well, just for people who don't know, I was on Grand American.
I have a thesis about the American Revolution.
The difference between the Canadians and the United States, when they were both run by Britain, is that we had an armed revolution.
We're a violent folk.
The Canadians never did.
They never had an armed revolution.
They just complained.
And they complained and complained.
And they kind of know they're really good at complaining.
Yeah, it works.
And it does work.
It does work.
It's different.
It's a different approach than our approach, which is to shoot someone.
So while we're in the season of reveal, now we know, okay, so that was bogus.
Our trucker thing, this 700,000 trucks is a bogus.
I don't understand why any trucker would go down to Texas.
You have to, the vibe in Texas is we're going to get them.
I mean, people are spun up.
Seriously, they're spun up.
Yeah, we're not gonna stand for it.
I pray that everything goes okay down there.
It won't take much.
Just look at the videos on TikTok and YouTube and everyone's racking up their guns and getting ready.
It's like, oh, God, please.
It's not worth it.
Not this.
This is not the battleground.
I think Abbott went too far.
Yeah, and it's not even him, it's just all the media and all that's speeding up.
All these other organizations like this other sketchy operation.
Sketchy?
Say, the Borders Org or whatever it is.
Yeah!
You have to wonder what's going on.
That's why I wouldn't go to the border in a million years.
We have boots on the ground.
But seriously, three miles away from Eagle Pass, people are walking across the border!
Hello, I'm in.
This is a stage.
In fact, there was a guy on one of the TV networks that was just walking back and forth across the border.
I'm in the United States!
I'm in Mexico!
I'm in the United States!
I'm in Mexico!
I'm in the United States!
I'm in Mexico!
I'm in the United States!
I'm in Mexico!
I'm in the United States!
I'm in Mexico!
I'm in the United States!
I'm in Mexico!
I'm I have a series of TikTok videos.
All righty then!
About the Gen Z. The Gen Z's who don't want to work.
Now I have... Can I play the jingle first?
and play the jingle just so we feel good about it talk talk talk talk now i have a different ways of looking at this and i i've got one clip that'll kind of push it over to one side but there are rational reasons that and i've and i've seen these videos why these kids don't want to work because it's like they're being exploited yeah the the minimum wage isn't what it should be
it's 40 below what it should be on and on they they You see a lot of it.
I'm taking more of the critical side of this, because I think that's always more beneficial if people can take criticism, even though these folks apparently can't.
I want to play a few of these.
I have quite a few, actually.
But they're entertaining.
I want to start with the Gen Z dude who's quitting.
Here's why I'm quitting my first full-time job.
For one, we have to go into the office every day.
I have to wake up at 8 so I can get into the office by 9.
Sometimes even earlier.
Two, people always are telling me what to do.
That's not how I roll.
Just because you're in a position above me doesn't mean you can tell me what to do.
Okay?
And three, I'm not getting paid over $100K.
Yes, this is my first full-time job.
But also, I know my worth.
And it's well over $100K.
And I'm not getting that.
So, I'm excited to announce that I'm quitting and pursuing full-time social media influencer.
Brands, if you would like to work with me, please hit me up.
Thank you!
Well, this is a loaded clip.
Yes, of course.
This is Noodle Boy Part 2, more or less.
And this guy is just so full of himself, and he's going to be an influencer.
Okay, sure.
Which is the number one dream job of most young people.
Yeah.
Well, it is a dream job, because if you were an influencer, you could actually pull it off, which is rare.
You can make a million dollars a year.
Yeah.
Easy.
For a while.
Yeah, it's not forever.
As long as you feed the algos.
I do want to get to the classic though.
I should have played this one first.
This is the one, this woman, the nine to five gal is the clip.
She is the one that set a lot of this off.
Articles were written about her.
There's at least 10 clips of her apologizing for one thing or another.
And then she finally ended up quitting her job and she's got a clip of that.
But this is the original clip that got everything started insofar as the Gen Z's being condemned by other people.
I know I'm probably just being so dramatic and annoying, but this is my first job, like my first 9-to-5 job after college, and I am in person, and I'm commuting in the city, and it takes me fucking forever to get there.
There's no way I'm gonna be able to afford living in the city right now, so that's off the table, like fucking duh!
If I was able to walk to work and it would be fine, but I'm not so it literally takes me like I leave here like I get on the train at 7 30 and I don't get home till like 6 15 earliest and then like I don't have time to do anything I don't I want to shower eat my dinner and go to sleep I don't have time or energy to cook by dinner either like I don't have energy to work out like that's out the window like I I'm so upset!
Oh my god!
Nothing to do with my job at all, but just like the 9 to 5 schedule in general is crazy!
Being in the office 9 to 5, like if it was remote you get off at 5 and you're home and everything's fine, but like I'm not home.
It takes me long to get home and like...
like people that drive to the office like it doesn't you don't get off at five and I know it could be worse I know I could be working longer but like I literally get off it's pitch black like I don't have energy how do you have friends like how do you have time to like meet like a guy I don't know like how do you have time for like dating like I don't have time for anything and I'm like so stressed out and I'm also getting my period so that's why I'm all emotional but like am I so dramatic it's fine
I think there's a couple of things at play here.
First and foremost, without a doubt, wages are too low for inflation and it is very difficult to make ends meet.
Just for the basics.
Which now, of course, these children are being pushed towards, yeah, we should have universal basic income.
Note the basic word.
Two, there was, you cannot discount several years of work at home, which is quite preferable to, I guess, everybody.
Oh, work at home, that's much better.
Yeah, well, she said herself, you know, when you work at home, it's 5 o'clock.
And by the way, one of the things, I don't have any clips exemplifying this, but all the Gen Z'ers supposedly, literally stop, maybe I do have one, stop at 5 o'clock, computers off, they're out the door.
John, we saw that 15 years ago at Mevio.
5 o'clock, everyone, pack up the bag, 5.05, everyone's gone.
Yeah, poof.
And that is just a general, we saw during this show, we have seen this take place, we saw the pussification, we saw the pandering, we saw, and this is part of the, I know it sounds boomerish, even though I'm Gen X, the voice of Gen X, And the face and the hair.
The hair of Gen X. I was the hair of Gen X. We saw the participation trophies.
And just to insert a quick clip into your clips, now we have at airports, multiple airports around the United States, the Sunflower Lane.
Have you heard of the Sunflower Lane?
Uh, no.
If you display... Already it sounds bad.
If you display the sunflower symbol, which you can get at the airport, there's a special lane in case you're, you know, autistic or triggered.
Some passengers at Gerald R. Ford International Airport may soon be sporting a bright yellow sunflower.
It's part of a program to identify those who may need extra assistance.
It's part of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program.
That means airport staff will be trained to recognize a sunflower symbol and provide assistance and accommodation as needed.
The sunflower item can be found at the airport's visitor information desk and security screening checkpoint.
Hidden disabilities are physical or mental impairments that others may not be able to see, like learning disabilities, diabetes or epilepsy.
Ford Airport joins over 232 other airports around the world aiming to make travel more inclusive and accessible for all.
432 airports for if you have learning disabilities.
Come on!
Wow, this cropped up overnight.
I wonder who's behind it.
That's worth looking into.
Yeah, it just popped up for me this morning.
And I saw an article and someone sent me, no, someone sent me a note about it.
And you know, that it was for people who have autism, hidden disabilities.
Hey, When I was a kid, blind people went through the airport!
Talk about a disability!
They didn't get a special line?
But now it's like, oh, I have a learning disability.
Oh, you can't learn to stand in line.
No, I can't.
I can't deal with a line.
I can't deal with people in the line.
All right, back to your TikToks.
That's interesting.
Yeah, I can't deal with people.
I can't stay in line.
You can't stay in line.
What is happening?
You know what it is?
It is food starvation.
They have no nutrition.
They're eating bad food and their brand... Idiocracy is nearby.
It's coming.
Here we go to a British A black British girl who is Gen Z, and here's her lament.
Gen Z won't apply to jobs.
Gen Z won't put up with this.
And all I can think is, great!
I am so glad that people born 1997 and on have some sense not to be exploited.
There's never a reason that we shouldn't be offering salary ranges on jobs.
I genuinely wonder what companies think jobs are for.
I would never apply to something if I don't know that they're going to provide me with a wage that I deserve.
And that's especially true as a black woman, where I know I am much more likely to not be compensated at the same rate as my white co-workers.
And Gen Z Care about equity and diversity.
It is a core principle for a majority of the generation.
So, when we're talking about Gen Z changing things up in the workplace, wanting work from home, wanting to know how much they will get paid, all I can think is, great, let's do more of this.
And we have the Get What I Deserve meme, which is $100,000.
I understand the disappointment because I have children with this disappointment.
I'm working at a restaurant, but I went to college and I got a degree.
And that was kind of the promise is, you know, don't worry, you know, and that just did not happen.
Who made the promise?
I was promised.
Who was promised?
Who promised him?
Society.
Oh, society.
Well, if it was a person promising you, I could see that you'd have a complaint, but society can't make promises, I should mention.
You don't have to convince me.
By the way, back in my day, At MTV, I think the 1987-88 interest rates were high.
I would say they were in the 9-10 percent.
9, I think.
9 or 10 percent.
New York was in shambles.
MTV paid, it was non-union.
If you were an associate producer, An AP, which is kind of, you know, you run scripts around and you get coffee.
Gopher.
No, it's above Gopher.
It's an actual title.
It's what Brunetti says.
But, you know, Brunetti's not old enough to know what I'm talking about.
And you had a path.
There was a path to go from AP to P. You could become a producer.
These kids lived for, in a house, in Brooklyn, which at the time, Brooklyn was Brooklyn!
It was not, it was not, yeah, it was not, and they had massive commutes to get into the city, and they were happy!
I mean, yeah, and they got by, and they worked, and they were the first to be there, and the last to leave, because I can become a P!
I can be a producer!
If I keep at it.
And then I've seen many of them go on to... I see Joey the Horse DeMaio.
I see him on credit roll of big award shows as the director.
Used to get coffee.
But he grinded, you know?
That's what's gone, and I'm not quite sure how... I think you're right.
That's definitely what's missing.
Yeah.
And I think it has to do with the educational system and the so-called promise from the society.
That, yes.
I do have a two-parter here.
Before we get to the one that's going to be the end, it's going to be the hiring managers, which is going to be some people actually talking about this.
But this is a two-parter from a long clip.
It's an ex-Gen lament and it's a bunch of Gen Zers talking socialism and universal basic income.
This was actually put aside for the universal basic income discussion.
Yes.
And it's a bunch of different people coming in and out.
And it's got a music bed, I'm sorry.
But it at least shows you some of the other element at play here.
Because that last girl who was a black woman who's saying, we're into equity.
In other words, we're into, you know, everyone should get $100,000 a year just because they're good people.
So let's start with this.
Listen to this.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the majority of your struggles are because of capitalism.
Having to spend the majority of your life in forced labor because getting your physiological needs met is gatekept behind a paywall is not how humans should be living their lives.
Humans really have to pay money to stay alive.
We have to pay for food.
We have to pay for water.
We have to pay for shelter.
The universe put us on Earth, a planet that has everything humans need to survive, and yet we've evolved to the point where we have to pay money to stay alive.
And we're working 40 to 60 hours a week, like, on average, and we cannot afford to live.
Like, we just do not make enough.
To pay rent, to pay for food.
Everything is so expensive right now and wages are not keeping up with the cost of living.
And I think to myself, is it depression or is it just the reality we're living in?
And accept.
Oh yeah, I've seen this.
Is it depression?
Well, part of it is economic depression, yes.
Yeah, a little bit.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, this is spotty.
But this is the idea that you're a human, so you deserve free shelter, free food.
Well, and remember, Andrew Yang propagated this.
Andrew Yang, the UBI, this has been propagated by many politicians.
This is out there, and it's being dangled.
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we need the basics.
We have rights.
We have human rights for food, clothing, shelter, and we should get that for free.
That should be the basics, and then when we work, we get to party!
Where Valerie Gale Clark Curry would say, Adam Clark Curry, life is unfair.
It was harsh, but it was said to me many, many times.
There's just something very unnatural about being in this world.
The fact that we have to pay to live, you know, pay to have health insurance, pay to eat and drink.
Like, money is so fucking important.
Why do we put so much power into a piece of paper and cotton?
Is it depression, or is it the fact that our government is more aligned with corporate profit than human lives?
Our government keeps us in a perpetual cycle of struggling and suffering that most people can't even pay attention to anything outside of their own communities, let alone what is happening in the world.
Is it depression, or is it the culture of our country that if you can't get ahead, you're just not working hard enough?
There is no reward for hardworking people anymore.
I don't want to work anymore.
Lookit, what is the point?
You cannot get ahead.
Is it depression?
Or do I just need to work harder?
I have three jobs.
And I'm still fucking struggling.
And I'm just getting myself farther and farther into credit card debt because I don't have enough.
To avoid using it.
I feel like I'm drowning.
Is it depression or are we just being priced out of existence?
Food, water, housing, healthcare.
Everyone should have access to them.
Shouldn't matter your social economic class.
Shouldn't matter your sex, gender, racial identity.
They are basic human necessities.
No one should go without.
So what is it?
Is it depression?
Or is it just living in America?
There's one thing about the visual of this clip, which I did see, and you can't really know for sure, but it looked like everyone in their car had a pretty nice car.
Yeah, I noticed.
You see that a lot, by the way.
My first car, I was on television.
I was making 19,000 guilders a year on television, which at the time was $8,000, I think.
Of course, it was Dutch socialist country.
