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This is your award-winning Game of O'Nation Media Assassination, episode 1693.
This is no agenda. Countering Canadian disinformation.
And broadcasting live from the cruise ship capital of Mexico, just north of Puerto Vallarta.
In the morning, everybody!
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where the NFL season has begun.
And it's more gay than ever.
I'm John C. Borak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
In the morning!
Wait a minute.
Wasn't the first game in Brazil?
That was on Friday, yeah.
Oh, was that the first game of the season?
No, the first game was the night before, it was Thursday.
It was the Chiefs beating up on the Ravens.
You said it was more gay than ever?
Yeah, one of the quarterbacks of one of the teams that they talk a lot about is wearing a red fingernail polish.
I don't know what that means, but it just seems a little unusual.
Well, I can tell they're alienating their core audience.
Yeah, I don't think so.
Everyone's got to be open.
Yeah, especially the opening of the show.
All right.
Hey, we are a Value for Value podcast.
That means that we give you this show completely free, open, no paywalls, no hurdles, no levels, no mandatory subscription, no premium content behind the firewall.
It's all premium.
No mugs for sale.
Although I have started calling what we're doing Mug Club Media.
Mug Club Media.
It's Mug Club Media, everybody!
I'm looking for a word that's the opposite of mass media, and is value-for-value based.
And the best I can come up with is Mug Club Media.
I don't think it works.
No, it's no good.
It's no good.
Well, unlike Lex Friedman, you know, at the start of his interview with Trump, he had nine minutes of ads.
At the top of the show.
You know, if I was him, I would do the same thing.
But if you were an advertiser, you'd probably be upset.
No one listens to that.
Because they jammed them all together and it was just, they got weaker and weaker in terms of their impact?
Is that what you're saying?
No, I'm saying that that's what the fast forward button is for.
We also are not getting any Tenet Media money, which, by the way, I've done a little bit of research.
Wait, what?
Tenet Media?
Don't know it.
Yes, you do.
That's the whole pool boy and Reuben and that whole outfit.
Oh, the Russian money?
Yeah, well, I'm calling it tenant media money.
Oh, okay.
I'm going to be confused.
I've delved into this now.
You know, I was like, this is... Oh, yeah.
This is irritating.
Looking at our numbers, just, you know, maybe.
Maybe.
If we just said a little more things pro-Russian, it might pay off.
Hello, Comrade Dvorak.
How are you doing this morning?
So I figured out what was happening.
What a canard this was.
And I say canard with a reason.
So what happened here is this tenant media is Lauren Chen or whatever her name is and her husband.
Their plan, I figured out their plan, their plan was to build their own YouTube channel into a powerhouse.
Exactly.
Sorry.
Yeah, building a powerhouse.
And of course they did this with the Russian money.
They knew exactly what they were doing.
And so they figured, well, we'll give these guys, you know, this team over here, as far as we know, only I should stop you and mention that for people to get a background on this, which we're not obviously giving you at this point, go to the last show and listen to it because we have a rather elaborate discussion of this particular thing.
So you may have to listen to that.
I think most people kind of know what's going on.
Maybe.
Geez.
I'm just mentioning that.
Okay.
All right.
Well, stop now and go back and listen to the last episode.
And how come you missed it?
Anyway, so the plan, the plan was to, because you know, there's a lot of people out there saying, oh, Pool Boy taking, there's some great memes.
They've got, they've got Tim Pool instead of a beanie on his head.
He's got one of those Russian hats.
Yeah, sure.
The furry hats.
They've got him.
They have a Cossack hat, yeah.
Yeah, they've got him.
You know, Putin, Nate, with a bear chest on the horse.
They've got little Tim there in front of him, bear chested on the horse.
Those are really funny memes.
Yeah, you're asking for trouble.
But it's, who, me?
No, him.
Oh yeah, well... Or anybody who'd take a bunch of Russian money, do some promotional Russian material, even though you might not know it, you're asking for trouble.
It's just the way it is.
I don't think he really knew.
I mean, of course, like, all right, I guess it was some Belgian guy.
But the plan, this is where I'm getting to, the plan was for them to, you know, license some hot content, by the way, The No Agenda Show, anybody?
They could have licensed it from us.
And with that, to build up this channel, which really only had a couple thousand subscribers because, you know, little do they understand of how YouTube works.
So it was... Yeah, you have to fake it.
Yeah, it was really this channel... You have to get some kid in there who knows what he's doing to jack up the numbers.
Exactly.
I remember it was a Kony 1220 2012 or whatever it is.
Yeah, Kony 2012, exactly.
Yeah, those numbers are fake.
So that failed.
But as I look a little bit further into the story, this whole thing, it's Canadians who are doing this.
This is Canadian disinformation.
This is not from Russia.
We should be putting sanctions in place against Canada.
A Canadian-owned social media channel that the U.S.
Justice Department alleges is a key part of a Russian influence scheme is now off YouTube.
YouTube said Tenet Media violated its community guidelines.
Tenet Media was founded by Canadian Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan last year.
YouTube is also taking down four separate media channels owned by Chen.
Chen is a right-wing commentator with posts supporting Donald Trump and siding with Russia over the war in Ukraine.
The U.S.
Department of Justice indictment doesn't name Chen or her husband and they don't face charges.
But as the CBC's Evan Dyer tells us, Tenet is allegedly central to a Kremlin I don't know if I ever watched it.
millions of dollars to influence American public opinion and the U.S. presidential election.
A U.S. federal indictment says those opinions were bought and paid for by the Kremlin, which funneled $10 million in part through Roaming Millennial, a Quebec company belonging to Canadian influencer Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan, who then used her Tennessee company, Tenet Media, to pay MAGA influencers like who then used her Tennessee company, Tenet Media, to pay MAGA influencers like Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Poole, and Canadian Lauren Southern to spread the Kremlin's
We have not seen an adversary attempt to influence an American election.
To this degree ever before.
This former FBI director of counterintelligence says the Russian president will be infuriated to see this operation rolled up.
The message the U.S.
government is sending with these indictments is, we see you, we're on to you, and we're going to call this out.
The charging documents make it quite clear that they knew who they were dealing with.
So far, though, the FBI's charged only Russians, not the Canadians and Americans.
Charge the Canadians!
This is horse crap!
What Russians did they charge, and how would they know?
Well, it's the... This is a very dubious situation.
Well, the Russians they charge are the ones who were sending the money to the Canadians.
This is Russia and Canada colluding to interfere with our elections, and I want a wall!
Stop these Canadians!
Well, I think you're correct in your being irked by the fact that the Canadians are seemingly getting off scot-free when it comes to who's really behind this.
Whose idea was it?
Was it the Canadians to begin with?
It sounds like it.
It sounds like it to me.
And I think there should be sanctions.
Throw them off Swift.
Let's get rid of them.
Let's throw the cannon off Swift.
Yeah, that'll do it.
So Tucker is on the road with his show, which is quite entertaining, I might say.
It's basically the Vote for Donald Trump show, but with interesting guests.
And he had Vivek, whoever he was, he's... Man, I wish we could do it.
He's got like thousands of people in these arenas.
And he just sits down with the guests and like, boom, done.
Buy some merch, see you later.
What a gig.
What a gig.
It's good.
It's good.
I'm happy for him.
Built up to it.
Yeah, I'm happy for him.
So this comes up on this, I guess you call it a show, with Yveke.
But this idea of Russian election interference in particular, let's trace the history of that in each of the last two elections.
Let's go to 2016.
The allegation of Russian election interference to support Donald Trump, when you double click on that and look at what was the actual foreign election interference there?
It was actually US election interference in the US election through the Steele dossier, but laundered through the narrative of actual Russian interference.
And actually, there was a Russian intermediary to perpetuate that attempt at election interference about Trump's Russia collusion hoax.
That's in 2016.
Now we get to 2020.
Again, domestic election interference is the systematic suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
That didn't happen by Russian companies.
It didn't happen by the Russian government.
It happened by U.S.
social media companies acting at the direction of deep state actors in the U.S.
government that suppressed probably a story whose suppression changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
But again, what did they say?
They said, no, no, no, this was Russian disinformation.
So now you're seeing a pattern.
In 2016, there's domestic... Hold on a second.
Yes.
Are you telling me people actually paid money to go into a big auditorium to listen to this?
Oh yeah, they love it!
You can hear it on TV for free!
People like live entertainment.
Oh, I'm sorry, you're categorizing this lecture as entertainment, okay.
So now you're seeing a pattern.
In 2016, there's domestic attempts at election interference, but they run it through a Russian smokescreen.
In 2020, there's domestic election interference, but they run it through a Russian smokescreen.
So this time around when I see Merrick Garland in the Department of Justice sitting under the Biden administration suddenly alleging election interference by the Russians.
I don't have any facts other than to say my radar goes off and says, I want to know where that election interference is actually beginning.
Canada!
Where's the big laughs?
I'm not hearing anything funny.
You know, I've watched a couple of these and here's the mistake he's making.
They do not have good crowd microphones.
The crowd is not well mic'd.
Not mic'd, yeah.
This is common.
It's, it's, it's a shame.
It's amateurish.
I've seen it.
I've seen it.
I was in a situation once where the crowd wasn't mic'd properly.
Yeah.
And I was, I was hilarious by the way.
Yeah.
And then you watched the video.
And I went and watched the thing as they streamed it and it was, there was no reaction.
It looked like an idiot up there making jokes with no, no response whatsoever.
No, you look like a dud.
I know it's, it's so typical for these, cause you know, I used to do, Concerts that were for, you know, concerts with a big audience and then it would also be broadcast on television back in Holland and we would always focus the crew.
It's not, you know, you're doing stuff, yes, make the house sound good, but the lights are also TV lights and the sound is also TV sound.
You have to focus on that.
They missed it on this.
Anyway.
I want to mention, we did have a producer that went to one of these events.
RFK Jr.
showed up as a special guest and he thought it was entertaining, but it was only filled a 14,000 seat arena with 12 by 12, 10 to 12,000.
So only, only 12,000?
Well, only 12,000.
Yeah.
What do they think?
10 bucks a head.
That's what?
It's good money.
Uh, yeah.
And then you get drinks, you get merch.
Parking.
Well, merch is probably where they make it.
You get a piece of parking.
You get a piece of the parking.
You get a VIP parking.
So, unfortunately, and there's a second follow-up clip here, they miss what we saw as obvious.
A lot of those allegations that they were somehow helping Trump, I actually got curious.
Actually, you could make strong arguments that a lot of these posts or whatever actually weren't helping Trump at all.
But the fact that they called that Russian election interference again just suggests to me that this may be part of a pattern of what we saw in 2016 and 2020.
So I don't really buy what they're selling on this.
Wow.
I think this is not a super clever group, right?
I think the problem is they are actually a super clever group.
I think that this is just the beginning of a volley.
So this one's not going to land.
I think the public fool me once, fool me twice.
The reality is I think there's going to be some weird things that happen in the next two months.
I think there are going to be some, depending on what happens in the debate.
So I'm going to the debate next week in Philadelphia.
It's going to be Tuesday.
Probably a Donald Trump demolition destruction of the other side.
But don't cheer too much, right?
Because I was at the last one and that's actually in some ways was a trap.
It was obviously a trap.
They scheduled the earliest ever presidential debate in US history.
Why did they do that?
It was obvious.
It was that they wanted to test Biden as a final trial balloon, and they got a free option.
Because if he did great, great.
They turned the race upside down.
But if Biden did as poorly as he did, they swapped him out.
It was something unthinkable that became the obvious.
So I think if we have another debate smackdown on Tuesday, as I... If I was a betting man, I'd predict that's what we're about to have.
I also would predict we're going to have some very strange things that happen on the back of that as well.
See, I think they missed it.
Our analysis was so clear to us.
This is about Ukraine.
Or, as we say, Ukraine.
You know, it's like, no, I don't think you're getting this right.
No, I would listen to all the analysis of this, of this Russian stuff.
And it was all, and they left out, they left out a lot.
They always left something out.
We caught it all.
You know, it was about Ukraine.
It had nothing to do with their trip at all.
We can't be saying Ukraine.
We have to say Ukraine.
Well, you just said it.
No, but, but no, that's, that's like saying Gaza.
This is for some reason all the in crowd which is not us is saying you crane Well, you just said it.
I said you crane or you crane and I said you crane Yeah, but you got but we I was accentuating a point that we don't say these things.
Oh, okay.
Well your crane Yeah Yes, that's exactly right, but that's not going to be picked up because that's not where the narrative is going to head.
And while all this is taking place... And by the way, I think we should stop right here and I think it's time to create a pool, a betting pool on where is... because Vivek is obviously an operative.
Where is he going to end up in the Trump administration?
Ambassador.
He's going to get a job.
Ambassador.
He's getting an ambassadorship.
To India, you think?
Just ship him off.
That's probably the best thing to do is to ship him off.
Vivek, great job.
Yeah, you need to ship him off to one of the BRICS countries so India would be perfect.
Let him go sit there.
I think that'd be good.
Yeah.
And he can, yeah, I think that's where I put my money in the pool.
India, ambassadorship, good to go.
So meanwhile, while everyone is running around talking about Russian disinformation that came from Canada, all the military-industrial complex came together in Rammstein.
The Rammstein Air Base.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Yeah, it's also an army base in Germany, and everybody was there, all the money was there, everyone was good to go, and we brought a big check.
The arrival appeared awkward, even if it was among friends.
Volodymyr Zelensky arriving at a meeting of defense ministers from allied countries, including the US, UK, and hosts Germany.
He, like his country's soldiers, once more on a mission to ensure Ukraine's partners were following through on promises to help it win its war with Russia.
A shortage of missiles and carburetors.
And this applies even to our territory, which is occupied by Russia, including Crimea.
We think it is wrong that there are such steps.
We need to have this long-range capability not only on the occupied territory of Ukraine, but also on the Russian territory.
Zelensky is frustrated that allies still haven't permitted Kiev to hit Russia inside its own borders using Western long-range missiles.
He believes this is a key way to put pressure on Moscow to end its two-and-a-half-year war on Ukraine.
But speaking after the meeting, U.S.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin appeared to indicate that Washington did not believe long-range capabilities would turn the tide of the war.
We had this discussion about other capabilities and each time we point out that it's not just one thing, it's a combination of capabilities and how you integrate those capabilities to achieve objectives.
Earlier on Friday, the U.S.
said it would be providing an additional $250 million in assistance, while the U.K.
and Germany also said they were providing equipment, including short-range missiles and howitzers.
Ukraine says it desperately needs to bolster its defenses.
So, of course we're not going to give him long-range weapons, because that could do one of two things.
It could start World War III, minor issue, but it would possibly end something, and they don't want that.
Keep burning stuff on that border, keep blowing stuff up.
You're doing a good job.
And who else was there?
Who else was in, in Rammstein?
Doing, I swear to God, doing Instagram reels?
With Zelensky, Lindsey Graham.
I'm here with President Zelensky.
I'm such an admirer of what you and your country have done.
We're trying to stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them.
They don't want any American troops.
You're going to stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them, you dope!
Trying to stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them.
They don't want any American troops.
They just need the weapons to free their country.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We don't want American troops on the ground.
Kill your own people.
...of a terrible invasion.
I know that's what's so funny.
Oh, it gets better.
It gets better.
He does a classic here.
It gets better.
...of a terrible invasion.
They're sitting on a trillion dollars worth of minerals that could be good to our economy.
So let's stop helping our friends in Ukraine.
We can win this.
They need our help.
Yes, we need and we have already The biggest help is the support of American people and support of our friends.
Thanks to Lindsey and his colleagues To congressmen and senators from the United States.
Thanks for this support bipartisan support.
Thank you so much Peace is coming Peace is coming right after we so I don't know if Zelensky is... He must be in on the game because no way is he gonna get any of the 26 trillion dollars worth of minerals that are in Ukraine's land.
No way!
You said it again.
I'm doing it on purpose now.
Lindsey Graham has been saying this, but no one ever calls him out on it or says this is the real reason for this war.
They're sitting on 10 to 12 trillion dollars of critical minerals in Ukraine.
They could be the richest country in all of Europe.
I don't want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China.
Or to Ukraine.
If we help Ukraine now, they can become the best business partner we ever dreamed of.
Sign here!
That 10 to 12 trillion dollars of critical mineral assets could be used by Ukraine and the West, not given to Putin and China.
This is a very big deal how Ukraine ends.
Let's help them win a war we can't afford to lose.
Let's find a solution to this war, but they're sitting on a gold mine.
Yeah, and this was months ago that he said this.
So, it's like, it's so obvious what is going on.
They've already given away all of the breadbasket of Europe to the big, you know, Monsanto and Cargill and, not Monsanto, Cargill, and who are the other guys who did the big ag?
Tyson probably.
I think Tyson.
I don't think Tyson's on this deal.
I'd rather have the Russians.
We're not getting paid Russian money, but I'm going to say it.
Not yet.
You're working on it.
I can hear you.
I see what you're doing.
The Russians should have them.
Let them do it because the one thing I've noticed about them is they're not gougers.
When they're giving all the gas and they're pumping it all into Europe and everyone's saying, oh, we're going to depend on it.
They're not, they're never gouged anybody.
They just let, they just let it, they take a look at it, take a small profit and then they dump it out there.
And you know, the gougers are, are, are looking for that, uh, that the wheat fields and the gougers are looking for the, uh, minerals.
The gougers are starving Africans with, with the wheat and the grain.
Yeah!
That is the negative side of capitalism.
So this brings me to a boots on the ground from one of our producers in Russia.
Who says?
I love your show!
I'm an American, currently studying... He's an American in Russia.
Yes.
We need to get Russians to listen.
You know, I want to stop right here and mention the people that are listening to the show that are in... I know in Spain they listen to the show and I visited with a few of them once and they said, well, the great thing about the show is you guys speak clearly and it's good for us to practice our English.
All world listeners out there should Pass it along to other people that are in the community, Russia and elsewhere.
Listen to the show so you can practice your English.
And we have transcripts in the Modern Podcast app so you can read along.
Unbelievable.
And learn how to spell Dvorak.
John C. John C. Love your show on American Currently Studying in Russia because it's cheap!
Just wanted to tell you what I've observed here in Russia regarding the Russo-Ukrainian War.
I think, and do believe, that there will never be a demilitarized zone in Russia, at least maybe inside of Ukraine.
The Kursk region will not be part of a demilitarized zone.
John touched on something I think is true.
In 1943, the Germans attacked the Kursk salient.
And to set up a trap, I think the Russians set the same trap in the Kursk region this time as well as there was nothing but green, this is a student, there's nothing but green conscripts guarding the border a little like October 7th.
Ah!
The total number of troops crossing the border at first was 1,000.
Once they got inside Russia, the Ukrainians put another 11,000 troops into the region.
