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"Pronoun Journey"
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This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination Episode 1695.
This is no agenda.
Watching World War III and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6.
Why, in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where we are not eating the dogs yet.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
In the morning!
Yeah, key word, yet.
Yet, yet, yet, yet, yet.
That's right.
Oh, man.
I'm slow today.
Why?
Oh, we went out last night.
Oh.
Yeah.
The night before a show.
Well, you want to hear about it?
It was kind of interesting.
It was the Fredericksburg Tea Party Boots and Barbecue Dinner.
Yes.
I knew you'd want to hear about it.
Yeah, typically I wouldn't really go to something like this, certainly anything that's a party, but the Tea Party in Fredericksburg is, I mean, you know, it's not... There's still a Tea Party?
It's an old school Tea Party.
It's not, you know, like the Ron Paul days of Tea Party, so not really, it's not really a political party.
But it's a reason for the good old boys and girls to get together.
Did you wear boots?
I did.
I did.
Tina wore like a cute skirt and boots.
I discovered I need a hat because I was one of the few without a hat.
So of course the Fredericksburg Tea Party Boots and Barbecue was held in beautiful downtown Kerrville.
There's no place that can facilitate it.
There were 350 people there.
It was quite a get-together.
Now, this is organized by Matt Long.
Matt is a fixture in Fredericksburg.
He's been running the Tea Party for 15 years, and he's actually the guy who's also organizing the No Agenda Meetup on the 18th of October.
at the Full Moon Inn Bed and Breakfast.
Plug.
Well, of course it's a plug.
And I met Jenny, Jenny McCombs, who owns... Oh, Jenny!
I've always wanted to meet Jenny.
She owns the Full Moon Inn Bed and Breakfast, and she's very excited to meet everybody.
She's a January 6-er.
Tried, convicted, I think she even served time in prison.
What?
Yeah, I think she served time in prison.
She went to D.C.?
Yeah, oh yeah.
That's dedication, I like it.
So, I didn't get to chat with her real long, so I'll get the full story when we see her on the 18th.
Anyway, there were some speakers, which was quite interesting.
Rick Green, who runs the Patriot Academy, which is, that's a place here in, right near Fredericksburg, where you can go and learn how the Constitution works, and how Congress works, and how you get a bill on the floor, and they educate young people.
But probably they're just as well known for their four-day personal self-defense class.
So they're basically doing what the high schools should have been doing for decades.
Yes!
Exactly!
It's like a high school.
Yeah.
Then with the four-day pistol training.
It's great.
He gets up and says... Yeah.
Well, they used to have gun clubs in most high schools.
Of course.
Of course.
He gets up and says, Hi, everybody.
I'm Rick.
He's real animate.
I'm Rick Green.
So what do we do right now?
If right through that door in the back, the dirtbag comes in.
He's got an AR-15.
Start shooting.
How many are you prepared?
So, you know, 30 hands go up at least.
Yeah, but... They're all holding guns.
They shoot them all in the air.
That's what would really be funny.
No one actually pulled their gun out.
And he said, but are you prepared to get the job done?
Anyway, it was a good pitch.
Really good pitch.
This is sounding nuttier and nuttier by the minute.
Go on.
No, this is great.
Then Chip Roy spoke.
Chip Roy was there.
Yes, Chip Roy was there.
And, uh, very dark.
Chip Roy, very dark.
This is it.
This is it.
If we don't win this election, we're all gonna die.
Yeah, right.
Yes, that's the pitch.
Yeah, and then he gave his pitch for the SAVE Act, which is the, what was it, like...
I think it's basically make sure illegals don't vote in our Elections Act, which was controversial because it kind of blew up, I think, this week where, what's that guy from Kentucky, Massey?
He said, no, this is all nonsense.
They jam all this stuff into the continuing resolution.
Massey, yes.
There is a clip going around.
I never took it.
Massey is the guy to do this.
He is the wet blanket in the Republican Party who doesn't put up with anything and everybody rolls their eyes and they all love him.
Yeah, he's kind of like a new Rand Paul.
He's like, no, I'm just not going to do this nonsense.
So, so Chip Roy, you know, he's okay, but you know, I can't remember what it was, but he, he sometimes, he, he does stuff.
I'm like, I don't know, man.
He's, it seems like a good old boy who got, got a little bit too much politician in him, but it was nice.
He was there.
That was nice.
Well, that was a lot different than my, uh, yesterday.
I'm not done yet.
Oh, no, I haven't gotten to the headliner.
Wow.
Oh yeah.
There's a headliner.
After Chip Roy, the trumped-up Texan came in, who is a Trump impersonator, very good, and he even took questions from the audience and stayed in character.
I was well impressed with that guy.
But then the headliner, the one, the only, Mr. MyPillow himself, Mike Lindell.
So you got to meet Mike?
I did.
I met Mike.
Did you get a free pillow?
It's not going too well with MyPillow.com.
Why?
Well, they pretty much cancelled him out of every box store.
They cancelled his accounts, his American Express account, his credit card.
What?
Oh yeah, he got completely de-platformed.
You didn't know this?
American Express cancelled him?
Oh yeah.
For what?
For questioning the elections.
What's that got to do with mercantile acceptance of a credit card?
Yeah, they... he got cancelled.
So American Express is an activist organization?
Is that what you're saying?
Yes, I would say so.
And Chase...
You know, all his bank accounts got frozen, but the worst part is he couldn't accept any credit cards, so he had to... Yeah, that sucks.
If you're selling stuff, yes, it kind of does.
That should be illegal, actually.
Of course it should be.
So, a couple of observations.
Shorter than I thought he was.
I thought he was a much taller guy for some reason.
He looked to be about 5'6 to me.
Yeah, that's about, maybe 5'7, a little bit tall now, but I thought he was kind of like 6 foot plus, you know?
And severe, I mean severe ADHD.
This guy can't, can't look in one direction for more than three seconds.
He's all over the map.
You think it's Tourette's?
No, it's just, it's real ADHD.
Nope, not Tourette's, but as he was speaking, I figured out he has a superpower.
He was telling some of his history.
Some of it's well known, but at one point he was a professional card counter in Vegas.
Ah, I can see that.
Yes, and so this is why he got involved in these voting machines.
Because he could see the deviations.
You know how people have that insight, they can look at a spreadsheet?
It's always beyond me, but yes.
I have talked about this on the show, about how people can see radio waves, they can visualize radio waves, they can visualize, like a good friend of mine can visualize every signal on a bus.
Oh, really?
Like a computer card bus.
You can look at these signals.
You can see, whoa, that's not gonna work.
Or every so often, that's a conflict.
That's a little beyond what Mike Lindell can do.
Well, I'm just saying there are people out there with weird Whoa!
That counts for two!
That's a double weird.
I didn't say it twice.
No, but it was so long and so pronounced, I think it's... No, no, I only got counted for one.
One.
Okay.
But I'm just saying, it's astonishing to me that these skills exist.
So he can... Wait, just one more thing.
People who have this skill, whatever they are, these natural skills, they don't even know it.
You almost have to point it out to them.
Well, he knows it.
After they get older, yeah, at some point you go, wow, I thought everyone could do this.
So that's why he was looking at the votes and said, no, no, this is... That makes sense.
And he spent $40 million of his own, he says, my life savings, which I believe that sounds about right.
he spent and you just send money to people go ahead go investigate that go investigate that and he had example after example of like philadelphia you know there were 80 yes i remember during this uh this controversial era he was uh and because he was on a lot of his he was out there a fox won't even have him on anymore No, but C-SPAN would have him on.
Oh, really?
C-SPAN?
And he would go on there with these different experts, and they'd be discussing the details of this, and it was all including some statistical analysis guys.
This is not possible, they would come up with.
Exactly, exactly.
So, he was giving all these different examples in Philadelphia, 80 people who had voted who were 115 years old, which seems unlikely.
He was explaining how some people who would initially run as a third party independent in some districts and then were not even on the ballot, how they got votes, Which of course is how you take votes from one and have the other person win.