My first car was a Lancia.
An old Lancia with the paint was all off and scraped off it.
And the wheel literally flew off while I was driving it to work one day.
You know, it's like that we had crap cars, we worked on them ourselves.
As you can tell, that's where my wheel fell off because I didn't tighten it.
But you know, it's like, Yeah, we used to work on cars, too.
Yeah, we used to work on our own cars.
We used to tune them, tune your own car.
We had the gun, the strobe light, and you would tune the car.
Can I just insert a little anecdote, because this is certainly not... Well, before you do that, I just want to mention that last clip, when that woman was reading her laundry list, she said she used the term racial identity.
Yes.
So you can just, it's just that, like, self-identify as anything you want?
Well, of course you can.
Including a victim.
So, I had not flown since we flew to Nashville, after the show, and part of the reason why, taking flying lessons, I'm going for my instrument rating, is expensive, but Amy Lynn, who was my instructor, 24 years old, she put herself through American Airlines Academy, took out a loan for I think $15,000, And, uh, and she, the timing was perfect.
She got hired immediately at, uh, uh, at a regional airline.
So boom, she was gone.
So I really wanted to make this flight so we could be back for the show and, you know, then have at least two nights with my buddy, Viko, you know, I've known for 35 years in Dallas.
And, uh, so the new instructor, Nick, Nick is 27, similar story, took out loans because he wanted to be a pilot, took out loans.
Put himself through flight school, 27, has a two-week-old baby.
His wife is now at home with the baby.
He is going to work for one year, then he can move back up to Dallas, get his ATP, his air transport license, so he can fly on jets.
He sees a future.
Of course, there is a future right now.
And, you know, and he's, you know, I'm not on social... He doesn't know who I am, of course.
He's like, you're on MTV?
You mean back when they played music?
I said, yeah, back in those days.
Um, listens to maybe one podcast from time to time.
Uh, is not on social media.
He says, I like reading books.
I'm just saying this is not par for the course for everybody, but I was delighted and very, very pleased with my instructor, the young future of America.
It is here.
It is here.
That's probably true, but that's not what we do on this show.
But he's not on TikTok, so that doesn't count.
So we're gonna go to the last clip in the series, which is, these are, this is a radio talk, like a morning zoo show, on one of the radio stations, and they're reading and discussing, yeah, everything's, you got everything right.
I'm ready, I'm ready.
They're discussing what hiring managers have kind of uncovered about Gen Z, and I thought this was a good way to wrap up this series of complainers.
600 hiring managers were part of this survey and they were asked about Gen Z employees.
Well, more than half say recent college graduates are not prepared for the workforce.
53% said young applicants struggle to make eye contact during job interviews.
50% say they're asking for unreasonable compensation.
Nearly half say the interviewees showed up wearing inappropriate attire.
21% refused to turn their cameras on for virtual interviews and 1 in 5 employers say a recent college graduate had actually brought their mom or dad to the job interview.
People are bringing their parents to a job interview?
That's embarrassing.
I thought you were going to say when it came to the camera and you know the virtual interviews that they were using those filters like with the dog ears and stuff like that.
You can see that happening, too.
Now, those Gen Z-ers lucky enough to get the job are not starting off on the right foot.
63% of employers say young professionals can't manage their workload.
59% say they miss deadlines often.
And 53% report they're frequently late to meetings.
And Gen Z has a bad attitude, too.
58% of employers say the young job seekers get too easily offended.
Imagine that.
55% find they don't respond well to constructive feedback and 52% claim they have poor communication skills.
So that girl better adjust her attitude and learn how to dress for work and not bring mom and dad to an interview when she has an opportunity for a better job.
I think we should just change their names from a Jen to just Sunflower Kids.
They're the Sunflower Kids.
They're the ones that need to go through the special line at the airport.
They're the Sunflower Kids.
And it's really, if we want to place blame on immigration, it's their fault.
That's why we have to bring in young... I have to assume that that's true.
The good news is that... Young men who want to work.
The good news is that even though it's a minority, a lot of reporting that came in, because it's 52%, 58%, 63%.
If somebody says 70% say this, that means 30% are getting good people.
I mean, it's not as though Gen Z is a bunch of bad apples from beginning to end because there's some that were brought up.
Correctly, and they somehow got jobs maybe in the family store, or they worked during the summers.
Because when I was a kid, I worked during the summers when I was in high school and college.
Yes, and when I was 16, Saturday job.
You have a Saturday job.
Yeah, I had two paper routes.
Yeah, I had the paper route too.
I had two paper routes.
Okay, you're a bully for you.
Yeah, I had a shopper route, which is the money maker, don't kid yourself.
Once a week, it was free money.
So anyway, the thing is...
I have run into kids who I give the same thing.
Yeah, maybe I did this and that when I was a kid.
And they say there's no opportunity for us because they've and I agree with these kids who say that because we moved all our manufacturing to China and Mexico and there's a lot of word Areas that used to be rife with the industry or got nothing left except, you know, some storage facilities or store more, you know, your place where you could put your stuff because you got too much.
So the problem is systemic.
But these kids have got to get a clue.
The Sunflower Kids.
That's what I'm going to call them from now on.
The Sunflower Kids.
So, of course, This comes from, and I'm guilty of this too, you know, helping your kids out.
Man, Tina's a hard ass.
She's like, that's it.
You're not getting any more.
Figure it out.
Ooh.
Um, which is what you need to do.
You know, tough love.
Hey, you can't pay your rent.
You got to find a cheaper place or, or get another roommate.
I mean, they get another roommate.
That's what we used to do.
So it is also parents for, I will say though, even if you listen to no agenda stream, We've got the MMO, the Millennial Media Offensive.
We got good kids out there.
I would say that most of our producers have great kids.
You meet them at meetups, they're go-getters, they're out there, they're doing stuff.
This is not our norm.
Let's put it that way.
Thank God.
No, it's just, I'm guessing it's just, it's not a hundred percent, but there's a majority of Gen Z kids that are like the ones that we don't see on TikTok.
Sunflower kids.
Sunflower kids.
Well, then there's this.
This is not helping much up the road from you in Oakland.
It's just kind of scary in general.
Not even just to go to work, but just kind of coming outside.
Ariel Crenshaw works for Kaiser Permanente, Oakland's largest private employer.
The health plan has directed workers in Oakland to stay in their offices for work and lunch because of concerns over crime.
Workers are being told to bring their own food or have it delivered.
I do agree.
Why?
Because there's safety for their employees.
You know, if you can work at home, work at home.
If you have to come in, just be safe about it.
In a memo issued last month and obtained by KTVU, Kaiser also tells workers not based in Oakland don't have any meetings downtown, move them elsewhere, or have them online.
It also says the Claremont Hotel in the Hills is the only hotel approved for business lodging.
In a statement, Kaiser said in part, those recommendations remain in place for now.
Kaiser Permanente is committed to ensuring the safety and security of our employees and physicians across all of our locations.
We continually monitor our environments for concerns, review our practices and strengthen them whenever possible.
Many downtown merchants and other people who live and work in the area are taking issue with these directives.
I mean, it is a little upsetting to hear that, you know, because, you know, everyone's trying to thrive, everyone's trying to, you know, make business, you know, it is pretty slow as it is.
I don't think you want to discourage people from walking around and kind of give in to the bad elements that are running around.
I think, I think quite the opposite.
I think if there are more people on the streets, there will be less incidences.
Yeah, we need better examples than what's on TikTok, you know?
We need better examples of people who, who grind.
Go grind!
That's what used to be the American dream.
I'm old now.
Of course, a lot of jobs, a lot of cushy jobs.
By the way, I thought Foley sent me that clip exclusively.
Oh, I must have picked it up from somewhere else.
I didn't get it from Foley.
I don't think so.
I don't remember.
There was also, and this really stems from the dot-com bubble days, as you know, there were some reboots and we got this enormous, true bubble of quote-unquote journalism.
Journalists, journalism, which somehow includes BuzzFeed.
And here is millennial extraordinaire Taylor Lorenz lamenting the news business.
The entire journalism industry is basically in a freefall.
Today the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees.
They wiped out their entire DC bureau in an election year.
They laid off pretty much all of their sports teams, they killed their entire tech and business section, they laid off breaking news writers, social media editors, the list goes on.
But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry.
In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year.
Major media companies like BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news operations.
Time Magazine also just laid off a ton of people, and oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down last week.
Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out.
And it's not just digital media sites.
Local news has been obliterated.
The newspaper industry is cratering.
Radio is essentially dead, aside from NPR, which has been gutted.
Meanwhile, hundreds of workers at Condé Nast, the parent company of pretty much every major magazine from GQ to Vogue to The New Yorker to Vanity Fair, are on strike because they're also facing impending layoffs.
Even mainstream national media outlets owned by billionaires like the Washington Post, where I work, and the Atlantic, where I used to work, have done layoffs.
If you're a young journalist today, there's almost no on-ramp to traditional journalism.
Even if you do get a job, journalists' salaries have been stagnant and even declined.
And by the way, we don't make that much to begin with.
I don't think people understand how bad the world would be without journalists.
Journalists.
Just as a backup to that report from her, which was pretty concise, I have to say.
Here's the print media declined PBS report from the same, probably about the same time that she did that.
You know, Anne-Marie, as much as it pains me to say this, the story of print media is in so many ways a story of decline.
Sports Illustrated, which was once considered the standard of sports journalism today, announced they're going to lay off most of their staff.
You work in this space.
Is there anything that is working?
What's the story of reinvention for print media?
Is it the non-profit model that Evan Smith is championing with the Texas Tribune?
The Texas Tribune is a good example.
It's had some financial challenges, but they've done incredible work on a different model.
We have seen in the past handful of months this initiative called Press Forward, which is $500 million being committed across, I think, 22 donors, foundations, and individuals.
to support a local news initiative in markets across the country.
We have a lot of people living in news deserts now in this country, and this is an effort to try to return local news to a lot of those communities, strengthen it in places where there are maybe fledgling efforts.
Baltimore is another good example of that, the Baltimore banner.
If the Baltimore Sun is disappointing you, you should be supporting this new effort, which is a startup, which is being run in part by a lot of alumni from The Baltimore Sun.
Look, in my perfect world, they both thrive.
But if one model isn't working, we have to be experimenting with some others.
And a lot of those are not-for-profit models.
Blogger!
News is worthless.
News is news.
News just is news.
It's opinion that you're talking about.
Opinion and insight.
And yeah, that's right, it doesn't work with advertising and, you know, whatever.
I want to get back to that in a moment.
I want to take a little sidestep because the young kids in the United Kingdom are freaking out.
And I have three clips to show what this is really about, but they're freaking out because the army chief came out with a statement and said, uh-oh, prepare for war!
There will be conscription!
Which is fancy English for the draft.
And they're all, I didn't get any TikTok clips, but they're all, oh, they're not going to draft me, I'm not going to be in the army, I'm not going to fight anybody, I'm not going to, oh no, I'm not going to prepare for war!
Now, sticking with the United States, actually, they're going to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years, and that's down to tensions escalating with Russia.
Pentagon documents have revealed that RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk would host the warheads that are reportedly three times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb.
Well this comes as Boris Johnson has vowed he would fight for his country if the UK goes to war.
Now, let's listen to Boris Johnson, who is very gaunt-looking these days, no doubt from the Ozempic that he tried, and he's really just promoting his column.
Lance Corporal Johnson reporting for duty and responding to the appeal from General Sanders for a citizen army and encouraging young people across the country to think of the attractions and advantages of some kind of military training or service.
Because at the moment they think it's either uncool or unethical or perhaps they're not following General Sanders, they're following Colonel Sanders.
So let's find out what this was really about as we have Sky News with a relatively serious sit-down interview with the former Minister of Defence in the UK.
Lucky to have Tobias Elwood with us this morning.
It's good to see you.
Very serendipitous because somebody who you'll know well, General Sir Patrick Saunders, I'm not sure if you served with him, but certainly you did.
So he's suggesting, reading between the lines in the Telegraph today, that if we go to war with Russia, we could find that our youth may have to be conscripted.
That's a bit alarming.
Yes.
Head of the British Army, one of the most cerebral thinkers that we've got, a strategist.
We need to listen and listen carefully.
We've been too complacent.
I think I've said this many times with you.
What's coming over the horizon should shock us.
It should worry us.
And we are not We've had a couple of decades, three decades or so since the Cold War.
Life has gone well.
It's now going to get more difficult as authoritarian states exploit our timidity, our perhaps reluctance to really put fires out.
And the best example of that is a democracy on the corner of Eastern Europe that in its third year is now in conflict and we've not resolved that.
So, Patrick Saunders is saying, prepare for what's coming over the horizon.
There is a 1939 feel to the world right now.
These authoritarian states are rearming.
There's a risk averseness about the West in wanting to deal with that.
And global institutions such as the United Nations aren't able to hold these errant nations to account.
In fact, the UN, I'll go further, is reaching its League of Nations moment, unless it's reformed.
That's where the world is heading.
We need to wake up to that.
There's a mindset now of this era of insecurity that we're heading towards, but we're still on a peacetime defence budget of just 2%.
That does need to change.
And the Red Sea is a great example that if you don't step forward, if you're not robust in dealing with those that are testing the envelope, our weakness will be exploited and it will affect our economy.
More money!
We need more money for weapons!
That's what this is all about.
Yeah, more money to squander.
Actually, to put in people's pockets.
Half this money is not... There's report after report coming out that if, you know, maybe 40% of the money is actually going to where it's supposed to go and the rest of it's just being squandered or pocketed or goes through corrupt channels.