As of now, the casualty numbers for the Ukrainians could be as high as 6,000 out of a total of 12,000 initial troop count.
But of course, you know, that's not reported.
Also, the Ukrainians gambled and lost that Russia would pull the troops from the entire Eastern Front to stop this incursion, which they didn't.
Right.
Ukrainians had to redeploy some of their forces from Kursk to Prokursk just to slow down the Russian advance.
John, you had a clip from YouTube channel, Military Summary Channel.
I know you two are busy and blah blah blah.
Finally, just let the dames, knights, and fellow producers know that Russians are really friendly, caring, and they have a great sense of dark humor.
They hold hands and hug.
That's for sure.
They hold hands and hug while drinking overpriced coffee, talking about how crappy their pop music is, and did you see that latest internet meme?
They could be Americans of the Eastern Hemisphere, which is maybe why our governments are at each other's throats sometimes.
Also, I can still get Coke and Pepsi here.
McDonald's and KFC just renamed themselves to Tasty Period and Rustics.
Well, tasty period.
Tasty period?
What kind of franchise marketing is that?
I don't know, but it doesn't sound right.
While Burger King hasn't even taken down their signs and are still open for business.
In my city's biggest mall, I even found a can of A&W Root Beer from America.
How do I know it's from America?
Ingredients in English.
And second ingredient was high fructose corn syrup.
Well, how about that?
That should be... Isn't that illegal?
Aren't they breaking sanctions by still operating in Russia?
Well, they use middlemen in some sort of a legal way, let's face it.
It's called a workaround.
And one of the things Americans are good at is workarounds.
We're good at that.
We can find them.
Reach around.
Well, that's different.
You're always mixing these things up.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
No wonder you keep screwing up.
So, now we have a report, I think France 24, it was maybe Deutsche Welle, and they bring in a military industrial complex shield, which the whole thing was all MIC.
Ukraine says it is concerned by foreign media reports that Iran has delivered short-range ballistic missiles to Russia.
They hear the Iran meme coming in now.
Moscow has stepped up missile and drone attacks in recent days, stretching Ukraine's air defenses.
Kiev and its allies have previously accused Iran of supplying Shahed drones to Russia, but Tehran denies supplying any weapons used to attack Ukraine.
Let's bring in the show!
What?
Well, so the story is... What?
What?
What?
Why are they making this assertion?
What difference does it make?
Well, here comes the shield.
Tell us why.
And we are now joined by Mark Canty, a former colonel in the U.S.
military, and now the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Colonel, why would Russia need Iranian missiles?
Does it not have enough of its own?
Well, it does not have enough on its own.
It has been producing ballistic missiles all along, often with parts smuggled in from global sources, but those haven't been enough to accomplish the ends that they're trying to accomplish, for example, attacking Ukrainian infrastructure, electricity, for example.
So they brought in ballistic missiles from North Korea, and now they're proposing to bring in ballistic missiles from Iran.
It's important to keep in mind that Iran has been supplying Russia with missiles all along, the Shaheed-136s that we just heard about.
Iran has been sending for about a year, and in fact they've set up a plant in Russia to produce these missiles, these kamikaze drones.
The ballistic missiles is a step up in support, but not fundamentally a change in policy.
Okay, so they're just bringing Iran into it for whatever reason.
We can kind of guess why.
And if you heard at the beginning of the... Well, of course!
They want war with Iran!
Anything!
More military-industrial complex financing, please!
I think, yeah, there's a bit of that, but... The whole story makes no logical sense.
For one thing, the claim is basically the Russians are losers, they can't even make their own damn missiles.
Well, where does it come from?
At the beginning of the report you heard, according to reports, Well, where did it come from?
It came from the chiefs of MI6 and CIA themselves, who appeared at a Financial Times conference just before the Rammstein conference.
Stepping out from the shadows for the first time together, a united front in an era of division and danger, such as claims that Iran has supplied Russia with ballistic missiles for its war in Ukraine.
Should Iran ship ballistic missiles of whatever kind, close range or other kinds, it would be a dramatic escalation of the nature of that defense partnership.
No confirmation, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a key... Hold on a second, wait.
So, uh, these are good clips by the way.
Thank you.
Um, the, uh, assertion, there's interesting cross purposes of assertions.
The first one was that, Oh no, they're not doing anything, but they're going to start doing it.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Which is, which we've known since day one that they've been, and we've seen pictures of the missiles.
I've written, I've shown pictures of the factories and the newsletter.
Six months ago to longer, maybe, of the factory in Iran, exactly the model numbers and everything that were for all these drones.
We have all the data, all the information, the missile lands and it doesn't blow up and they can see, they take pictures of it and put those in the newsletter.
It's all been documented, but now all of a sudden they haven't really been doing any of that, but they're going to start to.
Are you kidding me?
They think that we're that stupid?
Well, please bear in mind, for the first time ever in public together, it's the chief of the CIA, Burns, and the chief of MI6, Moore, who are telling us this, so now we can believe it.
Of the nature of that defense partnership.
No confirmation, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a key focus for the spy chiefs.
They applaud a recent incursion by Kiev in the opposite direction, with Ukrainian troops snatching parts of Russian land.
It's typically audacious and bold on the part of the Ukrainians.
Oh, so bold on the part of the Ukrainians!
Audacious!
To try and change the game, in a way.
And I think they have.
Yes, you want to say something?
No, I was just saying, I was just listening to the man talk.
He's ahead of MI6!
To try and change the game.
In a way.
And I think they have, to a degree, changed the narrative around it.
The Kursk offensive is a significant tactical achievement.
It's not only been a boost in Ukrainian morale, it has exposed some of the vulnerabilities of Putin's Russia and of his military.
Despite the blow, Vladimir Putin is still deemed to be looking strong for now.
I don't see any evidence today that Putin's grip on power is weakening.
He does one thing really well, and that's repress people at home.
Yeah, I mean, just don't ever confuse a tight grip with a stable grip.
So all he does is oppress people at home with, I don't know, Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, A&W Root Beer, Pepsi's, and then what does he actually come out and say?
An endorsement made in jest.
Speaking as a guest at a forum in East Russia, Vladimir Putin candidly suggested that Kamala Harris was his preferred candidate for November's US presidential election.
She has such an expressive and infectious laugh.
It shows she's doing well.
I mean, Trump, he's imposed more restrictions and sanctions on Russia than any president has ever imposed before.
And if Mrs. Harris is doing well, maybe she'll refrain from doing something like that.
The comments were met with laughter by the audience, adding to the mocking theme of the remarks, a common trend whenever Putin has talked on social issues in the United States.
The Russian president had earlier this year backed outgoing President Joe Biden over Trump, claiming he was more predictable.
But Trump, for his part, said he was left feeling split over Putin's latest comments.
I don't know exactly what to say about that.
I don't know if I'm insulted or he did me a favor.
The US National Security Council meanwhile called on Putin to stop talking about American elections and to stop interfering with them.
Stop talking about us!
This is great!
It's like he's trolling!
Totally.
He has picked up a clue, yeah.
He is trolling.
In fact, I'd like to have somebody else translate what he said, because I've been skeptical.
This clip came out some time back, and I was skeptical about its translation.
Well, that's a good point.
Although this translation, the one I heard was a woman translator, and this one was a male, so it's slightly different.
Well, the reason I picked this one is, it's France 24, and they had a much more coherent translator.
The translation was the same as the Russian translator, the clip that we all saw.
And the thing that made me suspicious about the clip was that when he talked about Kamala's infectious laugh, basically, or cackling, the audience cracked up as if they'd heard it, and I don't know why they would.
Well, they've heard her laugh.
Why would they have heard Kamala cackling?
Why would they have heard any of it?
It's like some minor little picadillo that, say, some politician in Portugal might have.
And if you mention it to an American audience, they'd all laugh about it, when we would have no clue.
It just didn't make any sense to me that they'd heard her laughing like that.
Oh, come on!
They've got McDonald's!
I'm serious.
I don't see any reason that a Russian National would have ever heard anything Kamala Harris ever said.
I dispute that.
I think that the Russians are all over listening to what's going on with us.
Why not?
I just don't see it.
For one thing, she's never said anything important.
Listen, that's the only thing she's known for is that laugh.
Yeah, to us.
The world over.
The Dutch are talking about it.
I see it in the Dutch press.
So, I mean, not quite Russia, but not far off.
So, I don't know.
We'll look for a... I just said it made me skeptical.
I mean, I didn't know that the Dutch were all aware of the stupid laugh, but... Everyone's aware of the stupid laugh.
See, I dispute that.
Now you used the word dispute, so I used it back.
Yeah, you can dispute it all you want.
Now, will they know that she all of a sudden starts talking southern and black?
No.
No, that I think they wouldn't know.
Until now!
Without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia.
Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida.
I'm gonna get into some business now.
Okay.
You all helped us win in 2020, and we're gonna do it again in 2024.
Well, what are you gonna do about it?
He does not walk it like he talks it.
When we get this done together, my friend, do I see these testifiers?
Can I get a witness?
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
Best rapper alive.
Tupac.
Are you kidding me?
I'm totally part of that whole listening generation of music.
Young men of color, black men.
It's not just a barbershop.
We got these brothers out there.
This one brother who's doing a lot of work out in space.
We have to stay woke.
Let's get a ceasefire.
There must be an immediate ceasefire.
Like everybody needs to be woke.
Just stay more woke than less woke.
Leave grandma's medical marijuana alone!
I didn't know he could preach like that!
You better thank a union member!
You better thank a union member for sick leave!
You better thank a union member for paid leave!
You better thank a union member for vacation time!
We don't!
I also worked at McDonald's.
There you go.
See, the Russians didn't know about that.
They do now.
Hello, Russia!
Yeah, the one or two Russians that listen to this show.
They gotta get more people listening.
Yes, I agree.
Hit some Russians in the mouth.
Not a call for violence.
Eh, okay.
Well, I've opened the show.
Over to you, Bob.
Well, my totality of Ukraine clips is from PBS.
It's a 22-second clip which summarized what was You didn't even touch upon, but it did summarize the Ukraine war for the last week, and you might as well play it.
In Ukraine, Russian drone attacks are getting dangerously close to the country's capital.
Ukraine's air force said that across the country overnight, it shot down nearly 60 long-range drones.
Debris and shrapnel fell onto streets and keys, some of it narrowly missing the country's parliament building.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Italy today.
He's meeting with European leaders to try to shore up support and ask for more aid.
Money!
Looking for money, money, money!
Come on, man, give me some money!
Yeah, that guy's gotta go.
No, he's perfect.
He's, I mean, he's perfect for the whole... He's gotta go.
He's perfect for the whole system.
I'm sick of the system being exploited.
That's our money.
It's your money, my money.
Everyone that listens to this show, it's their money.
They're just stealing money.
No, I feel your dismay.
I'm just pointing out the obvious.
The guy's not going to go.
He's fantastic.
Look, when we send another $250 million or if we make decisions about long-range missiles, why is it only Lloyd Austin that talks about it?
Where's our president?
Isn't he the one?
He can't get it out.
Isn't he the one that should be telling us what we're doing?
No, they just send over generals and contractors, and they all sit at a long desk, and Zelensky's there, and, oh yeah, you're good, man.
Yeah, keep it going, brother!
Yeah!
We want more stuff.
Oh, you did a great job.
I have another clip we'll play.
This is the drone.
It says Dones.
Hit Kiev.
This is the counter clip.
This is a longer clip.
NPR does a better job on the weekends.
Oh, they did 33 seconds.
Oh, nice.
Here we go.
Russia continued to bomb Ukraine today, striking near the parliament in the country's capital, Kyiv, during the early hours.
The country's air force said nearly 70 drones were used and most were shot down with air defenses.
No deaths were reported in the capital, but elsewhere in Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Dnipro, local officials say Russian attacks injured or killed at least four people.
This as funeral services were held for victims of an earlier Russian attack on Poltava, that killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds.
You see, no mention of money there.
No, but the horrible, the reason why it's a 33 second report is because even NPR knows no one in America cares anymore about this.
We've, we're immune.
We're like, I agree.
I agree with that.
So they're trying to keep their audience.
So PBS, so they got to do more anti-Trump stuff and less stuff about these wars or anything.
Yes, that's what you need.
Do more, you know, the, I didn't clip any of it, but the latest, And I heard this on the media from NPR.
The trend is to say, we're not reporting right on Trump.
We're translating his incoherent blather because he's old.
He's old and he can't speak.
He's old and senile.
And senile.
And so we're translating it.
We should be playing and saying exactly what he said because no one understands it.
This is the new move.
You've got to make Trump sound stupid.
Well, the problem is that they don't have enough air time.
Because his, what he calls the weave, it takes too long.
It takes way too long for him to get to a point.
Oh, it takes forever.
That's his whole thing.
He's just an audience hog.
That's the only way to describe it.
He goes up there and yaks, yaks, yaks.
And he tries to do material.
I had a clip here that actually discusses this.
Well, this is the trend, so I'm glad that you're on it, because I didn't get anything.
Here's NPR.
This says NPR.
I put M instead of an N. Randomly ripping Trump on his tariffs and some others.
This is just a random NPR rip.
Man, I wish I could find it.
You confuse me.
M-P-R.
M as in Mary.
I'm looking at M. Oh, M-P-R.
Yes, I got you.
Former President Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Mosony, Wisconsin this afternoon, a speech that went on for more than an hour and a half.
The rally was part of a swing state push both campaigns are doing with less than two months until Election Day.
NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports.
Trump made many of his usual arguments, like railing against the quote, fake news and casting undocumented immigrants as dangerous.
See, this is what they want.
They want, hey, hey, you can't do that anymore.
You have to verbatim report what he said because he's, he has cognitive issues.
He also repeatedly- Well, he would stop before you finish that, or that thought.
The way they begin the report as though he went on for an hour and a half like he's a rambling old man.
He does 145 once in a while.
An hour and a half in the modern era is short.
And you wonder why people pay money to go see Tucker and Vivek.
People love the live show.
Can't afford Oasis tickets.
So you might as well go to either the free Trump show, which is... Oh yeah, now that you mention it, what does a Taylor Swift ticket cost?
Oh, if you can get one.
I've been just like 500 bucks and up.
I've been hitting refresh for hours.
Also repeatedly promoted tariffs.
We will charge other countries when their product is sent into our country.
And why shouldn't we?
That's exactly what they do.
That's what made China strong.
Foreign countries do not pay tariffs.
Businesses importing goods to the U.S.
do.
Tariffs can be attempts to protect domestic industry.
But economists say many of tariffs' costs are passed on to U.S.
consumers.
As president, Trump imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods.
President Joe Biden kept tariffs on Chinese goods in place.
Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
Now, okay, this is an interesting report because they go on to condemn him for tariffs.
Yeah, but Biden did it too.
And then casually, yeah, casually just kind of mentioned, just to balance the report, I'm not sure why they even did it.
Well, there's a- They mentioned that- Go ahead.
Well, I thought you had something to say there.
No, go ahead.
So what they did was they set it up with all this guy's terrible.
Oh, by the way, Biden did the same thing.
They only did that because it because they would be condemned by the media watchers for not saying, hey, wait a minute.
Why is it so bad when Trump does it?
But it's OK when Biden does it, which is really what the comeback.
So they slip it in at the end as though you won't notice.
So it's very poor.
So I've seen a couple of things that make me question Well, I mean, if you look at the headlines today, neck and neck, it's very close, within the margin of error.
It's a horse race, everybody.
Oh, it's crazy.
It's so close.
So close.
I don't know if they're trying to pull Trump's numbers up a little bit or... Money!
I don't know.
Yes.
I don't know what PBS was thinking with this.
So instead of playing crazy Trump, let's play something from the crazy Trump voters.
And are they crazy?
I spoke to another Trump supporter woman who really... Why don't they say voters?
They always say supporters.
Have you ever noticed that?
That's a good... I'll have to start looking for that.
They say fans or supporters or... Anyway.
I spoke to another Trump supporter woman who really spouted a series of conspiracy theories.
She was someone being trained for this Trump Force 47, potentially.
She was in that meeting.
She's going to be one of those people trying to persuade others.
She was in that meeting.
I didn't stay for the actual training, but she was there for that event.
And she told me... Trump Force 47.
She said, I didn't stay for the actual... Wait, why didn't she stay?
Because it would rot her brain and she'd become a Trump supporter.
She didn't want the programming.
I don't know.
This is Trump Force 47.
If you're reporting on something, even if you didn't stay, why would you say that?
It seems to me that you, especially if you're NPR or PBS, whatever this is, same thing.
I think this was, these are on YouTube.
These are like Zoom calls.
You can sign up to become part of Trump Force 47.
Okay.
Okay.
Yes.
I'd like it a lot, actually.
I like the whole idea of Trump Force 47.
Yeah, okay, well you can just keep playing, sorry.
I didn't stay for the actual training, but she was there for that event, and she told me, you know, I believe Joe Biden died three years ago.
You know, and I told her, you know that sounds like a conspiracy theory, you know that's hysterical.
Well, boy, she countered it.
She said, oh, no, that's a conspiracy theory.
You know that, right?
And I told her, you know that sounds like a conspiracy theory.
You know that's a stereotype against Trump voters.
And she said, I know that, but this is true.
So I talked to the first woman, the suburban woman, a Trump voter.
I said, you know, these are the other supporters of Donald Trump.
These are the same people in your party supporting him.
And she said, you know, I think that's just crazy.
You know, so they're really on different pages.
They're both behind Donald Trump, but neither one are quite seeing the full picture of his support and what he stands for to everyone who supports him.
is they're saying there's such a wide array of people who are all in on Trump.
They're baffled by it.
Yes, they're baffled.
Exactly.
Like the crazy ones and the other ones say, OK, well, she's crazy, but it's all right.
They cannot fathom that people just want an agenda or, you know, they want a platform or they want something, anything but what we have.
They can't.
Lockstep is the way they are.
And the thing that still fascinates me to go back to it This was agenda with Trump 47 I guess force whatever it's called.
Trump force 47.
Trump force 47 training and you had the opportunity to go to get in on it as a reporter and you so you could report on exactly what the training was and how it works.
What kind of a reporter are you?
There's, I'm seeing all kinds.
I'm asking you, I'm just genuinely asking you.
I hear you.
I hear you.
It's PBS reporters, what she is.
Would you like to come to our conspiracy theory meeting?
I know we don't usually let the press in, but if you come in, it's okay.
It'll be okay for you to come in and spy on us.
No problem.
And you don't do it?
I hereby invite... Are you nuts?
I hereby invite any PBS reporter to come to my vape shop meetings.
Because you'd love them.
You'd love to hear the ranchers.
Unbelievable.
I know.
So, now, it's interesting how we kind of switched up beats.
I was just looking at the titles of your clips.
