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This is your award-winning GiveOwnation Media Assassination, episode 1689.
This is No Agenda.
Boosting Bobby and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're wondering whatever happened to John Tesh.
John Tesh.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Isn't he hanging out on an island with Kenny G?
John Tess sold a lot of records I'll have you know.
Did he now?
Well, he was always on PBS.
The reason I bring this up is because PBS keeps showing these different broadcasts.
Does anyone even know who John Tesh is?
Isn't that kind of pathetic if he sold as many records as you say?
And nobody knows who he is anymore?
Well, he was most known for his stint, as we'd say, stint on Entertainment Tonight.
Yeah, he was the guy.
Go-to guy.
He was the guy.
What was her name?
What was her name?
Yeah, see?
Nancy Cordes, I have no idea.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
And then later he was with Liza Gibbons.
Ah, yes, I remember that.
And Yanni, of course, he toured with Yanni.
He did.
Whatever happened to Yanni?
Wait, didn't he marry Barbra Streisand?
No, Barbra Streisand is married to this actor.
All right, who is John Tesh married to?
I don't know.
Connie Selica.
Oh.
Yeah.
She's no slouch.
You knew this off the top of your head.
I want to point that out, by the way.
Of course.
I mean, this is me.
This is why there's two of us, you know?
Someone's got to have all the good stuff.
Well, he was used to do all these concerts for the PBS broadcasting system.
Yes.
And that's what reminded me, because I was watching one of these things.
They keep interrupting it to ask Big for money.
Why were you, wait, so you were watching it and you were actually annoyed they interrupted the John Tesh concert?
Is that what I'm hearing?
No, no, they haven't shown a John Tesh concert for a decade or more.
It's just they interrupt all the concerts and then they... Oh yeah, and then they offer it to you on DVD, like anyone has a DVD player anymore.
Or yes, DVD or Blu-ray.
And it came to mind.
I said, whatever happened to John Tesh?
Yeah.
Okay, well... He was a piano player.
I would say more synth.
A synth guy.
He was new age.
So synth.
Synth.
Alright, before we get into the obvious that we must talk about since... Bobby the Op!
The Op!
Before we get into Bobby... Still on.
Before we get into Bobby the Op, we need to go to the next Op.
Now the billionaire founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram has been arrested in France.
Pavel Durov was reportedly detained after his private jet landed at the Bourget airport outside Paris.
Telegram is one of the most downloaded apps in the world and it's particularly popular in Russia.
But it's focus on privacy has raised questions about its use by criminals.
So let's find a little bit more about this.
Molly Malone is here with me.
Hi Molly.
So first just a bit about who he is, because he's not exactly a household name.
He's Russian-born, gained French citizenship a few years ago, but he's really famed for founding this encrypted private messaging app, Telegram, and suggestions in French local media this morning that the arrest and potential investigation relates to this app for its potential lack of moderation and potential criminal activity.
But just for some context about the app, because it's actually not Potentially as well known here as it is across the globe.
It's one of the most downloaded apps after the likes of Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, with upwards of 950 million users.
It's an encrypted private messaging app that's effectively protecting data from being intercepted with, as you said, a big focus on privacy.
It's been in recent years particularly popular in Russia and Ukraine.
It was actually banned back in 2018 in Russia because of its refusal to release Well, before you continue, I have no clips on this.
I'm actually stunned, but I'm not disappointed.
Just stunned that you brought this into the... What do you mean stunned?
Are you surprised that I brought this?
Yeah, I am, kind of, because it wasn't something I was thinking about, just another guy.
I mean, this has been going on, this is a long standing, let's start, if we want to go to the beginning, we have to remember when Phil Zimmerman, they went after him.
PGP.
I don't know, 30 years ago for PGP?
It was 30 years ago?
I think it was a while ago.
Yeah, sure.
And they tried to arrest the guy and throw him in jail because the governments, these fascist governments that are running the world, do not like the idea that people can whisper to each other, which is what this amounts to.
They would love it so if I whispered into somebody's ear, they could record it and keep it to use against me.
If possible, but they can't seem to get to that point yet.
And now it turns out that Kim.com, they're really going after him.
He's been complaining a little bit on Twitter.
To grab him somehow, he's not even an American citizen, but to do the same thing as he did with Assange and arrest him for violating American laws.
Okay, well let's not get distracted yet from Pavel.
No, I just want a backgrounder.
Yeah, well, and I think that is the general consensus.
A couple of things.
One, every report says he was arrested at Bourget Airport.
It's LE Bourget Airport.
It's very annoying to hear this.
I don't know why they're not, you know, it'd be like Kennedy Airport.
It's John F. Kennedy Airport.
It's LE Bourget.
The Rumble CEO jumps on the train by posting on X. Wait a minute, why doesn't he just post on Rumble?
Chris Pavlovsky.
I've just safely departed from Europe.
France has threatened Rumble.
Now they've crossed a red line by arresting Telegram CEO Pavel Durov reportedly for not censoring speech.
Rumble will not stand for this behavior?
We'll use every legal means, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, so he's jumping on the train.
And that is the general response from people.
And of course, what we've heard is no, as far as I know, there's no actual official announcement, but he is being, what was I think, I think it was Reuters says he's being charged with terrorism, narcotic supply, I think it was Reuters says he's being charged with terrorism, narcotic supply, fraud, money laundering, receiving stolen goods, pornography with minors because He doesn't have to be a good one.
He doesn't have poor moderation tools.
So first, do you use Telegram at all?
As a matter of fact, no.
No.
And I use it because I detest it.
I really don't like Telegram.
Yes, you said this before years ago on the show.
I find it cumbersome.
Dudes named Ben swear by it, of course, because of its apparent security.
I presume it's secure that you have end-to-end encryption.
I've not really even checked it.
You can report people and block people, though there's some kind of moderating going on somewhere, I guess.
But it's tedious, you know, so people have these channels and you can, and often you're, unless you have the settings set properly, you are auto-joined to a channel all of a sudden in some Bitcoin thing.
And a lot of the Bitcoin people are on, I'd say most of the Bitcoin people who aren't also on Noster are on Telegram.
I see this a little differently, though.
I think that this move coming right now, and Pavel, I mean, he's a billionaire.
He didn't make it off of Telegram, because as far as I know, no one paid.
Does anyone pay for Telegram?
Is there any business model there for payment?
You're asking the wrong guy.
Well, I'm asking in general.
Maybe the troll room knows.
I don't think that there's a payment necessary.
He did have a payment cryptocurrency, which went to basically zero.
On this news, surprise, surprise.
So there was some kind of, although that's not even mentioned in any of the allegations that I heard of, but I think this is something different.
Telegram is used extensively by, I would say, by our United States operatives to stir up stuff.
How many times have we heard, oh, this particular revolution, this color revolution was started on Telegram amidst some sketchy guys in Germany on Telegram.
I think that this is more marketing than anything.
It wouldn't surprise me if Pavel is let off quite soon.
He'll be sent on his merry way.
That's actually the first thing I thought of.
Oh good, well you didn't say it so I get dibs.
That's fine.
I don't care.
But it seems to me, and I'd say that because of your attitude toward it, which is that you've always been skeptical of its true safety.
And it seems to me that if the thing is really full of holes and actually has back doors, arrest the guy and make it sound as though there's nothing wrong with this.
It's a great secret thing.
If you want to do secret communications, please use this.
Don't use anything else.
Something different though.
I'm saying, I'm not questioning its encryption and its privacy.
I think that it's what the intelligence communities and the State Department and the, you know, the people who make trouble around the world, Victoria Nuland, I think they're annoyed by X.
And they really want to control things by starting stuff, and when it comes from Telegram, oh, this is a secure app, this guy's gotta be for real.
To me, it feels more like everybody use Telegram, don't use X. I think Elon actually, didn't he promise that we'd get secure DMing?
Never saw that happen.
I don't remember.
Yeah, there was an end-to-end encryption promise somewhere.
But no, to me, this is more like, everybody, you've got to please use Telegram.
It's secure.
See, we got this guy because it can't be moderated.
Everybody use that.
Don't use X, where Elon controls.
Because there's no algorithms in Telegram.
It's just, you know, chat channels or direct messaging.
To me, it feels like this is something else is going on and it's marketing for people who like to stir up crap in countries and would prefer people to use something that, although they don't control directly, they can control the perception that it's real.
Yes, I take it to the next level, which is they do control it directly.
Well, they're monitoring it.
That's what happened with WhatsApp.
I mean, WhatsApp had that promise.
Remember when WhatsApp was cool and you paid $1 a year and they had millions, like 100 million people using it?
I remember that.
I, again, was another non-user.
Yeah.
I'm too busy to hold up.
Well, you cannot communicate with Europeans almost without using WhatsApp.
Everybody uses WhatsApp in Europe.
And I certainly don't trust WhatsApp.
I could send him a DM.
I could make a call on the phone.
I can communicate with Europeans without using WhatsApp.
You're being a technical person now?
Of course you can.
But Europeans prefer WhatsApp over SMS text messaging and anything else.
They prefer it.
It's where the family have groups and it's bigger than iMessage.
And also, of course, because iMessage is not as prevalent in Europe.
People are poor there.
The poor saps can't afford an iPhone.
So they're all on Android, cheap Android.
So anyway, I'm suspicious of this action.
I'm very suspicious of it.
And well, you should be.
Yes.
I know you're not bumping the mic, but something is booming.
I don't know what that could be.
Okay, well, then it's fine.
All right.
We kind of knew this was happening on Thursday.
We were just waiting for the announcement.
It happened on cue.
Yeah, exactly as we said.
Yes.
Well, it wasn't like it was a big secret.
Before we go to Bobby the Op, do you want to finish up the DNC and the final evening of joy?
Or actually, non-joy, because both of us were wrong on our predictions.
There was not a single cackle, let alone three.
No, no, there was one.
It was a ca.
It wasn't a cackle, it was a ca-ca.
It wasn't a full cackle.
It was enough of a cackle that I think it would count if you were taking bets.
Well, you said no cackles, I said three, so neither of us win there.
No, I said the over and under is 2.5.
Okay, you win.
But there was no, I know Donald Trump.
I know his type.
She didn't pull that one out, now did she?
That was, well, you and I both agreed that she would.
Yeah, of course.
In fact, you made a big stink about, oh, that's not much of a bet.
Is that how I said it?
It's uncanny how you nail my voice.
It was spot on.
I know I can do it.
I try to avoid it but I can't.
I do have the clip of what she did say about Trump.
It's about a minute and a half.
It was one of the, what was the count?
It was like hundreds of times during this convention they talked about Trump.
Which is kind of interesting.
Here's... I'm sorry?
Interesting.
It was interesting.
No, no, I don't know what you're getting at.
You're asking me a question.
No, I was not asking you a question.
Oh.
Here is what the vice presidential... vice president, a presidential nominee, said about former President Trump.
Ha!
But the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.
What he intends to do if we give him power again.
Consider his explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers at the Capitol.
There was a lot of lying going on.
The amount of lying is unbelievable.
Well, unfortunately, it works.
People hear these things over and over again and they're certain that it's true.
His explicit intent to jail journalists.
He's got a jail in there.
His explicit?
I don't think I've heard that.
Have you heard Trump say?
Well, it was an explicit intent.
Oh, okay.
Intent to jail journalists, political opponents, and anyone he sees as the enemy.
His explicit intent.
Why do you think she's using the term explicit intent?
It reminds me of the, I don't know if I have this clip, I probably don't, but of the guy who ran into a woman, oh no, I don't have it, this is kind of a redneck character talking about how he ran into a woman who claims she saw Donald Trump.
It was a veteran, I saw that video.
Yeah, the veteran, he says he saw Trump say, watched him say, losers and suckers, which is a classic quote.
For the veterans, yes.
Yes.
And he said, well, he looked into it, of course, because he didn't know better, to know it was bullcrap, but he looked into it.
There is no video of this, but she saw it.
And so I think the idea is to drum into people's brains that explicit intent means he said it, Try to visualize him saying it, and you will eventually imagine he actually is saying it on the podium, because he says a lot, so he could.
Yes, and I understand that, but the term explicit intent is, it's notable, I'm not sure, there must be, we need Scott Adams, the professional hypnotist, to tell us why she's using that.
There's probably, actually in this case, Scott might have an answer.
Yeah, there's some persuasive mechanism to it.
To deploy our active duty military against our own citizens.
Yeah, they're gonna come and start shooting people.
There's a... I think there's... I don't know if you... There's a law against that.
That's not actually legal.
I don't think he's ever said it.
It doesn't matter.
He's gonna be a dictator from day one.
He's gonna do it.
You gonna say something else?
I was... No, just play these out, because there's one in this group... Well, actually, before you even continue this, I want to play something.
Well, I have... Okay.
No, this fits right in.
Alright.
I want you to play DNC Camelot 2 because what you're playing, early in the speech, she says the following.
This is Camelot 2 Respect.
They instilled in us the values they personified.
Community.
Okay, so she's been drummed into her to treat others the way she'd like to be treated with kindness and passion and all the rest of it.
And meanwhile, you're playing these clips.
This is an example of treating others by lying about them?
I guess so.
Well, but you will have the same power, Ms.
Harris.
It wasn't just for him, it was for all presidents.
And it wasn't really what you're saying it is, but... Not at all.
that he would be immune from criminal prosecution.
Well, but you will have the same power, Ms. Harris.
It wasn't just for him.
It was for all presidents.
And it wasn't really what you're saying it is, but...
Not at all.
Okay, that sounds scary.
Just imagine...
Imagine.
Donald Trump with no guardrails.
Oh no!
My voice is skipping.
And how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States.
How?
Not to improve your life.
Not Not to strengthen our national security, but to serve the only client he has ever had.
Yeah, it was great.
That was good.
Oh, so you didn't get what I was hoping for.
Oh, what were you hoping for?
The one where she goes, this is part of her litany, she says, he's going to set up a commission to track abortions and every miscarriage and see what he's going to track all the miscarriages and crack down on abortions.
It's also the IVF thing is just astounding.
That there is, this is not a talking point.
It's not in Project 2025.
There was one Alabama guy, Supreme Court Justice in Alabama, One, who said, well, you know, we've got to treat these embryos as children.
And if anything has been successful, it's that.
It's the IVF thing.
It's really odd.
All the way up to Michelle Obama admitting for the first time in history, as far as I know, That she, well you had the clip, that one of her children, maybe both, were born through IVF.
This is new, this is groundbreaking, this is breaking!
I never knew that.
And Trump has gone on and said that he's going to protect IVF as much as he can.
Everything she says is a blatant lie.
Pretty much.
And it's like, and everyone's eating it up.
So... Not everyone, John.
I would just say Dimension B is eating it up.
It's, uh, it's their rocket fuel.
They're fired up!
Fired up!
So I have, I have more than a couple of clips here.
Can I just give an overall impression of, uh, Harrison Waltz after having watched the, uh, the Thursday evening, uh, Festivities.
Yeah, sure.
They are just like American food.
Processed.
Oh, here we go.
Filled with soy and sugar and marketed with rainbow colors.
That's what they are.
And people want it.
People eat that.
They like it.
Mmm, yummy.
It's good.
Soy, sugar.
Mmm, pretty colors.
So it makes sense that there's a large portion of the population that is all in on it.
Well, that brings me to some funny clips, but before we get to that, I do want to play this, because this was on Democracy Now!, and you can put the warning up.
Oh, okay.
Yes, Amy Trigger warning, yes.
So this is, the clip is DNC covered up protests.
There was actually This was not reported by the mainstream media.
Amy picked it up and they had a video of it because she happened to be sitting in the audience near it.
And I was actually kind of surprised by the way it was all coordinated.
I guess everyone was clued in on how to cover up any sort of protest that took place on the on the convention floor.
Play this.
A few minutes into President Biden's remarks.
Three delegates, part of Delegates Against Genocide, dropped a banner that read, Stop Arming Israel.
We were inside the convention floor right next to the Florida delegation, where it happened.
While some delegates snatched the banner away, many others of the Florida delegation quickly raised Joe Biden placards that said, thank you, Joe, and we love Joe.
To block any view of the banner.
The protesting delegates who dropped the banner were quickly escorted from the convention floor by security.
Straight to the vasectomy mobile.
Took care of them.
Well, I do have one protest clip from outside, and they've taken a new bent on the alliteration of any name, like Cackling Kamala.
They've got a better one.
Thousands march through the streets of Chicago, home to one of the largest Palestinian communities in the United States.
It's the final night of the Democratic National Convention.
Throughout the week, these protests have made it clear which issue most divides the party.
The only way I'm voting for her is if she calls for an arms embargo on Israel.
Those hoping for an end to military support for Israel, however, won't be won over by Kamala Harris' speech, as she accepted her party's nomination for president.
We will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself.
Around a dozen delegates to the convention remain sat outside until the final hours.
They represent the Uncommitted Movement, a pro-Palestinian campaign which, during the primaries, mobilised hundreds of thousands of voters to withhold their support for President Joe Biden.
They'd push for a primetime speaking slot for a Palestinian to address the bloodshed in Gaza, but in the end, mention of it within the convention hall was limited.
Gaza is watching and seeing that this party that we hold dear to our hearts, that we know holds human rights dear, is not even letting my Palestinian siblings speak.
Vice President Harris did again call for a ceasefire.
If that's not achieved soon, one party donor is reportedly worried that protests could again erupt at universities as they reopen for the new term.
They're not done yet?
Okay, you won't let us do it at the DNC?
They didn't even have a Palestinian American on stage.
Even Jon Stewart made note of that.
Which I thought was interesting.
They're not going to do that.
No, well, no, of course not.
I mean, the.
What I found disappointing.