I mean...
Can we do something about this before we start just throwing more money at stuff?
Can we?
I mean, it's not impossible.
Ukraine says it uncovered mass fraud in weapons procurement.
Oh, you don't say, report from Reuters.
Wow.
Wow, really?
Oh, that's a surprise.
Now back to the news business.
I believe part of, first of all, Way too much.
There was just free money.
We just have to live with that.
There was free money for how many years?
12 years.
0% interest.
That's free money.
Free money.
That's why everyone was investing.
The only ones, in my opinion, who did it smart in the news business, the New York Times, because they took that free money and bought games.
Brought non-news products.
Yes, which is, you know, the Tiffany Network, CBS, they would always say, news is a lost leader.
And we make it up, we invest in our news to bring you news, so that's part of our service.
Yeah, it's just to get you in the door.
Yeah, but, you know, news by itself has never been a profitable business.
You either buy a newspaper to propagandize for your own, for your own means, for your own business, or whatever you want to use it for.
That's why billionaires have always owned, rich men particularly, have owned publications.
It's just, it's not a business.
But now we, oh, we had the internet and all these ideas, and so now that has to be thinned out.
They've got to go away.
And luckily, we bring in Something called AI, which even though it's sad, that will be your news, your news, actually, not your opinion and your insight and your, you know, analysis, but news will just be brought to you by AI.
That's why they're getting rid of a whole bunch of people.
And I think when it comes to AI, we had an event take place, something is on the horizon.
I have said that this AI stuff The way it's going to be used is something's going to come out and we need to flood the market with thinking like, oh, that's just AI.
Yeah, no, that's not real.
That's just AI.
And this is part of the SWIFT op.
Now, a disturbing trend on social media struck one of the world's biggest stars this week when explicit AI generated images of Taylor Swift began to circulate on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Taylor Swift's fans, or Swifties, rallied to flood the platform with posts and drown out the so-called deepfakes.
The incident has led to renewed calls by politicians in the US for legislation to clamp down on these AI-generated fakes.
Now, so first of all, it's X. Now, Elon Musk is great at making money from the government, so I wouldn't put it past him that somehow he's involved in this op.
But all of a sudden, oh, oh, Taylor Swift, there's pornographic images of her head on porn bodies.
And I did some research.
This has been going on for a long time with Taylor Swift.
Oh, by the way, yes.
For a long time.
You could do this with Photoshop.
Anytime you want.
I mean, it's maybe not as fast as the AI is a little quicker, if it works.
If it doesn't work, it's not.
But this is the invention of Photoshop, or even before that, with guys who knew how to do photo editing by cutting the little head out of a photo itself and gluing on something else.
This is nothing new.
This is nothing new at all.
No, but what I think is happening, and I have a piece of Jean-Claude Van Damme Pierre, With the question that was asked about this, because the White House is concerned!
Why is the White House concerned?
Something's coming out.
It's going to be some nasty images from somebody who needs to be able to say, that's AI.
Listen to the setup question.
Listen to her answer it.
There were fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift all over social media this week, like generated by AI.
How concerned is the White House about the misuse of this kind of technology?
And does the White House want to see Congress move forward on legislation that would make sharing, posting images like that, a federal crime?
So, I'm glad you asked that question because it is a lot... No.
First of all, all these questions are approved before the press conference.
So for Jean-Pierre Van Damme to say, I'm glad you asked that question.
This was a set-up question.
This was known.
She knew this question was coming.
It was probably... Could you please ask about the images?
She could have written a question for all we know.
And so all of a sudden now we need legislation against this?
No.
No, no, no.
Something's coming that is going to be highly embarrassing to somebody important.
Legislation that would make sharing, posting images like that a federal crime.
So, I'm glad you asked that question because it is alarming.
We are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of images that you just laid out.
False images, to be more exact, and it is alarming.
So, while social media companies make false images, there's images of me holding up an Israeli flag.
Oh, it's alarming. it's alarming.
So the President is committed, as you know, to ensuring we reduce the risk of generative AI producing images like through his latest executive order that we announced just in the fall of last year.
She's reading the script here.
So this problem is not new, and it's one that the Biden-Harris administration has been prioritizing since day one.
We have taken this very seriously.
Again, this is alarming to us.
As you know, he launched a task force to address online harassment and abuse, and he did that just this fall.
The Department of Justice launched the first national 24-7 helpline for survivors of image-based sexual abuse.
And so our commitment, and that we will continue to do and continue to take action, Alarming!
and make sure that we continue to work on this.
And again, this is very alarming.
Alarming!
We're going to do what we can to deal with this issue.
This has been going on for decades.
This is not new and alarming.
First, I'm thinking, who could it be?
I'm thinking Kamala.
Well...
There may be pictures of Kamala.
Oh, yeah, because she was notorious, actually, for having...
Heels, not a hair.
Yeah, I can even name the guy that she'd be seen with.
Heels High Harris.
We all know her nickname in Washington, D.C.
So, I just want to point out that when she says, if you notice in the past that you ever heard...
I think when Kelly McEnany, whoever was running the Trump, when she was the press secretary, she never said the Trump-Pence presidency.
No.
I don't remember anyone saying the Obama-Biden presidency except Biden when he was running.
Yep.
But this woman consistently says the Biden-Harris presidency and she did it in that clip.
That's what tipped me off.
Yes, that would be the lead.
So they got Harris mentioned a lot.
Maybe it could be some fully baloney pictures of Harris.
I think they still would like to run her.
Maybe it's a way to get her off the track.
There's a lot of possibilities here you could do.
I'll be honest with you.
The first thought was, oh my god, they've got pictures of Big Mike.
We need to say that's AI.
That was my first thought.
Because that would be where you need it.
But then I got this clip of Larry Elder on the Pool Boy Show, and he says no to Big Mike, he says Kamala all the way.
Here's the deal.
The reason Joe Biden is not going anywhere, if you can fog up a mirror, is because the next person in line is not Gavin Newsom, it's not Michelle Obama, it's Kamala Harris.
She wants to be president.
I read a lot of black media and they feel she's being picked on for her so-called cackle.
They feel that Joe Biden has given her thankless tasks like getting to the bottom of the root causes of illegal immigration.
And black women are the most loyal part of the Democratic base.
And they will be furious if she's drop kicked for anybody other than a Michelle Obama.
And Michelle Obama does not want the job.
She wants to be loved.
She wants to be liked.
There's nothing that suggests to me that she has the temperament, does not have the temperament to be a politician.
She complained for eight years about what it was like to be in a fishbowl of being first lady.
What makes you think she wants to be a politician?
And if Michelle Kamala Harris has a dropkick for some white dude like Mayor Pete or Gavin Newsom, they will be livid.
They won't vote Republican.
They just won't vote at all.
They're by guaranteeing whoever we nominate will win.
They won't do that.
You live with the identity race card, you die with it.
And that's why she's there.
She got picked because she's a black female.
She's still a black female.
By the way, she wanted to run for president.
She did run.
And tell her to step aside from Michelle Obama, even if Michelle Obama announced.
Kamala ran for DA of San Francisco, she got elected.
She ran for AG of California, got elected and re-elected.
She ran for US Senator, got elected.
And she's on the card with Joe Biden, got elected.
She's never lost an election when she's been on the ticket.
And there's nothing at all that suggests to me that she's gonna, oh my god, I'm incompetent, I'll step aside for Michelle Obama.
Oh my god, I'm incompetent, I'll step aside for Gavin Neumann.
Not gonna happen.
I like Larry Elder's theory there.
Yep, I think he nailed it.
And then add to that this women, particularly women, girls, you know, I think there's a picture out there.
There's more than one probably.
They've got to say this is AI.
Because it's just fun.
Why would Willie Brown sabotage?
Does he have reason?
I don't know that he would.
Although maybe he would.
I think it's out there.
Because Willie Brown's a male.
Yeah.
And he would probably think that Gavin Newsom would be a better president than Kamala.
And he knew that he had a lot to do with Kamala's getting up to where she got.
Is he still alive?
Willie Brown?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, he still floats around.
Every once in a while you hear from him.
He may even have a podcast.
But Willie Brown would be...
I wouldn't put him past him.
He was probably one of the greatest politicians in the history of California.
A black guy who could make everything happen.
Just one last story on AI.
I'm a big George Carlin fan, such a big fan that you even made a compilation for me because you have it.
You have almost everything George Carlin.
It was neatly organized.
You sent it on a thumb drive for me.
I just have his discography.
You have all his stuff.
It's great.
It's hard to get.
It's beautiful.
It's a very, very nice collection.
And so George Carlin's estate sued this dude over a so-called comedy special that was AI generated.
And people sent this to me like, oh, you think AI is no good?
Look at this.
It wrote the script.
I don't I don't think it wrote the script.
It did the voice.
And look at it.
No, no.
Comedy can only come from humans.
It can't come from AI.
And I want to play 50 seconds of this comedy special.
Maybe if he had played it in front of a live audience and had real laughter, which there probably wouldn't have been much of.
So I haven't seen this, this entire thing.
Oh good.
I know about it, and I just have never followed up.
Because I know what it's going to be.
It's not that interesting.
50 seconds.
Well, it doesn't even sound like him.
Well, they have a little bit of it, but no, it doesn't really sound like him.
I mean, I can hear an attempt, but it sounds like somebody else that just coincidentally sounds a little bit like Carlin.
is what it sounds like. - Intelligence.
Stand-up comedy.
I know what all the stand-up comics across the globe are saying right now.
I'm an artist and my art form is too creative, too nuanced, too subtle to be replicated by a machine.
No computer program can tell a fart joke as good as me.
Well, let's see.
This is just off the top of my artificially intelligent head.
A fart was in the middle of a very nasty divorce, so she went to her sister's house and she asked her sister, Do you think I'm doing the right thing by getting divorced?
And her sister said, He's been holding you back for too long.
You have to leave that asshole!
Your votes, please.
Holy moly, that's terrible.
And by the way, Carlin wasn't a joke teller.
No.
I mean, maybe early in his career he did some jokes, but so that's a joke, literally.
I don't know how the A.I.
came up with that idea.
He was an observational comic, very much different, and also used to get into the weeds with vocabulary.
And that doesn't sound anything like him.
I know.
But when it first came out, people said, oh, this is great.
I watched the whole thing.
I mean, it had, within 20 minutes, you know, there's certain things.
And that canned laughter is not even close to being well done.
That really kills it.
That really kills it.
It does.
So, but I still say that the best is when AI is used by comedians.
And, you know, when we have funny stuff that they make, funny videos, funny memes, dare I say it.
I know, I know, crazy.
Go crazy.
Well, when creative people get a hold of AI, they can do things.
Yeah, it's a tool for creative people, sure.
Yeah, that's why Comet Strip Blogger all of a sudden is a great artist.
He's certainly trying.
It's never quite... sometimes it hits the mark.
But he's gone from his kind of...
Interesting, but very soulful material that he used to do to stuff that is extremely slick.
Yeah, it's too slick.
A lot of stuff's too slick, but it's an interesting change of style that is noteworthy to me.
I would like to remind people at this moment that this is a Value for Value podcast.
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But then we had one donor come in to save the day.
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There's a lot going on with the No Agenda Nation.
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A good example of time and talent, which boosts on the ground, and I was not aware of this, Tracy sent me a note, says, Adam, a number of my family members saw a show on PBS called Nazi Town USA, which I was unaware of.
It came out a couple days ago.
Is the masterpiece.
This is the American Experience Show about the boons.
Yes.
Yes.
This show, I would, I didn't take any clips from it, but I could have.
I have a trailer.
I have a trailer.
Well let me just, I'll just say my piece and then you can go do your thing.
Sure.
I'll be over here, just call me when you're ready.
This thing had so much innuendo in it about Trump.
The usage of the word insurrection.
It was one thing after another.
They were trying the best they could, the writers, I guarantee it, to associate the German Bund movement from the early 1930s And the fact that they wanted to take over the country and run it, some of this is a little sketchy, but they wanted to take it over and turn the country into a Nazi stronghold, a fascist country.
By the way, it's excellent information, it's very interesting and entertaining.
But the idea, it was pretty propagandistic and I was a little offended by that part of it.
So Tracy says that his or her family members were saying, this documentary is exactly what Trump is planning.
It's all about the white Christian right taking over the country, turning it over to a new dictator, and we should mention that there was a very, quite a substantial Nazi, you know, fascist, Nazi movement in the United States.
There was, really when it comes to, what's the term I'm looking for?
We had best-looking baby contests at fairs.
Eugenics.
It was a eugenics movement.
Yeah, eugenics.
We were the eugenics kings.
Hitler sent fan mail to the United States eugenicists.
He said, wow, you guys have really got a good idea here.
And he loved it, until he started gassing Jews and then the eugenicists in America went, oh, let's simmer down a little bit.
Change our names to something else.
Yeah, Planned Parenthood.
Margaret Sanger, she was a part of the, was it Eugenics Society of America?
I know you don't like that, you don't think, I'm not going to get into that with you.
Her main focus was birth control period, not breeding.
But there, so there was definitely a, so if anything, for sure, there was a big eugenicist movement in America, and we backtracked on that when we saw what could happen with it, what could be done with it.
We sterilized black girls, there's all kinds of horrible things that we did.
This is not, this is not what Trump is doing.
I'm gonna play this, it's very... And by the way, that, what you just talked about, That the idea that, oh, this is what Trump wants to do.
That was the whole reason for this American Experience Show was to twist the minds of the viewers.
Yes.
And I found a defense.
