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And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas air country here in FEMA Region No.
6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we all congratulate Tampon Tim for getting the VP pick.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
And here I thought we can probably get through the entire episode without that nickname.
Wrong you were, sir.
I am so wrong, I am so wrong, yes.
Somehow I don't think Trump will use that one.
I don't think he'll use it.
It would be great if he did, it would be very funny, but I don't think so.
He hasn't even used Cackling Camelot, which is, I think you pointed out.
It's odd, it's very odd.
Very odd.
Yeah, it's so obvious.
Well, I guess to satisfy everybody, we should start off with the outrage of the day.
It's all that people can do on Twitter is talk about, uh, oh, the socialist, he's no good!
He's no good!
Tim Waltz.
Who reminds me very much of, uh...
Of that other Tim guy.
Who was that?
Who was, uh... Tim Cain.
Tim Cain.
Isn't it basically the same guy?
It looks like the same guy, only this other guy's got a fatter jaw.
Hey, that's called cuddly.
Did you get the same super clip I did?
I have a... I have a... I have a super clip, which is the Walls medley.
It may be similar.
Well, how long is yours?
Uh, well that's a good question.
Mine is 135.
130, you have 135?
I have 135, yes.
Oh, let's play it.
Oh, here we go.
Kamala Harris picks Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as running mate.
What does Walz bring to this?
He's cuddly.
Cuddly.
I think she went for maybe a little more of a cuddly choice.
Tell us more about the texture of the man.
He seems to almost have a twinkle in his eye.
Tim Walsh is the opposite of weird.
Tim Walsh beats America.
He sounds like a football coach.
He's a hunter that you could visit with at the hardware store.
In a dictionary, if you had weird and anti-weird, you'd have Tim Walsh's picture there.
I bet knows how to make a good hot-dish casserole.
It's very down-to-earth.
It's his authenticity.
Authentic communicator.
The word joy came up a lot.
He's joyful.
He seems happy.
A happy-go-lucky warrior.
And he's happy and a happy warrior.
A joyful warrior.
He is one happy warrior.
A happy warrior.
The happy warrior.
Nice guy.
Good guy.
A very nice person.
Reliable.
Definitely affable.
He is an extremely affable individual.
Very affable.
Plain speaking way.
A folksy vibe.
This folksy idea.
Terrific vibe.
Vibes election.
Kind of a folksy.
The idea that Tim Walz is a lefty is just not true.
I don't think either of them are Bernie Sanders progressive.
A rather safe pick.
I think a safe pick.
A safe choice.
This is a do no harm pick.
Do no harm.
He's just more of a vanilla pick.
It's a younger version of Joe Biden.
We got Brad Summer.
We've got coconut tree memes.
There's joy in the Democratic Party right now.
Those outside of Pittsburgh loves Tim Walz.
So talk about Walz.
He is cuddly and joyful!
My clip is so different.
It's got the cuddly stuff, but it's got a better punchline.
Oh, okay.
It's shorter, we can play it.
This is just to show you how much...
Crap the mainstream media puts out in support of the Democrat Party.
It's an embarrassment.
All-American definition of a man from middle America.
High school teacher, football coach.
He has this folksy, personal, informal vibe that has really appealed to a lot of Democrats.
He's kind of a folksy guy, very friendly, nice guy.
They're totally approachable.
You get the feeling that he's got plenty of neighbors that wear MAGA hats and he picks up their paper and brings it to their front door and they're his friends.
Walz has an ability to be, I know one person said, cuddly.
Tim Walz is the opposite of weird.
Maybe a little more of a cuddly choice.
Cuddly.
Cuddly.
This is going to be a mac and cheese and a trip to the hardware store.
A grounded vice presidential candidate that's going to make people smile.
He seems to almost have a twinkle in his eye.
He ice fishes.
He's a hunter.
He does butter carving.
Wow, if this guy becomes vice president we get the mac and cheese life.
And he does butter carving.
Mac and cheese.
That is so pathetic.
Well, I love it when they all pick up, well, when they read the talking points memo, I presume, and then, here's what you could say about Tim.
He's cuddly, he's joyful, he's, you know, etc, etc.
I just hope that these super cuts, that people realize that's what's going on.
We've been doing them What, for almost the entire length of the show?
I just hope that people see it, that your media is nothing.
Now, by the same token, your social media is also nothing.
Have you noticed that ever since Elon Purchased X. Well, you can say anything that you want.
It's meaningless.
The journos all left, or at least they don't, they don't promote anything anymore.
Nothing goes viral that gets out into, you know, no one's playing stuff from Twitter.
There's no longer people saying, oh, oh, this is trending on Twitter.
It's bad news for them.
No, none of that.
It's now just a place to go and go.
That's all that it is.
It's meaningless.
I see you posting.
Think about it.
Elon Musk makes it free for everybody.
It's good.
You can say whatever you want.
How long would it last?
I see you posting.
I repost mostly.
Yes.
Soon to be illegal.
So let's meet Tim Walz.
Soon to be.
I'm just doing it as long as it goes on.
I think it's going to.
It's going to end.
It's going to turn into just a financial resource.
Let's.
We'll be using it to collect donations.
Let's meet.
Now, here's the problem that he's run into.
And I think this is a universal issue.
Doesn't play very well in America at all.
I'm thinking Swift Boat with John Kerry.
And this is STOLEN VALOR!
Which many are quick to point out to me is punishable by jail.
It's a felony according to the Stolen Valor Act of 2013.
So what we are learning about Tim Is that he kind of waffles a bit and says, you know, I carried a gun in combat while he was in the Army Reserves for 24 years when his unit was to be deployed for, I think it was, was it Iraqi Freedom or was it?
Yeah, the Iraqi.
Yeah.
He then said, well, you know, I'm going to run for governor or whatever, Senate, I think.
He was stationed in Italy for a while.
But when you say things like, I don't care about the NRA, I don't want guns like the one I carried in combat, oops!
And they've been calling that, I mean, I've seen, none of it is playable as a clip, but I've seen people go... I have a pretty decent rundown of this.
Oh, okay, good.
I'm glad you do.
And I hate to do it, because now you, I did it, then you did it, now I'm doing it, which is a Jesse Waters analysis.
First of all, I want to make an excuse for Jesse Watters.
He has the prime time on Fox, so thus he has the best writers.
He does.
Yes, he does.
He's got good eyes.
So it's not a complete abomination to play his analysis.
As long as you cut him out.
Did you cut him out or you left him in?
No, I left him in because the whole thing is a package that's very well done.
I usually cut him out.
It's hard to cut him out to be honest about it.
Now, exactly what I called this clip is another issue.
I would say Jesse W. on Walt's stolen valor.
That seems to be the right one.
That sounds like it would be it.
Yes, please.
The media has inflated this guy's resume like he inflated his own.
Walt's never went to war.
He never saw combat.
He was never in a war zone.
But for years, he's been claiming otherwise.
I spent 25 years in the Army, and I haunt.
We can do background checks, we can do CDC research, we can make sure we don't have reciprocal carry among states, and we can make sure that those weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where those weapons are at.
Waltz never carried weapons in war.
He's lying.
And he's been giving reporters the impression that he's been a combat vet for years.
Bloomberg putting out a piece saying Waltz served, quote, in Iraq as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Waltz never went to Iraq.
And Bloomberg had to retract it.
Waltz put out a campaign press release claiming he was a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Claiming he served in Afghanistan.
He never served in Afghanistan.
Waltz told The Atlantic he just returned from fighting in the war on terrorism.
Waltz never fought anywhere.
He abandoned his unit, left his battalion hanging, right before he was supposed to deploy to Iraq.
I was like, well, for Pete's sake, this guy quit.
And if I say I'm not going to do it, I mean, what the hell kind of leadership is that?
He was a congressman.
He bragged that he was a retired command sergeant major.
I'm the highest ranking person ever in the House.
And all this lie that he was telling.
And there was lots of cards coming in the mail for him to be elected.
They said right on her, he's a retired command sergeant major.
Just tooting his own horn.
Hanging on the coattails of people that actually are Command Sergeant Majors that went through all the process and put all the time in.
Stolen Valor is really what it is.
So when you get this from Fox, it was kind of to be expected.
But when it boils over and flows to CNN, you know you have an actual problem.
And here's the fact-checking going on at CNN.
Waltz did make a comment speaking to a group, he's done it a couple of times, where he has used language that has suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation.
As you know, with your contact with the military, I know from coming from a military family, there is a difference between being in a combat area, being involved at a time of war, and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you.
There is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was.
So that is absolutely false when he said that about gun rights out there.
So to trolls, Cotton Gin, I see you, who say, who cares?
The media always picks our winners and losers.
This actually matters.
We are media deconstructionists, so you're listening to the wrong podcast if you don't care.
This is exactly... Get off!
Get off!
Get off that draw room!
Get out!
This is exactly what you don't want in the age of media picks your leaders or your representatives and it's so pathetic when you see Tina Smith who is the representative from Minnesota They're trying to do this.
Well, here is Tim Walz, who enlisted when he was 17 years old.
He served in the National Guard for 24 years.
And I'm not aware of any military service that J.D.
Vance has ever served.
So let's just make the comparison there.
And what happened in the tragedy of the killing of George Floyd and then the unrest.
OK, pardon me for that.
When Jim Acosta is correcting you, you've really messed up.
As a Democrat.
That's for sure.
It is really unbelievable and not credible that this guy was not fact-checked on this point.
That makes no sense.
Or they were in such a hurry to get just anybody in, anybody but someone who would win, because that's what it looks like.
Well, I will mention that this was supposedly put, this guy was picked and chosen and put in by Eric Holder.
Who is the head of the Choosing Committee, the one-man Choosing Committee, and he of course is connected to Obama, and as I mentioned in the newsletter, there is some thought that Obama is still irked about this whole thing, that Kamala should not be the person in this position at all, and he's sabotaging the campaign.
Yeah, I'll buy that.
I really will.
I mean, it's just so odd that this would not be checked because there's video of veterans going to his office like ten years ago saying, hey, you know, this is not cool what you're doing here.
I don't know if that was as senator or as governor.
No, he was a congressman.
Oh, congressman.
I'm sorry.
So either way, it's like, and you know, some of the, the media is just, well, this, this is our guy.
Let's pick up on anything we can.
He's joyful.
The whole, the whole campaign is joyful.
Joyful is my favorite.
And I've heard that Plouffe, Plouffe is now, is on the campaign.
So Plouffe is, he's, he's the guy that makes all these, um, That makes all of these campaign stops look like the real deal.
He knows what he's doing.
He was Obama's guy.
So they're doing a good job with that.
They're packing him in.
But even if you look at the YouTube numbers on the, which is Joe Biden's YouTube account, of the stream of the announcement.
There's only like 50,000 views.
So, you know, something smells bad.
But let's get to meet the candidate, the VP candidate.
I have an Ask John.
We don't have an Ask John jingle, unfortunately.
Ask John!
All right, Ask John.
All right, John, here we go.
This is an Ask John question.
Let me just make sure we have the right one loaded up here.
But in Minnesota, just like in Wisconsin, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make.
Even if we wouldn't make the same choices for ourselves, because we know there's a golden rule.
Now, whenever I see Tim Waltz walking around, he's always putting his hands together in prayer emoji fashion, like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Yeah, namaste.
Yeah, so what do you think his golden, we've heard of the golden rule, what is Tim Waltz's golden rule?
Think on your neighbors during COVID.
You might think.
He had a call in line so you could, if you saw your neighbor walking the dog, you can call it in and have him arrested.
Well, that's that's the good neighbor policy of Tim Walz.
Well, you'd think when he says golden rule, you'd think he would say, you know, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
That's even Rob Reiner knows that's the golden rule.
But here is the golden rule of your potential future vice president.
But in Minnesota, just like in Wisconsin, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make.
Even if we wouldn't make the same choices for ourselves, because we know there's a golden rule.
Mind your own damn business!
There you go.
Mind your own damn business!
Yes, I did.
I didn't get that.
Mind your own... There's your new golden rule!
Yeah, mind your own damn business and if you see anybody walking their dog, call our hotline.
Yeah, I got several notes from people in Minnesota.
Minnesota, by the way, which is sued for sky-colored waters.
Supposed to be a beautiful, beautiful state.
I've been to Minnesota.
Land of 10,000 lakes.
I've been there numerous times.
Yes.
First of all, says our producer Thomas, don't believe the hype he's America's dad or Minnesota nice.
He's the type that will have his administration send a lawsuit to a single mother of four wrapped in a bow right before Christmas for simply refusing to go along with this COVID lockdown.
He's the type of good neighbor that sets up a snitch line for people to report those that are not following his mandates.
He's the type of person that promotes having drag shows in our state capitol building.
Oh, that's entertaining.
He made Minnesota a trans sanctuary for those to be brought into the state and have the gender reassignment surgeries without the parents' consent.
He forces all schools to have tampons in the boys' restroom.
So, clearly Thomas from the Free State of Minnesota is not very happy with Tim Walz.
Could be a plant.
Now, the thing that I find very odd...
Is that the mainstream, M5M, they are crediting him with coming up with the weird term.
Yes, this is a very common, this is, everybody says that, yes.
And in fact, I think even if you go to his wiki page, you'll see that.
Well, because Wikipedia is, of course, the book of knowledge.
Well, it's a bit of propaganda, but it's beside the point.
Let's see what NBC does here.
This morning, the new Democratic ticket is off and running.
Vice President Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, setting out on a swing state tour.
Why Walz?
Sources tell NBC News the two had strong chemistry when they met last Sunday.
Harris, sources say, was swayed in part by Walz's biography.
Oh, swayed by his biography!
Walls also repeating the now popular attack line that first got him attention among many Democrats.
These guys are creepy and yes, just weird as hell.
But according to a new poll, 71% of Americans say they don't know or have an opinion on Walls.
So now the race is on from both sides to define him.
That's also something that is not very well discussed at all on the mainstream, is name recognition.
This is always a thing that they add in, like, oh, you have to name recognition.
No one, no one was talking about Tim Waltz, except Kara Swisher, who said he would be a horrible pick, but I'm sure by the time Pivot comes out on Friday, he'll be a great pick.
There's no doubt, because she is the most wishy-washy of them all.
Here's NPR!
Yeah, he's the one that coined the phrase weird, or the viral meme weird in describing Donald Trump and J.D.
Vance.
So tell us about Tim Walz.
Who is he?
Well, he's a Minnesota governor.
He was born and raised in rural Nebraska.
He's in his second term as Minnesota governor.
He's the head of the Democratic Governors Association, so there's some thought that he has some ability to raise some money, bring some cash to the ticket as well.
He's a veteran of the Army National Guard.
And, you know, we know he didn't really know Harris very well before these past couple of weeks, but impressed her.
And he does have these connections on Capitol Hill, so he's also kind of a governing pick as well.
And, you know, really, as you noted him coining this phrase, weird, a lot of this is about messaging.
He's very good at it.
Very good.
And he's really somebody who two weeks ago was not on the tips of people's lips for who could get this job.
But clearly, you know, talked his way into it with that and with his personality.
He talked his way into it with his personality!
Ah, this is dynamite.
Well, of course, even we were convinced that it would not be Waltz.
I mean, I still held on for a hopeful Wes Moore just to give Mo the benefit, but that didn't happen.
And Shapiro was what everyone thought would be the pick, and that didn't happen.
Here's CNN.
I just think it was weird.
It turned out not to be as a false note as I thought it might be.
To do this rollout in Shapiro's home state if you're not going to pick Shapiro.
They could have done this rollout in Michigan, they could have done this rollout in Wisconsin, someplace where one of the finalists wasn't from so it wouldn't seem like an in-your-face kind of move.
Second order, or third order, you know, issue.
The fact that a lot of people, sometimes boosted by the Trump campaign, we're now learning, but a lot of people in the Democratic Party, and on the very online left, singled out Shapiro because he's Jewish, and they did single him out because he's Jewish.
He doesn't have any positions on Israel that are different from any other people he's competing with, or from Kamala Harris.
But that whole genocide Josh thing, the fact that Walsh seems like the safer pick, Ben Shapiro tells you something about the problems running through the Democratic Party.
I mean, this has to be sabotage.
This guy has so much nasty garbage hanging off of him.
It's crazy.
Well, I think there's an element of that, but I do have some comment about the Shapiro non-pick, because it was lined up.
That's what they were going to do in Pennsylvania.
Yes.
And I was totally convinced it was going to be Shapiro, but what it turns out, and this has not been discussed except very obscurely, and you'll never find it.
Shapiro was for school vouchers, and the teachers union basically put their foot down and said, you're not picking this guy.
Oh, I believe that.
Yeah, of course that's not discussed.
Why bring any information to the people?
That would be wrong.
Yeah, and they're pretty powerful.
That lady who screams and yells, what's her name?
Both the groups have ladies that scream.
The National Teachers Association and the other one.
They both have screamers.
Now, the thing is that Shapiro did speak at the event, and I have to say, I can see why they call him the Jewish Obama.
He has the same cadence, he does the same structure, he does the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, repeating himself in a certain kind of a way that's very Obama-esque.
Obviously there's a speaking coach that teaches this and he's really good.
But no, he's out.
Well, so here's some of the nasty dirt.
By the way, he can't be too happy.
He's joyful.
He's not happy.
He's joyful.
There's a big difference.
Big difference.
Big difference.
He can't be too joyful.
I don't think he's joyful.
Here's another thing that's a problem for him.
Alex, critics are also blasting Tim Walz for saying, they are saying that he failed to prevent a massive COVID-19 fraud scheme that ensnared the state of Minnesota, the Minnesota government.
What's the latest on that?
Well, Diane, what's interesting, this is one of the largest COVID-era fraud cases that we know of thus far.
Federal charges filed against some 70 individuals, basically saying that they took advantage of two different COVID-era relief programs to the tune of about $250 million.
Now, it's important to note that Governor Walz has not been charged or that there haven't even been accusations that he was somehow involved in this.
But the criticism is that he appointed the folks that were overseeing the handing out of these funds.
But I can say that an audit done of the doling out, the disbursement of these funds.
Listen to this guy trying to dance around it.
I don't know why this guy can't just get it blurted out.
Is he a professional?
Oh yeah, it gets worse.