Is, you know, there were a couple of funny people who were doing funny stuff inside, a la AlexStein99.
Obviously he wasn't there.
I think at this point he's even in costume, he's too recognizable.
Alex Stringer, who is the pedicab guy from Austin who I voted for in the mayoral race years back because he wanted to put a dome over Austin and give flamethrowers to teachers, which I thought was an outstanding platform.
He was in there doing a bit that was so good, or at least so convincing to whoever he was doing that to.
It was the BBC.
Oh, the BBC.
Yeah, British Broadcasting Suckers.
But we had... Suckers, you spell with an S and not a C.
Uh, we had our own people saying, look at this, look at this leftist cuck.
Like, you don't see this?
It's so obvious.
Especially this stuff about the black lover, his wife's black lover, teaching him about civil rights or something.
It was ludicrous.
And then the comedian, I don't know if he's gay or not, but he was certainly acting very effeminate.
I have clips from him.
Oh, okay.
What's his name?
This is a guy, his name is Lionel McGloin.
People also took him seriously.
They didn't realize that was a gag.
It was a gag!
Not only that, but somebody put a clip on Twitter where he did the same thing at the Republican National Convention.
The guy's a comic.
Yeah.
So he plays characters, and then the Republican Convention, I don't have any of those clips because they're not very funny because the Republicans weren't buying it.
And the guy was in there, he had a big hat, giant hat on, and he had Texas action, he talked like this, and he tried to convince everyone, he said, Texas, big hats for Jesus, or something he was doing.
But they were just not buying it, there was nothing he got out of it, it was funny.
But so he goes to the Democrat convention and he acts unbelievably gay to the point where, I don't know, is this guy really gay?
He might be.
Even gay guys are like, I don't know, man.
Well, he ran into one gay guy who was always going to want to date him.
And so I have like five clips.
These are very short.
Oh, you really went for it.
Okay, good, good, good, good.
One, two, three.
Yeah, there's five or six very short clips.
But he got gold when he was there.
And the thing was linked in the newsletter.
If you have the newsletter, you can just go to the long version of his bit.
It went on for 20 minutes.
Yeah, you put it in the newsletter.
It was good.
So I want to play just a few of these things, just to show you what was going on.
And the Democrats just fell for it, and I was thinking about why the guy was so gay.
Yeah, they're afraid to say anything.
They were afraid to say anything, and they figured, well, he's got to be a Democrat.
Although, we know that there's a lot of gay Republicans.
There's probably as many as there are Democrats, but they're less... This guy acted like a flamer, which is an old term.
Yes, I'm well familiar with it.
Okay, so for example, this is a good example.
He goes up, and he's going up, he ran into Kellyanne Conway.
What happened?
Kellyanne Conway?
Is this a new mask?
Or did she have some unbelievable work done?
She had some work done.
Let's face it.
Not some.
Dude.
I know she looks 20 years younger.
All those pointy features have been shaved down.
Something happened.
Yeah, something happened.
So he went up to her and he was giving her, and she was, she was pretty affable.
She wasn't like making a fool of herself.
Like when she, I'm going to go from the top here.
This is, he goes and sits down with Nadler.
Fat Nadler.
Jerry Nadler from New York.
Now this is only like, this is 11 seconds, but But this was the theme of what he was accomplishing by playing this character and going up to various Democrats, and they were buying it like there was no tomorrow.
And this little clip is actually disgusting.
This year, it'd be so brat, have a higher tax rate for rich white men.
Well, if we have a Democratic Congress, we certainly will.
Yeah, baby!
Tax those rich old whiteys!
Come on!
He was all over the brat, wasn't he?
Everything was brat.
The whole thing was brat.
Yes, he did the Bratt thing to an extreme, and that's why he called these clips Bratt.
He goes up to Letitia James, the prosecutor in New York, and this happens.
Are you worried Donald Trump's going to weaponize the justice system if he gets in power?
I'm concerned about Project 2025.
And it's important that individuals understand that Project 2025 basically consolidates power in the hands of one dangerous man.
And so it's really critically important that individuals understand.
You're prosecuting his political enemies.
Exactly.
Guys, I have to say, you are even more beautiful in person.
Oh, I love him.
I love you.
Thank you so much.
I want to give you a kiss.
Thank you.
That's fantastic.
That's sick.
That is so good.
And the lie that Project 2025 consolidates.
No, it doesn't consolidate anything.
In the hands of one evil dictator.
And here's a prosecutor who should know her documents, did not read it.
It's a flowery policy, flowery policy pile of Well, I think your point about Project 2025 being written by AI needs to be taken into account when anyone talks about it.
Yes, 30 pages of the intro is just about themselves, about how awesome each person is who contributed to it.
And then this whole thing, the rest of the 930 pages could have, you know, could be 30 pages itself, but you're running through chat GPT, like, flower it up, baby!
And that's what you get.
Paragraphs with run-on sentences, just hundreds of words.
You should look at it just for yucks.
You won't get past one chapter.
So here he runs into some guy who is defending Walls as he goes after Walls as he makes a point that Walls is representing a body positive image.
This is good.
And he says, he's a body positivity, which means, you know, Waltz is just a fat guy.
And so we get this exchange.
We have a woman of color and we also have Tim Waltz.
What a great example for the body positive community.
What do you think Tim Waltz can be as an inspiration for body positive people?
A young man came to him and said, we want to have a gay club here at our high school.
And he said, I'm going to lead that because I need to be supportive.
He's like a gay leader.
Hey, this guy, what's his name again?
The comedian?
I would say he could be a stringer for Gutfeld or maybe Waters should hire him and send him out on the streets.
He can clearly do multiple types of characters.
He's got a gig with this.
I feel a gig coming up.
One of the most aggressive things I've seen, and he did it for probably hours, and he played this character, this ridiculous, he was doing all kinds of bits in between these small interviews.
He runs into a random gay, obviously a gay kid, a cute little gay kid, and this exchange takes place.
Why is Kamala so us?
She's so us because she's brat.
Kamala is brat.
She is so brat.
What does brat mean?
Um, brat is like, you're like a party girl, but like, you go out at really late at night, and like, you fall asleep with all your makeup on, and... I mean, I have to love Kamala being in a menage a trois at one point.
You know, the thing is, and this is a huge weakness for this Dementia B collection of people.
I'm not even going to call them Democrats.
This is a particular type of people who are just completely brainwashed, MK-altered in a way.
Anybody can go up and act gay and immediately they'll be... I mean, you could do it.
By the way, that's a great idea.
Gay Dvorak going in.
Hey!
Hey, brat!
Hey, girlfriend!
You could do it!
My gay is not that great.
I mean, I overdo it.
I sound like a 60s stereotype gay.
Yeah, you should just talk about what's the big festival with the old fat dudes running around naked in San Francisco?
What festival would they run around naked in San Francisco?
Yeah, over in the Tenderloin.
They all run around naked.
They do?
Yes!
Oh, I know what you're thinking of.
You're thinking of the Folsom Street Fair.
Yes, yes.
You could be one of those guys.
Oh yeah, I'd look great with chaps.
And by the way, not all gay guys talk like this at all.
They do around here.
Well, that's my case in point.
You could get in anywhere.
You can get interviews with tech leaders.
Well, most of them were gay, so maybe.
Ah, there you go.
Hello, everybody.
Now, I do have two... Before we continue on this list, if you go to VRAT, V-R-A-T, I forgot I had two of these.
These are the ones that are... I misspelled BRAT with a V. Yes.
So I got Ed Markey, the senator from Massachusetts, falling for it.
And they go back and forth.
And listen to this idiot.
So some Gen Z doubters of Kamala have noted her record persecuting people for weed.
I'm a stoner, I use it for PTSD.
Do you think that era is so over?
She's so over that?
I think that even in the period of the Biden-Harris administration, they have been working very hard in order to say no.
What about like Coke and stuff?
Excuse me?
What about like Coke?
And her, I would have to look at it.
Do you criminalize the drugs, baby?
Thank you, sir.
Coke for the boy.
Thank you.
Oh, man.
Oh, man.
These people are so stupid.
They're so stupid.
Oh, man.
They can't even... They're so afraid of offending someone who just happens to be gay or flamboyant, is what he is.
Flamboyant.
They're so worried about being called out for something that they'll just... They go along with everything.
This is what I'm saying.
It's pathetic.
I'm gonna start, I'm gonna start using this.
Hey.
Hey.
If I want something from you, I'll just try it.
Hey.
So here comes, yeah, that's gonna work.
Yeah.
So here's the second vrat clip, which is the, the cam, this is where he runs into some, just a regular delegate and they go about how great Kamala's laugh is.
Oh, gracious.
Is that the best Kamala laugh ever?
Oh my god, she has the best laugh ever!
Joy!
Joy!
We love joy!
We're all about joy!
How do we guarantee equity of joy?
Equity of joy will flow forth from Kamala!
It's just a given and part of her relationship.
We are manifesting.
People say vibes don't matter, but we are manifesting our nation.
We're manifesting it to you.
Love you.
So these are the people that actually, these are delegates.
These are people who determine who's running.
This is great.
This is what democracy looks like.
Yes, and here, I got two left, and they're both, again, short.
This is a, here he is with a young, now this is an attractive woman, a young, and she's from D.C., and she's a delegate, and they go, and this is just so off the wall, it just kind of surprises me.
Who are the cuties in the Democratic Party that are speaking?
Oh, I don't know.
Talk to anyone who lives in D.C.
It's hard to find a cute Democrat.
Oh my God, shots fired.
No, I mean, that's the tea.
Ask anyone who lives in D.C.
and who works in Democratic politics.
It's hard to find the cute ones.
The Republican guys are hotter.
Yeah, but they're evil.
So, like, I don't know.
I don't know.
We kind of love evil.
Oh my God.
You are so bad.
Wow.
The Democrats in D.C.
are ugly?
That's what she said.
Wow.
And then the final one... I'm just going to stop and think about that for a second.
Why?
Why?
Democrats, if you think about it, generally speaking, are not the most attractive people.
Just think of Jamie Raskin as a typical Democrat.
Well, they have dark souls, some of them, but... I think it comes out in the face.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It's not healthy.
No, it's obviously not healthy, and this girl reflected it.
Now this one, this last clip is kind of a two-parter, because first he runs into Harry Sisson, or whatever his name is, the influencer creepy guy.
And Sisson won't play along with the idea that he was going to ask him a series of questions, and you're supposed to respond yes or no queen.
Now I don't know if this is some sort of a gay game or something, but The idea is I ask you a question, you say yes queen or no queen.
Sisson wouldn't play the game so he clips it right straight to this woman, another attractive delegate.
This girl is really pretty.
So there are pretty Democrats, just not in D.C.
Not in D.C., but this girl was pretty, but she was a dipshit.
So the pretty Democrats are dumb shits, and this girl If you listen to some of these questions, like he wants her to affirm that it would be good to give illegal aliens sex changes.
I mean the questions, this guy's over the top.
This is great.
He's on a roll, and he really got on a roll with this girl, and we again, we finish it up the way we started it, with tax-rich white guys, and here we go.
One final game.
Yes Queen or No Queen, okay?
I'll give you a yes or no about that.
Okay.
Amazing.
Can you do Yes Queen or No Queen?
I can't do that.
Oh really?
Free abortions!
Yes Queen!
Free gender-affirming care for migrants!
Yes Queen!
Child tax credits for dogs?
Yes, queen.
Ban standardized testing?
Yes, queen.
Yeah, like, my ADD is so crazy.
Get rid of those things, please.
Yes, queen.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Different tax rate for white men?
Yes, queen.
Amen.
Love you.
Love her energy.
She's a yes queener.
Wow.
Wow.
I'm going to do that with you.
I'm just going to say yes, Queen.
Whenever I really disagree with you, I'm just going to throw out a yes, Queen.
Yes, Queen.
There is, however, the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group was not contracted nor consulted for the Democrat Party this year.
And they've made a rookie mistake where they have, of course, hooked their wagon to the Bratz summer, which is why this guy did all the Bratz stuff.
Um, now we could have told them that it's very risky to attach your campaign, and as we know, the Harris HQ, uh, ex-account has taken on the, the brat summer green.
Everything is brat, she's brat, brat this, brat that.
These trends are fleeting.
She's very.
And I mentioned this in passing to Elyse this morning.
She's still with us.
A couple more, she has like 10 more days before she goes back.
10 more days of good material.
Yes, before she goes back to Brooklyn.
She's a Zoomer.
And I said, because I'd seen, I'd not heard your clips, but I'd seen the word brat and I said, ah, John's all in on brat.
And she says, ah, ah, doesn't he know that brat is over?
I'm like, oh, he says, oh yes, it's demure autumn.
No, we did that.
We had the clip about demure autumn.
Well, it's gone a little further than your clip.
Let's not forget to be demure divas.
You guys already know how I come to work.
Always very demure.
Very mindful.
Sort of like TikToker Jules LeBron, who recently sparked the terms demure and mindful to have a viral bout of usage across TikTok.
Very demure.
Very mindful.
Very demure.
Very mindful.
Very demure.
Very mindful.
In early August 2024, Jules posted several videos about how she presents herself when going to work, describing her look as, Very demure.
Very mindful.
I don't do too much.
I'm very mindful while I'm at work.
Very demure.
I don't wear too much makeup.
I'm very modest.
I'm very mindful.
You see my shirt?
Only a little chichi out.
Not my chocho.
Very demure.
Very mindful.
Her earliest video using the phrase garnered over 10 million views in a week, and she continued to post videos using her keywords demure, mindful, respectful, and cutesy, often explaining how to achieve these qualities.
TikTokers quickly took notice and started using the terms in their own content, like TikToker Hal Batty, who posted several videos parodying Jules and overusing the term demure, also to the tune of millions of views.
I'm so demure.
I'm being serious.
Keep it demure.
These words blew up online over the following days, even spreading to X as users continued employing them in their videos, often, ironically, showcasing things that are not exactly demure, like eating a messy sandwich.
Memers also took note of the virality, creating parodies and remixes of Jules' original videos, and lots of memes referencing the buzzwords.
See how I take my antidepressants every day?
Very demure.
Very mindful.
There it is.
Very demure, very mindful.
That's it.
Well, I want to call you out here.
So you go to her and say that John is in on brat when I didn't even know what it was.
And I've never been in on it, let alone... No, I said John is all in.
He has a whole bunch of bratwurst.
All in is what you said.
All in.
I'm not all in.
Yes, Queen.
I'm not all in, Queen.
What I meant was, you've had a lot of Bratt clips.
No, no, I had one Bratt clip.
They're all labeled Bratt, that's all I saw.
Oh no, this one, yeah.
No, because this guy presented himself as Bratt.
But I didn't know, look, I don't listen to your clips, so all I see is Bratt, Bratt, Bratt.
So I said, yes Queen, all I saw was Bratt, Bratt, Bratt.
So, calm down.
Were you not hurt as a child?
So you assumed... No, no, you're taking... Which makes an ass out of you and me.
You're taking this too far.
I just said, John's all in with the brat clips.
I didn't say you're all in on brat.
You're a... Okay, you can dig yourself out of the hole later.
I'll let you slide.
I'm just saying... Yes, Queen.
She must think I'm... And you can stop that.
I don't know if I can.
It's too good.
All right, let me switch gears for a moment because we were talking just a minute ago about these are the people who are the delegates who choose who is going to run for the party.
We know that no one actually voted for Kamala Harris.
And it was amazing to hear your governor, California Governor Newsom.
Oh, I hope you got the part again.
I hope I got it.
I tried to find this clip.
Because I noted it down in the notepad.
I went back.
You were too busy clipping the brat guy.
No, no, no.
I was looking for it.
Somehow, the problem was, on YouTube video, I wrote down it was Democrat 2024.
They had a label, and so I go to look it up on the search engine, and there's like thousands of them.
Did a very crappy job of labeling there.
There's all kinds of stuff I couldn't find.
Good stuff is disappearing very quickly.
I had a couple of those myself.
Anyway, you might have the clip I'm looking for.
I hope so.
I hope.
I'm trying to regain a favor.
Yes, Queen.
It's contagious!
Pod Saves America, which is a very pro-Democrat Party podcast.
It's a very successful podcast, has a whole bunch of Obama people on the podcast.
They are now also unionized, that podcast, because they're from Crooked media.
So you're trying to be funny.
We won't have to listen to him too long because he will go out of business.
And here they are with Governor Newsom yucking it up, laughing about the blatant disregard for what they would call democracy and just switching Harris or switching Biden out for Harris.
How are you feeling about the switch?
I mean, the switch.
Now we went through a very open process, a very inclusive process.
It was bottom-up.
I don't know if you know that.
Yes, that's what I was told.
Yes, it was a blitz primary, I believe.
That's what they called it.
A very, very fast blitz.
I think it was a bleak primary.
A 30-minute convention, you know, between a tweet and another tweet.
It's amazing how it happened.
Yeah, it's been amazing.
But what is amazing is how unified everybody is.
I mean, it's next level.
And even making fun of Schumer with the, it's bottom-up, it's grassroots.
I mean... That was like, wow.
And they're just laughing about it.
They don't care.
Eh, these idiots.
These idiots.
Well, the clip I was looking for, just to bring it back, and I'll just have to discuss it.
Oh, this wasn't the clip you were looking for?
No, the clip I was looking for, he was being interviewed by Brett Baer.
Oh, Fox for the Pucks.
And he loves going on Fox, by the way, Newsom does.
And he always makes some comment about being on Fox.
And I know this is dangerous.
Right, I'm in enemy territory here.
Yeah, he says what he says, he says that too.
And he says, he said, well the last, you know, the last number of years have been disastrous and the camera's going to bring us out of it and, and it's going to be a new, a new way of going, a new future, new way forward.