I thought the information was good, but I was familiar with it to begin with.
But I found the way they presented it to be obvious propaganda, anti-Trump propaganda, anti-Trump, anti-Republican, anti-Christian propaganda.
And I'm just waiting for the following question to pop up again, because we've heard it in the past.
I tried to find a clip, but it hasn't occurred yet.
If you could get in a time machine and go back and kill baby Hitler, would you do it?
This is the kind of stuff you're going to hear.
I.e., hey, if you could kill Trump before he becomes Hitler, would you do it?
You watch, that's all coming.
Ever-increasing numbers, the nation's youth has been throwing away to camp.
In the 1930s, there were these camps all across the country, and they looked normal.
But it wasn't normal.
It was Nazi camp.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
In the depths of the Depression, a great many Americans started to ask themselves whether the American experiment was failing.
Lots of Americans thought that capitalism, democracy, they were done for, and something else was going to have to take its place.
The membership card and the friends of the new Germany.
Note the American emblem and over it the Nazi swastika.
As foreign as this might seem, fascist ideology tapped into some dark realities in America.
I'd like to tell you a few words about our purpose and aims.
Very hard to hear any of it.
I know, I know.
It gets a little better at the end.
That comes straight from the PBS website.
It's almost done.
He's going to build a distinctively American version of Nazism.
They're after power.
They're after influence within the very fabric of the United States.
They were literally holding parades in front of Jewish people's homes.
There's no such thing as foreign fascism.
Fascism is always homegrown.
And what we have now, funny enough, funny enough, in the United States, what we have now is we have Jews very, very worried.
I was talking to the girl who stayed at our house to take care of Phoebe.
American Jew.
And she says, I'm a little afraid, warranted or not, I'm a little afraid to wear my Star of David out in public.
I'm worried when I get into an Uber and it might be a Muslim.
Bite me!
What?
But the funny thing is, that's coming from... This media, spinning it up.
She got spun up.
Yes.
I definitely tried to spin her down a little bit.
What they're bringing in now is, I'll make sure you know that it's Trump.
It's Trump.
It's Trump, it's Trump, it's Trump.
With his Jewish daughter.
Yes.
Jewish son-in-law.
He may be Jewish.
We don't know.
Yeah.
It was actually kind of funny.
But okay, he hates Jews somehow.
Yeah.
So the International Court of Justice by the... Oh yeah, I got a clip.
I have a clip too.
Why don't you play your clip?
I have a clip of Kirby.
Which I think is pretty funny.
I do not have Kirby.
Okay, what do you have?
Well, that's a good question.
Condemned Israel.
Would that be the one?
That would sound like it, yeah.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia have welcomed a ruling issued by the International Court of Justice on South Africa's genocide case against Israel, which orders Israel to prevent genocide acts in the Gaza Strip.
The Qatari Foreign Ministry said the ruling serves as a stark acknowledgement of the grave threat of genocide looming over the Palestinian population in Gaza.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry reaffirmed the rejection of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and its violations of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said he hopes the ruling against Israel would include an immediate ceasefire, given the severe suffering of Gaza residents.
States now have clear legal obligations to stop Israel's genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and to make sure that they are not complicit.
The ICJ order is an important reminder that no state is above the law.
It should serve as a wake-up call for Israel and actors who enabled its entrenched impunity.
Alright, this is a problem because this justifies the Genocide Joe moniker.
And Kirby was sent out to defend Genocide Joe.
By the way, that report I should mention came from China.
Yeah, it's okay.
This report comes from TRT, I think, which is even more fun.
Kirby, by the way, have you noticed he's wearing dog tags?
Over everything?
Over his tie?
Yeah, over his tie.
What is he, afraid of getting shot down?
He needs to be identified if he's killed?
What is the deal there?
What do you think?
So kind of the, you know, he has a chain.
I've not seen this.
He has a chain that, you know, the one you'd have, you know, your ID on.
And he has dog tags, you know, identical.
You break one half off, send that back to the next of kin.
And he's wearing those dog tags.
I found that to be very bizarre.
Anyway, you know what it is?
No.
It's the dog tag of Lloyd Austin.
It's a memorial.
Maybe Kirby's just a dog.
He's memorializing Lloyd Austin, who is yet to be seen.
And he's back in the hospital.
I'm sorry, but that's my interpretation.
Well, we'll see what happens.
Here is a question that came in regarding Genocide Joe.
Thank you.
The fact of the matter is that IACJ has not dismissed The allegations against Israel with respect to genocide, they do believe that those allegations warrant further investigation and deliberation.
So do you stand by the words that you used earlier this month to characterize those allegations, that they are meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever?
Yes ma'am.
And what are you basing that off of if the UN's top court ...believes that there is a plausible risk of genocide.
They're specifically directing Israel to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide.
We have no indication that that's going on, Sabrina.
We have no indication that they are deliberately trying to exterminate the people of Gaza.
Well, the ICJ specifically cited inflammatory statements that were made by Israel's defense minister referring to Gazans as human animals.
The president of Israel saying the entire population of Gaza is responsible.
Do you not see that as risking incitement?
Comments like that are certainly also counterproductive and unhelpful.
No question about that.
But we haven't seen indications that the Israeli Defense Forces are getting up out of the rack every day, putting their boots on the floor, and saying that their whole effort is to go exterminate the Palestinian people.
They're trying to eliminate the threat that Hamas poses.
I want to be very clear, and I know I've said this a million times, and you're all probably sick of me following up on this, but That doesn't mean that we excuse any single innocent life lost.
The right number of civilian casualties is zero.
But there's no indication that we've seen that validates a claim of genocidal intent or action by the Israeli Defense Forces.
There's no evidence of genocide, he says.
There's no evidence!
They don't get their boots on every day and say, we're gonna kill us some Palestinians.
That would be genocide.
This is not genocide.
What is the definition of genocide?
Let's look it up.
Okay, let's... CONSULT THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE!
Of course, the Book of Knowledge is very varied these days.
Yeah, yeah, you should trust it.
How about the Holocaust Memorial?
Should we take it from them?
Uh, no.
No.
Uh, Britannica?
Britannica, yeah, I think that's more objective.
Okay, Britannica says, genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.
Well, here's the basic.
Here's the rub.
I think this is maybe from Oxford.
This is from Oxford.
Yeah.
The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
Well, it gets pretty close.
Yeah, well, if you, you know, they definitely want to destroy something.
Yeah, they want to get rid of it.
For sure.
Well, anyway.
By the way, this is the way I have to read this.
The original, the origin of the term genocide, the word genocide did not exist prior to 1944.
Oh, really?
It's a very specific term coined by a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin.
It's a new word.
It's a relatively new word.
Oh, that's interesting.
What is the root of the word?
Is it from Greek or something?
Must be.
Must be.
What's the etymology?
Let me look and see if it says.
The etymology of said word.
Hmm.
Lawyers.
It doesn't say in here what the etymology is.
No.
Well, we've sent in our negotiator.
Oh, here.
Wait, wait, wait.
Sorry.
He formed the word genocide by combining geno from the Greek word for race or tribe with side from Latin word for killing.
Wait, so eraser killing?
Geno is eraser?
Is that what you said?
No, that's race.
Oh, race.
Geno is Greek for race or tribe.
Oh, race killing.
Okay.
Or tribe.
Tribe killing.
He should have copyrighted that and he would be very rich writing it.
It's going to be beyond copyright.
We sent in our negotiator.
Who do you think we sent in?
Uh, Sullivan.
President Biden is sending the CIA director to help broker a deal in Gaza.
According to the Washington Post, a gentleman there, CIA Director William J. Burns, will look to close the gaps between Israel and Hamas.
That deal is said to include the release of all remaining hostages.
Can you just stop for one second?
Yeah.
Under normal circumstances, they would have sent in Lloyd Austin.
Or Kissinger.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Kissinger, they can still send in, but they'd have to roll in his corpse.
Lloyd, would it have been Lloyd Austin?
Is Lloyd Austin the guy to do the negotiation?
Don't you typically send in a diplomat?
Well, you see, that's the great thing about William Burns.
He's a historic diplomat.
So as head of the CIA, they can move him.
Oh no, he's just a diplomat.
He's not there to collect any information about anyone or about boys in the streets.
No, not at all!
between Israel and Hamas.
That deal is said to include the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza and a two-month ceasefire.
Burns is expected to travel to Europe for talks with Israeli and Egyptian intelligence leaders.
He's also slated to me with Qatar's prime minister.
Israel continued its defense today.
Gaza's health ministry reports Israeli fire struck a crowd, killing at least 20 people, wounding more than 150.
That report was missing number of children wounded or killed.
they're slipping Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, it wasn't from Democracy Now, so... No, it was Chicago Newswire.
Meanwhile, there's some new allegations about the United Nations.
Pressure is growing on the United Nations and its operation in Gaza.
Britain and Australia on Saturday joined other countries in suspending their contributions to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
Then, later in the day, Germany announced it would follow suit, and that one could really hurt, as it was UNRWA's second largest donor.
This withdrawal of support follows allegations that 12 UNRWA staff members took part in the Hamas October 7th attacks on Israel.
Israel, of course, has never been a fan of the UN, but it's now up the ante by saying it's determined to permanently stop UNRWA from operating in Gaza.
And Tel Aviv is also calling for the resignation of the UN agency's boss.
But there are some who've moved to defend UNRWA.
They point out it has 30,000 people working under its auspices and that the 12 who've been accused were all instantly sacked.
Chris Gunness is a former UNRWA spokesperson.
He says Israel has a long history of making claims about the agency, which turn out not to be true.
We had allegations that UNRWA was hiding rockets components in its schools and was colluding with Hamas terrorists.
In fact, it was UNRWA that found the rocket parts in its schools, immediately reported to all our major donors, and the Israelis condemned it.
What did we get in reply?
We got further accusations, in spite of having done all this, that we were colluding with terrorists.
Yeah, very suspicious.
You know, the U.N., the joke of it is that it's the United States taxpayer that's putting up most of the money that's doing all this.
All of it.
I think all of it.
Pretty much all of it.
I do have a 3x3 about all this stuff.
And now it's time for 3x3!
I'm so excited!
Experiment 5JCD!
We love the 3x3!
Repairing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC!
I led you right into it.
I led you right into it.
Unbeknownst to me, we have a 3x3.
This is where JCD takes the top news organizations, lays them out side by side.
It seems we have a 3x3 plus once again today.
Yeah, we have CBC also, but let's go with ABC's WNT Matt Gutman.
Shocking new allegations tonight against the UN's largest aid provider in Gaza.
Israel submitting what it says is evidence that 12 aid workers took part in Hamas' October 7th rampage.
The United Nations Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, immediately firing those workers, saying its investigation could lead to criminal charges.
Tonight, the State Department temporarily pausing funding to the agency.
If the investigation proves that, in this case, I think it's about a dozen employees were assisting Hamas, and even to the point of maybe even, you know, involved in hostage-taking, then absolutely they need to be held to account.
It comes after the International Court of Justice, in a sharp rebuke of Israel's conduct of the war, ordered it to, quote, take all measures to prevent genocide.
The interim ruling stopped short both of calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide or demanding an immediate ceasefire.
And what does Israel say to the allegations of war crimes?
War crimes, families being blown up in airstrikes, now genocide.
The problem is that Hamas is doing everything it can to use the population as a human shield.
And tonight Hamas releasing chilling new video showing three female Israeli hostages pleading for their release.
The family's asking we only use a still from the video.
And David, back to those UN workers accused of involvement in Hamas's October 7th attack.
The Biden administration is now calling for a full and transparent investigation, but they say that the actions of a few should not impugn the entire agency.
David.
Still just extraordinary, if true.
This, if true.
This is interesting.
Now that contradicts your clip.
Yes it did, but there was something in there that I found very interesting.
The family has asked that we only use a still.
Why not, why wouldn't you, as a news organization, show the hostages pleading for their lives?
Might be pandering.
Okay.
Might be, you know, sickening.
Oh, unlike everything else they show?
Please.
It's designed to be sickening to show what Israel is doing to Palestinians.
That part is okay.
I'm just saying.
It's designed to be sickening to show what Israel is doing to Palestinians.
That part is okay.
I'm just saying.
NBC.
Tonight, the UN's highest court ordering Israel to prevent genocidal acts by its forces, but stopping short of calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
South Africa had accused Israel of committing genocide, and asked the International Court of Justice to order an end to Israel's war against Hamas.
Israel has an inherent right to defend itself.
The vile attempt to deny Israel this fundamental right is blatant discrimination against the Jewish state, and it was justly rejected.
Danny Danon is a member of Israel's parliament.
And the International Court of Justice said there is enough evidence of potential genocide that there is a case to hear.
What's your response to that?
It was a fake case against Israel about a fake genocide.
Blaming us for a genocide.
That's an absurd.
The judge is highlighting this quote from Israel's defense minister as potential incitement.
We are fighting human animals.
But also calling on Hamas to immediately release its hostages.
The court has no way to enforce its rulings, which come amid a devastating humanitarian crisis.
Families waiting for hours for a single bowl of soup.
Palestinians hope the ruling will add to international pressure for a ceasefire.
It makes it very difficult for this Biden administration to continue to Provide cover to Israel.
This reaction from the White House.
We don't believe that right now a general ceasefire is the best approach.
We just have no indication that they are deliberately trying to exterminate the people of Gaza.
The White House saying, like the court, it's called on Israel to reduce civilian casualties.
The U.S.
also halting funding to the U.N.
Agency for Palestinian Refugees.