So, you brought in the Christian nationalism last time and CBS, and that was, I think, NPR, CBS did a series, you know, a little report, and it sounded to me like they're actually trying to get the non-voting evangelicals out to vote.
Which makes no sense.
Because that's the whole, you know, as we've discussed, the whole problem is that the evangelicals, the Christians, the Christian nationalists, they don't vote.
So they do a story where they say, hey, these guys don't vote.
Under a massive circus tent in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Lance Wall now is the ringleader, preaching Christian nationalism and political activism to a rapturous following.
Rapturous!
I missed that the first time I heard it.
A rapturous following.
Unless you learn how to mobilize and how to move in at a local level, then you're letting the devil dominate your culture.
Wallnau, 68, is a business consultant, self-proclaimed prophet, and firebrand influencer in the growing charismatic Christian movement.
Oh, wow.
I want that on my business card.
Firebrand.
Just put it on.
Firebrand.
Firebrand.
He views Trump as a once-in-a-thousand-years figure, flawed yet divinely chosen to navigate chaotic times.
I caught that idea in 2015 when I first met Trump.
And I got a lot of pushback after he got elected, because they were searching around for, how could the evangelicals justify voting?
For some, you know, barbaric character like Trump and the hypocrites that they are.
Wall now admits that Trump, twice divorced and roundly accused of other moral failings, does not align with traditional evangelical expectations.
I said, listen, give the guy some time.
He doesn't know who we are, but his values resonate with our community.
God's raising up an outsider.
Wall Now headlines the so-called Courage Tour, a religious roadshow that aims to mobilize religious conservatives to vote and serve as election workers in key counties.
So that's just the setup, but then we get closer into it and I really think CBS... So the reporter is Major Garrett.
Yes.
That's who that is.
And he is He's kind of on the fence.
He used to be with Fox.
And he's always been on the fence with Trump because Trump has called him out as a douchebag more than once.
Good point, good point.
So we should keep that in mind.
Well, it doesn't matter.
It still has to go through the CIA broadcast systems board.
That's true, the editors.
Yeah.
In Trump, evangelicals don't see an abrasive thrice-married billionaire.
They do see an anti-establishment leader strong on abortion, gender issues, and Israel.
I want people to vote because he stands for something.
Jackie Brokaw lives in Wisconsin and attended the Courage Tour with her brother.
The number of Christians that are in this area, if they would vote, they could swing this county, which would probably swing the rest of the state.
What we are seeing here today is the most targeted and tactical voter mobilization effort done by Christian nationalists ever.
Matthew Taylor has written extensively about this new form of religious activism that fuses political outcomes with divine intervention.
What is the political import, possibly, in the 2024 election of events like this?
Well, if Trump wins, then that becomes a part of the impetus that Donald Trump can say, I don't just have a democratic mandate, I have a divine mandate to change the country in accordance with the biblical values that these folks claim to have.
Yeah, Trump's gonna be, yeah, that's right, God, God did it for me.
And here comes the final, uh, the final pitch, I think, from Major Garrett.
January 6th was not an insurrection, it was an election fraud intervention.
2020 election denialism is core to Walnau's worldview, and the terminology at his revivals is apocalyptic.
It's not us that's dangerous, it's them!
Describing a spiritual battle between pious believers and demons who speak through Democrats or liberals.
Yes!
It's not just the person.
Demons!
It's a spiritual force.
Demonic, or?
Demonic, yeah.
They can influence people with bodies.
He believes hyper-focused Christian political energy can overcome those perceived obstacles.
The tendency to just look at elections, pray about them, eat popcorn, watch the result, and then go to bed is over.
Christians as believers probably should be engaged in this process of shaping culture far more aggressively and intentionally from now on.
As for their impact on the election, God only knows.
For CBS Mornings, I'm Major Garrett in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
So that is, he literally is helping the message.
It's better than Trump's message.
Well maybe again the CIA, we have talked about this on and off and on and off, which is is it possible they really want Trump to win?
Yeah.
And the whole thing is just a smokescreen for like trying to get Trump to win somehow.
Well, this report felt like it, and I can tell you that churches around America are speaking like this.
I don't know if you want to call them Christian nationalists or extremists, but there's a big movement out there trying to do exactly this, and CBS just helped.
Very interesting.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Anderson Cooper brought out a whopper of lies.
We begin tonight with the former president, campaign politics, his legal troubles, and lies.
He finished his day in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed him, and he had this to say about a violent attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband.
You know that?
Nancy Pelosi has a big wall wrapped around her house.
Of course, it didn't help too much with the problems she had, did it?
That's the former president speaking to members of law enforcement, making light of the first time, I should point out, of the violent attack against Paul Pelosi.
A home invader beat Mr. Pelosi with a sledgehammer and fractured his skull.
Not a sledgehammer.
What?
A sledgehammer?
We saw the video.
He's holding a regular claw hammer.
A sledgehammer.
We all saw it.
It's like, okay, pooper.
A sledgehammer, no less.
Gotcha.
Hey, by the way, the fraternal order of police.
Are those the guys that always call me asking for money?
Sometimes they call.
I mean, nowadays they have this new guy.
They have a new... With the big heavy voice?
Hey, hi there.
The guy with the big voice, which is an AI voice.
Oh.
And he's, it's an AI character, which is easy to hang up on because you don't have to make an excuse.
Yeah, you're right.
And yes, you're right.
It is an AI.
An AI guy says, hi, how you doing?
You know, this is a nightcrawler.
Don't hang up because he laughs about something.
But he has a good voice.
He's got a beautiful voice.
Hi, this is Sergeant Pete from the Fraternal Order of Police.
Are you interested in protecting police?
Yeah, he's got a big voice.
This guy's got a great voice.
And it comes, I get that call about once every couple of months.
Yeah, a couple of months.
I get it too.
And it's the same guy, it's the same voice, and now it's an AI, so it's not, it's, and it interacts, it's an interactive AI, so you can say something to it, except, are you an AI voice?
And then you hear the thing going to a stall as it tries to dredge up an answer to that.
I don't know what to say.
They gotta fix this, because if you're gonna do that, They got to come up with a quicker response.
Yeah.
Because every time you, you call it out as a robot or AI, it goes into a long loop and then it comes back with, Oh no, I'm not AI.
I'm a real person.
It's terrible.
It is terrible.
And it's so easy to spot and very easy to hang out.
I'm not AI.
Yeah.
So I want to call out the press on all sides about this bullcrap Dick Cheney endorsement.
You'd think that Dick Cheney was out there with his heart in his shoulder bag, which he has.
He has that battery-powered thing that keeps his heart going if he's still alive.
Yeah, he has a heart.
It's amazing how long this guy can live.
But it wasn't Dick Cheney.
He didn't come out and say that.
No, this happened in Texas at the, what was this, the Texas Tribune interview of his daughter.
Dick Cheney, your father, a beloved figure among Democrats for many, many years.
Do you, if you know who he will be supporting or who he'll be voting for, do you care to share with us who he might be voting for?
Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris.
That's the extent of the so-called Dick Cheney endorsement.
I thought there was a press release that came out from Dick Cheney saying he would support Kamala.
Well, I haven't seen it.
I've only seen headlines.
There was a tweet, maybe.
People are calling for an intervention of your ex-usage.
They're very concerned about you.
As long as my numbers go up and they have been going up, I'm keeping it up.
This is good for the show.
Come on, there's funny stuff in there.
Yeah, there is funny stuff.
We're just worried that you're too caught up in it.
People love you, John.
That's why.
Just want to make sure you're okay.
Blink twice.
I can handle it!
So we finished the whole series of Veep with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and I've been looking at all these parallels with Kamala Harris.
And there was near the end, she's doing this negotiation with the Chinese and it turns out the campaign manager she hired is working for the Chinese and they kill her ex-husband.
So throughout the thread of the entire back end of the series, her PR guy, Stupid Mike, who is stupid, he's trying to adopt a kid from China.
And they're at Camp David when she's temporarily president, and she pisses off the Chinese, and then all of a sudden, you know, the Chinese say, we've now stopped all adoptions of children from China!
And then this story pops up today!
China says it is ending most foreign adoptions of Chinese children.
The announcement puts hundreds of American and other foreign families with pending application, their adoptions in limbo.
The only exceptions would be for foreigners adopting the children or stepchildren of blood relatives in China.
Since the early 90s, the country has sent tens of thousands of adoptees overseas, with about half arriving in the U.S.
For decades, China only allowed couples to have one child, forcing many families to put their children up for adoption.
But to slow down a falling birth rate, the government reversed the policy.
No, I don't think so.
I think that, uh... This is a couple of days ago, by the way.
Yeah, I know.
It's retaliation.
We said today.
Huh?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm just getting the timeline correct.
Thank you.
It's retaliation.
They don't want whatever Kamala's doing with China, they don't like it.
Which could be... By the way, I think you may be light-hearted when you say that, but people are trying to adopt kids.
You might be right.
Well?
It really upsets people who are into adopting kids, because for one reason or another, sometimes they can't have kids, they have to adopt.
But they like kids.
No, seriously.
Yeah.
This is cutting off a stream of possible kids that they can raise.
A stream of kids?
Well, it could be because of the export controls that were announced.
You heard about this?
I'm not sure.
Well, it's from NTD, so you know when it's about China.
It must be true.
Must be true.
And it also hits on another one of my favorite topics.
Washington has a new plan for stemming the flow of advanced microchips to Beijing.
The Commerce Department came out with new rules Thursday.
From now on, companies looking to export technology and tools related to quantum computing have to apply for export licenses.
Oh, quantum computing!
You don't say!
Are we pivoting?
The new restrictions are meant to prevent Beijing from using that technology to advance its own military.
Semiconductors are critical to military power as they're required for the most advanced weapons and equipment.
The guidelines didn't name China, but they exist.
expand similar restrictions that the U.S. previously put in place.
The rules are effective immediately.
The expert controls cover a number of things.
Quantum computing items, advanced tools for making microchips, and a piece of key technology used in chips for supercomputers.
Samsung has started using this technology to make one of the globe's most advanced chips.
Though there are exemptions, friendly countries like Japan already have their own export controls.
So entities in those countries are not subject to the new U.S.
export controls.
Washington's new action comes after China found new ways to get around restrictions.
So, quantum computing, no longer AI, which I found interesting, now that NVIDIA is crashing.
I know it's up 100% year over year, but still.
It's bringing down the whole market.
And they've coerced the Dutch into this.
Like, hey, you ASML Dutch guys, you're not going to export, right?
Because, you know, quantum computing is important for advanced weaponry.
The U.S.
previously banned Chinese companies from getting their hands on certain powerful AI chips, but some Chinese firms have been able to utilize computing power generated from these chips with a workaround by using U.S.
cloud computing companies like Amazon Web Services.
The Commerce Department said it expects to see similar export restrictions from friendly countries.
The Netherlands is following Washington's footsteps.
The country is home to the world's leading supply of microchip-producing equipment, ASML.
The gear allows companies to mass-produce advanced chips.
On Friday, the Dutch government said it would expand export licensing requirements for some of ASML's chipmaking equipment.
Yeah, that's right.
Shut up, Dutchies.
Do what we say.
I just thought it was interesting that, you know, you ban the supply of kids from China right around the same time that you put export restrictions on quantum computing chips.
Is quantum computing really one chip?
All I see is these spaceship things that you see.
Google quantum computing.
They wish it was one ship that worked.
Yeah, of course it's not that worked.
Exactly.
The word worked is the key here.
I love it.
Even though we've been bullshitted into thinking it does.
I'm extremely skeptical.
I mean, you may be skeptical about AI.
I totally believe quantum computing is a non-starter.
I'm just as skeptical of quantum as I am of AI.
My question is, who is our first.
Who is making these so-called quantum chips?
What company?
I have no idea.
They kind of hinted Samsung's got something to do with this, although that same assertion about Samsung could apply to AI chips.
The way they said it was vague.
It's vague.
I'm just going to stick with the technology for a moment.
We have a lot of dudes named Ben out there and dudettes named Bernadette who maintain many systems of the Windows variety.
This goes back to the CrowdStrike bug that brought down the entire world for a little bit, stopped hospitals from operating, stopped airlines from flying, except for Southwest.
The team over at the Pirate Software Podcast had an interesting deconstruction, which I'd like to know if you saw this happen, and you can probably go back in the logs and check, within your own IT infrastructure.
So the interesting thing that I'm kind of waiting on right now is you have Windows and you have CrowdStrike, right?
Initially, I believe that CrowdStrike is at fault for this.
And the reason why is because CrowdStrike pushed an update And then everything broke in Windows because this update was in place only for CrowdStrike-related machines.
But it's not that simple.
Windows pushed an update, and CrowdStrike pushed an update, and everything was fine.
And apparently, Windows has then pushed another update, and then everything broke.
Now, the interesting part about this is that the machines were fine initially under this configuration, and Windows changing that configuration caused this problem to occur, which then leads into a really weird legal territory, which is, whose fault is this?
Is it Windows' fault because they changed that configuration?
Should they have changed that configuration?
Or is it CrowdStrike's fault because it caused the system to die under that configuration that wasn't the initial one that they pushed that update on?
Usually, inside of the tech space, we would blame the individualized program, not the operating system.
The operating system would not be at fault here.
But legally speaking, we don't know.
So I thought this was fascinating.
It happened on a Friday, which is not typical for a Windows update.
No, they always happen on Tuesdays.
And the thing is, I find it peculiar that he keeps saying Windows instead of Microsoft.
Yeah, I didn't like that either.
But Windows is not a company.
But that could just be semantics.
So what he's saying is that Windows pushed an update, CrowdStrike pushed an update, and everything was fine, but then Windows pushed an update.
And remember, we had that Azure outage, which was really odd.
We don't quite understand the timing of that, which you would think is Windows machines.
Who knows?
It's probably all running Linux.
Remember Hotmail was running on Linux?
Remember that?
Microsoft bought it and said, Oh my God, we got to recode the whole thing.
Got to put it on NT.
So I'd like to know, are dudes named Ben out there?
Let me know if you have any evidence that that happens.
Because that would change some potential liability.
Or not.
It's EULA's, you know, or not.
Hmm.
I haven't heard that particular.
I like the idea of it.
So what else are these guys talking about?
I think I should listen to this podcast.
Uh, it's a little, it's a little tedious.
Um, you know, cause it's four guys and they're yucking it up and they're all talking together and they're drawn on white boards and, um, it's the, uh, pirate software podcast.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Good guys.
I like them.
I like them.
I like what they did there.
All right.
Let's see what we got here.
Let's go with, you brought up the issue of the Chinese adoption, so we might as well go to a series that was done on PBS, actually an exposition on family planning that I thought was kind of interesting, because it has a kicker.
Last year, the U.S.
birth rate hit a record low.
But data suggests that over the past 30 years, the number of adults who want or wish they had children has remained relatively stable.
So why aren't they having children or expanding their families?
Ali Rogin explores some of the complexities of today's family planning.
Over the past few weeks, we've been speaking with Americans who say they want to have a child or grow their families about why they're hesitant to do so.
Their answers were varied and complex, just like the solutions they said would help them change their minds.
Grow your family.
Reminds me of... So I stopped it here thinking, well this might be an interesting report.
Then it turns out that as you listen and listen and listen, it is just a pro... it's a Kamala Harris promotional piece.
Of course.
I always wanted kids.
I love kids.
Before you play this second part, it cuts into a Interviews with just a random, they have a person, then they say, boy, they don't like having kids.
And then another person, they just one after the other, after the other, after the other.
And you can start to hear the Kamala Harris promotion within what these people are complaining about.
None of them, by the way, look like they ever, I'm sorry, none of them look like they want to have kids anyway, but OK.
I always wanted kids.
I love kids.
But economically, I don't really know of anyone who can swing it anymore.
Even parents that are working full-time, they can't afford childcare.
They don't have a village to help them raise them.
I'm grateful that we are in a stable financial situation.
Still, it's difficult to raise a child.
We don't have any family close by.
We have friends who also have kids.
Is she Chinese?
Is this a Chinese lady?
No, she was Spanish.
Oh.
So they are also busy taking care of their families.
It's difficult.
We don't have anyone.
Every year there comes out a new statistic of whether or not we've hit the turning point for climate change.
And that's something that I take into consideration when it comes to starting a family because I don't want to raise a child in a world that every year gets closer and closer to becoming uninhabitable.
Oh!
So, Kamala Harris climate change, OK, you better bring it home in the kicker.
Well, let's bring it home in the kicker.
If universal child care was an option and we didn't have to worry about that, if universal health care was an option and, you know, I wouldn't have to wonder if I can anticipate, you know, regular maternal care, high quality maternal care while I was pregnant, then yeah, we absolutely would have made an effort to expand our family for sure.
Yes.
Because, of course, that's the $6,000.
That's exactly it.
Her two main things is, you know, having universal child care because you can't keep your own child, so you have to have somebody else.
You want the government to take care of your child, and you want the government to take over the medical system.
So there you go.
That's the camelot thing.
It went on, and if I played the whole thing, you'd start to hear it.
No, I heard it.
It's all about the camelot.
Yeah, it makes sense.
And, you know, Sir Brian Barron of the Connecticut River Valley, Uh, he went searching for the 19 million new business applications.
Ah.
Which I love because, you know, that's what Time Talent Treasure is all about.
Yeah, totally.
We have the best producers in the universe.
He says, ah, I found it.
The so-called new business application in the 19 million claim is filing a form SS-4 to obtain an employer identification number from the IRS.
Of which of course, you know, 10 million will probably never do anything with it.
Oh.
So it's a little specious.
That's a good catch.
Yeah.
Congratulations on that.
Yeah.
Which I thought was a very good catch.
Yeah, more BS.
Yeah, that's not exactly a new business filing, but okay.
We'll take it.
We'll take it.
Um, brought up climate change.
Do you mind if I?
Yeah, good.
I got some climate change clips.
I'll start it off with the latest climate change.
This is what Asia's most powerful storm so far this year looks like.
Maximum sustained winds in excess of 230 kilometers per hour battered southern China, damaging everything in its path from buildings to trees.
At least two people were killed and dozens injured in Hainan province.
Hundreds of thousands of homes were left without power, transport links were suspended, schools closed, and millions of people were told to avoid going out.
Yagi has doubled in strength from tropical storm to super typhoon since it hit the Philippines earlier this week, killing more than a dozen people there.
A super typhoon has the same damaging effects as a Category 5 hurricane.
China, Vietnam, and Laos are all in its path.
Scientists say typhoons are becoming stronger and more frequent as a result of warmer ocean temperatures due to climate change.
Due to climate change.
There it is!
Due to climate change!
It's all climate change.
Everything is climate change.
It's all climate change.
Of course, we have some kind of... They've never had a super typhoon before.
You know, I was in Taiwan once during a typhoon.
