I'm sorry, before we continue, I want to warn everybody.
Uh, several times during today's broadcast, we will be switching away to cutaways of Taylor Swift.
Oh, we all need to calm down, and I'm not talking about the podcast.
I'm talking about having Taylor Swift here.
There you go.
Just once in a while, we gotta cut to Taylor Swift, so we all have seen that she's here.
I think she's gonna come out on stage at the halftime show.
This is... Okay.
Calm down.
She's not gonna come out on... Do you think she's gonna come out on stage at the halftime show with Usher?
Naked.
I wanted to give us a little props.
I got a note from our boots on the ground that M5M news quote quote quote news outlets were pitching NORAD to have Taylor Swift's plane tracked.
They called the public affairs office.
They really wanted this just like Santa Claus and they all said no.
But we were right.
That is the extent of peak swiftness.
Well, the problem is, of course...
Is that she actually landed yesterday morning.
Is this true?
I thought she had a concert.
She has to jump on the plane.
Yeah, but it's a day ahead and so it's like... So she's already there.
She's already been back yesterday morning and she landed in LA in the morning and she got to Florida yesterday.
This is disappointing.
That ruined it.
That ruined the idea for NORAD.
Yeah, that's disappointing.
I thought we were going to get her tracking, you know, have her cutaways of her convoy coming from the airport.
Will she make it in time?
Will she make it in time?
Oh, brother.
Yeah, that would be ideal.
Yeah, if we were producing it, we'd do that.
We'd still fake that, you know, it could still happen.
We'd do that.
We would do that right away.
They could fake it the way they did The last good news clip from last show I got a lot of flack from.
Oh, I even, uh, yes.
Yes, people were very disappointed by, uh, they felt.
I don't know about being disappointed, but they, including in Milwaukee, we have a Milwaukee police guy who did a lot of research on this and, and he said research found the city, everything, all the details.
It was, it was a legit story, but my commentary and I, I never said it wasn't a legit story.
I said that it was sweetened with a lot of, Staged clips, which is what NBC does.
I think they do some of the poorest news reporting.
I don't think you covered your tracks very well.
No, I didn't.
I forgot to.
There's no evidence.
I mean, you did not do a great job.
But the fact is that there's no way that some of those clips, they could have even had them, so... It's alright, everybody loves you.
Especially the little girl in the back seat going, where's daddy?
Where did they get that recording?
John, it's okay.
The thing that I was amazed by is that so many people listen all the way to the end of the show.
I'm like, this is good!
All the cops do, for sure.
This is good, we love that.
Little cops in their car, they're doing it, they're on patrol.
Of course, what else are you gonna do?
Listen to the show, of course.
You know it.
All right.
My assessment?
Inside attack.
25th Amendment on deck.
Biden realizes he's in trouble.
Biden doesn't realize anything.
Nah, did you watch the whole press conference from beginning to end?
Yes.
I watched the whole thing.
What, the whole seven minutes?
17, it was 17 minutes.
Okay.
And the way the news cut this up, they're in on it, obviously, because yeah, he made a mistake about CeCe.
Okay.
I mean, obviously that's not your top level performance presidential material.
But the way they were cutting in, well, I have some clips, obviously, the way they were cutting in some of his responses to make it look even worse.
Yeah.
He came out, he was ready to defend his stance.
He fumbled a few things, but they turned this into, he's a bumbling idiot.
Okay, let's start off.
The main talking point.
Angry and defiant!
President Biden... Well, hold on a second.
You're just going right into the story without giving any background for anyone who might be listening overseas or anyplace else about what we're talking about.
Oh, but the... Please background us.
But everybody understands Taylor Swift.
Biden came out.
Well, it's in the report.
The background is in the report.
Go on and describe it.
A report came out.
Yeah, but it's in this, it's in this clip that explains.
Okay, well, if it's all covered in the clip, then play the clip first.
Yes, thank you for slowing the pace down.
President Biden angry and defiant.
My memory is fine.
In a hastily called evening news conference, the president responding directly to special counsel Robert Herr's report on his handling of classified documents.
On the document!
that included a blistering assessment of the 81-year-old's age and what the report called his diminished faculties in advancing age.
The president slamming her's assessment that he did not remember when his son Bo died.
How in the hell dare he raise that?
I don't need anyone.
I don't need anyone to remind me when he passed away.
The remarks coming hours after the special counsel said our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency, but said no criminal charges are warranted in this matter.
Adding that a jury would likely see the president as a sympathetic, well-meaning and elderly man with a poor memory.
I'm well-meaning, I'm an elderly man, and I know what the hell I'm doing.
Moment.
All of the news reports, all the packages had this, where they say, oh, he's an elderly man with poor memory, and they cut to him saying, I'm an elderly man with poor memory.
But in context, he was complaining about that one sentence.
This re- for people, and most people, of course, don't watch the full thing.
It really sounds like, oh my God, the guy is toast.
Not saying he isn't, but it wasn't all that bad.
Pathetic well-meaning and elderly man with a poor memory.
I'm well-meaning, and I'm an elderly man, and I know what the hell I'm doing.
Moments later, the president confusing Mexico and Egypt when talking about the crisis in Gaza.
The president of Mexico, Sisi, did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in.
Yeah, and the other thing, and I'm not defending Biden, but I just want to point out that the news is in on this, the M5M, because it wasn't moments later.
He had actually walked off, and then he came back to answer some questions about Israel, so it was separated by many minutes.
I believe you have some clips about the documents themselves, which I'd like to give you some space to talk about, and then I'd like to go back to the M5M analysis and packages.
Well, first of all, I have a couple of clips here I want to play.
That's what I just suggested.
I want to play the gaffe that I thought was the bad one, which came right at the beginning when he's all upset about his not remembering the day his son died, which I believe is probably true and probably documented.
But it's the gaffe that he made right there when he came out to deny it, which is this one, which I still think was the big gaffe of the day, not the Mexico one, but this is the Biden Our Lady of gaffe.
I know there's some attention paid to some language in the report about my recollection of events.
There's even reference that I don't remember when my son died.
How in the hell dare he raise that?
Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn't any of their damn business.
Let me tell you something.
Some of you have commented, I wear, since the day he died, every single day, the rosary he got from Our Lady of...
Every Memorial Day we hold a service remembering him attending by friends and family and the people who loved him.
Well, yeah.
Our Lady of and then he couldn't remember where it was.
Lady of Guadalupe, by the way, for anyone who doesn't know.
Since you bring that up, when he came back to respond to, I guess... The Screaming Reporter.
Well, they were all screaming reporters.
He said something under his breath, and then he came with what I thought was quite the revelation.
He wants to talk about the hostage negotiation, and he says something like, uh, how do I say this without revealing anything?
So there's some plan.
And so that's what we're pushing.
And I'm pushing very hard now to deal with this hostage ceasefire.
Because, you know, I've been working tirelessly in this deal.
How can I say this without revealing it?
How can I say this without revealing it?
If I was a hostage, I'd be very worried about this guy.
To lead to a sustained pause in the fighting, in the actions taking place in the Gaza Strip.
And because I think if we could get the delay for that, the initial delay, I think that we would be able to extend that so that we could increase the prospect that this fighting in Gaza changes.
There's also negotiations.
Now listen to what he says now.
He talks about just before October 7th.
You may recall, in the very beginning, right after, right before Hamas attacked.
Right after?
Right before?
I was in contact with the Saudis and others to work out a deal where they would recognize Israel's right to exist, let them make them part of the Middle East, and recognize them fully in return for certain things that the United States would commit to do.
And the commitment that we were proposed to do related to two items.
I'm not going to go in detail, but one of them was to deal with the protection against their arch enemy to the northwest.
Northeast, I should say.
Who's the arch enemy to the northeast, northwest, northeast?
Who's he talking about?
Saudi Arabia.
The second one, by providing ammunition and material for them to defend themselves.
Coincidentally, that's the time frame when this broke out.
I have no proof of what I'm about to say, but it's not unreasonable to suspect that the Hamas understood what was about to take place and wanted to break it up before it happened.
So he's responsible?
No, I think this was actually discussed before when the Hamas did their thing on the 7th.
Biden was in the process of closing out the Abraham Accords that were set up by Trump to normalize relationships between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which the Iranians didn't want.
But he mentioned ammunitions.
He was going to give them munitions.
That was not in the initial analysis.
No, I don't remember that either.
Clearly the guy's no good, but the focus on his memory is quite astounding.
So today's bonus clip is coming up.
I was watching Saki this morning.
So she's defending him and slamming a pen into the ground.
And she made a big point by taking like five Trump clips showing, well, everybody makes mistakes.
And she shows Klump saying Sioux City instead of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Has Trump saying, Biden's going to start World War II.
So, hey, he's not the only crazy old coot.
So she goes on and on about the two of them are both the same.
And, you know, even though Trump's gaffes are hardly the same league as Biden's, but she goes on to claim that they are.
And then she says this.
And I'm thinking people make gaffes all the time, but they usually don't have a staff of people, directors, producers, writers, people in the control room where she says the following.
81 year old Joe Biden is running against.
77-year-old, not a sprite, Donald Trump.
Whoever you may wish was running, it is time to settle into the fact that there will be two baby boomers competing for the White House in November.
That is what's happening.
Now, what did she say?
87-year-old Biden?
No, she said 82 or 81 or 82-year-old Biden.
77-year-old Trump.
Let me hear it again.
Hold on.
81-year-old Joe Biden is running against 77-year-old, not a sprite, Donald Trump.
Not a sprite?
Not a Sprite.
No, that's not the gaffe.
Whoever you may wish was running, it is time to settle into the fact that there will be two baby boomers competing for the White House in November.
That is what's happening.
Baby boomers.
You didn't get it either, but that's why you need a staff.
If you have a staff of people, this wouldn't happen.
Biden is not a baby boomer!
He's from the great generation?
He's from the silent generation.
The great generation was the ones that were in World War One.
Two.
The point is, is that Biden is the only silent generation president we've ever had.
Because there are a bunch of guys that were, you know, their parents were probably not at war.
They're home having babies, and he's not a baby boomer.
The baby boomers get blamed for everything.
All the silent generation screw-ups, and there's tons of them, like Biden, are always pushed into the baby boomer group when they're not.
They're not baby boomers.
He's not a baby boomer.
The baby boomers, the oldest baby boomers are 77.
Max.
Born in 1946.
Biden was born in the 30s or something.
I don't know when he was born.
Well, I think they should fire the entire staff and Psaki!
Get rid of him for this horrible gaffe!
The point is, if you're going to go on and on and on about making gaffes and point out that Trump makes gaffe and he makes gaffe, then you don't make a gaffe!
It's better formed that way.
I'm in total agreement.
Let me lead you into your document clips.
Because CBS, I think CBS was really, they were cutting, they were cutting on the president.
Let's start with President Biden having to defend his mental capabilities.
Described in the report as sympathetic, elderly man who is well-meaning.
That is not how you want your president to be perceived.
No, but he leaned right into it last night and said, I am a sympathetic elderly man who has a good memory.
That's not what he said.
He just repeated what the report said.
The thing he's got to convince and prove to voters over the next several months.
I mean, yesterday in many ways encapsulated what so many voters tell us they're so worried about.
Two guys, one who has to spend a lot of time this year in a courtroom.
Another who is perceived as a nice guy, but perhaps too old and unable to do the job.
And at this point, they've got to figure out which one of these guys do I prefer.
To Gail's point, perception is reality, though, when it comes to the voters.
This year is an important year.
And when he has these moments, perception is reality.
I mean, this is something that is glaring moving into this year.
And if you're holding a press conference about your mental acuity and to mix up Egypt and Mexico, Mexico is not even in the conversation.
No questions about Mexico, it's not the topic of the press conference, it's not a good look.
No, and it was also about the southern border of Gaza, so he went to Mexico.
Who among us hasn't screwed up those two countries before, but we're not president.
And that's the real concern that they have at the White House that they're going to have to prove.
So my entire analysis here, the media is not defending Biden at all.
They're doubling down, they're cutting in bits where he was just repeating what was in the report and making it sound as if he said that last night, as an idiot.
25th Amendment, on deck!
This is to make him look impeachable.
We only need a couple of people to jump in.
No.
As far as I know, and you can correct me if you know I'm wrong, the 25th Amendment has to be initiated by the Vice President who's all in with Biden.
Mmm, okay.
You want to... He came out and she's made big statements about how sharp his attack is and blah blah blah.
No, I disagree with you.
I think this is an attack by Kamala, or she's in on it.
She had a set-up question.
She was doing a whole different spiel there at the Vice President, I think it was at the Naval Academy.
It was about something completely different.
No, I'm talking about the sit-down.
I'm talking about the immediate reaction which got most of the press.
The immediate reaction I saw that got most of the press is her sitting down saying, the facts are wrong, Biden's sharp as a tack.
I want you to listen to this and see if I can change your mind.
Set up question by some rookie reporter who she thanks profusely in the beginning and at the end.
And then she goes on to compare herself to the president as a wartime president.
I'm glad you asked. - Yes.
I'm glad you asked, as we agreed to beforehand.
Listen, I have been privileged and proud to serve as Vice President of the United States with Joe Biden as President of the United States.
And what I saw that report last night, I believe is, as a former prosecutor, the comments that were made by that prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate.
October 7th, Israel experienced a horrific attack and I will tell you, we got the calls, the President and myself, in the hours after that occurred.
It was an intense moment for the Commander-in-Chief of the United States of America, and I was in almost every meeting with the President.
I can take over any time, I'm your war lady!
In the hours and days that followed.
Countless hours with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, The heads of our intelligence community.
I was there!
And the president was in front of and on top of it all.
On top of it?
Asking questions and requiring that America's military and intelligence community and diplomatic community would figure out and know how many people were dead.
So she goes on and on and on to talk about how she was there.
She was in every single meeting.
She was there with the heads of state, with everyone from intelligence, all the military guys.
Clearly, politically motivated.
But it was politically motivated.
Gratuitous.
Gratuitous.
I'm a prosecutor.
And so I will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect That there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw.
Thank you.
I'm telling you, my spidey sense says she's in on this and she will be the first to say, I'm sorry, Joe, you just got to go.
Well, that would be, uh, entertaining.
Yes, of course.
I mean, I like the fact that we got a lot of firsts coming up here.
We have the, you know, the first indictment for, uh, or the second ever in history of, uh, of a cabinet member with Mayorkas.
Yeah.
And then we have the, First, it's only happened once before.
It was I think in the 1800s where you had a president.
That was president, then voted out, and then voted back in.
That would be another one.
Yep.
That'd be a first.
And then you said the 25th Amendment.
I don't have the clip, but I was quite disappointed.
I should have gone back and scrounged up the clip, but I was quite disappointed in Dershowitz going on about the 25th Amendment saying the reason that the framers put the 25th Amendment in place, which is his quote, And then he went on with an explanation for how it works.
I was quite disappointed in that because it wasn't the Framers who, you know, George Washington, the Hamiltons, it wasn't those guys that had anything to do with the 25th Amendment.
These are amendments.
The 25th Amendment showed up after Woodrow Wilson.
Yeah.
Hardly a Framers.
Well, you know, so there's a couple of things, a couple of theories we've had.
It can also Well, first of all, by invoking the 25th Amendment, we can get him off the stage and then we can bring in other people to run.
So it's not necessarily that Kamala is going to be president, but she could be used to bring in Newsom, or obviously there's Big Mike, just to get him out of the way, or to ensure, and this is our true theory, to ensure Trump is going to win.
We want Trump to win so that he can take all the heat for all the crap that's gonna happen.
Clean it up.
Yeah, yeah, I can't get off that thesis completely.
I also can't completely get off the thesis that we may be dealing with a Biden who's actually doing the bit of Vincent the Chin Gigante.