Amid allegations, 12 of its staff took part in the Hamas terror attack.
The employees have been fired, the U.N.
says, and it's launched a full investigation.
Hmm.
OK.
So they reversed the order on the report.
They put the U.N.
thing at the end, which NBC would be kind of globalist operation.
I would see they want to minimize discussing that.
So they put it at the end.
I thought that was interesting.
Another thing that I find unique is why is it South Africa?
I know this because a lot of money came from Qatar into the South Africa, that guy with the big mouth into the South African political system.
They had no money.
You know the guy who was saying we're gonna shoot white people?
That guy?
Oh, right, that guy.
That guy?
They had no money to run for the election.
This is just what I've read.
Who knows if it's true?
And so they take Israel to court, the international criminal justice system, and then all of a sudden they have all this money.
So I think that's why South Africa did it.
And of course, they recognize the ICJ.
Which, you know, because, and I don't even, I mean, doesn't America blatantly say we don't recognize this court?
Out.
I don't know if that's the... I know we don't recognize the ICC.
This is a different court.
Okay.
They're all, you know, whatever.
Okay, let's go to CBS which has, in my opinion, still has the best coverage of everything.
I think they do the best job even though ABC is supposed to be the top news network.
Here we go with CBS.
The war continues to close in on civilians inside Gaza.
While thousands of miles away in The Hague, the United Nations International Court of Justice delivered its interim ruling on South Africa's case against Israel.
Presiding Judge Joan Donoghue stressed that this was part of a wider court case to determine whether or not Israel was committing genocide.
That, however, could take years.
But she warned... The court considers that the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip ...is at serious risk of deteriorating further before the court renders its final judgment.
And so while the court stopped short of ordering an immediate ceasefire...
It has unequivocally ordered Israel to take all steps within its power to prevent genocide and punish those who incited.
It also demanded that Israel provide food and water.
The United Nations says 1.1 million.
...are now facing starvation and access to humanitarian aid, which is still only trickling in.
And for those who live there, like Hayim Haddad, who just want a ceasefire, this ruling was never going to be enough.
Why would the world court give them more time to continue genocide against us?
This is unjust and unfair.
Israel has to report back on its progress to the International Court in a month.
But for Palestinians trying to outrun this war, a month is a long way away.
And today, the UN Relief Agency in Gaza is under fire.
Twelve of its workers have been fired, suspected of taking part in the Hamas attack on Israel last year, and prompting the United States, the agency's biggest donor, to temporarily halt its funding.
Worth pointing out today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
I was waiting for that!
Good one CBS!
This is from the Council on Foreign Relations website.
The United States has long had an uneasy relationship with the International Court of Justice which primarily arbitrates legal disputes amongst UN member nations that recognize its jurisdiction.
The United States withdrew from the court's compulsory jurisdiction in 1986 After the court ruled it owed Nicaragua war reparations.
So... Oh, it was Reagan.
So it withdrew from the compulsory jurisdiction.
So Reagan pulled us out.
Yeah.
So we're out.
I'm gonna go for him.
Of course, Nicaragua was the... I mean, really?
Really, dudes?
Not too obvious.
Yeah, like, no, no, no, we don't recognize you when we were clearly at fault.
All right, so let's see if the plus here is going to be CBC, which of course is a kind of a boring version of our networks.
Do they have Nat Pops?
They got Nat Pops?
No, they usually they don't.
I mean, it's not as bad as some of them.
They don't have anything like the BBC, but they don't have as much.
It doesn't have as much pizzazz and triggering as our networks.
OK.
Oh, come on, what are you talking about?
Trigger right off the bat.
Well, a baby crying, yeah.
It's a good one!
In The Hague, protesters and supporters of both Israel and Palestinians set the stage for the momentous ruling by the United Nations top court.
Lawyers for Israel had wanted what they called the absurd genocide case dismissed, while South Africa's legal team demanded what amounted to a ceasefire in Gaza.
The court considers that...
We are from the International Criminal Justice Court and we order a halt to this war!
Stop this war!
Can they do that?
amount of genocide the court did not order a halt to the war instead judge jones uh hello we are from the international criminal justice court and we are we order a halt to this war stop this war can they do that can is it that easy they can do whatever they want and I mean, they can order a halt to the war.
By edict, sure.
They think they should order a halt to the war.
Doesn't mean anyone's going to follow it.
They should order it.
What's wrong with them?
But if Israel in the other previous report said that they have a month to comply with some sort of a report, you know, they do a little paperwork.
It seems to me that... A little paperwork.
That they're signatories.
And if they were ordered to stop, they'd have to stop.
But this is just insane to listen to.
It's insane.
It's completely insane.
...implausibly amount to genocide, the court did not order a halt to the war.
Instead, Judge Joan Donohue said Israel must take actions to prevent acts of genocide and to improve the humanitarian situation.
...the court further considers that Israel must ensure, with immediate effect, that its military forces do not commit any of the aforementioned acts.
Kill better!
In Gaza, though, where the fighting is some of the heaviest of the war, and where Palestinian officials say 26,000 people are now dead, half of them women and children, there was disappointment.
Immediately, there should have been a ceasefire.
Ayad Saeed told a videographer working for CBC News.
Then they can start investigating and see what's really happening here.
Everyone's expecting that Israel won't follow through with the ruling, said Omar al-Saqqa.
Since when has Israel followed through with any ruling from the UN?
Israeli officials, including UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, meanwhile lashed out over the fact that the genocide accusation is still hanging over the country.
Today, the UN has become one of the weapons in the arsenal of modern-day Nazis against us.
Every UN body has become weaponized against the Jewish state.
You know, what's amazing about these reports, it has people so spun up Where, you know, it's like, walk down any street in your town and look at the homeless, the drug addicts, the thieving from stores, the total decay.
Look at the, I'll give it to you, the potholes.
Look at the, look at children who are crying that they can't make ends meet.
No one cares about that!
No!
Oh no, Jews!
The troll room is filled with them today.
It's amazing.
You're getting spun up over this.
This has been going on forever.
Nothing new.
Sadly.
Yeah, it's just been going on since I remember when I was a kid, a kid in college.
I was a college kid when I was young, the slingshots.
And they were arguing with each other back in the day.
And this is, you know, 40, 50 years ago.
And I went to hear a I got it.
I talked about this before I I went to Wheeler Auditorium to hear what turned out to be a three hour lecture on on the music industry by Phil Spector.
Wow.
That must have been cool.
It was great.
Did he have the crazy hair?
Yeah, he had the crazy hair.
And he was wearing some sort of a blousy white shirt with a frilly bandanna to the sleeves.
It was like a lace.
Yeah, oh yeah, frilly shirt, frilly shirt.
Yeah, frilly shirt.
And he mentioned that, and he was referring back to the, he was talking about the jukebox days of creating hit records, and he made the mention, and I always took this to heart when I became a column writer, Never have two dogs in a row.
You can have hit, dog, hit, dog, hit, but if you have two dogs, dog, dog, you're done.
You're done.
And they won't play your stuff anymore.
It's just you're done.
But he referred back to the 40s And he's talked, then he says, you know, the situation, and he talked, he refers specifically to the situation in the Middle East with the Jews and the Arabs back then, and it was just a, it was a nightmare.
It's always been, what you just said, it's always been going on.
But now... So why do we get spun up about it?
Because we're, we'll be taught to choose a side because, you know, it's all, everything, all the problems in the world are the fault of one side or the other.
That's what it is, and people fall for it every single time.
Every single time.
Oh, red, blue.
Right, left.
Up, down.
Jew, Muslim.
It's always the same.
Although I don't hear Chinese Uyghur.
Don't hear that often.
That's ended, in fact, going to the Chinese news.
Wait, wait, wait.
Before you go to the Chinese news, I have one clip from your buddy, Kristen Welker.
Who tells us that the White House is very, very tired of the protests.
They're very tired of being called Genocide Joe.
Genocide Joe is making them upset?
Very, very upset about it, yes.
What is the White House's plan to deal with protesters in the coming weeks, in the coming months, and the concern that it could overshadow his message?
Yeah, this event today was certainly a smaller event, and we're told it was actually invite-only, so perhaps that is why there were no protests happening today.
But the White House is understanding that this is a problem when it interrupts the message of the President when he's on stage.
So they've hired a guy named Doug Landry.
He is an expert at campaigns.
He's done campaigns over the past several years, and he is somebody who they believe can come in and come up with a creative solution.
Our Mike Memoli and our Monica Alba said he can come up with a creative solution to try to make sure these folks have a voice and their voice is heard, but it's not interrupting the president.
You can have a voice, but you can't interrupt the president!
Stop that!
Stop that!
This came out of that last...
A particular event, I guess, where I think he was in Milwaukee.
Yeah, where they called him Genocide Joe.
Yeah, Genocide Joe.
But it's the chanting, and it's all the socialist Marxist influencers who are doing this, been doing it for decades.
They did Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, oops, oh crap, now they're doing it against us, oh well.
It was fun when they were doing it against Trump, but now they're doing it against Joe.
To be expected.
But that's the point.
It's like, there's atrocities all over the world, but no one cares about them.
Ask yourself, why do you care so much about this one?
Be a gatekeeper of your own mind for two seconds.
I'm even more concerned about the potholes.
I'm with you on that.
I'm with you on that.
China, this is, you asked what happened, what about the Uyghurs?
Well, here's China from this CCTV, actually CGTN report from Beijing on China and their human rights.
They're obviously taking care of the problem.
A Chinese envoy has expressed the country's readiness to collaborate with the global community to advance and safeguard human rights.
China's permanent representative to the UN office at Geneva was speaking after recommendations made to China were adopted on Friday during a session of the UN Human Rights Council.
Chen Xu also said Beijing aims to ensure that the benefits of its modernization are distributed more fairly among its people.
In the process of achieving this ambitious goal, we will ensure the fruits of modernization will benefit people all over the country more fairly, continuously improve the level of human rights protection, and promote the free and overall development of the people.
While promoting the high-quality development of the human rights cause, China will always uphold the spirit of establishing itself while bearing in mind others, and advocate for equal and orderly multipolarity and an inclusive economic globalization that benefits everyone.
Yeah, but see, I know that people are tuning out.
I love these guys.
People are tuning out like, oh, China, whatever, I don't know.
It's not in the programming.
It's not in the programming.
If it's not in the programming, people don't care.
That's like Africa.
You know?
I keep trying to play Africa clips.
It's like you can see the drop off right away.
Oh, Africa.
It's a big place.
Who cares?
Nobody wants to deal with it.
I do have a fun anti... I don't want to give it away.
I want to give it away.
A report came out.
A report somehow We have Big Pharma and the medical industry has looked into the future.
And the future is dementia in Canada.
A new landmark study is projecting a 187% increase in people living with dementia by 2050.
The report also looks at a major shift in dementia demographics in this country.
To discuss the findings is Dr. Roger Wong, Alzheimer's Society of Canada board member, clinical professor of geriatric medicine at UBC.
I found this to be fascinating.
First of all, the number 187 percent.
Not double, not triple, not quadruple, not 185, 187 percent.
This must be a climate change model.
I mean, isn't dementia something that we pretty much have licked?
Why would it be increasing?
Let's find out.
Because people are living longer, or maybe it's not increasing, or maybe it's the way it's being defined, or the definition has changed.
There's a lot of reasons.
There's some of that, but there's an agenda here.
So how do we prepare, Doctor?
I think there are four different ways that we can think about it.
The first thing is, in terms of our health care system, we need to ensure that there are policies in place and implementation of these policies to allow for equitable access to dementia care, including diagnosis and prevention for all Canadians in ways that are culturally sensitive.
The second way is through research.
We need to ensure that research on dementia in Canada would include participants from very diverse backgrounds, because they make up the population in Canada.
And the third way, really, is to think about policies.
Policies that will reduce differences in dementia risk across Canada, and that would include policies to allow for national data collection and tracking.
And fourth, and last but not least, is to make sure that there is education and support that is again done in culturally sensitive ways to support persons living with dementia and their care partners and loved ones.
So I was about done with this.
I'm like, this is not interesting.
Who cares?
What kind of bogus report?
And then all of a sudden, this guy unclogs.
It's about the Asians.
The report highlighted the fact that the Asian population is really going to be impacted.
Can you expand on that?
Tell us why?
Absolutely.
So what this report does is to look at individuals from different cohorts and different groupings.
And there's a discovery that for people with Asian, including South and East Asian ancestry, That the number of individuals living with dementia is projected to increase by ninefold.
So a nine-time increase from about 40,000 people plus living with dementia right now in Canada to over 400,000.
So it's a significant jump.
Again, multiple reasons.
The population is aging, but there are also the presence of risk factors that lead to dementia that are seen especially in this population.
The other thing to remember is there's also a lot of culturally sensitive values, attitudes, beliefs, or stigma that could become barriers in terms of these individuals accessing care.
Those pesky Asians don't like our healthcare.
That's what this report is about.
Oh, you're going to get dementia, you pesky Asians.
What do you think, by eating healthy, that you're going to live longer?
No, no, no, no, no.
This is the pharmaceutical industry of Canada targeting the Asians.
You've got to come into the fold.
Now, of course... The weird report.
But of course what they'll do is just kill them.
Well, they have that suicide lawyer.
Yeah, got made.
You got made.
Yeah, got made.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'd be very worried if I was Asian.
They're coming for you.
There is a, uh, kind of...
Part of the clips earlier of the kids bitching about the country being crap and the United States is all America's fault and capitalism sucks.
This is a clip I think is going to portend, especially if Trump gets elected, because people want to leave the country.