Oh, there you go.
It was interesting.
Okay, it's John's story time.
So I went to a department store to do some shopping as this thing was coming in before I get back to the hotel.
And I've never had quite this experience before.
But it started raining, so you couldn't... It was like, the rain was like...
It's like a deep fog.
You couldn't see five feet in front of you, but you had to make a run for it to get to a taxi to get out of there.
And one step, I can still remember there's one step into it to get out of the store.
Soaked from head to foot in like one second.
Shoes ruined just instantly.
And it's just quite fascinating to get that wet that fast.
It's like jumping into a pool.
And did people point at you and say, due to climate change?
No, everybody.
Yes, they all said climate change.
A lot of broken umbrellas, let's put it that way.
Oh, that'll happen.
So, I guess the western part of, the southwestern part of the United States, we've got Arizona, we have Los Angeles, the heat dome moved over there, also known as summer.
In Texas, it's been, how about that, we've been to Mexico, it's been, it's very humid, but it's been 84 degrees, you know, it's nice, it's beautiful weather.
Hawaii weather, yeah.
And a Texas 72, 74 rain.
It's cold!
For Texas!
For the hill country!
The heart of Texas.
Um, so I don't know how the averages work, but you've obviously got to know it's the hottest year on record.
It's the hottest year on record.
It's likely to hit 108 degrees today in Phoenix, Arizona, and tomorrow, and the next day.
That's nothing!
That's low for Phoenix, Arizona.
I haven't been to Phoenix, Arizona in the summer, like now, and it's...
It's unbelievably hot.
Yeah.
You can't even get back into your car if you if you have to leave it outside.
You can't get back into it.
You have to take your key.
You have to try to open the door with like a napkin or so.
You need something because you burn your hand on the door handle.
You get the door open.
You reach and turn.
You put the key into the ignition.
Anyone in Arizona knows this.
Put the key in the ignition.
Start it up the car and turn on the air conditioner and wait five to ten minutes before getting in.
Yeah.
Before getting in.
And this is where us being somewhat older, or as they say in Mexico, añejo.
It's also the name of an aged tequila.
Well, that's why I brought it up.
Añejo.
We're like fine aged tequila.
Uh, we know that this is nothing new.
I've been to Arizona as a kid.
It was hot.
I've been to Nevada.
It's really hot.
We, as kids, we went to, I remember our parents took, I don't know, we were in Vegas.
I don't remember why, but I must've been nine.
So a good 51 years ago.
And we literally did the old, oh, let's, let's boil an egg.
Let's fry an egg on the pavement.
And it worked.
You know, it's... So anyway, it's horrible.
It's 108 in Phoenix, Arizona.
This past Tuesday, Phoenix officially recorded a record-breaking 100 straight days of heat at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
And since the heat dome over the southwest has not budged, that record is likely to continue to go up.
Today will be 104 days of 100-degree weather, and more than half of those days have been higher than 110 degrees.
Record-breaking heat in recent years has also caused a record number of heat-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths across the globe.
The World Health Organization estimates that half a million people worldwide die from heat-related causes each year.
Here in the United States, hospitals in the country have seen dramatic increases in heat injuries like severe burns from sun-baked pavement and metal, heat-related delirium, and heat stroke.
So, obviously, dramatic increase is the same as saying 50% increase over what?
We don't know.
We don't know what the baseline is.
And we know that people who burn themselves on the pavement are usually drug addicts who are passing out and burning on the pavement.
But it doesn't matter.
You know, you're just walking around and you burn yourself on the pavement.
That's the impression they give us.
But you should know what happens to your body when it exposes itself to extreme heat.
What does your body do when it exposes itself to extreme heat, John?
Well, usually my body doesn't expose itself.
I have some control over it.
It usually sweats, maybe.
Or it decides to go inside or find some shade.
Does your body decide to do that?
On its own.
You've got a great body.
The human body has evolved to maintain a core temperature of about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius.
Our bodies are built with complex effective temperature regulation systems to try to help us handle variable weather.
In extreme heat, those temperature regulation systems are hard at work.
First, your body attempts thermoregulation by moving blood flow outward toward the surface of the skin.
The heart rate quickens.
Blood vessels dilate to release heat.
The skin becomes flush.
Then your body begins to sweat.
Oh, wow!
He's explaining sweating.
This is great.
What is this?
What kind of morons listen to this?
MSNBC viewers who think everything is due to climate change.
By the way, the same thing happens when you're in the sauna.
Flush.
Then your body begins to sweat.
As sweat evaporates, it carries heat off the body in an attempt to cool it.
But if it's really hot, especially if it's hot and humid, these thermoregulation systems that we've developed won't be enough.
Oh no!
Go inside!
Go inside, quick!
The heart will continue to beat fast, putting strain on cardiovascular systems.
The skin will continue to sweat, depleting your body of water and essential electrolytes.
Oh, I need electrolytes!
I need electrolytes quick!
Dehydration will set in.
Go have a drink of water!
Maybe.
Excessive sweating will cause an imbalance of fluids and salts in the human system.
Muscles will cramp.
They'll feel weak.
Your heart will keep working harder.
The kidneys, which help filter waste and manage fluid in your body, become strained.
Wow!
This is so good!
I feel weak.
My kidneys... I don't... What should I do?
As your body loses water, the volume of body in your water decreases.
So does your blood pressure.
Oh no.
The blood thickens as it loses moisture.
The heart then has to work... Oh God!
My blood is thickening.
I'm slowing down.
I don't think I can make it inside for a drink of water.
It's even harder to pump blood to the brain because less blood to the brain means less oxygen to the brain.
What?
Which causes lightheadedness, confusion, dizziness, even fainting.
Like our president!
When unable to regulate, your body's core temperature rises rapidly.
If your body's core temperature nears 104 degrees, it reaches the threshold for heat stroke.
Uh-oh.
With that strain on the heart, on the brain, on the kidneys, on the liver, all that's happening now is that your risk of organ failure has increased.
My organs are failing.
I'm failing.
If your body hits a core temperature of 107 degrees, your body's proteins begin to break down.
There is irreversible damage to cells and vital organs.
And usually...
Comes death.
Death.
Oh no.
Death, death, death is next.
So this is a very long lead-in to the Copernicus Institute, which is this European, you know, they've now become the official word on climate change and temperatures.
They're in the EU, funded by the EU, but everyone believes in the Copernicus Institute.
Extreme heat is even deadlier than hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods combined.
Really?
I don't think that's entirely true.
Everything combined would drop you from heat.
I have a feeling that more people die in hurricanes and stuff.
Is there a statistician out there listening to this show we can get some numbers?
Last year was the hottest year on record globally, and this summer broke last year's record.
Just yesterday, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service reported that summer 2024 was the hottest, most humid summer ever recorded on Earth.
This summer, the Biden administration announced a heat plan, an initiative to help protect workers from excessive heat, as well as to fortify communities across the country to handle extreme heat as it becomes more common.
Their plan includes cooling infrastructure as well as heat information systems to help prepare and protect people from the growing threat of extreme heat.
All supported by the National Weather Service, the EPA, and NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Meanwhile, as Trump and some Republicans in Congress continue to deny the existence of human-caused climate change, the Project 2025 blueprint for the next conservative...
He all of a sudden changes from climate change to Trump, at the very end when condemning Trump, to human-caused climate change.
Nowhere in the report so far has it been brought up that they believe it's human-caused.
It's just climate change.
It could be a natural phenomenon.
It could be because of the sun.
It could be because of the 22-year sun cycle.
It could be sunspots.
It could be a lot of things.
But now, because you're going to condemn Trump, you slip it in as though that was the factor all along.
Very tricky.
I would say climate change is caused by Project 2025.
five.
That's what's going on here.
Meanwhile, as Trump and some Republicans in Congress continue to deny the existence of human-caused climate change, the Project 2025 blueprint for the next conservative administration wants to gut the EPA.
It wants to completely dismantle the Weather Service and NOAA.
Oh, no!
We won't know if there's climate change then!
They want to gut it?
They want to eliminate?
They want to shut down the EPA?
I don't... I never heard this.
I didn't know that was... It's in Project 2025.
Oh, it's in that stupid Project 2025 thing that Trump never read.
Yes, exactly.
That's what's going on.
Oh, well, I got a couple of things here I want to play.
One is, of course, we have to play this.
This is a, even NTD, which seems to be your favorite channel now that you're stealing my material.
You're stealing my material.
I just have just a little bitty climate clip from NTD and this is the feels like, feels like temperature.
They're even doing it.
This week, the nation is bracing for a severe heat wave with extreme temperatures anticipated to affect 32 major cities.
Some areas are expected to exceed 105 degrees starting Wednesday.
A heat advisory has been issued for South Florida, including Miami-Dade, Broward and the Florida Keys, where feels like temperatures could soar to 110 degrees Wednesday afternoon.
Feels like temperatures.
Feels like temperatures.
You know, I've been working with Horowitz for over a decade and he lives in Florida.
And I don't care.
Any Floridian will tell you the same thing.
The summers in Florida are miserable.
Yes.
So what else is new?
Yeah.
And CNN reports it's early September, what should be the busiest stretch of hurricane season.
Forecasters predicted this was going to be a bad one, storm after storm.
The most bullish forecast on record.
Instead, the Atlantic Ocean is enveloped in a rare and strange calm that has flummoxed forecasters.
I know if you're reading that, but this is fascinating because what's happened, and this was reported, I didn't get any clips of it, but about two weeks ago, They were wondering, where's all these damned hurricanes they're supposed to have?
And the water is warmer than usual.
And now they come up with this bogus theory.
They keep theorizing.
Everything's done in this old armchair quarterbacking where, well, it must be this.
The temperatures have gotten so hot in the oceans that it's confusing.
It's confusing the storms.
They can't form.
I don't know what to do.
I'm confused.
I think we actually predicted this was going to happen.
I think that maybe a few months back, oh, it's going to be the worst September ever.
You watch climate change.
It's going to kill so many people.
Florida, be on watch.
Horrible.
I think we even just out of principle said, no, it's not going to happen.
You got it right.
Just out of principle.
They're so full of it that it doesn't take a genius to say, oh, that's not going to happen.
As an aviator, I can tell you that you can predict what's going to happen in a certain area, like an airport, weather-wise.
You can do 24 hours, but really 12 hours.
You can predict that.
You can't predict anything further out than that.
So it's all horse crap.
It really is.
But this is the one, man.
This is what they're going to use to talk about, you know, this will be the reason for all these mosquitoes and, you know, we're all dying from all of these horrible triple E equine, what is it?
Eastern equine encephalitis.
Yeah.
Um, I think I actually have a, uh, yeah, I have, I have a clip actually of this.
West Nile virus spread by mosquitoes is now deadly in New Jersey.
The state health department says the deaths were older adults in Cumberland and Mercer counties.
Well, of course, old people die all the time from, from disease.
They die.
Please.
New infections.
Well, I get the bird, I could, oh, they're still going that way.
No, it's okay.
You can, Oh, you have another clip?
Here's another one.
Same thing.
Bird flu this time.
Bird flu.
You left bird flu out!
Oh, I'm sorry!
Health officials have identified a person in Missouri sick with bird flu despite having no known contact with animals.
A person?
It marks the first case of the virus in the United States this year not linked to farm work, NPR's Juliana Kim reports.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a person in Missouri was hospitalized and treated for bird flu.
Unlike other human cases, this patient has no known exposure to a sick animal.
Bird flu has been spreading across farms in the United States since the spring.
So far, there have been 14 human cases of the virus, and nearly all the patients had been linked to sick dairy cows or poultry.
The CDC says the Missouri patient has recovered, and the virus did not appear to have spread to close contacts, adding that the risk of bird flu to the general public remains low.
Aside from Missouri, human cases have been reported in Texas, Michigan, and Colorado.
So where do you get it from?
Do you get it from another person or a monkey?
Well, the way I see it, who cares?
It's one guy out of the blue who got bird flu.
There are people getting sick or getting shot or there's all kinds of news around.
This is a non-story.
I'm going to make a prediction.
They're trying to make it a story.
Well, of course.
I'm going to make a prediction.
The on deck for the next solution for climate change will be roundabouts.
Roundabouts?
Yes.
Okay, you better explain that one.
Roundabouts.
Oh wait a minute, let me guess.
Can I guess?
Yeah, go for it.
You go roundabout.
You know, roundabout is the thing in the middle.
They have these in Berkeley.
They put them in for no good reason.
It's a four-way stop.
It's too confusing.
Climate change.
Climate change.
What are we going to do?
We got four-way stops.
I don't know what to do.
So then they have the roundabouts, which are more dangerous, and very few people know how to use them correctly.
But they have them anyway, so they put one in.
That's because you go round and round and round, it creates a vortex which will then change the weather patterns and cause hurricanes and tornadoes in areas where they no longer exist or they never have existed thus far.
Well, first of all, it doesn't surprise me that Berkeley has them.
And I bet if you look into it, Berkeley probably had a study done that said people don't idle At roundabouts, you see.
You're not sitting there with your car, idling, throwing greenhouse gases into the air, waiting for either a four-way stop, which is confusing, or for a traffic light.
Roundabouts will be, I'm telling you, you can write it down in the book, roundabouts are going to be the next climate change solution.
Roundabouts.
I find them incredibly annoying.
With that, I'd like to thank you for your courage, saying good morning to you, the man who put the C in the kids from China!
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora!
Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
Hello, hello there, trolls.
We have 21... Let me count the trolls for a second.
That's what I was looking for.
2101. This seems on par.
It seems pretty good.
Particularly for... Low.
Low.
For a vacation week.
What was my... What was the congen?
What was the... What was the peak?
What was the peak?
I want to know what the peak was.
We have...
One of our producers that's into it.
Cotton Gin does that, yeah.
Is it Cotton Gin, yeah?
Yeah, Cotton Gin hasn't posted it yet.
He's probably looking right now.
He's doing a statistical analysis of the flow.
Of the flow of roundabouts.
He is!
He's got all these numbers.
Here it is.
He sent me an email condemning me for questioning his abilities.
Well, Cotton Gin is the man.
22-15, he says.
Was the high.
No, it's low.
The whole thing is low.
It's low!
It's low, and we had a newsletter fail.
What happened?
I don't know, but I'm looking at alternative newsletters.
You blamed Linux.
You said Linux did it.
There is, I got a long note, we have a bunch of guys out there that know what they're doing.
And he claims that the Linux, there's a couple of products that Linux servers use consistently that are spam blockers and that our sites keep coming up in them.
That's because people report us.
That's what happens.
That's how it happens.
Douchebags.
You can get off of them.
For what?
For telling the truth?
For getting to the bottom of things?
Or for condemning Democrats?
Yeah, there you go.
I think that must be it.
Go look at who maintains Linux and you'll understand.
These trolls are listening in the troll room, which you can join at trollroom.io or you can use a modern podcast app.
You know, the one that has transcriptions so you can read along if you're in a foreign country and want to learn some English and like, oh, what is this word?
Oh, it's good.
Ah, I get it.
Because we speak clearly, as John pointed out earlier.
We try.
By the way, there was some incompatibility with something with the Fountain, modern podcast app Fountain, for the live show.
Because the way it works is when we send out the bat signal, all these modern podcast apps give you an alert.
You tap on the same place you get your podcast and then you can listen right away.
And so it was crashing the app somehow.
We fixed that.
So if you were using that before and you bailed out on us on the last episode, just come back.
It works again.
PodcastApps.com.
So... It's a moving target.
It is.
It is.
It's a moving target.
But, you know, that's why it's worth a Nobel Peace Prize.
I heard that this past week Spotify de-platformed an inordinate amount of episodes and podcasts.
And I'm getting a list.
What's an inordinate mean to you?
Ten?
A hundred?
A thousand?
A hundred.
A hundred.
I'd say a hundred.
A hundred podcasts.
That's a lot.
And from what I understand, most of these podcasts were political podcasts.
Oh, we'd be toast on that platform.
And we're not even really political, we're basically apolitical, it just so turns out.
Yes.
That we condemn one side more than the other, although we condemn both sides.
In this election, we certainly do.
I mean, they're demons.
Yeah, when you got some dipshit like Kamala Harris running for president, people are voting for you.
You gotta be honest.
What can you do?
It's ridiculous.
It's borderline nuts.
You have to be honest with the people.
That's just the fact.
We used to have a couple of guys would upload the podcast to YouTube.
You remember that?
And they'd put, you know, just an image in it.
Some of them, I think, even would put in extra images.
Yeah.
And they stopped doing it.
They said, you know, I'm getting strikes on my account.
Because someone would report, or whatever reason, they'd take down that episode, and then whoever was doing that, their account would get a strike.
Yeah, I can see that.
So that shows that this is the only place we are, the only place we can be.
And we don't have video.
So we're struggling over here, people.
Linux is against our newsletter.
I mean, you've got to help us out here.
It doesn't hurt.
And, you know, what was I reading here?
So I already told you about the nine minutes of ads in front of the Lex Friedman.
Oh, so would you consider OnlyFans to be kind of like Value for Value?
Yeah, I would.
Did you hear their numbers?
Oh, I can't.
You're going to make me nauseous if you tell me their numbers.
I know.
I mean, I had...
Dana Brunetti's wife.
Is on OnlyFans?
No, she's an entertainment lawyer.
Oh.
And she's an heiress to the Bichon fashion fortune.
Oh.
Can she get me a bag?
You know, she can't even get me a sweater.
Anyway, Alex is her name.
I can just see you in a bijou sweater.
So she's... it's Bijon, I think.
Whatever.
And she's an entertainment lawyer and she just, in passing, mentioned to me about one of her clients who was having, you know, an OnlyFans... Client.
Person.
About their... never mentioned who it was, but It's one of her clients.
And she said, uh, she made $10 million last year.
Only fans revenue this past year, $7 billion.
It's unbelievable.
Meanwhile, people bitch about sending us five bucks.
Maybe we should turn on some cameras, take off our shirts.
Might pay off, you never know.
You can be in the troll room like, flip your hair, Adam.
Okay, no problem.
I'll do anything at this point.
Yeah, and I'm sure that the $10 million girl, I'm assuming it's a girl, is not a top earner.
Oh no.
I'm sure there's, I didn't, I should ask Alex about this, but she probably, cause she's been into it enough.
She probably knows the top earners, probably 50, 60 million bucks.
Who knows?
This is a year.
Maybe we can get some tips on what to do because we're doing something wrong.
We're not doing anything wrong.
It's just a different type of business.
There are some people that have an allure that we lack.
Yes, yes.
I think we lack several pieces of allure.
Well, there's two in particular.
Yes, exactly.
Two are allures that a lot of these girls have.
Yes.
And I think that accounts for a lot of it.
Well, we know where the donations are going.
They're going to OnlyFans.
Stop spending your money there.