And Brett calls him, I said, well the last number of years she was in office, she was the vice president, you're talking about the Biden administration.
And then Newsom No, no, no.
What I meant was, and he'd make some sort of an excuse, and I was thinking about, this is why I needed the clip, he did this on purpose.
And he did it on purpose on that show too.
I think so.
He is doing little bitty snipes because he doesn't want Kamala to win.
He wants to be the nominee in 2028.
If she wins, this is pushing it off to 2030.
Too long.
I cleaned up the whole state.
I swept the homeless under the carpet.
I got the Olympics coming.
Yes, I agree.
Yeah, he is a very sly one, that Newsom.
He's slick.
But if you're looking for it, you see it, because he is transparent.
So the big mistake, I feel, and I'm not sure who launched the rumors, or, I mean, all the news channels were doing it, but this was the huge disappointment.
A supersized letdown for the beehive.
I'm irritating.
I am irritating!
After rumors that a star like Beyonce would make a surprise appearance and perform at the Democratic National Convention would prove to be, just that, a rumor.
A gap in Thursday's program, leading fans and convention goers to speculate about a surprise guest ahead of Harris' speech after an already star-studded convention that included surprise speaker Oprah Winfrey a night earlier.
Stevie Wonder, Pink, the Chicks, there were lots of fantastic talent there, but I know people were hoping for a few other famous faces to show up.
The internet guessing everyone from Dolly Parton to former President George W. Bush.
Another notable Republican, Mitt Romney, also named, but the Utah Senator squashing that rumor.
Eagle-eyed Swifties also noticing a gap in Taylor Swift's tour schedule.
But one of the most guessed, Beyonce.
Hussain Freedom has become central to the Harris Walls campaign with the singer's blessing.
Someone at the convention posting a clip of a Beyonce song at soundcheck, which was viewed more than 1 million times.
Then adding fuel to the rumor fire, publications like The Hill and TMZ seeming to confirm it.
TMZ citing multiple sources saying, we're told Chicago PD is on high alert as it's involved in security for Beyonce at the United Center Arena.
So, the way this played in the controlled, I don't want to say opportunists, the Megyn Kellys, I'll say, the Megyn Kellys of the world.
Oh, they just did this to juice the ratings, to juice the ratings.
I don't think so.
These are just idiots.
The mainstream has no inside track.
They were the ones walking around like, oh yeah, look, this curtain hasn't been here for the past three nights, so something has come up.
Oh, we can hear a drum battalion rehearsing backstage.
It was all bullcrap.
And it raised some expectation.
I was let down.
I think it was done.
I'm more in line with Megan on this.
I think that it was done on purpose.
It was done for the purposes of keeping people attentive.
Why didn't they just actually pay Beyonce to come out and do it?
Or anybody?
Or anybody?
I think it was done on purpose, and the Taylor Swift thing in particular, and it was done on purpose to keep people's attention.
I think they did a good job of that.
If TMZ is suckered because Harvey Levin is a Democrat Trump hater, so is that.
He's an insider.
So he's gladly go along with the program.
I think he may have actually been part of the scheme.
But the thing that gets me is that I think this is emblematic and this is the, you say it was a, I think it was a huge A fundamental mistake by the Democrat Party and the Harris campaign, because this is an unkept promise.
So everything she says is a lie.
The promises she makes about tipping, for example, there's no way.
If she says, oh yeah, no tax on tips, bullcrap.
That is just a lie.
She'll never implement it.
It's like, and I think the Beyonce thing is symbolic of the Democrat lies and misdirection.
It is, it's a huge blunder.
Yes, it's a blunder.
Do you think it could have been done on purpose?
I totally think it was done on purpose.
But I mean, to submarine Harris Waltz?
Oh, that's a meta look at it.
That's an interesting possibility.
I mean, it was bad.
It was bad because, again, I still have the content machine here.
She was like, nah, Bey's not going to do that.
Queen Bey not coming.
And so she didn't watch with us.
You know, she said, oh, what, Beyoncé?
You think Beyoncé is going on after Kamala?
I said, no, no, she's not.
She's not coming.
And she's a huge Beyoncé fan.
And so she did not watch.
She was not interested.
She certainly wasn't interested in Stink.
So, it was wrong.
I'm with you there.
Unkept Promise.
Very, very bad, and it felt more like sabotage to me.
I'm not going to argue against that thought.
One very quick clip.
But it could have also been just a big screw up and part of a mentality of hoaxes.
There you go.
I mean, let's face it, the hoaxes that were rolled out in all the speeches about Trump were just outrageous.
Everyone was doing it.
We didn't really talk about it, but even Biden bringing out the very fine people lie and his goodbye on the first night.
Wow.
I thought this was a very funny part of the VP's speech.
For seniors facing elder abuse.
When I heard that, like, yes, I'm coming out, I stand up for seniors against elder abuse.
You literally abused an elder for years.
That's, I didn't catch that.
That's very funny.
That's IVF level stuff.
And did you see this Pelosi comment that everyone was sending me?
Also very quick, short clip.
The one where she's talking about being a lizard?
Yes.
They didn't know what they were talking about.
We know our, we're different from the presidential.
We're very discreet.
Reptilian, cold-blooded.
These are the races we have to win.
So, a couple things.
So, you know, as the Democrat Party has always told me, believe them when they tell you what you are.
So I will believe that.
And she adds on to her very reptilian and cold-blooded.
And if you see what's-her-face sitting next to her, who's the Democracy Now!
lady?
Not Democracy Now.
No, not Democracy Now.
A PBS NewsHour lady.
Woodruff.
Yes.
She could barely keep her lizard tongue in her mouth.
Yes.
It was trying to come out.
It was the freakiest thing.
Why is a fly there, you know, in this?
Yeah, she is.
She's a reptilian.
Uh, I got a supercut.
I got a Joyce.
Wait, before you do that, I want to play the last DNC clip cut that I have, which is, this is Kamala one.
This is when she opened the, the, uh, I want to, this is kind of an ask Adam.
Uh, you really want me to play?
This is like what it, this is DNC Kamala one.
This is when she opened up her speech.
I want you to say, tell me what's missing from this.
What's missing from this picture.
Growing up, we moved a lot.
I will always remember that big Mayflower truck, packed with all our belongings, ready to go to Illinois, to Wisconsin.
And wherever our parents' jobs took us.
Yes, I'm missing Canada, is what I'm missing.
Montreal, Quebec.
I'm missing Canada.
I don't know how long they were there, but I was missing Canada as well.
She was in high school from, I think, 13 to 15.
Or she was there from when she was 13 to 15.
It's about that long.
And if you, I'm doing some research on this now.
And if you start, you have to find Canadian sources.
They loved her up there.
And old roommate or roommates, schoolmates of hers say nobody in Canada knew that she wasn't Canadian.
Did she say it like this?
She's such a chameleon.
She probably picked up the accent and everything.
She went from from black speak to eh?
Yeah, eh?
That'll be fun.
Oh yeah, I like it here in Canada.
It's fabulous.
Eh?
Eh?
Eh, Queen?
Alright, since you put a meme of it in the newsletter about, uh, Daddy, what's propaganda?
And you had all the joy letters circled.
That was good.
I got a supercut for us.
The one thing that I will not forgive them for is their trying to steal the joy from this country.
The joy felt by Americans backing the Harris-Walls ticket.
Oh, what I make of it is, is you cannot listen to mainstream legacy media, including Fox, just have to make sure people understand the Fox is run by Democrats, without noticing that they're pretty much all against Trump.
Or let me put it better.
They're all pro Harris.
They're pro-Democrat.
The way they talk.
No, but what do you make of the, not asking that, we know that.
Joy?
No, joy.
Of the idea, what is this?
It's a different term for hope.
And it's also, I think it's a nod.
I don't think it's a synonym in any way or a different term for hope.
It's also a bit of a nod towards the Christians for Kamala.
Joy for the churchies.
There's a little bit of that in there.
Joy to the world.
Yeah, I'm feeling that.
Joy to the world.
Well, you might be getting closer.
I don't have it either.
It's persuasion!
But joy, it's like corny.
Well, yeah.
How was hope?
Hope and change.
It worked!
Hope and change worked!
It worked!
There you go.
It worked.
Yeah, it's not a synonym, but it worked.
So they needed something and someone came up with joy.
And we're taking their joy.
Oh, we can use this.
I wonder who came up with this.
Maybe, you know, here's just kind of off the top of my head, I'm thinking, she cackles and laughs and we had that one clip with a woman and the phony gay guy laughing like maniacs.
Is it possible that because of that laugh they need a foil to offset the laugh?
Oh no, that's not, yeah, no, she's laughing because she's joyful.
So you kind of like give her a pass on that stupid laugh of hers?
Maybe.
Yeah, it's possible.
Yeah, yeah, I could see that.
I could see that.
Anyway, right on time.
We, uh, on Friday, the beautiful time to change the news cycle, RFK Jr.
comes out, suspends his campaign, and, uh, and endorses Trump, and then subsequently- On Friday.
That was Friday, yes.
No, you said Sunday.
Oh, I meant Friday.
It was right after, so the day after we changed.
I know, beautiful.
Now, there was, I got from Deutsche Welle, interesting, I got the timing of this.
Now, you and I, of course, see this as, oh, this is what you do.
Let's cut off all news coverage about the convention and let's twist it over to Trump.
And he had pyrotechnics.
It was fantastic.
And Kennedy does a reasonably short speech.
The Time magazine correspondent for Deutsche Welle had an interesting bit that I was not aware of regarding the timing.
I think there were several factors.
I think they were clearly running out of money.
That was something that we knew for a while.
I think also it looked like a lot of these ballots were going to be printed in swing states.
So in Arizona, which is a big swing state, Today at 6am, they were going to start printing a ballot with Kennedy's name on it.
So if he wanted to be off it, if he really wanted to put his support between one of the two candidates, this was the only time he could really do it.
He clearly saw no path forward, even though that had been the case for months.
I've spoken to people in the campaign who told me that for more than a year, they had been weighing possibly endorsing Donald Trump.
So I think, from what I hear, he's just a very indecisive person and clearly partly enjoyed being on the campaign trail and getting to be the main candidate, but really kind of came to the end there.
I have one other shorter clip from this lady because she then brought in kind of the talking point that everybody was repeating about Bobby the Op.
And before we speak about his endorsement of Donald Trump, I want to talk about how RFK Jr.
tried to talk to Kamala Harris for a potential cabinet job in her administration.
I mean, what can you tell us about that?
And what do you make of the fact that it looks like he's tried to play both political parties here?
I think he's done that from the very start.
He obviously started as a Democratic candidate and he took great pride.
I mean, I interviewed him several times and he took great pride in saying that he spoke to both sides and that he, you know, was always willing to talk to the extremes of both parties.
But, you know, obviously the Harris campaign saw absolutely nothing to gain from speaking with him because they actually did not want his endorsement.
You know, he's an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist.
Doesn't really align with most of their positions.
So, you know, even if they could get a little bit of a bump in the polls in some ways, it didn't seem worth it to the Harris campaign.
So I was watching CNN and they've removed, this is no longer available.
I was watching it on YouTube TV and you hit record and it doesn't record the whole show.
It only records from where you were watching.
I had this beautiful clip.
of Axelrod right out and he's with Anderson Cooper and the announcement is made and Axelrod says well you can clearly see Bobby Kennedy is not a well man he has mental issues I'm like holy crap it was unbelievable and and it's gone I couldn't find that which was too bad and now Fox
They, they went live, they cut, also I could not find this, they cut RFK's speech off after, they let him go for quite a while, but the minute he started talking about the drug industry, and we'll get back to uh... I caught that too.
I actually could have clipped it, but it was like... I wish I had it.
I looked for it.
They just abruptly ended it.
It didn't go on much longer than that.
I had to scrounge around to get back to the speech.
I have two clips, just random.
Let me play the CNN cutoff, because that's also quite... they cut off much earlier.
The same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.
They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020 without winning a single delegate.
My uncle and my father both relished debate.
They prided themselves on their capacity to go toe-to-toe with any opponent in the battle over ideas.
They would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party presidential nominee who... Yeah, we gotta cut this off.
He's going against our donors here.
Let's cut this off.
Come on in.
Let's go.
Stop it.
Cut him off.
I've been listening to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
from Phoenix outlining what led him to his quixotic quest for the White House.
Let's go to a commercial break out and relinquishing the title of Democrat.
He had a series of complaints about the party.
We're, of course, going to continue watching his remarks.
There's a back and forth over whether he's going to endorse.
Yeah, there you go.
So they just cut him off when he started lifting the veil on the corrupt media.
Yeah, that wasn't gonna happen.
But it was interesting that Fox, the minute their advertisers were in peril, talking about Big Pharma, like, let's cut him off!
Obvious.
People should listen to this entire speech.
It's available on YouTube, I believe.
Yeah, yeah.
It's quite interesting.
He also has an excellent rundown on Ukraine.
Yep.
And I thought it was very entertaining.
I have two clips of just random clips of Kennedy's of the speech, followed by two clips of the CNN analysis, which contrast Because they brought in some just brutal people.
Did they call him mentally ill, though?
Because that's the clip I want.
No, I wish I had that.
That's great.
I can't find it.
Well, let's go with Kennedy quits.
Random.
This is random one.
Each time that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work.
And to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions.
It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail.
It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any serious challenge to President Biden.
Then when a predictably bungled debate performance precipitated the palace coup against President Biden, the same shadowy DNC operatives appointed his successor, also without an election.
They installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out in 2020.
Yeah, the whole speech was fantastic.
I mean, it was like a no agenda speech.
We could have written most of it.
It's like, yeah, just go balls to the wall, Bobby.
Say this.
It was great.
Here's a second, here's a second in the other segment.
These are sub-segments of a long speech, but I want, the reason I'm playing these, because they contrast them with what CNN said they were.
Yes, I got it.
Okay.
And so now it made logical, there was no illogic or rambling or anything.
It was pretty straightforward.
It looked like he wasn't reading it.
But let's play the second one here.
Even today, users who try to post my campaign videos to Facebook or YouTube get messages that this content violates community standards.
Two days after Judge Doty rendered his decision this week, Facebook was still attaching warning labels to an online petition Calling on ABC to include me in the upcoming debate.
They said that violates community standards, their community standards.
The mainstream media was once the guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles and has joined this systemic attack on democracy.
Shots fired!
Okay, so now, like you pointed out where they cut him off on CNN.
I want to play two clips, these are short, of their analysis of what he had to say and I want to listen carefully to this basic slander.
Donald Trump last week stood in front of a bunch of groceries and said, I haven't seen any Cheerios in a long time.
I had Cheerios for breakfast.
This was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
And trying to get any logic out of that.
Wow!
Did someone on the studio floor laugh at that lame-ass joke?
I had Cheerios for breakfast.
This was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
And trying to get any logic out of that is good luck with that.
Because it's one, you can't understand what he says.
Two, if you can, you can understand what he says.
I'm reminded of a line in Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles when somebody gets up and gives an indecipherable speech.
He says, who can argue with that?
That's authentic frontier gibberish.
And that's exactly what that is.
Well, I was going to say, to your point, though, Brianna, the big overarching issue here for both campaigns, for the Harris campaign and the Trump campaign, is the third party sort of X factor and what that means for turnout in November.
So even if what he was saying wasn't easy to follow, it is still the concern of either campaign, which is partially why Trump was looking for that endorsement, that these voters or sort of the X factor and what they decide to do with RFK Jr. going into November when it's going to be such a tight race.
And we've seen that before back in 2016.
By the way, for a black for a black man to say that and evoke blazing saddles, pretty racist.
So.
What was hard to follow or nothing for Cocoa Pubs?
Nothing.
Where was the illogic?
There was none.
I mean, I only played those two.
You could have played the whole thing and it followed a logical pattern.
It was discussing things in a straightforward manner.
But no, no, no.
CNN, who didn't play Yeah, they cut him off, as you said.
They start making stuff up.
CNN has really become a bad actor here.
No, no.
All media.
All media that has advertising sucks.
It just sucks.
It does.
Part two.
And yet his supporters may be confused because we're even confused based on his own statements.
Now we've gotten a fresh statement from his campaign clarifying previous remarks in which initially in this court fighting in Pennsylvania, it said that he would be endorsing Donald Trump.
His campaign came out and said that's not what's happening.
Then he, in his remarks, said that he was throwing his support behind Trump over the war in Ukraine, what he described as the war on our children, and chronic disease was another one.
It's hard to make sense of.
Johanna Maske, what do you see in all of this as this rambling speech goes on and he launches attacks against Democrats?
Well, look, he's reminding us who he is.
I mean, he's the troubled son of a famous politician who has had drug problems, problems with women, nefarious business dealings with Venezuela.
I mean, there were a lot of questions about his intentions in this campaign from the get-go.
He is not ready for primetime and certainly not ready for the presidency.
I mean, he's never held elected office.
Yeah, this is why I'm so upset I couldn't find that Axelrod clip, because there was someone else who came right after Axelrod and said the same thing.
He's mentally ill, they were saying.
And just listen to him.
Well, we know that he has an issue with his speech, but this is so...
I mean, I can't say it's mean, but this shows you that advertising-based M5M, they have to self-censor.
They cannot bring themselves to speak against Big Pharma, against their advertisers for political campaigns.
This is a bonanza year.
I mean, there's going to be a lot of money spent on advertising.
They just can't do that.
And this is why it sucks so bad.
It's just horrible.
Well, that brings me to another segue.
Well, no, I want to stay, I have a couple things I want to say about Bobby's speech, if you don't mind.
Well, if you want, I just had, this is a short... Yes, yes, I want.
Is it a segue to a different topic?