But this is from a show called The Bridge.
I think I have the whole beginning so you get a feeling for it.
Podcast.
Oh, luckily.
Out of Beijing.
Oh.
And I just want you to hear what they think of the of this new trend.
Snappy music.
I like it already.
This is a great podcast.
Should I call it a pod?
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The American dream is no longer to settle down in the States and have kids.
According to CNN, quote, the American dream is to leave America, end quote.
What does that bring to mind for you, baby?
Wow, that's a huge statement.
Right?
Right.
Is that true?
Well, maybe to a certain extent.
But, you know, I was reading about this and the thought in my mind was there could be a silver lining to this dark cloud.
I mean, it's, you know, dark for U.S.
citizens.
But then I think this will be a great opportunity for more Americans, especially the younger generation, to walk out of the country.
I love this because, yes, I would say a large contingent of young people in America think that you can just go to any country and go in and live and work.
Because that's how it works here apparently.
Answer, no.
You know, does Australia, don't they still require like a million dollars in the bank account or some, you have to be a literal rocket scientist?
I think if you wanted to become an Australian citizen that might be required.
I think it's even for working there longer term.
No, I don't think.
Well, maybe.
Well, we have Australians.
I know New Zealand is pretty easy to get into.
Yeah.
Well, who would want to go?
No one goes there!
No, I think you have to be a billionaire and build a bunker if you want to live in New Zealand.
There's no problem.
I think we're going to start hearing about this more.
It started with the CNN report and the Chinese loving it.
Young Americans, especially like the ones complaining earlier, is just going to leave the country.
They hate it here.
Yeah, well, good luck!
Guess what I think.
Come on, hit the door.
You're on your way out.
I've lived in a couple countries.
I still, to this day, will say, nah.
Man, Christina, I've said this.
Yeah, and you've lived in England for a long time, but you were in the very liberal Holland, which is perceived as the great paradise by many liberals in the United States, because you can bicycle everywhere!
Yeah, I have a report.
Remember now, what I've said many times is that the Netherlands is the narco-state of the European Union.
Let's get a little rundown on what's going on from Deutsche Welle.
Now the European Union is teaming up with port operators to combat increasing illegal drug trafficking.
There have been huge increases in the amount of cocaine entering the continent through ports in Belgium and the Netherlands in recent years and that has prompted the EU to start a new project to fight back against the drug smugglers.
Pressure has been steadily ramping up on European politicians to act to tackle the drug gangs operating here.
Criminals have reportedly been handing out hundreds of thousands of euros in bribes to port workers and threatening them and their families to gain access to shipments.
The Dutch port of Rotterdam is another key focus of the project.
Scores of people have been shot or bombed in drug gang violence in Belgium, the Netherlands and across the European Union in recent years, including the murders of famous investigators and lawyers, as well as innocent children caught in the crossfire.
Customs officials here in Antwerp seized 116,000 kilos of cocaine last year, coming in on ships from all over the world.
It was another new yearly record for the port.
And bear in mind, that's just what's being seized, not what's getting past the customs officials.
The gangs are bringing the drugs in from Latin America, mainly Ecuador and Colombia.
The Port Alliance comprises of European politicians, portmasters, shipping companies and security firms.
It's so bad there.
The macro mafia killing each other over stolen dope.
It's a mess.
It's a mess.
But hey, they got wooden shoes.
I just need to play a couple clips.
We're going to take our break in a moment because Rev Al had another classic Reverend Al moment.
Not on his own show, but he was with Joy, Joy Reads, The Readout, and of course, bitching about Trump.
Somewhere around a quarter of a billion dollars he's gonna have to come up with.
So Donald Trump will become more unhinged.
He will become more desperate.
We're gonna see him and his followers go into the twilight zone in terms of action now, because I do not believe he has the money.
And if he defaults, he has judgments against him, his properties start getting lean, he is facing something he's never thought and his brand has been totally demolished now because the big businessman will be exposed like the Wizard of Oz to have no clothes and no way out.
This is a new one?
A hybrid?
What?
The Wizard of Oz has no clothes.
The Wizard of Oz has no clothes.
This guy is a goldmine.
The Wizard of Oz has no clothes.
Joy Reid, what say you?
Yeah, there will be no owning beauty pageants and partnering with Macy's and all of those things.
Oh, no.
And now in his state of mind, what was the movie where they said, you play with my money, you play with my emotions?
His emotions are about to get played with.
Oh, yes.
Now, while we're on the topic... He hasn't owned a beauty operation for, what, a decade?
Ten years.
It's alright.
The Wizard of Oz has no clothes.
Let's just discuss this for a second, this sexual harassment suit.
Very interesting.
U.S.
Department of Justice says that former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo did sexually harass more than a dozen state employees.
The settlement was announced today.
The DOJ concluded its investigation and provided ways New York can change how it handles complaints.
Cuomo resigned, as you recall, as governor in 2021 after claims that he created a hostile work environment.
His staffers were accused of not reporting the allegations.
So just contrast that, which no one heard about, to what they're doing with Trump.
This guy was an actual sleazy scuzz.
And it just gets a 25 second story.
It's quite ridiculous.
I have a clip on this Trump thing.
Oh, I have plenty of clips.
Here, why don't I do... No, the reason that my clip includes a little mention of the fact Maybe I don't have it, but the fact that Reid Hoffman is the one who financed this whole deal.
Um, I think I have that.
Hold on a second.
I do have that.
Oh, I know what it was.
It was, yeah, Trump's attorney came out.
I didn't record it.
He came out and just raved about the phony baloney nature of this entire trial where they couldn't put on a defense, they wouldn't let him do this or that or the other thing, and then she definitely, she said they quashed the fact that she wanted to mention to the jury that Reid Hoffman paid for the whole thing, it's just part of a smear campaign.
But do you know what the, now she's claiming that, you know, she's getting death threats No, no, no, this Carol woman.
But the real, you know, the original suit that where she claimed damages for was because she lost her job as a columnist at, I think, Vogue at 76 years of age, which kind of, you might have been lost that anyway.
Yeah, I would think, yeah.
But that's what it was really originally about.
Everyone sees this.
Everyone sees what's going on.
No.
No, you're right.
Let's listen to Joy Reid.
Let's see if she sees what's going on.
The unanimous verdict.
Donald Trump is on the hook for just over $83 million in damages.
million in damages.
$83.3 million to be exact.
It took just less than three hours of deliberation by the jury to come to that verdict.
It's a huge increase from the $5 million verdict a separate jury awarded Carroll last year after finding Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming her.
Now this is the part where if you've got kiddos in the room, you might want to cover their little ears because... Kiddos!
Watch out for your kiddos!
Kiddos, which is pedos talk.
Ms.
Carroll's case goes back to the 1990s, and she accused Trump of doing exactly what he said on that infamous Access Hollywood tape.
Now, please, indeed, if you have kiddos in the room, you may want them not to hear this, because this is on television.
Where he said, when you're a star, they let you grab women by the... You remember the rest.
Ms.
Carroll told a jury that he did exactly that to her.
Forcibly putting his tiny fingers into her, against her will.
She cannot resist.
She cannot resist.
Ms.
Carroll told a jury that he did exactly that to her.
Forcibly putting his tiny fingers into her.
Now that doesn't jive with what he said on the tape.
He said they let you do anything.
Now it's forcibly.
I mean, I'm just, I'm, I'm... Yeah, there's a big difference between forcibly and letting you.
I'm ant-effing here, obviously.
And the whole thing is horrible.
The whole thing, the discussion... But this is just trying to bring back the old memes so we can get the list that I made.
We'll play that as end of show, end of show.
We have a play out of it.
Yes, Trump rotation, Trump rotation.
It's just the same, plus the new stuff, you know, which is, uh, I've got to add to the list now, I guess.
Well, let me see, let me see.
To revisit the list.
Hold on, let me see if she adds anything to the list in the next 25 seconds.
Against her will, in the dressing room of a New York City department store.
I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I think sometimes we forget what we're talking about here, a.k.a.
sexual assault.
And then, he serially defamed her.
I like that.
Serially defamed.
Which, of course, is usually only used in the context of serial rape.
But that's a good job, Joey.
A previous New York jury ruled that, yes, he did both.
And then he defamed her again, and again, and again.
Leading her to sue him again.
And leading us to where we stand today.
Unfortunately, I didn't really follow the suit.
I would like to know, because you know, where does freedom of speech end and where does defamation start?
You know, can I sue some of the trolls in the troll room?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you should.
Yeah, we're talking.
What are they calling you?
Oh, all kinds of things.
Well, stop it, Troll Room!
Let me see, is there anything else we need to do?
Yeah, I gotta play this one clip.
Okay, alright.
Since we talked about it earlier, this is a guy on another, this is a, I think he's a radio guy who has a podcast and he brought this character on.
Another podcast?
You're going into the bin.
I'm loving the podcast.
You're going into the bin, baby.
Yeah, that's not good.
And, um, but this was an insane analysis of the misty, of the missing, uh, um, Austin, the defense secretary.
Oh, yeah, Lloyd Austin.
Yes, yes, yes.
Lloyd Austin.
But this analysis, I think, takes us a little beyond what I'm thinking.
Well, let's review for a second.
Austin was gone.
No one knew.
We're waiting for him to show up.
It takes two weeks.
Then he shows up in something that was supposedly his home.
We're not sure.
You don't like the look.
You think, you know, yeah, you think he's, you don't trust it.
Em, is that a good enough backgrounder?
And then it comes back, he's back in the hospital.
Yeah, what's problematic is this.
We have traitors within our government, and I want to just finish a statement.
I do not believe what people saw was a real Defense Secretary Austin.
I believe he disappeared for the length of time he did, which is an abrogation of his duty, and I believe what we saw was a computer-generated AI presentation.
People said, and I'm not a sound engineer, good night, I have two hearing aids, but sound engineers have said it's not the same voice.
They can, some of these guys are sophisticated.
So what am I saying?
What is the real story?
Was Austin in Ukraine when Russia basically blew the hell out of a NATO bunker?
Well, the rumor is yes, and even the Russian defense ministry said he's dead.
So how can people People go on believing lies when there is zero credibility.
So what I'm saying is that computer-generated imagery matched with AI, and I don't buy artificial intelligence, I buy this AI, and I think I'm the first guy that said it, as alien interference, alien intelligence, alien meaning foreign to humanity.
It can be demons, it can be fallen angels, it can be, you know, the little whoo-whoo What?
What?
It's alien interference?
Yeah, AI, alien interference.
Demons.
I know.
I think Alex Jones would go for this thesis.
Fallen angels.
I now have to go back and do a sound analysis of a homebound Austin versus previous Austin.
That's interesting.
I believe it's so echoey, the homebound.
Yeah.
That you can't do the analysis would be, uh, not valid.
It'd be invalid.
I think because you played that clip, I think you get a theremin.
It's been a long time, but you deserve it.
You deserve a theremin.
Alien interference!
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in conscription, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore!
Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships and seaboats on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water.
And all the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Hello trolls, stick your hands out.
Let me count you first.
1920 on the counter today listening to us.
1920.
How does that stack up?
It sucks.
It's because of your China clip.
One lone China clip that was one minute long?
I'm telling you, the China clip does it, man.
You can follow along with all of the trolls.
It's very feisty in there today.
It's kind of interesting.
It's a very good indicator of the... I'll just call it the troll spun-up meter.
You can see, oh boy, trolls are out of control today.
Even Void Zero went in and said, hey, hey, hey, simmer down people.
Now that's like you got daddy mad.
You got daddy mad when Void Zero comes in.
You can be a troll by going to trollroom.io.
You can listen to the No Agenda stream there 24-7.
There's all kinds of groovy podcasts on.
24 hours a day, many of them live, which is fun.
You know, everyone trolls along, does other things, it's good.
You know, we have, we start with the blues and bluegrass, I forget what it's called, show on Sunday morning, followed by Darren O'Neill.
I mean, it's a great group we have that hang out there 24-7.
You could also use a modern podcast app.
Where you get alerted when this show goes live, when many shows go live.
Also, when the show posts, let's say you can't listen live, within 90 seconds, you get an alert.
And you can tap right in and listen live.
That's some newfangled stuff right there.
And I'm happy to announce, John, that Apple Podcasts, Apple, the big Silicon Valley company, has capitulated!
They have added a piece of functionality developed By the Podcasting 2.0 group.
They've capitulated.
This is just the beginning.
They've cracked.
I don't know if you want to use the word capitulated.
I'd say that they wised up.
Yeah, wised up is good.
It's probably friendlier.
Yeah, officially it makes it like they were forced or something.
They weren't forced, they didn't have to do it.
No, that's true.
I mean, there's the podcast industrial complex.
What happens is we develop something and then Spotify goes and does their own version and then it fails.
So one of the first things we did in Podcasting 2.0 is transcripts.
And all these modern podcast apps have transcripts, you can follow along, you can search them.
And Apple is now adding that functionality to the Apple Podcasts.
So that's just the beginning.
We're taking over them very slowly.
Now, if you want to make sure that your podcast is always in your podcast app, because sometimes things disappear on some of those bigger apps, you will want to get a modern one at modernpodcastapps.com.
We actually said we put them on the list at the bottom.
You have one feature.
You get on the Modern Podcast Apps list at the bottom.
We're happy to have them for that.
Value for value is, I got a note about value for value.
I wanted to ask you about it.
One of our producers, let me see, Joshua.
Okay, can I just read this to you for a second?
Yeah, all ears.
He says, I've been writing this email to you all week in my head, finally had a chance to type it up.