They've had one of the mob bosses who played himself as an idiot peeing in his pants walking around Greenwich Village.
I will tell you the way he conducted himself, watching from beginning to end, he was more like that.
He was more like Gigante, knowing what he was doing.
Yeah, he's fumbling a bit.
But it felt more like that, and like he was under attack from the inside.
Like, holy crap, I gotta get out there.
You know what's funny?
So I watched this whole thing, but I watched, and then I watched the after discussion with Peter Doocy on Fox, who was immediately after the press conference, Doocy was talking to one of the, I forgot which one of the hosts on one of the shows when Biden came out and made that press Impromptu press conference.
And Doocy's explanation of the scene was so alien to what the host and what I saw and what you saw, what everybody saw.
Doocy says it seemed, you know, like a cacophony because you had all these reporters screaming at him from all the networks.
And Doocy says that when you were there, Biden handled himself well.
He thought that his nasty remark toward Ducey about his memory, remembering he wouldn't have talked to him.
Yeah.
It was a kind of a try to make it a joke and he couldn't do it.
Ducey comes out and says, no, it wasn't like that at all.
It was pretty it was pretty calm and collected.
But this is what I'm saying.
This is what I'm saying.
It had to be miked funny.
Yeah, well, the miking is always bad.
They're never really good with that.
Because it sounded like a bunch of screaming reporters and they had close-ups of Biden looking left and right like he was confused.
And Ducey says that he didn't feel that when he was actually there.
I'm agreeing with Ducey.
It didn't feel like the way the packages have been put together.
A guy came out first who's the same height as Biden.
He had paperwork.
Guy comes back.
He's crossing some stuff off.
Biden is opening up.
He sees what he's got.
He knows what to read.
He's still an old guy, so he flubs some obvious things.
I'm not saying he's not worthy of being 25th Amendment-ized, but he was a lot calmer, like the Gigante Theory comes much more into play here.
So I wish we had that clip from Doocy.
I agree.
He was being railroaded and I think he knew it.
That's why I'm thinking Kamala, that's the only way.
If you want to do the 25th Amendment, you have to go through Kamala and the majority of the cabinet.
But then they have a plan.
There's a plan afoot.
Biden doesn't want to leave.
For sure.
No, definitely not.
Here's the 40 seconds about the special investigator.
So the question, I think the question for our viewers, for the American people is, is Robert Herr, this special prosecutor, special counsel, is he a political hack?
Or did he see something in his five-hour interview that he thought was so significant he needed to describe it?
He is a former Republican Justice Department official, which is a point that Biden's allies will continue to make in the coming weeks.
This was somebody who has come from a partisan or political background and was trying to come up with something.
They anticipated it would be a scathing report.
I don't think they anticipated this personal of a call out there in his behavior.
So much so that the special counsel's office went back to him and said, could you please remove that?
You've overstepped here as a prosecutor.
That's not fair.
I mean, this guy has spook written all over him.
He was top aide to Rod Rosenstein.
He was liaison to Special Counsel Mueller for the investigation of the Russia interference.
Yeah, Trump nominated him.
But Merrick Garland's in charge of him.
I mean, Merrick Garland!
Come on!
Merrick Garland let this guy do this?
Nah.
None of that makes no sense.
No, that I think is a point on your favor in so far as this is a palace plot or whatever they used to call it.
Yes, a palace coup.
A palace coup.
Yes.
So here we got the Biden docs analysis.
This is from NTD.
I've got four clips, but the two of the clips are about Russia.
It's just changes.
They changed the topic on me, but it actually becomes more interesting.
President Biden has addressed the special counsel report on his handling of classified documents.
Joining us now to explore the report as well as Biden's response, we have investigative journalist Jeff Carlson.
He's also the co-host of Truth Over News on Epic TV.
I want to start with Biden's documents case where hers 350 plus page report confirms that Biden committed multiple crimes in possessing that material saying that our commander-in-chief quote risked serious damage to America's national security that included exposing identities of clandestine CIA officers and some of the most sensitive of America's foreign agents abroad but he added that Biden won't be prosecuted because he's Too mentally unsound to face a trial.
What did you make of this report?
Well, there's two sides to the report effectively, right?
There's the body of the report, the evidence that's amassed, and then there's the conclusion.
And the report itself, I mean, make no mistake, it is very damning.
It provides great detail as to what Biden did.
It even covers a little known story that goes all the way back to 21, when documents were at the Biden Pen Center, and it walks through the entirety of that.
It makes very clear that Biden should have been prosecuted except for the conclusion, and that is that Biden is not mentally competent to be prosecuted.
And it's those statements that are causing a firestorm for everybody right now.
On that note, following this report, Biden gave a surprise address to the nation.
Now, one exchange that came up was this.
President Biden, something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because, in his description, you are a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.
I'm well meaning and I'm an elderly man and I know what the hell I'm doing.
I've been president and I put this country back on its feet.
How bad is your memory and can you continue as president?
My memory is so bad I let you speak.
Hold on.
I just had another thought.
It is entirely possible.
That the M5M has been instructed to focus only on the memory and not on the report.
Because the report is indeed very damning.
How about that?
Oh, I like that one because I'm thinking back on what was reported.
They are concentrating on this and they're downplaying the report.
The report itself.
Which is 300 pages of incredible crimes.
Yeah, he's giving away CIA assets.
Doing it after he was VP.
Right.
So it's possible that all of this is just a focus on that.
And, as we know, Fox News is run by Democrats, so here, Doocy, focus on this.
And the president had a punchline for him.
Which I'm not thinking was on the fly.
In the history of comedy, one of the poorest delivered.
Well, that's what I'm thinking.
It might have been written.
Like, you know, that's what I'm thinking now all of a sudden.
That's very possible.
Yeah, I think that actually might be the answer.
Well, you know, if you don't mind me interrupting for a second your clip, meet the press.
Kristen, for some reason, needs to bring in Chip Todd Chuggery.
What's his name?
Chuggery.
And I think he has, in this clip, I think he has, you know, the only plan, the only thing that they can do.
Chuck, let's talk about the politics of this.
Some of the language in this report is just damning.
You can't Can't get around it.
An elderly man with a poor memory.
He's in the fight of his political life.
I love this.
This may be what's going on, John.
The report is damning.
He's an elderly man.
How about giving up CIA assets?
Well, and it's also when is it coming, right?
It's coming on the heels of just more of these.
And he's accumulating.
This is sort of a narrative that is the classic death by a thousand cuts, right?
You know, the coal and the Helmut Kohl and the Francois Mitterrand and it's these tiny little things and every moment, of course, gets amplified by the right-wing noise machine and it certainly does, you're seeing with this, in this report.
There's an easy way, though.
For the White House to basically make this report pointless about his memory.
Which is?
Put him out there.
Yeah.
Let's see.
Put them out there all the time.
The easiest way to get rid of this storyline is to get him out there.
Oh, yes!
Get him out there!
This report, the report is only damning because he's a... You know what?
It all comes together.
Hey, this is Merrick Garland.
Listen to her.
Listen to me.
I see all these issues we've got going on here.
Put something in there that makes him look like an old turd, and we'll focus everybody on that.
There's nothing about the report itself!
They're preoccupied with the insult.
And Chuck is even saying, oh no, the right-wing noise machine will focus on that.
Like, focus on that, focus on that, focus on that.
And I guarantee you, the info mavericks will be focusing on that.
They're all focusing on it.
Yes, yes, this is it.
Let's go back to the document itself.
I'm glad you have these clips.
What's your reaction to this exchange?
Well, first of all, you have to consider the fact that they felt compelled that they had to do this press conference in the first place.
In other words, they recognized that this report was indeed that bad on both sides of it, both in terms of the evidence and in terms of their conclusion.
But think about it this way.
Biden is either too senile to be prosecuted, or he should be prosecuted.
Biden is either not competent to stand trial, Conversely, is he competent to be president?
I mean, these are the very real questions that the Democratic Party is facing right now.
Well, now NTD is falling into it.
It's hard not to.
It's the best part.
Yeah, but it's more entertaining than finding out that this guy's a complete loser with all these documents that he had scattered all over.
They had the photos, you know, busted open boxes, handwritten notes.
And then at his press conference, and I'm sorry we don't have the whole thing, he denies it.
He says the report exonerates him.
Yeah.
No.
And everything was in locked filing cabinets and nothing was in locked filing cabinets.
So they've done a good job of twisting.
And he said, I didn't, my staff moved him.
It's my staff.
I can't, you can't blame me.
He threw his staff under the bus.
Wow.
It may, maybe this is it.
The report is so bad.
And from what I've seen, it is so bad.
They didn't want that to be the focus.
Hmm.
Hmm hmm hmm.
Okay.
Brings a new light on things.
Yeah, well you can spike the ball later.
Let's go.
Now what happens now is they slightly change the subject and it actually becomes kind of more interesting as he talks about Russia.
And now switching gears a little bit, Fox News, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been making headlines with his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Now there's been mixed reactions, especially in the media world, with even the EU proposing sanctions on him.
What did you make of his interview, but also the reactions around it?
You know, I found the reactions predictable.
I think the media is terrified both at what, you know, Putin's demonstration of competence his grasp of history.
But also, you know, like during that interview, he made it very clear that he was open to having a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine.
And yet, you know, that's been an ongoing effort where there's a continual demand for funds to keep funding a war in Ukraine that's frankly unwinnable and is always, in my estimation anyway, has always been unwinnable.
Now, the Tucker-Putin interview covered a range of topics, including AI and even Elon Musk, but what was most surprising to you?
The length of it, the fact that he was willing to, there was, it was such a breadth of topics that were covered.
You know, this, this meeting went, this interview went more than two hours in length.
Again though, the first thing that I gravitated to was Putin's throwing out there of his own, you know, very forthright that he wanted a negotiated settlement to Ukraine.
That's probably the thing first and foremost that grabbed my attention.
As well as the fact this understanding of history and that Russia, I think, as a country is much more tied to their history than, unfortunately, we are here in the United States right now.
I think it's correct that NTD switches to that because it was also well-timed to cover up massive coverage of the Tucker Putin interview.
There was very little time for anyone to cover any of the content of it.
And by the way, he was very specific that Boris Johnson was the one that went into, because I watched that whole, that was tedious to watch, the whole Tucker interview.
But Putin very, exactly as we predicted, described specifically, hey, the documents were there.
Boris Johnson flew in, said, no, no, no, no, no, you're not, you're not going to sign that, you're going to fight.
They didn't say that in the NTD analysis but it was also just a great cover-up and when you're done with these clips I have some I think some responses to the Tucker.
Well I do want to mention something which is I was reading various discussions where they kind of pass over this this Interview with Putin and almost everybody in the mainstream media claims and you start looking into it They all say well the thing about it is we have to stay in this work because Putin doesn't want to negotiate Yeah, which is exactly the opposite of what he said.
Which is a total lie.
All he wants to do is negotiate.
Yeah, he said, I don't want to invade Poland.
I don't want to do it.
Just let's negotiate this thing out.
Let's do it, bro.
That's pretty much what I heard.
And he goes on and on about the Minsk agreements where everybody was ready to negotiate.
And then that was the Boris Johnson thing.
I think he's the one who pulled the plug on Minsk.
Yes.
And so this is just like, we're just being scammed by the media in terms of the way they're presenting stuff to us.
Well, the focus is what's so amazing, is how the focus is put on certain things that, again, you're getting the same clips on Twitter, you're getting the same talking points and focus, really focus from the alternative media, what I call the info mavericks.
Like, oh, let's talk about this, let's talk about this.
I wonder how many people actually watched all two hours and seven minutes besides you and I. Or all 17 minutes of Biden.
This is no longer done.
I think people just sniffing each other's butts and getting each other's clips.
Well, they're, they're, yeah.
It doesn't take a genius to watch 17 minutes of Biden.
Let's go to part two of this, and then there's this one other aspect which is kind of the most interesting part of it.
I don't know what's going to come of it.
And one thing that seems to be standing out to some was the binder that Tucker was holding.
What did you make of that?
Yes, in many respects, especially in kind of light of the overshadowing events yesterday, that was the thing that I thought was the most interesting at the very end.
And Tucker made a point of showing it.
For those that didn't see, Tucker was given a very large binder of documents from Putin to bring back, and it's unknown what's in there.
But not only did you see that at the end of the interview in the handoff, but Tucker made a very real point of posting that as a separate clip, just he and the binder alone, and without telling us what's in there, making very clear what it was and pointed it out to everybody.
So a lot of curiosity surrounding what's exactly in all those documents.
Oh, I know what's in the binder.
Doesn't everybody know?
I thought that was well known.
What's in the binder?
Pictures of Taylor Swift.
I'm wondering where you're going to go with that.
So he's got this binder, which means as soon as Tucker gets back on the airplane he'll be debriefed by a bunch of CIA guys, which he's always wanted to be a CIA guy himself.
As Putin even pointed out, you wanted to be a CIA guy, they wouldn't have you.
Supposedly.
Supposedly, right?
Supposedly.
And so they're going to go over the stuff with the fine-tooth comb.
Now the problem is, is that what's Tucker going to do with this?
Is he going to release it?
You know, if you release part of it, of the binder and you don't release it all, you know, Putin's got a second copy that he can come and say, here's what they didn't release.
And this is what's important.
You know, it could be a setup for something like for a, for a stunt like that.
It could be, there's a, who knows?
I mean, this is what we're going to find out eventually, but the binders Swiftop comes into play.
It's like whatever, whatever it is, it'll be AI generated fake.
Maybe.
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
That's what you could do.
So Tucker Carlson might be prosecuted for under the Espionage Act.
A lawyer warns.
What espionage did he commit?
This is just noise, just noise.
You know, the tech companies will be testing European Union law, regulating lies.
You know, you can't put that on the internet, you can't put that on your platform, it's lies!
And, most importantly, I want you all to know, Tucker Carlson is not a journalist.
He is not a journalist.
He is not someone that you need to take seriously.
In fact, he's someone who there would be no reason to take him seriously so he cannot be held liable for the things that he says.
So to try to couch what he's doing right now as supposedly being about journalism is absolutely ridiculous.
Tucker Carlson is going to be there and be the journalist that none of us are.
Actually, Tucker, you are not in journalism.
A long time ago, sure, but these days, you've been in the propaganda business.
And I say, yeah, journalist in quotes.
Yes.
Am I allowed to say his name?
Yes, yes, I'm just... His name is Tucker Carlson, and he is the only American journalist who has been able to interview Putin since the invasion in 2022.
Tucker Carlson is not a journalist.
Not even close.
Why he's doing this interview now, obviously for the Kremlin it makes sense if they want to talk.
It's a friendly voice, but we will keep trying our best to actually commit journalism.
Some of us, Tucker, have already decided.
You are literally the worst media figure imaginable to be doing an interview with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
You have no journalistic credibility.
None!
I mean, he's like a puppy dog.
I find it gobsmacking terrifying too, Ali, and it's sort of like we talk about, you know, disinformation on social media.
Well, disinformation from people like Tucker Carlson?
Tucker Carlson is lying from the streets of Russia, no less.
So he's not a journalist.
What is a journalist?
Now, do you have to go to journalism school to be considered a journalist?
I just want to get the straight skinny on this.
Well, it depends on your definition.
Bloggers are considered journalists in some quarters.
You can define it in a lot of different ways, but anyone who keeps a journal would be a journalist.
Anyone who's a reporter, reports on something, would be a journalist.
There's no licensing in the United States.
In some countries, to be a journalist, for example, Brazil, you have to have a license from the government to be an official journalist.
That's the way to go.
And they would like that here too, but no.
No, you can be, you can just call yourself a journalist and you are, I would use the term ipso facto, a journalist.
Ipso facto.