So he had, he actually says, he says it's really it's a godsend, he said that Trump lost or we'd never know how bad the corruption really is.
Which I thought was an interesting statement.
He reminded us how years ago Klobuchar and all those people were complaining about the very same machines when they lost, remember?
Diebold.
Diebold, yeah.
And so his whole pitch was obviously, let's go back to paper ballots.
And he said the worst thing is when people show up to vote and then they say, no, you've already voted.
So his recommendation is everybody, you should get your mail-in ballot, but don't open the envelope.
Just keep it sealed and then take that with you when you go to vote on voting day itself.
And then if someone says, oh, you voted already, you say, nope, here I am, and here's my sealed mail-in ballot.
Oh, that's a good one.
Good tip, right?
That's a good tip.
And, uh, um, what else did he say?
That's assuming you don't want to just mail in the ballot.
No, no, you don't want to do that.
He says it's a mess, basically.
He says it's a mess, these machines are no good, they've been falsified the world over.
Like, okay, yeah, yeah, there you go.
So a lot of oohs and ahhs.
And then, you know, he did kind of say, like, but really what matters is the electoral college.
And I think that that was a It kind of passed over people's heads because they don't really realize, you know, we all like, yeah, every vote, I gotta count, I gotta get my vote counted, but it doesn't matter because it's the electoral college who elects the president.
And each state, the legislature determines how those electors are nominated.
So the hope is that the Republican party has their, their ground game together.
Yeah, why don't you give it another stab?
Because, I mean, this is how you can win the popular vote and lose the election.
It's through our electoral college.
I don't think people really understand how that works.
Well, we try to explain it on the show over and over.
Yeah, why don't you give it another stab?
You're pretty good at it.
I'm not that good.
Yes, you are.
The Electoral College is a slate of electors that choose the president based on each of the states having a certain number of electoral votes that they can give to the Electoral College.
And the idea is to minimize the large states hogging, because they're overloaded with people, hogging the popular vote.
So if it was just all popular vote, 90% of the time the president would be determined by California, New York, and two or three other big states.
And little states like Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, these places, whatever they want, it doesn't matter.
The idea was to balance it a little bit and to prevent the corruption of these large states.
Which get corrupted over time, as you can tell anyone who lives in California, New York, or these big giant states.
They've been taken, they usually have been captured by one of the parties.
Generally, the Democrats, they do the better job of it.
And so they would just throw all their votes into the Electoral College or the popular vote.
But the thing is, the Electoral College votes do not necessarily represent on a one-to-one basis the popular vote.
Right.
So you can get, so by manipulating the electoral college and just making sure you win certain states in the upcoming election, that's why they're called swing states, you win those, you can win the whole election whether you get the popular vote or not.
Now, sometimes the popular vote does go the way the winner goes, which is like Reagan did that, and I think Bush did it once.
And generally speaking, though, the Democrats win the popular vote because of these giant states.
Let's say, so in a state like Pennsylvania, if there are more votes for, let's just say, Harris, the Electoral College can still give their votes to Trump, correct?
They don't have to actually adhere.
It depends on their specific law.
Yeah, on their laws, right.
Generally speaking, no.
They can't just do that.
But it turns out in this upcoming election, according to everybody, Pennsylvania is the key state.
That's why they talk about it so much.
Right.
And Trump can win without winning Pennsylvania, according to these guys.
Really?
But yes, but Harris can't.
Hmm.
Well, Pennsylvania was certainly helping her out.
I don't know if you saw the local Philadelphia ABC station.
Oh, the one that did the interview with her?
Well, so they did, and I don't know how this happened, but they did an interview.
The raw interview was published, which even with the countdown of the camera and everything, Yeah.
Somebody took it from the studio.
Yes.
So I have two versions.
I have both these clips.
Oh, well, I have them too.
How long are yours?
Well, mine, I tried to keep them short because the point can be made easily without having to play the whole thing.
It's pretty boring.
Let's use yours then.
Kamala.
OG.
Well, which one do you want to do?
Here's this, I have the two.
Yeah, we'll play the OG first, I thought.
Yes, the OG, the original and it's lousy quality.
Yeah, did you pan it or do I have to pan it?
I did what I could.
Okay, all right.
But it's gonna be a little lopsided.
Not too bad.
But this is the beginning of the interview and how it started.
Here we go.
When we talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people, what are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?
Well, I'll start with this.
I grew up a middle class kid.
My mother raised my sister and me.
She worked very hard.
She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager.
I grew up in a community of hard-working people.
You know, construction workers and nurses and teachers.
And I try to explain to some people who may not have had the same experience, you know, but a lot of people will relate to this.
You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn.
You know?
And I was raised to believe and to know that all people deserve dignity.
Now, just as a little aside, with this clip, we can confidently say that she was very good at memorizing her prosecutorial lines in the debate.
I had to talk ten people off the ledge last night about the earrings.
Oh, sorry.
Adam, Adam, Adam, do you think that they were the... See, she doesn't need to be prompted on that.
What good would that be?
No, no.
Those are just elitist expensive earrings.
Oh.
And if you're going to use that technology, you get an earwig or whatever they're called.
There are all different kinds of ways to do it.
Yeah, and you get it in.
There is, you know, this crazy earring story.
Anyway, so that's the way she starts off, and it goes on and on, and this goes on and on, with this, oh, you need dignity, and then she starts generalizing about one thing.
Here is the way they presented the same, the same, they edited that whole part, they just edited her, they took it all out, and here's what you got.
And before I play it, I want to explain the use of naughties and edits because you can hear in this audio how they, because you watch the whole 11 minutes.
What you're about to hear was not all set in succession.
They edited this together as well.
And just briefly, when you go sit down and interview someone with a one camera, you do the interview.
Usually you're the interviewer.
The camera's over your shoulder on the subject.
And then when the subject is gone, because they always have very little time, then you do the intro.
Then they're going to switch the camera around.
You do the intro.
And then you're going to do what are called naughties.
Oh, yes.
Nodding.
You're nodding.
You're nodding.
Your hand.
Yes.
You put your hand on your chin.
Oh, interesting.
And then that can be interspersed so you don't see the edits of this one camera shot that you have of the subject.
So when you hear there's some obvious edits in here in the answer itself, besides losing that whole front end and they put a nod in.
When we talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people, what are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?
So, when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people.
Oh man, do you mind if I play a little bit of the longer edit?
Did you hear all the edits they put in that thing?
You might as well, but the point is, is that The funny thing to me is that even the edited version of this answer still stinks.
When we talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people, what are one or two specific things you have in mind?
Yeah, I'll ring the bell on every edit.
When I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people, and creating opportunity for people, for example, to start a small business.
So my opportunity economy plan includes giving startups a $50,000 tax deduction To start their small business.
It used to be $5,000.
Nobody can start a small business with $5,000.
Opportunity economy means, look, we don't have enough housing in America.
We have a housing supply shortage.
And what that means, in particular for so many younger Americans, the American dream is elusive.
It's just actually not attainable.
To help people who just want to get their foot in the door, literally.
And so, giving first-time homebuyers a $25,000 down payment assistance.
Another plan that I have that is a new approach is to expand the child tax credit.
to $6,000 for young families for the first year of their child's life.
Yeah, it's better when you see the video.
But anyway, so they really did a good job helping her.
Well, do you think so?
Because she still didn't answer the question.
And her answer to how are you going to fight inflation, which is what the question was, is by throwing more money at it.
Yes.
Well, yeah.
I mean, what I'm saying is they helped her by... They helped her by sounding less like an idiot.
Yeah, less like an idiot.
Exactly.
Now, her vice presidential candidate, on the other hand, Really tried to help her, but the truth kind of came out.
Because this started, and I love this story, as a young prostitutor.
You laughed over it.
I have listened to that thing a million times.
It sounds like he's saying prosecutor.
I think it's prostitute-er.
Because this started... Yes, because it was suggested to you.
I know, but listen again.
Because this started, and I love this story, as a young prostitute-er.
No.
I'm sorry.
It's one of those...
Blue dress, silver dress things.
It's great.
When someone says prostitute-er, then that's all you can hear.