They can do better and that any responsibility in that falls at his feet.
But again, this is something that he has not been wrapped up in.
He's not charged or faces any charges stemming from this case.
No, it's dirt and it's not good for him.
Now he does have the trans kids.
This was an unbelievable report.
Because he turned his state into a sanctuary state for kids who want to have transgender surgery without their parents' permission.
Not a very popular thing.
I don't think anywhere anymore.
And listen to this child abuse.
Also standing in that sea of people, a parent.
Transparent.
About his family.
My partner Gretchen.
Oh, I love transparent.
You're transparent.
You're transparent.
You're so transparent.
You're transparent.
Parent.
Transparent.
About his family.
My partner Gretchen and I are here today.
Can't even say wife.
Can't even say wife.
Has to say my partner.
Okay, maybe he's not married, but you know what I mean.
No, they're probably married.
The kid, is this the six-year-old?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is so pathetic.
About his family.
My partner Gretchen and I are here today because we are parents of a trans child.
Their child is six years old and she was as excited to be at a boring capital on spring break as any six-year-old kid could be.
Squirming and fidgeting her way through speeches, hardly aware her existence as why her parents drove five hours today to speak publicly.
This is a great setup.
Hardly aware of her existence, but she knows she's trans.
Speak publicly.
It's 100% personal.
I mean, the safety, the happiness of our child, it couldn't be more personal.
Asher, why are we here today?
For trans rights.
For her rights to be her.
As you can see from this.
This breaks my heart.
They've psyoped this kid into believing the kid is trans and I'm here for trans rights.
Six years old.
Six years old.
Freedom!
Six years old.
It's heartbreaking what these people are doing.
Well here, I want to play just, this is the Minnesota Attorney General.
This is the clip.
Which kind of is a little background on this whole thing.
They're really trans nuts up there in Minnesota.
This is M-N-A-G.
M-N-A-G.
Got it.
Because let's be clear, this is life-affirming and life-saving healthcare.
When our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them.
Please clap.
That's what it means to be a good parent.
Well, John, you and I are both parents.
And by the way, may I congratulate you?
I love the term grown-ups.
Oh, yeah.
Was she 12?
Yeah.
I would like to congratulate you on 40 years of matrimony.
And they never had a fight.
I thought it was 40.
36.
Oh yeah, no, it's 40.
Yeah, it's 36.
36!
And Mimi came down to celebrate?
She's on her way.
She's on her way!
Clear the decks!
She's on her way.
What are you guys doing tonight?
Uh, it depends on what time she gets here.
Well, don't you have a reservation at a swanky restaurant?
Oh, you know, she's picked up this weird... Oh, the food allergy, yeah.
A wheat thing ever since the COVID, which really cracked the... It's very difficult to eat at any restaurants without her getting sick.
So you're cooking for her?
Yeah, I can cook better in most places anyway.
Yeah, I know you can.
So what are you cooking?
I've kind of fallen back into cooking filet mignon roasts.
Mac and cheese.
Mac and cheese!
Mac and cheese!
Happy anniversary, babe!
Cheap cheddar!
Happy anniversary!
That's good, man.
I'm happy for you guys.
36 years.
That's nothing to joke about.
It's nothing to sneeze at.
So, back to this woman.
Kids at six don't know crap.
Kids are going to tell you what they are.
JC, when he was... Yes, this is a good story.
JC was three characters.
Yes.
Besides being himself, a little kid, about six, seven, eight years old.
Yes.
He was also a robot.
Yes.
And my favorite?
Jacques the Mater D.
Which I'm sure you took advantage of, just like he was trans.
Oh yeah, when he was Jacques the Mater D, and he was roaming around with a napkin over his arm, his forearm.
Go get me this from the kitchen, Jacques.
He would go do all kinds of errands.
But he was also the robot, he was also a third character, which I think was a cat.
Oh yeah, I never heard about the cat, but I... Yeah, I can't remember the third character because it wasn't as strong a character as Jock and the robot.
But this is, what are we supposed to do at that point?
Oh, he's a, he's a, he's a Mater D. Let's make him a Mater D. What if he wanted to be a girl for five minutes?
What are we going to do?
I mean, this is ridiculous.
Kids do this stuff and you're not, you take it to a point, you don't take it so seriously that you chop their nuts off.
Okay, no.
No, you don't.
But in today's world, you know, remember, we're all still incredibly traumatized by COVID, so people are still strange.
We have to keep remembering this.
Stuff happened during COVID that made, and remember my hair girl.
And she says that there's a very high correlation between people who were wearing masks in their car by themselves for three years who also have trans kids.
It's part of the same trauma that has just been injected into them.
It's like MKUltra.
I really think it's related.
Well, it's definitely weird.
Oh, there you go.
And I hate to use that word.
If I say it again, if I say weird again, call me out and make me stop.
Okay.
Because I don't like the word at all anymore.
So... I'll say peculiar.
Yes, that's a good one.
Peculiar.
That's peculiar.
Is that the best word we can come up with?
There's got to be a better one.
Strange.
Oh, let me see.
Synonyms for... let me see.
Weird.
Synonyms for weird.
Let's look at what they could be.
Weird.
Okay.
But while you're looking that up, I will...
I will say that.
Listen to this.
Okay, go ahead.
You'll say this and I'll give you some other words we can use.
Screwy.
Screwy.
Bizarre.
Bizarre.
Curious.
I like curious.
Erratic.
Erratic.
Quirky.
Quirky.
Off the wall.
Off beat.
Queer.
Huh.
That's interesting.
That's queer.
Maybe that's what they're trying to inject.
Bizarro.
Outlandish?
Wacky?
With or without an H?
Kinky?
I like quirky.
Quirky's good.
Yeah, quirky, unique.
Anyway, so I realize now that because I have made a habit of watching these Zoom calls, these phony baloney Zoom calls, where they say, oh, this is the biggest Zoom call audience ever.
We know it's not true.
We know that you don't have 100 or 200,000 people on a Zoom call.
You may have people watching a stream, but that's not all on the Zoom call.
So there's some disingenuity there.
But Tim Waltz was on the White Dudes for Harris, the Crackers for Kamala Khal.
And I have to say, I like this guy for one reason.
He's highly editable.
He speaks in bursts and there's enough pause.
You can slap stuff together.
So I took his four minutes and broke it down to one with the punchline at the end.
I'm going to echo that message, Joe, that message of hope.
My oldest daughter's name is Hope.
That's because my wife and I spent seven years trying to get pregnant, needed fertility treatments, things like IVF, things that they would ban.
And so once again, I keep talking about this idea.
You're right.
These guys are the anti-freedoms.
I grew up in a small town.
400 people, 24 kids in the class, 12 cousins, and I hear JD Vance trying to talk about what a small town is.
There's one golden rule in a small town, those of you who aren't from a small town, mind your own damn business.
We don't need it.
I don't know who's asking for this crazy stuff that they're pushing.
Who's asking to ban birth control?
No one.
No one.
He's full of crap.
He's a liar, this guy.
No one is asking for that.
Who's asking to raise the price of insulin?
No one.
No one is asking for that.
No one, Tim.
I'm a Legion Club member and none of the dudes there are.
What's the Legion Club?
I have no idea.
American Legion?
American Legion.
He said Legion Club.
I think he shortened it, but it's gotta be the American Legion, it's for veterans.
I'm a Legion Club member and none of the dudes there are asking to cut veterans benefits like Project 2025 does.
Oh, really?
So look, we need to point out- He's a big look guy, by the way.
He's really good at the look.
Look!
So look, we need to point out to this.
The reason rural America hurts is because robber barons like these guys have come in there.
They undermine the basic social safety net that makes this country great.
So, this is preaching to the choir, but the choir needs to sing.
Oh, this guy's as good as Kamala.
I like that.
This is preaching to the choir, but the choir's gotta sing!
We're not in this alone.
The rest of the world needs us to be here.
These guys throwing our- We're not in this alone.
The rest of the world needs us to be here.
This guy is good.
This is preaching to the choir, but the choir needs to sing.
We're not in this alone.
The rest of the world needs us to be here.
These guys throwing our NATO allies under the bus.
The idea that they don't care what happens in the rest of the world.
This is completely not true.
He's basing this on Trump saying if they don't pay, we're not going to protect.
So it's not the same as throwing your NATO allies under the bus.
Not addressing climate change that's going to impact communities that are less fortunate than anyone else.
That's also not true.
They are addressing climate change.
They just don't believe in the hoax, but they are addressing it.
Not addressing climate change that's going to impact communities that are less fortunate than anyone else.
Those are the things it has to do.
We have communities that are going to pay the price because we don't address it.
And for one thing, don't ever shy away from our progressive values.
One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.
Just do the damn work.
Yeah, and that's what's going to tank him forever.
He's basically saying one person's, no, he's literally saying one person's socialism is the other person's neighborliness.
No, socialism is socialism.
And if you don't understand the distinction, then you're dumb.
So I have some, I have some wall stuff too.
No, but I want to stick with the Zoom calls for a minute.
Oh, okay, stay with the Zoom call, but I have him at the rollout when he was introduced.
Well, I was moving on.
Alright, we'll do your... I'll come back to the Zoom calls after your Waltz stuff.
What you got?
Okay, so he comes out and lies about... I have two clips.
First, he lies about Trump, which he's bound to do.
Donald Trump sees the world a little differently than us.
First of all, he doesn't know the first thing about service.
He doesn't have time for it because he's too busy serving himself.
Again and again and again.
Trump weakens our economy to strengthen his own hand.
Right?
He's lost money.
He's not doing very well at that gambit, is he?
Trump weakens our economy to strengthen his own hand.
He mocks our laws.
He sows chaos and division.
And that's to say nothing of his record as president.
He froze in the face of the COVID crisis.
He drove our economy into the ground.
And make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump.
That's not even counting the crimes he committed.
Do you think he writes that himself?
I think he does.
That's not bad.
At this point, I think he does.
I mean, eventually, maybe he's going to bring in some pros.
But he is, because I've listened to enough of him, he's got a pretty good style of, it's a kind of a switcheroo punchline style that, yeah, I think it's just natural to him.
He's an asshole.
John, John, you sound like Twitter.
Yes, I do.
I've been on Twitter!
Uh, this is him, now he goes against, uh, he goes up against, he starts condemning Vance.
Oh, okay.
Vice President Kamala Harris takes her new running mate- Well, this is Waltz versus Vance?
Is that the clip you want?
Uh, Waltz versus, oh, oh, oh, okay.
Yeah, you can play that, but that's not, I thought I had a different clip.
Well, should I not play this and go back to the Zoom call?
No, you might as well play it to get it out of the way.
Okay.
Vice President Kamala Harris takes her new running mate, Governor Tim Walz, to the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan.
But Trump's VP pick, Senator J.D.
Vance, shows up in the same exact cities to ramp up his counter-messaging.
NDD's White House correspondent Iris Tao has more.
In their first full day as running mates, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz campaigning in Wisconsin and later in Michigan.
And in 90 days, the nation will know Coach Walz by a new title.
Vice President!
Walz, who's just tapped as Harris' VP pick the day before, continues to highlight his background as a veteran.
For 24 years, I proudly wore the uniform of this nation.
Former President Trump's running mate Senator J.D.
Vance travels to the same exact cities where Harris and Walz are campaigning.
Vance criticizing what he calls open border policies.
And I heard just earlier about a criminal who was deported from this community who came back in and then raped an 11-year-old girl.
And responding to the attack line, calling him weird.
Earlier today, Vance landed in Wisconsin just minutes after Harris touched down at the same airport.
kids at home.
I'm a normal guy who wants to live the American dream and wants all of you and your kids to be able to live the American dream.
If those people want to call me weird, I think it's a badge of honor.
Earlier today, Vance landed in Wisconsin just minutes after Harris touched down at the same airport.
Vance walked to Air Force Two, then told reporters.
I just wanted to check out my future plane.
The Harris campaign on Wednesday said... Oh, that's not fair.
They cut off the better part of that.
He said, I just wanted to check out my future plane and I figured you of the press will be lonely because she never stops to talk to you.
That's what he said.
Then told reporters... I just wanted to check out my future plane.
The Harris campaign on Wednesday said it had raised 36 million dollars since announcing Walz as the VP pick.
According to a new memo, the campaign will focus on the so-called blue wall states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan and use Walz as a key asset in appealing to rural voters.
I think a better... I'm sorry?
I was gonna just say make two comments about... Yes.
First of all, Walsh said in that one speech where he talked about carrying arms in combat, which he never did, he said he was in the Army.
He never was in the Army.
He said he was in the Army?
The National Guard is not the Army.
It's different, for sure.
It's totally different.
It's like if you were in the Coast Guard, you were in the Army.
You're not, no.
The other thing is this coach thing, which really bugs me.
It doesn't come up as much as it should.
Supposedly he was the coach of the football team and the football team went from winless one year to the state championship.
He was not the coach of that football team.
He was the linebacker coach.
A linebacker coach for a high school football team is probably just one step above Waterboy.
Hello?
So that's another example of exaggeration.
Fact check false, everybody.
Fact check false.
Come on.
Fact check false.
Take it from J.C.D.
Yeah, that's good.
By the way, I think a better word is kooky.
I like kooky.
That's a word we haven't heard since the days of 77 Sunset Strip, for all you old timers out there.
What was 77 Sunset Strip?
It was a black and white, late 50s, early 60s, I think, TV show about detectives.
And there was this guy, Ed Kuki Burns, who was actually also a singer.
Oh, great.
And Kuki was a very popular term in that era.
Well, I'm bringing it back.
Kuki.
I think Kuki is cool.
Kuki is cool.
Anyway, so I watched the Zoom calls.
I just love this concept because it's so dumb.
We had the comics for Kamala.
I sent a link to Joe Rogan and I say, what is this?
He says, it's cocks for Kamala.
Ah, okay, got it.
It was organized by Eric Swalwell.
The only thing that was actually kind of funny was Jon Hamm came in at the beginning, who was, you know, arguably one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, and the host from The Daily Show, Paul Mercurio, another funny guy, he did like, oh, Jon Hamm, you're on the wrong call, and just cut him off.
That was kind of funny.
So then we had, in order of appearance, Swalwell, the funniest guy in California, Donnie, Kathy Griffin, Sia, John Pritzker, another comic, Adam Pally, Representative Maxwell Frost, Nick Offerman, I actually have a clip of his if you want to hear it, Tiffany Haddish, she twerked, this was really hilarious, Mark Hamill came back,
And at this point, there's only 23,000 people at 39 minutes in who have watched this thing.
Lake Bell, John Stamos and Matt Friend, and Matt Friend did a Howard, he did a decent Howard Stern impersonation that was kind of funny, but it wasn't, like, hilarious.
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow, then Rosie O'Donnell, who was just moaning about her VRBO.
Ed Helms, Phoebe Robinson, Kathy Griffith came back in again.
Lisa Ann Walter and Tom Arnold, that was cringy.
Kevin Nealon, R.I.P.
Kevin Nealon.
Jared Moskowitz, he's from Florida.
And George Wallace.
By 90 minutes, there's less than 21,000 people watching this fabulous Zoom call.
And here's an example of the comedy The comedic stylings here of Ben Stiller on Cucks for Kamala.
I just want to let you know I'm going to match your $150,000 donation.
Everybody's got to get out and vote and donate.
And she's also a historic candidate.
It's going to be the first woman president.
And that's incredibly exciting.
She's Indian.
She's black.
She's everything.
You can be more than one thing.
It's incredible.
I'm Jewish and Irish.
I wish I was black.
Every white Jewish guy wishes he was black.
Get out there and vote and donate and take advantage.
This is such an important time right now.
And this wave of energy that's happening, we've got to keep going with it.
So please, Do everything you can.
Wave of hilarious energy.
I've got to play some of this parody that Nick Offerman did.
Before you do that, I contacted Mo Fax and I also talked to Horowitz about this.
Every white Jew wants to be black.
And what did you learn?
I learned that actually Moe had an interesting take because he said that a lot of young white Jews are into hip-hop and they kind of want to be black in a certain kind of a hip-hop way.
But they ain't like us, see Drake!
And yes, and Horowitz was just like shaking, you could just hear him shaking his head on it.
He hung up, didn't he?
He went, I'm not listening to you, this is horrible.
He was a DM, so.
Oh, DM.
So Nick Offerman, do you know Nick Offerman?
I've never seen this guy, he's got... Yeah, yeah.
He's got sideburns like that Andy Anocto, Anocto, Anocto?
Anocto.
Anocto.
And he did his, you just tell me when you want to stop, maybe after one verse you'll be done.
He did a parody of Lee Green's I'm Proud to be an American, which is Trump's signature song.
When he bought the disabled and war heroes, I looked the other way.
He said to march on the Capitol, well if the President says it's okay.
And I don't mind sex with porn stars, I'd do it too, if I had the guts.
But when it comes to fucking the furniture, well, that's just fucking nuts.
So I'm proud to be a Kamala man who has quit the GOP.
Because I just can't abide a man who's tried the 34 felonies.
And it's time to stand up and face the facts that the men that I once cheered.
Are a bunch of wingnut white nationalists.
Well, those guys are fucking weird.
All right, I'm going to have to stop it here.
I mean, this is so... I mean, I pray, please don't make Kamala Harris president because this is the level of humor we'll have to endure?
It'll be horrible, and it's even... A lot of cussing, a lot of cussing.
Oh, a lot of cussing.
And then, and just to try and, in hopefulness, in hopefulness by the mainstream media, with that I mean Morning Joe.
And fans of Saturday Night Live have a new role in mind for actor...
Steve Martin.
They want him to play the Democrats' vice presidential nominee, Tim Walz, in the upcoming season.
It's already confirmed that Maya Rudolph is returning this fall to portray Kamala Harris.
She won an Emmy for the role back in 2020.
Too good.
I do think that could work.
Oh, he'd be fantastic.
Yeah, because you guys clearly, clearly are the party of humor.
It's amazing.
So... Yeah, well, he rejected the idea.
Of course he did.
So there was a very interesting post on X from a woman named Laura Powell, and it's about the money.
And so Kamala Harris filed an updated statement of candidacy, which is known as Form 2, to designate Tim Walz as her running mate.
But there's some things that have happened here.