I think if you use the word ipso facto, you are in fact a journalist right there.
Absolutely.
Here's Chris Wallace.
Tucker Carlson showed up in Moscow this week to interview Vladimir Putin.
It turned out to be anything but an interview.
Putin droned on for two hours and seven minutes.
It sounds like you're describing a system that's not run by the people who are elected in your telling.
like an eager puppy.
Eager puppy?
Oh, where have I heard this before?
I mean, he's like a puppy dog because he is a useful idiot.
Oh.
Occasionally, but rarely, he got in a question, like this one, about the power of the deep state in Washington.
It sounds like you're describing a system that's not run by the people who were elected in your telling.
That's right.
That's right.
But more telling than what Tucker asked is what he didn't ask.
Nothing about why Putin invaded a sovereign country.
Nothing about targeting civilians.
Nothing about Russian war crimes.
A reporter can ask Putin a tough question if he wants a real interview.
Listen to this.
Why is it that so many of the people that opposed Vladimir Putin end up dead or close to it?
So Chris Wallace says Tucker Carlson is no good, doesn't ask the right questions, and then cuts to a clip of him asking Putin a tough question.
I mean, whoa, bro, ego much?
Why is it that so many of the people that oppose Vladimir Putin end up dead or close to it?
But apparently, that's not why Tucker went to Moscow.
During the Cold War, gullible Westerners who spread Soviet propaganda were dismissed as useful idiots.
Whoa!
Oh, please.
Oh, yeah.
or that is unfair to useful idiots.
Yeah!
No, he's made a cynical decision to chase Mago's affection for dictators.
And what better way to cash in than Putin's Kremlin?
Oh, yeah.
Whoa, you got butt slapped.
Yeah, man.
I wonder if Chris Wallace ever asked Hillary that exact same question.
Ha ha!
uh There was one, there is one piece that I didn't hear anyone talk about.
A question that, it wasn't even a question, it's something, I don't think it was even a question.
Because, you know, Tucker's not a journalist.
But Putin had something very interesting to say here.
You just asked me if another leader comes and changes something.
It is not about the leader.
It is not about the personality of a particular person.
I had a very good relationship with, say, Bush.
I know that in the United States he was portrayed as some kind of a country boy who does not understand much.
I assure you that this is not the case.
I think he made a lot of mistakes with regard to Russia too.
I told you about 2008 and the decision in Bucharest to open the NATO's doors for Ukraine and so on.
That happened during his presidency.
He actually exercised pressure on the Europeans.
But in general, on a personal human level, I had a very good relationship with him.
He was no worse than any other American or Russian or European politician.
I assure you, he understood what he was doing as well as others.
I had such personal relationship with Trump as well.
It is not about the personality of the leader.
It is about the elites' mindset.
If the idea of domination at any cost, based also on forceful actions, dominates the American society, nothing will change.
It will only get worse.
Yeah, exactly.
He can take over the show.
If we cut out the pauses like I did on that clip, he can easily take over the show.
Everything that we have deconstructed, Putin said.
The half hour background on Russia was interesting.
I mean, just from a historical standpoint.
But no play.
No play.
Yeah, it was interesting if you wanted a lesson in Russian history.
Yeah, which I didn't have, but a little bit, not all that.
Yeah, so everything came at the right time.
You know, we had Biden making all the noise.
I think that got the most noise from the noise machine.
I like that.
The noise machine.
And I didn't even see Fox do very much on Tucker and Putin.
Did you?
Actually, I don't recall anything.
There's two or three shows I watch kind of routinely, and I don't recall them bringing it up at all.
No, because he's persona non grata at the Democrat run Fox News.
They kicked him out.
I did want to go back briefly to the Biden thing, because I would have wrapped this up if we hadn't gotten on a different track about covering up the report.
Smirconish Where's that guy from, that Smircon?
Does he have a radio show?
Smircon-ish?
He must be.
He sounds like a radio guy.
I think he's a radio guy.
He had Obama confidant extraordinaire David Axelrod on.
Axelrod who, uh, didn't he run Obama's first campaign?
Yes, he ran Obama's campaigns and he hates Biden.
And he's a podcaster.
No, he's a podcaster.
Well, is he?
I don't know.
He never was a podcaster.
The X-Files!
Yes, he has a podcast.
And Smirkonish asked him about Big Mike.
There's like always a family member who says, in my case it's my brother, keep your eye on Michelle Obama.
And I say, that is crazy!
What should we be saying about Michelle Obama?
Well, here's what I know.
Michelle Obama loves this country.
She's a brilliant person and a brilliant communicator.
But she was a conscript to politics.
She never was interested in a political life.
Even when Barack Obama was a young politician, she really didn't participate much in his campaigns.
I was with him in his Senate campaign in 2004.
I think she showed up twice.
Uh, in the whole campaign, uh, on election nights.
So, uh, you know, she, uh, she's not someone who likes politics.
She doesn't like the tone and tenor of politics.
Uh, and I would be floored if she would, uh, consent to that.
They feel that they gave 10 years of their life to this, and I'm sure she feels as Barbara Bush did when she said there has to be someone other than the Bushes and the Clintons who could be President of the United States.
My guess is that's her attitude.
I always say, Michael, that I have as much chance of dancing in the Bolshoi Ballet next year than that she would be President of the United States, and so if you see me running around at the end of the year in a leotard, you'll know what happens.
I was going to say, Bolshoi is hiring.
I hear Bolshoi is hiring.
Maybe once and for all, David Axelrod just put it to rest.
Unless Cindy Adams is not watching.
Thank you, David.
I think he still left that open.
No.
He might be in leotards.
You know, the funnier line is a tutu.
Yeah, I was waiting for him.
I agree.
I was waiting for him to say tutu.
And because he didn't say tutu, I think he left it open.
Yeah.
Yes, he left it open.
I'm just hedging my buts.
My buts.
I'm hedging my buts.
Yeah, you're a micro-dot.
Oh, okay, Mouse Man.
Give me a break.
There's no evidence there weren't micro-dots.
Uh-huh.
So, you're gonna bring that up?
We have to talk about this.
I think we're done with the... Yeah, no, I'm way... I think we've handled Biden and Putin and we're good to go.
I got mail-in ballots are no good.
Republicans and Democrats don't agree on mail-in voting.
According to a Pew Research poll, they disagree by a lot, with Republicans largely opposed.
A different poll on mail-in ballot fraud may explain why.
NTD's Arlene Richards has the details.
Some Americans don't like mail-in ballots that much, while others like it a lot.
Nationally, 57% of poll respondents favor mail-in ballots.
A recent Pew Research poll shows 84% of Democrats favor mail-in ballots, while only 28% of Republicans favor the practice.
According to the survey, voters have changed their views on different voting measures in recent years, particularly regarding voting by mail.
Four years ago, 70% of American adults favored it.
But now, only 57% do.
Democrats' views on mail-in ballots have remained almost unchanged since 2020, while Republicans have become less fond of it, dropping from 49% to 28%.
One reason for the change in opinion may be due to an increased likelihood of fraud.
Well, how are we going to steal an election if we don't have mail-in ballots?
That's exactly right.
And then of course the part that's pretty, I think this next clip, which is part two of this, is incredibly underreported by the mainstream.
It's not reported at all.
A study conducted by the Heartland Institute concludes the fraud influenced the 2020 presidential election results.
The study was based on data obtained from the Heartland Rasmussen Survey in December.
According to the survey, about one in five mail-in voters admitted to potentially fraudulent actions in the 2020 presidential election.
The researchers believe the fraud significantly impacted the results of the election in favor of Joe Biden.
The report states that if the majority of Americans had cast their ballots in person, Donald Trump would almost certainly have been re-elected.
So there was a poll, which is Rasmussen, which is, I think, usually seen as a right-wing, far-right poll, where people actually admitted that they defrauded it?
Yeah.
You haven't heard this either, have you?
No, of course not.
Of course not.
What I did hear is some of the oral arguments of the Supreme Court regarding Trump being on the ballot in Colorado, so this is... Yeah, this is entertaining.
Yes, the Supreme Court discussing now, well, hold on a second, you guys had some Mind reader who testified that Trump was intending to be an insurrectionist and on the basis of that you said oh he committed an insurrection.
Now I think a point we brought up is well if you can take someone off the ballot because they incited an erection, ooh I did it.
You did it on purpose.
No, actually I didn't.
Because it's easy to do, I guess.
What's on my mind?
Because they incited an insurrection.
You could also make that case against Nancy Pelosi for not having the Capitol Police, you know, or National Guard, whatever was asked of her.
And what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
And Chief Justice Roberts said exactly that.
If Colorado's position is upheld, surely there will be disqualification proceedings on the other side.
And some of those will succeed.
Some of them will have different standards of proof.
Some of them will have different rules about evidence.
Maybe the Senate report won't be accepted in others because it's hearsay.
Maybe it's beyond a reasonable doubt, whatever.
In very quick order, I would expect, although my predictions have never been correct, I would expect that a goodly number of states will say, whoever the Democratic candidate is, you're off the ballot, and others, for the Republican candidate, you're off the ballot, and it'll come down to just a handful of states that are going to decide the presidential election.
That's a pretty daunting consequence.
Well, certainly, Your Honor, the fact that there are potential frivolous applications of a constitutional provision isn't a reason... Well, no, hold on.
I mean, you might think they're frivolous, but the people who are bringing them may not think they're frivolous.
Insurrection is a broad...
Wouldn't that be great if we only had, like, ten states that had them both on the ballot?
Yeah, that's democracy for you.
We would be deciding whether it was an insurrection when one president did something as opposed to when somebody else did something else.
Wouldn't that be great if we only had like 10 states that had both on the ballot?
Yeah, that's democracy for you.
That's exactly.
We're trying to save democracy.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
This is great.
What a great time to be doing a podcast.
It's podcast time.
It is.
It is podcast time.
It's fantastic.
I'm loving it.
I'm loving it.
So we'll have, I mean, the general consensus, including from our constitutional lawyer, is that the Supreme Court will reverse the Colorado Supreme Court decision.
Now, I should point out that most of the analysts who watched or listened to all of the, I listened to quite a bit of it, but it turned out to be the liberals who were really jumping all over this because they just thought it was ridiculous.
So it's either going to be 8-1, which would be Sotomayor.
She was the only one that seemed sympathetic.
Or 9-0.
This is not even going to be close.
Our constitutional boots-on-the-ground lawyer says the odds are good that Sotomayor will dissent.
She'll be the only one.
And of course the question is, on what grounds will they overturn it?
Um, it could be multiple grounds to make it a little fuzzier, you know, not to just, uh, you know, let's not get into the, uh, insurrection part.
Let's just say blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I think they're going to go for blah, blah, blah.
So I have a little clip here that's in between clips.
Entremont.
Or Muse Bush.
I finally got a clip of Reverend Al.
Oh, good.
It's harder to catch now.
Yes.
So I have him.
He says he's talking about Mayorkas and how he's going to be, you know, they're trying to impeach Mayorkas.
And I just knew it would be a matter of time before after he said it once, twice, three times before he screwed it up.
Here we go.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mariocas.
Mariocas.
DHS Secretary Mariocas.
Secretary Mariocas.
There's no real conflict!
Mariocas.
I'm gonna write that down.
How do you spell it?
It's M-A-R-I-O-C-A-S.
O-A-K-I-E-S?
Mariocas.
I don't know.
Mariocas.
Ah, the Revs.
Are they letting him go live these days?
Is that what they're doing?
Nah, he's on tape.
If he really screws up, they pull it.
Just letting him go wild, man.
man, let them go wild.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
I heard an ad that COVID is striking people again. - Get Paxlovid!
COVID-19.
I'm not waiting.
If it's COVID, Paxlovid.
I just want you to hear all the disclaimers in this ad.
This is not a good product, people.
Paxlovid is an oral treatment for adults with mild to moderate COVID-19 and a high risk factor for it becoming severe.
It does not prevent COVID-19.
My symptoms are mild now.
But I'm not risking it.
I'm not, my symptoms are mild.
You have a little flu, a little cough, but I'm not risking it.
If it's COVID, Paxlovid.
Paxlovid must be taken within the first five days of symptoms and helps stop the virus from multiplying in your body.
Oh, it helps the virus from, stops it from multiplying in your body.
Wow!
Taking Paxlovid with certain medicines can lead to serious or life-threatening side effects or affect how it or other medicines work, including hormonal birth control.
It's critical to tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, because certain tests or changes in their dosage may be needed.
Tell your doctor if you have kidney or liver problems, or HIV-1, R, or plan to become pregnant or breastfeed.
Don't take Paxlovid if you're allergic to Nurmatovir, Ritonavir, or any of its ingredients.
Serious side effects can include allergic reactions, some severe, like anaphylaxis, and liver problems.
These are not all the possible side effects, so talk to your doctor.
I love that this is new!
These are not all the possible side effects.
Talk to your doctor.
They're not even disclaiming the death anymore.
Wow.
Yeah, I like that idea.
That's new.
That is new.
Well, they can get away with it.
That's what they're going to do.
And they also show the lady getting it through telemedicine.
They show her on the laptop talking to her doctor.
That's, you know, talking to your doctor is now a real thing.
It's not your doctor.
It's some dude in Vegas, you know, who also is also a car valet.
And on the side, he takes $10 calls and prescribes you Pax Lovis.
It's really bad.
Not good products.
I got another entrement if you want to hear.
Let me play one more.
One more.
This is Tedros.
So the pandemic treaty that everyone's up in arms about?
Yeah, because it will give the World Health Organization all this control, which is true.
Basically, it's turning your sovereignty over to one world government.
Yes.
But the negotiations... We'll sign it.
We'll sign it.
Oh, yeah.
The negotiations are failing because of the patents.
So the big pharma company's like, yeah, no, we're all in it, but no, no, no, we're not going to give it to just every country unless they pay.
Yeah, but you remember the patent was always the issue.
Like, give it to the rest of the world.
No, we're not going to give it away.
I mean, come on, we have patents on this stuff.
We're not going to let you produce it.
We'll sell it to you.
So Tedros, you know, and by the way, it's no longer the treaty.
There's a new word.
It's, it's the pandemic agreement.
The pandemic agreement is mission critical for humanity.
It's mission critical for humanity agreement.
The pandemic agreement is mission critical for humanity.
If it had been in place before COVID-19, we would not have lost so much.
We would not have suffered so much.
If only we had it in place before COVID, we would have not lost so much.
The generation that lived through COVID-19, we have a collective responsibility to protect future generations from the suffering we endured.
As young people, you have the most to gain from a strong agreement.
It's likely you will face another pandemic in your lifetime.
Because it happens only once every 100 years.
We can't know how mild or severe it might be, but we can be prepared.
So, if I may speak to the younger generations, do not allow this thing to be signed.
Do not.
Do not let these people control anything.
Last night we were at a restaurant here, the Friedhelms, the schnitzel restaurant.
Which is, if you ever come into Fredericksburg, skip everything, go to Friedhelms.
Hi everybody, I'm Adam, he says, you know, and we're all of course, oh, my name's Adam.
And he says, oh yes, respect for my elders.
And this was the first time when my heart really sank.
I'm like, holy crap, I'm an old guy.
This is the first time that it really hit me.
Well, that's pretty insulting.
Well, and I said, oh.
You know what's insulting?
I'm going to just put this aside.
What I think is totally insulting is when you have a clerk calling you, especially, you know, when you're, I'm in my 70s, saying, young man.
Ah, that's, that's insulting.
Thanks, young, well, thank you very much, young man.
No, beat him up.
Hit him with your cane.
I would, if I had a cane, I should carry a cane just for that purpose.
Beat him with your walker.
Well the thing is, and I'm like, oh dude.
And then he got, he got beat red.