Yeah, especially if you suggest it so you have an LP going on.
That's the whole idea.
That's why it's so good.
But, yes.
I know, I saw it too, I thought it was funny.
Very funny.
Prostitutor.
And, you know, do you think that Hillary Clinton is vying for a spot in the cabinet should Kamala Harris be elected?
I don't think so.
No?
You don't think she would like it?
What's making you think this way?
Well, she's out with her book.
She wants to sell more books as a money maker.
Yeah, yeah.
But I was just thinking maybe back to Secretary of State again since she was so good.
No, that's never going to happen.
Wow.
You think she's completely done?
Yeah.
You don't think Hill Dog's got some fight left in her?
No, Hill Dog has no fight left in her.
Would you like to hear some of her book?
And I don't think she wants to deal with it.
The only reason she was Secretary of State, because it was supposed to be a stepping stone to be President, and since she didn't get that, and now she's got this Camelot situation, which is going to ruin it for all women for the next 20 years.
Yeah, probably.
She figures, what's the point?
Here's a little bit of the promo, the book tour on Morning Joe.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a new book coming up, and Morning Joe has an exclusive first look at one key part of it.
The book, entitled Something Lost, Something Gained, Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty.
Clinton was recording the audio book when news broke that President Biden had dropped out of the race for the White House.
Oh, so coincidental!
So she decided to record her first reaction to that monumental shift in presidential politics.
On July 21st, 2024, when Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Kamala Harris.
The dream of seeing a woman in the Oval Office was suddenly back within reach.
It wouldn't be me, but it could be Kamala.
History beckoned.
But a whole lot of bigotry, fear, and disinformation, not to mention the Electoral College, stood in the way.
Could we do it?
Why would she say not to mention the Electoral College stood in the way?
Why would she even mention that?
Well, they're out to get the Electoral College with the help of the media.
This is one of the aspects of the Electoral College I didn't mention, which is that it's not good for business.
Oh, for business you mean their business?
For the business of advertising.
For example, if everything is done by the popular vote, then Trump would be advertising in California, which is a done deal.
California is sold.
It's done.
It's gonna go for the...
For the Democrat, whoever the Democrat is.
New York's gonna go for the Democrat, whoever the Democrat is.
But if the Electoral College was gone, now the advertising has to be more spread around a little more.
In fact, you might even need more advertising.
Not to mention the Electoral College stood in the way.
Could we do it?
Could we finally shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling and prove that in America there is no limit to what is possible?
When Bill and I heard the news, we were pissed off that Biden was withdrawing and endorsing Kamala.
We drafted a joint statement saluting him and also endorsing her.
She is talented, experienced, and ready to be president.
So it was an easy decision.
What was the last thing she said?
Easy decision.
It was an easy or wasn't?
No, it was.
I think she would say it was.
It was an easy decision.
I can play the last bit again.
Experienced and ready to be president, so it was an easy decision.
There's a little laugh in there.
That's why.
That's probably, it's a laugh tale.
It wasn't easy decision.
Laugh Tale.
Experienced and ready to be president, so it was an easy decision.
Yeah, there's a laugh tale there.
And it's an easy decision to what?
Say, I say, it was an easy decision for her to say, I'm a Democrat and I'm endorsing the Democrat presidential candidate?
Yeah, yes, I think that's it.
You want to hear more?
I have another minute.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, why not?
Some people have asked how I feel about the prospect of another woman poised to choose.
She sounds like a robot.
Yes, it's not a great read of the book.
She's not a good reader.
No.
Some people have asked how I feel about the prospect of another woman poised to achieve the breakthrough I didn't.
If I'm being honest, in the years after 2016, I also wondered how I would feel if another woman ever took the torch that I had carried so far and ran on with it.
She's a torchbearer.
With some little voice deep down inside whisper, Bills?
That should have been me.
That should have been me!
Now I know the answer.
It should have been me!
After I got off the phone with the Vice President, I looked at Bill with a huge smile and said, Are you dead yet?
This is exciting.
I felt promise.
I felt possibility.
It was exhilarating.
When I imagine Kamala standing before the Capitol... Just hold on a second.
This is such a lie.
Does anybody believe this?
Not for a second.
It was exhilarating!
I was so happy for her!
And Kamala, I was so happy.
When I imagine Kamala standing before the Capitol next January, taking the oath of office as our first woman president, my heart leaps.
So does Dick Cheney's.
After hard years of division, it will prove that our best days are still ahead and that we are making progress on our long journey toward a more perfect union.
And it will make such a difference in the lives of hard-working people everywhere.
Yeah, it's about to get harder.
For now, thinking about this momentous... She didn't say it'll make a positive difference.
No, it'll make a difference.
She knows the truth.
It's gonna be bad.
For now, thinking about this momentous period, I find myself turning back to where this book began.
As Joni Mitchell sang all those years ago, something's lost, but something's gained.
Hello, Boomer.
Oh, Joni Mitchell, one of her great sayings of something's lost, something's gained.
Wow.
Yes.
Yeah.
A Boomer reference if I've ever heard one for Joni Mitchell.
Throw in Alanis Morissette and you're still old.
I'm telling you.
Wow.
Yeah.
Who is that supposed to appeal to?
Most people don't even know who Joni Mitchell is anymore.
To the MSNBC crowd.
I'm sure they're eating it up.
They love it.
Meanwhile, Trump had a very interesting talk at the New York, the Economic Club of New York.
Yeah, that was a couple weeks ago.
I hadn't seen this.
Oh, you missed out.
I pulled the clip because I like the question about tariffs, which is, you know, was one of the big so-called debate questions about tariffs.
Well, and, you know, I have a pre-clip.
A pre-clip?
Before you play that.
Let's hear that list.
It's paper.
This was not discussed in the mainstream media.
And I just think it's funny.
I caught it off NHK.
Play this clip and then you can talk about terrorists.
Biden did what?
T.F.
The administration of U.S.
President Joe Biden has finalized a decision to raise tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles from 25% to 100% starting on September 27.
The Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative announced the move on Friday.
Additionally, tariffs on lithium-ion EV batteries will rise from 7.5% to 25% and on solar cells from 25% to 50%.
The office said the hikes were made after reviewing public comments.
Yes.
Biden announced plans in May to increase tariffs on a range of Chinese imports, citing the need to protect U.S.
workers from what he calls China's unfair trade practices.
Well, isn't that interesting?
Isn't that interesting?
And how come nobody's discussed this because they made such a fuss about Trump's tariffs?
No, the Trump tax.
The Trump tax.
But meanwhile, Biden, not only that, but the 100% on EVs is exactly what Trump was doing.
So they couldn't make any noise about it and they did it anyway?
Like they really care?
They did it because they actually care?
No.
I don't believe that for a second.
There has to be some kind of, you know, if anything, comparison.
The fact that they did it at all, and the fact that the mainstream media refuses to discuss it?
Says enough.
Because they've got this narrative they're stuck with?
Yeah, says enough.
Who knows?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, maybe to ratchet up some tensions with China.
Gotta get that thing going, after all.
Gotta get that China war going.
So Trump's at the Economic Club of New York and he gets the question about tariffs and his answer I thought was interesting because it wasn't just about tariffs.
The problem with what we have with sanctions, and I was a user of sanctions, but I put them on and take them off as quickly as possible because ultimately it kills your dollar.
It kills everything the dollar represents, and we have to continue to have that be the world currency.
I think it's important.
I think it would be losing a war.
If we lost the dollar as the world currency, I think that would be the equivalent of losing a war.
That would make us a third world country, and we can't let it happen.
So, I use sanctions very powerfully against countries that deserve it, and then I take them off.
Because, look, you're losing Iran.
You're losing Russia.
China is out there trying to get their currency to be the dominant currency, as you know better than anybody.
All of these things are happening.
You're losing so many countries because there's so much conflict with all of these countries that you're going to lose that, and we can't lose that.
So I want to use sanctions as little as possible.
One of the things that we have with Is that I'll say to them, you don't honor the dollar as your world currency.
Is that right?
You're not going to do it?