Then no.
No, it's not a segue to a different topic.
It's a segue to what you just said about advertising and drug companies.
Well, no, that's, that's off topic.
Okay.
Because when I saw... Okay, Queen.
Take it.
No, it's Yas, Queen.
Oh, sorry.
Yas?
Yas, Queen.
Come on, you can do it.
So when I saw him do this, I really, the first thing I thought is, oh man, because this, I'm a family man.
I'm thinking, oh man, his wife hates Trump.
She hates Trump.
Okay, that's Sheryl Hines.
Yes.
Who we may suspect of being his handler for the CIA.
Possibly.
But she has barely been given a pass, you know, no one really talks about it, but in Hollywood, you know, particularly with the, what's the show?
The bald guy, the show that she's on.
Curb your enthusiasm.
Yeah, so that guy is a Trump hater.
Oh, he really hates Trump.
Larry David.
Larry David, yeah.
And it's hard to tell in Bobby the Op's voice, but I felt real emotion when he says, this is really hard.
This comes from Inside Edition, who of course would highlight this.
RFK Jr.' 's wife, actress Cheryl Hines, is reportedly not pleased about her husband's endorsement of Donald Trump.
Hines famously co-starred in the Larry David hit comedy, Curve Your Enthusiasm.
Behind the scenes, Hines is not at all happy.
Cheryl Hines is not exactly enthusiastic about him dropping out or endorsing Trump.
RFK Jr.
formally suspended his campaign today in the swing state of Arizona and threw his support behind the former president.
This decision is agonizing for me because of the difficulties it causes.
My wife and my children and my friends.
It's a stunning reversal.
The New Yorker magazine says RFK recently texted a friend that Trump is a terrible human being and probably a sociopath.
We just had a very nice endorsement from RFK Jr.
I like how they have the little text message going whoop whoop and they show on screen obviously someone you know just doing it for the camera.
You know he's a sociopath.
Now, I have just one more clip to play, but let's just look at a bit of analysis because there's people, I've really been trying to go with the flow on the socials and see what people are thinking.
So I'm seeing a lot of RFK supporters, and I wouldn't say there's a lot of them, but there's many who are very vocal, and they are posting things like, Hey, OK, I want to talk to MAGA people.
Let's see if we can become united.
And I think that's genuine, what I'm seeing.
I don't know if it's a lot of people, but there's some big people with a lot of followers and they're saying, OK, we're going to follow Bobby in this and we want to join with MAGA.
And that is being received very positively and optimistically.
Now there's a lot of people who are saying, uh, well, this is crazy.
By the way, Whitney Webb would be one.
She's getting a lot of pushback for the first time.
She's saying, this is no good.
You know, he's too close to intelligence.
Um, and you know, it's hard.
Someone has to say the hard things.
And so she's getting a lot of pushback from people.
I think the funniest one is, hey, look, until Jesus Christ is on the ballot, we're always voting for the lesser of two evils.
Which is true.
Then there's another contingent, I see it even in the troll room, he didn't suspend this campaign, only in the swing states, well, I don't know.
There's some thinking out there, well if Trump gets assassinated, seriously this is some of the thinking I'm seeing, then he can still run but I think if you're not on the ballot in the swing states you have no chance.
So I'm not quite sure why he didn't just say I'm suspending the campaign everywhere.
I don't know what the thinking is behind that.
My theory on this is it's too much work.
It took them a while.
It's just as hard to get off the ballot as it is to get on the ballot.
Oh, really?
Oh, I didn't realize that.
And it would be a major expense that, oh, what difference does it make?
Let's put our efforts in getting off the swing states, and then he said, who cares?
Also, because he's still on these ballots, I think he still gets Secret Service protection.
Oh, okay.
So there's things going on.
And then there's an interesting contingent of people who are very anti-Bobby, who are now saying, OK, we think this is real.
And we're all in.
And this is actually a good thing because they don't agree on everything.
And he will be good.
And it's clear that he would be in HHS or something to do with FDA and HHS and EPA, which he's a very accomplished lawyer.
He has sued Or at least his organization, Children's Defense Fund, they have sued all these agencies and they have been successful and they've arguably done a lot of very good things.
You know, you mentioned something, I was thinking about HHS immediately, but you said something just casually on the last show, which is, what if they made him Attorney General?
That's what I want!
I think that would be pretty remarkable.
It's not a great position for a Kennedy, but it is... It's not unknown to the Kennedys to be Attorney General.
And I'm sure you were very annoyed by one part of his speech.
I can't help, when I saw him say this, I'm like, oh, John's going to be all annoyed by this.
Did anything annoy you in Kennedy's speech?
Well, let's see what it is that you think I would be annoyed by.
Hold on.
Sorry.
Here we go.
This one.
Cancer rates are skyrocketing in the young and the old.
Young adult cancers are up 79%.
One in four American women is on antidepressant medication.
40% of teens have a mental health diagnosis.
And 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall and half a million children on SSRIs.
So what's causing this suffering?
I'll name two culprits.
The first and the worst is ultra-processed foods.
About 70% of American children's diet is ultra-processed.
That means industrial, manufactured in a factory.
These foods consist primarily of processed sugar, ultra-processed grains, and seed oils.
Laboratory scientists, many of whom formerly worked For the cigarette industry, which purchased all the big food companies in the 1970s and 80s, deployed thousands of scientists to figure out chemicals, new chemicals, to make the food more addictive.
And these ingredients didn't exist 100 years ago.
Humans aren't biologically adapted to eat them.
Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in Europe, but ubiquitous in American processed foods.
Now, we know where he got this from, because he has been advised by Kali Means.
You are adamantly against this theory, and in fact you called... Yes, still am.
You think it's a conspiracy theory.
No, I don't think it's a conspiracy theory.
I think it's a nonsense.
No, you... I'm sorry.
Well, I mean a conspiracy theory in the nonsense kind of way.
Okay, I'll accept that.
Yeah.
Well, I thought it was... So, can we take anything he says seriously, then?
Yeah, I think the food supply's toxic.
I'm not arguing that.
No, but he's clearly parroting talking points that come from someone else.
I mean, what else does he say?
Oh, he does that with climate, too.
So, he's not an original thinker, I don't think.
All right.
Because I heard that, and I'm like, oh, John must be yelling.
No, I'm not yelling.
Well, you yelled at it when I played the clip.
No, I didn't.
I just said it was bullcrap, is what I think I said.
It was a little more animated than that.
So the clips I wanted to play about the drug companies are something we used to do on this show and we stopped doing it.
Uh-oh, we need to start immediately.
No, we don't need to start immediately, but we do have to play these two clips.
This is one 60-second ad that I chopped up into two parts.
Okay.
And this is, I never heard of this before, and there's all these things coming out, and I think they're going, they're getting what they can out of the, especially with the fear that Bobby Kennedy is going to have anything to do with this, because he's against advertising, drug companies advertising on TV as much as anyone.
And this is a product called VOQUENZA.
V-O-Q-U-E-Z-N-A.
I don't know how they came up with this.
They spell it VOQUESNA?
VOQUESNA, I think.
They say it in the ad.
You can figure out how to pronounce it.
But it's basically a heartburn medication.
Some people have a lot of heartburn instead of taking Tums or changing their diet or, you know, eating more base foods as opposed to acidic foods or whatever, or even eating more acidic foods to counteract it.
You use this pill and here's the opening.
This is Steve.
Steve takes Voquestna.
This is Steve's stomach, where Voquestna can kick some acid, heal acid-related damage to the esophagus called erosive esophagitis, and relieve related heartburn.
Voquesna is the first and only FDA-approved treatment of its kind.
93% of adults were healed by two months.
Of those healed, 79% stayed healed.
And Voquesna can provide heartburn-free days and nights.
Healed?
Is heartburn some kind of, uh...
Well, it happens, the damage is your esophagus and it has to heal.
It's like... Oh, acid reflux can damage your esophagus.
Yeah, that's what they're talking about.
This is an acid reflux drug, basically.
Alright.
But...
The second half is the... Side effects?
It's almost 60, it's like the 60 second ad.
27 seconds promote the product.
Here we go.
This is some of the worst side effects I've ever heard and how this drug ever got released into the public is beyond me.
Other serious stomach conditions may still exist.
Don't take if allergic to VoQuesna or while on products with real Peverine.
VoQuesna may cause serious side effects including kidney problems, diarrhea, bone fractures, severe skin reactions, low vitamin B12 or magnesium levels, and stomach growths.
Call your doctor if you have diarrhea, stomach pain, or fever that won't go away, decreased or bloody urine, seizures, dizziness, irregular heartbeat, jitteriness, muscle aches or weakness, spasms of hands, feet, or voice.
Voquesna can help kick some acid.
So can you.
Ask your doctor about Voquesna.
Yeah, this doesn't sound like a great product.
Bone fractures?
Seizures?
And by the way, the one thing that's in all these ads, I can't believe anyone would take this if just knowing you get some hugged bone fractures.
You may experience death when taking Voquesna.
So what I don't get is don't take it if you're allergic to it.
Yeah.
How do you know?
How would you know?
Ask your doctor.
Well, how would he know?
Nobody knows until you take it.
So it makes no sense.
So there's an ill logic to all these ads.
It's a catch all.
I used to be a Tums addict, actually, until I figured out that taking Tums actually keeps the heartburn going.
Yeah.
It doesn't help.
It doesn't help.
And I stopped.
It's always helped me.
But it's also got a lot of calcium, which you need.
Oh, okay.
Well, drink milk.
Well, since we're on the Big Pharma, we might as well bring out the news of the day.
Tonight, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's former top infectious disease official and the face of the fight against COVID, is dealing with his own health scare.
A spokesperson says Fauci was hospitalized for six days with West Nile virus.
The rare virus is usually spread by mosquitoes and can be deadly.
Fauci, who's 83, is now recovering at home.
So we have all these mosquito diseases popping up all of a sudden.
My favorite is the triple We don't want to see another human case of Triple E this year.
Three neighboring towns have a reason for concern, as mosquitoes carrying a potentially deadly virus called Eastern Equine Encephalitis, or Triple E, infected a resident who is now fighting for his life.
We don't want to see another human case of Triple E this year.
The rare but dangerous disease can cause swelling in the brain.
There's no treatment, and anyone can get infected.
The death rate is as high as 30 percent.
Even if you do survive, usually there are long-term significant health impacts, neurological impacts.
are Oxford has been declared a critical risk for Triple E, prompting health department officials to recommend a 6 p.m.
curfew for outdoor activities, including club sports.
These are recommendations.
They're not hard and stop requirements.
We are definitely nervous about it.
Sarah Fornier is also worried her children's sports seasons, football and cheer, could be jeopardized.
Cheer!
But they're taking precautions by wearing mosquito repellent and long sleeve tops.
We can't stop.
They need to get out there.
They need to play.
This is their time to be social with their friends and be a part of a team.
Now, triple E symptoms usually begin between four to ten days after being bitten by an infected mosquito.
According to the CDC, now some of those symptoms can include fever, headache and seizures.
So this sounds like another bunch of bullcrap to me.
This triple E. Everything's... What?
I was just gonna say, I have the number.
Yeah, was it five people?
Eleven.
There you go.
Eleven people average it annually.
Eleven out of three hundred and what, three hundred and fifty million people in this country.
Eleven annually.
The number is...
It's so minute.
I think the whole idea is just run stories that make people anxious.
And you get medication because you're anxious.
Oh, Xanax or whatever.
I mean, here's another one.
And let's turn to another health concern.
The CDC is warning pregnant women about something called Parvovirus.
What is it?
Parvovirus?
Parvovirus B19 is a specific type of virus, and it's a virus that children often get, and they don't really get that sick.
The one thing they do get, they get a red rash on their cheeks.
We call it slap cheek syndrome because it looks like their cheeks were slapped.
For children, not that big a deal.
For pregnant women, it can be a problem because if the fetus gets it, it can cause fetal demise, it can cause fetal abnormalities, it can cause fetal issues, and so the concern is children spreading it to pregnant women, so they want to be careful.
Some of the things you can do, you know, essentially like we talked about during COVID, a lot of hand washing, you know, stay away from people who might be sick, and you can certainly wear a mask if you're concerned because that can help to a certain extent.
You are correct, as you said, this is not new.
But do you remember the last time we heard about parovirus in America?
Paro?
Paro.
That's parvovirus.
Parvovirus.
Do you remember the last time we heard about this?
No.
Two years ago, listen to the difference in story.
Tonight, officials in Michigan have identified the mysterious virus that has killed at least 30 dogs.
Animal experts confirmed today the disease is parvovirus.
Not all the dogs were completely vaccinated.
Scientists are now trying to figure out why initial tests came back negative for parvovirus, leading officials to wonder if it is a new strain.
So, how come they haven't linked this as it's jump from dogs to humans?
What a missed opportunity.
And there's a vaccine apparently.
I think they're missing all kinds of opportunities here.
Well, not if they're just trying to keep people on edge.
Well, here's the real big news, because this is going to bankrupt all systems.
And a lot of the arguments around weight loss drugs have been about the cost.
A lot of times they are not things, unless you have diabetes, that you can get reimbursed for, and they are expensive, but it could be a change coming for Medicare patients.
Yeah, a big one for Medicare patients.
Medicare can now cover some weight loss drugs for the first time under the new guidance.
Treatments that have been FDA approved for other health benefits can be covered.
So that clears the way for a drug like Wagovi to be covered.
It was recently approved to be prescribed to reduce heart attacks and strokes.
So under the new guidance, if the drug is being prescribed to reduce the risk of strokes or heart attacks, it could be covered.
And other weight loss drugs may be eligible in the future as some are now being tested to see if they can provide additional health benefits.
The weight loss drugs would be covered under Medicare prescription drug plans administered by private insurers known as Part D coverage.
The concern for patients needing it for say like non-weight loss is really supply guys.
I mean my best friend has diabetes and he can't get his Rx.
I think you've got to make sure that people who truly need it for a condition should be able to get it.
Hey, have you gotten your Rx lately?
Your Rx?
It's your Rx.
Your Rx.
So that is a very bad sign because that means the lobbying has paid off.
It will be trillions of dollars to put everybody on this nonsense, what I deem to be nonsense.
And we still have... It's unhealthy.
You're stuck with it forever.
Yeah, we still have to clear up this one little annoying... Just eat less food.
Hello?
We have to... Lessen the pie hole!
One little thing we've got to clear up about this report, they're still combating it.
There's a new study out today that links a popular weight loss drug to a higher rate of suicidal thoughts.
But there are questions about the findings.
CBS News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. John LePoucq is here to explain.
Hi there, John.
Hey there.
Nora, there have been relatively few reported cases of patients having suicidal thoughts or actions while taking one of these drugs for weight loss.
It's important to note here that obesity itself is associated with an increased risk of depression.
The study out today searched a large World Health Organization database that tracks adverse drug reactions and found a possible link between suicidal thoughts and semaglutide, the active ingredient in Wegovy and Ozempic.
But Nora, the study has limitations.
It only looked at people who reported having a problem while on the drug.
We don't know how many people were taking the drug without a problem.
We also don't know what the dosage was and how long people were on it.
So far, the FDA has found no link between these drugs and suicidal thoughts and actions, but it's continuing to investigate.
Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozepic and Wegovy, says it stands behind the safety of its drugs and it will continue to collaborate closely with the FDA.
Today, the FDA stressed to CBS News that health care providers and patients should have a careful discussion of possible risks, especially in patients with a history of depression or self-harm, and that patients should be aware of the importance of reporting any change in how they're feeling.
So I just want to remind everybody that a lot of people eat to eat away their problems.
And we have played many reports of this.
There's probably no direct link that you get depressed from taking this drug and that's why they can keep saying it over and over again.
The issue is there's a segment of the population who are unhappy, depressed, have trauma, and they eat to cover up when they feel sad or lonely.
And when you can't eat because of this drug, then those feelings come back.
That's what's happening.
And we will see, I think, a reasonably big mental health crisis.
But that's okay because we can sell more drugs for that, which is groovy.
I did have a Boots on the Ground from Bowling Green.
If you recall on the last show that we had a news report, a clip about the compounding of GLP-1 drugs in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
So we have our producer Joshua.
He says, boots on the ground in BG, Kentucky here.
After listening to Thursday's show, I figured I'd give a little background on Bowling Green as NPR decided to call us just a small town in Kentucky.
While not huge, Bowling Green is the third largest city in Kentucky, only about 45 minutes north of Nashville.
Also home to the Corvette plant and the Mammoth Cave National Park.
Okay, enough of that.
The Ozempic story failed to mention The Bowling Green is known for having the most restaurants per person in Kentucky and in many surrounding states.
Because of this, it has always been a tester market for new types of food, drink, and candy.
New Kit Kat flavor?
We get it.
New ridiculous unhealthy creation at KFC or Taco Bell or McDonald's?
Bowling Green is going to roll it out.
And eat it up, apparently.
Anecdotally, this is what I thought was interesting, the amount of divorces happening among people my age, elder millennial, in this area over the past half year or so has been astounding and often tied to ozempic and similar weight loss drugs.
So much so that the saying, looks like someone else is competing in the summer ozempics has become a thing.
Recently, so people are getting divorced because they're like seeing other hot people walking around.
Hey, babe, you're not an Ozempic.
I think I'm gonna cheat on you.
Recently, I've noticed a major uptick in advertising I receive on Facebook and other socials for semaglutide drugs, even an Ahim's commercial offering free and cheap injections, but I only see these when I'm scrolling while in the Bowling Green area.
The messaging is everywhere here.
When I leave the state for work, there's not a peep of it on my socials.
Well, that's interesting, Bowling Green producer.