I mean, it was very, the whole thing all around was bad.
But I was just like, oh there it is.
This is the first time I actually just had to come to terms with it.
I'm an old man.
And you said dude?
I said dude.
Oh brother.
I said dude.
So anyway, as an old man, children, young generation, do not let them, you know, sign this pandemic treaty agreement.
Agreement.
Do not do it.
Do not do it.
And while you're at it, have some kids, please!
Before the end of this century, the world population will shrink for the first time since the bubonic plague of the 1300s.
Not because of an increase in deaths, but because of a slump in births.
Across the world, fertility rate is collapsing.
In the year 2000, it stood at 2.7 births per woman.
Today, it is 2.3, and countries are worried, including France.
France has asked 25-year-olds to get fertility checks.
Little dragons.
massive backlash.
Meanwhile, Singapore wants people to celebrate the year of the dragon by having, quote unquote, little dragons of their own.
That's what they're calling babies to make the concept more interesting, perhaps.
But will these tactics work?
Little dragons.
So, you know, we've been talking about what the former New York banker told me about the about our population.
That as long as we still have people, as our population grows, we beat every other country, most notably China.
So, Bloomberg, two stories today.
First story, immigration, now they don't say newcomers, visitors, aliens, illegal aliens.
They say immigration will boost the U.S.
economy by $7 trillion.
And then the UK, soaring UK migration, which is the people coming in on rubber boats across the channel, gives Hunt, that's the chancellor of the, a checker, up to 18 billion pound benefit.
He doesn't have to raise taxes.
So it's working as intended.
You know, because they work at or above the level of the people who already live, which means cheaper.
It's unbelievable.
They're just saying it now.
So I think the horse has left the stable.
Yeah, we'll explain this one.
Here's my clip.
Immigration results.
Immigration results.
Here we go.
A new congressional report estimates that the influx of illegal immigrants will force down wages in the U.S.
This comes as lawmakers in one state advance a bill that would extend government-funded health insurance to illegal immigrants.
NTD's Arian Pazdar has an immigration update.
You know, it's very difficult to know with precision who are the, you know, the people in some sense coming across the border now.
The Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, released a budget outlook report for the next 10 years.
The report estimates that America's population will increase over the next decade due to immigration.
This will also take its toll on wages.
The report states that average real wages are expected to be slightly lower by 2034 than they would be otherwise.
Many say the report's most shocking projection is that it expects government debt will rise by 20 trillion dollars in the next decade to 54 trillion dollars.
Now this new report comes just as state senators in Virginia advance a health care bill for immigrants.
The Cover All Kids Act would provide state-funded health care to all low-income immigrants under the age of 19.
Now, a Republican state senator who opposed the bill reportedly said it would cost Virginia taxpayers a hundred million dollars just in this decade.
And an update on this attack on police officers near Times Square, in which a group of illegal immigrants punched two officers and kicked their heads as they were lying on the ground.
Seven individuals allegedly involved in this incident have now been indicted.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who doesn't often address the public, held a press conference on Thursday.
This assault, as it did to many of you, sickened me and outraged me.
We all rely on members of the NYPD every day, as I said, to keep us safe and to keep this the safest big city in America.
Bragg also commented on speculation that the suspects had been caught in Arizona after fleeing New York.
He dismissed those reports, saying they're not true.
I'm going to disregard the last bit of the report.
The first bit was super interesting because the $7 trillion number comes from the same CBO report.
And the healthcare part is phenomenally interesting because the UK, they also, there's a whole bunch of stories now because, you know, so you're gonna give away healthcare to visitors, newcomers, and in the UK they've been doing just that.
So here's the story headline, sharp rise in people waiting over 12 hours at the emergency room in, this is all the NHS, this is the socialized healthcare, but my favorite headline, I couldn't get an NHS dentist appointment for six months.
I had to pull out my own tooth with pliers.
Yes, where I live, many people don't even have teeth anymore.
But there's a solution.
The solution, reports the Daily Mail, millions will get fluoride added to their tap water in biggest expansion of controversial scheme since the 1980s.
Yes, no cavities, but it'll make you nice and docile.
Unbelievable!
Get out of the UK, people!
Run!
Oh, my, my, my.
I'm kind of happy I'm old now.
I don't have to witness all the mayhem that's coming.
Yeah, you can call me no coot.
This is horrible.
It really is.
But of course, you know.
Well, just to play, just to continue that clip, but not a continuation, but just another, this is another thing that doesn't get reported much in the mainstream.
I didn't know this until I heard it on, I think it's NTD.
Play this one.
This is the New York City noose shooting.
A noose shooting?
The NYPD has revealed the suspect in a shooting in Times Square last night.
A 15-year-old was arrested after allegedly open firing at a tourist.
Police identified the teen as an immigrant from Venezuela.
I gotta tell you, one of those bullets hit some cop last night.
This is a whole different conversation we're having today.
My concern, our concern, the community's concern is to take this armed juvenile off the streets.
Authorities say the suspect came to the U.S.
last September and was living in a temporary migrant shelter.
According to the NYPD, he shot a Brazilian tourist in the leg inside a retail store and began to shove clothing into a bag.
As he ran off, he allegedly opened fire again just a few blocks away, attempting to lose the police.
Officials say he's also a suspect in an armed robbery in the Bronx last month.
During the shooting, the 15-year-old was accompanied by two other suspects.
Well, since we're doing bummer news about New York City and regarding replacement migration, let's add one more to the mix before I build everybody up.
Cutting the fat.
That's a good thing when we want it, but the city cut $60 million out of the Education Department's budget for school lunches.
And the cuts announced in November have started impacting school lunches across the city and is now being noticed, including here at this Hell's Kitchen location, home to five schools and thousands of students.
A lot of kids don't eat so they're hungry and they're tired and they don't participate or perform well in their classes.
It like really drains them out.
If I'm hungry and stuff and like usually we get snack but sometimes people don't eat or there's no snack at all.
When we don't get snack you know we can't we can't be doing all that.
New York City's school system serves close to 900,000 meals a day.
While the city still provides meals, secondary and alternative items are phased out like chicken fingers and french fries.
Mayor Adams announced the cuts the result of the city's spending on the migrant crisis.
Over the past year and a half, over 170,000 migrants have come to New York City requiring housing, food, education and other services.
The cause of the cuts is driving a wedge.
They're more tired, they're less able to focus in class throughout the day, they have headaches or stomach aches, they have less energy, and all of that affects learning and their ability to take advantage of being in school.
So here's where it gets confusing.
The education department says despite the cut to the food budget, all of that money is being replaced by incoming funds from the federal government.
Parents say then it doesn't make sense why the food budget is being tinkered with, and they say food for students should be the last thing that's touched.
Alright, couple things.
First of all, get out of the cities.
This is no longer a safe or healthy place to live.
Second, they're feeding the kids chicken nuggets and french fries.
Give your kid a sandwich.
Bologna with mayonnaise for all I care.
Oh, we have no snacks.
Of course not.
Of course the kids are slow because you've got them addicted to sugar.
Oh, we need a snack.
I need a snack to get my sugar up.
No!
Right now, there's a beef shortage in America.
They're messing with our food.
They really are.
And the farmer protest is a part of that all over Europe.
I hope that our farmers here eventually get in on the action.
I don't know if they ever will.
Frankly, I'm surprised.
You know, they're not even letting us know about the farmers' protests in Europe in the media.
Near the village of Dorohusk on Poland's Ukrainian border, a bitter chill hangs in the air.
Scores of furious farmers have been blockading checkpoints, demanding urgent change from the governments in Warsaw and in Brussels.
The source of their ire is agricultural products being imported from Ukraine.
Originally, they were meant to support the Ukrainian economy during its war with Russia, but now government policies are sparking unrest at home.
Our heads are under water.
We don't have any more money to compensate for our losses in farming.
It's our passion, but not our livelihood anymore.
Unfortunately, it's still our only source of income.
Thousands of other Polish farmers were expected in the city of Poznan.
Anger there was supposed to focus on European Union climate change policies.
Poland's agriculture minister said on Thursday he understood the challenges farmers were facing.
Once the scene of gladiatorial conflict, Italy's Colosseum on Friday saw tractors driving past.
Italian farmers say their battle is just as historic.
We're not here to protest.
We're here to make proposals.
Yesterday we presented signed copies of these proposals to the government and we're confident they will receive us.
Together we will see if Europe still wants the Italian farmer.
The challenges they face are sizable and growing.
The EU last week watered down climate commitments, apparently bowing to farmer demands that had called them overly burdensome.
So they're basically just chopping the farmers out.
They're no longer giving them the subsidies they need because they don't want to feed their nations.
It's cool to see tractors in front of the Coliseum in Rome.
They don't want to feed their nations with healthy products.
And I consider beef to be a very healthy, good product.
However, even in Texas, we've turned our ranchers into commodity cowboys and there's only three big processing plants.
And you need to find a rancher.
And there's plenty of them.
Beefinitiative.com, which my buddy Texas Slim set up, there's plenty of them around the United States.
You need to go and shake a rancher's hand and say, hi, I need to buy some of your beef.
Because right now, in our supermarket here, H-E-B, that's from South America, and they put USDA Prime on it.
They drive that stuff up.
They've got a big cattle drive.
Our Texas beef is being sold like caviar to China.
Get out of the cities.
Buy an RV for all I care.
Get out.
Get into a small community.
You really need to do this because this is the problem.
Immigration, none of it's good.
But small communities can survive and certainly You know, innovative young people can figure stuff out.
You can work via remote.
Well, I'm glad you got that clip of the farm because the farmers because they're not playing any of that on PBS.
What they've decided to do because they know people know there's protests going on in Europe.
They've decided, PBS is from PBS, they've decided to bring, show protest, a big European protest in Germany.
Far-right Nazis!
Germany AFD coverage, here's PBS.
For weeks Germans have been flooding into streets, squares, and parks protesting the increasing influence of far-right parties.
It comes as Germany's leading far-right party suffered a narrow defeat in regional elections in one of its strongholds.
Ali Rogin explores the impact of this increasingly tense political atmosphere.
The catalyst for the protests came from a recent report by the media outlet Correctiv.
It details a meeting between leaders of the far-right AFD, or the Alternative for Germany party, and members of a separate extremist movement.
In that meeting, they discussed a plan for re-migration involving mass deportations of immigrants, including some with German citizenship.
The AFD has since distanced itself from the meeting, but that hasn't slowed the demonstrations.
Some protesters are calling for an outright ban of the AFD, which is seen as too aligned with Germany's Nazi past.
James Angelos is an editor for Politico based in Berlin.
Thank you so much for being here.
Tell us about who the members of the AFD party are and how much influence do they have in Germany right now?
The party had been rising in polls leading up to this report.
It is second right now polling second behind the opposition conservatives.
So right now the party is more popular than any of the parties that are currently in the German government.
There are three parties making up the ruling coalition, and the AFD is more popular than all three of them.
So I don't know if it's in your other clips here, but in this, being unclipable because it's all in German, there's multiple investigations, inquiries I should say, going on in German Parliament against this Kollektiv outfit.
Who were given money by the left-wing parties to build this whole narrative that the AFD is a bunch of Nazis.
You're banging your mic a lot.
It's not in these clips, not from this guy.
But yes, and that's obviously what's going on because this is a populist party.
Just like what's going on everywhere else in the world because they're getting sick of these people that are pushing everyone around.
40% of the world will be voting this year.
Big election year.
And we're going to all be voting populist.
That includes Trump.
And it includes Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
Yeah.
And it includes this AFD operation.
Yes, who are clearly affiliated with the Nazi past.
Unlike, you know, people getting arrested and not being able to go to the supermarket during COVID.
Remember that?
They had separate lines.
Oh, you can't pass the fence.
You can't go to the supermarket.
The Dutch!
No, you've got curfews, which they hadn't had since World War II.
Come on!
This is PBS that's doing this?
This is PBS.
Unbelievable.
And so what is happening politically in Germany right now that is making them more popular?
There has been a rise again recently of asylum seekers entering Germany from countries like Syria and Afghanistan and they are an anti-migration party that's Notice the new term, asylum seekers.
This is what the term has been in Europe for a long time.
We're getting that here too.
Asylum seekers.
There's a core issue.
There are other issues that they're taking advantage of at the moment.
Energy prices skyrocketed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Inflation and the economy right now is...
Energy prices have only gone up because of Russia's Ukraine invasion when, in fact, the Green parties and the Greenies of Deutschland had managed to shut down all the nukes.
Nuclear, coal and nuclear.
And coal power, so you have to... What happened to Putin?
I thought it was Putin who did that.
Well, that's what he just said.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It was Putin.
Remember when Putin blew up his own pipeline?
Yeah, and Putin blowing up his own party.
Give me a break with this bullcrap.
Invasion of Ukraine, inflation, and the economy right now is not doing well.
So there is a general unease in the population that's also helping the party.
And they are particularly strong in the former East Germany, where there is also more sympathy perhaps for taking on a friendlier stance toward Russia.
Oh, man.
Alright.
Hold on a second, too, before you say anything.
The East Germans don't like Russians!
No!
They were locked behind the wall!
They hate them!
And so, unlike Jen Psaki, I'm sure they have a real good team of people at PBS, don't they?
Who can say, hold on a second, man, you know, that's kind of out of order, what you're saying there?
Well, that should have been, this guy's being interviewed, he's from Politico, so it should have been the hostess.
Yes, who should have jumped in?
On PBS, who should have, or what's his name, the other guy, who should have asked the question, wait a minute, that doesn't make sense.
The East Germans generally, historically, hate the Russians.
Now all of a sudden they're in love with the Russians?
Are you kidding me?
So, two things.
One, you're bumping your mic a lot, so something is on your stand.
Something's loose.
Something's loose.
Now that I'm officially an elder, I think we just need to rebrand.
We're like, listen kids, we're telling you what to do and what not to do.
Did this really bug you?
Yeah, it did.
Well, it didn't, it just, no, it was just a realization.
It's a slap in the face.
No, no, it's just the truth.
A bucket of water.
I'm just an old guy.
I'm an elder.
I'm an elder.
You're not that old.
I'm an elder.
You're not an elder.
I want to be an elder!
Let me be an elder!
You will be eventually, but not until you're 60, at least.
Oh, so we have, what, seven more months, everybody?
And of course, the flip side of rising popularity is, as we've been seeing, rising opposition and more people speaking out against them.
So why are these protests happening now?
Well, the catalyst really was this report, and combined with the fact that the party has been rising in polls even as it has grown more extreme, I think this struck a nerve for multiple reasons, this gathering.
People saw echoes of the Nazi past and, you know, some politicians even called it a Nazi party.
Are the Germans really this gullible?
There's no sign that they're winding down.
And the people who are organizing them see themselves really as standing up for the survival of the republic against a very accused and immediate threat.
Are the Germans really this gullible?
Do you think they'll fall for this nonsense?
Yeah, why not?
They've fallen for shutting down the nuclear power plants.
I mean, if you go along with that, you have to be not only gullible, but somewhat stupid.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm afraid you're right.
You know, when Germany runs into trouble, as they say in the old country, when Germany sneezes, all of Europe gets a cold.
You know, without Germany, Europe is in big trouble.
But, you know, of course the EU is now limiting cash payments, you know, because of money laundering.
Their CBDC is coming.
Everyone will get UBI.
They'll be the first ones.
We'll be able to watch it from here.
It'll be fun.
Well, as a little aside, even though this has got nothing to do with Germany necessarily, and it has a little bit to do with the Gaza and Ukraine, I have two Claire Daly clips.
Oh, it's always fun to hear from Claire, our Irish firebrand.
Let's see.
The first one, you know, we talked about the Hungarian situation and how the EU, we went back and forth thinking of who is, you know, blackmailing who when it came to Hungary going along with the program and allowing Sweden to join the NATO.