No, we're not.
I said, that's okay.
I'm going to put tariffs all over your product.
And they're going to say, sir, we'd love to honor the dollar as the world currency.
You know, tariffs, in addition to monetary, And the money that we'll take in, which will be bigger than you've ever seen in this country before, gives you tremendous political power.
Something like that, as an example.
I stopped wars with the threat of tariffs.
So, you know, we forget about that, but Russia, I mean, it was kind of crazy that they were kicked off the SWIFT system.
I mean, that, and which, by the way, Europe had more of a hand in than we did, It's like, what was the point of that if you don't want to screw the dollar?
Which also for Europe makes no sense that's obvious to me, seeing as the euro-dollar is a thing.
Well, the Europeans don't like us having... the proper term is a reserve currency.
Yes, not the world currency.
It's Trump!
World currency!
I don't, I've never, I'm never going to be convinced that the Europeans are going to work and do anything in our favor.
Well, no.
In fact, it looks to me more and more because, you know, this is, it's not really well explained, this long range missile stuff, but there's, there's more than one kind of long range missile.
And the one that the U.S.
talks about is the attackums!
The attackums!
Well, they have the attackums.
Yeah, but that's not what's being talked about.
No, of course not.
So, well, I actually have a couple NPR clips just to bring us up to speed on this long-range missiles issue with Ukraine.
Putin said this week such an approval of long-range missiles inside Russia will show NATO is at war with Russia.
Now, there's no question the White House has been worried about escalation from the start of the war, two and a half years ago.
And there's always concern that Russia could possibly use nuclear weapons.
We've heard that repeatedly.
Most analysts say that's really highly unlikely.
Well, if it's unlikely, then don't be worried about it.
But Putin has often made threats of escalation after pretty much every weapon system sent to Ukraine by the West.
Patriot missiles, F-16s, tanks, and so forth.
But critics say the Biden administration has been too slow in providing Ukraine with the necessary tools, too incremental, and too concerned about escalation.
Now, Scott, what's changed recently in making approval of long-range missiles more likely is the fact that Iran has just agreed to send hundreds of missiles to Russia, and also they've trained Russian military personnel in Iran.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that fact has, quote, changed the debate.
Oh, it's changed the debate.
I don't know if this is the same clip, but play my Ukraine use of missiles clip.
From NPR.
Ukraine is continuing to push Washington to allow Kiev to use long-range weapons provided by Western countries inside Russia.
Hold on, stop the clip.
The reason I want to play this is because this is the same clip.
It's not the same because it's a different person.
It's different, yeah.
But the model for this clip is the same as that.
I could have gotten you 20 of these clips and it says, blah, blah, blah, blah, long range missiles, war is going to be with NATO and Russia at war.
Iran!
And it's all because of Iran.
It's like Iran, as we pointed out in the last show, Iran has been providing Russia with drones and all these things.
They're all been identified.
We discussed them in the newsletter with pictures.
I mean, this Iran thing they're trying to shoehorn it in is bullcrap.
Yeah, but it makes so much sense because then you can connect it to the Middle East and you've got a hootenanny.
Countries inside Russia.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with President Biden at the White House yesterday, but Biden hasn't issued a decision yet.
By the way, that guy who was meeting with Starmer and his Lloyd Austin, That was Daddy Longlegs.
You can tell, but it's a different hair in the back.
That was a different guy.
He's still decrepit, but not like the guy with the Trump hat getting on the plane.
That was a whole different Biden altogether.
Who is running stuff here?
I have no... And that Daddy Longlegs... The Donnelly brothers, whoever those guys from BlackRock are running.
Yeah, they're running everything.
And Pierce, Tom Bowman says new developments make this a tougher call for the president.
What's changed recently in making approval of long-range missiles more likely is the fact that Iran has just agreed to send hundreds of missiles to Russia, and also they've trained Russian military personnel in Iran.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that fact has, quote, changed the debate.
Meanwhile, Russian President Putin says if those weapons are approved for use inside his country, that would mean NATO is at war with Russia.
So I have an analysis of why Putin says NATO would then be at war with Russia.
This comes from the CBC.
Andrew Rassoulis, who we've played before.
For more now, we're joined by Andrew Rassoulis.
He is a fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
He's also a retired official with the Canadian Department of National Defence.
So let's just start with the threats being made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Do you see them as credible?
Yes, because we have to look at the context here.
What Putin has said is that these systems, should the approval be given, they require Western, that is American, British support to fire them.
They're not just like tanks.
You can give the Ukrainians a German tank or an American tank and the Ukrainians run it.
That's very different from these missile systems which require continual Western involvement Through targeting analysis, data, and firing the whole system, the Ukrainians cannot do it on their own.
They could only do this with the support that is hands-on of the Americans, the British, or the French.
And so Putin is saying because of that, that constitutes, in effect, a state of war.
Makes nothing but sense.
I mean, it's already American mercenaries who are in the field and advisors, but this would be absolute proof that it is NATO behind all of this.
Meanwhile, the NATO gang all got together in Kiev for the... What are you hawing about?
I just realized I missed getting some clips of Stoltenberg.
He was interviewed by Amanpour and I was going to go back and get this.
Oh, that would have been good.
You should have heard this maniac.
This guy's nuts.
When is the Dutch guy coming in?
When's Stoltenberg stepping down?
I don't know.
Stoltenberg likes to go out.
He was doing a long interview with...
With Anna and Poor, I will try to go back and see if I can find it.
She does so much material, it's hard to get some of her stuff.
So they had the Yalta European Strategy Conference in Kiev, which apparently is just safe enough to have everybody go over there, hang out.
It was big, everyone was there, hookers, the whole deal, champagne, caviar, a couple of those shrimp deals we like so much.
Ah, the shrimp pile.
The pile of shrimp on ice.
Pile of shrimp with caviar on top.
And Deutsche Welle interviewed this guy.
Oh, what a card this is.
Professor Francis Fukuyama.
And Fukuyama is some long-term strategist.
He's in all the think tanks, Council of Foreign Relations, all those things.
So he's out there advising, I guess, Blinken and anybody but the president because the president doesn't know what he's doing.
So whoever is making decisions is not our president.
And this guy, this is the general attitude of the NATO, but I'd say in this case, American elites, of using these long-range missiles.
So everyone is talking right now about the long-range missiles that Ukraine is asking for.
From your perspective, how important are these missiles really?
And could they be a game-changer in the situation we are experiencing right now between Russia and Ukraine?
I think the long-range missiles are very important.
That will allow Ukraine to put the whole of Crimea within range where Russian forces, that's one of their major operating bases and it's very important to be able to threaten Crimea.
The other basic problem is that Russia has used its own territory as a sanctuary.
They can launch aircraft and missiles from Russia, but there's no way that Ukraine can fight back.
And the only way you're going to stop them from doing that is by targeting objectives in Russia itself.
And you can't do this if you don't have those kinds of missiles.
So you would say that these missiles would be a game changer in the panorama?
Well, you know, there's no single weapon system that is going to completely change the course of the war, but I think it will be very, very helpful.
Very helpful.
So we have to bear in mind that Ukraine has already been divvied up amongst the largest corporations in the world.
The Ukraine Reconstruction Project, I mean everything, the minerals that Lindsey Graham keeps talking about, it's already all been divvied up.
They've just got this Zelensky guy sitting in the middle, you know, playing his part, because the whole point is they want to own everything in Ukraine.
Ukrainians be damned!
And the worst thing that can happen is if Trump comes into office, because then you know, it's like, this won't be good.
He's gonna mess it up.
Do you think that if the Western allies wouldn't put so many conditions and limits on the support they're giving to Ukraine, do you think that the war could then be ended soon?
I think that that's the only way that you're going to get any kind of settlement that isn't a Russian victory.
Yes, I think that it's very important.
So, interesting, he says, that's the only way we'll get any kind of settlement that isn't a Russian victory.
See, it's very important that there's a settlement, because we don't want to torch Ukraine, because there's good stuff there that we already own, pre-own.
We already got the down payment.
Pre-own.
Pre-own.