She used Biden's personal candidate ID number instead of her own.
And the Federal Election Committee records are confusing at this point.
Her newly filed Form 2 shows up on Biden's personal FEC page, but if you look at the 2024 election cycle, Biden is just erased and replaced with Harris as if he was never running for president in the first place.
So she has this whole rundown and at a certain point the 23-24 FEC record for Biden for president aka Harris for president is linked to two presidential candidates both are named Kamala Harris.
So the synopsis of this and the whole rundown is in the show notes.
It's a win-win for the Democrat elites either way.
If she somehow wins, then all of the money, which we know is coming from very small sources, but split up through Act Blue, we have some proof of that.
Keeps flowing to all of them connected through their consulting firms.
Small, just to clarify, small number of sources.
Yeah, yeah, small number, but a big numbers flow.
Big, big bucks from probably overseas, China.
So if she wins, then all the money, of course, goes back to everyone who donated in, you know, favors.
That's how it works.
If she loses, then this $310 million they have Yeah, I'd like to understand it better.
Yeah, I mean it's boring for me to just read it to you, so that's why I'm not going to do it.
dole out to themselves over time however they wish and they don't have to deal with Biden anymore.
So they just get to keep all the money.
I mean, I don't really understand it, but that's why I put it on the show notes.
Everybody can look at it.
Yeah, I'd like to understand it better.
Yeah, I mean, it's boring for me to just read it to you, so that's why I'm not going to do it.
Biden has got to get some vig out of that.
Well, you know, Trump is out there saying that Biden is so...
Maybe do I have a clip of that?
Let me see.
I think I may have a clip.
Let me see if this is it.
Generally, we don't bother to read the former President Donald Trump's deranged posts on social media.
Deranged posts!
But this time it's groovy.
But this one is so unstable and so unhinged, it's important that Americans maybe know just how imbalanced the Republican nominee is.
So here goes.
Trump writes in full, quote, this is the most radical left duo in American history.
There has never been anything like it and there never will be again.
Crazy.
Kamablah is indeed crazy.
I hear there is a big movement to bring back Crooked Joe.
What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in the history of the U.S., whose presidency was unconstitutionally stolen from him by Kamablah, Barack Hussein Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Kryan Chuck Schumer, and Others on the lunatic left crashes the Democratic National Convention and tries to take back the nomination, beginning with challenging me to another debate.
He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S.
presidency, a coup, to the people in the world he most hates, and he wants it back now.
Now that's not that crazy.
I like that post.
Can you imagine Biden starting off the DNC by saying, I got robbed!
I got hairy legs!
I got robbed!
He hasn't got the guts to do that.
But it's a funny idea because there's some thought that, for example, this came up in a recent one of these shows on TV.
The idea that Biden was put into the position long before the convention to do the debate Knowing he was going to fail so they could get rid of him.
It was all part of a grand scheme, maybe orchestrated by Obama.
Because he wanted to, you know, get back in some sort of power position.
And so the idea was to bring Biden out to debate Trump and don't jack him up.
Because where was jacked up Joe?
Because we expected him to be like he was at the... State of the Union.
State of the Union, where he's all yelling and screaming and all jacked up.
He wasn't even close to that.
They may have even given him a set, you know, some sort of a donor.
Barbiturate.
For all you know.
Here's your shot, Joe, huh?
And the idea was so he would have an epic fail so they could get rid of him, even though he took a little while before he took the hint.
So it's all within the realm of possibility.
Well, we'll see.
He's been jobbed, is the theory.
He's been jobbed?
And Trump was suckered.
Because if they'd let this thing go and not had the debate until after the convention... Oh yeah, Trump totally got suckered into that.
Yeah.
Well, and also look, I mean, to say, no, I won't debate you before the convention, it would have been a whole mess.
I can see his thinking, but yeah, that was a check, you know, not checkmate, but check.
And it also makes sense, if you think about that, with that theory in mind, you think about the way the CNN, the two stooges at CNN, who are Trump haters, both of them at some point, I think, called Trump Hitler.
They were so neutral about the whole thing and they just didn't do any fact-checking, they did nothing, they just let the thing go.
Let it all go.
Oh, what, you mean the media's in on it?
Oh no, oh no, don't say it.
Here's just a quick clip from O'Keefe Media, OMG, O'Keefe Media Group, proving how this ActBlue scam works.
It's quite simple actually.
Hello everyone, I'm sitting here with my mother and I decided to take a look at the election watch to see if my mother's name was safe and secure.
With her name being used for contributions and we found out that she was being, her name was being used over 30 times for Bernie Sanders contributions.
Mom, did you make any contributions to Bernie Sanders?
Absolutely not.
Angie Jones from Indiana submitted a video of her mother, Alberta Jones, who goes by Mrs. Robert Jones, saying she did not donate to ActBlue or a Bernie Sanders pack as the FEC record show from 2019 to 2024.
So you're positive you didn't make any?
I'm very positive.
I have bank records that show where my contributions went.
Great, so you would turn those records over to me to prove that you didn't make these contributions?
Yes, indeed.
Alberta Jones gave O'Keefe Media her consent to show these bank records, proving during the time period of 2019, no donations were given to Act Blue at all.
How does that make you feel that your name was used?
I feel violated.
And by the way, the Go Red or whatever Jared Kushner's running, I'm sure they do the same thing.
It would be crazy to think they don't.
It's money laundering.
Yes, but we know that the Chai comms are doing that with Obama, with the credit cards.
This is an old, old scam.
And they've done nothing to stop it.
No!
Are you crazy?
No, we're not going to do that.
Everybody loves money.
I have only one more clip and then I want to move off of Kamala and Waltz because I'm very tired of it.
And it's all anyone seems to be talking about.
But this is very weak.
This shows an incredible weakness by the Vice President.
When she is heckled by some pro-Palestine protesters during her speech, she, like Obama I will say, although the media mainly cut most of his heckling out, we demonstrated that throughout the years, it would never air.
Sometimes it went on for minutes.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Like that.
You're in my house.
You take a drink.
You got a drink from me.
You're in my house.
Wait, where is it?
We have that clip somewhere, don't we?
Yeah, you're in my house.
You're in my house.
Let me see.
That's interesting.
Drinking my booze.
You're in my house.
Obama in my house.
Here it is.
Hey, listen.
Hey, you're in my house.
Hey.
Same on you.
You shouldn't be doing this.
We have a lot of jingles with that.
I think the Batman is even funnier.
Here we go.
Hey!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
I've told you that you're in my house.
If you're eating the hors d'oeuvres and drinking the booze, we'll have to take you out to the Batmobile.
Anyway, Kamala, not as funny, but she cannot handle hecklers.
Tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations.
He intends to cut Social Security and Medicare.
He intends to surrender our fight against the climate crisis, and he intends to end the Affordable Care Act.
You know what?
If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that, otherwise I'm speaking.
Oh, okay!
Oh no!
So if you want Donald Trump to win, say that, otherwise I'm speaking!
I have the microphone!
What were they saying?
Uh, they were saying, uh, hey, hey, hey, ho, Kamala, you're a ho.
Um... They were?
No, no, they were saying, uh, you know, ah, what's the chant?
It's, uh, we see what you did.
You know, it's basically telling her that she doesn't care about Palestine.
That's what, that's what, it's very typical.
Well, this is gonna be a great convention.
It should be fun.
But now that we've all seen that she can't handle hecklers without going all schoolmarm on it, I'm pretty sure that there will be all kinds of people in the crowd now.
That's what I would do.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, she doesn't have any heckler skills because she just hasn't had to deal with them.
Okay, I want to move to what I'm going to start calling the social media wars, because that's what it's turning into, and we need to switch over to the United Kingdom, where it's unbelievable to Americans, it's unbelievable what is taking place.
With these riots, which, depending on where you stand, are anti-immigration riots or far-right hooligans.
More race riots.
Race riots, that's another good one.
And this is quite the challenge for the new government.
And if you recall, they had a meeting.
That's where we left everything.
And here is the Prime Minister after the meeting.
After the meeting, which they were going to have.
They're going to have a big meeting.
And this is what came out of the big meeting.
This morning, which was an opportunity that I took to thank the police for their work over the last few days, to express my support for the police officers who have been injured and the communities impacted by this mindless thuggery.
There are a number of actions that came out of the meeting.
The first is we will have a standing army of specialist officers, public duty officers, so we'll have enough officers to deal with this where we need them.
The second is we'll ramp up criminal justice.
There have already been hundreds of arrests.
Some have appeared in court this morning.
I've asked for early consideration of the earliest naming and identification of those involved in the process who will feel the full force of the law.
And thirdly, I've been absolutely clear that the criminal law applies online as well as offline and I'm assured that that's the approach that is being taken.
Whatever the apparent motivation, this is not protest.
It is pure violence and we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or our Muslim communities.
So the full force of the law will be visited on all those who are identified as having taken part in these activities.
In relation to the police, I'm absolutely clear that we will have the officers we need, where we need them, to deal with this disorder.
And that is why the Standing Army has been set up.
Specialist officers ready to be deployed to support communities.
On the question of prisons, firstly, we're monitoring it on a daily basis.
I'm appalled that we've been put in this position by the previous government, that it's even a discussion, it's even a question that you have to ask me.
But we will make this work and ensure that we've got the places that are needed to bring the perpetrators swiftly to justice.
So on both those fronts, I'm confident that we can absolutely make sure that those engaged in this activity do feel the full force of the law.
So, there's a couple of things that really stand out here.
One is the term standing army.
You know, this is what we would call a violation of habeas corpus.
In the United States, we have constitutional laws against deploying army, and even calling it a standing army is quite severe.
And they have indeed been deployed!
In Plymouth, on the southwest coast of England, six people were arrested and several officers injured by projectiles and fireworks launched by far-right crowds.
Police are warning that anyone participating in the riots will face prison time.
We feel, as community members, deeply affronted by this completely unnecessary violent disorder.
A conviction for violent disorder usually carries a hefty term of imprisonment.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer says a standing army of 6,000 specialist officers has been put on duty to confront the unrest.
Officials say much of it has been instigated by disinformation and hate speech being spread online.
It's spread out across telegram channels, many of which were actually created in the aftermath of COVID-19, where you saw anti-lockdown movements and have really been repurposed in recent years, in particular to target migrants.
The riots broke out last Tuesday in the town of Southport near Liverpool after internet users falsely blamed a mass stabbing attack that killed three young girls on a Muslim asylum seeker.
Breaking protocol in a bid to counter the misinformation, a British court identified the arrested suspect as a 17-year-old citizen born in the UK to Christian parents from Rwanda.
So you see, the move that's being made here is very, very clear.
The move is, you know, they're targeting immigrants on social media.
Oh no!
Oh no, they're hurting their feelings on social media.
Oh no!
This is a very deliberate act that is taking place here.
This is the UK Director of Public The offence of incitement to racial hatred involves publishing or distributing material which is insulting or abusive, which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred.
So if you retweet that, then you're republishing that, and then potentially you're committing that offence.
And we do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social media Their job is to look for this material and then follow up with identification arrests and so forth.
So it's really, really serious.
People might think they're not doing anything harmful.
They are and the consequences will be visited upon them.
So, I mean, it's mind-boggling, but they are taking what's happening on the streets and people, you know, fighting and throwing stuff and burning stuff and rioting.
They're now just completely focused on online, online, online, online.
And if you say something hateful or something that hurts somebody's feelings and they complain about it, you will get arrested.
This is a Brit who got arrested for posting a comment on Facebook.
It's times 23, 1440.
I'm arresting you on suspicion of improper use of the electronic communications network.
What?
127 communications, that's OK.
So you do not have to say that it may harm your defence.
Do not mention one question, second, third, or fourth.
Anything you do say may be given evidence.
Do you understand that?
So I'm actually being arrested?
You're gonna be arrested, okay?
Right.
I'll take you back to the police station.
Right.
Okay, this is in relation to some comments that you've made on the Facebook page.
Oh, really?
Oh, it's a Facebook crime, is it?
So, we need to ask you some questions about that.
I mean, you said I was going to be arrested under some what information?
I'm going to be arrested for posting on Facebook?
We've had reports that you've made some comments that are offensive, obscene, and people have made a complaint about that.
Can you tell me what this comment was?
We'll do that when we interview you.
Alright, so when am I going to be locked up for the night?
Hopefully not.
Okay, so you just get arrested, they come to your house, they arrest you.
Now for some insight on this, on what you can and cannot post, we turn to the Black Belt Barrister, who is very famous in the UK.
He's a YouTuber, and he has a little rundown of the issues here, which is all based on the UK Communications Law of 2003.
Can you be prosecuted for just sharing content of these riots online?
I've been tagged a number of times now in response to the Sky News article regarding the Director of Public Prosecutions about sharing content of these riots, so let's take a little bit of a look at that in follow-up to my previous videos.
If it were just a recording of the overall event and it wasn't one specific on one side or another, now that's difficult these days because some of these are very much one-sided, then if it were just a general video of the overall circumstances then that is less likely to be stirring up.
Any kind of hatred but if it was a very specific video with specific wording which is deliberately intended within that video to stir up hatred in the first place and you're sharing it and it is likely to stir up that hatred in the same way then by redistributing republishing you might well be committing that offense just as in a defamation case if you republish a
statement that was originally defamatory, you are republishing a defamatory statement, you can then be liable for that defamatory statement yourself.
So this very much is an offence and there are, well, several offences because under this section, the use of words or behaviour of written material or publishing or distributing written material or playing a And so as I said in my previous videos, they are obviously taking all of this very seriously.
So my stark warning to you a couple of videos ago was just refrain from commenting.
If you're not sure of what you're saying, refrain from reposting, retweeting, republishing whatever videos that might well amount to this kind of offence.
For people who come from the retweets-are-not-endorsement land, that is not available to you as a defense in the UK.
This is the line in the Communications Law of 2003.
Electronic communications which are grossly offensive or indecent, obscene or menacing or false for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to someone else.
I mean, you might as well just turn off your computer.
But... Well, the word annoyance is the key here.
Of course!
But that's not even necessary because this is how far they're going.
This is the conversation now in the UK, in Britain.
This is Good Morning Britain.
Listen to this.
As the police brace themselves for more riots today and in the coming days, the role social media has played is under the spotlight with calls for the big tech giants to take action.
But should access be limited by government police if riots happen in a place?
What would that even look like?
Well, the government could use what's called packet filtering.
So that's when access to sites and specific content is blocked by internet service providers.
But if they did that, it would be unprecedented here in the UK with restrictions like this only seen in authoritarian countries like North Korea, Russia and China.
France's President Macron raised the idea as something that it might consider last year in response to riots there, but it actually never materialised.
So is it time to consider doing that here?
We're joined now by broadcaster Raya El Salehi, who thinks social media is vital to freedom of speech, and entrepreneur Ana Velete, who says a temporary shutdown could stop the spread of information.
It might work.
I think so.
I think so.
I think we should stop it.
It's only a temporary measure in order to limit the spread of inflammatory information, misinformation as well, across the United Kingdom at this point.
I think we should focus on keeping people safe.
And communities safe as well.
So my point is just to stop it.
And I think we considered that in 2011 when David Cameron was a Prime Minister.
He did consider input to Parliament at times when there's a need for it to occur.
And as you mentioned before, France as well.
Last year, as recent as July last year, President Macron mentioned that we should potentially consider that and for the protection of public health.
So they are massaging the British public into accepting this.
Yeah, we should just shut it down.
We should just shut down social media because it's dangerous.
You know, you're hurting people's feelings, you're being an annoyance.
And then Elon Musk unclokes.
And I'm starting to see the Elon Musk that I always thought he is.
A man who wants great power and I think that he is moving, a lot of people think he's great.
I don't think he's great at all.
I don't like what he's doing.
He is riling it all up and he's trying to be Mr. Big Man on campus.
This is going to end in tears for us here in America too.
Thousands of additional police are flooding British streets today after a week of race riots across the country.
Far-right mobs have attacked people, mosques, even immigration law offices.
It's the biggest challenge today for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who took office just a month ago.
Already he's in a stand-off with Elon Musk about this issue.
Is there any sense that these riots are organized?
Do they appear to be organized in any way?
The violence is organized in part by the English Defense League, or EDL.
It's an anti-Islam group that was thought to be defunct, but clearly is not.
They're tapping into existing prejudices and amplifying them online.
Elon Musk himself is playing a role in this.
How so?
What's he been saying?
So, Musk, when he bought Twitter, he restored the accounts of some far-right figures who had been banned, including one of the leaders of the English Defence League, a man who calls himself Tommy Robinson.
He's a fascist who's been in and out of prison.
He and Musk have been interacting on X, sharing conspiracy theories.
Musk wrote to his nearly 200 million followers that a UK civil war is inevitable, and he's also been sort of Haunting the Prime Minister here, Keir Starmer, online, accusing Starmer of having a two-tier policing system that treats white people unfairly.
The UK government is pleading with Musk to use his platform responsibly.
Lives are at stake here.
I mean, he's really, he's trying to make this about him?
Which I think is troubling.
I'm not buying this.
I hate this.
Oh, I said it.
But you're taking Kara Swisher's approach to Elon.
You should be very ashamed.
Very ashamed of what you're saying here.
Not at all.
I'm not taking her approach.
You know what?
That's really insulting.
Because I'm not done with my presentation.
I'm taking it from the point where I have to interrupt at some point.
If the presentation goes for another hour and you kind of reverse course, maybe I would change my mind.
But I'm not completely into the idea that Elon is doing much more than just supporting his own platform.
Yes.
Because he's under attack.
They're going to pull the plug on his platform and probably Facebook too in the UK.
He's not happy about that so he goes after the Prime Minister.
When I say it's a social media war, it's going to be who's social media network runs in which country.
If we look at Turkey, although Good Morning Britain said, oh, it's like North Korea.
No, it's like Turkey.
Elon Musk has been very, very friendly to Erdogan.
And Erdogan has allowed Twitter to remain on, this is what it's about, to remain available in Turkey because Elon has censored accounts that the Turkish government, that Erdogan wants him to censor.
Those who weren't on board with Erdogan is the other social media company, Facebook.
Digital fascism.
That's what Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is calling Instagram's behaviour.