And Claire has a take on this, which is kind of agrees with the two of us, both of us.
We took different sides.
But she kind of says the same thing about both.
And I thought this was good.
I abstained on this motion because it's the same old familiar dance.
Hungary blackmails the Commission, the Commission blackmails Hungary, no doubt they'll cut another dirty deal at some stage and the Commission will trade away Hungarian minority rights and judicial independence, all for a few billion to backstop what they call their strategic interests in Ukraine.
The rule of law is really just another weapon in the hands of this so-called geopolitical Commission.
And this type of horse trading, of course there's problems in Hungary and in many other areas as well, but this type of horse trading certainly doesn't help.
But for the EU's war zealots, the people who stake their political careers on deterring peace in Ukraine, who cares?
But reality is catching up with you.
The United States is rapidly losing interest in the proxy war it provoked and maintained, just as it always does.
Europe will be left picking up the pieces, just like it always is.
It's not too late for Europe to play a constructive role in what comes next for Ukraine, but as long as frow genocide is at the helm, constructiveness is the last thing we can hope for.
Frow-genocide?
That's better than Queen Ursula, but I love frow-genocide.
Frow-genocide, I thought it was a gem.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Now, I have another one where she goes off the rails, but she's talking off-topic, and they cut her off.
They literally kill her mic.
So far, the EU and US response to Israeli genocide has been straight from the abuser's handbook, Darvo.
Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.
And if that doesn't work, sure, just change the subject.
So as the genocide in Gaza continues, you want to talk about everything but Gaza.
You refuse to put the item on an agenda, an agenda stacked with every cliché imaginable, from Venezuela to Iran, with pride of place given to the old reliable Russian interference.
So across the pond, Special Agent Nancy Pelosi gives the signal, branding Palestine protesters as Kremlin operatives and light clockwork.
The dark insinuations begin in Europe.
Everyone can see what you're doing.
It's tedious.
It's predictable.
You've been doing it since 2016.
Stick to the issue.
And it isn't going to work anymore.
The mass movement is focused like a laser on genocide.
Everyone knows it's happening and Europe is... I'm sorry, this is a debate with a title and so you should stick to the issue.
Thank you.
Shut up, slave!
I'm surprised they didn't cut her off earlier.
Okay, so I have a couple clips here that fit right into this.
We'll start with that last bit about the genocide.
Hillary Clinton is still out there speaking.
She was speaking at some event with our ambassador to the United Nations.
What's that lady's name?
She looks like Donna Brazile, kind of, in a way.
Oh, she looks like James Brown.
Thank you very much.
Hillary Dyer and Ronald Clinton!
That's my name.
That's right.
Are they war criminals?
The people of Libya!
The people of Iraq!
The people of Syria!
The people of Yemen!
The people of Palestine!
And let me be clear!
We'll never forget!
Free Palestine!
Okay, that's Hillary.
now okay i encourage doing this to hillary clinton I think it's great.
I love this.
And I love they brought in Libya.
Hillary, what are they called?
Oh yeah, the Libya thing.
It's a... Hillary, what's her name?
Hillary Daisy?
What's her name?
You put in a middle name.
Thank you very much.
Donna Rodham Clinton!
That's my name.
That's right.
No, he said something else.
Not Rodham.
He said something else.
Donna Rodham Clinton!
Donna?
It's like there's some other name in there.
She has another name.
For some reason they brought in another middle name.
I'm not sure why.
Now going back to Hungary, we have a development there that is quite interesting.
After 641 days, Katalin Novak's reign as president of Hungary came to an end on Saturday.
After being caught up in an unprecedented political scandal, she announced her resignation in a televised address.
As head of state, I'm addressing you for the last time today.
I'm resigning from the office of President of the Republic.
The 46-year-old had come under mounting pressure to quit after it emerged that last year she had issued a pardon to a man convicted of helping to cover up sexual abuse in a children's home.
A decision that Novak described as a mistake.
Last April, I chose to grant a pardon, believing that the convicted offender had not abused the vulnerability of the children in his care.
I made a mistake.
Novak's decision to quit comes after a week of public outrage, with a thousand demonstrators rallying outside the president's office on Friday, demanding her resignation.
Novak is a key ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, serving as vice president in the ruling Fidesz party between 2017 and 2021, and becoming the first woman to be elected president of Hungary in 2022.
So, I'm not quite sure how to interpret this, but because Orban, you know, he just, he got a lot of what he wanted by agreeing to the 50 billion euro package for Ukraine.
I'm thinking she might have been a stooge on the inside and he wanted her out.
So now he has full power, unless he replaces her.
That whole situation, like, eh, she let a child abuser go and it was a mistake.
Yeah.
Something up with that.
Something very strange.
Yeah, something's up with Hungary.
By the way, it's Hillary, Diane, Rodham Clinton.
There's a reason why they threw in the Diane, which I'm not sure why.
Is that extra insulting to her?
I didn't know that, by the way.
I only knew Hilary Rodham.
Is that Hilary Diane?
Is there something... I never heard this.
...insulting about that?
There's a reason, I'm sure.
Anyway, Zelensky is very happy with the package.
He's got a big package from Europe.
Well, he's not entirely happy.
We need a little more... I'm grateful for your decision on the financial instrument for us.
For our people, for Ukraine.
Ukraine facilitated with 50 billion euros for a four year period.
This is a clear signal that Ukraine will withstand and that Europe will withstand.
It is also really important that this decision was taken Unanimously by all, all of you, all 27 member states, and it is yet another clear sign of your strong unity and support of Ukraine.
Intelligence confirmed that Russia will receive a million artillery shells from Pyongyang.
Meanwhile, unfortunately... Oh, I'm sorry.
Russia's getting missiles from North Korea.
Okay.
Receive a million artillery shells from Pyongyang.
Meanwhile, unfortunately, the implementation of the European plan to supply one million artillery shells to Ukraine is being delayed.
And this too is a signal of global competition in which Europe cannot afford to lose.
And that's why today your unity is so needed in creating the Ukraine Assistance Fund within our European Peace Facility.
So he wants to build up the European facility in Ukraine to build missiles?
I mean, shells?
Ammunition?
I have no idea.
You know what those shells are?
You know what the American taxpayer pays for one of those 155mm shells that we keep sending over?
Let me guess, let me guess.
For one?
One.
I'm gonna say $30,000.
Oh, pfft.
No.
But it's still not cheap.
They're between $5,000 and $8,000 a shell.
Let's just call it $10,000.
They tend more toward the $5,000.
The $8,000 come later.
But most of them are sold by middlemen and bought in Bulgaria for $500 a piece.
And more toward the five, the eight come later.
Okay.
But most of them are sold by middlemen and bought in Bulgaria for 500 bucks a piece.
We're in the wrong business.
Man, that was good.
The Bulgarians make a lot of shells and they sell them for 500 bucks, and we sell them for 5,000 to 8,000 dollars apiece.
Oh, goodness gracious.
And who are we selling them to?
We're selling them to the American taxpayer.
Yes.
Yes, this is what we do.
What are you talking about?
This is good.
This is good.
You had a fun little thing in the newsletter about Sonny Hostin.
Sunny Austin.
Did you get some clips?
I do have some clips.
Oh, I'd love to hear.
I mean, the clips are funny.
I didn't get any clips, but Sunny, just as a backgrounder, Sunny Austin, who purports to be a black woman, a slave descendant, turns out to be the descendant of Spanish.
And you look at her and say, yeah, she looks like a dark-skinned Spanish woman.
She turns out to be a The descendants of Spanish slave holders.
Well, so a little more background, as we discussed what Mo said, all of these women, we'll just call them black women, who were all pushed to the front, DEI, here you go, President of Harvard, Joy Reid at MSNBC, Fannie Willis, But also Sonny Hostin, Mo Caldrell specifically, said now they have to show that they were the right choice.
The meritocracy part is coming in now.
And this is just right on cue, an amazing takedown of this woman by PBS.
Here's a tip.
You should never go on the show finding my roots!
This is a dumb idea!
I wouldn't do it!
Sunny's roots in Aguadilla were about to connect her to some painful history.
Our researchers discovered that her third great-grandfather, Fermin, was the son of a merchant who was likely involved in the slave trade.
And Fermin himself owned at least one human being.
What's more, moving back on this line, we found that it originates in Galicia, Spain.
Evidence of Sunny's deeper ancestry and her family's ties to Spain's colonial past.
What's it like to learn of this tangible connection to Spain?
I'm married a Spaniard.
Half Spanish, half Asian.
There you go.
Wow.
Wow.
I'm a little bit in shock.
I just always thought of myself as Puerto Rican.
You know, half Puerto Rican.
I didn't think I was... My family was originally from Spain and slaveholders.
So how are you feeling, my friend?
I think it's actually pretty interesting that my husband and I have shared roots.
So I do appreciate that.
And I think it's great for our children to know this information.
I guess it's a fact of life that this is how some people made their living, on the backs of others.
So, a couple things of note.
I love the term, owned a human.
I love that.
Not a slave holder, owned a human.
But wait, we're not done yet.
You still got a mama we gotta pull apart.
What's more, Sunny's own DNA testifies to an even greater connection.
Almost a quarter of her admixture is from the Iberian Peninsula.
Oh no!
A fact that took Sunny by surprise.
I mean, I had no idea of the Spanish roots to this extent.
I'm still sort of shocked about the depth of the ties, I guess.
What do you think?
All these white people just came up out of the ground?
They had to come from somewhere.
I'm just kind of surprised.
I mean, my mother's family does look white, so... What you got against Spain?
Just the colonization of other people.
Owning humans.
And I'm surprised that they were enslavers, actually.
That's disappointing.
That's a lot to deal with.
Has it changed anything about the way you think of your mother?
No.
My mother certainly identifies as Puerto Rican.
And non-white, actually.
Identifies!
Identifies as Puerto Rican!
I hate this for her.
She's going to see how deeply white she is.
Oh no!
Your mama deeply white!
Oh no!
So, of course, this doesn't make Sunny Hostin a slave owner or make her a bad person.
Other than that, she's always been calling for reparations.
And I would say that she seems to have gotten some nice gigs, a whole production deal based on her black-oriented TV documentaries and projects.
So let's go to The View and let's talk it out, shall we?
Good morning and welcome to The View.
Welcome to The View.
So we're starting a little differently this morning.
Sunny, you were just on an episode of Finding Your Roots with Henry Luce.
And he gave me some surprising revelations about my family history.
You know, I was really reluctant.
I don't know how you felt when you did it, Whoopi, but I was really reluctant to do it because I just sensed that there could be something in my family set up history that would be disappointing.
Disappointing?
Oh, I'm so disappointed in my ancestors.
Disappointed I'm white.
Negative, yes.
I thought I was going to have that kind of moment.
I can't leverage my bullshit anymore.
Wait, what did you say?
What'd you say?
I said I'm so disappointed I'm white because I can't leverage my bullshit anymore.
Disappointing.
Negative.
Negative, yes.
I thought I was gonna have that kind of moment and Skip had asked me to do it for a long time and I finally decided... Who is Skip?
And why are you friends with him?
I decided to do it because I thought it'd be helpful for my children and my children's children to know what their real history was.
But what I found out was that my mother's family, while they are Puerto Rican, they actually originate from Spain.
And the reason that they moved to Puerto Rico is because the slave trade had been sort of canceled in Spain and then Curacao.
And then they moved all of their slaves to Puerto Rico.
And so the family business, I have been told that they were printers and journalists, but they were in fact enslavers.
- Yahoo! - En slavers, not slave owners, enslavers.
- And my mother-- - Oh, I spill over the audience.
- It was deeply disappointing. - Disappointing. - And it's deeply disappointing because my mother really identified as Puerto Rican.
She was part of the civil rights movement. - Oh. - And she was deeply ingrained in black culture and identified herself as black for race, but-- What was it?
Did she identify as Puerto Rican?
Black?
What was she, Sonny?
Hispanic for ethnicity.
But her race is white.
She's European.
I know.
It's weird because when you look at her, my mother's blonde.
And she has light eyes.
And my whole family looks like that.
But she can be black.
The thing is, okay, so first of all, this identifies as Sunny.
It's okay.
You didn't own humans.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Or as Whoopi calls it, a bummer.
The slave thing is a bummer.
It's a bummer.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Not Whoopi.
It's a bummer.
The slave thing is a bummer.
It's a bummer.
Your face is a bummer.
She can't control it.
I still believe in reparations, by the way, so y'all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I'm a white girl and that I don't deserve reparations.
I don't know who sent her a thing telling her she was a white girl.
Okay, it's too much people.
Clean off your television screen.
Yeah, that's a lot.
So I still believe in reparations.
I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice.
But what I will say, Sarah, to your question is that I feel that I'm enriched by knowing that history.
You one of us, girl!
I'm enriched.
And I'm enriched by knowing that my family has come so far from being enslavers to my mother marrying my father in 1968.
Oh, I see.
As long as you marry someone black, it's okay if your ancestors were slaveholders.
That's right.
I feel enriched.
I'm enriched.
You're not responsible for what they did.
Oh, you're not responsible for what they did, she says!
Well, when I did it, I was hoping they'd find out I was related to Mussolini or something.
But nothing like that came up.
Oh, my word!
Rachel Dolezal, or whatever her name is, comes to mind.
I mean, can't you just say, hey, okay, it's alright, you know?
It's alright, you're not responsible for something that happened hundreds of years ago?
You know?
But you do have to pay now, obviously, Sonny.
You gotta join in the payments.
And you can't take any payments.
Because you're white!
Deeply!
Or move to San Francisco.
Maybe you can still get a good deal.
Controversial, Kaylee, for two reasons.
One, people receiving your tax dollars with no requirement they work.
And secondly, should they be getting that money based solely on skin color?
The lawsuit says San Francisco and California illegally give out millions each year to minorities and trans women based solely on race and gender identity through these three programs.
The Black Economic Equity Project hands out $500 a month exclusively to young black Bay Area residents.
The Guaranteed Income Project for trans people, that pays $1,200 a month provided you're a black, indigenous, Latino, and transgender.
And the Abundant Birth Project gives $1,000 a month solely to pregnant black and Pacific Islander women.
Each of these three programs qualifies and disqualifies individuals from participation and benefits based on their race.
That's what they do.
The Birth Project defends the age saying black and Pacific Islander women have higher rates of premature birth.
This risk is primarily due to racism, both structural racism and the racism that birthing people and mothers experience when they're interacting with physicians and other medical providers.
Still, critics say it's illegal to exclude white and Latino women, especially those with higher risk of complication.
Now, Mayor London Breed supports all three programs, though none require work.
Example.
The $1,200 stipend will be provided to participants so they may focus on their basic physical and mental health and wellness without worrying about income, according to GIFT.
So all three programs, Kaylee, declined interviews.
The mayor's office says the programs are legal, and they look forward to going to court.
Yeah.
The answer, of course, is not to take that money away, but to give it to all people.
California.
UBI.
Incoming.
Yeah, we got nothing but money here.
Yeah, you guys are loaded!
All aboard!
Train's good, plane's bad!
Oh, such a controversy.
Controversy.
Oh my goodness, we have to weigh the passengers.
We need weight and balance.
Everybody's all up in arms about Finnair.
This morning, the Scandinavian airline Finnair inviting passengers to be weighed in along with their carry-on baggage.
The airline says the goal is to collect anonymous data on average weight of passengers with their hand luggage for the purpose of aircraft balance and performance calculations that are needed for the safe operation of flights.
So far 600 passengers have volunteered for the survey.
Airlines use an average for male and for female and for summer and for winter and you need to correct those every now and then especially if the population has gotten a bit more pudgy.
It turns out the airline has been doing this since 2018 and it's completely voluntary.