It's all pre-owned, so we can't have him rubbalizing everything.
Yes, I think that it's very important.
I wouldn't put very many limits on them.
I'm not quite sure, you know, what people are worried about at this point.
But, yeah, I think that we should take off these constraints.
One last question.
What are you worried about?
The upcoming elections in the United States.
So the government here, President Zelensky, they're saying they would work either with Kamala Harris as a president or with Donald Trump.
Do you think this would make a big difference regarding where the war goes?
Who will be president next in the US?
It's night and day.
I mean, Donald Trump is on the Russian side, so he's going to end the war by basically allowing Putin to get what he wants.
But President Zelensky is saying that he could work with him.
Well, of course he has to say that, you know.
He can't alienate Trump before he's even elected.
But I think that it's going to be a disaster for Ukraine if Trump is elected.
No, it's going to be a disaster for you.
For you.
We can't have Russia keeping all the good stuff.
That's ours!
So then for whatever reason, I think it's kind of obvious, the U.S.
is like, nah.
And as we know from the Ukraine-Israel so-called border deal, the Ukraine-Israel funding bill, we know that the only person who can authorize the use of the ATAKMS, the U.S.
long-range missiles, is the President.
Only the President, at his discretion.
And at first I was thinking, you know, this could be kind of, if they could hype this up enough, this could be a reason for Kamala to pull a quick 25th Amendment.
He can't make that decision.
He's too far gone.
We can't have him, and by the way, we can't have him making that decision.
But it seems like the powers that be, the corporations who are running our government, Do you have a message for Germany for Chancellor Scholz?
Germans do it.
Mr. Johnson, do you have...
Oh, sorry, this is Deutsche Welle interviewing Boris Johnson.
Mr. Johnson, do you have a message for Germany for Chancellor Schultz?
Do you think it's time for the long-range missiles coming from Germany?
I think that Olaf has done extraordinary things already.
Olaf Schultz.
But I do think that the Taurus needs to be deployed.
I do think the Taurus needs to be deployed.
The Taurus missile, that is a joint German-French outfit that we, I don't think we have anything to do with them, the Taurus missiles.
So, oh, U.S.
won't do it?
Let the Germans kick off World War III.
Olaf should go all... Come on, Olaf, you can do it, man.
You pussy, man, come on.
Come on, Olaf, send them over.
...three things already, but I do think that the tariffs need to be deployed, and I hope very much that the German government will do that.
But I also think that we all need to do more.
And that includes the United Kingdom, the United States, France.
We all need to do more together.
I'm sure we will.
How important are the US elections for this war?
As I said just now, I hope very much that America will continue with the policy of supporting Ukraine, whoever is the president.
Okay, by the way, just a clarification.
Yes.
The Taurus is a German Swedish.
Oh, Swedish, I'm sorry.
Air-launched cruise missile.
Yes, Swedish.
I thought the French had a role in it too, I guess that's wrong.
No, just, that's it.
Alright, so, but it's the Germans!
They're egging on the Germans now!
Well, the Germans are suckers for this sort of thing.
You think?
They've done it a couple of times!
They're gonna start World War III?
Yeah, they were totally suckered into World War I, and then they brought it on themselves in World War II.
Yeah, they have this tendency to fall into this.
But, you know, I look at all this.
This has nothing to do... Well, first of all, you can walk down any street in Europe, any street in America, and say, hey, do you hate Russians?
And people are like, no.
Do you know any Russians?
Yeah, I know some Russians.
Are they horrible, evil people?
No.
You're gonna walk down Moscow.
Do you hate Americans?
No.
This is the College of Corporations that runs the system.
It really is.
And it all fits together.
People always say, who's they?
This is they.
They are running this show.
And it's just agendas that fit together because you get The corporations that build this stuff, the corporations who are going to own Ukraine, these corporations send money to politicians for re-election funds, and they get tons of money into the lobbyists.
All this plays back into Wall Street, it plays back into the banks.
It's only about dollars, petrodollars, eurodollars, euros, pounds.
It used to be won in the rubles.
It's all a business.
And in a way, that's kind of why Trump is so hated.
Because he is not a dummy for the system, the way Harris is perfect.
Yeah, she's a dummy.
She's a dummy, she's a multi-culti candidate, she's got all the things you need.
I mean, even the Republican and Democrat party, the whole idea is to give us the illusion that we're voting for the lesser of two evils, and it's always some dummy.
Yeah, it seems like the final goal is one big holding company that all these douchebags own a share of.
That'll be... that's your New World Order right there.
It's disgusting.
So one of the things Stoltenberg said...
He went on and on about how great this war is and why it has to continue.
He said this, our end goal is to make sure that Ukraine is a member of NATO.
Yeah.
And we want to expedite that.
And that's the only reason this war is going on.
Russia does not want them to be a member of NATO.
They want just a neutral state there, and we want them to be a member of NATO.
All you have to do is change that one variable to, okay, we're not going to be a member of NATO, and the war's over.
They can't bring themselves to it.
And what grossed me out was NHK had a one and a half hour, or even an hour, I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes of it because it was making me sick.
...of cell phone videos of the war in Ukraine taken by the Ukrainian soldiers.
Oh, you see that stuff?
It's bad.
Oh, they have some guy jump in there and they point out some of the details as they show these cell phone videos.
Russia has the entire line there between the Donbass and Ukraine.
Yeah.
Millions of landmines and all kinds of pits and holes.
And the Ukrainians, meanwhile, if you see some of these videos, they're in deep, you know, it's eight foot deep trenches.
It looks like World War One style fighting.
It's a, it's horrible.
And especially what got me finally was some guy jumping off of a tank to get to one of his buddies.
And just as he jumped off, he landed right on a landmine.
And they had it filmed.
This is a mess.
I've been seeing this, you know, for the past two years on these Telegram channels.
And you see all these tanks get taken out all the time.
It's like a joke.
Yeah, well, imagine that all what you've been watching over time is just compressed into a one-hour special.
Oh, God.
What is that air on?
What is that air?
NHK.
Oh, yeah.
Should get a link to that so people can watch it.
It's not like they're winning.
I think it's sadistic to watch it.
So, just spitballing here, but if they send the Taurus missiles in, I don't think you're going to get your flattened Eiffel Tower.
They're going to blow something back up in Germany.
Well, maybe that was the plan all along when they decided to shut down all the nuclear power plants because you're going to start blowing stuff up in Germany.
You don't want all those things flying all over the place.
One of our producers in Germany sent me a note.
I don't have it here, but I can summarize it.
He says, It's so amazing how the PSYOP worked on the German people when they all said, oh no, Energiewende, oh we all have to go to solar and wind.
They had the most advanced nuclear plants.
They were so hardened that they even did a demonstration by flying an airplane into one of these nuclear plants just to show that nothing would happen.
They crashed an airplane into one of those.
Yeah.
They were advanced, they were modern, and they just convinced the German public that it was okay to shut them down.
Wow.
Yeah.
Well, the German public seems susceptible to these sorts of programs more than any other people.
Yeah, well, they have guilts.
Well, I mean, I think the Americans are pretty dumb too, but... We're up there.
We're up there.
But this is, I've not been worried, and I, you know, I also don't think nuclear war is something that is likely to happen, but a full-on war in Europe?
Yeah, this seems quite possible, or at least expanded to Germany.
This is so, this is so insane.
These people must be stopped.
Yeah, they must be.
That's why Trump should win.
Yeah.
You know, the question is, can Trump play enough of the cards with the corporations?
To get in.
Are there enough, is there enough agendas?
That's why he gave that speech in front of the financial group in New York.
That's what I'm hoping, because otherwise... He was trying to convince them that, and I think his trump card, trump card, so to speak, which is what he is, a trump card, was this idea of losing reserve currency status for the U.S.
dollar.
That would ruin most international corporations.
They need that.
For a lot of different reasons, including the fact that we can deficit finance and not really worry about it too much.
Yeah, which they benefit from.
Everybody benefits from that.
I hope so because, you know, look, they tried to kill him already because that's forgot about that.
Is that ever talked about anymore?