After what he denounced as censorship by the social media platform and implemented a nationwide ban since Friday.
While the government didn't provide specific reasons, multiple Turkish media platforms attributed the ban to Instagram removing images locals posted Paying homage to recently killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
These companies, which promote all kinds of immorality, prostitution and support for terrorist organizations under the bracket of freedom, have openly declared war on the glorious resistance of the Palestinian people and their heroic sons in the virtual world.
An estimated 50 to 60 million of Turkey's 85 million population subscribe to Instagram, which serves as a platform for a wide range of commercial activities, raising concerns for many Turkish businesses.
E-commerce experts predict the ban could be costing local businesses around 52 million euros per day.
So, only Facebook is banned and not Twitter?
This is the game that Elon's playing, and it's fine.
You can say, oh, Elon's great, until whatever interests him is not in line with you.
That's what interests his profitability.
Being shut down.
No.
There's money in this.
There's money into getting rid of Facebook.
This is H.L.
Hunt.
H.L.
Hunt had 600 radio stations.
He didn't care if he lost money on that.
Elon's business is rockets.
This is a power play.
There's a second piece from NPR here.
What is the UK government doing?
So aside from deploying thousands more police, speeding up court appearances for suspects, the government has a special team flagging social media posts that incite violence, and I've actually seen this anecdotally.
People here want to show me something they saw on Facebook or TikTok, and then it's been removed.
People are being arrested for hate speech online, hate crime laws are being used, and the government is looking at officially banning groups like the EDL, just like they do for terror groups abroad.
So I think his whole play here is to get banned in the UK for power here in the US.
You know, he's doing a very special interview with Donald Trump on Monday, and Trump is now even out there saying, well, you know, Elon Musk, he's now for me, so I can't be against electronic vehicles.
What?
What?
Where'd he do that?
Because the last time I heard Trump's speech, he still had his anti-electric car thing.
He said that Tesla was great, but he doesn't like electric cars.
So where's that specific thing you just cited?
He literally said... I'll tell you.
Do you have a clip?
No, there's no clip.
I have an article.
He says, I have no choice but to back EVs because Elon is on my side now.
Where did that appear?
In The Guardian.
It's one of his speeches, John.
Would you like me to stop the show and find it for you?
I'm telling you, I've been listening to his material and he's still anti-EV.
But my point is, he's getting into bed with Elon Musk and I just don't think that's a good idea.
I don't.
I agree with that second part of this.
That's what I'm saying.
Yes, he is getting into bed with Elon Musk.
And that's not a good idea.
Because, remember, freedom of speech, not freedom of reach.
You know, if you think that X is going to be any good as a publishing platform to get anywhere, that's where you're mistaken.
It's the Bozo filter.
That's what's going to be implemented.
And I just don't like it.
I don't care if I'm for an issue or not.
That is not the town square that he keeps touting.
And then he sued this Garm initiative and they immediately disbanded.
But that doesn't mean advertisers are coming back.
They're not going to advertise.
He told them to F off.
It's obvious.
So I'm just saying people are all, people are all jacked up.
Oh yeah, you know, it's good.
I can post here.
You are among them.
Oh, it's so, by the way, do you know... Where else am I going to post just a casual thought?
On the Fediverse?
Write a sub stack, man.
Anything.
Anything but that.
I do that too.
Yeah.
Well, I'm for that.
I'm for your own blog.
You know me.
And you know, it's just, it's going to be useless.
People think they're making a difference and you're not.
Now, I'm not saying you can make a difference on Mastodon.
I'm against microblogging in general.
You know, Elon is also removing retweet and like counts.
Why is he doing that, do you think?
You only see how many impressions.
Because you can easily manipulate that, that's why.
No one can see the impressions, but you can go in and see who retweeted and who liked.
I see the like counts.
He's removing them.
This has been announced in your favorite magazine, PC Magazine.
So, all of this is to say that social media is now a war between who has the more power in which country and for what reason.
And it's just not good.
It's not good for our people, for the people listening.
Podcasts are still good.
Well, your sub-stack, I think, is still good.
What do you mean, you think?
Well, I've not investigated if they limit that in any way.
Well, they haven't.
I mean, Medium, I know they do for sure.
Yeah.
All of this stuff, all of this centralized stuff that's owned by someone else is just no longer good as a place to publish.
If you think you're publishing something, you're not.
Anyway, we have a rare... Well, the reason for using Substack is more than just, you know, you could put it on your own blog.
But Substack will do promotions that you can't do with your own blog.
They have a bigger base.
They have millions and millions of people, and if you produce something that they feel obliged to, because, say, all of a sudden you've decided to monetize, they want to make money off of your monetization, which is how they do it.
They'll blow out your stuff so you get some more followers and readers.
You can't do that on an individual basis.
You need the leverage.
Okay, fine.
Fine.
My point is, these social media sites are highly manipulated.
For reasons that you don't know.
And what you think is happening, what you think you're publishing, your opinion somehow matters.
It doesn't.
It doesn't.
And a lot of people truly believe it.
They're sitting four, five, some eight hours a day thinking they're making a difference.
But what you're seeing, what other people are seeing, is manipulated.
It's manipulated.
It's not good.
It's not healthy either.
And I see you posting way too much.
I'm concerned about you.
I'm retweeting stuff.
That is usually funny stuff.
I retweet the humorous stuff.
That will be illegal.
I don't think I'm making a difference.
I'm not deluded.
No, you aren't.
You aren't.
Most people on social media, particularly X, who believe that Elon Musk is the best thing ever and he's standing up for our rights, they are wrong.
We're going to get hate speech sanctions here.
He is forcing our own government here into making posting on X not anonymous.
You watch!
Put it in the book.
Now I'd like to move to a counter-narrative.
A counter-narrative.
One of our producers sent in a boots on the ground.
He is a liberal from the UK.
His girlfriend, his partner, organizes anti-protests against the rioters and pro-Palestine and he is no agenda listener and I think it was interesting what he had to say and the audio wasn't bad so I wanted to play it.
In the morning, although it's about five o'clock here, I hope this gets to you in time, I listened to the last show and I've been listening for god about 13 years now and I'm 27 and very thankful for everything that you guys have done, you've made me who I am today.
My girlfriend is an organiser with the Socialist Workers' Party, the SWP, so a lot of the Palestine demos and increasingly now a lot of the mobilisation against the far right.
She's, you know, she's at the spearhead of a lot of that.
She went up to Liverpool and a few other demos in the north of England.
And, you know, honestly, the people that are there, you have a few people that are Obviously concerned about the immigration in this country.
I mean, I, you know, I'm a family of immigrants, Jamaican.
I'm a descendant of a Jamaican immigrant family in the 40s.
Yeah, these people, they have, you know, some of them valid concerns, but a lot of those people that are there are like football hooligans.
She saw people with swastikas on one or two.
People doing Nazi salutes.
People who really I do feel have hatred in their in their hearts, you know, so I think to claim that As a country that, you know, that we're really sick and tired of this maybe isn't true.
I am based in London in the metropolitan elite and, you know, I live in a very multicultural area, but a lot of these people that are really up in arms and upset are that way because of decades of, you know, disinvestment in their communities, not enough schools, not enough hospitals.
You know, not any jobs because of how the Tories have treated this country, how, you know, how labor fucked up a lot of things as well.
But I definitely don't think that it's the fault of immigrants.
I just thought that was an interesting take.
That and it's more like America than I thought.
Yeah, we don't like the borders being open, but the people in the North have just been ignored by all political parties.
I would say that makes sense.
I don't know about the swastikas and all that.
I mean, yeah, whatever.
And calling Tommy Robinson a, uh, not that he did, but calling Tommy Robinson a fascist is going a bit far.
Tommy Robinson, according to some of the people that I have over there, is an agent of the government.
He's an op.
That's what I've heard, too.
Exactly.
They bring him out when they need him.
Well, Sir Brian of London runs his blog and talks to him all the time, so maybe he can let us know what he thinks.
I'm sure he will disagree that he's an op, but I can see why he would be seen that way, for sure.
There's something much bigger happening here that is not contained to the UK.
In fact, we had a dinner.
It was kind of funny.
This caterer in Revel Catering in Fredericksburg...
The chef, Chef Max, he does these kind of like secretive invite-only dinners, and he'll do a special menu.
And there was a UT from Austin, professor of neuroscience and math, tenured, although he's pretty young, Tebow.
He sat next to me and he said, oh man, he's French.
He says, you have no idea.
France, zero freedom of speech.
He says, if you step over the line, they will have unions come after you, they'll have trade organizations, you can't say anything, even as a professor.
He says, it's outrageous, you can't do anything in France.
And it's just, it's like, it's a big, all of Europe, he says, is completely lost.
I believe it.
Well this, everything that we've at least brought up so far in this analysis of yours, including the Elon stuff, is all related to freedom of speech.
Yes.
All of it.
And there has been, and this guy Walls has come out and he's against freedom of speech.
Yes.
I think I have that clip actually.
Do you have that clip?
I do not have that clip.
It's a video clip, I've seen it a number of times.
I retweeted it!
I didn't get it from you, okay?
Let me see, I thought, where was that?
He literally said, you don't have freedom of speech, or you can't have freedom, maybe you don't have it.
You shouldn't have freedom of speech if you are expressing an opinion that's not proven to be true, misinformation.
I'm sorry, I don't have it.
Which is what freedom of speech is really all about.
Yeah, I don't have that.
We'll get it for the next show.
Yes, but I'm seeing that we're moving towards that here.
You're gonna see this.
This is going to be... Well, look what happened in the UK.
We've been moving toward this with the Liberal governments.
Yes!
The progressives in particular.
Yes!
The cancel culture is an element of it.
Big time.
And it's been going on...
PC, the PC idea.
Political correctness.
Political correctness is, which goes back, the first time I heard the term was in 1981, I believe, and it's been, it's been in play for a long time and political correctness is against free speech.
This is not, not something we discovered on the show in the last 20 years.
No, not at all.
This is at least over 40 years old as a movement.
And it's like, it eats away.
Now in England it's, I guess, because they have their, I don't know what's wrong with them, they've just taken it right to the edge, to the precipice, and like your friend from France said, it's already taken place in most of Europe.
So free speech is now You have to call it quirky.
It's unusual anywhere in the world.
It's kooky.
It's kooky.
And it will not last.
What, free speech?
You cannot control a population if you have free speech.
Oh, well... You actually need hate speech to get anywhere.
Yeah, well, I don't know if... We've been noticing this here.
That hate speech, you know, there's hate speech... There's no actual law, but That's, oh man, I can't believe we don't have that clip of, uh... And funny, the hate speech is... Most of the hate speech I hear is people hating on Trump.
But that doesn't... No, that's okay, that's okay.
So somehow that's okay, hating on Trump, or J.D.
Vance and the phony couch anecdote is hating on him.
For some reason you can hate in one direction, in one direction only.
Yes, yes.
President Biden is going to do a CBS interview.
You've got to wonder why.
I think it comes out on Monday?
So right before the... Wait, when does the... That's not Monday.
When does the DNC start?
The 7th or the 9th, I think.
Of what?
It can't be the 7th.
No, that was yesterday.
It can't be the 9th.
No, it can't.
Look it up.
Let's see.
Does anyone in the troll room know?
These guys are no good.
It starts... the 19th.
August 19th.
There's a 9 involved.
By the way, it was Tony Blair who was the Prime Minister when that 2003 law was put in play.
Yes.
And it's amazing that it really hasn't been used until now, but they were very smart.
They put in social media right there.
Said, here's all the things you can't do.
This is a teaser that was put out of this CBS interview with President Biden.
A gaffe of epic proportions.
The US President Joe Biden has said in an interview with CBS News that he's not confident at all there will be a peaceful transfer of power to kamala harris if donald trump loses november's election now it's his first interview since he pulled out of the race he's they've released a clip early ahead of the full interview which is to come at the weekend are you confident that there will be It's like the truth wants to come out, Joe.
It's obvious.
If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident at all.
I mean, if Trump loses, I'm not confident at all.
Yes, I heard this.
I mean, come on.
It's like the truth wants to come out, Joe.
It's obvious.
If Trump wins, I agree.
There's going to be mayhem.
You know it.
Now, the question is weird.
Weird, I used it.
You didn't say anything.
I'm sorry.
I barely had time.
You caught yourself.
It's good.
The question is odd because what are they talking about a peaceful transfer of power?
Biden is the one in office that has to be transferring the power.
Yes.
So why would you ask him that?
In other words, Joe, are you going to stay in power if whatever happens at the election is going to be a peaceful transfer of power in 2025?
That's pretty much what he said.
It's almost like a trick question.
That's pretty much what he said.
I mean, but why?
Why is he even doing an interview?
This is... Yeah, there's something up with that.
The thesis that he's going to, like, throw his hat back in the ring on the first day of the convention, which he's speaking of the first day, is funny.
I don't think it's going to happen.
I don't think he's got the nerve to do it.
Let alone, I just don't think he has the strength of will at this point.
But I like the idea.
I have the waltz clip for you.
Here it is, waltz clip.
I think we need to push back on this.
There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.
I think we need to... You can't do that!
You can't do that.
You can't.
You have misinformation.
And hate speech.
He put that in there specifically.
He put hate speech in, yeah.
Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment.
Hello?
Yeah, well... So you can't hate on anybody.
They can hate on Trump all they want, but I guess you can't hate on anybody.
You can't say, that guy sucks.
He stinks.
I can't wait to see... You can't hate a baseball team that keeps losing.
You can't hate a football player that you don't like.
You can't hate your ex-wife.
Let me ask you a question.
You can't hate on it?
What?
What?
Let me ask you a question.
Could you argue, as a constitutional lawyer, could you argue that hate speech is of course allowed, but that when the Constitution was written, now this is one of those, you know, they didn't have AR-15s back in the day.
No, but you could own a Canon, hello?
But can you argue that when that was written that, you know, the right to free speech shall not be infringed, that...
That was never anonymous back in the day, because you didn't have anonymity in speech.
You did if you were a pamphleteer.
Okay, all right, there you go.
That's bullcrap.
In fact, if you look back in the era in the 1800s, the amount of hate speech back in the day when it came to political candidacies was off the rails compared to what we're doing.
It's been tamped down.
Before we take a break, this came out on Sunday when we were doing the show, this interview with your guy Byron Donalds.
Yes.
With George Stephanopoulos?
Yeah.
Did you see this?
I did.
I think it was, I think Stephanopoulos personally, even though the media thinks, oh what a great job of taking down Biden.
No!
I think he made a fool out of himself.
Republican Congressman and Trump ally, Byron Donalds.
Congressman, thank you for joining us this morning.
Why is former President Trump questioning the Vice President's racial identity?
Well, first, George, in Chicago, he was responding to a question from, I believe, Rachel Scott.
Like, this is really a phony controversy.
I don't really care.
Most people don't.
But if we're going to be accurate, when Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the first Indian American United States Senator.
It was actually played up a lot when she came into the Senate.
Now she's running nationally.
Obviously, the campaign has shifted.
They're talking much more about her father's Slur!
and her black identity.
But yes, he did mention it in Chicago in response to a question from Rachel Scott.
- And you just repeated the slur again.
If it doesn't matter, why do you all keep questioning her?
- Slur, slur.
- So being an Indian American and Indian heritage is a slur?
Is that what the novelist is saying? - I think so.
He could not let it go.
No, he got stuck on it.
And he just repeated the slur again.
If it doesn't matter, why do you all keep questioning her identity?
She's always identified as a black woman.
She is biracial.
She has a Jamaican father, an Indian mother.
She's always identified as both.
Why are you questioning that?
Well, George, first of all, this is something that's actually a conversation throughout social media right now.
There are a lot of people who are trying to figure this out.
But again, that's a side issue, not the main issue.
The main issue... Sir, one second.
You just did it.
You just did it again.
What did he do?
I can't figure out what is George Stephanopoulos hearing that we're not hearing?
He just I thought the same way when I heard this clip of the United States.
Why do you insist on questioning her racial identity?
You want me to talk?
I want you to answer my question.
George, George, now that you're done yelling at me, let me answer.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah.
George's gonna yell at the black man.
There's gotta be a law against that.
I know you guys like to glom on to this that he talks about in jest or in a serious manner for about a minute or so, but what you do not cover is the litany of failures of Kamala Harris.
That's what you're not covering, George.
So questioning somebody's racial identity for a couple minutes is okay?
George, I'm gonna tell you again, he brought it up.
A.P.
is the one that wrote the headline when she first came in to the United States Senate.
Didn't talk about her being black, talked about her being the first Indian American senator.
A.P.
brought that up.
I mean, George, we could have this conversation for the entire segment, but none of this matters to the American people.
If it doesn't matter, I don't understand why you keep on repeating it, why the president keeps on repeating it, why those introducing the president yesterday keep on repeating it.
George, actually, I'm not the one who keeps repeating it.
George, you're the one that's bringing it up now.
You don't understand why you keep bringing it up.
You've done it three times.
Every single answer you gave me.
Now let me finish, sir.
Every single answer you gave, he repeated the slur.
You asked me, George.
That's why I'm pushing back on you now.
George, you asked me the question three times.
I responded.
And every single time you repeat the slur.
That is exactly my point.
Slur!
You simply can't say that it's wrong.
George, so then what you're saying, so then what you, and I want to get off this topic because it's not the only thing that's going on, but George, now you're saying that AP is the one that slurred Kamala Harris because those are the facts.
You can go to the internet and look at the clips, George, if you want to, or we can talk about this now.
I prefer to talk about the future of our country.
It's amazing.
What's amazing is here's this tiny white guy arguing with a black guy about a woman who claims she's black.
We should define black, just say ADOS or foundational black or whatever, but not what he's doing.
This is insanity on the airwaves!
AP did not say that Kamala Harris is not black.
She is biracial.
She is Indian.
She is black.
You continue to repeat the fact that you continue to repeat the slur.
I don't understand why you and the president do it, but it's clear you're not going to say that it's wrong.
And you've now established that for our audience.
Trump also said at the convention that he would pardon January 6th rioters.
I've already said that.
Go ahead.
Hang in there, everybody.
Let's move on.
There we go.
Go on and repeat the slurs again.
And he repeats that he didn't do anything!
This is... This is... Insanity.