Send something to the best podcast in the universe.
Yeah, you're not getting a date with those women.
Hello!
John and Adam, however, will come to clean your house.
No problem whatsoever.
Instead, we have opted for a true value for value mug club media.
The future of media is small people.
That's how, you know, I really believe that.
I think that, you know, you'll have these just pockets, little pockets of entertainment and people support them.
And I'm happy with, in general, happy with the support we get.
I know you're never happy, but I'm happy with the support we get.
No, you can't be.
I'm amazed that people support us at all.
Yeah, you're shocked.
Sometimes I am, like, what?
What?
What?
This is actually still, hey, it'll be, when is, um, October, right?
Isn't it coming up?
The end of October is our anniversary, but at the end of this month we're having our show 1700.
Wow.
Oh, that's right.
It's seven episodes away.
Oh, that is the anniversary.
Yeah, it's coming right up.
So we have 1700 and our 17 year anniversary.
What kind of stone?
A one-two punch.
We usually get some money during this period.
Not today, necessarily, but we get some money here and there.
Is 17 a particular stone, or is it a... A stone?
Yeah, like a diamond, ruby, or is it a... You know, the book of knowledge will answer this question.
I don't have it with me.
Somebody in the troll room, the few people that are there, one of them should know what the 17th anniversary stone is.
I'd like to know.
I am indeed quite interested.
The 17th.
Coal would be my guess.
Uh, kidney.
No, that doesn't sound right.
Kidney stone is not, that'd be a good, interesting ring though.
I like it.
It is a prime number though.
17 is a prime number.
So that's, that's, that's, there's something there.
That is a, that's a big deal.
Yeah.
Um, caroline, what?
Carnelian.
Yeah, carnelian.
Those are the little red stones.
They actually have them at the beaches over here in San Francisco off the peninsula.
Not the peninsula, but Marin County beaches have carnelians in the sand that you can pick up as you walk along.
So it's not a very valuable stone is what you're telling me.
Not really, not if it's just sitting there.
It's pretty, though.
So the way it works, and you've already heard some boots on the ground, and we have people we can call upon who help us.
Because if there's one thing about the best podcast in the universe, we have more and better producers than any other media outlet known to man.
That's why we can say in the universe.
And everywhere somebody has some special knowledge about that one thing.
And I think we've successfully trained people that they are producers, not listeners.
And they need to support us with their time, with their talent, or with their treasure.
And part of that is, of course, our Dutch masters who create artwork for every single new show.
There was a guy who was looking for some logo work on the Podcasting 2.0 development group.
And he says, Adam, I really love the artwork you guys do.
Who do you use?
Like, who do we use?
Try listening to the show, you'll figure it out.
Yeah, it really is.
I sent him a link to noagendaartgenerator.com, which is where anyone who has talent, or none at all, can upload art.
And sometimes the no talents, or just the prompt jockeys, win, and quite big actually.
Although I was looking at the... Tina actually asked me, do you still have the stats?
I said, yeah.
It's still Nick the Rat, Martin JJ, and then comes Darren O'Neill.
And those guys are still at the top for all the episodes they did.
And Nick uploads something from time to time?
Rarely.
He hasn't really hit it.
And Martin JJ, is he still alive?
Is he still around?
I don't see him anywhere anymore.
Yeah, he posts on Mastodon.
Oh, he does?
How do you know?
You're not on Mastodon.
How do you know?
I'm referring back to the last time I was on Mastodon, which was about a year ago, and he was posting quite a bit.
Okay.
Unless I have him confused with someone else, but I don't think so.
I did hear from my birthday.
I did hear from Pelsmacher.
So he's still around.
Oh, good.
I wonder if he listens to the show.
I think so.
Well, maybe not.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Anyway, um, you found a new lady and she told him to stop listening as you think that was it.
That's possible.
That's possible.
It's very common.
Yeah.
Guys will do anything that women tell them to.
Yes.
See true fans, $7 billion.
Yes!
Perfect example!
OnlyFans, not TrueFans.
OnlyFans.
Oh man!
I like TrueFans though.
We can start that!
No, it's already a new podcast app, TrueFans.
TrueFans.fm.
That's why it was on my brain.
Oh, you saw it go through the system.
Yeah, it was on my brain.
We want to thank Correct Da Record, who has been around for a long time, who brought us the artwork for episode 1692.
We titled that one Salted Ducks, and we just laughed at this one.
It was Putin holding up some cash.
And we normally don't like putting politicians into the art.
We don't.
We want to make that clear so we don't have a bunch of it happening.
We don't.
No, but this was funny.
It made sense in context of the Tenet media scandal and even had plastered over there, value for value.
We like the use of the Russian, you know, the Cyrillic kind of font.
So we chose it.
Yes.
I think that made it... The faux Cyrillic font worked at the top.
There were a couple of other decent tries.
There was Data, did Nyet Agenda, which had kind of an Uncle Sam puppet, also with the faux Cyrillic font.
Darren O'Neill, he tried a good job there with the podcaster vending machine, buy a podcaster, but it didn't quite hit home.
Let me see.
Darren also did a free speech troll.
No.
The no Russian money here, another corrector record, a couple of manospheres, which were, which were nice, but there was really nothing.
It was just, it wasn't, there was a commercial blogger did a but, insert Russian money here, and again, he doesn't have the prompt skills that Darren O'Neill has, because the lettering just doesn't look like it's actually on the jeans.
Yeah.
You know, and somehow Darren has figured that out.
I don't know what he's using.
By the way, we've looked at his prompts and it's like, he's really good.
I mean, I think, I don't know, I get the sense that Darren first got a clue from Comic Strip Blogger.
Possibly, yeah.
And then took it in a new direction.
It's got, it's like having the, it's a knack thing.
You kind of get a feeling for it and you can just start throwing requests at the AI and it responds correctly.
Open AI.
It may also be, I don't know what he's using for a system.
There's so many of these now.
Yeah, there are.
Well, OpenAI is now discussing their new pricing model for their next... This is going to be the large language model that really works.
The really, really good one.
This time it'll really, really, really, really work.
Do you know what they're going to charge per month?
$100.
$2,000.
What?!
$2,000.
What?
Yep.
Yeah.
I think it's called Strawberry.
Is their next release?
That's not going to work.
It'll finally make sense with the amount of investment that's gone into it.
Yes, the new reasoning focused LLM dubbed Strawberry and a new flagship LLM called Orion.
It's finally going to work.
Alert Andrew Horowitz, he loves this stuff.
It tells him exactly what to do in the market.
I'll bet it's so accurate at picking stocks.
Yes, he won't have to go to work anymore.
It's beautiful.
Anyway, thank you very much Correct-A-Record, but thank you to all of our artists, all of them just like Correct-A-Record, are masters, Dutch masters of fine art, and you can join that legion by going to noagendaartgenerator.com, create an account if you don't have one, upload it, you know, we look at everything and we appreciate And we'll be honest, we're gonna help you with your skills.
People have gone... Roundy.
Roundy went on to have an actual career with his artistic skills and he, at least when he left, he attributed some of that to our critique of his work.
And now he works... He did?
Yes!
Now he works for Daily Wire.
He does... I think he started doing political... He's doing spot art?
Yeah, and now he's doing video stuff.
Hey, he's got quite a career over there.
Spook.
Good for him.
He's a talented guy.
I actually prefer his fine art, but yeah, I miss him.
Do all this.
I miss him.
As long as he's, you know, once he went over there, he wasn't, he, he wasn't, he, he, when he was doing stuff for the show, it was like, let me get a couple of wins here and I'm out.
See ya.
See ya later boys.
Yeah.
You know, the exact.
See ya boys.
Done.
I'm out.
We also like to thank all of the producers who sent us treasure.
It can be any amount.
In fact, we encourage you to return value in monetary amounts that equal the value you got out of it.
Since we can't look at anybody's personal circumstances, it's entirely up to you, which is the fairest way of doing it.
That's how it works here at Mug Club Media.
I hope you should get off that suit.
I'm gonna stop.
I'm gonna stop it.
That was the last time.
It just flows so nicely.
No, it doesn't.
Okay.
Alright, I'm stopping.
Put it in the meeting notes.
We thank anybody over $50, under $50 we don't mention for reasons of anonymity.
We actually had a number of people come in under $50 today.
$49.99.
What else did I see here?
I saw a lot of $49.99.
$49, $49.
And you can also, and this is something we encourage everybody to do regardless of the value sent back for a particular show or particular topic, is do a sustaining donation.
Which can be any frequency, any amount, anything you like.
Go to noagendadonations.com.
Tony Fitzpatrick went to noagendadonations.com.
He is from Switzerland, from Feyenbach, which I have no idea where Feyenbach... Freyenbach, I'm sorry.
I have no idea where it is.
Freyenbach.
And as always, we will give you a title.
A credit, $200 and above, is associate executive producer.
It's a real credit.
You can use it anywhere.
Credits are recognized, including imdb.com.
If you don't have an account, you can open one, because you are a real producer, just like Hollywood.
And we'll read your note.
And $300 and above, you get executive producer credit, and we read your note.
And Tony Fitzpatrick, who sounds anything but Swiss, came in with... Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
Sounds like an alias to me.
Tony Fitzpatrick from... Tony from Freienbach.
$1,000, but no note.
Swiss intelligence, I hope.
Well, for that Swiss intelligence, you get a Double Up Karma.
Thank you very much.
You've got... Double Up... Karma.
And we roll up on Susan, Dame Susan of the Saldner, S-O-L-D-N-E-R wheel.
I don't know quite what that means.
I don't know either.
But she is Dame Susan from McKinney, Texas.
Texas for $100.04.
$400.04.
And she wrote a note in with a check.
Love the show.
How about some karma for the family?
Thanks and all the best Dame Susan of the Saltner Wheels.
Yes, here you go.
Thank you very much.
You've got karma.
We move to Sir J.K.
in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
He's in DePere, Wisconsin.
333.33, one of our favorite amounts.
We love all the threes.
Thank you, John.
By the way, did you notice all of a sudden there's a video going around of all the 33s, 33 cases from the pandemic?
Did you get tagged a lot?
I'm like, we were on this when it actually happened.
Now people are like, wow, have you seen this?
I don't get it.
We've been talking about 33s for 15 years minimum.
You used to do a section on this show.
Called the Magic Numbers.
Yeah, and you would read the 33 references for about 10 minutes and then it got to be such a long segment you just stopped doing it.
But also we had super cuts and everything during the pandemic.
No, I'm saying pre-pandemic with this 33 thing, we're all over it.
But no, of course, we set the stage for other people to take advantage of the situation.
So what are you going to do?
That's all right.
That's why we are the best podcast in the universe, I think.
For some reason.
Well, that, among other things.
Sir J.K. says, thank you, John and Adam.
I stepped away for a bit, but I know it is time to come back.
Too many 33s telling me a donation was in order.
Prosperity and abundance karma will be greatly appreciated.
I'm a casualty of the recent economic downturn as I was downsized back in July.
So I'd like a jingle rubberizer plus an R2-D2 karma.
Thank you again, John and Adam, for your dedication to media deconstruction.
Love and Lit, Sir J.K. in Green Bay, night of the entertaining kerfuffle.
India, tango, mic.
Stand by. 33, 33, 33.
Rubbleizer, out.
out.
You've got karma.
Sir Harry Pilgrim, our buddy.
Fredericksburg, Virginia.
He has been around with this show since the original Hot Pockets Tour.
Harry Pilgrim.
Good to hear from you, brother.
You met him, didn't you?
Sure did.
At the Hot Pockets Tour?
Yes, sure did.
The Sad Puppy would make all knights and dames step up and support the best podcast in the universe.
Without donations, the exit strategy is a no-show.
NJNK, Sir Harry Pilgrim, Baron of Massaponix and the Rappahannock.
That's right.
Sir Corby is in Hamilton, Ohio, 3333.
Weird, he says.
Things are getting weird, really weird.
This does not count, by the way, towards our weird count.
Love the show, Sir Corby.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, brother.
Still stuck at 6 and 4.
No, it's actually 7 and 5, the latest count.
7 for me, 5 for you.
Game, win, chimes, partridge in San Rafael, California, 333-333.
Yeah, we had a goodly number of 333s today.
Yes, it was nice.
Nice to see.
In the morning to you from the other side of the San Francisco Bay, boots on the ground, Big Pharma is at it again in California trying to shut down compounding pharmacies.
I always thought they were already shut down in California.
In a public hearing this Thursday, the California State Board of Pharmacy, the BOP, is proposing regulations to block patient access to safe treatments like Glutathione.
Glutathione.
Vitamin B12.
Vitamin B12?
You just buy that over the counter.
What's the deal?
And other infusions.
I guess it's because somebody wants to blend it together in a mortar and pestle.
Heaven forbid.
Nationwide, cancer is the leading cause of death among firefighters.
Glucathione is a natural antioxidant that prevents cancer by repairing cells damaged by pollution, stress, and harmful chemicals.
I've heard about this from firefighters.
They take it.
This is another, yeah, when you get to your fire, you're going to get that.
That smoke has got to be nasty.
Just breathe any at any time, let alone over and over.
This is another facet of our war on compounding pharmacies.
And that's who makes these life-saving treatments.
I encourage the Noah Jenner Nation to learn more at StopTheBop.com.
That's S-T-O-P-TheBop, B-O-P.com.
Sign the petition!
Show up at the hearing virtually, or whatever you can do to help us fight back.
Demand better for our courageous firefighters.
Let's stop the bop!
Okay.
That was a good point.
I'm all in.
Up next, we have... What do we have here?
We have Kenny Stevens, who sent in a note.
Hi.
$300.
$300.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Just hi.
My daughter, Allison, who listens to your show, asked me to listen.
I am a loyal listener and sometimes listen to your show multiple times.
Is that each episode?
Yeah, I think that's what he means.
Some people listen to this show more than once.
The same show.
Living in the blue state of Rhode Island, my vote never really means anything, but I do donate to various races outside my state.
Enclosed, find my check for $300.
We appreciate the checks, by the way.
This underappreciated form of, uh... You know, people in other countries laugh at our check system.
Oh, these stupid Americans!
They still use paper checks!
I know.
Let's go digital.
Yeah, I think paper checks are fantastic.
I love them.
It's a small document that promises a bunch of money to you via bank, and the check is a middleman.
It's a great way to do business.
It's like printing your own money.
It's a very powerful feeling.
I like it when you sign a check.
Here you go.
I promise you this money.
In close form, a check of $300.
Regards, Kenny Stevens, an alias.
All right, Kenny.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Appreciate the check.
He's living in Rhode Island.
He has to be an alias.
Yeah, of course.
Come and burn down his house.
Come on, kill him.
What?
You're not a Democrat?
You're dead.
Sir Tooth Fairy in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Happy 8th birthday to my wonderful human resource, Layla.
Please add her to the list she's added and give her a biscuit.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
And he came in with $223, Sir Tooth Fairy.
$200.02, a palindrome, Austin McCullough from Hudson, Wisconsin.
Refer to email, hashtag rates101.
I looked, I'm sure you looked.
Did you receive an email?
Uh, no.
I hate it when that happens.
Well, let me take one more look because I never looked under rates.
So you want it so you can send that to notes, N-O-T-E-S, notes at noagendashow.net.
By the way, while you're at it, go to noagendashow.net if you just, and you can send people to that if you just want them to learn about the show.
There's a lot of good stuff there that takes a lot of the podcasting 2.0 elements, chapters, transcripts, it's all there.
I don't see anything under that title, no.
I'd look too.
So, resend it to us, we'll make good if we need to, Austin.
Thank you very much.
And we might as well give him a double up karma then for the lost note.
You've got... karma.
And there we go.
Linda Lou Patkin from Lakewood, Colorado.
Jobs Karma is what she wants and she says for a competitive edge, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
That's ImageMakersInc.com or just find Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes on the producer list.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
And that wraps up our Executive and Associate Executive Producers for episode 1693 on our way to 1700.
That'll be exciting to celebrate 1700 episodes with you, John.
1700.
We were talking about relationships the other day and I'm like, that's funny, John and I don't really have a relationship.
I guess we have a working relationship?
We talk professionally.
Yes.
I've been with you in three years, and remember, four more to go.
I will have been with you longer than any of my marriages.
Well, that's to be expected.
And we never had a fight!
It's beautiful!
Thank you to these executive and associate executive producers.
Anybody can become a producer of the No Agenda show.
Go to noagendadonations.com.
We will be reading $50 and above, as usual, in our next segment, but please consider taking out a sustaining donation.
Any frequency, any amount, we appreciate you all so much and thank you for Being producers of episode 1,693.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave. Shut up, slave. Shut up, slave.
Just shut up.
Barrel.
Can you get one international clip out of the way?
Oh, boy, an international clip.
Riots in France.
France, the new prime minister.
Everyone's bent out of shape about this guy.
Yes.
Is it France new PM protests?
Is that the... That would be it, yeah.
Angry demonstrators from the left turned out across France to protest President Emmanuel Macron's decision to appoint a conservative prime minister rather than a candidate from among their ranks.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports, while no party got a majority, the leftist coalition got the most votes in a snap legislative elections this summer.
Voters on the left say they're the ones who kept the far right from taking power, yet their votes are not being respected in the choice of the new prime minister.
They accuse Macron of stealing the election.
Macron's choice was 70-year-old Michel Barnier, a veteran politician who he sees as a steady hand for the country after divisive elections.
But protesters are demanding a prime minister from the left and a political program that will begin with bringing the retirement age back down to 62.
They say their protests will continue.
Well, this is, and actually I have a follow-on clip to this because I've been following this as well.
This is bullcrap because it was really the far right who got most of the votes.
But the left, the entire left and center said, oh no, we're not going to let you into govern.
We're going to all be together.
And even though we hate each other and can't decide on anything, we just don't want you far right to run the country.
And so then, and then they go out and, which I think this is actually a kind of a good choice.
Yeah, the guy's pretty even-keeled.
I think it's a good choice, too.
Yeah, I mean, he... By the way, far right is bullcrap, because this guy... Actually, I have a Who is Michel Barnier clip.
Who is Michel Barnier, France's new Prime Minister?
Michel Barnier is a member of the Republicans, a right-wing political party.
The 73-year-old is set to be the oldest Prime Minister in modern France's 5th Republic history, replacing 34-year-old Gabriel Attal, who was the youngest.
Barnier is a seasoned politician with a diverse background as a foreign agriculture and environment minister in numerous governments.
In the world of European politics, however, he is better known for his former role as the EU's Brexit negotiator, which earned him the nickname Monsieur Brexit.
As Brussels' top negotiator, Barnier made a name for himself as a strong defender of EU institutions against the UK's nationalist Brexit politicians like Boris Johnson.