Nah.
I saw Jamie Raskin in the hall, where the audio was too crappy, in the hallways of Congress saying, oh, we have a report coming out.
It will be shocking to the American people about the assassination.
And I'm like, oh, OK, sure.
Unless it shows you with your hand on the trigger.
And I don't believe it.
Not for a second.
Not for a second.
By the way, breaking, breaking, breaking!
ABC whistleblower says Kamala got questions ahead of time!
Did you see that?
Yeah, the funny thing about that particular report is the source.
It's bullshit!
Because this morning, breaking, breaking, ABC Whistleblower has been killed in bizarre car crash!
Puh-lease.
It was nothing.
It was nothing.
It was completely nothing.
So Whistleblower, and he signed an affidavit which was notarized one day before the debate.
It's meaningless!
And by the way, you're not a whistleblower if you're anonymous.
That is not a whistleblower.
That's an anonymous source.
Yeah.
Yeah, we've gone crazy.
This social media is not good either.
Okay, let me lighten it up for a second.
Just lighten it up for one moment.
Little light stuff.
This morning, this took place.
200, we're bracing.
Copy, 200 embraced.
Bracing for splashdown.
That will be the final call we hear from Jared until contact with the ocean surface.
Standing by for a splashdown of the Polaris Dawn crew.
And there you can see... Woo!
Woo!
Splashdown!
As you can see on your screen, and by the cheers behind us, the Polaris Dawn crew has successfully splashed down.
Welcome back to planet Earth, Polaris Dawn!
Well done!
Okay, couple things about this.
One, disappointing that we're still landing in the ocean with parachutes.
Well, how about we do that on landing?
You know, like, on Earth.
That disappoints me.
Well, that starship thing from Boeing landed in the desert.
Yeah, it looked like a pretty harsh landing to me.
Second, what was the big headline of this SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission?
What was the big headline?
That they walked in space.
They didn't walk in space!
The guy sticks his head out the hatch!
He's got one arm like it's in a cast.
And then he goes back down.
And they call that a spacewalk?
Yeah.
It was not a spacewalk.
And in fact I learned quite a bit from...
France 24, I think?
Or maybe it was Deutsche Welle who brought in a NASA space nerd to talk about it.
And it was actually... I learned a lot about what's happening and what this was about.
A new era in private space flight has begun.
For the first time ever, two private astronauts... That's France 24, guy.
Yeah, it is 24.
No, no, I'm sorry.
No, that is Deutsche Welle.
...have completed a spacewalk which saw them leave their Dragon capsule protected only by their space suits.
SpaceX's new spacesuit has been years in development.
I guess this was the catwalk we saw today.
Well, let's pull in Keith Cowering now.
He's editor of nasawatch.com.
Keith, good to see you again.
So NASA calling this a giant leap forward.
I want to stop you for a second.
Yeah, I saw this too.
I thought that this was kind of a non-story because it was like, there's some point behind it and I never could figure out, you're gonna have to try to explain why you think this What they're getting at here.
Okay.
Now, go back to play it more.
Well, what I... Okay.
Well, you know... No, play.
Continue.
I want to say, the commercial space industry, is that what it is?
Yeah, you know, and there's something about this that, in some ways, this has been done before.
Back in the day, when I was a little kid, this is how the first Soviet and American astronauts went out.
They just kind of did a little thing and then came back in.
Then NASA developed, and Russia, developed spacesuits that have backpacks.
My little thing here, they have a backpack that has all their life support.
But today, and of course these spacesuits, by the way, NASA's been using them for 40 years, and they're trying to make new ones, but it's taken them decades and they still haven't done it.
Well, SpaceX took some of Mr. Isaacman's money and went and developed these new suits.
And they're kind of like brand new sexy things that are 21st century, but at the same time, they have a tether.
So they don't need the backpack.
They get all their oxygen from this.
So it's something old, something new, something tried, something true.
It's new and old and new and old.
No, it's new and old and bullcrap.
What they're doing here is replaying 40 or 50 years ago, which again, for me, is all questionable.
Since there's nothing, there's only one difference between the spacesuits that are as old as I am, and these are the ones that are tethered, doesn't even have the fancy backpack, which means you can actually walk in space.
And the funny thing is, during this presentation, the guy had little action figurines that he was using to show off.
I know, I actually cut that one part out.
I'm like, shut up with your action figurines, douche.
It's hilarious.
You're making my, you're weakening my argument.
So, So, it's not a spacewalk.
The guy comes out, not even to his waist.
He's tethered, so the oxygen is coming through an umbilical cord.
So, they looked cooler, maybe.
They're a little thinner, yeah.
Was that it?
No.
No.
It's really about something that is an old trope for Adam.
This crew went three times higher than the International Space Station.
Was that risky?
I mean, what are the risks of going so far?
Not for the spacecraft, it can do this easily, but you go into one region near the Van Allen belts where you get a radiation dose that's somewhat like three times larger than you'd get if you were in the space station for six months, but you only dwell or stay there for a short period of time.
That said, any spacewalk is dangerous and the further away you are, the further away you are, but these folks had it all in hand and figured out and They did their thing, and maybe next time they'll float around and do something more spectacular.
They're trying to shield the astronauts from the Van Allen belts for when we actually try to go back to the moon again, which, as you know, I don't believe I've ever been to.
This guy is just confirming my suspicions.
I don't know if he confirmed your suspicions that well.
No one can determine my suspicions being confirmed but me.
By the way, I've been in one of the old-fashioned space suits.
You've been in one?
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
Points there.
You got me on that one.
That's because we were doing a promotion at Tech TV and we had to get in the suit.
I don't have claustrophobia.
But I would have it.
It's unbelievably, it's horrible.
What have you not done?
I've done a lot.
Have you been to the Titanic?
I haven't skydived.
You have not?
No.
No.
Can I make a recommendation?
What?
Never jump out of a perfectly good aircraft.
It's a dumb idea.
That's an old joke.
Yeah.
Okay.
Very funny.
I'm telling you.
It's just not a good idea.
You're going to ask me if I did what?
Oh, if you went to the Titanic.
Did you go in a submersible to the Titanic?
That would be something you've never done.
Of course not.
There's plenty I didn't haven't done it.
That would be, that should be one of the top of the list of things I don't want to do.
I'm not going to do that.
But it's just, I, you know, like go to the, go to the moon already.
Someone go to the moon with people.
Show me, show me.
Yeah.
You can, it's just what they're working on.
Yeah.
For the first time.
Exactly.
For the first time.
So maybe that's what they're doing with those astronauts, the ones who went up on the Boeing Starliner.
Maybe they're just checking for radiation.
If we keep them up there longer than they thought, will they die?
Will they get fried?
How long can they stand with radiation?
There's been people up there for a couple of years.
One of the things that turns out is it almost completely ruins your kidneys.
Really?
Yeah.
There's a bunch of research that's showing they have kidney problems because the weightlessness, I guess, is not good for the kidneys.
I don't know why.
Well, kidneys is not the only problem Boeing has.
Passing drivers leaned into their horns to show some love for these Boeing workers on the picket lines.
Let's go!
Let's go!
Workers say the deal that Boeing offered doesn't cut it.
They need to fight for their families and stand up for the future employees to come.
My son's in kindergarten right now.
My daughter's hanging out with me today during the strike.
I feel like this is a very historic part of my life.
There's a real sense of unity among these workers as they stage this high-visibility protest following a contract vote that more than 90% of union members shot down.
They say they deserve a living wage.
And we're standing together against corporate greed, but most importantly for a living wage.
Boeing workers are demonstrating at job sites across the region, waving signs and showing their determination to hold out.
Hold on.
What's that?
Are you telling me that the Boeing workers are striking for a living wage?
What are they paying them?
This is not true.
I was going to play the whole report to tell you that, but it's not about the living wage.
They are sick from one of our producers.
They are sick and tired of being spied on, being harassed.
You know, ever since all these problems came about, now the crackdown is so harsh that everyone's being watched every second of the day.
They hate it.
It's become an unworkable environment.
Which makes sense.
Really?