It's not uncommon for some international airlines to do wait surveys every few years required by their governing bodies.
Every five years, you figure the population changes a little in weight, and that's why these tests are needed.
And Finnair is not alone.
Air New Zealand weighed more than 10,000 passengers last June.
Air New Zealand calling the survey essential to the safe and efficient operation of the aircraft, and that the pilot needs to know the weight and balance of a loaded plane before takeoff.
And Korean Air did it in the fall, saying collecting this data was crucial for the safety of flight operations.
It is.
It's just a survey.
It's opt-in.
But of course, you know, this is just crazy.
We can't... This is 2024.
You know the way I feel about it?
Go.
People should be charged based on their weight.
And again, this is completely voluntary.
Nobody is being forced to step on a scale.
But when this happened, it of course certainly triggers a lot of good questions, maybe even some anxiety from a lot of people.
But Robin, you had a good solution.
Well, just put the whole plane on a scale!
It's voluntary.
It means you're not getting the information that you need.
So when everybody's on board, isn't there some way, technology, you can... I mean, you'd think in 2024 we could figure that out.
I know.
Because as John said, we're getting punchy.
Morning, Sue.
Yeah, so we put the whole plane on a scale.
No, weight and balance is incredibly important.
We understand your take on it.
Now, I'm going to connect this to another story, which is a day-wrecker of a story.
But weight and balance is very important, people.
The investigation is just getting started into a helicopter crash in San Bernardino County that killed six people.
The crash happened around 10 o'clock last night, east of the 15 Freeway near Hilarion Springs.
The crash site is known for an abandoned gas station with a sign that says, low gas and eat.
It's very close to the California-Nevada border, about 80 miles, matter of fact, from Las Vegas.
The Eurocopter EC120 took off from Palm Springs Airport and was headed to Boulder City, Nevada.
But it never made it.
The CEO of one of Nigeria's largest banks was on board.
Herbert Wigway was killed along with his wife and son.
Their identities were confirmed by an official with the World Trade Organization.
The National Transportation Safety Board is on scene to lead the investigation.
One thing they'll look at is the weather conditions.
It was reported by witnesses that there was rain with some wintry mix.
We currently have a meteorologist working on our team and we were working to analyze and get the exact weather conditions at that time.
The helicopter was not equipped with either a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder.
A preliminary report on the crash will be released in a couple of weeks.
The final report could take anywhere from 12 to 24 months.
So the banking CEO was on his way to the Super Bowl, or at least that's the report.
This is interesting to me because in 2001 I owned a Eurocopter 120.
I know a lot about it.
I've flown it myself.
No, it's a single engine turbine.
Helicopter.
It's quiet because it has the patented Eurocopter enclosed fin for the tail rotor.
It does not have a data recorder or cockpit recorder.
It actually runs on Windows NT, which I never liked.
When you start the helicopter, you get a boot screen for NT 3.1.
But this second report, which is a report which is, I'm going to presume the reporter got the information from the charter company, ...tells me something was very wrong.
Eyewitness News reporter Leanne Suter joins us live from Burbank with the latest on the investigation.
Leanne?
Jory, that helicopter was operated by Orbit Air, based here at the Burbank Airport.
A pilot, as well as a safety pilot, were on board, along with four passengers.
One of them, the head of a major Nigerian bank.
Okay, this is a five-seat helicopter.
Pilot, co-pilot, or as she called safety pilot, and three in the back.
If there were four passengers, you were overweight.
So besides flying in wintry conditions, somebody did something very wrong here.
We'll wait for the NTSB report.
Or maybe they're just full of crap and they don't know.
And also, safety pilot?
That's usually when an owner is flying himself.
The whole thing is sketchy.
Or they just wanted to kill a banker.
Well, what's sketchy to me is there's a dead banker.
Banker.
That's what I said.
Or he just wanted to kill a banker.
Yeah, that's possible.
That's possible.
And he's a Nigerian?
Yeah, it's a day wrecker.
It's a day wrecker.
It's not good.
So he has something to do with the Nigerian banking scheme?
Could be.
Yeah, I think he's murdered.
I think I got an email from him at some point.
I got one too.
Funny thing.
Hey, do you remember that report?
Was it your report about the heads?
Like some outfit where they just had heads on tables.
Do you remember that?
Heads on tables?
You're thinking of Futurama.
No, no, no, no, no.
There was some report you had.
I think it even became a show title.
It was like the guy had heads every, heads, baby's heads cut off or something.
Well, it's not one of my gruesome reports.
Well, then here's mine.
The Biological Resource Center was essentially running a chop shop for human body parts, mixing, matching, and selling them in ways we've never heard of until tonight.
Described as unsettling, but it sounds a whole lot worse.
One FBI agent revealing what it was really like inside the Phoenix body donation facility.
In 2014 he saw everything from buckets of heads, arms and legs to coolers filled with severed penises when the FBI raided the building.
Confused and angry.
We thought this was going to be doing some good.
He even spotted a smaller head sewn onto a larger torso in a quote, Frankenstein manner.
It wasn't a choice we made.
It wasn't a choice any of the families made.
Body parts piled on top of each other inside Biological Resource Center.
Hold on a second.
Where families donated their loved ones.
What was the name of this restaurant again?
In a quote, Frankenstein manner.
It wasn't a choice we made.
It wasn't a choice any of the families made.
Body parts piled on top of each other inside Biological Resource Center, where families donated their loved ones for medical research.
Discoveries of sickness and disease.
Maybe come up with a cure.
Some say the company violated everything they promised.
It's a tragedy that's never resolved, and it just keeps going on and deeper and deeper.
The limbs, according to that agent, with no apparent identification.
The company sued months after the FBI raided families claiming their loved ones weren't treated with dignity and respect, a promise written on their own consent forms.
The company also accused of selling body parts for profit after saying they'd only use the parts they needed and would cremate the ones they didn't and return them.
A torso with a head apparently went for $2,400.
A bargain!
A leg, about $1,100.
They'd even sell knees and feet alone for under $500.
Good news, everyone!
Man!
What is going on in Phoenix?
What a weird story.
I'll give you a clip of the day for digging that one up.
Thank you.
This one deserves a lot more attention, I think.
I want to know who was ordering a body with a smaller head sewn on top.
Come on!
What is going on?
And a whole bucket of penises.
I think that's a good one.
And we're worried about Jeffrey Epstein.
What's going on in Phoenix, people?
What is happening?
What is going on?
That's just... I think we need to go look at Taylor Swift.
Oh, we all need to calm down.
And I'm not talking about the podcast.
I'm talking about having Taylor Swift here.
Yeah, my goodness.
Hey, I have a Super Bowl clip.
A sports ball, and then we can talk about the big game.
In a metropolis once known as Sin City, the biggest sin heading into Sunday evening's Super Bowl...
...is not knowing that this guy, number 87, is the boyfriend of Taylor Swift.
Number 87 has a name, Travis Kelsey, a star in American football terms for the Kansas City Chiefs and a star for answering repeated questions about his love life.
Why do you think everyone's so fascinated with you two?
I think the values that we stand for and just, you know, who we are as people.
Kelsey's support extends to Taylor Swift fans, Swifties half a world away.
Tokyo hosted the last of four sold-out concerts Saturday evening.
I hadn't really watched American football until now, but because Taylor's boyfriend plays, I finally watched it.
The question on so many lips after this last gig in Tokyo, will a private plane get her back in time to, as she has in the past, join other players' girlfriends, wives, and family for the game?
She should make it, and that's good news even for those who don't count themselves as Swifties.
She will be in the house, in the building for the Super Bowl, but I mean, I love her.
I think her attending will bring a new eye to the sport.
I think there will be a lot of women who will probably shift their attention to football.
We should all be so lucky that we'd have a significant other wanting to support us in our job, right?
It would be nice if our families listened to our show, John, right?
Be honest about it.
Yeah, well, sometimes they do.
So I like that they brought the WAGs acronym to America.
Although they said it in reverse order.
You know, in the UK it's always WAGs.
Wives and Girlfriends.
She's now a WAG.
I think we should perpetuate that meme.
WAG.
So, yeah, I think NFL benefits.
It's a good, very, very good promotion.
Well, at least it was done as a publicity stunt.
Let's face reality.
Well, shall we get into the betting?
Because I've learned a lot from CBS Evening News about prop bets and then... Oh, prop bets.
Only maniacs take those.
If this was the Super Bowl of news stories, I'd bet anything that people would bet on anything.
From how many words I'll say to whether I'll gesture more with my left hand or my right.
And when I eventually throw this ball, will my dog catch it?
These are called prop bets, and in football it means betting on anything other than the final score of the game.
How big has this gotten?
It's gotten much, much bigger than even the game.
Rufus Peabody is a professional bettor and co-founder of Unabated Sports.
Why do you think the proliferation of this?
I think because people have shorter attention spans now than they used to.
We want the game to be more like a slot machine than we do a sporting event.
To that end, you can now bet on how long the national anthem will be.
Whether or not someone will miss an extra point.
Will Taylor Swift be caught on camera wearing a foam finger?
Will she wear red lipstick?
Or some other color?
And my personal favorite, when the game ends, what shade of Gatorade will get dumped on the winning coach?
What color will a Gatorade bath be?
Grown men have actually been debating this all week.
Young people like blue Gatorade.
I'll go orange.
Orange is down to plus five hundreds.
And who stands to profit off all this, aside from the Gatorade delivery guy?
The sportsbooks.
They're expecting 68 million Americans to gamble 23 billion dollars on the Super Bowl this year.
Industry insiders estimate about half that on these crazy side bets.
And so, as we near the end of this 273-word news story, where I have gestured more with my left hand than my right, let me ask you one final question.
How many of you have been waiting around just to see if my dog will catch this ball?
It's the same drama within a drama that fuels this Super Bowl betting frenzy.
Alright, shut up.
So, first of all, did you get my check?
No.
No, I sent you the check.
I sent you the P.O.
box.
You always told me to send it to the P.O.
box, not to the house.
Okay, well, it'll be there eventually.
You should have taken the Bitcoin.
You would have had 10% more.
And then if I kept the Bitcoin another week, it'd be 10% less.
Okay.
And then it'd be 10% more.
Then it'd be 10% less.
Okay.
Then it'd be 10% more.
Okay.
And then it'd be 10% less.
I'd just rather have the cash.
So, well, I thank you for that, if you did.
I did, of course.
I don't welter my bets.
And prop bets are classic.
It's part of the degenerate gambler syndrome.
I've known these guys who do this.
Which, according to news reports, is now mainly in Vegas, certainly, people over 80 years old.
They're all gambling crazy.
Did you know this?
No, I didn't hear about the 80-year-old bitch.
Yeah, apparently grandma is the most frequent bettor.
On sports?
On the Super Bowl and prop bets specifically, according to the Guardian.
I'll give it that.
I find this hard to believe.
I mean, I've hung out in sports books down there.
I don't see any old ladies.
It just doesn't make sense.
But the inveterate, degenerate gambler, they are... And this invites, which I think, and I think the two of us would kind of agree on this, is that most of these games are rigged.
Well, so now we get down to the nitty-gritty.
Is this peak swift, or is there yet another peak to come?
Because, I mean, what... Well, what can you do?
Hold on.
What could there be after this?
Well, let's say the Chiefs win or lose the Super Bowl, does this make Taylor more or less popular depending on the outcome of the game?
I think she, I mean, I'm just looking at the laws of nature.
Would it be set up for them to lose so that everyone can have a sympathetic, oh, poor Taylor?
No, no, I'm looking at the laws of nature.
The laws of nature dictate, if you use the media, which is your assertion, that they are using the media to promote themselves, but to promote the NFL, that it's a publicity stunt, the law of nature Requires, particularly in America, but also in the UK is very good at it, that the boomerang comes around and chops your head off and they just excoriate you and they just kick you down into the mud.
So of course you can then be the comeback kid in a few years.
See OJ.
But she doesn't need to be a comeback kid.
She will if she's bashed into the mud because she distracted Kelsey and he fumbles the ball and the 49ers pick it up.
I think even Mahomes, quarterback's going to pick it up.
He's going to run it all the way to the end zone.
Wins the game.
Mahomes is with the Chiefs.
Oh shoot.
Wrong sports team.
Good God.
Always comes out.
My basic thesis remains, do you think she's going to be on the halftime?
And the quarterback of the other team wouldn't be picking it up to run it in.
He wouldn't be on the field.
I got you.
We all know I'm not a sports ball guy.
But I am feeling a loss for the Chiefs and Taylor getting blamed for it.
It's just the law of nature.
Now, it could happen that we're not at peak swift yet.
Okay, every time you say that, I'm going to ask the same question.
If this isn't going to be peak Swift, what will be?
I don't see any other opportunity.
This is right now.
Swift at the White House.
She just finished the Eros tour.
Yes.
Swift at the White House.
At the White House.
That would be Peek Swift.
Chiefs win.
Kelsey goes with her.
Chiefs win and she goes to the White House with Kelsey and the rest of the team.
Yes.
And then they take pictures of her in the Oval Office in the President's chair.
Peek Swift.
We've got to hit it eventually.
You've got to hit it eventually.
Nobody stays on top forever.
No, I understand that and I'm in total agreement with the thesis that people who overdo it with the media get chopped down to their normal, you know, get chopped down.
Yes, yes.
Always.
And they always do.
I don't want it for her, but I'm just calling reality.
I think we could want it for her.
It's not a big deal.
It's not like she can't afford it.
Uh, not like Britney's latest thing where she's dancing in a devil's costume on TikTok.
Yeah, well, poor Britney.
Poor Britney, man.
Poor Britney.
She's a wreck.
Poor Britney.
I had a friend who was a personal assistant to Britney.
Really?
Yeah, he's a software guy now, but he was a personal assistant.
He worked for the Britney group.
And he said that the whole thing is so pathetic that one day she came up to him and said, I can't remember his first name, but she said, do you know how I can find out how much money is in my bank account?
Okay.
And he was taken aback by that, thinking, holy mackerel, they're just keeping her in the dark about everything.
Oh, there was a question.
It wasn't like a riddle.
It was like, how can I find out?
It was a question.
She doesn't know how to access her bank account.
No, no, but she's been abused.
This is an abused woman.
Yeah, totally.
Very abused.
This is a very sad story.
Do you ever see her dancing on her Instagram?
She was on the Instagram or TikTok recently in this devil's costume.
I didn't see that.
It just came out.
Oh, it just showed up in your timeline?
No, it showed up, I think it showed up on No Agenda, No Authority.
No, I haven't seen it.
One day I was in, uh, I think I was in Singapore.
Yeah.
I was in Singapore and there were these pictures of, uh, some model all over the, uh, there's like a, like an elevated train or something.
And all the posts are these huge pictures of this gorgeous model.
And I said, who is this woman?
I've never seen her before.
And the guy says to me, he's driving me around.
He says, Oh, that's Britney Spears.
I'm saying Britney Spears, doesn't look anything like Britney Spears, but it was, they had her made up with a really dark eyes and it was just a spectacular look.
And it's just as though this woman probably had the cash flow for her must have been unbelievable.
It still must be, but she's been just totally robbed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a sad story.
I'm going to go to, before we take our break, I want to take a quick little trip to what's happening with China.
So, all the sheriffs were called to Washington, D.C.
earlier this week, and they all came back with a similar report, including our sheriff here in Gillespie County.
Remember, I've told you this, and I don't want to be- This is not our sheriff, by the way.
This is Butler County.
He was a chicken little that says the sky's falling, and nobody believed him, and I want to tell you that it's going to happen here.
Sheriff Richard Jones believes terrorists are living among us already.
This concern is being raised after he heard the FBI director speak to sheriffs from across the country last week.