We need you to stay on alert because we'll know if they're trying something else out because apparently you're the lab rats of America.
There's a couple of places in the country like that.
What else?
Do you know of any other ones?
Well, I know the Seattle area was the lab rat area for rolling out previews of movies for focus groups.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Apparently the people up there are like the average Movie viewer, I guess.
But these people is different, like they're giving them horrible sugary candy and pretty colors and all kinds of stuff to eat and then they throw them on Ozempic.
Yeah, that's what you do.
You find a spot where it's average America and then you just use that.
It's cheap.
Instead of doing a bunch of real research, you find one place.
No, you can't be doing that.
You find the one place and you just see what happens.
It's actually smart.
Well, it's smart if these people are aware of it.
Which they're not.
No, you don't want anyone aware of it.
That's the... No.
You can't do that.
Then it screws it up.
It's like the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Let's wrap it up with the obvious to be expected.
The FDA is giving the green light for updated COVID vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, which have been designed to better protect against the current circulating variants of the virus.
The best plan going into this winter is for everyone to remain vigilant.
Use the tools we have.
Vaccines.
Testing.
Treatment.
Against the illnesses responsible for the majority of fall and winter deaths and hospitalizations.
The FDA says vaccinations continue to be the cornerstone of COVID-19 prevention and can help avoid the lingering symptoms of long COVID.
The only way you get long COVID is by having COVID.
And vaccines can help prevent COVID.
Updated shots are expected to be available at pharmacies and in doctors' offices in the coming days or weeks.
The release coming just as kids are returning to school.
The updated versions are approved for those over six months old.
And medical professionals are encouraging anyone who's at high risk due to age or underlying health conditions to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
Health experts recommend getting vaccinated sometime in September or October.
It's going to take a few weeks to get that protection, which may last for several months, heading into what may be a winter surge.
Well, I must say, I know people who have had six vaccinations, that's the OG, and five boosters, and even they're saying, yeah, I don't think this is right for me.
It's not working for me.
I didn't get the clip, but we have this one guy who keeps coming on to our local stations.
He's a doctor at UCSF.
He's a Chinese guy, Huang something or other.
And he just looks like a character who plays a torturing person that I remember from Alias or someplace.
He looks like an actor.
And he is in some ways.
And his latest thing is, well, if you get COVID, don't get the vaccine.
As soon as you can.
After you get COVID?
Yeah.
Oh, that makes sense.
They're promoting this.
No matter, you could be sick as a dog, you get COVID 20 times, just keep taking this vaccine.
I don't know.
It's just ridiculous.
The logic is elusive.
In that report there, they said, well, you know, the vaccine, you take the booster and it'll last for three months.
Yeah.
How good is that?
Go on, vitamin D3.
Well, this does come timed with another FDA approval.
John, get ready, free stuff!
Amid a wave of COVID-19 infections this summer, and as families start staying indoors more this fall, the Biden administration is restarting its free at-home COVID-19 tests.
Now, this program, it's the third year in a row that families can order up to four tests per household through the website covidtests.gov.
Now, the federal government is set to relaunch the site Again, at the end of September, since the program began, it has sent out more than 1.8 billion COVID tests.
And this comes as the FDA announced it has authorized updated COVID vaccines of both Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to better protect against currently circulating variants.
The CDC said last week it estimates that COVID-19 cases are growing or likely growing in more than half the states.
So they show this map during this bit of the news report, growing or likely growing, which is another interesting little likely growing.
What does that mean?
Well, and they show these colors and you see New York, California, they're growing, not even likely growing, they're growing.
Texas and California, Texas and Florida don't even have a color.
There's nothing happening here.
No COVID.
When will people get it?
I mean, not get the COVID or the vaccine, but when will they start to understand?
Understand what?
This bullcrap?
Yes!
That the COVID shot apparently makes you more susceptible to getting COVID!
It's crazy!
It's logical if you just keep looking at the evidence.
Now, I just went to covidtest.gov.
And you ordered for?
You ordered for?
No, no, it was it's a bullcrap report.
Oh.
Coming soon, you can order your free COVID-19 test at the end of September.
Ah, fake news.
That's fake news.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the slap cheek.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMora.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry, in the morning, all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
Joke out.
This thing is funny.
Oh, shit.
Yeah, 2,341 trolls.
About the same as last Thursday.
That's pretty good.
Hello, trolls.
Yeah, the trolls are good.
Whenever there's something cool going on, the trolls always just pile on.
Like, oh, hey, this is what the boys have to say about it.
By the way, I just have to say, I got to stop promoting this microphone.
Everybody wants one now.
It's crazy.
Six months, we'll have them available.
Dame Jennifer already said she'll be a booth babe for us.
Oh, for the trade shows?
For the trade shows.
Oh, that's an idea.
She'd be good at this.
Yes, she would move product!
Dame Jennifer can move product.
Six months, yeah, okay.
Alright, six months.
Oh, I forgot we're going to have, yes, once we get this underway, we have to.
And by the way, this won't be an exit strategy because we need the show to promote the microphone.
We need to get it done before Christmas.
That, that, that, yes.
It's going to be so difficult.
We can do it!
We can do it.
You can do it.
We, white men?
Hey, I'm just the promo arm.
Me and Dame Jennifer are moving product here.
We missed NAB, so okay, we can try to get it out before Christmas and then we can, oh, NAB, I forgot about that.
But there's a whole bunch of podcast conferences.
We can go to all the podcast conferences, get a booth.
I'd rather go to NAB.
No, I'll go with Blueberry.
I'll go there with Todd.
We'll do joints, man.
We'll do joint deals.
Joints?
You're going to do joints anyway.
What's it got to do with this?
I haven't done a joint or smoked anything in 18 months.
Very proud of myself.
That long?
Yeah.
From cold turkey, baby.
Cold turkey.
Trolls are in the troll room.
You can find them at trollroom.io, or you can find it on your modern podcast app.
Get it at podcastapps.com.
I'm recommending Podverse today.
Podverse is actually revamping, going to have a whole new Podverse, so you'll get a great experience very soon.
There's also, if you're on Apple, Castamatic.
People really like Castamatic.
And both of those apps have a little donate button when you're listening to a 2.0 compatible podcast.
If you want to donate, you hit that button.
Takes you right to the website.
Takes you right to noagendadonations.com.
It's nice.
It is.
It skips a whole, you know, call to action piece.
You're listening.
You're like, you know, I would not have thought that.
But those guys, they really gave me some food for thought.
I'm going to support them.
Because I don't want them to go away.
Because that will be the consequence.
And you pulled out a cute dog, not quite the puppy, but it was close to puppy time.
We'll see.
We'll see.
What does that even mean?
I don't know what you're talking about.
That doesn't mean anything.
If it wasn't for my upcoming birthday...
You have a birthday.
I do.
I'm turning the big 6-0, and for the occasion, my wife... So you're the same age as Kamala Harris, and you're the same age as Walls.
Yes, yes, correct.
Who looks like he's 90.
Yes.
Well, that's being ageist, but okay.
There's nothing wrong with 90-year-olds.
I'm not being ageist, I just say he looks like he's 90.
How is that ageist?
Well, you say it in kind of a condescending way.
Looks like he's 90.
No, I said it in a surprised manner.
Oh, okay.
What does it mean condescending?
The bonus of these modern podcast apps is that you will get alerted when we go live, which is really the way that I think podcasts are going.
More people are saying, you know, we should just do it live, record it live.
Stop with the tape, the endless editing and trying to cutting out all the uhs and the ums.
And that's the beauty of it.
And tightening up white space.
Hey, I love silence.
I love it when we're contemplating and we're in thought.
And people look at their podcasts like, did it break?
Did it stop?
What happened?
What happened?
These guys still talking?
Are they still on?
What happened?
It's called Dead Air.
Yeah, but I'm not against dead air.
I think dead air is beautiful.
There's no reason to have to fill up every single spot of dead air.
It's okay to have just silence for a moment.
Silence is golden.
We are able to speak the way we have been speaking for the past hour and 45 minutes because we do not have any advertisers.
We don't have to have something in the back of our mind.
You know, actually, there was something that someone alerted me to.
Let me see if I have this.
One of our producers, you know, we always have the tip of the day.
Uh, and the tip of the day is typically, I don't have one today, by the way, so I hope you have a good tip of the day, but tip of the day has often been, uh, you know, a product, uh, uh, if it's a product you like, it's usually of the lube variety, but it's, uh, you know, bull.
Yes, it's bull.
I'm being funny.
Um, we had, uh, people very happy with the roller blade wheels tip from the previous show.
I finally got mine.
And have you tried them out?
No, I just got them.
Oh, okay.
It turns out that there's an Amazon influencer program and... And you got influenced?
No, no.
There are thousands, thousands... Wait, wait, wait, stop.
All of a sudden it just dawned on me what you just said.
Takes a while.
Amazon is paying people money to promote Amazon products?
Yes.
Well, it's like the old affiliate program, but they are actively, as far as I know, I don't, I have no proof.
Oh, we've got to look into this because sometimes... Well, it's, okay, so our producer got approved It's called shop and the videos, it's usually videos.
So it's TikTok.
Oh, that's the end of us.
It's shoppable, shoppable, shopables.
So people are out there.
I can't trust these influencers.
You can't.
Well, you can't trust any podcast, actually, that talks about products except ours, because we've been doing this forever.
Yeah, we get nothing out of it.
And to be cut straight to it, I believe this is a violation of the Federal Trade Commission rules.
I think you have to disclose if you're being paid or you're getting a VIG from promoting something.
This is true.
This was put into play about six, seven, eight years ago or longer.
Walmart is now doing this.
TikTok actually has their own shop.
We've known this for a while, we've talked about it, but now it's gone way beyond TikTok.
Podcasts are doing it.
YouTubers are doing it.
So be very careful.
If it doesn't say, tip of the day, you're no agenda show, you're probably being scammed.
It's just something to take note of.
Because we can talk about whatever we want.
Because we don't get paid by anybody.
We get, we get support from our producers because we don't even have listeners or fans.
Fans.
We don't have fans.
I like the way you're derisive when you say fans.
Yeah.
Fans is fans.
You have to have fan days.
We have meetups.
We have meetups.
We've got producers.
Producers do stuff.
They send interesting information.
They go down rabbit holes.
Yeah.
Okay.
So sometimes they come up with weird stuff.
Ah!
There it is!
First one of the show.
Okay, you're up 1-0.
No, the tally was Adam-6-John-4.
Adam-5-John-4.
It is now Adam-6-John-4.
We have a producer, of course, who is tracking that.
Good for him.
So it is 6 for me, 4 for you.
I'm very disappointed in myself.
Yeah, I am too, because you're the one that can stop stuff on a dime.
Well, I caught it the minute it came out, but it was too late.
It's okay.
If you caught it before, now if you start to say, and then you stop yourself right there.
Earlier I said interesting.
I've been working on different words.
Odd, strange.
I like strange.
Yeah, strange, odd.
We're working on it.
So we get support in time, talent, and treasure.
And one of the phenomenal things we've received from Tim Chaudhryan is noagendashow.net.
He built that website.
He has, in fact, incorporated a lot of Podcasting 2.0 features.
People don't realize this.
But you can take these 2.0 features, which, you know, the chapters, the transcripts, all kinds of things you can put right into your website, which is not a bad idea.
Most podcasts have dumb, crappy websites.
And we have a good one.
And that is what our producer Tim has done for us, just as one of the many people who provide us their time and talent.
We'll be talking to our treasure producers in a moment after we thank our artists for episode 1688.
The title of that show is Impusted.
I was against this art.
I didn't like it.
Somehow you feel that you had two gimme's in our ever ongoing... I had three and I got cheated out of one.
No, it's always been two.
You now have one left.
And you chose for Dame Kenny Bentz art, which was the balls for a hot dog.
And I couldn't figure out why I didn't like it until I saw it posted on some timelines, and now I know.
If you step back, it looks like a monkey.
You really have to focus in on it to see that it's a vasectomy outfit that gives you hot dogs for vasectomies.
It looks like a monkey when you just look at it.
Looks like a monkey's face with a monkey smile.
And they didn't really work for me, but we have veto power here.
I chose not to use it.
No, what you wanted was the horrible Tantaniel piece with a hot dog looking kind of like a limp dick being cut in half by a pair of scissors.
That was my top choice.
Um, the other, I had other choices.
Uh, let me see.
Not really.
Well, I kind of liked Comma Street Bloggers, no agenda.
Now with blockchain, I thought that was okay.
Um, and I saw that you used the riot drone by Sweeper for the newsletter.
Yeah, because it was an evergreen piece.
Yeah.
And, uh, I don't think that there really wasn't much else that, uh, that really caught it.
Oh, no, I'd like the, uh, the no agenda signs.
Which was also a Tantaniel, which were like the DNC signs, like, we love you, Joe, and thank you, Joe.
Those stick signs.
Yeah, the stick signs.
I like those.
I preferred that one, but you had issues with it, which is probably true.
The issues were it was just a little too simple, and it was small.
It didn't work.
It just didn't work.
Yeah.
Anyway.
I liked the creativity of it, but I didn't like it.
Yes.
Well, it's okay.
That looked like it was done by hand.
I mean, it looked... Yeah.
That I give her credit for.
Yes.
So thank you, Dame Kenny Benn, another Dutch master at work, who brought us the artwork for episode 1688.
We thank all of our artists, of course, no matter what you're doing, you put up a No Agenda Art Generator, it's appreciated.
A lot of this art is used in our 2.0 chapters, which you can see in the Modern Podcast apps, also on noagendashow.net.
And Dreb Scott does that.
So we love Dreb, another great No Agenda producer.
Now we want to thank our executive producers and associate executive producers.
We appreciate any donation.
The way Value for Value works is whatever you get out of the show, you send us an amount back that equals the value to you.
We can't see what that means to you, so we're not putting any levels or any hoops or any subscriptions that you have to go into.
In fact, you can do a sustaining donation, your own subscription, your own frequency, your own amount.
It's all up to you.
And as long as it keeps working for both sides, we're in business.
17 years in October, we're OK.
$200 and above, you get an associate executive producer credit.
$300 above, an executive producer credit.
And in both cases, we read your note and we kick it off with Kristen Smith, who is in Katy, Texas.
And Kristen sends us $500, says, Happy birthday, Adam.
Thank you for the blessing of you in this world and being an inspiration to others.
John, am I inspiring?
Am I an inspiration to you?
No.
Well, it's funny.
You're an inspiration to me in many ways.
I doubt it.
Yeah, you're right.
May this day be the best of birthdays, celebrating you and all things you love.
Well, thank you, Kristen.
I appreciate it.
That's a very nice note.
Anonymous Nights in Lewisbury, B-E-R-R-Y, next to Wallacebury.
Pennsylvania, 42110.
Appreciate you guys and the value you bring.
I'm hoping to be in Fredericksburg on Monday, the 26th, if you're free for dinner.
He's gonna buy dinner, or she, I don't know, it's anonymous.
It's a he.
It's a he.
It is.
Yes.
If possible, please play JCD's Jobs They Lap It Up clip, which he emailed to you.
I'm not gonna play it, because I know that you're gonna hate it.
Oh, okay, well then don't play.
It's you saying all kinds of lewd things.
Well, we don't want that.
No, and it's like... I think the nutting the peanuts is bad enough.
Oh, then you'll hate this one.
I don't need to be ridiculing you more than I am normally on the show.
You are revered.
You are revered, John C. Devorah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just get that mic.
Get the other mic.
Ten bucks will get me a cup of coffee.
By the way, may I make note of the fact that the Trump campaign, who, of course, still text me 20 times a day, they have gone, and it's just a trend, I just wanted to mention it to you, they are now going for $10 every day.
Every text I get is just $10.
I need everyone reading this to give $10.
The fate of the country is on the line.
No, it's $10.
I need everyone reading this to give $10.
The fate of the country is on the line.
Okay, so let's stop right there and I will say this.
This has to have been tested.
They don't do this stuff just out of the blue because they're shooting, you know, blanks.
Somebody tested this and determined that $10 was the sweet spot.
Well, listen to this.
From Trump, colon, $10, question mark?
If everyone reading this gives $10, we'll outrace Kamala after her convention ends.
This is not a good strategy.
Well, I hear... Oh, I'm sorry.
Well, this is... Oh, this is interesting.
From Trump, if every... From Trump, if every patriot in California chips in $5 before my rally will break records.
Californians are cheap on the callies.
That's interesting.
So you're getting this to your California phone number, I take it?
Yes, yes.
Everything is $10, $10, $10.
is $10, $10, $10.
Now, listen to this one.
Inbox 99% full.
Message from Donald Trump Jr.
We'll delete in 10 minutes.
Read now.
That's insulting.
That is bullcrap.
It's very insulting.
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad you're the touchstone, the lightning rod.
I am so mad at these guys.
You're the lightning rod for this crap.
I am.
A lot of pig butchering going on, too.
I mean, I could be, but I don't... No, you don't have a cell phone.
My phone is in the drawer where it belongs.
Josh Bates is in Jacksonville, Florida, and sends us 343.75.
ITM, just baby-making karma, please.
One boy, please, because if it's a girl and gets her genes, I'm gonna have to send it to a nunnery on the moon.
Thank you both.
Yes, no problem.
Here it is for you.
You've got... Parma.
Ah, here we go.
Oystein Berg.
Oystein.
I'm sorry.
Oystein Berg.
And he's in Rotterdam.
2-2-2.
Oh, we're already at the associate executive level.
Yep.
That ended quick.
Yep, it sure did.
With this donation, I would like to bump my peerage up from Barron to Viscount.
You're on the list.
I have no accounting to show other than I know for sure I have donated more than $5,000 to the show.
That's a good number.