Yeah, so if you don't want to do the job, just raise the price.
It's one of my business rules.
And then if they give you the price, like, alright, well, it's a crap job, but they're paying me really good.
The region, waving signs and showing their determination to hold out for a better contract.
I myself, I'm not scheduled to be out here until next week, but I thought I'm gonna come out here and do some overtime for the union.
Well, I'm really proud of our membership for voting the way they did.
It was a big sign to the company that we are gonna stick together on this.
As long as the strike lasts, it will deprive Boeing of much-needed cash that it gets from delivering new planes to airlines.
The company's chief financial officer broke it down.
Any impact is going to be dictated by the duration of the work stoppage.
No kidding.
The strike will impact production and deliveries and operations and will jeopardize our recovery.
Late today we learned that a new round of contract talks involving the union, the company, as well as a federal mediator, that is set to begin sometime early next week.
I can't help thinking that this is all a part of destroying Boeing.
Destroying it completely.
Maybe the Chinese planes will have to come in.
The Chinese are building a clone of the 737.
It's flying!
There's airlines already using it.
You know, I don't think... But the problem is if they destroy Boeing, where are they going to steal their designs from?
Well, the 737 is a fine design.
We can keep using that.
No, I mean, there's newer designs coming out and, you know... They have them already.
They got those.
Well, they have... Yeah, but then there's going to be stalled because they don't seem to dream up their own stuff.
Well, you know, everyone's switching to Airbus, too.
There's a lot of that going on.
You know, the only problem Airbus has is slowdown because of interiors.
The interior guys can't keep up with all the different configurations.
But... Less SKUs, as they always say.
Yeah, well... Old retail approach.
Unfortunately.
Too many SKUs!
Yeah.
Standardized.
It just feels to me like Boeing has got to go.
They just... Nothing's wrong.
They just want to screw Boeing.
And, you know, when does Elon announce his new airplane company?
They're electric!
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, one thing we do, I don't, I have any clips and I didn't come up in the conversation so far and I just want to mention it because it was mentioned in that Boeing clip.
Trump coming out out of the blue and saying no income tax on overtime.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Where was that during the debate?
He could have brought it out during the debate.
He had to have that in his back pocket.
But you know, I don't know if that'll work as well as intended.
Because typically companies will give you, what, time and a half for overtime?
Yeah.
So wouldn't they just say, well, there's no taxes, so there's no time and a half, it's just times one for overtime?
Or is there some law about overtime that you have to do time and a half?
No, there are laws.
I know in California we have laws that if you work overtime, you have to have time and a half at least.
How about just no income tax?
Double time, there's double time.
Here's a tip for President Trump.
How about just no income tax?
Just like, no income tax.
Well, just print it.
I got it all figured out, people.
He's got some problems, though.
He's got some problems.
This is the latest talking point about Trump.
Earlier in the day, the former committor chief held a news conference at his golf resort in California.
It's there he faced questions on a woman who has been traveling with him, named Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and a 9-11 conspiracy theorist who has posted racist language about Harris, with some of Trump's allies now asking him to distance himself from her.
Laura is a supporter.
I don't control Laura.
Laura has to say what she wants.
She's a free spirit.
What is he doing?
Well, first of all, where did this report come from?
That was... I think that's local California.
What was the racist language?
Oh, I have that from Joy Reid.
For all things race, we go to Joy Reid on MSNBC.
Donald John Trump.
Just look at the people he's surrounding himself with.
People like Laura Loomer.
Now, you'd be forgiven if you have no idea who that is.
She's mostly known for hawking right-wing conspiracies and bigotry on the fringiest corners of the internet.
She's described herself as pro-white nationalism and a proud Islamophobe has called Islam a cancer on humanity.
In 2018, she handcuffed herself to Twitter's office building after being banned from the social media site, wearing a yellow Star of David and comparing her Twitter ban to the Holocaust.
After the passing of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee in July, Loomer called her a, quote, ghetto B word and suggested she was going to hell.
And just the other day, she posted that if Kamala Harris wins the election, the White House will smell like curry and speeches will be facilitated via a call center.
Racist much?
It was a statement so beyond the pale that even Marjorie Taylor Greene called it racist.
Yeah.
Because it'll smell like curry.
That's... how is that racist?
It's... everything's racist.
If I go to an Indian restaurant, it smells like curry.
Am I being a racist?
Yes, you are.
When I go there and say, hey, this smells great.
This curry smells terrific, by the way.
People should note that.
Racist.
The call center line was actually funny.
Pretty funny.
I agree with that.
Yeah, Loomer's kind of a screwball.
There's no doubt about it.
I don't think there's any question about it.
She's not part of his campaign.
She's just hanging around.
She's on the plane.
Yeah, but people get on the... Okay, well, she's on the plane.
What are they going to do?
How did she get permission to get on the plane?
Has that been explored?
Trump!
He says, yeah, let her on the plane.
He's defending her presence.
You know that for a fact?
No, of course I don't know it for 100% fact, but it's his plane.
You know, you can't just add people.
He's got to have a handler that handles who gets on the plane.
I don't think Trump's going over the list of people.
He defended her.
Yeah, well, yeah, of course, that's what he does.
And if you walk in the supermarket, look at the rags, the tabloids.
Oh, he's having sex with her.
I saw that.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's having sex with her.
Yeah, there you go.
It's not good.
He should eliminate her from his life immediately.
Well, if she was smart, she'd eliminate herself.
She should know she's doing the campaign.
She's hurting things.
No, she's a narcissist.
Yeah, probably.
Probably?
Lumerized.
Yeah, exactly.
By definition.
Uh, let me see, there was some other funny stuff.
Well, I got a funny clip that's from TikTok, which is a little different topic.
It's about gender ideology.
No, I wanted to stay with Trump.
Okay, you're going to switch away.
I got Trump.
I can take you from Trump.
Wait, I got two Trump clips I want to get out of the way.
All right.
Now this one, PBS, because we still have this background to thinking that Trump is the guy they want in.
Yes, yes, to deal with the war in Germany, the war between the Germo-Russo war.
I don't know how we're going to call it.
Russo.
Russo.
German-Russo war.
I thought, now these are two clips, one on Trump and followed up by a clip on Harris from PBS, TRMP.
I thought this was a gratuitous clip.
That was just semi-complementary from PBS NewsHour.
Ongoing foreign wars played a part in the U.S.
presidential campaign, with former President Donald Trump making this pledge to voters during a campaign stop last night in Las Vegas.
I will end the chaos in the Middle East and I will settle the war in Ukraine as I will settle that.
As president-elect, would anybody like to be in war with Russia?
If necessary, we would.
You know, but preferably not.
No, no.
Preferably not.
So that was, like, unusual, I thought, because it wasn't slamming Trump for one thing or another.
It was kind of like, okay, and then they play the little thing on Harris to balance it, and you get this.
Vice President Kamala Harris, in her first solo TV interview since becoming the Democratic nominee, said she offers a new generation of leadership with a different purpose than her opponent.
Most Americans want a leader who brings us together as Americans and not someone who professes to be a leader who is trying to have us point our fingers at each other.
Yeah, that's her main talking point right now.
We're so tired of it!
Which is actually not bad from a persuasion standpoint.
We're so tired of being divisive.
We're so tired of being... Well, there are the divisive lines.
Well, hello, wat je zegt ben jezelf.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch... I was not a Taylor Swift fan.
It was just a question of time.
You'll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.
What makes you think that the way you think should influence other people?
You sing for a living.
Just deal with that.
F-U Taylor Swift.
Well, look, we admire Taylor Swift's music, but I don't think most Americans, whether they like her music or... What?
This is a little... it's a little mélange, a little... this is obviously coming back to Joy Reid.
Yeah, this I understand.
Yeah.
But who... I'd like to know who likes Taylor Swift's music.
Can you even hum one of her songs?
And the hater's gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.
That's the one.
That's the only one.
That the way you think should influence other people.
By the way, I'm sorry.
We have someone who can sing every single Taylor Swift song.
And that person is?
Darren O'Neal.
That the way you think should influence other people.