After hearing those remarks he believes an attack is coming and he said some attacks have already started in the form of cyber attacks and they're coming after his department daily.
I was told today that five times a day China tries to hack our computer system.
Butler County, Ohio.
Just a county of one of 3,300.
Immediately upon his return from Washington, D.C., the sheriff started making changes.
He's ordering more ammunition for his officers, and he's also stocked each sheriff's cruiser with an AR-15.
On top of that, he's ramping up the Citizen Police Academy training sessions.
We want you to be concerned now.
You're a fool if you don't listen to the chatter.
And when the federal government says they're here, and it's coming, we want to educate them, and we're going to increase our citizens on patrol, and we're going to be the police.
The sheriff has concerns about hacking, tampering with the sheriff's office, the board of elections, the power grid, and cell towers.
Hey, you don't have to believe me at all.
You don't have to be trained in firearms.
When we call you, you can go hide in your basement.
Build a safe room.
Good luck for you.
This guy sounds just like Lindsey Graham.
So what this is about is on the heels of this speech, which I think, actually this is 10 days ago, February 1st.
Tonight, the FBI director sounding the alarm about Chinese efforts to attack American power grids, transportation systems, and communications networks.
China's hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real world harm to American citizens and communities.
This is a very underreported testimony.
And Christopher Wray announcing a major takedown of a Chinese hacking operation on American soil, dubbed Volt Typhoon.
Working with our partners, the FBI ran a court-authorized, on-network operation to shut down Vault Typhoon and the access it enabled.
Steps China was taking, in other words, to find and prepare to destroy or degrade the civilian critical infrastructure that keeps us safe and prosperous.
Ray and other officials say China poses the world's greatest cyber threat, and they warn that Americans remain vulnerable.
U.S.
Cyber Security Chief Jen Easterly describing the devastating impact of a potential massive Chinese cyber attack.
Telecommunications going down so people can't use their cell phone.
People start getting sick from polluted water.
Trains get derailed, air traffic control system, port control systems are malfunctioning.
This is truly an everything, everywhere, all at once scenario.
Easterly said China believes that sort of cyber attack would crush any American will to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.
In a statement to NBC News, a Chinese government spokesman denied China hacks into foreign networks, calling it irresponsible criticism.
Okay, what is this about?
They are scaring people, probably unnecessarily.
Seems a little odd that they're going to take down cell phone, water plants, air traffic control.
It's not like... Yeah, they're going to drink polluted water somehow.
It's not like it's one switch you throw and everything goes down, and then scaring these Lindsey Graham podunk sheriffs into believing that China's hacking your very own computer systems.
Of course!
Five times a day.
That's nothing!
Five times a day is a joke.
We get 50,000 pings from all over the world every day.
Yeah, at least.
And it's all just bot traffic.
Do you remember that program that used to be sold?
It was like a shields up kind of the thing and it used to bid in the corner would tell you how many people were trying to attack you.
Oh, the PewPewMap.
No, no, not the PewPewMap.
It's a product on your own computer.
And it would just show a, just a laundry list of IP addresses coming in, hitting your machine.
And it was just never ending.
It was just like one after another, after another, after another.
It was like, by the end of the day, there were people, somebody in the zone alarm is being, uh, was it zone alarm?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it was just constant.
Cause that's what's goes on.
That's what it's not a five times a day.
Why is the FBI, why are they doing this?
I mean, a six-week cycle?
It has something to do with... Okay, six-week cycle.
And then, you know, they got Volt Typhoon.
Jeez.
Whatever that is.
And maybe it's to beef up military-industrial complex purchasing for the Taiwan invasion or whatever.
I mean, I don't like it.
No, the whole thing.
I never even heard this.
This is all news to me.
So they're doing a shit job.
That's what I'm saying.
I think that's why they pulled all the sheriffs in, because this was February 1st.
I didn't play this report at the time, but we had it.
It's NBC.
Nightly news.
Because they can't get enough people worked up about it.
Because I think there's enough computer literate people that as soon as you say the Chinese are trying to attack us five times a day, you have to roll your eyes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If they're going to try to attack us, it's going to be 10,000 times an hour.
What people really should do is just never watch any news at all.
Listen to us twice a week.
Just listen to us once a week.
You'll get all the news.
You'll find out what's going on.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, buy People Magazine.
Curl up with a glass of Chardonnay.
By the way, People Magazine is like, it's only 10 pages.
Have you seen this thing in the supermarket?
No, I haven't.
Oh, it used to be the Bible.
And now it's just a little thing, a little thin.
It looks like 10, maybe 20 pages top.
And it's always got a celebrity with cancer on the front.
Wow.
It's really bad.
It's bad.
No, I mean, people, don't worry about it.
This is all just meant to spin you up.
And you know what?
I'm saying this as an elder.
There you go again.
You can rest assured.
Adam the Elder, that's her show title.
Adam the Elder, there you go.
Here's something we should be worried about.
This is how Hong Kong rings in the Year of the Dragon.
Thousands of people flocked to this famous temple to offer their first incense at the altar at midnight to mark the very beginning of Lunar New Year.
It's Lunar New Year, John.
That's how it started last time.
As a traditional ritual, worshippers believe that the earlier they make their offerings, the better luck they will have in the year ahead.
Yeah, so everyone's traveling around China, traveling around the world, going to Italy.
Remember, wasn't the spread of COVID blamed on the Lunar New Year traffic?
No, they cut it off.
Oh, they did cut it off.
Well, how come they're letting them go this time?
Because the Chinese have this tradition of taking off on Lunar New Year.
It's like the number of travel miles they run through is unbelievable.
oh well i have one hope that door plugs are in yes okay uh besides the meta ai thing which i want you to do that i want you to do all right let's play this is meta versus ai versus pbs earlier this week as the 2024 election campaigns picked up steam meta announced it would start labeling ai generated images that appear on facebook instagram and threads to have Well, hold on.
Users better judge what they're seeing.
In December, an advocacy group called Free Press said Meta, YouTube and X have rolled back a total of 17 policies intended to protect against hate speech and misinformation.
So they finally have AI that can identify AI.
Well, hold on.
First of all, how does this this is this whole beginning of this whole premise for this report is a non sequitur.
Yeah, he's talking about Meta helping the public by identifying AI images on its site.
Yeah.
And then it switches.
So they're not doing anything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The stock will be $800 before you know it.
The group also said layoffs at the three companies make it harder to enforce the safeguards that remain.
Oh, we need some government money.
Katie Harbath is the Chief Global Affairs Officer at Duco, which is a technology consulting firm.
She's also a former Public Policy Director at Facebook.
Katie, this announcement from Meta, how big a deal is it?
How helpful is this going to be, and is it enough?
So I think that this is just one of many important steps that all online platforms have to take when thinking about safeguarding elections, not only here in the United States, but around the globe.
And so we are facing new challenges with AI, as well as existing challenges that have been around for a long time, such as misinformation, foreign interference, transparency around political ads.
And I think one of the challenges as we go into this cycle is that question of whether or not these platforms are prepared is we just don't know because they are also putting in a lot of investment.
They're making a lot of changes, as you mentioned, but we also don't know the twists and turns that await for us over the course of this next year.
And so the real question, the real proof of this will be how these companies act.
As these different elections happen, and as we see different forms of nefarious interference happen.
You know, now that Zuckerberg got spanked, maybe they're wisening up a little bit.
It's like, you know, maybe we should be doing some AI for one of these teams.
Or be labeling stuff that's real as fake.
I don't know.
Well that's gonna happen for sure.
Yeah.
Yeah, the White House just announced they're going to cryptographically verify official communications as AI deepfake surge.
So the, I guess they're putting their press releases on the blockchain.
This should see a surge.
Either that or they're gonna use micro dots.
This should see a surge in blockchain.
Sam Altman!
Wait, I got part three of this.
Oh, I'm sorry.
This is one of the biggest open questions for me.
Some of the platforms, such as META, have actually announced things that they're doing for the upcoming Indonesian elections, for the Mexico elections coming up, but they're just not being as transparent about that and what that means around the globe.
Traditionally, we have seen just a lot more time, money, and effort put into the English language, into elections in the US and the EU, and I am worried that so much attention is going to get sucked into those elections That we will forget about these elections all around the globe.
That will have just as much impact on the future of the global world order and how we handle issues on everything from climate change to other geopolitical issues.
Climate change.
Turn off your televisions, people.
Shut down your social media accounts.
Don't look at it.
Just look at the floor.
The spinning will go away.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Sam Altman is really smart, though.
He is now raising, quote, trillions of dollars to build AI chips.
That's where the money is.
In raising money, not in... I don't think the... No, you nailed it.
Yeah, I'm raising money.
The money is in raising money.
And then the big news, Google Barf, no longer known as Google Barf, it's now Gemini.
They've rebranded to Gemini.
What was it before?
Barf.
It wasn't Barf?
That was Bard.
Google Bard.
We dubbed it Barf.
Okay.
But check it out.
So Gemini, you can use Google Gemini, but then if you really want to use it, they have no business model.
Oh, you got to get Gemini Pro for $20 a month.
I mean, there's no business model.
Yeah, they're doing like premium content.
If you want the real deal, you got to get on board, you got to buy it.
I don't think this is a very good idea.
These guys know how to do advertising.
That's their business still, isn't it?
Yeah, that's their whole job.
I don't know how they're going to do it.
Every time they venture off into something else, they get all jacked up about it.
They make a little money, like a very low-margin money, and then they say, this is no good.
We can't get by with this low-margin money.
Let's cancel it and screw everyone who adopted it.
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 committing journalism, say hello to my friend on the other end and one and only Mr. John Sayers.
In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning to all the ships that sail, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, dames and knights out there.
And in the morning to all the trolls in the troll room.
Hello, trolls!
Hold up your hands!
Let's see.
Last Sunday, we had 2123.
Currently, 2045.
So we're down.
Down a little bit.
Down a little bit.
But it's a Sunday.
Oh, yes.
Let's see.
Last Sunday, we had 21-23.
Currently, 2,045.
So we're down.
Down a little bit.
Down a little bit.
But it's a Sunday.
Did we talk about Africa?
Oh, my God.
I had Africa clips.
Well, we did.
Yes, we talked about the Nigerian guy.
Boom.
Oh yeah, that's why.
If we talk about the Nigerian guy, there's an African guy killed in a helicopter.
We're tuning out.
Hello there, Trolls.
We love you.
We love you being here in our Troll Room, listening to The Shy.
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The Shive.
The Shive Love.
That's right.
I'm really confused today.
It's Super Bowl Sunday.
I'm all jacked up.
It's all crazy.
What's going on?
Are you going to watch this game?
Yeah, of course I'm going to watch the game.
How could I not?
Are you going to watch all those ads?
Because every ad, you know, the ad for this year's Super Bowl is $7 million for 30 seconds.
Wow, that's a little bit more than most podcast ads.
Hey, where are the ads on Joe Rogan's show?
There's no ads.
He's not brand safe.
I haven't heard, well, it's supposed to be $250 million.
I haven't heard an ad yet.
Maybe on Spotify, but I don't think, you know, he's in every podcast app now, which is cool.
I know, you know, because I wasn't really a Spotify guy.
Anyway, seven million dollars.
No, I'm more interested in the halftime.
I like the spectacle, the television event itself.
I hate the halftime show.
I always think it's lame.
It's lip-synced.
It's garbage.
I like the television production of the Super Bowl itself.
I like how the game is done.
I like the technical events they put in there.
I like the camera shots they do.
I'm always very... it's really the pinnacle of television.
Well, I'll tell you, the pinnacle of television for me recently, and I don't necessarily think you'd be ever interested in even watching it, but I caught most of it, or not most of it, a lot of it, and it was called the NFL Honors Awards.
Oh, you're right!
I would not watch that, no.
It was so...
Unbelievably produced.
It looks like, I'd say if you were in the year 2500 and you were watching TV, this is what it would look like.
Oh, now I have to go back and look at it.
If you can find it.
I mean, it was spectacular.
And if it doesn't win some sort of an award, it won't.
By the Emmys or something.
It's an Emmy show.
So, I mean, it's an Emmys.
Category.
I don't know what they're thinking.
It was just amazing.
It was so well done.
I mean, it's just I've never seen anything as good.
Are people still yakking about the Super Bowl commercials?
Do they show them all ahead of time?
I haven't looked at anything.
Yeah.
Not as much as they did 10 years ago.
What's Bud Light doing?
Bud Light's got to do something big, don't they?
They got a couple of humorous commercials.
They're going back to humor.
Yeah, they should do some self-deprecating humor.
If they're smart.
If they're smart.
Well, they're not that smart.
And then everyone says, oh, it's an American brand.
Oh, these poor American brands being owned by a bunch of Belgians.
No, that's what Trump is saying.
Trump is saying, don't go too hard on Anheuser-Busch because farmers.
You're not seeing this?
No.
Yeah, he posted that Anheuser-Busch uses a lot of Actually, that's interesting.
I think he said a lot of barley or hops.
I mean, I think Anheuser, isn't Budweiser made from rice?
I think it's rice.
I think it's rice, barley, and well, hops for sure.
You have to have that.
Yeah, you gotta have hops.
Hmm.
Oh, yeah.
No, he was like, oh, don't be so harsh on Bud Light.
Well, I mean, yes, they're using a lot of local products, but it's still a Belgian company.
Yes.
Well, he wasn't touting the American nature of the business.
He was touting the American farmers that produce a lot of barley for the beer.
That's what he was saying.
All right.
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There he is, comic strip blogger.
You know, if you persevere, eventually, eventually you'll get there.
And he brought us the artwork for episode 1632, titled King for a Day.
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And he had the simple, don't eat me, Obama.
Right, since we know that Obama ate dogs as a kid.
Little known fact, except here on the best podcast in the universe.
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Peak Swift.
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Now, let us thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1633.
We kick it off with Anonymous from China, Maine?
Is there such a place?
China, Maine?
It says.
I mean this is this is interesting.
I had no idea that there was a China in Maine, but I guess it's true.
Anonymous from Central Maine.
Hey guys!
First, can I request a de-douching?
Yes, of course you can request a douche.
You've been de-douched.
I heard about No Agenda through the Grimerica podcast.
Grimerica donation.
And I've become a steady listener over the last few years.
You've brought value to me and even my non-podcast listening wife.
Bitcoin was up today.
I figured it was time to return some value to you.
Bitcoin donation.
A Bitcoin donation of $1,000.
Can you please knight me Sir King Mud of the Ken E. Beck?
Sir King Mud of the Ken E. Beck?
Standard fare at the round table will do.
Oh, you got it.
That will be mutton and meat, of course.
Can I get an F Cancer, Rev Al Respik song, and some goat?
Yeah, of course.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
You've got karma. .
Well, we got another anonymous donor here from a town in New York I never heard of that he says is pronounced Belisha.
375 343 75 and he says it was originally V-A-A-T-J-E and is a small blue collar village in the Hudson Valley near Kinderhook home of one of John's favorite presidents Martin Van Buren Didn't he get shot?
No, I don't know.
It was the other guy was shot.
Martin Van Buren, a very corrupt guy.
I had one of the, at the meetup, we had some guy comes up to me and he says, what do you, what do you got against Martin Van Buren, the history teacher?
No jingles or comma.
Boom.
All right.
Go.
Jay McGilvery is in Nashua, New Hampshire.
333.33.
333.33.
We love that number.
Been a little while since my last donation.
Keeping the value for value going for the best show there is.
Keep up the great work.
Jay McGilvery.
Thank you, Jay.
Stacey Streen in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
333.33.
And this is switcheroo!
Credit to my smokin' hot husband, Seth, who celebrates another trip around the sun on February 13th.
Never thought I'd say this, but thanks for hitting me in the mouth, honey.
Grateful for all you guys do, ACJCD.
Love is lit!