If it pleases the court and all the marshals, I would like to become... Well, of course it does.
You can be whatever you want.
We don't have that many Viscounts, curiously.
No, we don't.
They usually skip over it.
To become the Viscount of the province South Holland.
Thank you for your courage.
So, Oistin.
Oistin.
I met Oistin at the Amsterdam meetup.
This is the guy.
How is he?
Well, he's about eight feet tall, weighs about 160 pounds.
He's very thin, but has a... Oistin, he's not Dutch.
He's from, I think, Denmark.
So he's a very Nordic looking face.
And he also, he does, he does value for value music.
Which is... What does he do?
Oh, he does songs.
I mean, is he a singer, a guitar player, a keyboardist?
Well, listen, I'll play a little bit for you.
Hold on a second.
This is Mosquito Mystery by Oystein Berger.
Here, we'll get to the singing part.
Here we go.
I say, leave the lilies.
You should infect them dead.
He has this whole song about mosquitoes.
It's very joyful.
It needs more bagpipe, but otherwise it's great.
I think the bagpipe should be used more.
I agree.
That's right up there with the banjo.
He's a great guy.
So we'll see you for your upgrade in a bit, Oysteinberger.
Megan Richley in Boise, Idaho.
$210 associate executive producership for Megan.
In the morning, gentlemen, this is the best... I think it's Reichley.
Reichley.
It says Richley right there.
Pronounce Richley.
But thanks.
I'm just saying I think it's Reichley.
I know I see that there, but I think she's got it wrong.
Megan, you're pronouncing your own name wrong.
That's slick, John.
This is the best birthday gift for the best husband in the universe.
Happy 58th birthday, David.
He celebrates today.
We have been together for over 30 years and never had a fight.
He hit me in the mouth years ago and we have listened together ever since.
Keep up the good work and we would appreciate some karma.
Dealer's choice for jingle.
Um, I actually, I went and looked for one, a very old one.
This is, uh, an old one that we used to play when we, uh, before the Russia-Ukraine war.
This goes back, this one goes back maybe 10 years or so.
Russia?
Don't worry.
Russia?
Russia? Russia?
B-b-b-b.
Oh, come on.
Once again.
Food time!
You've got karma. - I don't even remember that one.
Yeah, I know.
You light the coffee guys up and he's in Bensonville, Illinois, 20825.
And he says, keep up the good work, gentlemen.
Shows have been great lately, but if you could use more African news or it could use more African news.
Sorry, I botched the line there.
I don't think so.
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Stay caffeinated, Eli the Coffee Guy.
Another self-promotion donation, which is good.
Phil Barnett, Brentwood, Tennessee.
$200.02.
Ooh, that's a nice palindrome.
Switcheroo, he says, from my smoking hot wife, Christy.
Let me put that in right away.
Christy.
Okay.
Celebrating her birthday on Sunday.
That's today.
How about a biscuit for her birthday?
Well, of course.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
There you go.
Linda Lou Patkin is up, and she's last on the list, shortlist today, a Lakewood, Colorado 200 bucks, which is very similar to her last donations.
And she wants jobs coming for a faster, more executive, oh man, for a faster, more effective job search, she writes, visit ImageMakersInc.com, that's ImageMakersInc with a K.
Your go-to for executive resume and job search needs.
And work with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes.
Here's another reason we don't take advertising.
We can't get a read straight.
The pressure is so on.
It's so hard to do.
The people are donating to other shows, John, and saying, you know, for an effective job search.
There's something viral about this which is funny.
Linda, thank you very much.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
There you go, Executive and Associate Executive Producers of Episode 1689.
You can take these credits and use them wherever credits of the showbiz variety are recognized.
Just like J.J.
Abrams is going to put his, I did the DNC 2024, going to put that on his IMDb.
I don't think he will.
Well, you can be proud of your production of the No Agenda Show, and you can go to imdb.com, add it to your list if you're already on there.
If not, you can open one or put it in your LinkedIn profile.
It looks cool, and you can always say, I'm a producer executive, I'm an associate executive producer of the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you again for helping us out, producing episode 1689.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Order!
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Shut up, slave!
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I want to start off with something that you want to talk about.
Oh, alright.
And that is the reemergence of the six-week cycle.
Yeah!
Yes, yes, yes.
And I have a clip which explains what happened.
66-year-old Ronald Syverud is behind bars tonight, Sean, after he allegedly threatened to kill former President Trump on social media.
Now, Syverud was taken into custody in Cochise County without incident today, that according to a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office there.
The 66-year-old has several outstanding warrants on separate charges, including for a DUI and for failing to appear in court in Wisconsin.
He's also wanted for failing to register as a sex offender, as well as a hit and run in the state of Arizona.
Clearly, he's got issues.
Now, the threat comes just six weeks, just six weeks, just six weeks after former President Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Well, this is another bonus for those agents, because if you intervene, there's an intervention, then you get a bonus.
They need to tie it into something from an international level.
But this guy doesn't look like he has anything to do with Iran.
At all.
He's one ugly guy.
You know, I had a clip earlier from Inside Edition.
I happen to have another Inside Edition clip.
We used to play more Inside Edition, I think, back in the day.
So it was fun to see what they're up to.
And they had this story as well with a tag.
Five Secret Service agents have been placed on leave following last month's assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
There are multiple Secret Service officials who have been put on leave.
At least five Secret Service members put on leave.
Four of them are from the Pittsburgh field office, including the special agent in charge.
That to me would be a likely indication that the agent in charge made some very bad calls.
Trump may be breathing a little easier today following the arrest of a convicted sex offender who allegedly threatened to kill him.
The suspect was arrested last night at a traffic stop in Arizona.
Trump learned about the plot moments before this interview with NewsNation at the Arizona border.
We're in danger standing here talking, so let's not talk any longer.
No, I know about it, but they don't want me standing here.
They don't want you standing here either.
Oh man, I pray for him.
No, it would be pretty bad.
Six weeks.
Yes, well, typical.
We have some real problems here in America with our intelligence community.
Real problems.
This Solingen in Germany, I'm familiar with Solingen, and nothing's really far from Holland, but this is not that far from Holland.
I have the ABC report, and then we have a late-breaking report from Deutsche Welle.
Here's the ABC giving us the rundown.
Tonight, an urgent manhunt now underway in Germany for the person authorities say is responsible for a violent stabbing attack in the city of Solingen Friday night.
ISIS now claiming responsibility for the incident, which left at least three people dead and eight more injured.
The city's mayor saying, last night our hearts were torn apart.
We in Solingen are full of horror and grief.
The emergency calls coming in just after 9 30 p.m.
local time.
The unidentified individual attacking people with a knife in the middle of the crowded festival of diversity commemorating the city's 60th anniversary.
An organizer at a stage nearby urging festival goers to keep calm but also your eyes open because the perpetrator is on the run.
The crime scene cordoned off.
Forensics teams searching the area for evidence.
The attack occurring in the audience in front of this stage.
The lights above it still operating today.
As mourners gather nearby, a growing memorial of flowers and candles honoring the victims.
Two men, ages 56 and 67, and a 56-year-old woman did not survive.
Police announcing a 15-year-old is now under arrest.
They say they don't believe he was the attacker, but suspect him of knowing about it in advance.
Tonight, a police operation underway at this refugee housing complex after they say they received a tip in the case.
Authorities making a second arrest there.
Yeah, so it turns out this guy is going to start stabbing people in the neck.
I have boots on the ground for this.
Shouted Allah Akbar.
Somehow this is blamed on ISIS.
But if you listen to the Deutsche Welle report, we quickly see that this is just another unhappy newcomer.
German police say a 26-year-old Syrian man has confessed to carrying out a knife attack in the western city of Solingen.
That killed three people and injured eight others.
Earlier, the so-called Islamic State claimed it was behind Friday night's attack on the festival, but provided no evidence.
Police and prosecutors report that the suspect turned himself in.
Police officers move in on a refugee center in Solingen.
They detained one man and questioned several others.
We are getting a lot of tips and we have to investigate every single one of them.
When a tip becomes more concrete, then we take action.
We have to wait for the results of this investigation and then we can say more.
Earlier the center of Solingen was cordoned off and the search for the killer widened.
The attack during a diversity festival has left the city in shock.
Yeah, so the whole diversity festival part, it's all, this is the new normal.
You look at knife crime, of course there are no guns in Europe to speak of.
A man was stabbed in the center of Amsterdam, actually not fair, I mean around the corner almost from where I used to live.
Prinsengracht, Rozengracht.
I mean, that is a stone's throw from my old house.
That happened yesterday, the day before.
South Wales, Newport, another stabbing.
Sydney, six people injured after knife man rampage.
And the common denominator, I hate to say it, is asylum seekers and immigrants in general.
That is the common denominator.
And it's just being papered over with, oh, it's ISIS, please.
ISIS.
Unhappy newcomer, I think is the term we're looking for.
That's a good show title, too.
Unhappy newcomer.
Yeah.
You know, when it's unhappy newcomers, they're here.
Yeah.
In the United States, they let in, you know, 10 million of them.
More.
More than that, probably.
Or 20, 10 to 20.
Yeah.
But I'll go conservative and say 10.
Yeah.
Just to be nice.
Yeah.
When do they become unhappy and start doing what they, you know, we can use guns here so it'd be, you know, if you shoot somebody in the middle of a crowd, it makes such a noise that people are alerted.
Mm-hmm.
Guns are safer than knives.
Yeah, knives cause much more destruction and it's really painful.
Did you recall two shows ago we were talking about that bogative story about the 2.9 billion social security numbers, which of course is not true.
Right.
And I said, be on the lookout, be on the lookout for some kind of legislation.
Well, this came from multiple sources.
The Biden administration is working to expedite widespread adoption of digital IDs, including driver's licenses, and it will be put into a draft executive order.
And it looks like login.gov will be the portal that we will be asked to use for this.
Oh, that'll be hacked.
Yeah, I mean, it's probably the worst idea ever.
Ever.
But it is coming.
An executive order, and how long will it take before you need that to do anything?
Your ISP will require it to go online.
I mean, you can just see it coming down Broadway.
I know you think it's un-American, which it is, but I feel they're going to do this.
They don't want people being anonymous online.
That's the ultimate goal.
Ultimate.
The public's one account for government.
I'm looking at it now.
Blogging.gov.
Login.gov is for you!
Individuals, use one account for secure private access to participating government agencies.
Yeah, baby!
One account for government.
Learn how to create an account now.
Yes.
Go ahead.
Create an account.
Get ahead.
Get a jump on it, John.
Get a jump.
Email address.
We recommend a personal email address that you'll always be able to access rather than a work email address.
If you already have an account with login.gov with that email address, we'll send you an email to let you know how you can reset your password and... Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Secure passwords.
Yes.
One or more.
Oh, now you need this.
You need one or more authentication methods, such as face or touch for unlock, security key, authentication application.
But that's the one.
Federal government employee or military identification.
And it's less secure if you use a test, a text or voice message or backup codes.
You know what Graphene OS just released?
You know, Graphene OS is this alternative, uh, de-googled, uh, Android operating system, which many, many smart people use.
Finagled.
Finagled, yeah.
Finagled, yeah.
So they just released a new feature.
You can add, so, you know, you can, you log in with your passcode, you know, your bunch of numbers, like a number pad, blah, blah, blah.
Um, they've added a feature where you can have a secondary, uh, sequence of numbers.
And if you enter that, so, you know, the police will say, give us your PIN code!
Give us your PIN code to unlock your phone!
And you give them that code, it immediately starts erasing the entire device.
Oh, you give them the second code?
Yeah!
Isn't that cool?
So the second code is a, is a kill switch?
Yes!
It's fantastic!
I love it!
Well, hmm.
Yeah!
Well, no, it's a great idea, until they... Well, they won't be happy.
Well, they won't be happy, what if they grab the phone?
No, they grab the phone, and then what?
They'll say, give me your passcode.
And I'll say, okay.
And then they get the fake passcode, and if they're smart enough to see it's a Graphene OS, they know you're trying to scam them, and they won't enter it.
Well, then they won't get in, will they?
Because they'll have to kill me to get my passcode.
Yeah, you know.
Yeah, you know.
Bamboo splints up the fingernails.
You'll give it up.
Yeah, that sounds American.
Yeah, totally.
Not yet.
Not yet.
So we had a preemptive strike.
Preemptive strike on Hezbollah.
Hezbollah.
Have you noticed that there are different ways of pronouncing it?
But I do like the kind of the... We need a standardized... Hezbollah.
Hezbollah.
Hezbollah.
But most say Hezbollah.
And, you know, watching all of the DNC footage, people just be talking like this and all of a sudden... I'm talking like this and I'm saying Hezbollah.
Yeah, it's like French, uh, Canadian French, but they drop in English words out of the blue.
It's just like... It's, it's, um, strange.
Strange.
But that's, it's code, you know, it's kind of like Ukraine.
That's, that's new as well.
If you're in the milieu, it's Ukraine, not Ukraine, Ukraine.
Anyway, let's see.
I think we have a report here.
More tensions in the Middle East this morning after the Israeli military carried out preemptive airstrikes in Lebanon early this morning on what it deemed, quote, terror targets.
Israel claimed Hezbollah was preparing to fire hundreds of rockets into Israeli territory, so it acted first.
Hezbollah says they are carrying out strikes toward Israel in response to the killing of a top military commander last month.
This comes ahead of a ceasefire summit that is scheduled to happen today in Cairo.
Tel Aviv's airport had to briefly suspend flights but resumed operations shortly after and U.S.
officials say they are monitoring the situation closely.
I'd say they're a little bit apart.
If one side wants to send rockets and the other side does a preemptive strike, I don't think your ceasefire talks are going that well.
But it doesn't matter because right on cue, Lady G pops in on Tapper.
Lindsey Graham, Senator, we have a lot to get to.
Thanks for joining us.
I want to start with the news overnight that Israel's military said it launched preemptive strikes against the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Hezbollah launched strikes back towards Israel.
This comes as hostage and ceasefire talks are set to resume in Cairo today.
How should the U.S.
respond to what's going on in the Middle East and what is your message to get the ceasefire and hostage release deal across the finish line?
Well, number one, I think we've got to remember that October the 7th attack was generated, in my view, to stop normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
It's a nightmare for Iran and her proxies, for the Arabs and Israelis to reconcile and make peace and take the region in a different direction.
So as to the hostages, I would hold Iran responsible for their well-being.
If I were the state of Israel, I would tell the Ayatollah, if these people do not come home alive, the ones that are left alive, and if we don't get the bodies of the fallen, we're going to blow up your oil refineries.
Yeah.
That's the only way you're ever going to get the hostages released, is to put pressure on Iran.
In fact, I would say bomb them, bomb them, and then bomb them again.
Yeah, baby.
Bomb them, bomb them, bomb them again!
Yep.
Lindsey, warmonger Lindsey.
Bomb, you know, strap him to a bomb.
There's a plan.
I find him very annoying.
Picked up this clip, this is off, goes to an old topic.
Come closer to the mic, you're not hitting the gate.
I'm sorry.
This is some, the band clippage that showed up again on X, which is typical of Musk.
It let the stuff, and it disappeared once more.
This is the band.
I just, this clip has been sitting here for weeks.
I've been wanting to play it.
This is the band clip.
You'll like this.
Yeah, I'm trying to find something that has the word band in it, and I don't see any.
Yeah, look for 9-11.
Oh, this!
Yes, yes.
So this is a fairly good clip.
I'm surprised we haven't talked about this.
It has been on there.
It's a two-minute clip of a compilation somebody put together of all the band clips.
During 9-11, there was all these reports that came in from various Quarters, PBS, the networks, everybody in between.
Does this work in audio?
Yes, it does.
This is a very good audio clip, actually.
Okay.
It's just all the band clips that kind of indicate that, well, you know, something's fishy.
Something doesn't make sense.
All right, finally, I'm going to introduce Lieutenant Robert Medeiros.
He was our first incident commander at the scene.
Good evening.
My name's Lieutenant Robert Medeiros, M-E-D-A-I-R-O-S.
Lieutenant with the Arlington County Police Department here in Arlington, Virginia.
We arrived within minutes after the crash.
I couldn't believe what happened.
And they said it was a plane, and I didn't see any pieces of any plane, and I couldn't believe that a plane hit the building.
Did you see the plane come in, sir?
No.
I didn't see no plane, didn't hear no plane.
You know, like I said, all I heard was the impact and then the plane.
This huge ball of fire came up over the building.
Outside the Pentagon, CNN's military affairs correspondent, Jamie McIntyre.
Jamie, you got very close to where that plane went down.
That's right, Judy.
A while ago, I walked right up to next to the building.
From my close-up inspection, there's no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon.
is the actual side of the building that's crashed in.
And the only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you could pick up in your hand.
There are no large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around. - We were on the scene early this morning when all of the workers were literally pouring out of this building.
And here's what some of them had to say about today's event. - Getting ready to do my town trip.
And one young black lady was running down the hall screaming and hollering saying, get out, get out.
It was a bomb.
And so everybody was like, everybody stopped and looked.
And then there was some more people running and screaming and hollering, get out, it is a bomb.
And then when I was exiting out the door, They did say it was a bomb.
Everybody look up, it was all black smoke.
Just finished our staff meeting.
Somebody told us about the New York tragedy.
We turn on CNN and all of a sudden I hear a boom myself.
Oftentimes in the Pentagon you hear machinery falling or this or that, but this was a little different.
And about a minute later somebody ran into the office saying, bomb, and everybody just starts running out.
When George Bush and Al Gore ran for president, they had three debates.
Nobody said, what are you going to do when the twin trade towers come down?
The Pentagon's bomb.