Insanity.
It's mental illness.
By the way, I made a big boo-boo on the last show explaining the one-drop rule.
I said it exactly the wrong way around.
The one-drop rule, I said if you have one drop of whiteness, you're not black.
It was exactly the other way around.
The one-drop rule... I thought you said it right.
No, I didn't.
No, it was the other way.
It was when I made the reference to the show, to the stage play, Show Boat.
Yes, I said it the wrong way around.
Which punchline was that, you know, there was one drop of black blood.
Yes, but I explained it the wrong way.
I went back and listened.
Oh, I didn't hear you.
I obviously zoned out.
I should apologize.
And why not?
I'll just explain it properly.
The one-drop rule was invented to declare that legally a person was not white as long as they had one drop of black blood in them.
That's the correct way.
That was part of the Jim Crow laws, etc.
I'm still fascinated by this Stepanopoulos It's mental illness.
He should be taken off the air.
It's mental.
And what is this slur?
What was the slur?
You're not black, so that's a slur?
Yes.
Wait, so not being black is a slur now?
Yeah, if you say you're not black.
What Byron should have said is, well, was it a slur then when Joe Biden said, if you don't vote for me, you ain't black?
That would have been a real slur then, which I think it actually was.
Byron, I'm sure, I like this guy a lot.
I think he's terrific, but I think he was flat-footed.
Because this was, out of the blue, it was you weren't prepared for this kind of insanity.
If you were, you would have had a million, you know, comebacks, but he didn't have any.
He was just trying to push the guy away.
Yeah, it was weird.
It's like a madman coming at you.
Very weird.
Well, with that, I would like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the Facebook crime, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeVore!
Show's running too long.
In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry, in the morning on our ships, the sea, blue sun, ground, feedin' the air, subs to the Lord, day and nights out there.
Let's count those Jones!
Here we go, here we go.
No, we're late.
It's my fault we're late.
We're late.
We're 1917.
It's down.
Trolls are down.
But there's still almost 2,000 trolls, which I always find amazing.
2,000 trolls listening live, which you can do at trollroom.io.
It's a brand new website.
You can listen to the live stream 24-7.
You can troll along.
You can log in.
You can post stuff.
You don't have to log in.
And it's all pretty much anonymous.
I mean, it's one of the last places.
Podcasts and troll rooms, that's all.
The only place you can still be a troll.
Say whatever you want.
All freedom of speech allowed here, as far as I know.
I can't, I can't even kick anybody off anymore.
I don't have the power.
What?
No, the power has been removed from me.
Why?
I don't know.
I used to be able to just kick someone off and then, you know, and then they can come back.
You know, I wouldn't ban anybody, but, you know, kick them off.
Just funny.
I don't know.
I'll have to talk to Void Zero.
Maybe, uh, maybe overstep my powers.
It's been removed.
Huh.
Maybe I'm not doing it right.
Isn't it slash kick and then you do the name?
I don't know.
I don't use that thing.
You should.
I know you pop in from time to time.
You check out the show.
You said it on the last show.
You've been in there.
I have been in there, but it was usually during somebody else's show.
Oh, yes.
Well, that makes sense.
Darren's show, probably.
You're probably in there too.
Oh, yeah, Darren.
I'm a big fan.
You can also check out... He doesn't play enough ACDC, that's the way I see it.
You can also check out the Troll Room by using a modern podcast app.
There's many that you can use.
The cool thing about it is you get an alert when we go live, so you get the bat signal in your app and then you can listen live.
None of the legacy apps can do this.
And as you see hate speech, maybe not laws, but hate speech actions being taken, it happens three or four times a day.
There's a podcast kicked off of Apple or off of Spotify.
So, you know, do with it what you want, but if you like your podcast that you listen to, no matter what they say, the modern podcast apps are the way to go.
It's one of the last places it still can be done.
That and your own blog.
And maybe Substack.
Even though Elon defeated the GARM... Hold on, let me see what...
I praise him for that.
That operation was a scam.
Yeah, but the American Federation of Advertisers is still there.
They haven't gone anywhere.
They just disbanded GARM.
He's not going to get any advertising.
That's obvious.
Why would he?
You know?
Advertisers don't want controversy.
That's why we never... What are you eating?
A lozenge.
That's why we never took advertising.
We knew that it would just result in meetings and annoyances, which is technically illegal in the UK.
You can't annoy me with your meeting, advertiser.
So we knew it wouldn't work, so we said, you know what, why don't we just go for a value for value model?
We put it out on even Patreon.
People think, oh, Patreon's value for value.
No, it isn't.
Because if you do something somewhere else, not even on your own podcast, and Patreon hears about it, they will kick you off.
They will kick you off, and sometimes even hold on to your money.
Which is horrible.
Yeah, well that's illegal.
Yeah, well they can give you 90 days or something.
There's something weird that they can do if they have your money.
It's not, you can't fight it, it's hard to fight the man in that way.
So we decided, hey, give us time, talent, treasure, anything that adds up to something that helps the show, and of course... Yeah, anything that's about one-tenth of what we would have made if we were a commercial.
Well, yeah, that's true.
That's true.
We can always go commercial.
I mean, Podcast One wants us.
We could probably make more.
I mean, we could make more.
I think we can make more by syndicating on the TV.
I think that idea is something worth... Mimi insisted that we follow up.
Well, I sent you a whole thing about it.
You didn't even respond to me.
I didn't see it.
No.
I respond.
Because I contacted the former Disney guy about this.
Well, I thought it would be the perfect guy.
Yeah, what did he say?
He hasn't gotten back to me yet.
Thanks.
Set me up.
He used to do all the deals for Disney.
He would do all the cable deals.
And we happen to know that the prices that you get per household What?
What we can't talk about?
Yeah, no!
We got a spreadsheet that has all the money and it's like outrageous!
I mean, Turner Classic Movies, what do they get per household?
A buck and a half.
$1.50.
Now, MTV gets a buck, more than a buck.
There's some things, like, that are, you know, it goes down to... More to $0.33.
Yeah, I would say about, we could probably get about $0.30 per subscriber.
And I got a lot of people saying they would be more than willing to hike their skirts to get clearances on these big cable, uh, cable outfits.
So we've got the, we've got the bribes.
And I'll turn on my camera.
You know what?
The interesting thing is, is that, for people, by the way, we got an anonymous spreadsheet from somebody in the business.
And the one that really stands out like a sore thumb is ESPN.
Oh, isn't it like seven bucks or something crazy?
$10 a head.
Yeah.
And whether you have it or not, I think.
No, I think you have to have it.
And the funny thing is, I think what's amusing to people who watch ESPN, because people on ESPN every so often moan about being on ESPN2, ESPN gets ten bucks a head, and I think ESPN2 is like two or three dollars or less.
It's like, okay, it's just ESPN.
Well, hold on, let me bring up the spreadsheet for a second.
This will blow people's minds.
So just so you know, the way it works, ...is this cable company pays the networks, so let's see, um, Bravo.
For carriage.
Yeah, for carriage.
So Bravo, uh, 58 cents per household.
Bravo!
Bravo!
That's nothing.
The cooking channel, 27 cents.
You really think we could do 33?
Well, we can do at least 27.
Yeah, well, let me say, what's low?
Nickelodeon gets a buck 89.
So all you need is a million people.
We're swimming in dough.
We could, we could be, be given every, we could give the trolls money back.
I know you don't like that idea, but I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
Well, if they hike their skirt, yeah.
By the way, only the girls, not the men.
If you hike your skirt, you're in.
Here, Oprah.
Oprah makes 38 cents.
Nobody watches OWN.
Oprah makes 38 cents.
Nobody watches Own.
No, of course.
Magnolia, 27 cents.
Nobody watches these networks.
Go to some of the ones they watch.
Look up ESPN.
ESPN.
ESPN has multiple channels, which is kind of the way to go, I can tell.
So ESPN HD, $10.35.
ESPN 2, $1.97.
And then ESPN News, no one cares about that, that's seven and a half cents.
ESPN NU, what is that?
I used to know what that is, but I don't remember.
That's $0.29.
Yeah, the Food Network gets $0.65.
So, and you know, and my whole thinking of when we came up with this idea... I think the Food Network, yeah, $0.65 is not bad.
We came up with this idea is that everyone's cutting cable.
You know, people are running away.
They're going to the streamers.
Now, I don't think that cable... I mean, cable will be around for a long time, but it's diminishing.
Decades.
And if we say, hey, we're the hip podcast guys.
We can do... I sent you V for V TV.
That's what I sent you.
You probably didn't like it.
No, I thought it was a nice... It has a nice ring to it.
V for V TV dot com.
Yeah.
Be perfect.
Yeah, we'll talk about this more.
Okay.
Because it's an eye-opener.
It is an eye-opener.
And what's funny about it, I want to, I mentioned, I sent a note back to the guy with this comment, which is, I remember the early days.
The early days of cable was never called cable.
It was called CCTV.
Yes, indeed.
I remember.
Community something television.
And people would set up these systems and they would get, in other words, if you have three local stations but you got to fringe areas where nobody, even with an antenna, could pick it up, you'd put up a cable system up there, a CCTV, and you'd play your local stations up there in the middle of nowhere, and the stations would pay the cable operators
For the extra coverage, because now they had more reach and so they could sell more ads.
I don't know what year it changed, but at some point it flipped.
Yeah.
And I think it was the beginning with HBO, maybe.
HBO.
Because HBO said, you know, we're not going to be broadcasting anything, but it's a premium and you could probably lure more people into your system if you play our movies and you just have to give us a little bit of money.
Was HBO on that list, by the way, on the spreadsheet?
Yeah, but it's $10, but that was direct billing, so you have to pay extra.
Yeah, it's different.
But the question, so I think we can, I can probably convince Joe.
We'll have to give him millions, but you know, it's all right.
It'll be Joe.
No, he gets a piece of the action.
Stock.
Yeah, stock.
Options.
Warrants.
We'll give him warrants.
We'll give him stock.
We'll give him a straight up stock.
No, he will want money.
We have to pay him money.
He might like stock.
He doesn't need any extra money in a day era of high taxes.
I'm telling you, he's not going to do it unless we give him money.
Yeah, you're going to have to give him money.
But, you know, who else do you want on the show?
I mean, do you want Judge Knapp?
I don't know who Judge Knapp is.
Napolitano.
Oh, maybe.
Why not?
How about Brett Weinstein?
Now you're stretching it.
They can do overnights.
There's a lot of... the selection is... Hi, I'm Heather Weinstein.
Welcome to our... Welcome to V for VTV Overnights.
We'll give them the 2 AM slot.
We'll give them the overnights.
Tim Pool.
I think we should have the Pool Boy on.
He would rake them in.
He would do it too.
But you promised me we're gonna go video so we can be on this too.
We have to be on this.
I think we have to have a version on as an hour show.
That sounds like extra work.
I didn't sign up for that.
You could be part of the other show.
We should just do this show.
Just go live with camera.
Just the camera.
You can wear a mask.
Think of the money, John.
Think of the money.
Until that time, we are very grateful.
Here's the other problem.
We can't chew up, like, what was our last show time?
Three and a half.
Three and a half hours.
Of course we can.
People love that stuff.
What do you mean we can't chew that up?
Yack, yack, yack for three and a half hours.
Okay, maybe.
But the idea overall is solid.
Think of the money.
And it doesn't get us off the air because people are always worried about our crazy ideas making us quit.
This way we can't quit.
That's right.
We can't quit because it'll just be too good.
It'll be too good.
In the meantime...
We plod along.
So anybody with ideas, we're open.
We're open for business.
We're open for idea business.
I did get a thing today from one guy who's been in the video business for a while.
Hey, all we need to do is get on one cable system and we're good to go.
I mean, what do we really need?
We got bumpers, we have people creating art, we can have, I mean, we have an entire, and we can pay people.
Hey, thanks, boom, here's some money.
Think about it.
Don't get carried away.
Okay, I'm all jacked.
Because the thing is about this volunteerism that we have is a big deal.
There it is.
No, I'm saying that because some years ago, I'll give you this story.
Yeah, but if we're raking in dough, then people want a piece of the action.
We're not going to be raking in that much.
We're just going to be making a little more than we're making.
We're going to give them stock.
Stock?
Stock.
Yes, definitely stock.
Yes, stock.
Okay.
But no commercials.
I don't want commercials.
We'll make it a corporation.
Yeah.
No commercials.
Put a bunch of shares out there and get people stuck.
And then when somebody buys us, everybody will clean up.
Yeah.
Now you're talking.
All right.
In the meantime, we're only going to thank our artists, because we do love them and they do great work for us.
And they upload every single show during the live broadcast to noagendaartgenerator.com.
And we chose Francisco Scaramanga's artwork for episode 1683.
The Rainbow of Rockets was the title.
There was some dissent amongst the ranks.
People thought that Shrimp Deal would have been a better title.
Now that I think about it, it might have been funny.
One of those shrimp deals?
It was fine.
Yeah.
And we chose Joe Biden.
President Joe Biden.
Although we were not happy with Scaramanga's rendering of Biden.
Wasn't a great look.
But you could tell it was him.
And he was on the airplane looking for the bathroom.
Yeah.
It was good.
It's funny, it's funny.
You know, it was funny.
Scaramanga, of course, Dutch master.
They always reign supreme.
Was there anything else that we considered?
Well, there were a lot of rainbow rockets.
Yeah, I liked the apple guy with the Macintosh on his head talking to the girl.
Yeah, you used that for the newsletter.
I did, because it was a good piece.
I didn't like it as much as Biden.
No, you didn't like it at all.
Let's face it.
You tried to call in a chit, which is illegal.
It was a Matthew Dropko piece, and it was very funny.
It was the AI below.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I kind of like comic strip bloggers.
And at least Scaramanga's piece looked like it might have been hand-done.
Yeah, it might be.
I don't think so, but it might be.
Well, he's an artist.
He actually can crank stuff out, but he also likes to use AI a lot.
Yeah.
So, you don't know.
Yeah, for cheesecake stuff.
Dirty Jersey Whore did I Want My No Agenda and I Want My MTV Logo.
Nestworks also did Cut the Cable.
A lot of people picked up on the idea of our own cable channel.
With some of the artwork.
Was there anything else?
I don't think anything else came close.
Um, we had the HHI index by Nessworks with Kamala Coconut falling over with her legs in the air.
Yeah, I think that the show itself didn't lend itself to great art ideas like the Camelus Crackers in the previous episode.
And I think today's show is going to be the same.
I can tell you right now that everything I see artwork-wise is not turning me on for today's show.
There's one piece I think is acceptable.
And by the way, the folksy thing, this picture of Kamala and this is from American Gothic, it's an old painting with a guy and his wife.
Who's this guy she's standing next to?
Hey, Dropko, who is that person?
I mean, the camel on the left one does look like a camel, but this guy looks like some accountant from Pricewaterhouse.
It doesn't look like anything.
Thank you to our artists.
Thank you, Francisco Scaramanga.
We appreciate the work that all of our artists do, and we always look forward to it.
It's a great way to end the show, and I would say there's still opportunities for anybody who wants to come in and swoop.
Now we want to thank our Executive and Associate Executive Producers.
We love all the producers who support us financially with their treasure.
It's incredibly important to keep the show going.
We don't have a cable network yet.
Anybody who sends any amount, that's how Value for Value works.
We can't look at your pocketbook.
So you may be giving up $5.
It might be a lot for you.
We appreciate that.
We love you just as much as someone who has a lot of money.
And can become an executive producer.
Anybody, by the way, over time can become a knight or a dame and receive one of those coveted knight rings.
We have title changes and knights today, so that's good.
And we kick it off with our associate executive producers, $200 and above.
We read your note and you get a credit that is good as an official show business credit.
You can even open an IMDB with it.
And $300 and above, you're an executive producer and we read your note as well.
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With Sir Schwoo of the Six Strings from Franklin, Tennessee, who doesn't know him as a guitar player from Mercy Me.
That's one of my favorite bands.
Hello Gents, he says.
Hoping this donation will help put the sad puppy back in its kennel.
Yes, the sad puppy has been out and roaming around.
I neglected to cover the fees on my last two donations of $333.33, so because I hate math, I decided to round up enough to cover all of them and not worry about it.
The .88, because he gave us $400.88, Is, of course, to celebrate JCD and the Mrs. Anniversary.
In the newsletter, John suggested the shows are getting too long and you should just talk faster.
How is that different than listening at two times speed?
Seems like a mixed message.
No jingles, no karma, just keep the greatness coming.
That's Mike, a.k.a.
Sir Schwoo of the Six Strings.
And he says, iPhone to blame for all the typos.
Well, I didn't see any typos.
Thank you, brother.
Appreciate it.
Blame the iPhone.
Blame the iPhone.
Sir Chris in Walnut Creek over here with $350.94 says, thank you for your courage and the excellent media deconstruction.
Here's wishing John and Mimi a happy 36th.
By the way, if you notice, I said it was... I have to go inside stuff here.
That's okay.
I sent a newsletter to Adam to have him Fix it.
Or check for typos.
Did I do something weird?
Did I do something weird?
No, no.
I left out the anniversary stuff.
I know you did.
And I was so happy when I saw it because Tina said, oh, it's John and Mimi's anniversary.
I'm like, oh crap, he didn't put it in the newsletter.
Then I saw the newsletter come in and I was happy again.
What happened was I was talking to Mimi, because she's coming down, and it dawned on me, because I'd done the newsletter the night before, I said, oh what an idiot, because that's what I don't need.
We've dropped the ball on so many of these things, it's like, oh my god, because it's on the day too, today is the day.
Without sending another copy to you, I just put it in there and I dropped something from that section.
Well, leave it to the girls to remember.
It's like last minute.
Leave it to the girls to remember.
It's last minute, save the show.
Yeah, it did.
It did save the show.
Anyway, Sir Chris continues.
The lovely Dame Kristen and I are celebrating our 26th anniversary today as well.
And they had a fight, beautiful.
She's my soulmate, best friend, and I feel lucky to have her by my side every day.
Love you, bird.
All the best, Sir Christopher.
Carmel by the seas.
Although he's in Carmel, but he's got Walnut Creek on his account.
Okay.
Sir Diggy is in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Sends us three, four, five, six, seven.