In 2021, however, there came a shift when Barnier ran for the presidency against Macron, transitioning from a pro-EU politician to embracing a French nationalist stance.
He advocated for the superiority of French sovereignty over the EU, offering to develop a non-EU immigration policy.
He also opposed the powers of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights over the French states.
Bania's Republican Party only has 39 deputies out of 577 seats in the National Assembly and will need the support of far-right leader Marine Le Pen's National Rally Party.
Le Pen has said she would wait for Bania's first policy speech in front of Parliament to decide whether to back him.
If she does, it would be a far-right backed government under Macron who has long portrayed himself as the last defense against the rise of Le Pen.
The question is, has Macron handed the far right a major win?
The French should be delighted with this guy.
He's a French guy.
He's French.
He's for France.
He's basically a French guy.
They should be delighted.
They should be delighted with him.
No, globalists, they hate the French.
They hate all these countries.
They want to be one giant Reich.
Exactly.
And if Trump wins, you're going to see the same thing happen in the United States.
You're going to see the left nutjobs, the globalists, come out and go insane.
I can guarantee it.
There was always, if Trump doesn't win, it's going to be civil war.
Now, if Trump wins, they're all going to go ape crap.
Or I should say ape shit, really.
Ape crap is the show title.
I'm so used to saying crap instead of shit that I said ape crap.
It doesn't sound right.
Don't you think?
Absolutely.
There's no doubt about it.
It's going to be kind of a replay of 2016, although they're going to have to change some of their strategies because we're getting sick of the old arguments.
And the people that are coming out are the ones that I'm always retweeting.
Are they, you know, crazy looking people that look like women or guys?
You don't even know what sex they are.
And they've got big nose rings right in the middle.
How many of those people do you really think there are?
Are.
I don't think there's that many.
No.
There's not a lot, but they have a high profile and they're fun to mock.
And there's a lot of teachers that fall into that category, which is really the scary part.
That's distressing.
Okay, I'm going to walk into your beat.
I can't help it, but this is, it is your beat and I'm taking it down to the depths you have not been able to go before because Kristen Welker, who doesn't know her, from Meet the Press.
I was watching her this morning and those hands of hers, they're like an old black laborer.
They're huge and they're not made up at all.
You know, you're supposed to do hand makeup to lighten them up or something.
The yellow are up and they don't do anything with their hands.
We're looking at this purely from a television production standpoint.
Yeah, obviously.
I don't care.
I'm just making sure everybody understands.
But it is distressing to watch it.
Either don't use your hands or yellow her up, was what John just said.
Okay.
Well, they yellow her up, but they don't do anything with their hands.
I know.
I'm very pale, so when I was doing TV, they would make me up.
They'd make up your hands.
They'd do the same with me.
You have to tell the makeup artist to do it.
Uh, because I'd rather not, but if you're telling me, you've got to do something with my hands, because if you're made up and you're darkened up a little bit, and then you lift your hand, it looks like a skeletal hand that's super white.
You know, it doesn't work.
And so, and makeup artists always say, oh, yes, yes, yes, that's a good idea.
And by the way, these days, I mean, a lot has changed since we were in television, John.
In fact, the biggest change is we used to have blue screen.
Now it's green screen.
That's how old we are.
I remember when it was blue screen!
Yes, blue screen was the original key.
Yeah, the original key color.
But nowadays, they don't have, you know, pancake makeup.
They have spray.
It's a spray-on.
And you just go and...
Spray right on so they could easily spray the hands.
It's it'll take 30 seconds 30 seconds to spray the hands anyway Yes, so I am diving into a trend which you identified months and months ago as something new something that is probably well that has always been the question is it even constitutional and Here's the opening salvo
54-year-old father Colin Gray faces 14 charges, including four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.
The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation saying the father, quote, knowingly allowed his son to possess a weapon.
Law enforcement sources telling NBC News he gifted his son an AR-15 style rifle after both of them were interviewed in May of 2023 by the FBI in connection with threats to carry out a school shooting.
Colin Gray's arrest comes just months after James and Jennifer Crumbly became the first parents to be convicted for a school shooting committed by their child.
Their son killed four students in Oxford, Michigan in 2021.
So you identified this right away as a new trend, which is lock the parents up for the things that the kids have done.
Right, and to go further, I believe it to be a racist trend, because I think the long-term target is the black family.
That's right.
I'd forgotten about that.
Yes, I'd forgotten about that.
Yes, and I believe this is just opening salvos so you can say, well, we did it to whites, now we can do it to blacks.
And they're going to go, when they go after the black family, especially those single moms who raise a bunch of kids that aren't or not well Well-behaved, let's put it that way.
It's going to cause issues, but they're going to back it up with doing it to the white families, at least one or two more.
Then you're going to see it happen, and it's going to cause nothing but trouble.
So, of course, this was politicized.
I'm actually going to skip that.
Joe Biden, you know, like, oh, there's guns in America!
J.D.
Vance, fact of life, we've got to arm those teachers.
We've got to make sure no one comes in.
But more important and more interesting to myself, you, and the show is how does this work?
How does this work legally?
Danny, let me turn to you.
The charges against the suspects, father, are unusual but not unprecedented.
What do you make of them and put them into context for?
What say you?
For us, if you can.
We're in a moment in American history where it seems like there is a sea change.
For all of American history, we have not held parents criminally responsible for the crimes of their children, unless they participate or facilitate the crime.
This is a major change in that we are charging parents with murder.
In this case, not intentional murder.
This is a version of reckless murder.
Not all murder statutes or crimes are intentional murder.
Sometimes, if you are reckless, you can be charged with depraved heart style murder, reckless murder, criminal negligence, and that's exactly what's going on here.
The father is being charged.
What?
There's just like reckless murder like when they killed Gary Weavers up there in this compound.
Killed his wife with a sniper just a FBI sniper just shot his wife who had nothing to do with anything.
Killed her dad, the dog.
That was law enforcement.
It's lawfare to the highest degree.
It's coming up.
That's exactly what's going on here.
The father is being charged with, under Georgia law, you can be charged with second degree murder.
as a result of cruelty to children.
That's a separate criminal statute that requires criminal negligence and some kind of harm to a child.
And that criminal negligence is defined as essentially recklessness, consciously disregarding a known risk.
And that's where the FBI tape comes in, because the government's going to use that to show that he was aware of the risk well in advance and failed to act properly.
So I love this, because the FBI did nothing.
They failed to act properly, but the parent is now to blame because they failed to act properly, even though law enforcement was called in.
And this morning, I even read that the mother had called the school and said, you're like imminent threat.
So Danny, help us just break down some of these charges.
There are second degree murder charges.
They're apparently based on the cruelty to children charges.
Break that down with how they differ from the eight counts of cruelty to children charges.
He's being separately charged with cruelty to children, but that particular section of the murder statute, second-degree murder, requires a predicate of cruelty to children.
So while it's a freestanding charge by itself, it is also the predicate to second-degree murder.
It works like this.
Second-degree murder is defined as, in this case, cruelty to children plus a death resulting from that cruelty to children.
Then you go to the cruelty statute, and that requires some harm to a child as a result of criminal negligence or recklessness.
And then you go to the definition of recklessness, and that's what it is.
It's consciously disregarding a known risk.
You're also going to need what's called proximate cause.
In other words, foreseeability.
Was the criminal negligence here not only the actual cause of the death, but was it foreseeable?
And that's a very interesting concept in the modern era because it now appears that, unlike most of American history, modern juries may be willing to accept that it is foreseeable.
If you have a troubled child and that child has access to a gun, that a horrific school shooting may result.
We may be in a new era of criminal foreseeability.
Criminal foreseeability?
Wow!
Pre-crime!
Totally!
Let's talk about this new era because of course the Crumblies in Michigan, again their son charged with a school shooting as well.
Put all of this into context and that sea change that we witnessed when the Crumblies were convicted.
Yes, exactly.
Even though it's not precedential in the sense that it's only a trial court in Michigan, and of course this case is in Georgia, it doesn't have legal precedent, but it certainly is a spiritual precedent in the sense that prosecutors now Watch the Crumley case.
They know they may have to deal with a horrific school shooting in their jurisdiction.
And it is likely a form of inspiration.
It is proof that you can use a recklessness theory against a parent and convict them.
And it's important to note that not all states have the same laws when it comes to securing firearms or locking them up and keeping them away from children.
That isn't necessary.
This is a straight criminal recklessness statute.
You could apply it to driving a car.
You could apply it to owning a firearm.
So, prosecutors will not be limited so much by all these different statutes about keeping firearms locked up.
If they can show that there was recklessness, that a risk was disregarded and it resulted in the death, they've got enough to go forward.
Can this also apply to your spouse?
Yeah, I was like, well, Adam always had a lot of guns around the house.
That's where you go with this next.
Yeah.
You could, you could go with this.
I think this is a trend and it's going to happen.
And I'm actually, I'm surprised the mom has, who was a fentanyl or crackhead.
I don't know what, something's wrong with her.
They should have been brought into the, uh, they're separated.
So I guess I can, it's going to be harder to prove.
Uh, but the mom should have been arrested too, it seems to me.
This is, uh, just, My thoughts on this began with a number of years ago when it was announced that somebody who did a shooting, a similar kind of shooting, in Latvia or Lithuania or someplace like that and they immediately arrested the parents.
It wasn't even a second thought about it.
I remember.
And as soon as I heard, oh yeah, this is obvious is what you do.
It's an anti-crime idea.
How will that also apply to podcast partners?
If you just go nuts.
Eventually.
Eventually.
But it's years away.
I wouldn't worry about it.
We're getting there.
And I'm not shooting any place.
You're the one who'd be shooting someplace up in your... What I'm saying is... The arm to the teeth in Texas.
You shouldn't worry about it is what you meant to say.
Don't worry about it for now.
Yeah, I shouldn't worry about it yet.
Four more years.
Yet.
Hang in there.
Four more years.
Boeing continues to be in the news, this time with the Starliner.
It was just about midnight Eastern time when Starliner's three main chutes lit up in the night sky over New Mexico.
Touchdown.
Starliner is back on Earth.
A ten-day mission that turned into a three-month stay at the International Space Station coming to a partial conclusion.
It's great to have the Starliner home.
A safe and successful landing was exactly what we wanted.
Staying behind on the station, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams, who this week prepped their spaceship to return home empty.
Of course it's bittersweet to be packing up Starliner.
We want to do the best we can to make sure she's in good shape, so we want her to have a nice soft landing in the desert.
Starliner launched June 5th on a 10-day test flight.
But helium leaks and engine thruster problems have kept Williams and Wilmore on the space station for 93 days.
Haunted by the Columbia disaster that killed seven astronauts, NASA decided not to risk putting the crew back on Starliner.
NASA has decided that Butch and Sonny will return with Crew-9 next February.
That SpaceX Crew-9 mission will launch later this month with two astronauts rather than four.
Williams and Wilmore will take the empty seats on return.
Until then, running science experiments and doing cardio and strength exercises during their extended stay on station.
Their 10-day mission now extended to eight months.
I... There's a lot of great theories out there in the conspiracy circles about this event.
My favorite has to be... I would like to hear a few.
Oh, they're dead.
I think that's a bit much.
Yeah, from they're dead to they actually didn't go to space, they were down in the oceans working on a different project and they're trapped and they can't get out.
There's a lot of great theories out there.
That sounds like nothing but fun.
Yeah, I like it.
I would like to know, let's assume that these are all bull crap and they're not dead, they're stuck up there and they're going to come back with the Elon Musk device.
The question that nobody's, if I'm a journalist, I'm asking this question.
How much are they getting paid?
Are they getting overtime for being stuck in this?
Because they're supposed to go out and come back and they're test pilots working for Boeing.
Is Boeing paying them like a bonus or?
Because they don't seem to be complaining about it if they're up in the space station.
They seem to be running, you know, her hair is sticking out every which way and they seem to be having a good time up there.
That's what you do in the fake space station.
You make your hair look static.
If you were in the station and you were making hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime because they now have to pay you 24-7, which means there's time and a half, double time, triple time, who knows what, Yeah.
I'd be happy to.
They don't complain.
But does anyone ask this question?
And why don't they ask this question?
What compensation are they getting financially for being stuck up there?
For the same reason you're getting compensated as a podcaster instead of a journalist with the mainstream.
I probably make more money as a podcaster than I do as a journalist.
Journalists don't make anything.
It's a pathetic industry, it's a pathetic business, and most of the journalists, unless you're on network TV and you're making millions, which is a rare group, most of the writers are just starving to death.
Or they have side hustles as sub-sac writers.
And just another thing, the word side hustle bothers me to no end.
I brought it up for you just to get you riled up.
I know that you hate that.
It's like a hustle means you're scamming.
To me, a hustle, I'm a hustler.
I'm scamming somebody.
So in other words, you're working for a living and you've got a side hustle, which means to me, it means you're a criminal.
If someone says, I got a side hustle, do it as a side hustle.
I would say, then this is a criminal activity.
That's the only thing, that's my definition of it, a hustle.
All right.
I mean, do you have any pushback on me saying, no, you're foolish crap?
No, I'm with you.
I think you're absolutely right.
Side hustle is a bad term.
I think so.
Yeah.
What would you prefer it to be called so we can address this appropriately?
Second job.
Second job.
But it is.
Weekend gig.
There you go.
Now, Boeing has finally caught a break.
And not widely reported, so they've got to step up the PR, boys.
The world's biggest airlines is cancelling dozens of flights over concerns about possible engine problems.
Cathay Pacific is inspecting its entire fleet of Airbus A350s after part of an engine failed on a flight from Hong Kong to Zurich.
The plane was forced to return to Hong Kong and landed safely.
Cathay Pacific says repair work is now underway across its Entire fleet of A350s.
CNN's Hannah Ziadi is on the story for us and Hannah Cather Pacific now making repairs as it inspects these models.
How concerned should consumers and other airlines be at this point that this could be a wider issue?
Becky, it's unclear at this stage.
I think the answer to that is that there are some concerns and clearly several other airlines fly A350s and have, you know, engines that could have this issue.
Qatar is among them.
Etihad, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic.
Rolls-Royce, which is the engine maker, that makes the engines on these planes, has said that it's keeping airlines fully informed of developments, but hasn't yet told airlines to stop flying the planes, as far as we understand.
Rolls-Royce hasn't commented on exactly what the issue is with the engine.
Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, said it relates to a fuel nozzle, which experts say is generally less serious of a problem than the failure of a major rotating part of the plane, such as a turbine blade.
But clearly this could be very disruptive for airlines.
And certainly, as you alluded to in the beginning, it has been very disruptive for Cathay Pacific, which has had to cancel some 34 flights between Monday and Wednesday as it attends to this problem.
So not exactly an Airbus issue, but if I was Boeing... Not at all!
But if I was Boeing, I'd be out there saying, see?
Airbus, no good!
At least for the public.
At least for the public.
The public, you know, there's no website.
They didn't want to draw attention to themselves.
Well, maybe.
They got enough problems with the dead astronauts.
I hear you.
It's a real problem.
And then this news, which is just not getting Uh, not really getting the attention it deserves.
Here's the teaser.
The FBI raided the homes of several of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' top deputies, federal agencies, electronic devices from the police commissioner, the school's chancellor, and two deputy mayors.
None of the officials have been charged with a crime.
The raids come nearly a year after federal agencies, the mayor's electronic devices, and a federal corruption investigation involving alleged donations made by Turkish officials to his campaign.
So when I first saw this report come through, I thought it was old, and like, didn't that already happen?
But this is a continuation, and ABC this morning had more details, which kind of helps us a little bit in understanding what's happening.
This seems like a lot of nepotism and all kinds of stuff going on here.
Queens home of the city's Deputy Mayor of Public Safety, Philip Banks, sits quiet Thursday afternoon, shutters drawn after the FBI conducted a search early Wednesday morning.
And the Hamilton Heights home of the first Deputy Mayor, Sheena Wright, another one of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' closest aides and friends, also raided by the FBI.
Wright shares a home with her partner.
New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks, Deputy Mayor Banks' brother.
Sources say the FBI seized evidence, including electronics, as part of an ongoing investigation.
Federal agents have previously raided the homes of several other associates of Mayor Adams.
The fact that these subpoenas and documents have been seized, the Holmes raid of people very close to the mayor should give everyone pause, but it's a long stretch between people around the mayor being subpoenaed and the mayor being in trouble.
In a statement, the mayor's chief counsel said, quote, Investigators have not indicated to us the mayor or his staff are targets of any investigation.
As a former member of law enforcement, the mayor has repeatedly made clear that all members of the team need to follow the law.
A source says the searches do not appear to be related to the long-running corruption investigation into whether Mayor Adams' campaign accepted donations from Turkey in exchange for favors.
So this turkey thing, it keeps popping up.
It's only really been the most recent reports that are talking about it.
I don't know what's going on.
What is not mentioned, and I think your No Agenda show should mention, because it's unavoidable, is that all of those implicated are so-called black people, as Mo would say.
Or people of color.
That's what he wouldn't say.
No, he would say so-called black people.
Yeah, he hates the term people of color.
Yeah, of course he does.
But there's something to be said about that in this case.
There seems like a lot of nepotism going on in New York, and I know from the New York... Gee, wait a minute, let's stop for a second.
Let me step back and try to comprehend the notion that corruption exists in New York City.
I know!
What's going on?
I don't know what to make of it.
Yeah.
But with Turkey, I mean, is that an Erdogan thing?
I don't know, this is like, this reminds me of, I don't have a clip, but Kamala, they were talking about how she had collected $350 million in small donations over the last month, as opposed to Trump's $140 million.
Seems like a lot of money, no matter who gets it and how.
But this small donations thing, which they then said was perfected by Obama, Yeah.
With Chinese credit cards.
This is bull crap.
This, this is, yes, this is a scam of some sort and it's a major one, but it's for, it's like Saudi money or something that's being laundered and comes in, filters in as small donations.
And I can't say it's Saudi money in particular.
It could be Chinese money, which I would be more, probably more likely.
Or it's just, it's slick though.
It's a very slick, Operation.
There is no way that you're getting that kind of money for Kamala Harris out of the blue because they love her so much.
I mean, just too much money.
It's too much money.
Speaking of too much money, Elon Musk.
I'm staying on the beat.
Uh-oh.
You know, the reason why I am staying on the Elon beat with his freedom of speech Is for this very simple.
And again, you disagree with me and that's the way it should be.
I just want to be the guy looking the other direction.
You never know.
Everyone's very enamored with X, loves it.
It's great.
You are totally in love with it.
A lot of people hate it.
Most journalists in the Bay Area, for example, who are all part of bayager.macedon.whatever.
something or other dot Macedon dot whatever.
- Yeah, dot Macedon.
- Social. - Dot Macedon dot Macedon.
- Yeah.