The Pentagon's bomb.
yeah that's great season of reveal none of the millennials believe this believe that uh the story and None of them believe it.
They're like, that's you boomers, you boomers, you got hoaxed by that.
And the one thing that is, of course, our favorite, which we've played on the show for a hundred years.
WTC 7 won't go away.
Pull it.
Yeah, pull it.
I got some text messages.
People say, hey, Elon's live.
Elon's live.
It's something strange about him.
Elon's live.
Did you see this?
No.
So, you get a link, and the link is to YouTube, suspicious by itself.
I'm thrilled to share with you an exciting venture Tesla is embarking on.
A venture that will accelerate the adoption and appreciation of cryptocurrencies worldwide.
We believe in a future where digital currencies play a key role in our lives, enhancing the efficiency, transparency, and inclusivity of financial transactions.
To celebrate this event and show our appreciation to you, our esteemed followers, I am delighted to announce a special cryptocurrency giveaway.
And there's a QR code and then you're buying something that doesn't exist.
I'd give it a 6 on the scale of AI fakery.
But it was enough for people to text me and say, hey, something's up with this.
It was the right voice tone.
Yeah, but not the right intonation at all.
It was the intonation was off.
He doesn't, he didn't have any, uh, I mean, he really cannot talk that long without flubbing.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
And, uh, that was the giveaway right there.
And it's much easier when you see him speaking and the mouth was reasonably in sync, um, but not all the time.
Uh, It's so easy to understand how people get scammed by this.
And this cryptocurrency thing, I've seen this on X itself, where it says Elon, you know, airdrop!
I'm airdropping my token!
So, yeah, a lot of fakery.
There was a funny moment that happened in Australia.
A Google lady, executive, I forget her name, she was testifying via, well what does Google have, does Google own, they don't have Zoom, maybe it was Zoom, I don't know.
No, it wasn't Zoom.
Did you see it?
No, but I know it wasn't Zoom because Google would never use it.
Well, maybe the Australian Senate uses it, because there were senators asking this Google lady about AI and responsible AI.
You know, is it responsible?
And she's, it's so lame.
She's literally reading from her screen.
You can see her.
I mean, it looks so dumb.
But then this happens.
This approach starts with research to inform model development that encompasses topics such as data protection, So this bonehead's phone all of a sudden starts going, that's great!
Yes, let's talk about responsible AI!
That's a great statement.
It highlights the impact.
There is Google stepping in to be responsible on my side.
Since 2012, our researchers have published more than 300 papers on the topic of responsible AI.
So this bonehead's phone all of a sudden starts going, "That's great.
Yes, let's talk about responsible AI.
That's a great statement." In the middle of her statement.
And this is exactly what this stupid hearing was about, and so the Senator comes back and says... Can I ask what interrupted you earlier when you were talking and we heard a voice?
Is AI helping you on this call?
Have you got a screen there that's helping with answers?
I do wish we had an AI screen for that purpose.
AI is built into all of Google's products, whether you're doing maps or what a complete in-search or helping you with drafting your emails.
Our Google Assistant is, and our products on the Google Pixel phones, which we enjoy using here in Google, is responsible.
Homina, homina, homina, homina.
That's cute.
That's a cute clip.
Yeah.
It's flanged a bit, though.
It's kind of hard to hear.
Yeah, I know, I know.
So I've been talking to, well, once a week we do a board meeting, which is a podcast.
We talk to all the podcasting 2.0 developers.
And there is a, I think, a very valid use case for AI that goes beyond, you know, the... Beyond your bigotry against it?
Yeah, but no agenda art generator.
It's bad songs that we won't play.
In software development, It apparently is incredibly useful with auto-completing.
I've heard guys who I've been working with for years say, it's like magic.
It knew what I want.
And in software development, there's a lot of iteration, a lot of repetition sometimes.
Yeah, it's tedious.
It's tedious, yes.
And particularly, I think it's called PyFire or something.
For PHP development, there are some AI models that are, from what I understand, just phenomenally good at what they do.
The funny thing is that most of these are being run locally.
It runs on your own machine.
It doesn't even run in the cloud.
So while it may be very good, I still don't see the big, particularly software development.
I mean, is this the big market they're going to go after?
But it is working well for them.
And so as bigoted as I am, I did want to mention that.
That's a use case.
I don't think it's worth a hundred billion dollars worth of investment, but they are liking it.
Yeah, you'd like it too if you had a bunch of cycles backing you up that you weren't paying for.
No, no, it's running locally.
Well, even so.
Yeah, I mean, well, The AI stuff is okay.
I run AI models here on a computer at home.
You know, I use it for some stuff.
You know, like someone said, hey, can you write me a letter of recommendation?
Sure.
Works incredibly well.
I love this guy.
Pretty much.
It works incredibly well for that.
this guy pretty much works incredibly well for that it really does um yeah this was a kind of interesting story um and i i want to get your take on it well On Friday, the President of Botswana experienced holding a huge gem a day after a Canadian company announced it had discovered the world's second largest diamond at the Karowi mine in the northeast of Botswana.
It was so big that President Mogwiti Massisi had to use both hands to hold it.
And here is his reaction.
Both.
Both?
You have to have both?
Yes.
What?!
So this is the 2,492-carat stone.
God is good.
God is good.
Are diamonds really worth anything anymore?
Seems that everyone is going for the lab-grown diamonds these days.
I think that diamond's worth something.
Well, that one's got to be worth something.
That's a good question.
It's probably worth exploring.
It costs money to make a lab-grown diamond, and you can only get them so big.
Right.
Oh, there's a size limitation on lab-grown diamonds?
Oh, you can't make anything like that.
That thing is the size of a softball.
It's huge.
I know that.
But, you know, you keep hearing people saying, you know, I mean, so a really nice engagement ring, lab-grown diamond, 500 bucks versus, you know, 5, 10, 15,000.
And they're just as pretty.
You know, I think diamonds may be falling out of favor as a store of value.
We need to talk to an expert or somebody, you know, I hate to be redundant, but there's somebody, there's a producer in our audience that knows exactly... Moishe!
Yeah, and he's over there, he's in New York.
So there's somebody that knows the answer to this.
It's not a question, it's just like, we need some background.
Yeah, we're interested.
How big can you make them?
How much do they cost?
What is the real expense?
Can you really get one carat?
How big is this ring you're describing for 500 bucks?
Is it a whole carat?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I've only, I've just heard some reports and, you know, people talking about lab-grown.
I think there's even ads.
I've probably heard an ad.
Like, oh honey, it's beautiful.
That's right.
You know, it used to be, what was the formula?
Three months salary is what you should spend on, which is a great, great mind control.
Something, a formula women created.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
And what do you do with this thing?
2,493 carats.
What do you do with it?
Well, eventually you have to break it up.
You have to break it up.
Baby, I got good news and bad news.
Good news is I got a giant rock for you.
Bad news is it's going to weigh you down.
2,493 carats.
Some joker should just put a setting around it.
Just for one time.
Hey, I guess the High Court has finally spoken in Venezuela!
Venezuela's top court has ratified the results of what quickly became the most controversial election in the country's recent history.
Venezuela held presidential elections on the 28th of July, where longtime president Nicolás Maduro was declared victor, despite a slew of allegations of fraud and voting irregularities.
On the basis of the opinion of highly qualified electoral experts, we verify in an irrefutable and unequivocal manner the results of the presidential election of July 28, 2024, where the citizen, Nicolás Maduro, was elected as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the constitutional period 2025 to 2031.
2025 to 2031.
Man, that's crazy.
I mean, it seems like that was pretty rigged.
Yeah, and so was the judge.
That's what would happen here if we, you know, keep going the direction we're going.
Yeah.
Trump's new thing is, we're going to make it too big to rig!
Yeah, sure.
Good luck.
I miss Stuart Varney.
Varney clip.
You know, just before we move on to Stuart Varney.
I'm, at this point, I'm a little more concerned if Trump wins.
Why?
Because I think the people who we saw at the convention, those types and their ascendance, no that's not the word, what is the, what's the term I'm looking for?
Ascendance, yeah.
Ascendance, yes, ascendance.
I'm worried they're going to go nuts.
They're nuts already.
No, but they're violently nuts.
Black Lives Matter nuts.
That's what happened when he first got elected.
You had the woman in green screaming out from her knees.
Yeah, but I'm talking about violent, causing destruction, setting fires.
Here's what my take on that is.
I agree with the basic thinking, but these soy boys and the guys who were in the Palestinian protests, they were Supposed to storm the convention.
They don't have the balls to do this stuff.
Yeah, maybe you can get some black guys to do it, but if you have a lot of black voters that vote for Trump, I just don't think they have what it takes.
Hey, get some black guys to do it!
Okay, John.
Well, that's Antifa or BLM.
It's mostly black guys.
Well, okay.
Well, whatever the case is, they've lost their testosterone.
Democrats appealed to this weenie group.
I mean, there was a couple that was shown.
I didn't get the video.
A couple bragging about all the sex they had, and it was one of these, you know, TikToks.
It was a TikTok with these two delegates, and they were bragging about all the sex they had, but the kind of sex they were having, it was a gay guy and some influencing girl, and they were both talking about how much, you know, dick they got, literally, and it was like the gay guy was getting it, and so was she.
They weren't having it together, these two.
And it's just like, it's a disgusting group.
I mean, the people are just, they're lost.
It's a lost cause.
And yeah, maybe they want to be violent, but they just go back into their hole.
Oh, there you go.
Back into your hole.
Back into your hole.
It's going to be, it would be disappointing to them.
But if you remember Rachel Maddow crying when Trump got elected in 2016.
Oh, it'll be great for the show.
These people are pathetic.
It'll be great for them.
Either way, it's great for the show.
Here's the kind of people you get.
I have a clip.
This is a guy, just a casual man on the street guy trying to get a job, I guess.
But this man on the street is a kid and he's interviewing some pro-Kamala person and this is where it goes.
Trump or Kamala?
Kamala.
I like her and I'm a Democrat.
And why do you like her?
Because she will be a good female president, and I would love to have a good female president for the U.S.
And what do you think she'll do good for our country?
She'll actually help our country more than Donald Trump would do, because she is smart and she's more reliable.
And what do you think are some exact things she'd do?
She'll do lower income and lower taxes.
So she'd lower everyone's income?
Yes.
Is that a good thing?
That is a good thing.
What do you think about Donald Trump?
Donald Trump is the worst president in the whole wide world.
How come?
Because he hurt the Capitol building and he started World War III.
Alright, here we go.
Step back, you deserve it.
My lord.
Carmel will lower your income.
That's a good thing.
And Trump hurt the Capitol building.
Oh, it's great.
Well, you know what?
You want to make predictions about the election?
You want to step it up?
You want to make predictions?
It might be a little premature.
Sure, I'll make a prediction.
Well, let's just say if everyone stays alive, and that's on both sides, If everyone stays alive, as it is today.
So with Vance as VP, Waltz as VP, Trump as P, and Harris as P, and then we throw in Bobby the Op that he'll stay in and do his stuff for Trump.
What do you think?
Trump wins.
Yeah, I think so too.
I think big.
Well, I don't know, but I mean, I think he could win big if they don't try to fix it.
Even if they try to fix it, I think it's going to be too hard now.
If it stays status quo, I mean, anything could happen.
There could be some huge distraction.
I mean, obviously.
But today, as of today, I think you're right.
It would surprise me if he doesn't win.
And we still have another, what, 75, 80 days to go.
Yeah, seven.
And they still haven't talked to Kamala.
And who knows what's going to happen at the debate.
I mean, he could get drugged and pull a Biden.
I don't know.
I mean, the debate will be the turning point because if she has to talk, Then her support disappears if she actually has to talk.
The thing is, you have to remember this, and I would like to go back and check this out.
When she debated Pence, she beat him.
I don't remember.
I do.
And it was, Pence was glib.
He was arrogant.
Pence has got no personality.
He was no good.
I think Pence technically should have won because he's had better things than he had.
But he was just this, he's like a robot.
He's terrible.
He doesn't have the personality like a Vance has a lot of personality.
He's got tons of personality.
What if we were advising the Harris campaign, which let's face it, I'll never get that gig.
That's for sure.
What would we advise her to do in a debate with Trump?
What would be the way to do it?
What is her strength?
What is her superpower that she can use?
I don't see it.
I think we have to go back and examine what she did to Pence, and it was mostly blocking, blocking and tackling, blocking, not tackling, but blocking, whatever argument he had, denying what the opponent says, and then lying a lot.
I only have one clip, very short, that we have from the Pence-Kamala debate.
Let's see what it is.
Pulling back regulation.
Thank you.
Thank you, Vice President Pence.
Fighting for free and fair trade.
And all of that's online.
Thank you, Vice President Pence.
If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are in white.
You know, that's a good segue into our third.
No, that's nothing.
I don't even remember her debating. - Debate.
Let me see.
I do.
And I think that was the debate where the fly landed on him.
Remember that?
That was good.
I was wandering around it on his hair and here and there and he was oblivious.
The guy was no good.
I mean Pence was and then he had the gall to think that he could run for president and he was just a guy.
He was just a guy with the hollow shell of a man.
Here's Kamala on Donald Trump.
Let's see what this is also short.
Pelosi has said that members of Congress have to be, in her words, fair to the President and give him a chance to exonerate himself.
You've already said that, based on everything you've seen, you would vote to remove him from office.
Is that being fair to the President?
Well, it's just being observant because he has committed crimes in plain sight.
I mean, it's shocking, but he told us who he was.
Maya Angelou told us years ago, listen to somebody when they tell you who they are the first time.
During that election, Donald Trump told us he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and get away with it.
So that's probably what she'll do.
She'll just keep bringing up all these things.
Very fine people.
Yeah, the tropes.
The tropes, yeah.
Very fine people.
It's good.
Here's another one.
Losers and suckers.
And he has consistently, since he won, been selling out the American people.
He's been selling out working people.
He's been selling out our values.
He's been selling out national security.
And on this issue with Ukraine, he's been selling out our democracy.
Yeah, but it's different when she has to actually face him.
She didn't face him.
So... Hmm.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But if she gets under his skin and he starts going off, that'll be bad for him.
Yeah, and she could do that.
She's annoying.
Yeah, she can do that.
Now, he's having Tulsi Gabbard help him on the debates, supposedly.
And they asked her about this on one of the shows, and she says, well, you know, there's not that much I can do because he's, you know...
He's got a style and I can help here and there.
I don't know if she's... because she's... Tulsi Gabbard was very good at getting under people's skins and she got under Kamala's skin and hopefully Trump will use the same technique she did.
Maybe that's what she's there for.
Let me see, it was Tulsi Kamala.
Kamala, Kamala, Kamala.
I have a bunch, I had a couple shows ago I had Tulsi Kamala.
Tulsi attacks Kamala's record.
Here we go.
So let's talk about the debates last night because you had quite a moment you said.
Senator Harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president but I'm deeply concerned about this record.
There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so.
She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.
And she fought to keep cash bails.
You know, if they go back and forth and are they even doing a debate?
I mean, I hear Trump saying that she's she pulled out and she won't do the debate and there's all kinds of noise about that.
That's only the Fox debate.
Oh, okay.
She won't do a Fox debate.
She's got friendly fire at ABC, and ABC will cover for her, so that's not good.
And so they're going to do the ABC debate, even though Trump has them in litigation.
Trump should just run on his economic record during his four years, and that's it.
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
Oh God.
Are these debates on show days by any chance?
Well, the one that we're talking about is the 10th of September, so we can look that up.
Okay.
10th of September.
Yes.
My friend, my heart skipped a beat when I first read this.
Tuesday.
Tuesday.
Oh, there's Trump with Marjorie Taylor Greene in front of the Trump plane.
Okay.
It's another text message.
I hate you people.
Hey, just news came out.
It's very, very troubling.
The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at a mysteriously fast rate.
Cooling?
That's not, that's bullcrap.
That's not global warming.
In June, temperatures in the Atlantic were 2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than normal in much of the ocean, with some areas getting as much as 9 degrees warmer than average.
Those temperatures weren't a one-off, as the Atlantic had regularly seen record-breaking levels since March of 2023.
However, NOAA data shows Atlantic seasurfer temperatures have cooled at a surprising rate since May.
Oh, no, they don't.
And they can't.
The new scientists, they can't explain it.
Sunspots?
Well, yeah, they can't.
No one has looked at the sun.
They haven't looked at the sun for any of this.
Heaven forbid the sun be taken into account.
You want to do your Varney clip before we get out of here?
Yeah, this is the last clip before we get to the break.
That's a good clip.
It's about giving away our money.
Oh, yay.
A taxpayer-funded group is offering $30,000 to new homebuyers.
Lauren, you cannot apply if you're an American citizen.
What's with that?
Why would an American citizen apply for a taxpayer-funded program to get $30,000 for a new home?
I mean, it's wild.
The group is called Hacienda Community Development Corporation.
They offer payment assistance in Oregon to DACA recipients, asylees, green card holders, basically any non-US citizen.
This is state-sponsored discrimination, Stuart.
That's what it is.
I mean, it's crazy.
That's their goal.
They want to open up housing and the American dream to non-US citizens.
Okay, I guess that's the reason why we have an open border, because eventually these folks will vote and vote Democrat because they're the people who let them in.
That's what this is about.
Part of me wants to say crazy things happen in Oregon, but I think this will go far beyond Oregon.
There is a critical shortage of houses across the United States, particularly in Oregon, and then they're giving 30K to non-taxpayers.
Yeah, which will raise the price of houses.
For everybody else.
Hey, who's Trump's economic guide?
He doesn't seem to have someone out there, you know, with economic chops.
Where's Kudlow?
Well, Kudlow's still doing his show.
Mnuchin showed up at the Republican convention to hang out.