I love the V4V model, think you do an excellent job of promoting it.
Thank you.
Well, John and I pioneered it, which brings me to the point of my email.
He's a sixth grade teacher.
He's email boots on the ground.
Absolutely fed up with the way education is done in the country.
He's been thinking a lot about some kind of education model based around V for V. I'm very curious about what your thoughts might be on this, if you think this is something that could work.
Is Value for Value something you think only works in the podcasting entertainment industry, or do you think it could be expanded beyond that?
John, you are very familiar with Scholastic Systems.
Your thoughts?
Well, it's already been expanded.
It's also the model used initially by public broadcasting, public radio, public TV, and also you can't overlook the churches.
Yes.
And you can't actually overlook any, a lot of public institutions like museums that have Use the value for value mechanism, but they just kind of skewed differently.
But it's still basically the same thing.
Yes, it could work.
I don't see why not.
It would have to be structured in a way that would be acceptable to the participants and I don't know how you did that.
I don't know how to do it.
I think the main thing that people forget about value for value is you need to ask.
If you don't ask, you're not going to get.
So, isn't it really about asking?
Well, asking is a big part of it.
If you haven't got the wherewithal to ask, which is something that... A lot of people have difficulty with.
They find it very hard to ask.
Yeah, I agree.
You gotta ask.
Well... And you have to be sincere when you ask.
You can't just ask like a wimp.
Exactly.
You have a tip jar if you're interested.
Put it in a tip jar and you'll be good.
And you have to take checks.
I do not.
That's an inside joke.
That's a very inside joke.
Yes, you have to take checks.
Checks are a big deal.
They are a big deal.
And we also have Stripe now, which is, we're seeing people from all over the world starting to support us.
Yeah, because Stripe allows you, PayPal, I don't know when this happened, but some countries like New Zealand, I think Australia to some extent.
India for sure, India.
Yeah, they just won't take PayPal for whatever reason.
Yeah.
So we have a Stripe available.
I think that's pretty international.
And then the other one that's showing up now is people through their bank are using Wyze.
Yes.
And that seems to come through.
Wyze, really?
How does that work?
Yeah, Wyze.
Hmm, interesting.
It's like PopMoney was.
I mean, it's like... What happened to PopMoney?
Whatever happened to them, by the way?
Yeah, I guess they dried up and blew away.
Well, value for value can come in many, really in three forms.
Time, talent, treasure.
Time and talent is very big for us because that directly goes to our bottom line.
That's things we don't have to do.
Speaking of VoidZero, thank you VoidZero.
Look at the infrastructure that he's been running.
He's upgrading and he's not doing it on show days, which is great, so we're happy.
It's working.
We have, we've never built a website ourself, I don't think.
Tim has built noagendashow.net.
We have Daniel does the Meetup website.
Of course, Sir Paul Couture, who not only did the No Agenda Art Generator, but upgraded it and made it lickety split.
He probably put like a huge, a huge piece of iron on it because we were complaining.
Everybody's like, it's slow.
He's like, watch this.
I'll fix you.
And he did, and we appreciate that, as we do with the artists who upload art, whether you use AI or not, and it's really about the intent, it's about the humor, being a part, and people, artists often listen to the show and they guess what topics we're going to...
We're going to discuss... Yeah, that usually turns out to be a mistake.
Yeah, they really miss it, usually, on that, but... It's just that when we get to the art later, after the show's over, we go over it and we look, oh, there's an interesting topic that we didn't discuss.
But, you know, it's like, come on.
Well, we did discuss Texas, we did discuss Barbie and Francisco.
Scaramanga!
He got it.
He nailed it with the Barbie, with her AR-15.
It looks like an AR-15.
It looks like a hybrid AR-15 shotgun somehow, with a big Texas flag, beautifully done.
We did look at a couple other, let me see, there was a lot of submissions.
Let's take a look at what we had for the last show.
Yeah, the reason for this particular piece, it really stood out as slick.
Pretty.
Made the point.
A little, you know, the Barbie contrasting with the shotgun and everything.
It's just a great piece.
Do you think this was AI?
He does good work, generally speaking.
Do you think this was AI?
It looks like it might be part AI.
There may be some AI involved.
I don't know.
Certainly not our logo and all that stuff.
In no way that AI does that.
No, the AI is just too much work for it.
Yeah, when you use it as a tool, it's good.
And, you know, Bell's head.
Here's John.
I like the stars on her boobs.
I didn't say that.
Yes, you did!
Lies!
Okay.
Alright, lies.
Then there was the Barbie snubbed.
Barbie with her little Oscar.
There was that from Comicstripblogger.
Yeah, that was A.I.
Darren O'Neal had his super A.I.
Don't Mess With Texas with, I guess, looks like a cowboy with some razor wire.
Well, what else is there?
I don't know if there's anything else that rea- Yeah, there's some Obamas with a big mic pin.
That didn't- that's too small.
Didn't really work.
Who, 33.
I don't know.
Was there- And- Really?
I guess that was- It was just the best one.
It just- It popped.
Pop.
Was there anything else?
Uh... No, not really.
I mean, I did like the duck.
By, uh, Mad Mar- Made Marriott.
Yes, yeah, the duck in the barbed wire.
I like the duck.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's about it.
Yeah, well.
Oh wait, there's another barbie.
Oh, I like the no agenda barbie.
And I think we both thought that that was actionable.
Where was it?
The one down at the bottom?
Yeah, we gotta be careful.
No, Jen, and an actual Barbie.
Yeah.
That, I think, is actionable.
Yeah.
We've got to be careful.
Because it's using the figure to do advertising for the show in the way with her holding the sign.
Yeah, we've got to be careful.
I think it's probably sketchy.
Yeah.
We were going to pick it.
Well, Francisco Scaramanga, thank you so much for supporting us with your talent and with your time.
It is highly appreciated.
The work of all the artists is always appreciated.
NoahJendaArtGenerator.com, you can follow along live during the show.
You can go back and take a look at any time.
These also show up.
I don't know, has the Noah Jenda Shop done anything new recently?
They're probably just looking at it like, well, this is all AI, I don't know if it's any good.
No agenda shop.
We need to hear from them.
Yes, t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, koozies, cozies, hats, everything.
You name it, they got it.
They split the revenue with the artists and from time to time they give us a donation.
We have no contractual agreement with them, which we love!
No meetings either.
It's fabulous.
Love working that way.
And if you use one of those modern podcast apps, Dreb Scott uses all of these images for the chapter art.
Coming to Apple Podcasts soon!
I'm sure.
Thank you for the treasure to the following people, our executive producers and our associate executive producers.
Anything above $300, you're an executive producer.
It's a real title.
You can use it on IMDb as proof that it is a real title.
It's accepted by Hollywood.
You can put it on your LinkedIn profile, on your resume, and unlike the douchebags in Hollywood, we will vouch for you to say, yes, that person actually produced the show.
100%.
Cody Smith would be our top executive producer from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
He's listed in blue, which means his 105.62 brings him a knighthood.
Hey brothers, he says, I'm technically a knight already, but I came across some good fortune and wanted to share my treasure with you.
Well, thank you.
That's very kind.
Please name me Knight Smitty, lover of all and determined believer in the distributed ledger.
Love you.
I love you too, brother.
Thank you.
I'll see you on the podium in just a little bit.
I'll bet you that's Bitcoin money.
I think it is.
Chris Hamilton's up.
He's in Benbrook, Texas.
333.33.
I happen to be one of your bakery worker listeners.
Ah, yes.
I have been meaning to donate for a while, but kept putting it off.
Well, now he's got some dough.
Since you mentioned... Oh, hey-o!
Took me a second.
Yes, very good.
Since you mentioned the bakery workers in the last show, I knew it was a sign to donate.
Please de-douche me!
You've been de-douched.
Please mention the bakery, Glitz Bakery in Fort Worth, Texas.
So this will count as advertising.
Well, to you.
To you and your accountant.
Thank you, and God bless, no jingles, no karma, Chris Hamilton, Fort Worth, Texas, The Glitz Bakery.
Say hi.
Hi.
No, say hi when you go into The Glitz Bakery.
No, say ITM.
ITM.
Say ITM.
Yeah.
Or, use code Bongino.
Where's Chris?
Where's Chris, that rat bastard?
There you go.
We drop down to our Associate Executive Producers.
200 and above.
Dame Roundstone from Turnbull, Connecticut.
23456.
We love that number.
And she's throwing a bone to the sad puppy.
She says, please switch route to my husband, Storm N. Norman.
All right.
Let me make sure we have that.
Ah, that's very sweet.
I love it when spouses do that.
That's so kind.
Put that towards his knighthood.
You do the accounting.
Write off plug if you can.
Need writing, recording, or editing?
Check out randcontent.com.
That's randrcontent.com.
Free editing for meetup drops, please.
Code Bongino.
If you don't give us a code, it's going to be Bongino, okay?
Ryan D. Asio in Fishers, Indiana.
22222 Rove Ducks.
ITM Jon and Adam living and loving the carnivore life.
Therefore I can, can I get a brisket for my birthday?
They always give me a brisket on my birthday.
Yeah, and add it to the birthday list for the 20th.
Yeah, you're on it.
Thank you for your courage, Ryan D'Azio, D'Azio, D'Azio in Fishers, Indiana.
Sir Kaz, Brighton, England.
Hello, Brighton.
I've been to Brighton.
I saw Joan Collins in Brighton for some reason.
222.22.
Hey, John and Adam sent a donation of 222.22 via Stripe today.
We got it.
Thank you.
No jingles.
No big no.
Just some restore older yacht karma would be appreciated.
Yeah, he's on the coast there in Brighton.
You've got karma.
Send pictures.
I want to stay.
Brighton's right on the coast.
I'd love to see the pictures of your old yacht you're restoring.
Eli the Coffee Guy's up from Bensonville, Illinois.
Maybe it's the sad puppy in the newsletter, or maybe it's the high-quality media deconstruction, but I felt the need to donate.
Sad puppy didn't produce as much as we'd hope.
No.
Thursday's breakdown of the Carrie Lake recordings provided an excellent perspective.
Keep up the good work, gents.
To producers in the Chicagoland area, check out Napierville Meetup, or Naperville, sorry, at Quigley's Irish Pub on Tuesday, February 6th.
Thanks to Arthur, Arthur, Arthur, for putting it together.
And to all No Agenda producers, visit Gigawatt Coffee Roasters.
And use code ITM20 for 20% off your coffee order.
NJNK.
Stay caffeinated!
Eli the Coffee Guy.
So here's some bonus content inserted into your donation segment.
I got an unedited version of the Kerry Lake recording.
In fact, it was accompanied by a note from our producers who says, damn, Jeff DeWitt is one of the good guys.
He has helped a bunch of people I know get gigs in Trump's wake.
Lake was bitter that Trump was coming in to raise money for DeWitt, that's the guy who resigned, and the Arizona GOP, and not her.
She was not scheduled to be a speaker or get any money from Friday's event.
First clue about Lake was running for senator while contesting 2022 governor race.
She's been running for VP since 2022.
DeWitt will have the last laugh.
Lake just committed political hierarchy.
So now I was not able to clip it because it's it's It's not good for audio clipping, but the way it came out, the way it was presented to us, I have to say the context and nuance was edited out.
It sounded much more like he was reporting to her what was coming down the pike and not necessarily there to bribe her.
That would make sense to me.
I thought the whole thing was rigged.
Yeah.
I did put the link to this full recording, particularly the beginning.
There's a lot of the beginning that was not in the released version.
And there's some other bits that's just taken out.
Where he's kind of going, yeah, you know, that's what these guys do, you know, that kind of stuff.
So, I would have to say that was, there was definitely, there's multiple sides to that story.
Carrie Lake may not be the heroine that she appears to be.
We all, I love our producers.
Sir Mostly Nerd, $200, no jingles, no karma, and no notes!
That's right, we'll still give you a double up karma for that, thank you so much!
You've got And right there at the bottom of the list is Linda Lupatkin.
You know where she is?
She's in Lakewood, Colorado and she donates 200 bucks every show so I can read her note.
Jobs Karma for a remarkable resume that gets results.
Go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
It's what she wrote.
It's ImageMakersInc.com or just find Linda Lou Patkin under the show's producer list.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs!
Must be paying off for her.
Yes.
Now I would like to say that although we're happy to read your code Bongino and all that, the concept of value for value is sometimes it gets a little distorted.
We give you the value six hours plus per week up front, no questions asked.
Until we get to the donation segment where we ask you to return some value if you got value from it.
898,000 people listened to this show in the month of December.
The number of people donating of any amount really doesn't show.
It's under 50 today.
Yeah.
So it's okay because if we're not doing the job, you're not getting the value, we're gonna have to find something else to do eventually.
But we appreciate our executive and associate executive producers who always do make up the difference for us.
That's been going well for 16 years.
Just consider any value you receive, send it back.
We appreciate everyone under $50.
We appreciate the $5, people on sustaining donations.
Just consider giving some treasure from time to time.
And of course, time and talent is Always appreciated.
John's gonna take us through to those 50s and we'll come back with our meetups and with our two nights.
Yeah, let's start with, I guess it's Doucian, Palomado in Oviedo, Florida.
All these are impossible to say.
$110 and he does say, or could be a she, now it's a he.
Great work.
Andrew Gardner.
In Leonardtown, Maryland, 100 bucks.
Uh, he's on the birthday list and he wants to call out Sir Elliot Gardner and Joel Cox as D-bags.
I'm not sure why, uh, Sir Elliot would be called out, but it's between him and Anthony.