First, for your viewing pleasure, John, here's an interesting sport you may not have checked out.
This is beep baseball.
Baseball for the blind.
Did you see that?
Did you look at that link?
No, I didn't.
It's worth it.
This game was earlier in the season, but it's some of our best footage considering we had a professional crew.
Apparently Sir Digi is in the Beep Baseball League.
Feel free to share with the show as you like.
Please call out HBZ as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Always happy to do that.
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Jack Dedrick.
Wappingers Falls, New York.
Wappinger Fall.
Wappinger Falls?
Wappingers.
Wappingers Falls, New York.
333.33.
Long notes, but...
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I'd like to give him jobs karma for his new company, Can Do Portable Toilets, with D-O-O.
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I miss the, uh, the dumps.
Hold on a second.
Massive dumps.
We got Trump's dumps in there.
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And for Delancey, he would like a biscuit for his birthday.
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Honorable mention to our first two human resources, Miles Bowe and Cecilia Maverick.
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333.
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You've already provided me with a house, jobs, relationship, and baby-making karma over the last five years, so I'm forever grateful.
As an arborist in the Pacific Northwest, I always get enjoyment over any tree talk or wood talk.
At Hollywood Tree Company here in Nanaimo, B.C., we let the stars shine through.
Don't worry, John.
You've been saying it right all along.
I've been saying Nanaimo.
It's Nanaimo.
Although that could be the right pronunciation.
Whatever.
It's up there in B.C.
They have a great garden.
And that's a great place for an arborist.
It's very green and woodsy.
It's a beautiful area.
It's on Victoria Island.
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Is that it?
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Shut up.
Shut up, Slate.
Just shut up.
I have a presentation on Hamas.
you might not shut up shut up shut up I have a presentation on Hamas oh the Hamas guy yes This is getting weirder by the day.
It's getting weirder by the day and it's not going to resolve itself anytime soon from what I can tell.
What's going on?
There's a lot of noise.
It'll be just in time for the Democratic National Convention.
What's this noise in the background all of a sudden?
Someone vacuuming?
What that noise you're hearing?
Yeah.
Garbage truck going up the street.
Oh, okay.
Alright, garbage truck.
I don't know why they have to make so much noise.
Or why they have to do it on Thursday.
Well, they do it every Thursday.
Oh, okay.
I don't know what that, usually earlier than this, I don't know what that truck's doing.
It sounds like a drone circling your house, by the way.
This has to do with the new Hamas guy that took over and I have two clips and then an analysis with four more clips.
Okay.
So you'll know a lot when you're done here.
Let's start with the new Hamas guy is the old Hamas guy.
All right.
Turning our attention now to the Middle East.
Hamas has named Yaya Sinwar as its new political leader, and Turkey is seeking to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel.
NTD's Fiona Ji has the latest updates and what they mean for the region.
Turkey has requested to join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel in the International Court of Justice.
The lawsuit accuses Israel of genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Turkey is the latest nation seeking to join the lawsuit, behind Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Libya, and Palestinian officials.
It is now waiting for the court's approval.
Turkey's leadership has been an outspoken critic against Israel's war in Gaza.
Meanwhile, reactions to Yahya Sinwar's appointment as the new Hamas leader continue.
On Wednesday, White House National Security Advisor John Kirby said, quote, the man is a terrorist.
He has an awful lot of blood on his hands.
This guy was the architect of the 7th of October attacks in Israel, and some of that blood on his hands is American blood.
A spokesperson for the State Department said Sinwar has always called the shots for Hamas, even before the death of former leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Ultimately, it was Sinwar that had the final decision-making authority, as we could see throughout these negotiations, on whether to accept a ceasefire or not.
So yes, Sinwar absolutely ought to be brought to justice, we believe that, for his significant acts of terrorism.
And we also think he ought to accept the ceasefire deal.
Alright, so just so I understand, we're talking about the guy that's replacing the guy that got blowed up in Iran, right?
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Yahya is his name.
Yahya is the new guy?
Yeah, Yahya.
Yahya.
Yahya.
Yahya?
Yahya?
Yahya.
This is part two of that clip, which I got too misspelled as Y-W-O-Y.
That's okay.
I got you.
I got you, bro.
The Israeli military's chief of staff called Sinwar a murderer and said that Israel is ready to hurt its attackers.
The new Hamas leader is at the top of Israel's kill list.
Some Gaza residents are also disheartened by the news.
Speaking to CNN, they say there has been too much death and they just want the war to end.
Others rejoiced at the news.
In Yemen, university students rallied in support of Sinwar.
Iran and the Hezbollah terrorist group congratulated Hamas and Sinwar.
Experts say Sinwar is more extreme than his predecessor and his appointment could point Hamas to a more hardline stance.
Why does, this is NTD I believe, why do they not say Turkey, eh?
Are they not all in on that?
They don't like saying Turkey A?
Well, that's a good point.
I'm just kind of missing it.
I think a harsh note would be in order.
Yes, you should send them one.
All right, so now we got this guy.
He's horrible.
He's worse.
This guy's worse.
He's worse.
But he's been running it all along.
That's the joke.
Ah, I see.
So how's he worse?
I see.
So the other point is that these guys are pretty blatant about No trial.
We're gonna kill him.
We.
Us.
Our guys.
We're gonna kill this guy.
This guy's a dead man.
Dead man walking.
This is the theme.
Now we have an analysis that I do.
One of the reasons I like NTD is because they really have good and different analysts that come on.
Yeah, we should put them on a new cable channel.
They have their own.
They've got their own cable channel.
How much money does that make per household?
That's a good question.
I wonder if it's even... Actually, they don't do cable, they do over-the-air... Oh, losers!
You should do that too, by the way.
They don't have one of our deals, man.
They don't get it.
Most favorite nation's thing is this stupid rule about cable.
It doesn't let you do a lot of stuff.
So here's New Hamas Guy Analysis 1.
Earlier we spoke with Gabriel Narona, a former State Department advisor on Iran, about Hamas' decision to name Yahya Sinwar as its new political leader.
Narona is also the executive director of Polaris National Security and a fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
Now, Yahya Sinwar was the architect of the October 7th terror attack on Israel.
What does Hamas selecting him as the new leader, political leader, mean for the ongoing ceasefire negotiations?
Well, this is a consolidation of power within Hamas into Sinwar.
He was always the key decision maker for these ceasefires, for the prisoner exchange deals.
And so instead of having Haniyeh negotiate them and try to relay messages from Sinoir, now it's all concentrated in one person.
That is good in one sense in that it actually simplifies the decision making and negotiating process.
It also means that if and when, I think, Sinoir gets killed by Israel, it's going to make it a lot more difficult for Hamas to move on.
They are, again, putting all the power in one place.
This isn't gonna change too much, I think, in terms of whether their policy changes, how they approach things is different.
It's just gonna make things a lot harder.
You have one person trying to do two jobs, if not more, now.
Did we know that Yahya was the guy behind October 7th?
Did we know that already?
I don't know that we did, and I don't get this thing or when they kill him.
And he's so cavalier, by the way.
Yeah!
If and when we kill him, I mean Israel, if and when we kill him, we're murderers, man.
This is no good.
I don't like this.
Yeah, I find it distressing.
I mean, at least Trump goes, I'm gonna kill him, I take him out, gonna kill him like a dog.
That would be funnier, but now this is just like, if and when we kill him, you know, come on, spice it up, people.
It's a little too cavalier.
It is a little too cavalier.
Anyway, here we go, part two.
And Sunor is believed to be in the tunnels of Gaza, surrounded by hostages.
Smoke him out!
How does this factor into the ongoing negotiations?
Well, those hostages are... Hey, stop the clip for a second.
Whatever happened, remember this, whatever happened to they're gonna flood the tunnels?
Yeah, that was... Whatever happened to that idea?
Well, it got shot down for some reason.
They were waiting for... They're gonna flood the tunnels!
They're waiting for... Well, I think the international human rights groups came in and said, hey man, that's kind of, that's like rats, that's no good.
Yeah, well, this idea that we're gonna kill this guy, which without... Flood the tunnels!
You know, without a trial or anything.
No, just kill him!
Kill him!
Well, those hostages are Sinoir's and Stern's policy that he's not going to get taken out by Israel tomorrow.
But at the same, you know, it's speculated that Israel knows exactly where he is or generally where he is.
Wait a minute!
Again, that it's too difficult to try to do a rescue operation because most people assume the hostages would be booby trapped.
So Israel's forced to.
Wait a minute.
This is the first I'm hearing of the hostages being booby trapped.
This is imagine being a hostage and you got you like a stick of dynamite up your butt.
Well, okay.
I mean, this is not good.
Rather insensitive way to put it, but yes.
Well, a booby trap.
Okay, you got a bunch of dynamite strapped around your chest.
Yeah, wow.
When those go off, you know, your head flies up.
Pop, pop, pop.
We've talked about that.
But this is new.
I've never heard of the hostages.
They're basically saying we've got to give up on the hostages because they're booby trapped anyway.
I guess.
Most people would assume the hostages would be booby-trapped.
So again, Israel's forced to negotiate with them at some point.
But again, there's an expiration.
There's no way that Sinwar makes it out of all this alive.
And given his selection, how do you think this will change or impact Hamas and its goals?
You know, one really interesting aspect is that Haniyeh was able to unite many of the various Palestinian factions.
He had been in the political arena for decades.
Sinwar is a bit more of the fighter type.
And so there are, you know, there was an agreement recently in Beijing where the Chinese brought together 12 or 14 different Palestinian factions.
That was largely due to Haniyeh's Okay, alright.
He can't do negotiations because they're gonna kill him.
Yeah, seems like not a great way to start negotiations.
Groups are still going to be deferential to him as the leader of Hamas.
But he's coming from disadvantage.
He's coming from a place where he can't go out in the open and negotiate and talk with others.
He is literally bunkered down.
Okay.
All right.
He can't do negotiations because they're going to kill him.
Yeah.
It seems like not a great way to start negotiations.
Hey, we're going to kill you.
But do you want to make a deal?
Or maybe that is the deal.
Like we won't kill you if you come to the table.
I don't know.
Now on that hardline stance, a man who spent years with Asenwar in Israeli prisons told CNN that, quote, as far as Israel is concerned, this is not good news regarding the deal because of Asenwar's close relationship with Iran.
Help us understand the dynamics there.
You know, Hamas is an imperfect proxy of Iran.
Hamas is Sunni and the Iranian regime is Shia.
And they actually split relations for a number of years over Iran's activities in Syria.
So, you know, Hamas gets a lot of military support, financial support, certainly political support from Iran.
But at the end of the day, Hamas also tries to advance its own agenda, its own ideology, which is separate from that of Iran.
However, now I think that Hamas is on the front line of fighting Israel, which is Iran's greatest enemy.
You're seeing Iran go out of their way to try to help Hamas more than they would have before October 7.
This is, this is so cynical.
Yeah.
They're just like, oh, this is how it works.
And, you know, just like Iran is just one big blob.
And it's just that, by the way, they're two weeks away from a nuclear bomb.
You should have mentioned that.
They're always been two weeks away.
I had a clip in a couple of shows ago with, actually I still have this clip just to interrupt this flow.
I think it's the, I don't know if I moved it over or not.
It's Lindsey Graham.
Yes, here he is.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is introducing legislation that would allow the president to use military force against Iran if it's determined Iran is using nuclear weapons.
If we do not change course, Iran will, in the coming weeks or months, coming weeks or months, coming weeks or months, possess a nuclear weapon.
It is time to end the charade That the world is playing when it comes to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
They're one in the same.
Did he have any plans like bomb them?
Bomb them and bomb them again.
All right.
Back to the Hamas guy.
Idiotic.
Now, I want to did before we go to the last clip, I should mention that there's a couple of clips here that I left out a lot of stuff when they start, but the United States and its approach, which the guy kind of poop who is is basically idiotic.
So I'll leave that out and we'll move to the last clip.
And what will Sanwar's leadership mean for the Palestinian people in Gaza?
Well, I think we've sort of seen it over the last several decades.
It's failed leadership.
It is leadership that is obsessed with revolution, with intifadas, with violence.
This is leadership that has been offered peace several times and has rejected it at every turn.
Sinwar's goal for the Palestinian people, frankly, if he could see them all dead, if that was what was required to take out Israel along the way, it's something he would probably sign up for.
And frankly, that's really what he did sign up for with October 7th.
It was designed so that Israel would counterattack.
It was designed And all their hostages have been designed so that more and more Palestinians are killed.
That is Sinuwar's policy.
It is the only time you have a military leader whose success, in fact, is defined by how many of his own people can he have die in the path of jihad.
Oh, this is great.
So by killing him, we're actually saving Palestinians.
That's fantastic!
Wow, these guys are so good.
And who was this again who was speaking?
What horrible person was this?
He's a guy, he's got a bunch of, he was at State Department, he worked for us and he's working for some Polaris or some company that does security work and then he's also a friend of, he's a Some Jewish operational.
We gotta stop this.
We gotta stop this.
All this is... There's nothing to stop.
I have a clip here from... Can't be done.
From the Secrets and Spies podcast.
Yes.
Have you ever heard this podcast?
Yeah, I have.
This is Philip Smith, who you'll hear speaking.
He's from the Washington Institute of the Near East, which of course is some kind of... Yeah, some front.
Some front group.
And he's talking about... I think what he's saying here is along the lines of our thinking, which is they wanted this old guy The one who got blowed up.
up.
They just wanted him out of the way.
The New York Times that said, no, there was actually a bomb planted inside of his room.
And of course, there was some other kind of more fluffy details that were in there.
Like, for instance, it was an AI controlled thing.
You throw AI into it.
It sounds advanced.
But anyway.
Post word of the day, yeah.
So, I mean, it was kind of stuff like that.
But, you know, there's an AI controlled thing that also detected when he was in the exec room.
What's fascinating is you had other representatives and the leadership of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad that were staying in the same building.
Now, Palestinian Islamic Jihad is more directly controlled by the Iranians.
Very dangerous group, but PIJ has been very, very big in terms of launching rockets, kidnapping people, killing people, suicide bombings, you name it.
And they are markedly more beholden to the Iranians.
And interestingly, their reps who were there were not killed.
Which, once again, it's another signal.
Ziad Anakallah is the head of Islamic Jihad.
He was in the room next door.
It was reported in the Ronan Bergman article.
Yes.
But again, that's the, okay, if you think we can't hit anyone exactly when we want, this is the thinking that goes behind it.
I mean, I'm sure there are people out there who are like, why didn't they just kill them all in the building?
Well, then that wouldn't send quite the same signal now, would it?
I think they took them out themselves.
Just take this guy out.
It's possible.
Just take this guy out.
It's probably the reason there hasn't, to this moment, they still haven't started their retribution.
So let's just stay on this for a second, because there are a number of Iran narratives going around, even though it's like, is it Pakistan?
Is it Iran?
Is it ISIS?
Listen to this.
Oops.
Truth wants to come out, what he was playing.
National in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
Senior investigative correspondent Aaron Katursky joins me now.
So what do we know about this man and what he was playing or planning rather?
Oops.
Truth wants to come out.
What he was playing.
Yeah, he was playing a role, but OK, planning.
Executive correspondent Aaron Katursky joins me now.
So what do we know about this man and what he was playing or planning rather?
Kira, his name is Asif Merchant, and he entered the United States, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn in April.
And while he was here in the United States, he made phone calls trying to hire hitmen to carry out his alleged scheme to assassinate government officials on U.S.
soil.
The criminal complaint does not mention former President Trump by name, but multiple sources familiar with this case say one of the intended targets was former President Trump.
The hitmen that Asif Mirshan allegedly contacted ended up Being confidential sources of the FBI.
So there was never any real danger here because it seems the feds were on to this man from the start.
They followed him for several months and arrested him July 12th, just before he was about to board a flight and leave the country.
Kira, the arrest July 12th, you'll note, is one day before former President Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, when there was an attempt on the former president's life, although these two things are not believed to be connected.
All right, so no evidence in any way, shape, or form that they could have shared information or were connected in any way.
Two separate incidents at this point.
So it seems, Kira, that the FBI has said they found no connection between Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who took a shot at Trump in Pennsylvania, and any foreign operatives.
But we did learn, subsequent to the rally and the assassination attempt, that the Secret Service had made adjustments to the security plan for the rally because of a thinking that Iran did have this desire to go after former President Trump.
Perhaps now we know what gave them that indication.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why those security adjustments were made.
This is such a convoluted story.
So, because they learned about some threats from Iran, they made it even easier.
Yeah.
I mean, what is going on?
And then, I know you have the clip here, I'll play your clip.
So now we have ISIS trying to attack a Taylor Swift concert.
An alleged terror plot targeting Taylor Swift concerts in Austria has been foiled.
The three Swift concerts in Vienna have now been cancelled by the promoter.
Two suspects were arrested in connection with the alleged plot.
Officials in Austria said the main suspect is a 19-year-old Austrian citizen.
They believe he had pledged an oath of allegiance to ISIS.
Authorities said they found chemical substances when he was taken into custody.
Investigators are working to determine whether they could have been used to build a bomb.
At a news conference, authorities said they believe both men became radicalized on the internet and confirmed that they have detailed plans on how to carry out an attack.
Now, there's a lot, I mean, this is, I mean, maybe the Swift op is just using Taylor Swift for whatever we want to use her for, Because, you know, we had the three kids who were killed in the UK, knifed to death.
They were at a Taylor Swift party.
Then we've got ISIS wanting to blow up people, young girls, supposedly, and their parents at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna.
By the way, there's an update.
Breaking!
We are getting some breaking news from Austria following the cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna.
Police this morning are releasing new details about a terror plot that targeted the stadium where the shows were scheduled this weekend.
Government officials confirmed the two men arrested in connection to a planned attack.
They say a 17-year-old suspect began working at the Austrian venue days before the now-canceled shows.
That sounds like a great place to do a concert right now.
They're killing your fans!
In the attack outside the Swift concerts during a press conference, Vienna's head of police said immediate danger had been minimized and that an abstract danger remained in the city.
All tickets will be refunded with the next 10 business days.
Swift's next set of heiress tour concerts are still scheduled in London from August 15th to the 20th.
Yeah, that sounds like a great place to do a concert right now.