Stacy, uh, Mud Jones.
Which, for reference, I think only the two of them get.
Yeah, at least they do.
All right, switcheroo implemented.
Brandon G. in Brambleton, Virginia, 33333.
Hey, John and Adam.
In the morning, I hope this message finds you well.
It does.
I'm a dude named Brandon here, born and raised in the D.C.
metro area.
Albeit long overdue, the day has finally come for me to humbly request a de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
And he does this as he begins his journey towards his seat at the round table.
I have not missed a show since my longtime friend and colleague, Ray, hit me in the mouth at the start of COVID mania.
Your witty and insightful commentary have been crucial components in the ongoing effort to shrink my pesky amygdala.
Can I get some anarchy goat karma?
A boogity boogity boogity amen?
Lastly, we might have a couple of birthday biscuits.
I am completing my 43rd trip around the sun tomorrow.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
And my buddy Ray also got older on the 9th.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
Appreciate it, comrades.
Thank you for your courage.
And may you never devise an exit strategy.
dude named Brandon G of FEMA region number three.
Energy, energy, energy! Mickey!
Peace.
you You've got karma.
Yeah.
Edward Owens in Alameda, California, comes in at 333.33.
Attach newt.
Edward Owens, owner of Speed Pro East Bay, your office graphics specialist.
We do wall murals, grazed lettering, logos, artwork, and all kinds of signage.
And this month we're offering 10% up to $1,000 of your project back to the show as a donation in your name.
This is good anywhere in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Go to SpeedProEastBay.com or click and click Office Design.
Just to be clear, this is not a discount against your project.
This is a donation of my money.
Nice.
10% of your project with $1,000 to the show in your name.
Oh, that's nice.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
I met this guy at the meetup.
Good promotion.
Sean McCrossan, Tiga Cay, South Carolina, 333.
And this, he says, gets me to knighthood.
I wish to be knighted as sir up on the high ground.
Mutton and mead sounds interesting.
Okay, I'll partake.
You got it.
In honor of the ongoing illegal wars, please give me some Rub-A-Lizer and thanks for all the work you do.
India, Tango, Mike.
Standby.
33, 33, 33.
33, 33, 33.
Rob Eliza out.
That's it.
Hmm.
Jim Cushman in Durango, Iowa.
233.99, which is the first associate executive.
Switcheroo for Eli the Coffee Guy.
Gotta be a night by now.
My keeper is a coffee snob and loves the single source organic.
Ditch the black rifle.
John, I'd love to send some wine from my family winery so we'd get some honest criticism.
I got a note from someone from SLC.
The more I know, Dvorak is a buzzkill.
I always thought the Peaberry was the veal of coffee, not the oompa loompa.
What a bummer.
There better be a good news segment to offset the fact that I like special brews.
Yeah, this is about the Peabud, the Peaberry brew that you were talking about.
Yeah.
I don't know what he's talking about.
Oh, he's angry.
It's considered a high-end specialty nowadays.
He says it's the veal.
I don't know what that means.
I don't know about that.
Just passing on the message.
Well, maybe, yeah, veal, because it's a baby cow.
You're killing a little animal.
And this is a baby bean.
And there he is, Eli the Coffee Guy.
Wow, he gets two credits.
Bentonville, Illinois, 211.33.
Oh, this is a switcheroo.
Oh, I see what you're doing.
This is a switcheroo.
According to my accounting, I should be eligible for knighthood.
However, I would not feel right to be seated at the round table without my better half, Jennifer, sitting next to me.
So I would like this donation to go towards her damehood.
Oh, man.
Hold on a second.
So, switcheroo.
This is for Jennifer.
Well, what do we call her?
Jennifer the... Jennifer the coffee lady?
I don't know.
Do whatever you want to call her.
Well, I mean, it's a switcheroo.
Just don't call her Johnson.
Happy Valentines, my love, he says.
You are an amazing wife, business partner, mother to our human resources, and smoking hot milf!
I'm so grateful to be able to share my life with you.
He wants a boogity boogity.
Love is lit.
Eli the coffee guy.
ITM 20 for 20% off orders at gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.
This is like Valentine's Day stuff, man.
This is great.
Yeah, it's coming up.
Valentine's Day is coming up.
Dame Wise Wizard would know that.
She's in Tan Valley, Arizona.
$200.
Dame Wise Wizard here.
Please switcheroo this EP credit as a gift to my husband, Sir Charles the Red.
Another switcheroo, Chuck Jennings, in honor of his birthday on February 10th.
He's on the list.
Oh, beautiful.
I think you should do this last one.
Yeah, I guess so.
It's Linda Lupatkin in Lakewood, Colorado.
$200.
This looks a little longer than normal.
Yes.
As you pointed out, it's time I embraced my peerage.
Priest, please bestow upon me the title Linda Lupatkin, Duchess of Jobs and Writer of Resumes.
With your permission, I would like to rule the territory of Green Mountain and all the mountain biking and hiking trails thereon.
At the round table, I'd like a ribeye and fresh grapefruit margaritas.
Sounds good.
She says, thanks for creating such a great community, for keeping us relatively sane.
I love meeting and helping my fellow No Agenda producers.
And now this.
For a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com with a K. Or find me on the producers list.
Love you guys.
Jobs, Karma, please.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Well, that concludes our Executive and Associate Executive Producers for Episode 1632.
Of course, we love every bit of value people send back.
We got someone I think is on the birthday list who just started a $4 sustaining donation.
We love all of it.
And of course, the whole idea is to just decide what is it worth to you.
For some people, $4 is a lot of money.
For some, $1,000 is not a lot of money.
Somehow it all works out in the wash, and here we are 16 years later.
We're still able to keep it going.
Make sure you keep it going by going to noagentedonations.com.
We have some damings, nightings, some meetup reports, and John will take us through to the 50s right now with name and amounts and any special note, if it is of note.
Yeah, David Fugazoda starts us off.
He's the Duke of America's Heartland.
Gladstone, Missouri.
And he came in 163.33 for 163.33 show number.
Greg Hoy in Pacifica, California, 133.33.
for 1633 show number.
Greg Hoy in Pacifica, California, 133.33.
Thomas Bayard in Tilburg, Netherlands, 111.11.
Benjamin Moon in The Slopes, New South Wales, 105.35. 5.
Sir Holst in Blythewyke.
Very good.
Netherlands, 100.
Uh, Katie Diem in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 100.
Kevin Brown in Kettering, Ohio, 100.
Uh, he's got a peerage note.
Uh, yeah.
Why don't you get it?
With this... Excuse me.
There we go.
With this donation combined with my monthly donations and original donation, I become a knight.
I want to shout out to my wife and her twin sisters.
They've been together here in Southwest Ohio for their birthday.
How nice.
Between them, they suffer breast cancer, fibromyalgia, and half a medical journal of ailments.
Whoa.
But rarely complain and are a joy to all.
Please knight me, sir, repetitiously.
I am a soon-retiring UPS driver and ask for F cancer.
We'll do that at the end.
I love my truck and what I do.
Just enjoying an IPA and the company of the other knights for the roundtable will be fine.
I think you need to roll out your...
I love my truck and I love what I do.
Kevin McLaughlin's up from Concord, North Carolina.
The lover of American boobs.
Archduke of Luna.
8-0-0-8.
I love sweater puppies, he says.
Dennis Eubanks in Canton, Ohio.
8-0-0-8.
Needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Karen Bauer in Vancouver, Washington is 6-6-1-1.
Well, Adam, despite your initial dismissal, I would say this is becoming a thing.
Dangly balls and two dicks.
6-6-1-1.
And we're happy to do them.
It's a thing with her anyway.
Aubrey Barnes in Ogden, Utah 6-3-3-1.
6331. Sir Don in Chandler, Arizona, 6006.
I go back to Aubrey's.
She's starving to death and she needs, she's got a colon cancer and wants people to go fund me.
She says had, had, so that's good.
She had, okay, well she's paying off her bills.
She's in a lot of debt, yeah.
Go fund me and look for Aubrey Barnes.
You can find it A, B, D, F, 9, C, D, 6.
Sir Don in Chandler, Arizona, 6006.
Michael Viviers in San Borton, New Hampshire, 5833.
San Borton, yeah, I guess so.
San Borton.
Franklin Monteroza in Dodge City, Kansas, 58.
Mika Rock'n Roll in Mohegan, New York, 57.
Apparently there's a No Agenda Influence comic book at orangeflavor.fun.
Sir Tooth Fairy in Valparaiso, Indiana, 55, 10.
D. Vitti in Cumming, Georgia, 55-10.
Gordon Walton in Austin, Texas, 53-77.
Chet St.
Clair in Wauwatosa.
Sir Gordon, I think he's got to be close to a Duke by now, if he isn't already.
His whole family donates for everybody.
Thank you, Sir Gordon.
5272 from Chet.
Gene Snyder, 5271.
Travis Haas in Enid, Oklahoma.
5153.
Bad Idea Supply.
There's no city here.
Bad Idea Supply, where are you?
So if you have a bad idea, go there.
William Spain in Springdale, Arkansas.
Fifty.
Lewis Hollingworth in Medford, Oregon.
Fifty.
Oh, these are all fifties.
I'll just do name and location.
Nadia Borg in San Marcos.
Douglas Mook in Cochranton, Pennsylvania.
Steven Schumach in Zinnia, Ohio.
Margarita Endelhood.
In Orangevale, California, Michelle Petty in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Tom DelVecchio in Blandon, Pennsylvania, John Spade in Edmond, Oklahoma, Corey Cunningham in Warrington, Virginia, Andrew Grasso in Mineola, New York, Sir Sagacious Scriptorian in South Milwaukee.
Is there anything he's got here?
Yeah, his position was terminated, so I'll do some jobs karma for him, of course.
Of course, we get that right after Gerald, Gerald, Gerald, Gerald Preston in Bennington, Nebraska.
And that's our group of contributors to show 1633.
Want to thank each and every one of them for making the show a possibility.
Yeah, let's do the F cancer.
You've got karma.
And the jobs karma.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
Thank you all very much, especially those under $50 who do not get mentioned because it's always anonymous.
And for those who are on those sustaining donations, they really do help a lot.
You can make one up yourself.
A lot of people like the $33.33.
You can do it weekly, monthly, you can do it Anything you want to do.
It's possible.
We appreciate it.
And, of course, we once again want to thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1633.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, slave.
And we do have a list.
Brandon G. wishes Ray D. a happy birthday.
Celebrated on the 9th.
Dame Wise Wizard wishes her husband, Sir Charles the Red, Chuck Chettings, a happy one.
Celebrated yesterday.
Jamie Gray says happy birthday to his smoking hot wife, Tara Gray.
Turns 52 tomorrow.
Brandon G. turns 43 tomorrow.
Dame Courtney, Chicago Cakes.
Spooky?
NBS?
All wish Scarlet Bea a happy birthday for the 13th.
Stacey Stream says happy birthday to husband Seth on the 13th.
Luke Brown wishes his wife a happy birthday.
She's turning 40.
And Kevin Brown says happy birthday to his wife and her twin sister.
Both of them going through some struggles.
We pray for you and happy birthday.
Everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
And we have a knight, and we have three dames.
And of course this includes Linda Lou Patkins, so bring out your big resume sword.
There we go.
Let's go back and hop on up here at the podium, along with Anonymous of Central Maine, Sean McCrossan and Kevin Brown.
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Um, dragons, bad soup, good.
This is roundy.
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Hi, Eli.
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Joe's from D.C., my first meetup.
Great time.
Get out there and go find your people.
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I don't want to trigger anyone, but boobs.
Hey John, the Brahmin's in D.C.
I think he's a spook.
The Brahmin?
Possible.
Yeah, I think he's a spook.
We got a report from the you-can't-spell-Aquarius-without-AI-Age-of-Aquarius-Red-33-Red-33-Boston meetup.
In the morning!
Yes, we are coming live and direct from Conrad's in Norwood, the home of Harry and the Potters, Wizard Rock, and we're gonna pass the phone around.
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This is Sir Paul in the morning.
My name is Jennifer.
I have no idea who these people are.
She just came over and sat down with us.
And this is Sir, what am I called now?
Sir Nathan Lee, Baronet, First Horseman of Armageddon.
That's what it is.
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And there's a meetup this Tuesday.
That's the day before Valentine's Day.
The 13th in Springfield, Missouri.
6 o'clock at Lindbergh's Tavern in Springfield.
On Thursday, our next show day, the Tally Meetup.
6.30 at Smitty's Taphouse and Grill in Tallahassee, Florida.
The Heavy Holiday Hangover Meetup.
Oh yes, the holiday being Valentine's Day.
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Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you won't be.
Triggered or held the blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Are you telling me you have no ISOs?
Thank you.
I'm telling you I had an ISO and I forgot to move it to the file.
I only have one so it's gonna have to be the winner by default and I'm not happy about it.
Well play it.
There is no evidence.
That's it?
That's it.
That's all I got.
I was... I was... Pull one from the archives.
But no!
What's wrong with this one?
We've never used it.
Okay.
Let me see if... Do I have a different one here?
No, I have... We have no evidence!
There's... I got lots of evidence ISOs for some reason.
Wait, what is this one?
And is there any evidence that this has actually happened?
I like that one.
Okay.
Is there any evidence that this actually happened?
Oh my goodness.
I'm hoping you have a good news clip because... I do have a good one.
Of course I do.
You need to redeem yourself after the last show.
So I have the coyote story.
This is a good one.
In Waukesha County, a coyote nearly died after getting stuck in the most unlikeliest of places.
12 News' Erica Finke shares how a wildlife rescue center gave the animal a second chance at life.
An unusual discovery in the snowy backyard of a Mosquito homeowner.
A coyote with her head stuck in a statue.
After chasing a rabbit, not being able to free herself for more than 24 hours, the person ultimately called for help, noting the creature was attached to a statue of St.
Francis of Assisi.
It's the patron saint of animals, and you know, you can't make that up.
I think there was some divine intervention there.
Divine Intervention says rescuer Kim Banik, because the coyote was desperately in need of care.
She was in shock and hypothermic, so she didn't really have any fight left in her.
She was, you know, she would have definitely died.
The staff at the Wildlife and Need Center took to her quickly, even naming her Franny after the saint while she recovered.
All you could see was no broken bones, which was a good thing, because that's a lot longer to fix.
After more than two weeks in treatment, the Wildlife and Needs Center felt Franny was ready to go back home and into the wild.
Any time it's a release is a best-case scenario.
That's our goal, is to always release them back into the wild.
Give them that second chance at life, because they all deserve to live.
Oh, my goodness.
They all deserve to live.
I got good news.
Oh, yeah.
I will say the good news segment is a hit.
People love it.
They do.
They love it.
They love it.
It's just good news.
I mean, what more do you want?
Good news.
And here's some good news.
We'll be back on Thursday.
Ah, that is good news.
That's very good news.
I'm excited about that.
And of course we'll have a report.
And your Valentine's wishes.
Yeah, it's a Valentine's show.
It's a Valentine's Day show, so people should consider putting a Happy Valentine's message out there.
Nothing says I love you like donating to No Agenda.
And the people who donate and know Agenda together, stay together.
It's a fact, scientifically proven.
Especially on Valentine's Day.
Follow the science, people.
Coming up, we have the grumpy old Benz on the stream in your modern podcast app, and end of show mixes from Sir Michael Anthony, Professor Jay Jones, checking in from China, and Bill Montanay.
And I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
6.
Go Niners!
Down Tay-Tay!
Yay-Yay!
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And I'm from Northern Silicon Valley, where I go Niners.
I'm John C. DeVore.
We will talk to you on Thursday.
Looking forward to it, everybody.
Have a great weekend.
And until then, adios, mofos, a hooey, hooey, and such.