I don't know.
Mnuchin.
Yeah, Mnuchin.
And you can't use... Oh, man.
I heard... What's his face?
The Mooch.
Scaramoochie on Horowitz's show.
The dismal investor.
Oh, he hates Trump.
Which since, I mean, how did that happen and why?
Well, Trump's a no good.
He's a liar.
He's a, he, he hates you.
He loves you.
Then he hates you and he's no good and buy Bitcoin.
That was pretty much the interview.
Yeah, the mooch.
Trump needs, he needs a name.
He needs a name in there.
Someone to go, he needs a surrogate name.
Yeah, because that's what, that's all people care about, I think.
At least that's what we'd recommend.
Who would we recommend?
Jamie Dimon.
I'm going to show myself old by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In the morning.
Yeah, that's not going to happen either.
Okay, let's thank our producers who came in $50 and above.
We read every single name and location.
Sometimes your note depends, you know, we try to keep it as short as possible.
And we always want to thank people who came in under $50.
We want to definitely remain anonymous as we don't read names there.
Although we do look at everyone, because I love seeing the spreadsheet and seeing the names that turn up And of course, there's sustaining donations, which you can always do yourself, just like Trump.
Hey, $10!
Hey, $10!
Question mark!
If everyone did that, the No Agenda Show would beat Kamala.
So please consider that at NoAgendaDonations.com.
John, please take us through to the 50s.
Well, let's start with Eric Marshall.
He's in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
$150.33, and he wants, and we have to put this at the end, Karma for the upcoming bowhunting season.
Oh, yes.
Well, absolutely.
Happy to do it.
Meanwhile, we got two donations from PayPal.
Oh, thank you, PayPal.
$98.46 and $87.10.
That's some sort of refund, I'm guessing.
Kevin McLaughlin comes in right after that from Concord, North Carolina.
He's the Archduke of Luna.
8008, the boobs donation, along with Jason Marrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Now, so let's go.
Sir Kirk is one of them, Christopher Bryant, Paul Rouge, I think, R-U-U-G-E, Dirty Jersey, probably the Dirty Jersey Whore, just says Dirty Jersey.
Yeah, Dirty Jersey Whore.
Marcella Barden, KJ5KHO73.
73's, Marcella.
Thanks for the license inspiration, Adam.
Another ham, another ham.
Another ham, hamming it up on the show.
Saved or created, yes.
Frank Bennett, happy birthday, and then on with Matthew Elwart in Weatherford.
That came in at 60.06, which is odd.
Small boobs.
Back to the 60s, Nathan, I'm sorry, Nicholas Stark, Nathan Bozek, Crystal Fritcher.
Find my way to your podcast via the Ann Barnhart blog.
Yes, the Barnhart, well probably the Barnhart podcast.
Yes, Ann Barnhart, she also does Value for Value.
We've talked about her.
She's alright.
David Keyes, Suzanne Zamora.
And she's, also I'll read this, what she said, she, my husband and I were eating at the Hitching Post Steakhouse in Fredericksburg while reading the newsletter.
Nice!
We figured since we were in Adamstown and it's going to be his birthday, we should finally, the word, the emphasis here is finally donate.
Oh, well that, deducing, deducing.
You've been de-douched.
The Hitching Post is a fine, real Texas steakhouse joint.
It's best if you eat at the bar.
In fact, if you walk in, there's always a line.
If it's just you or two people, you can say, hey, can I eat at the bar?
And you can slip right past the line and eat at the bar.
There's the tip.
Just the tip.
You give them a tip.
Just the tip.
West Coast Surfer in Shasta Lake and last on the $60 donor list I'm wishing you a happy birthday is Lydia Terry Dominelli in Rochester.
Thank you all so much.
Dame Shapska Salad in Chesham, UK 5678.
Mark Hardwick in Aledo, Texas.
5333.
Serena's, oh, our Brahmin, Murty, in Culpeper, Virginia.
You know, I heard we had an Indian who wrote me a long note about, it was just cultural because we talked it out, but he was like, you don't know anything about Indians.
You don't know anything about, I'm surprised you didn't know about our digital ID in India, which apparently they have.
But he closed it out by saying the Brahmins, they really, No one cares about them anymore in India.
They are, however, in positions of power.
So we don't know anything.
Okay, good.
Yeah.
He's obviously a irked Indian, and there's plenty of those.
No, he wasn't an irked Indian.
He said, I didn't mean to make you mad, he said.
I wasn't mad.
Anyway, Murdy came in, he was 52, 72.
Lorenzo in Miami, Florida, 51, 50.
Birthday call out, he's coming up with that.
Todd Tarson in Curry County.
Oh, that's interesting.
You have a Curry County named after you in New Mexico.
New Mexico, how about that?
And then last on our list here, not last, but this is the $50 donors, just name and location, starting with Steven Peterson in Queensland, Australia.
Gaucho Woodworking in Redondo Beach, California.
Those guys make some cutting boards and other things.
Check them out.
It's there on the web.
Alexa Delgado in Aptos.
Brett Denton in Boise.
Brian Hummel in Wimberley, Texas.
Samuel Cannarday in North Riverside, Illinois.
Paul Contrimus in Westwood, Massachusetts.
Fall Line Farm in Columbus, Georgia.
Gelinas, Gelinas, Gelinas, Gelinas.
She's in Burien, Washington.
We've all been there.
No name, 50 bucks.
It just says no name.
That's no name.
And last on the list is Megan Duckworth.
She's in Marshallville, Georgia.
And she says that at the $50 level, she says, happy birthday, Adam.
Oh, thank you.
You may be younger with that donation.
Much appreciated.
Thank you all very much.
Our producers, again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1689.
Remember that you can use those credits anywhere that credits are accepted.
And thank you again for the donations.
Under 50 in our sustaining donations.
Keep the show going, everybody.
Keep us going at least four more years.
Here's the karma that was requested.
You've got karma.
And remember, to support us, support your No Agenda show at noagendadonations.com.
Well, Caitlin turned 20 years old yesterday, and she also wishes her mom, Jessica, happy birthday.
She turns 46 today.
Megan Richley wishes her husband, David, a very happy one.
He's turning 58 today.
Phil Barnett, his wife, Christy, celebrating her birthday today.
Lorenzo turns 51.
And my daughter, Christina Valerie Curry, will be turning 34 years old on the 27th, just two days from now.
Man, am I old.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
And we have, oh yes, we have one title change.
And that is for our producer, our musical producer, Mr. Bagpipe himself, Baron Sir Oistein Bergen, now becomes Sir We're Oisteen Berger, Viscount of the province of South Holland.
And we welcome him, of course, always here at the Roundtable.
Although we have no knights or dames to celebrate today, Oisteen, go ahead and chomp up all that mutton meat, brother.
As far as I'm aware, there's no other podcast that has the meetup scale and calendar that the No Agenda Show has.
These are producer-organized events, people who just love the show and love to hang out with people who think a little bit differently from the Dementia, Dementia B type people, just, you know, all fighting with each other.
No, We go hang out and meet up and we're all good together.
And Leo Bravo, I think he's up to 55 meetups now.
Here is his report from Los Angeles.
Hey everybody, it's Leo Bravo at meetup number 55.
Passing the phone around, my friends have things to say.
In the morning, this is Angie at the ranch, having a great time over here at the Copper Still Grill in Monrovia, California.
Sir Robertson has two sticks, and I drove four hours to be at this awesome event.
Thank you, everyone.
Oh, Sir Lia Kim, faux pas.
We're doing it live!
This is Fernando.
Passing the phone to the next girl to my right.
In the morning, you handsome devils, you.
Just want to say thanks to Leo for having these wonderful meetups in LA here, and thank you guys for keeping us sane.
Greta signing out.
Top of the morning to you guys, and in the morning.
This is Sir Vic signing off for today.
This is Matt, see you later.
Alright, this is future Sir Pit Breaker Operator saying in the morning, and happy to be here at the Monrovia meetup.
Alright boys, one, two, three, hit it!
I love the meetup reports.
It's so much fun.
Roger Roundy did a report.
He did a meetup.
He organized it for the DC area, Alexandria, where all the spooks are.
This is the Cat Boat Meetup Report.
This is Sir William of West Pennsylvania at the Alexandria meetup.
Canadian trains good, planes bad.
This is Nick, this is my first meetup.
The spooks are here, the spooks are weird, and I'm wondering if I'll ever come back.
Hello, this is Paulo, this is my first meetup, and I think it's Adam's 60th birthday coming up, so happy birthday wishes to you.
This is Jeff, we're at Cat Bar with plenty of cat ladies around.
This is Sir Bob, Black Knight of the Chesapeake Bay, one of the subs in the water.
Hey, it's DC Girl, in the morning.
Hi, this is Roundy.
I missed a couple episodes because I was sleeping.
I humbly apologize.
This is Tim from Arizona here visiting the DC Meetup.
And it's awesome to make new friends that are still the same friends.
WTC7 won't go away.
That's right.
This is Srini Murthy, the Brahmin.
Hey!
And we're out in a beautiful location here.
Thought I'd wish Adam and John the ITM.
And we've seen the little puppy dog today with his little kitten.
So obviously we're all going to have to donate a lot of money.
In the morning!
Dude, the Brahmin may be a spook.
What is a Brahmin doing in D.C., John?
He lives in Virginia.
Yeah, it's the D.C.
area.
He's either a spook or he might be a lobbyist.
How about that?
From now on, he's the Brahmin lobbyist.
He's going to have to tell us what he does for a living.
Hey, a couple of meetups taking place today.
The Black Hills Noah Jenna meetup is underway at Crow's Peak Brewing in Spearfish, South Dakota.
The longest standing member London meetup, part two.
Wow, that's Guf's deal.
That is, well, might even be over by now, but I love their meetup reports.
Fritz Rovia.
Fitzrovia, I'm sorry, in London.
The lore of the land is the location.
The Southwest New Hampshire meetup underway at the Yasho Jamaica Grill in Keene, New Hampshire.
Longview's mid-month monthly meetup, Learn to Play 42, The Domino Game, starting now at Rotolo's Pizzeria in Longview, Texas.
Your Dirty Jersey Whore organizing that.
Don't Be a Douchebag meetup kicking off in Tulsa, Oklahoma at 5.30 in McNelly South.
And on Thursday, our next show date, North Georgia Monthly.
Six o'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Just a sampling of the meetups that are taking place all throughout the globe because No Agenda is nationwide and worldwide.
If you make it this far in the show, you know that you have more coming.
You've got end of show mixes, you've got the tip of the day, but also the No Agenda meetups.
You need to be a part of these at least once.
I guarantee you.
It's like potato chips.
You have one, you got to eat the whole bag.
You can't go back.
You want to have meetups everywhere you can.
And NoahJenOfMeetups.com, if you can't find one near you, start one yourself!
It's easy!
Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You wanna be where you won't be, triggered or held to blame.
You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
Man, I'm sucking on the ISOs lately.
We always like to choose our end of show ISOs around this time in the show.
You know, just to show you how the sausage is made.
Not that we do any other prep on this show, except individually we do a lot.
I only have one, so this is my entry.
Douchey.
No, you didn't hear it.
Right here, let's do it again.
Hey.
Douchey.
Douchey.
That's it?
That's it.
I have nothing.
I failed.
I haven't got much either.
I only got two.
Okay, what do you have?
Let's see if we got something better.
I got joke.
A joke.
That's RFK?
That's pretty funny.
And reputation.
Your reputation for quality is unheard of in this industry.
That's too long.
It's just, it's four seconds.
It's too long.
It has to be three or less.
It's too long.
U7RFK.
A joke.
A joke.
Okay, we'll take the joke.
We'll have to take the joke.
Hey, everybody, it's time once again for that phenomenal non-sponsored, non-money-making tip of the day.
CreativeVice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCD.
All right, this is everybody's favorite segment in the show, the tip of the day.
These are very handy, and we're not doing any shopping deals, no FTC problems here.
Uh-uh.
Instead, we just give you a straight-up tip that is handy and useful for you.
Enzyme laundry detergent.
So in the 60s and 70s, there was this fad.
It never caught on, but it came out of Europe because we are eliminating the phosphates from detergent because they were causing all kinds of algae blooms everywhere because they were Basically poisoning the rivers.
And so phosphates were taken out of detergents and I got a lecture from a guy at Procter & Gamble about this.
He says that's why you never buy powdered detergents.
You buy liquid because the substitutes for these phosphates were always You couldn't make it into a powder anymore.
You had to just buy liquid detergent.
So don't buying powdered detergent is no good.
Not necessarily true at the competition, which was an enzyme product.
These were promoted in the 60s and 70s.
Biz was one of the big names, which has been bought and sold and then reformulated.
I don't even know if it has enzymes anymore, but enzymes require they use, you have to use cold water.
And you have to soak the clothes for like hours.
Oh, and is that when they turned marketing around and said cold wash?
Part of it, yeah.
They came up with the cold wash stuff, but cold wash really works best with using enzymes.
And so I use pro enzyme.
I've had good luck with that, but there's other brands.
You have to do a little research and find something you like.
But the problem is you do have to soak.
So you get your wash going and you have to soak for like anywhere from 2 to 24 hours and so it's inconvenient for the public.
Nobody wants to do this.
No, we don't want to do that.
But it will take grass stains out.
It will take blood out.
Ah, that's handy.
Yes, especially if you have a lot of blood on your clothes.
You never know.
And it takes all this stuff out.
That's why the enzymes eat away at stuff that normally you can't get rid of with normal washing, which sometimes just sets the stain.
So look at the enzyme.
And I remember that we had a discussion about using fabric softeners and you finally got off of that kick years ago.
I was using the washing machine balls.
And the nuts in the sack.
What were those nuts?
The washing nuts?
I don't remember.
It was bad.
Tina came into my life and she said, you know, it's great and everything, but we can't have these washing nuts.
It's no good.
Anyway, people should look into enzyme detergents, but it does require soaking and it's issues.
It became popular in Europe because it's an energy saver.
You don't use hot water.
And, uh, it's just, it makes, and it does clean and it keeps things, it brightens those too.
And do you have a brand you recommend of these enzymes?
Yeah, Proenzyme.
Proenzyme.
Proenzyme.
Oh, excellent.
But there's other brands and there may be better ones.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen, your tip of the day!
All right, everybody, thanks for coming out tonight.
We got one more for you.
It's called The Tip by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak!
Hey, for those of you listening on TrollRoom.io or hanging out on one of those modern podcast apps, the stream continues.
Up next we have, where are these broadcasters?
Hukta to the ballgame.
By the way, it's a great name for a microphone in our line, the Hukta mic.
I think we should have a Hukta mic.
It's special.
Put it on the list here of suggestions.
Along with the valve mic.
End of show mixes.
Ladies and gentlemen, I received no new mixes, but that did give me an opportunity to roll out some classic Chris Wilson and Rexo, who we also have not heard from in a while.
But they are, of course, au courant as always, because that's how good our end of show mixers are.
Looking forward to our next show on Thursday.
Until then, coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, right near the Hitchin Post in Fredericksburg, Texas, FEMA Region No.
6.
In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. DuBois.
Come back, will ya?
Thursday, we'll do it all over again.
I'm sure there'll be plenty to talk about.
Let's make sure everybody stays safe.
Enjoy your meetups, and remember us at noagendadonations.com.
Until Thursday, adios, mofos!
A-hooey, hooey!
And sun!
I think you're nuts off movement.
Well, no, wait, wait.
Let's work on a little bit of campaigning here for a second.
We need a chant.
So... Hey, ho!
How about... Hey, hey!
Ho, ho!
Your balls have got to go!
Hey, hey!
Ho, ho!
Let's do something a little more subtle.
Don't be daft!
Don't be silly!
Save the Earth!
Slip your willy.
It's small house, no cows.
Planet's not ours.
Not a leather fire plane.
Or drive a car, it's all the same.
So cut your nuts off.
Yeah, cut your nuts off.
Cut your nuts off to save the planet.
Cut your nuts off to save the planet.
It's a perfect time to shame men into doing this.
Get the climate back.
Snip your sack.
I mean, there's a million things we can come up with.
Push the climate back.
It's easy.
Snip your sack.
I mean, there's just so many we can do.
I mean, there's just so there's just so many we can do.
I can't seem to put my phone down.
I could read this tomorrow.
No, I gotta know now.
We're living in the greatest movie of all time.
I don't wanna miss a scene.
I don't wanna slow down.
Every fourth Halloween, I don't even dress up.
Cause every fourth Halloween, I become a whole clown.
Political junkie, addicted to the news cycle.
So excited, waiting for the next to roll out.
Man, election season.
I hate myself.
So embarrassing.
I become someone else.
Possessed by demons.
I should get some help.
This has got to be detrimental to my health.
Adam and John, please save me.
I feel like the world's trying to drive me crazy.
Twice a week is good, but I could use y'all daily.
If nothing else, just during election season.
Cause I get so stressed out in it.
Sometimes I wish I was sleeping like the majority of this country living in dimension.
I get so stressed out in election season.
No doubt going off the deep end.
It's torturing my screen times up even on the weekend.
And when it's over, no matter the conclusion, I will make a bunch of promises to myself that I probably won't keep like a New Year's resolution.
Like next time, I don't care who is running.
I'm not going to do this.
Four years later at a Sunday service, losing my mind.
Listening to Kanye tell me that this is the most important election of our lifetime.
And you know I'm right back in it.
I will fall victim to election season.
Just a slave to the system.
Listening to no agenda.
Break it down with a never-ending wisdom.
Thinking what if this country gave in to that Kanye vision?
I could think of worse directions to be driven.
When Trump won, that was such a breaking tradition.
To make the decision to run away from these lifelong politicians.