- I go there and I have an account on Macedon Social, and I use it to follow the journalists that are in the Bay Area and elsewhere.
And they are the biggest haters of the dead bird, as they like to call it.
Yes, the dead bird site.
And it's just they go on and on and on.
They're psychopaths.
It's just like an embarrassment.
Right, but they're not doing the work.
And I'm doing the work here.
And here's the reason.
You're doing what work?
I'm doing the work.
If a guy had 40,000 satellites circling the earth, had a brain chip company, was responsible for ushering in carbon credits and electric vehicles, and his name was Bill Gates, everybody would hate him.
But now it's Elon.
Oh, it's great.
And I, I'm not, I'm not all in on the brain chip.
I, you know, I quite, I love Starlink, but I question... You have a Starlink account, if I'm not mistaken.
I do.
I do.
That's what I said.
I love... I don't.
I love Starlink.
Well, I need it as a backup for the show, but I question what can you do with it?
What does it, you know... You have to, you don't, you can use 5G.
Yeah, I have, I have that as a backup as well.
I have two backups.
Hello, this is an important show.
I don't want to be taken off.
I got a generator, I got a Jenny, and I got me a Starlink, and I got me a 5G.
So if there's ever a problem, the show will continue.
No, but I would like us to use the 5G, not the 5G, but the Starlink.
I don't want to use it for the show, but I want to test it for the show to see what the latency seems like.
And if it's reasonable, I'll get that as a second backup for myself.
Well, I can tell you right away, you should.
Todd from Blueberry, he does the New Media Show, he does video with Rob.
Now, they always argue about His video podcasting, his YouTube podcasting.
They argue about the same stuff over and over again.
But Todd runs Blueberry.
Todd's a good guy.
He's been around.
He's a knight.
He's been around for a long time.
He's part of the decentralized hosting infrastructure that is podcasting.
He has been using Starlink for his podcast to communicate with video through Zoom, I think they use, for the past couple of weeks.
And the latency is almost undetectable.
Well, the guys up at the, the Canadians that we've both done their podcast.
Uh, yeah.
The, um, what's the name of their podcast?
I've done it twice.
We are horrible now.
They're going to be mad at us.
Grimerica.
One of the guys uses, thank you.
One of the guys uses the, um, Starlink and it's like transparent.
You couldn't tell the difference.
Now, I don't know how it would work with Starlink on both ends, because that would have to introduce... I would like to test it.
That has to introduce some latency.
But anyway, if it was Bill Gates, we'd all be suspicious.
But now it's Elon Musk, and we're like, oh, it's Tony Stark.
Okay.
So, I noticed that during yesterday's Independence Day rally for Brazil, there was a call from Bolsonaro and from other people on the ground to protest the lack of free speech in Brazil.
So, you know, there's a lot of videos out there.
They may be from previous demonstrations.
I don't know if... Yeah, I saw that one.
It looked like Mardi Gras to me.
Yeah, I don't know if it was tens of thousands or hundreds.
I don't know.
What I did see is I saw a lot of free speech t-shirts with X pre-printed on it, which means someone has boots on the ground doing that.
And I just have a couple of clips.
I couldn't get anything from the mainstream US media, so I had to go to an old favorite, W-I-O-N.
Thank you for defending our freedom.
Red banners in praise of X as hundreds of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro hit streets.
They demanded the dismissal of Justice Alexandre de Moraes who last week ordered X be banned in Brazil after the platform failed to comply with orders to block some accounts accused of spreading fake news.
This after Bolsonaro urged Brazilians to avoid official Independence Day parades And instead, join him in Sao Paulo.
Alright, so that doesn't really tell us anything, but what was interesting is that Michael Schellenberger went to Brazil to specifically to make sure he protested the freedom of speech in Brazil.
Now, Schellenberger... What?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, please.
Well, you remember Schellenberger was part of the Westminster Declaration.
You remember this?
Oh yeah.
That was that whole long list of Taibbi, Schellenberger, Jonathan Haidt, Steven Pinker.
The usual suspects.
All the usual suspects.
And we found this to be very sketchy by itself.
In fact, as I'm reading through it.
To say the least.
As I'm reading through it again, the Westminster Declaration says the legislature in Germany and the Supreme Court in Brazil are criminalizing political speech.
So I'm still thinking that there's something going on with Brazil that a group of people wants to change.
And Schellenberger actually gave me some information and then one of our outstanding producers came back with something that fits in with it.
So there's a huge population in Brazil.
I imagine there's a lot of strong feelings.
Tell me about the protest tomorrow.
What to expect?
Well, so this is Brazil's Independence Day tomorrow.
There's going to be a huge protest demanding the impeachment of this Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes, demanding that the President of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, start impeachment proceedings.
The number of senators supporting impeachment has been growing by the day, and you're starting to now see people, you know, newspapers that have been advocating for more censorship online Say, hey, this is too much.
This is really outrageous.
This is the kind of censorship that they saw during the dictatorship in Brazil.
So we're expecting to see hundreds of thousands of people on the streets tomorrow demanding free speech, which is guaranteed in the Brazilian constitution.
It's guaranteed in the Brazilian Constitution, yes.
And one of our producers, Jose, checked in and said, yes, Brazil, Article 5, Part 4, the expression of thought is free, but there's a little extra part there.
And anonymity is forbidden.
Wouldn't that be interesting?
If Elon Musk could have everybody say whatever they wanted on X, but you couldn't do it anonymously.
This is something I've been tracking with him for a long time.
How many people have paid for their check mark?
Once you pay, you're no longer anonymous.
I think that this could come here as well.
I've been saying this for a long time.
Well, a lot of people have been advocating for it.
Yeah, of course they are.
They want it.
And this is just the final thought.
Well, that's just so you can identify your enemy.
Well, yes.
What came to mind is what What group is probably the greatest risk to the U.S.
dollar?
What group is the greatest threat?
What group poses the greatest threat to the U.S.
Greatest threat.
What group poses the greatest threat to the U.S. dollar?
Well, I would say the BRICS for one.
Exactly.
when I put it at the top of the list.
Exactly.
The BRICS.
Brazil, India, Russia, China.
We already have.
South Africa.
Well, yes, and then Saudi Arabia is in there and Egypt is in there.
Yeah, but a part of the BRICS nomenclature, the S stands for South Africa.
Yes.
But Brazil is right at the front.
I think there's groups maybe within our U.S.
government and typical to use Elon, because they use him for everything else, who want to bring the BRICS to heel.
Well, I think we've come to that conclusion some time back.
Right, but you can use this as a wedge.
We can't have these guys out there doing what they're trying to do.
It's like ridiculous.
We can't put up with this.
You can use this as a wedge issue.
Bring in the Republican from Florida.
Let's get right to Congresswoman Maria Salazar, the Congresswoman who serves on House Foreign Affairs.
House Foreign Affairs.
Congressman Salazar fled communism in Cuba with her family.
It's great to have you on.
Wonderful to see you again, Congresswoman.
Your reaction to Brazil banning Twitter?
Oh, very worrisome.
And you know, let me just tell you where else Twitter has been banning.
Freedom Force!
Iran and North Korea and China and Russia and Venezuela and now in Brazil, the most important economy in the Western Hemisphere after the United States.
How embarrassing and how worrisome.
And why?
Because Elon Musk is a freedom force that they don't need at this hour because they want to become socialist more and more.
You have to remember that the president of Brazil, Lula, was in jail for two years.
He was convicted to 12 years for corruption and money laundering.
Freedom Force!
Yep.
I have no conclusion to this, but I'm just saying there's forces, and it's not a freedom force, is at work to do something with Brazil.
Just keeping my eye on it.
Well, I'm not going to dissuade you from continuing this thread.
Yes.
But, yes, BRICS is an issue that has to be dealt with because we cannot afford to lose our reserve currency status.
Otherwise, the country would be bankrupt.
We'd be done.
Yeah.
So, you know, it's one thing to have the NFL there.
It's another thing to have them messing with our currency.
And this guy's no good.
Lula's no good.
No, Lula is no good.
Now he's a socialist.
The Brazilians bring these guys back and forth.
It's ridiculous.
Every country, modern country, has been doing this.
We see it in France with the left wanting to take over the place and turn it into an international operation.
And Spain is always voting communists in left and right.
Also no good.
They have issues.
And uh, it's just, this is a...
I forget, it was Kennedy or somebody who said, you know, why don't we just let the communists have their own party here in this country so we can at least identify them?
Did Kennedy say that?
RFK Jr.?
Yeah, RFK Jr.
That's funny.
It may have not been him, but my voice is going because I'm talking about him.
It was somebody who was an important person that had this logical conclusion, and I kind of agree with that.
You should have a communist.
You have a communist on the ticket, you know?
Yeah.
He's a communist, and if you vote for him, you're an idiot.
But at least you can identify that they're there, and you can see who voted for him.
Not that you should be spying on the public, but... Oh, no.
I have a funny... since my voice is... I do have to play this Alex Jones clip just as kind of an aside.
Goodness.
Okay.
So Alex... Sorry.
Yeah.
Don't play it yet.
Alex Jones was talking about this latest thing going on with the... Friend of the show.
Yeah, he's a friend of the show.
I like Alex Jones' material generally, but he, you know, he does, and he is very good about the last election and calling people out who thought there were some micro dots on the ballots.
Thanks, pal.
Remember, remember.
It was Pachanik that was on his show that was making the decision.
That's where it all started.
Literally laughing at him on the show.
So Alex has been picked up on Eric Weinstein's latest thing, and he's got some background information about the self-replicating nanobots that are in this shot and killing your immune system.
It went on.
I have no clips of that.
Yeah, because it was like this such a sketchy assertion.
Well, it came just it came from a paper which was written by someone who was not schooled in this particular area.
And so it's I think it's been debunked by now.
Well, it's a good topic of conversation for Alex and his show.
But meanwhile, he does a segment where he takes letters to the editor and he just reads them and then he follows up.
And so somebody wrote in to him about his scream and how come he's not using it much anymore where he screams.
And so he He does scream for the guy, but there was a lot of background information, which I think we can all anticipate, before he does his scream.
And this is nothing more than Alex explaining his lousy, his crazy sounding voice, and then he, to make it matters worse, he does his scream into the microphone.
I never took acting lessons or voice lessons.
I've screamed and yelled a lot, even without a bullhorn.
And so I've got stuff on my larynx, polyps.
I've been to an ear, nose, and eye doctor a couple times, and they said, well, it'll take six weeks, you can't really tell.
Is it ear, nose, and throat doctor?
Yeah, yes it is.
I'd like to be a nose and eye doctor.
Oh, poor Alice.
I've been to an ear, nose, and eye doctor a couple times, and they said, well, it'll take six weeks, you can't really talk, you can take those polyps off, and you won't sound like you're an 80-year-old man who smokes cigarettes and drinks whiskey, but I just haven't done it, and it's kind of signature, so I'm leaving it there.
I may have to do it at some point if I keep screaming because it's getting worse.
But I used to scream so loud at demonstrations and stuff that I'd cough up blood.
Oh!
A few times.
So, uh, I like to do it.
I usually do it when I actually feel like doing it, but I'm excited about, you know, the country and the world waking up, so let me fire it up and do it.
There, that's a little one for you.
And you got great pleasure from this.
I did.
It's like he makes that scream and I realize it's just a, it's just a, it's, it's a, it's a shtick with him.
But he is blowing out his vocal.
Of course he is.
There's no doubt about it.
And then he does his scream again.
He should stop.
I have two quick clips.
That'll be it for me for our broadcast day.
But of course we have a great end of show mixes and we have the tip of the day coming up.
So you want to wait for that.
This is the M5M, the legacy media, catching up to your No Agenda show, which has been on this beat for, I think, at least six months.
Rob, a West Suburban woman is talking to the I-Team about how she sent almost $1 million to a scammer.
And she's not alone.
The FBI estimates the scam, known as pig butchering, cost Americans nearly $4 billion last year alone.
Think of all the money people could have saved if they were listening to the No Agenda show.
We have warned people for this.
We have explained how it works.
Even the name, pig butchering, and yet $4 billion is gone.
It's unbelievable.
Yeah.
And the thing is, the FBI, I mean, where are, where is it?
Where's Elizabeth Warren?
Where's Warren?
Elizabeth Warren and Rachel complain about Rachel.
And I still get calls, I get, the ones I'm getting now mostly, almost one after another is the, oh, you've been paying too much for your utility bill.
You, you've overpaid.
We want to give you a bunch of money and discount your utility bill by 35%.
Press one for this offer.
And of course, I take it literally and press one and hang up.
Yeah.
Because they're only asking me to press one.
They're not asking me to hang on the line.
I've hung on the line a couple of times.
There's some guy with a very thick Bombay accent trying to convince me that the local utility bill... I just had to give him my bank account information.
Oh yeah, then you'll clear it right up.
Uh, but I got, actually I got a call yesterday while here from a 512 area code, which is, uh, Texas, Austin.
And, uh, and the minute I heard it, I was like, oh, cause he, yes, uh, this is a sheriff's office.
Like, oh, okay.
And I hung up.
And it was, you remember that scam that they pulled me into?
Tried to pull me into the sheriff's office and then... I told you about this.
You don't remember?
No.
Yeah, well... I don't remember.
You may have told me.
It was very convincing.
They had police radio going on in the background.
We're transferring you.
And then, well, there's a warrant out for your arrest because you didn't show up as a...
Um, what's the, as a, the stuff you've, as a witness, a specialist witness, what do you call it?
You've been an expert.
Expert witness.
Thank you.
Expert witness.
And because you had signed, uh, that you would appear now you have to come down to the station and you have to pay a fine.
It's three and a half thousand dollars.
And it was, it was sophisticated.
They had me going.
I have not heard this one.
Yeah.
They had me going for a bit.
And I'm like, you know, I think I'm going to call my lawyer.
No, you can't hang up.
We have another term.
Oh, there's your giveaway.
Well, they wanted me to go to a kiosk and deposit the money.
I was like, OK, gotcha.
Oh, yeah, that makes sense.
Get a gift card.
But what I'm going to do is when we get home tomorrow, I'm going to call them back and then pretend that I fell for it.
I'm going to record it.
See if I can get them to go all the way through.
They will not pick up the phone.
The first time they actually left a message at 7.59 a.m.
and I didn't take it because I was walking the dog and I called them back and they picked up.
So I might get lucky.
You might get lucky, but I've had very little luck with this.
Yeah.
The most recent one, I did have one of these.
The second time, this is the second time it happened.
I pick up the phone and the voice on the other end goes, Grandpa?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Grandpa?
Yeah.
And I didn't, well, I've had this call before and this guy, I told, I just told this guy off.
I said, who, what, what dummies believe anything you have to say?
And I hung up on him.
I didn't have time for the call cause I was doing clips.
Oh man.
But I've had the call before.
I don't have the... Yes, I have to record these.
Space.
Space.
If I ever get one of these again, I'll try to record it.
But the... I did go through it with the first guy.
And the guy says, Hey, Grandpa?
And I said, Yeah?
Who is this?
It's Theodore.
It's Theodore.
No, they never get... They don't have a name.
They don't have that tiny... It could be Theodore.
Yeah, well, Theodore's like nine or eight.
Yeah.
And you're like... You're like 50.
Oh, OK.
And so, the voices are no good.
They aren't using kids' voices.
Well, they do.
And they're not using voice augmentation.
It just doesn't work.
I don't see how anyone could fall for this crap.
You know, these days, all the... Tina and the girls, they have special code words in case someone calls with a, hey, mom, I'm in trouble, and they use AI to simulate the voice, which has happened, or at least there's been warnings about it.
Supposedly.
Supposedly.
You know, this is my last clip.
There's one other trend which has been going on for a while but I never really paid much attention to it.
Mainly because I don't have an iPhone.
I haven't had an iPhone since Apple screwed up USB on the Macs and I got rid of all my Apple products.
You've never had an iPhone as far as I know.
You don't have a phone.
You have some kind of Chinese... I have a phone?
Yeah, in the desk drawer.
An Android.
It's an Android.
You don't have an iPhone.
Yeah, of course it is.
So, one of the features... By the way, stop.
I'm not dead set against these phones.
I will say the foldable Samsung phone looks very appealing.
You know?
It's pretty, it's small, it's dynamite.
But I would continue.
Sorry.
You know, it's $1,800 for that phone.
Yeah, no, forget it.
It's not gonna happen.
And we had the Zoomer at the house for 12 weeks.
She's back now.
She's back in New York.
She's healed.
Everything went well.
Thank you for asking.
And I noticed there is a trend that's been going on for a long time.
I just never really noticed it of location sharing.
And I found a clip actually someone sent me this clip from TikTok.
It's obviously a setup.
So it's not like, oh, this is a real zoomer.
You know, this is pretend.
But it does show you just that I find it to be a very disturbing, lonely trend.
Sorry I'm late.
There was literally so much traffic.
Oh, that's interesting because I was tracking your location and you only left your house 10 minutes ago.
Wait, you have my location?
Yeah, remember you shared it with me six months ago when we were at that concert?
No.
Yeah.
Oh my god, do you know if Kelly's back with her ex?
Because like I was tracking her on Find My Friends last night and she was in Brentwood, which is like where her ex lives.
And also I have her ex's location too and they were What are you watching?
I'm watching Find My Friends.
People are being crazy today.
They're like bobbing all around the city.
Sabrina flaked on dinner last week.
She said she didn't feel well and I was like, well that's odd because your location says you're at a different house.
Find My Friends more like Find the People Who Betrayed Me.
Do you just watch that all day?
Yeah, I just like love Find My Friends because it makes me feel close like to my friends.
You know what I mean?
Like I find my friends in their locations where they currently are.
Kelly, where are you going, girl?
You're being insane today!
It's kind of like an invasion of privacy, don't you think?
No!
Girl, don't go in there!
No, and I saw on my boss' location that he was at a bar last night, which is like, okay, weeknight drinking.
Wait, you have your boss' location?
Yeah, yeah, I turned it on when I was on his phone.
Does he know that?
He doesn't.
He might not not know that.
This is disturbing.
This Find My Friends, track their location, and it's rampant.
Yes, I thought this was an idea that I've cropped out.
I remember writing about it, and I think it was in PC Magazine.
It may have been before that, when I was at InfoWorld, even.
Where this idea had cropped up in Europe, it was called something else, but you could track your friends, and it was, oh yeah, this is great because you can meet at the bar, and, oh, look, they're at the same area, you know, here in Amsterdam.
This is a European product originally.
And I always thought it was just a stalker's delight, and I never thought it would ever become legal, because I think it should be illegal.
But yeah, it doesn't, this does not surprise me.
Yeah, I just, it's like what, what is that about?
What, what, what, what is happening to people that they find it's so necessary to share location with each other so you can see where you're, is that like the most intimate type of friendship we have these days?