They're killing your fans.
Oh, man, there are forces at work right now and who don't care about human life, clearly, who are really trying to set the stage for maybe for Trump.
I'm not sure, but they're setting the stage.
They're set up underway.
And, well, let me just play this, hold on before we get to that.
No, maybe I should play this now.
Like this, the latest that's happening in the world of what WTF is also are doing.
This is Bangladesh.
Most people don't understand it or care about it, but this is a report.
An appeal for calm from the street.
The Army Chief in Bangladesh spoke to the nation in a televised address.
General Wacker Uz Zaman announced an interim government would be formed while confirming reports Sheikh Hasina had resigned.
The Honorable Prime Minister has resigned.
Now we will form an interim government and continue our work to lead the country.
Through the interim government, all the functioning of the country will take place.
Out on the streets of the capital Dhaka, jubilant crowds waved flags and took pictures with army personnel.
This after the Prime Minister's residence was stormed after crowds grew in numbers, overwhelming security.
Demonstrators removed articles of furniture and danced in celebration.
The latest development out of Bangladesh caps weeks of unrest.
Student-led demonstrations kicked off last month over a controversial quota system on over half of government jobs reserved for certain groups including descendants of freedom fighters.
But that quickly spiraled into a campaign to oust the Prime Minister.
A heavy-handed crackdown under Sheikh Hasina's watch resulted in nearly 300 people killed and the eventual downfall of the Prime Minister herself.
So, you know, to us in the West, it's like, some people, brown people in some country making a mess for themselves, but...
If you look just a little bit deeper, so now this general has come in and he's now, so that's what we call a coup, and the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled the country, is now openly accusing the Biden regime of seeking to topple her government with a color revolution for her refusing to allow the United States to establish a military base in Bangladesh and for Bangladesh to cut ties with Russia and China.
I'm gonna say that sounds pretty true to me.
Especially when you see this, uh, Walker Uzama guy.
Let me see.
Oh, he studied at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in the UK, and at King's College University in London, also known as the Spook University.
Come on, people.
Come on.
It's so nasty.
Just nasty.
And I believe that!
Of course!
You know, it's very believable.
That's the reason you believe it.
You believe it because it's believable.
It's very believable.
And it actually makes sense.
Yes!
Thank you.
Because we try to do... We try to make sense.
I'm saying as a country, we don't put up with any guff.
Guff.
No guff.
No guff here, man.
No guff here, man.
Good show title.
No guff.
No guff.
What is guff exactly?
You know, guff.
It's like grief.
So we don't put in any grief, or guffer, or talkback.
Bullcrap.
Bullcrap.
No bullcrap.
We don't play with bullcrap.
It's a nicer word for bullcrap.
A little update.
We haven't talked about the Olympics very much.
Before you drift too far, I do want to play the Piers Morgan commentary on Taylor Swift.
Oh, well, how could I even go to sleep tonight without Pierce Morgan commentary on Taylor Swift?
Oh, please.
And the only reason I'm playing this is because I have a complaint about it.
He's on Jordan Peterson's podcast, one of the dullest, dullest podcasts of the group.
And so it looks like someone vomited on Peterson's jackets.
It's hard to watch.
He's always wearing weird jackets.
But anyway, Peterson is bored stiff listening to this guy.
And he's just going, OK, whatever.
But he goes on and on.
Who knew that Piers Morgan, of all people, is a Swifty?
An alleged terror plot targeting Taylor Swift concerts in Austria has been foiled.
The three Swift... This is not what you want, obviously.
That's not it.
It's... I'm sorry.
Annoying Pierce on Taylor.
Annoying.
I don't really feel comfortable with winners anymore.
You know, especially if they're a little bit self-confident.
And yet, I think they're the best possible role models out there.
People that can perform in the cauldron of great sport or entertainment.
Cauldron?
Cauldron?
Witchcraft anybody?
People that can perform in the cauldron of great sport or entertainment, whatever it may be.
You know, I watched all the sort of jealous sniping about Taylor Swift, for example, and then I went to her concert at Wembley.
Absolutely mind-blowing experience.
It's not because she's the best singer in the world, or the best dancer, or the best actress, or the best pianist, or the best guitarist, even though she does all those things.
It's just I've never seen an audience so at one with the performer.
Where she gave them what they wanted.
Three and a half hours of banging hits.
On a massive stage with huge theatrics.
Every kid there, including my 12 year old daughter, had a fantastic time.
But the sniping...
She doesn't sing every song live.
She's this, she's that.
She's written all these songs herself.
She's grossing two billion dollars on this tour.
Pro Rasa, the biggest tour in the history of music.
Bigger than the Beatles when they played Shea Stadium.
Well, besides this guy funny, I could have done without that.
I couldn't.
And here we go.
She has Minimum of 62 different collaborators that write these songs.
Yeah, that's clearly, Pierce is wrong on that one.
He says she writes all her own.
Yeah, she has written a few songs, but the songs, if you look at her hits and look at who wrote them, she's not even on there.
These songs are collaborations at best, and sometimes she doesn't have anything to do with it.
We call that colabs.
We call that colabs in the business.
The colabs.
So this is a lie.
And he bought into it.
Wow, Piers Morgan buying into a lie.
What will happen next?
What will happen next?
I just thought it was an important clip to play.
If nothing else, I need to hear Jordan Peterson go, uh-huh, uh-huh.
Yeah, well, Peterson, he's not very dynamic anyways.
He's not dynamic.
No, he's actually a good guest.
If you put him with a dynamic host and he's the guest, It picks his energy up, but him being the host, it drops the energy in the whole podcast.
I'm surprised Pierce even got this worked up, but he's a big Taylor Swift fan.
I mean, you know, Darren and Pierce should get together and do a podcast.
The TayTayCast.
Yeah?
We haven't spoken much about the Olympics.
I do want to give us an update.
This is the Turkey, Turkey-ish radio.
What is Turkey, Turkey-ay?
Do we say Turkey-ay-ish?
Turkey-ay.
Turkey-ay radio and television.
They have put the reporter on the scene and come up with the 10 controversies of the 10 days of the Olympics.
Number one.
More than 1.5 billion dollars was spent cleaning the Seine since 2015, yet the glorified sewer is still extremely polluted.
And athletes who swam in the Seine?
Well, let's just say it was an unforgettable experience for them.
Number 2.
South Korea was wrongfully announced as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea during the opening boat parade.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The Olympic Committee and organizers would later apologize for their mistake.
In their Olympic basketball debut, the wrong national anthem for South Sudan was played.
Papa Smurf, drag queens, and the mocking of the Last Supper.
All this and more at the opening ceremony.
The athletes' accommodation has come under heavy criticism, from cardboard beds to lack of air conditioning in this extreme heat.
Some athletes even resorted to leaving the Olympic Village and relocating to nearby hotels.
Espionage at the Olympics?
Team Canada was caught spying on New Zealand during their training session, and as a result, received a six-point penalty.
Number seven.
They actually hoisted the Olympic flag the wrong way.
Congratulations, you had one job and you messed that up.
Number eight.
The handling of the weather conditions.
It rained a lot, and I mean a lot, during the opening ceremony.
The participation of Israel was one of the major talking points going into Paris 2024.
Russia, who sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, was banned from the Paris Olympics.
Yet Israel, who has killed more than 39,000 people in their assault on Palestine's Gaza, was warmly welcomed to this year's Games.
Number 10.
France's hijab ban has been highlighted even more since the Olympics began.
We've spoken with world-class athletes here in Paris who are unable to compete for this nation because of this cruel law.
And that's our list of all the controversies that have happened at Paris 2024.
Bah!
What a list!
I should mention the first thing on his list about the sand being polluted.
Yeah, they're puking everywhere.
They were, they were, a bunch of these guys that were in one of, whatever competition required them swimming in this dreck, shit-filled river.
They got...ended up hospitalized.
It was a big scandal.
Oh, I didn't know they were hospitalized.
Oh, goodness.
Yes, this broke yesterday.
A bunch of them were hospitalized with the E. coli.
Well, then there's the food!
The Olympic Village isn't serving adequate food, and some athletes aren't happy about it.
It's such a problem that Team Great Britain has resorted to packed lunches and eating meals away from the Olympic Village.
Andy Anson, chief of the British Olympic Association, told The Times that the quality of the food needs to be improved dramatically.
And said there aren't enough eggs, chicken, and certain carbohydrates.
He also said that athletes have been served raw meat.
Chefs have been tasked with preparing over 13 million meals and snacks for athletes.
And the Paris 2024 committee has a goal of reducing animal proteins and offering more plant-based options.
The raw meat, I think they just took it the wrong way.
That was sous vide.
You misunderstood.
And the other thing is that what they left out of that clip, I had that clip too, but I was irked by the fact they left out the worms.
Yes, worms.
They found worms in the fish, live worms coming out of the fish.
This is a disaster, even though they're making more money than ever.
Oh yeah, of course, of course.
Um, we didn't talk about it, but, uh, the Wall Street went crazy on Friday and Monday.
You guys talked about it on DH Unplugged, and you put it in the newsletter that we would talk about it.
I don't know why you did that.
I did?
Yeah, you said, yeah, we'll explain it.
I said that?
Yes, yes, I saw it myself.
I don't know if we need to explain it.
Well, once in a while I put stuff in there that never happens.
That you don't mean.
I didn't mean it.
It was just a joke.
Well, what you guys talked about mainly on DH Unplugged, which is a great show.
You can listen to it live on Tuesdays.
It streams live.
They have some kind of chat room which doesn't work, so they need donations.
They need help.
It used to work fine.
They need help.
They rag on Bitcoin, yet Horowitz is interviewing Scaramucci today.
So, you know, all right, whatever.
But the yen carry trade seems to be the impetus or the catalyst for this.
Which I didn't really know much about, but it makes a lot of sense that people were basically borrowing a lot of money because the yen is, you can borrow that almost for free, and then they were buying all kinds of tech stocks, the Magnificent Seven, and then Japan said, oh we're going to raise our interest rates, and everyone got in trouble.
Does that sum it up?
That's basically what caused it, yeah.
Now in addition to that, Out of the blue, because they had negative interest rates, it was free money.
Out of the blue they just say, you know, we're talking about lowering interest rates.
I don't want to get into this too much.
No, no.
We're talking about lowering interest rates in this country at almost 50 basis points we're now talking.
And they, out of the blue, they just raised the interest rate.
It blew everybody's mind.
It was great.
It caused a collapse.
But along with that, and even though I think the market rocketed back up today, who knows what's going on.
All of that is phony baloney.
But, my beat, AI is taking a beating.
Just a couple of headlines, and I have two quick clips.
The Guardian view on the tech bubble going pop.
AI pays the price for inflated expectations.
Is the AI bubble about to burst?
AI's two fundamental issues will lead to a bubble pop.
Goldman Sachs in Business Insider.
Yep, it's all happening.
And here's Yahoo News.
A lot of people who are unsophisticated investors use Yahoo, finance.yahoo.com.
I use it.
Case in point.
It's the easy way to look at charts.
But a lot of unsophisticated investors use it for their news and information.
Who is this dude?
Patrick Moorhead, an analyst.
Patrick Moorhead used to be a very famous public relations guy for AMD.
Oh, interesting.
Well, he's now an analyst.
I really see two major, actually three major buckets for AI plays.
The first one is this infrastructure.
Anybody who is related to building out these massive data centers with GPUs in them, I think are very, I'm very confident next 12 to 18 months that's going to be the case.
And we saw the capital expenditure commitments by Microsoft and Meta and Amazon.
It is absolutely pedal to the metal on that.
And then there's the longer term downstream, right?
The enterprise software providers.
That there has to be benefits in a large scale for all this to interconnect, because there is just factually an overinvestment in the capability versus the downstream benefits at this point.
And if that gear doesn't connect in, let's say, 12 months, what's going to happen is the investors of these enterprise software companies are going to be asking, you know, where's the benefit and have super pressure on these companies to start scaling back.
And that is when all bets are off.
This is going to come apart so beautifully.
Every single day I receive emails from dudes named Ben like, oh, man, we had to implement one of these AI things.
It's just a stupid chat bot.
Our customers hate it.
We hate it.
It doesn't work.
20%, 25%, 30% of the answers it gives is wrong.
It's not, it's not working.
Now this, your buddy Patrick did have an interesting side note here, but I think he's reading the tea leaves the wrong way.
And the final thing I want to add is I still think there's this untapped opportunity, which is the AI PC and AI smartphones.
You know, we saw a little bit on the AI smartphones related to Apple.
We saw a slight bump on that, but when you consider there's only one generation of Apple smartphones that can do all the AI tricks out there and then people are gonna have to buy new smartphones, new tablets, and even new Macs.
That's really, I think, good news for companies like Apple and Qualcomm and even AMD and Intel.
I see it exactly the opposite.
I don't think a single person is going to want to buy a new phone that costs even more because of AI tricks.
I think it's going to hurt Apple.
I don't think I want this thing.
You have a negative attitude.
Of course, this is your beat.
Very, very negative attitude.
And you are very negative.
My son, who works in AI, he thinks it's the best thing.
No, no, he says something that you can put in the Red Book and I think he might be right.
He thinks that it's got...
It's got enough legs to go two more years.
Wow!
Two more years?
In other words, most people that see bubbles like you do, this idea of being a bubble head, always are premature.
And I'm guessing he's probably right about the two years.
Now, that means we'll have our cable business in place.
Yes!
Because it's only going to take us about a year to do it.
Oh, wow.
That's good.
Our exit strategy is on deck.
I love it.
And then maybe I'll be able to afford a better supplier of my Dr. Pepper.
I got another flat can.
Wow.
Man, that was beautiful.
You timed it beautifully.
I'm telling you.
having been a can inspector in more ways than one but having been a can inspector I would say the likelihood of running into two bad cans from the same company in your lifetime is remote remote remote I think in my whole life, I have run into maybe one bad can ever, besides the ones I was inspecting and I saw.
That's weird.
Weird.
I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
Oh shoot.
So here I am trying to look at the batch number, and of course, I spill it all over my, uh... That, that was not good.
That, in fact, that is very bad because this is sugar, and this sugar water will get into my MIDI controller and will ruin it.
Would you spill it on the computer?
No, the MIDI controller mixer, which I use for, um...
Oh, well, it's just that, uh, I don't know what to tell you.
There's ways to do it.
Do you have any lube or something?
Do you have a lube?
This is like the, no, I got no lube.
This is like the guy with the, holding a can, you say, what time is it?
And he dumps the can on himself.
That's pretty much what I just did.
Like a moron.
Look at his watch.
Anyway, I think I have a, I have a lawsuit on my hands.
Two, two cans in one batch.
It's not good.
It's not good.
And it ruined my equipment.
Anyway!
Oh, is this from the same batch that you purchased?
I think so, yeah.
Oh, it's like hard disks.
Did you get my hard disk, by the way?
Yes, I did.
Thank you very much.
I got the hard disk and everything, and you scribble all over the hard disk, which is funny.
With a silver magic marker.
With a silver pen, yes, which everyone should have.
That's a tip of the day, is the silver Sharpie.
They're very handy.
Silver Sharpies are great.
Hey, let's thank some people who came in $50 or above.
John will read them off for you, and of course, there'll be several congratulations for the 36th wedding anniversary of my partner and his lovely wife, who also does a lot for the show.
Yes, she does.
Often unmentioned behind the scenes, she does all of our Tax accounting, which is very annoying for her, and she does the meetups and manages all that, and we love her.
Mimi is awesome.
Clearly, you married up!
And she runs a kennel.
And she runs a kennel.
Right on!
Les Tartowski starts us off in Kingman, Arizona.
One, two, three, two, four.
Kyle Tech.
T-A-C-K-E in Yankton, South Dakota.
1-1-1-dot-1-1.
And he has anything here... Oh, he wants to be... P.S.
Stop being a douche and donate on your own, he says to someone, one of his friends.
Oh, okay.
Binger Newman, I guess.
I guess.
Rami in Norfolk, Virginia, 111.11.
You can take a look at her note.
She has a really nice note.
Take a look at it, see if there's anything we need to read.
Yeah, she has nice handwriting, too, this Rami.
She says, this is... this... something should put me... oh, to Dame status!
Really?
Yeah, and she's on the list.
Oh, there you go.
I would need to put this on hold since life is...
In flux due to hobbies, naval retirement in January.
Sorry it's been so long between donations.
Her husband is retired from the Navy.
Okay, but is she a dame?
I don't have any dames.
I don't have daming on the list today.
Okay, we're gonna have to wait, Ronnie, just to send us a note what your name and all the rest of it wants to be.
Please do.
And then we'll take care of it next show or the show after.
Catherine Deem in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 105.35.
Jeffrey Montagna in Phoenix, Arizona, 93.64.
Now these 93s and 92s, these are all a happy 36th anniversary, John and Mimi.
Uh, William Messing in 9272, J. Codiccini, Codiccini, Codiccini, Codiccini or Codiccini?
Codiccini.
Codiccini.
It's gotta be Codiccini.
He's a giant douchebag, been listening since Adam first Joe Rogan.
That's Kevin, that's Kevin Affleck.
Three tall cans get me motivated to finally donate.
Give him a de-douching.
Yeah, this is Kevin Affleck who said that.
You've been de-douched.
Sorry, Jay, you're not the douchebag, it was Kevin Affleck.
Yes.
That was Kevin Affleck.
Sir Kevin McLaughlin, another Kevin, random number three, right after Kevin Affleck in Concord, North Carolina.
He is the Archduke of Luna.
Happy 36th wedding and an 8-8-8-8, which is unusual for him.
Yeah, it's not boobs as usual.
You just got a whole bunch of 8s.
That's very special.
He did something special for you.
Sir Andrew Gardner, thank you for your courage, 8888.
Steve Mann, or Mann in Plymouth, Michigan, 8888.
Sir John in Harbor Springs, Arkansas, 8836.
Congratulations.
Lyle Pote, 88.
The 88 was the official donation, but 88 was better.
Ryan Sor- Lyle Pote, 88.
Ryan Sorenson, 88.
Happy anniversary, sir.
Becoming Heroic, 88.
Jennifer Rain, 88.
Rita Harrington and- Rita Harrington's Dame Rita in Sparks, Nevada.