Line 13, I got no name.
Me neither.
I got no name.
Well, somebody sent us $88.92.
Thank you very much.
Kevin McLaughlin's next from Concord, North Carolina.
8008.
Boobs the ultimate traffic stopper.
Yep.
William Alston, 8008.
I have to read this little note there about the helium reserve.
Renegade 6 in Caldwell, Texas, 7777.
This is switcheroo to sparkles.
Of chaos, sparkles of chaos, and her birthday's coming up.
Gary Blatt, 7777.
Jeremy and Jerome.
Oh, this is interesting.
Your name is Jeremy and you live in Jerome, Idaho. 75.
I was going to move to John, California.
Sir Don in Chandler, Arizona, 6006.
Spencer Pullick in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Switcheroo to Guantanamo Bay.
B-A-E.
Jeremy, and that's 6006.
Jeremy, another Jeremy in Amherst, Ohio.
6006 needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Steve Bandistra.
I used to bear under BNA in Nashville, Tennessee.
$59.93.
Sir Not Jake in Thompson, Connecticut.
$56.78.
Incredible sad puppy.
Haley Curtis coming again, by the way.
Ooh, and the looks of things.
Haley Curtis in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Switcheroo to Spencer Pawlik of Tulsa.
Didn't we have Spencer?
He's already donated.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's funny.
The two of them donate to each other.
Switcheroos for the switcheroos for the alley-oop.
They never had a fight, he says.
Peter Chong, 55-10.
Surprise, surprise night of astonishment in Yukon, Oklahoma, 54-44.
3444, Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve II, 5150.
He's going to be at the media.
No.
No, he's not going to be at the meet-up.
Scott McCarty in Lodi, 50.
And these are all 50.
By the way, Scott Nelson in Council Bluffs, Iowa, 50-01.
Now, Scott McCarty and the rest of these are all $50 donors, name and location, starting with Scott.
Then Brian Emmenheiser in Lancaster, California.
Forrest Scott Brinkley in Christianburg, Virginia.
Shauna Norberg in Seattle, Washington.
Jack Schofield in Yankee Town, Florida.
Richard Gardner, I believe, in New York City.
I could be wrong.
Michael Elmore in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon.
John Taylor in Florissant, Colorado.
Zev Green in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Titus Chow in Houston, Texas.
Jay Alvarez in Meridian, Connecticut.
Byron P. Bellin in Ashbury, New Jersey.
Kenneth Ryan in Bonita Springs, Florida.
And last on the list is Michael Baker in Quakertown, Pennsylvania.
These are all $50 donors and all of them contributed to making us get out of bed and actually do show $16.29.
And as always, under 50 appreciated.
Many do that for anonymity, $49.99.
But everybody else, consider five bucks a month.
Anything you, any value you can spare.
I think everybody can spare that at least once a month.
That would be very, very helpful.
Sustaining donations.
Find out more at noagendadonations.com.
And thank you once again to our execs and associate executive producers of episode 1629.
Our formula is this.
We go out.
We hit people in the mouth.
Order!
Order!
Shut up, brain!
Shut up, sleep!
Shut up.
It's your birthday.
Oh, no.
And we always love celebrating birthdays with everybody.
Email us with your birthday the evening before the show.
We don't keep a calendar, but we do mention them.
If you send it to us, Andrew Gardner celebrates tomorrow on the 29th, as does Ryan Diazio.
Renegade 6 says happy birthday to his keeper, Sparkles of Chaos.
She'll be turning 30.
And Haley Curtis Curliss wishes her smoking out husband Spencer Pollock a happy birthday.
He is turning the big 33.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
We have two nights with one layaway night, so we love reading those notes, which means he spent a long time with small donations, which gets you to the finish line.
This is Kyle Vargas.
He says, I've been listening to the Noah Jonas Show since hearing Adam on an episode of Twit.
Twit with John talking about the No Agenda Show 2008 to 2010-ish.
I stopped listening to Twit not too long after, feeling guilty and appreciative of the COVID coverage.
I started a night layaway plan of $33.33 per month in February of 2021.
With the August 2023 donation, I achieved knighthood, but life got in the way of claiming my title.
Please, would you deduce me?
And I would like my night name to be Sir Kyle of South Placer County.
You got it.
My birthday is on January 31st.
Please add me to the birthday list.
Did we put him on the birthday list?
We did not.
Jay is probably saving it for the actual birthday list.
Will that be the 31st?
Happy birthday.
Cheers, Kyle J. Vargas.
So, why don't you stand over here, Kyle, and Cody, could you come over here?
John, get your blade out.
I got it.
There we go, the big boy is out.
Kyle J. Vargas, Cody Smith, step up on the podium.
Both of you are now officially Knights of the Noah Jenner Roundtable, thanks to your support.
More than the amount of $1,000 or more, I'm very proud to pronounce the Kate Lee as Sir Kyle of South Placer County and Knight Smitty, lover of all and determined believer in the distributed ledger.
For you, we've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
A little bit of Bitcoin on the side.
Polish Potato Vodka.
We've got Harlots and Howl Doll, Redheads and Rise, Beers and Blunts, Geishas and Sake, Vodka and Vanilla.
Bong hits the bourbon, sparking cider, and escorts ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pavlova.
And I see you're already munching on the mutton, you're sipping on the mead, it's there for you!
Head over to noagendarings.com.
I keep forgetting we have a whole website for it.
noagendarings.com.
Take a look at them.
Anybody can go there and take a look at these handsome rings.
They're for knights and for dames.
We'll get your sizing.
There's a handy tool there to send that in to us along with your address.
And each ring comes with a certificate of authenticity.
So you can clearly hit everybody in the mouth, or seal your important correspondence with the included wax, seeing as they are Cignet rings.
And thank you for supporting the No Agenda Show.
No Agenda Meetups.
No Agenda Meetups.com is the website where you can find all of the meetups.
We always like to highlight a couple of them as they're coming up.
We have some taking place, actually one taking place today, the Ski In, Ski Out meetup at Salt Lake City, which, let me see, is probably underway as we speak.
If you hurry, you still get to Viking Yurt in Park City, Utah, and hang out with the guys and gals.
On Thursday, our next show day, the Northern Wake airing of Conspiracy, 6 o'clock at Compass Rose Brewing in Raleigh, North Carolina.
And also on Thursday, the Midwinter Denver Meetup, 6.30 at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
Many more all the way through May, which includes Richmond, Virginia.
I still see Fredericksburg, Texas on April 8th.
I really, I really discourage that.
It's going to be, this is the The Eclipse Day.
You know, Bill Nye is doing a contest.
Witness the Eclipse with Bill Nye the Science Guy in Fredericksburg.
It sounds like it's going to be a nightmare.
It's going to be a nightmare.
And that prize with Bill Nye, by the way, you're staying at the Lodge.
Trust me.
You don't want to win the second prize is two nights at the Lodge.
I don't want to be there.
Wow.
I didn't think you'd pull that joke.
It's a little structure.
We got Kuala Lumpur on the 17th.
Oh, Toms River, New Jersey on the 17th as well.
My old stomping grounds.
Arlington, Virginia, some spooks on February 10th.
And I want to pre-promote the Austin Sunset Valley, Texas.
Meetup, which I think will be at Doc's Backyard, February 10th.
Barron Scott and his lovely wife are always happy to welcome you to that.
Snow Agenda Meetups.
What are you drinking?
I heard it.
I heard it.
Oh, well, now that you mention it.
Hold on.
Yes.
Oh, I thought I heard a show beer opening.
No, you were hearing me scratch out something on the list.
Scratching your butt.
Oh, there we go.
Yes.
I do have something.
What are you drinking?
This will be another, uh, dram.
Herbal sparkling water.
Herbal!
Herbal sparkling water and it's lavender and lemon balm.
Oh boy.
I can't believe you're drinking that.
That can't be good.
Well, I will say that it was just provided by some of our producers to send me a box of these things.
Oh, you got some good stuff there.
You know, it's actually not that bad.
Hmm.
I mean, I got the Little House on the Prairie cookbook.
The Little House on the Prairie community is out of control.
Well, you're such a big fan, I'm surprised that you didn't have it already.
Yeah, thank you very much.
Go to noagendameetups.com if you want to participate in any of the meetups.
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Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
This is like a party.
Alright, I'm over-ISO'd today, so I might as well go first.
I figured you would be because last show you had nothing.
I am over-ISO'd.
Here we go!
Okay, you can take your hands off your kiddo's ears.
That's too long.
Too long.
It's like a digital fentanyl.
Kind of like that one.
Kind of like that one.
Um, I think, uh, there's some, this is new.
Ding, ding, ding!
He did some new ding-dings.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Bum, shing, poom.
Then I have this one.
There is no evidence.
I thought that was pretty good!
And then we go to the well for the final ones.
A fantastic episode.
Okay, so, wait, one more.
That will be the winner.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I have one more.
An incredible episode.
Fantastic or incredible?
Which one?
This is a tough call.
I think the fantastic was better.
A fantastic episode.
Because I like the breathiness.
The little breathiness.
I have two.
Okay.
Which I already concede the one that's going to be that one that you just played.
Yeah.
But let's go with promise.
Promise made and a promise kept.
It's funny.
Yeah.
All right.
And then roll.
That's not how I roll.
Yeah, I think the fantastic episode is appropriate.
That's just the one we gotta do.
And now it's time for... I love it when people post good news stories that we've already played on the show.
I saw that on the Mastodon.
You're like, keep up, will ya?
Well, the good news today is I don't have a good news clip.
What?! !
You know what happened?
No!
This is... I was talking to Mimi and she posted a couple of clips and there's some other clips.
There were a couple of good ones by the way.
Really great clips.
This is an atrocity.
Said the fisherman.
And then I forgot to put them on the countdown sheet.
I never produced them.
And I don't even have a backup good news.
Are you kidding me?
Actually, from a couple of shows ago, I have a backup Good News, but... If it's not current, it can't really... you can't really handle it.
Well, I feel bad now.
Well, you should.
This is your beat.
How can you miss out on your beat?
I know, it's pretty funny.
Well, then I'll let you play one more clip before we go.
Just so we have... Okay, we'll call it the Good News clip.
It's Biden.
Always good news to play Biden.
Okay, all right.
What are we playing?
This will be, I got two Biden clips.
One of them is Biden talking about the first, about Second Amendment gun rights.
And here he goes, Biden F-16 comment.
Well, guess what, man?
I didn't see a whole lot of patriots that are out there walking around making sure that we have these weapons.
And if you really want to worry about the government, you need an F-16.
Oh, is he on that tip again?
He's done this before.
This is old.
His old stick.
Everything he says is old.
Here he is, biting on beer.
Beer, brewed here.
It is used to make the brew beer.
Oh, Earth Rider, thanks for the Great Lakes.
I wonder why he said that.
Okay, alright.
You know what?
You better have a good news clip next show.
I mean, it's one thing to throw in a China clip.
And then you have no good news?
This is an atrocity.
An atrocity.
I don't know where we're gonna go.
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End of show mixes, that fabulous Trump rotation.
We've got Brian Longenecker, and we have our immigration clip.
Who was that from?
I have to remember.
Can't remember.
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I have my list, and you might want to see if there's anything I left out.
This is the Trump rotation.
And there's two categories.
There's the regular and then there's the criminal.
But here we go.
Ready?
Yeah.
Liar.
Incompetent.
Unhinged.
Illegitimate president.
White supremacist.
Racist.
Bully.
Immature.
Russian agent.
Narcissist.
Mean.
Long ties.
Insane.
Tweets too much.
Small hands.
Small penis.
Big red button.
Criminal.
He's immature.
Thin-skinned.
Runs the mob.
Has no money.
Unstable.
Fatter than 239 pounds.
Bankrupt.
25th Amendment should be instituted.
He hates women.
Misogynist.
Holds grudges forever.
Plays golf a lot.
Obstruction of justice.
Money laundering.
And clowned.
John!
No wonder we're making America white again.
Build a cyber wall. Build a cyber wall. Build a cyber wall. Cyber wall.
Build a cyber wall. Build a cyber wall. Cyber wall. Build a cyber wall.
Build a cyber wall. Build a cyber wall.
Those kids are alone.
They are in cages.
They are given peanut butter on tortillas.
They're given frozen sandwiches that still have ice in them.
Is that the kind of environment you would want your kid to be in?
We don't need no immigration.
We don't need no water patrol No peanut butter enchilada We'll be right back.
Donald, leave the kids alone.
Hey, Donald, leave the kids alone.
All and all its own, all for funding your wall.
All in all, it's all.
All for funding the wall.
Kirsten Nielsen will not give you a chance to know we are ruining your dinner.
She is the secretary of the NHS.
I've ripped children apart from their families every day.
They lock them up in cages.
They sleep under those silver blankets we've got to get at marathons.
These kids will never be reunited with their parents because Kirsten Nielsen's staff doesn't think it's necessary to make a plan to reunite them with their parents.
Have you ever been to a detention center?
I've been to one in Nogales, Arizona.
Those kids are alone there in cages.
They're given peanut butter on tortillas.
They're given frozen sandwiches that still have ice in them.
Is that the kind of environment you would want your kid to be in?
That was a very interesting comment.
And I thought, The idea of giving these children tortillas with peanut butter, and some of them were out of the fridge, they still had ice on them, is just despicable to this woman.
It's just the whole idea.
Meanwhile, I don't know if she has kids, but she's probably feeding them mac and cheese.
If they see any weakness, they will come by the millions.
They will come by the millions.
If they see any weakness... Zero tolerance for criminals!
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.
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