I'm really good friends with her.
I'm sharing my location.
Well, if anybody follows my location, they'd find that I live in a drawer in my kitchen area.
I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
He lives in a drawer!
That's right, everybody.
We want to thank all of our producers.
We thanked our executive and associate executive producers halfway through the show, and this is where we thank everyone who came in.
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Yes, let's start with the Dame and Baron of Puget Sound in Sammamish.
The suburb there, Washington, suburb of Seattle.
$150.
Oh, thank you.
Donald Francis in Chandler, Arizona.
1-2-3-4-5.
Van Newman in Bernalillo, New Mexico.
Ben Newman in Bernalillo, New Mexico, 10535.
1-0-5-35.
Matthew Bell in Hewitt, Wisconsin, 100.
First human resource coming in.
There's a karma request there.
You can put that at the end.
Brian S. in New York, New York.
He's had boots on the ground.
He came in with 100.
He has a boots on the ground report.
Counterfeit knockoff street in Canal Street, episode 1690.
My wife and I happened to find ourselves there earlier this week, and I can report the counterfeit trade is alive and well on Canal Street, yeah.
Sellers used to be mainly Chinese, that's right, who would entice you into their store.
Nah, not necessarily, but if you go back far enough, they were on the street selling this stuff.
There were some guys that take it in the back rooms and you had to go into the back rooms to get the high-end Rolex clones.
Yes.
That's true.
They've been supplanted by hordes of newcomers from Africa.
Oh, yes.
The newcomers bringing gifts.
So there you have it.
Omega Man in Las Vegas, Nevada comes in also with a hundred bucks and he has a note that I... He's in Bali.
He's in Bali right now.
Yeah, he says your work... this is a note I'm reading because it's self-promotional.
Your work has been, I'm being honest, transparent.
Your work has been a great inspiration to me.
Now in my 14th year of podcasting, eight from the island of Bali in Indonesia, following you gentlemen for many years, you have the greatest real news show on the planet.
I encourage everyone to support No Agenda as there is no show like it.
I think he has the most podcast episodes published of any podcast.
It's something in the 18,000 or something.
And he has a substack, omegaman.substack.com.
11,000.
There he is.
11,000.
11,000 podcasts.
Thank you, Omegaman.
Good work, brother.
Sirhan Shurhand in Trinidad, Colorado, 8438.
I think that's the boobs donation.
Yeah, it's a boob with a V. So here's another boob donation.
That would be Aaron Grone, in Grone, G-R-O-E-N-E, in Meade, Nebraska, 3438.
Sir Dan the Man, 3438, another boob donation.
There he is, Kevin McLaughlin, Concord, North Carolina, does it right, 8008.
He's the Archduke of Lunar, lover of America and boobs.
Charles Wheeler in Eldridge, Iowa, 8008.
A lot of today.
Aaron Weberg in Roberts, Wisconsin, 8008.
What's going on?
Boobs.
Robert Umberger in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, 8008.
And a belated birthday for Katie Yu.
She's on the list.
And here we go.
Robert Vinson in Mars, Pennsylvania, with 8008.
That is a very strange phenomenon.
People love words.
Bryant Keith, K-E-E-F-E in Sierra Vista, Arizona, 7903.
Little Sir Latte in Bremerton, Washington, 7777.
Douglas Mook in Concranton, Pennsylvania, 75.
MOOC in Concranton, Pennsylvania, 75.
Sir, Becoming Heroic in Shererville, Indiana, 6886.
Jiggly Boobs.
Nice.
Sir Mainframe, and we got a lot of boob guys today.
Sir Mainframe, Ventura, California, 64.
Bruce Bear with a birthday, New Stanton, Pennsylvania, 6348.
That's a happy 22nd birthday to his douchebag son.
Oh.
Should we call him out as a douchebag?
Yeah, I just did it.
David Codd.
There we go, yep.
Double douchebag.
David Cox in Austin, Texas, $63.25.
J.J.
in Ennis, Texas, $63.25.
These are birthdays for me.
It's a birthday to you.
Yes, thank you.
Texas 6325.
These are birthday to you.
Yes.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Sir Ron 6229.
Dame Elizabeth, Gardiner, Kansas, $62.
And that's a birthday call to her husband.
Fluff Comet in Ladysmith, BC, Canada, $60.45.
Another birthday wish for Adam and her husband, Mark.
Yes, 45.
Kyle, Baron of North Valley of Foxes in Wisconsin, 6011.
Grayson Insurance, Aurora, Colorado, 6006.
Small boobs.
Gregory Kierdak in Padova, Italy.
Padova, I think is what we call it.
Padova, Padova, Padova.
60-01, we need more Italian donors.
Ryan Livesey, Livesey, Livesey, Sacramento, 60.
Sir Tigermax, Veeradale, Washington, 60.
Jennifer Fivie, I think it's Fivie in Alberta, Canada, 60.
Phillip Colburn in Warramoo, New South Wales, Australia, 60.
And he's got a bunch of I's there for some reason.
Sabode Peth, our buddy in Metairie, Louisiana, 58, 09.
Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, 58.
Susan Claycamp in Dacula, Georgia, 57, 98.
Uh, Sir Lineman in Anna, Illinois, 5678.
Sir Not Jake in Thompson, Connecticut, 5678.
Sir Glenn in Raleigh, North Carolina, 5510.
Double nickels on the dime.
Sir Stardy Bartfast in Hope, Rhode Island, 54... I think it's Slardy Bartfast.
Slardy Bartfast, 5432.
Oh, that's the memoriam of Francine the Rat who passed today.
Yes, our literal pet.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Rats can be nice pets.
I had a pet rat once.
Oh, really?
Yeah, his name was Fred.
David Byrne, 5333.
Mark Hardwick.
I let that slide, by the way.
Mark Hardwick in Aledo, Texas, 5333.
Huh.
Interesting.
Uh, Rolian Vandenhaar in Hollensveld.
I like this.
It's Rolijn van der Haar in Hollandse Veldt, 5272.
My husband and I recently discovered your podcast.
We like it a lot.
Well, hello, Dutchies.
Thanks for bringing some common sense and humor into our lives.
Much appreciated.
Take good care.
We hope to listen for many more episodes.
Four more years!
Perpetually.
Brittany Miller in Trinidad, Colorado, 5272.
Todd Lehigh in Riverton, Utah.
These are all 5272s.
I won't say the number anymore.
This is actually $50 donors plus the numbers that they add to it.
Yeah, exactly.
Manuel Medeiros in Tracy.
Ernest Parten in Westchester, Ohio.
Paul Dubois in Kerhunkson, New York.
You guys, is it me or you guys start leaning away from your no agenda agenda?
Be that as it may, like I've listened before, I don't always agree with your analysis, but it's always foolish.
He must be a Democrat.
Yeah, totally.
Kerry Barthel, 2272.
Sains, Sains, S-A-I-N-Z, Cello Studios.
If you're a cellist, go to Houston, Texas.
Sains, S-A-I-N-Z, Cello Studios.
It's gonna be a rush.
It's gonna be a rush at the door, all the cellists.
If it's indeed a cello studio, I don't know.
Could be an art guy.
Who knows?
Austin Ward in Millington, Connecticut.
Connecticut.
Tennessee.
5272.
Baroness Amy.
Baroness Amy in Jefferson, Wisconsin.
And this is a switcheroo to Baron John the Fabulous.
And he's got a birthday today.
Love you, babe!
Josiah Thomas, Ankeny, Iowa, 51.
And then we go to the 50s.
Actually, we start with Cole Dial, who's in Farina, Illinois.
He does 50-50, which is good.
Stephen Ray in Spokane, Washington, 50.
These are all 50s.
Edward Misurik in Memphis, Tennessee.
Robertson Holm in Flint, Michigan.
Ray Howard in Kremling, Colorado.
James, Walker, Cole in Harmony, Rhode Island.
A lot of Rhode Islanders today.
Hold on.
James says, Hi, John and Adam.
This is James Cole using my mom's computer.
I'd like to call my mom out as a douchebag.
That's not very nice.
Cute, though.
Yeah, it's cute.
I love these kids.
William Kidwell in Dover, Delaware.
George Wuschett.
Sir George, he's been around forever in La Vernia, Texas.
Eric Hoff in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
McDermott Connor in Salisbury, North Carolina.
Megan Duckworth in Jeffersonville, Georgia.
Alex Salazar.
Yes.
Salazar.
Yeah, I think that's right.
Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Carrie Jackson in Walterton, Tennessee.
Dame Rita in Sparks, Nevada.
And last on our list is Alex Wenta in Manchester, Cute Town, New Hampshire.
That's our group of supporters for show 1693.
Thank you all for hearing the call of the sad puppy.
Thank you for supporting the show.
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Again, thanks everyone under 50, particularly those sustaining donations.
Even if you made a donation above 50 today, we'd appreciate it if you set us up with a sustaining donation.
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Thank you again.
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NoahGinthedonations.com It's your birthday, birthday I'm Noah Ginnah The Fluff Comet wishes her husband Mark a happy one.
He turned 45 on the 6th of September.
Ross Reynolds turned 44 yesterday.
Baroness Amy says happy birthday to Baron John the Fabulous.
His birthday is today, show day.
Dame Elizabeth, happy birthday to her husband, Surreal Protector of the Hobby Farm.
Turns 62 tomorrow.
Bruce Bear wishes his son James Blair a very happy one for the 11th.
By the way, September 11th is coming up.
We're all talking about the big debate on the 10th, but Man, it's September 11th, so he'll be 22.
Sir Tooth Fairy wishes this human resource Layla a very happy 8th birthday.
Robert Umberger says happy birthday to Katie Yu.
And our very own Clip Custodian, the one and only Neil Jones turns 46 years old today.
Happy birthday, brother.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
And we have, speaking of the man himself, Cotton Gin.
Eric, as he's known.
Sir Cotton Gin will become a knight today.
He's a layaway knight.
And he says, happy birthday Adam.
My last donation puts me over the threshold for knighthood.
I would like to be named Sir Cotton Gin.
Cotton gin, knight of the button pushers.
And he is indeed a button pusher.
He helps out a lot with the stream.
Does a lot of good things for us.
Sets up all kinds of different IRC bots.
He's a good man.
Thank you for your courage.
Here's to another 60 years.
Eric, a.k.a.
Cotton Gin.
And since he's the only one, we might as well grab our blades right away.
John, if you can get your blade out.
There you go.
Hello, Cotton Gin!
Step on up!
Thanks to your layaway night support, you actually reached night status today, which means I am very proud to pronounce the K-D as Sir Cotton Gin, Knight of the Button Pushers.
For you, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, cookies and vodka, warm beer and cold women.
Taquitos and tequila!
We've got harlots and haldol, redheads and rye-highs, rye-highs.
We've got organic macaroni and plasticizers.
That's a big favorite on the menu.
Along with that, beer and blunts.
We've got ruminants, rumen and rosé, geysers and sake, vodka, vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, and...
There it is, the mutton and mead.
Sir Cotton Gin, welcome to the round table.
And while you're munching out there on the mutton and mead, go to noagenderings.com.
Take a look at that beautiful ring.
It's a Signet ring.
You will have one in the mail sent to you once you size it with the handy ring finger sizing guide on the website.
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Welcome to the roundtable, Sir Cotton Chin.
No agenda meetups.
Let's see, I have no audio reports to play today, but we do have a meetup taking place, of course.
Of course, it is the monthly NA Tribal September Shindig.
Of course, this is the September one.
It happens once a month.
It is underway at the Prodigy Burger Bar in Indianapolis, Indiana.
That's Mark and Maria of the Greenwood who are hosting that, and they will have a great meetup report for us by the next show.
Also, the TooManyEggs.com meetup taking place today in Keene, New Hampshire at the Yasho Jamaican Grill in Keene, New Hampshire.
Coming up on the calendar, Kernersville, North Carolina, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
We've got Ronard Park, California, Garden City, Idaho, Fort Wayne, Indiana, St.
Augustine, Florida, Tucson, Arizona, Charlotte, North Carolina, Bedford, Texas, St.
Petersburg, Florida, San Diego, California, Long Beach, California, Goose Creek, South Carolina, Alpharetta, Georgia, Richland, Washington, Tilburg, the Netherlands on the 28th, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fredericksburg, Texas, October 18th, Kareem, the keeper will be there, Okeechobee, Florida on the 20th, Ottawa in Scandinavia, Emeryville on the 2nd of November.
Well, we're in November already.
Sacramento and looking forward to December.
West Palm Beach, Florida.
These are the No Agenda meetups that you can find at noagendameetups.com.
It's a good website.
You can check out, you know, search by location.
Also, some meetup reports are put back up there.
It is a great way to get to know the community and the producers known as No Agenda Nation.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
It's easy and always a party.
Well, this is, uh, disturbing.
Hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me.
Triggered or held to blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Well, this is disturbing.
As far as I can tell, both of us have one ISO each.
Hmm.
Which does not bode well.
It bodes well to me.
You got a killer?
Then I'll go first.
Here's mine.
I don't have a... No, just... I don't care.
What do you mean you don't care?
I mean, both of these are probably usable.
Eh, I don't like... Well, here we go.
That's so frickin' unsafe.
See, it's... What's that got to do with anything?
Nothing.
Let me try yours.
One day it'll all make sense.
Wow, they're both horrible.
We'll use one of the backups from one of the previous shows.
Last show, for example, had a bunch of good ones.
How about this one?
Yeah, it is big.
How about that?
Okay, fine.
You sound so mad, bro!
Hey everybody, it's time for our end of show tip of the day.
It's John's Corner!
Great advice for you and me.
Just the tip with JCD.
And sometimes, Adam.
Yeah!
Tip of the day time!
We're all excited to hear what you've got lined up for us, John.
What is your tip of the day?
Alright, well these things cost about 12 bucks or so.
And this is a recommended dog walk.
People with dogs would...
You have a dog that's medium-sized or a big dog.
We usually have a big dog in our family somewhere.
And Mimi's got a Fila Brasilio, which is a huge, powerful dog.
I got a big dog.
I got a big dog.
Is that a big dog, really?
Phoebe?
Phoebe's a big dog.
Yeah, I don't know.
What's she weigh?
She was 120.
We got her down to... Oh, that's a big dog.
...99 right now.
She was a little overweight.
Big dog.
Then you need this.
Okay, it's a tip.
I'm excited.
You want a, and you can look it up, they have them at Amazon, there's a couple brands there, but you look it up, a Bungie dog leash.
Bungie dog leash.
The Bungie dog leash, if you have a big dog or even a medium-sized dog, If they lunge at something, it doesn't pull your arm out of your shoulder, out of your socket.
It absorbs the initial lurch that a dog will do and brings it back to normal.
The Bungie Dog Leash is one of the greatest products.
If you have a dog walking leash, get one of these things.
You'll never regret it.
It's a fabulous product.
Now, how far out does it extend?
Well, they have a six foot, what, about a couple feet.
I mean, it's not like the dog can go to somebody's throat while you're sitting there.
I have one of those that has a reel in it.
Yeah, those are no good.
You want the bungee dog, okay.
All right, well, you know, this might be for Tina, because when she's walking the dog, our dog has some PTSD, because, you know, she's a rescue from a tree line.
Tina will thank me profusely for this recommendation of the bungee dog leash.
Bungee dog leash, I like it.
Well, and I will have her send you a personal note if she is that happy with the product.
Yeah, and they're not expensive, so.
All right.
There it is, everybody, your tip of the day.
Holy handy ideas, Batman!
It's the tip of the day!
There you go, there's the guy.
There you go.
Alright everybody, thank you very much for being with us once again.
Coming to you from the cruise ship capital of Mexico, just north of Puerto Vallarta.
Hey, are there cruise ships out there that you can see?
Nope.
Nope.
Well, some capital.
No, it's on the other side.
Can't see it.
Coming up next, though, we do have Random Thoughts.
Random Thoughts.
The Clueless Collective.
And we have two end-of-show mixes.
David Keka checks in as usual.
The guy's always checking in.
I really appreciate that, David.
We could use more end-of-show mixes, so I rolled out a classic, which is Sir Chris.
So Chris Wilson with an Alessi Brothers spoof of O'Laurie.
It is O'Elon, so I'm sure you will enjoy that.
Although John doesn't like the key that it's sung in.
Coming to you for the last time here from Mexico.
I'll be back on Thursday from home base.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, which is the home base, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Thursday.
Please join us for another three hours of media deconstruction, and remember us at noagendadonations.com.
Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey, and such.
I certainly see a position where the world's going to have to come together and agree some rules around social media platforms.
And I think that's quite what the answer is and what the right system of regulation is.
I'm not sure, but I'm sure there should be.
And there's got to be because, you know, hostility and hatred.
But I think we can't carry on as we are.
And I think the impact on young people, particularly when they've got access to mobile phones very young.
And they're reading a whole lot of stuff and receiving a whole lot of stuff that I think is really messing with their minds in a big way. .
Brazilian government and Elon Musk have been in a feud.
It began when a Brazilian judge, Alexandra de Moraes, ordered regulators to ban access to the social media platform X after Musk refused to appoint a legal representative in the country.
Well, millions of people in Brazil no longer have access to X, which used to be known as Twitter.
Brazil's Supreme Court blocked the social media platform over the weekend after owner Elon Musk refused court orders, including one to name a representative in the country.
People who do have access to X by VPN, they could face thousands of dollars in fines.
Musk and a top justice on Brazil's high court have been feuding for months over disinformation on the platform.
I'd like to keep my blue checkmark.
It's a bummer if after all those years of patriarchy, oh, Obama.
Look, here's the thing.
Twitter shouldn't be just left wing.
I think I like to hide my racist views from you with a handle that larps so I can remain anonymous and hound those snarky snarks posting peppy memes and playing both extremes.
Wanna kill a live puppy on Twitter Spaces?
Oh, Whelan, your go-to troll is truly on.
Ooh, and those sphincters are reeling.
Oh, Whelan, Illuminati proto-champion of the future, which horseman are you?
Am I unbanned now?
After tweeting big massive dumps to Don Jr.
After all my old accounts are uncovered.
Ooh, Elon, all you wanna do is authenticate the room.
You can tell it's real because it looks so fake, so fake, so fake.
Oh, Elon!
So fake.
Your go-to troll is truly on.
Ooh, and those sphincters are reeling.
Oh, Elon!
So fake.
Illuminati, proto-champion of the future, which horse bit are you?
When he has a vision for Mars, it's the right vision, and I think he can articulate something really compelling, and I don't understand half of what he's saying.
I'm like, this guy knows what he's talking about.
When he talks about moving equipment into the atmosphere for less money using reusable rockets, when he talks about electric vehicles, he has absolutely no vision here other than First Amendment blather.
None of it makes any sense.
What, does he want to kill a live puppy on Twitter Spaces?