ITM Gentleman, 88.
Thank you for your courage.
Happy anniversary.
Jeremy M. Fort in Jerome, Idaho, 88.
And now we got- Oh!
Kevin McLaughlin's back.
Ah, there he is.
He can't resist.
He's back in Concord, North Carolina with 8-008, his boob donation.
Good one, brother, good one.
Every show.
Sir Fast Eddie in Alameda, California, 8-008.
Sir Wolvey of Pump House, West St.
Paul, Minnesota, nuts, 73-44.
Adam, can you give us a $69.69 for old times sake?
Maybe later.
Mike Janssen's in Brussels.
Brussels.
Which we'd call Brussels.
It says Brussels, Belgium.
$69.91.
He says not everyone in Brussels is a douchebag.
Give him a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
He believes he saved a sheep in Albania this week.
I bet he did.
He probably did.
He was trapped in a bush of thorns, which is Albania.
Sir Boccevici, Boccevici, Boccevici in Miami, 6776.
Bacavecci in Miami, 6776.
Cue butchering of my name.
Well done.
Thank you very much.
I can continue this process as long as you want to donate.
Sir Mainframe in Ventura, California, 64.
David Cox in Austin, Texas, 63.
25.
Grayson Insurance in Aurora, California.
That's Grayson Insurance, 6006.
Kyle in Kakauna.
You know, I don't pronounce this right, I know.
Kakauna.
Yeah.
55-55.
He's gonna be upgraded to Baron today.
Yes.
Yes, Kyle donated earlier too.
Andrew Yutakis.
Yutakis.
Hey, attack us!
What are we supposed to do?
Wheeling, Illinois, 5555 needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
Steven Whalen in Milford, Michigan, 5110.
Another douchebag callout for John.
Douchebag!
And Jeff.
Douchebag!
Alright, double.
Teresa Hepp in Roseburg, Oregon.
55.
She says, I've grown to love you guys.
You remind me and my mom.
You remind me of me and my mom.
Okay.
Good natured bickering.
Thank you for what you do.
Sir Scotty Pippen in Inglewood, Florida.
The basketball player?
No, it's Sir Scotty Pippen.
He's a title change.
Sir, not Space Force, is what he wants.
He's 54-30.
Dame Nancy, 53-60 and with a happy anniversary.
Mary Hardwick in Aledo, Texas, 53-33.
Stephanie Paolillo in New York City.
Jobs Karma, we'll put that at the end for you.
Michael Gates 5,280.
Hakan Andreessen in Portland, Oregon 5,272.
Michelle in Hampton, New Jersey 5,272.
That's a birthday call for her husband Mike.
Brian Mickey in Prague, Oklahoma, 5272.
Brian G.C.
John.
I'm just saying Brian.
Brian Mickey.
I already got him.
John C. Gazer in New Milford, Connecticut, 5271.
Jackson Thornton in Dallas, Texas, 5103.
And he says, I'm 14, trying to get a shout out for my mom and dad's birthdays.
They're on the list, Jackson.
Good work.
Good work, son.
You're a good son.
He's a good, good guy.
Good boy.
Josiah Thomas in Ankeny, Iowa, 51.
Sir Ladyboy in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, 50.88.
He was formerly known as Bobby Brindlehorse.
Ann LaBelle, $50.50.
Happy Anniversary.
I'm in Orange Beach and hope the meetup is still on for Saturday.
I don't know.
We'll know later.
Michael Labar in Williamston, Michigan is 50 and the rest of these are 50.
I'm just going to go name them and location.
Alex Zavala in Kyle, Texas.
Sir Alex Zavala, just adding that.
Soumitra Saravana in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Did you know there's a Fredericksburg, Virginia?
I do.
I did.
That's true.
Justin Cruz in Tehachapi, California.
Robertson Home, Flint, Michigan.
Edward Mazurek, who is also a Sir, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Steven Ray in Spokane, Washington.
Ray Howard in Kremling, Colorado.
William Kidwell in Dover, Delaware.
George Wuschet is also a sir in La Vernia, Texas.
Brian P. Bellon in Asbury, New Jersey.
Sad puppy donation.
Kerry Jackson, Watertown, Tennessee.
Jason Deluzio in Miami Beach.
Tracy Sullivan in Tinley Park, Illinois.
Sarah Wilson with a switcheroo donation on behalf of Brandon Lake.
Needs Jobs Karma, that's another Jobs Karma we gotta put.
From Grand Rapids, Michigan.
And last on our list is Alex Smith in Newborn, Georgia.
No longer a douchebag, needs a de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
And that's our list of well-wishers, and happy anniversary donations for show 1684.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, thank you.
Very nice, everybody.
Appreciate that, and thank you for those coming in under 50.
We don't mention those for reasons of anonymity, but we read them all, we see them all every single time, and of course we'd love it if you, in addition to your one-off donations, take out a sustaining donation.
Keeps us away from the cable channel gambit for a while.
Please, think about it.
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D9, dudes!
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
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Become a no agenda producer today.
Mandy Smith says happy birthday to her husband, Sir Scott Smith.
He celebrated on the 4th.
Brenda McClanahan celebrated on the 6th.
Eli and Jen, that's our coffee guy and the coffee partnership, wishing their son Ethan a very happy birthday.
He turns 1 tomorrow.
Michelle from Hampton, New Jersey, happy birthday to husband Mike, turns 53.
And Jackson Thornton says happy birthday to his parents.
He's a good son.
Happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
We do have a couple of title changes today.
When it rains, it pours.
Sir Rope of Spade bits in the rafters now.
Baron North Valley of Foxes.
Sir Brian Tobiason, Baron of Chief's Kingdom, now becomes Sir Brian Tobiason, Viscount of Chief's Kingdom.
And Sir Scotty Pippen, now Sir Not Space Force.
Thank you all for supporting the No Agenda Show with your upgrades on your pier.
A thousand dollars in aggregate moves you up every single time.
We have a layaway night, and this is what I always love to read because layaway nights, people who are on those sustaining donations, that you can actually make it.
This is from Charlie Void.
He says, in the morning, John and Adam, I have faithfully recently completed my knighthood layaway.
I'm utterly confused as to how I'm to become an official Knight of the Round Table.
Well, it's not that hard.
It's working.
I've been listening for almost 10 years and would think I would be in tune with the system by now.
I would like to ask for relationship karma.
Yeah.
As I'm a half century old and living alone with my tiny dog, Patty, in the little college town of San Marcos, Texas.
Hey, ladies, there's an eligible bachelor with a little tiny dog called Patty in San Marcos, which is a nice little town between Austin and San Antone.
There's a nice little airport there, too, as well.
There aren't as many keepers around that fit my age preference, so it's been slim pickings.
I would like to be called Sir Call of the Void, and would like to have a healthy heaping of red beans and rice, and a Shirley Temple at the round table.
Red beans and rice, and a Shirley Temple.
I don't think I had the... Did I?
Do we have some extra red beans and rice?
Uh, yeah.
We usually have that, but the Shirley Temple's a... We need some grenadine syrup.
Is that what's in the Shirley Temple?
Yeah.
Okay, let me see.
I'll put that in here.
Okay.
And he wants a woman!
Alright, there you go.
So let me give him that relationship karma first off.
You've got karma.
And get yourself ready, sir, as we bring out the blades, because we have a couple of people tonight.
There is my blade.
Bring out Olympic-size one, if you don't mind.
Here's the big boy.
It's been dipped in the sand.
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There's a handy ring sizing guide there, which you can use.
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And we have one meetup report.
This is from the Vault Wine Bar Meetup.
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Anna in the morning at the vault and Adam still wondering, what are you drinking?
In the morning.
In the morning!
Well, I was drinking a very flat Dr. Pepper.
That just seems to be my lot in life these days.
Hey, there's a meetup taking place Saturday at the Treasure Valley Boise Meetup.
That'll be at 3 o'clock at the Heritage Social Club in Garden City, Idaho.
Also on Saturday, the Surprise Orange Beach Meetup, 3 o'clock at GTS on the Bay, Orange Beach, Alabama.
The Fort Worth Monthly August Meetup starts at 1 o'clock on Saturday at Flip's Patio Grill, Fort Worth, Texas.
The Margarita Meetup, which is on Sunday, you must RSVP for this, 2 o'clock at Lenora's Alton, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
And that must be something special if you have to RSVP for it.
We drink and we know things!
The Soviet Sunday Edition is a meet-up on Sunday at 3BR Distillery, Keyport, New Jersey.
The Save Democracy and Cat Ladies meet-up at 3.30 on Sunday at St.
Joseph Brewery and Public House in Indianapolis, Indiana.
That's Sir Mark and Dame Maria organizing that.
It's always a big one.
It's a hootenanny.
And finally on Sunday, the Knowage in the Southwest New Hampshire meet-up.
Also 3.33 p.m.
Keene, New Hampshire.
Local Burger in Keene, New Hampshire.
Many... Hey!
There's a meet-up in San Marcos, I see, on the 17th of August.
That's one where our newly minted night should go to.
This is the three-event float meet-up that Sir Scott Barron of the Army has organized.
Dude!
Chicks in bathing suits, I'm just saying!
No Agenda meet-ups!
You can meet all kinds of people!
Some of them might even be single.
Go give it a look, see, at noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find no one there, start one yourself.
It's always easy and always a party!
You wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You wanna be where you won't be.
Triggered on hell's flame.
You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
Noagendameetups.com.
It's like a party.
By the way, you know, it's ever since we finished Frasier and then Cheers, we've been watching Veep, and we are now in season three, and it is synchronous, almost synchronous with Kamala Harris as Vice President Selena now has decided to run for president, almost synchronous with Kamala Harris as Vice President Selena now has decided to run for And I look at that show and I think, yeah, that's exactly what's going on behind the scenes at the Harris campaign.
Probably the same script writer.
No kidding.
How about some ISOs?
I have, I think, four, so you have two.
I'll start with yours, if you don't mind.
Sure.
What you got?
Well, let's see.
I've got a crazy.
That was crazy.
Not bad, not bad, not bad, not bad.
Well, then here's one that's not too bad.
Not too bad, really.
I don't like the cutoff.
Alright, couple ones for me here.
So I have four.
Let me see if you like any of these.
They serve no agenda.
No?
You don't like that one?
No?
Okay, next one.
Folks, don't be pooping on the beach.
Hmm?
Pooping on the beach?
It's got to do with anything.
Nothing.
And yes, I am weird.
Okay, that's getting better.
And I think this is the winner.
Two grumpy old men.
I think that's just the classic.
I think crazy's better than that, but I'll take that one.
Okay, good.
Good.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, to wind up the show, it is time for John's tip of the day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCB.
And sometimes Adam.
And we like to wind up the show with a tip of the day so you can go into the rest of your weekend, into the weekend in this case, with knowledge that you cannot get from any other podcast.
John, what's your tip of the day?
I actually have two today.
Wow, a doubleheader!
Or I could have one, whatever, but I do have a clip that has a tip in it that I thought would be worth playing because it has to do with the Olympics.
Okay, what is it?
And it is the... where are we?
Pin trading.
Pin trading.
Dozens of passionate pin traders and collectors were fervently exchanging pins in the heart of Paris last week.
Many call it an unofficial Olympic sport.
A pin specialist from the U.S.
advises newcomers to prepare their pins in advance.
They can do that by purchasing them online and bringing them to the Olympics.
The best thing to do if you want to trade pens is to come to the games or come to an event with pens that you have to trade.
If you buy them at stores here, they're very expensive.
But if you can buy them cheaper on eBay, people will buy them in bulk on eBay, older pens, and bring them and trade them.
Reid has been trading pins since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
It's the unofficial sport of the Olympics.
There are thousands of people that pin trade.
There are probably more pin traders than there are athletes, if you think of it that way.
I mean, we set this up today and there was no advertising.
We just put something on Facebook and said, come.
The pin trading fair gathers traders from all around the world, all drawn by the allure of the Olympics.
This year, the area was bustling with people eager to make a good trade.
The fact that a lot represent countries, so you're kind of getting stuff from all over the world.
That's really cool.
According to the First Olympics website, pin trading dates back to the first modern games in 1896 when athletes wore cardboard badges.
Nearly 130 years later, the variety of pins has significantly expanded.
It's been busy all day long.
People love coming here and trading and interacting and it becomes very addictive.
National organizing committees, sporting federations, media companies, and sponsors all offer their enameled mementos.
So this is a tip for dorks?
It's a tip for people who trade pins, and it's a bigger group than you think.
Yeah, of dorks!
Flair!
You, you're judgmental!
I am!
What a judgmental guy!
I am!
Who trades pins?
I thought when I saw that clip, I thought, pin numbers for your ATM?
That's kind of cool to trade that.
Hey, I'll take yours, you take mine.
But no, pin trading.
So what is the tip then?
The tip is to buy your pins in advance from eBay and then take them there and basically get wholesale and ramp up.
Okay.
Great tip, John.
I have a second tip where I can push the second tip off because we're running out of time.
I need to hear the tip.
I need more tip.
You would.
So I'm in Slovenia floating around.
And they bring an interesting point up, and this is the tip.
They claim, in Slovenia they claim this, that pumpkin seed oil, if you ingest it, and they have it if you go to like any restaurant there, and the salad bars always have like the oil and vinegar, but they also have a big thing of pumpkin seed oil that you put on the salad. but they also have a big thing of pumpkin seed And
And they claim that pumpkin seed, you use pumpkin seed oil, and this is not, I'm not giving medical advice, but they sincerely believe that pumpkin seed oil prevents prostate cancer.
Wow!
They're just, they adhere to this belief that pumpkin seed oil, no prostate cancer, and so use it a lot.
So they use it on the salads and I actually use it myself.
I'm kind of believing this possibility.
I've got a healthy prostate.
There's another butt tip from John C. DeVore.
And so here is the, so you go to, Amazon has it and there's a French company that sells it.
And by the way, they sell it in a small can.
You can just look up pumpkin seed oil on Amazon or you can find it in some stores.
Can you just eat pumpkin seeds?
Will that do it too?
You won't get as much oil as you do from these.
You're going to have to eat tons of them.
You'll be sick.
The point is, is that this pumpkin seed oil is quite good on a salad.
It's very strong flavored oil and it's very nice raw on a salad.
And the thing that's irksome is that I looked into the idea of importing pumpkin seed oil, and it's like an industrial waste.
Yeah, I was going to say, it's sludge.
In Slovenia.
And it's like you could get 10 gallons for a dollar kind of thing, but when the French make it in their little cans, it's like 15 bucks for a small can.
So it's, I think, a pretty pricey considering what...
Considering what it's really used for, it's another lube story.
You can't get off a lube.
That's what they use it for.
All you see is lube.
There you go, everybody.
It's not good news, it's good advice.
John C's Tip of the Day.
Yeah, everybody, that's it.
Tip of the Day.
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Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in Fredericksburg, Texas, wine country, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's time for me to go to Costco, I'm John C. Dvorak.
And happy anniversary John and Mimi, we love you!
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Coming up next, we have two good old boys, Sir Gene and the dude named Ben named Ben.
Till Sunday.
Adios, mofos.
A-hooey, hooey.
And such.
What Kamala Harris is doing is amazing.
It is a testament to her charisma, but it's also a testament to the team she's put together, including Tim Waltz.
It's really interesting to see a vice presidential pick generate this kind of extra energy boost.
You know, we all talk about do no harm with a pick, or maybe have an impact on a particular state.
Pairing is actually quite magical.
How you feel about Trump calling Kamala Harris a bum?
She is.
She's one of those career prosecutors that suffers from character deficits.
She's one of these people that has absolutely no connection with what the hell was going on.
He's in the 20s and Willie Brown took her off in his mistress.
He means what he says.
We don't take him seriously.
He means it.
There's no big bloodbath.
It's going to be a storm.
Look what they're trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes.
Electing people in place in the states and they're going to count the votes, right?
Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2020?
2025.
If Trump wins, no, I'm not confident at all.
Hey, what's that in your mouth?
You think it's a family show.
Running out of option.
Who's watching constant surveillance and data collection in the name of protection.
Hey, what's that in your mouth?
Videos leasing captures in secret.
I mean, huh?
Figure it out.
Repent.
Get right.
All done in plain sight.
Captured by your vice.
Compromising.
Paid with a high price.
Attending parties and events.
Thinking, look, no one sees what happens in the shadows.
It's just dense.
Sidle up to someone who's been abused before.
Keeping their secrets.
Spilling your guts and saying, tell me more.
Rumors and threats.
Abundance.
You become numb.
How much to buy your silence?
I mean, just don't be dumb.
Whistleblowers dead in random acts of violence.
Saying that it's suicide.
Just be silent.
You're in for a long ride.
Digging deeper, leading to entangled relations, trying to hide.
Digital guillotine, rarely seen.
Canceling hardly a culture suitable even for a team.
But parents excuse bad behavior as a new day.
Now they play the bad music for their kids in the car.
Every day used to be a way we would talk to our old folks.
Politics were less serious.
People knew it was just jokes.
I mean, just jokes.
Huh.
It was just jokes, folks, saying, yeah, what's that in your mouth?
What's that in your mouth?
But I'll tell you the thesis, the current thesis... I'm sorry, I'm still laughing.
What's that in your mouth?
You're a horrible... You are a national treasure.
She just hike her skirt up and try to flirt.
I just stay more woke than less woke.
And I know a hook when I see one.
Never learn to read and write.
Like everybody needs to be woke.
Early onset dementia and also some problems with menopausal complications.
I just ate more woke than less woke.
Had no brains at all.
You see, today is going to be tomorrow, so since it's gonna be tomorrow, today we have tomorrow, which is why we are now.
Like, what did you say?
Thought changed by the Lord and done with the jackass.
We have to stay woke.
Where'd you get your blackness from?
See, you're faking it again.
Listening to her words sounding and the way she talks.
Had no brains at all.
Like everybody needs to be woke.
She lacked professional competence and she worked on it by hiking up her hemline when she needed influence rather than research.
You're changed by the Lord and dumb as a jackass.
And then you get somebody that's easy to control because she's laced.
I'd just say more woke than less woke.
Fool, what did you just say?
The worst human beings you will ever find are career prosecutors.