You sing for a living.
Just deal with that.
F.U.
Taylor Swift.
Well look, we admire Taylor Swift's music, but I don't think most Americans, whether they like her music or fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans.
Look at the nonsense our media is discussing.
This is such Nonsense.
Look, when grocery prices go up by 20%, it hurts most Americans.
It doesn't hurt Taylor Swift.
Well, that's pretty much what you would expect from Donald Trump and the MAGA world following Taylor Swift's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris after the debate this week.
All because she had the audacity to share her thoughts with her fans about the upcoming election and reminding them to register to vote.
Despite the MAGA outrage, the Swifties assembled with reports of an increase in voter registration, get this, by 400 to 500 percent since her endorsement.
And now MAGA World has set its focus on its latest target following Swiftgate, WNBA star Kaitlyn Clark.
Why, you may ask?
Well, because she dared to simply like Swift's Instagram post.
Apparently, that's all it takes to set these people off.
It seems the MAGA nut does not fall far from the Trump tree.
Morning.
Taylor Swift is not a psy-op.
Taylor Swift is not a Psy-Op!
Taylor Swift is not Because we're there.
We're there.
Since you play the non-story of Taylor Swift, I have the worst non-story ever from NPR.
This is a one-minute clip.
I put it on the list.
It was actually on the last list.
And it's, like, such a non-story that I'm going to say in advance this is a waste of one minute of your life.
Oh, we'll never get it back, people!
A secret chamber 30 feet deep was recently uncovered under the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Not exactly Harry Potter's Chamber of Secrets, but still cause for a lot of speculation about the question, what was it for?
A construction crew discovered the cistern while renovating a part of the Smithsonian known as the castle.
They only found this hole because of a long-term effort to revitalize this part of the historic building, the first in half a century.
Built in 1847, the structure's main function was gathering rainwater.
But 120 years ago, it was sealed off entirely until this construction crew discovered it last month.
While there are some false rumors and Hollywood blockbusters alleging that a labyrinth of archives or secret tunnels lie underground, there's nothing out of the ordinary about this cistern except maybe that it still exists at all.
Yes, we must disclose zero secret symbols, zero ancient archives were found in the rainwater receptacle after it was uncovered.
Sorry to burst your bubble, National Treasure fans.
Don't look over here!
Nothing to see here!
Ooh, look at that!
Sorry to burst your bubble, this is a...
They found a cistern and they made a story out of it.
Yeah, because they have to cover up the tunnels.
We all know there's an underground network of tunnels that connects everything Denver to Washington D.C.
with high-speed trains.
Come on!
I remember in the 70s, there was a fad of hitchhiking in this country.
Yeah.
And friends of mine that hitchhike, everyone was hitchhiking all over the place.
And so I picked up a hitchhiker once and I think it was, there was a lot of cute girls hitchhiking and this didn't last for long for obvious reasons.
And with just deadpan, she told me about this, about the submarine bases that are under Lake Tahoe.
Yeah.
That the submarines come into the- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I need to back this story up.
So you picked up a hitchhiker.
Yeah.
Okay.
First, what car are you driving?
I was driving a Mustang.
Oh yeah!
JCD!
Hey baby!
Was she just thumbing it or did she have a sign?
Did she have a sign that said go in my way?
You want to hear the basis for the story?
You just want to look for lewd, lascivious details that don't exist, I might add.
The fact that you had a Mustang with a glass-packed muffler...
Hey baby, where you going?
Going my way?
Mm-hmm.
I'm just trying to visualize it for everybody.
You're a legend.
No, you're being Adam Schiff is what you're doing.
You're a legend.
Okay.
So the idea was, and it was just with a dead straight face and total seriousness, and I've run into it, but California's loaded with these people.
The submarines come into San Francisco Bay into an underground tunnel that's, I guess, big enough to carry submarines, and the submarines go all the way through California.
You know, I think it's like 200 miles to get to Lake Tahoe.
And then they're based there.
So how many tabs did you guys eat together?
I'm just saying, it's just like, who comes up with this stuff?
And why would they base it?
What's the point?
Does it matter?
It's what we do in America.
We think about our government like we're in some space-age sci-fi movie.
And I will point out that RFK Jr.
himself said that he was taken to the underground base in the 60s and they had a McDonald's in Old City there.
You think they didn't expand that?
It could have been in Quebec.
I mean, if you go to Montreal, there's a whole underground city and there's one in Toronto and there's one in Edmonton.
They're huge and they have McDonald's down there.
So I can see Kennedy being stoned on something and then going down underneath the York Hotel.
I mean, the York Hotel is one of the butt ends of one of the tunnels underneath Toronto.
He was in D.C.
They didn't drug him.
He was a kid.
Yeah, he's probably down where the subway is.
Alright, alright.
All right, what you got?
This is the kind of insane person that's out there.
This is a girl is telling, she's giving you dating rules.
If you're going to date her.
Oh, there's rules.
Okay.
If you're going to date her, you're going to have to live with this situation with her because she's gender fluid and she wants you to know what you're going to have to do because it's all up to, she calls the shots on this no matter what.
And so if you're going to date her, you're going to have to follow these rules.
Here we go.
Since discovering my gender expression and how fluid it is, I've come to a realization that if you want to date me, you have to be okay with the fact that you might wake up to a little boyfriend, a little androgynous partner, or a little femme girlfriend.
You might have a boyfriend one day and a girlfriend the next day, depending on how I'm feeling in my gender expression, and I love that about me.
I love that I'm not being put in a box anymore.
I mean, I think I'm the only one that put myself in boxes, but I'm glad I'm taking myself out of the box and, like, Allowing myself to be more fluid with my gender expression.
Previously in the past, I would date people that loved being with a mask, okay?
They were like, I only want to be with a mask.
I am femme for mask, 100%.
You cannot be anything else.
And they loved that about me.
They loved that I was androgynous, more masculine.
They loved that I would wear chest binders and that half the time I would be perceived as a boy.
I literally dated people who were like, oh my god, you just got called sir.
I love that.
What do you mean you love that?
Because I didn't love that.
I didn't love that.
I'm non-binary.
I don't like being called ma'am or sir, okay?
I didn't love that.
Why do you love it?
And I hated that, okay?
It was terrible.
So if you want to date me, you have to be okay with the fact that some days you'll have a boyfriend, some days you'll have a girlfriend, and some days you'll have a little androgynous partner, okay?
That is what I need.
That is what I want because that is who I am.
And you found this peculiar because why?
She's nuts!
I love those posts.
They circulate on Twitter from time to time.
It's like, I'm looking for a boyfriend.
Here's the boyfriend I want.
Must be between 27 and 33 years old.
Must be 6 foot 2 or taller.
Must make between $300,000 and $500,000 a year.
"Must make between $300,000, $500,000 a year.
"Must have brown eyes." I mean, it's like, what is wrong?
We're living in a fantasy world.
These children have been programmed by some horrible external force through our schooling system.
Here's a non-binary, gender-fluid trigger clip.
Hi, Harriet.
Have you ever been paid to be hate-crimed?
Well, I have, so let me tell you about it.
Okay, so yesterday I was at work serving this family that was sitting there, like the three wise men.
And then all of a sudden, out of the mom's mouth, I hear the trigger words, non-binary and gender-fluid.
Oh no.
and quit is in session, and my ears are turned on.
Let's do this.
So basically, the mom was trying to explain to the dad what it meant to be non-binary or gender fluid.
After a few minutes go by, the dad responds in the same way that every guy that looks like him would, and says, you know, I understand where they're coming from, but if you are biologically a male or a female, that's what you are.
And then I'm standing there, on display.
Oh, no.
Horrible.
Horrible.
Yeah.
I saw this clip, too.
I think we should, you know...
And she looks like the type of person that you just don't even want to be around.
Parents, you should just take these phones away from kids.
It's over.
It's done.
Everybody a dumb phone.
Back to flip phones.
And then we have these kinds of organisms.
I'm glad you've warmed up to my desire to get these clips out there in the public domain.
And you've actually, this is the first one you've done.
Yes, well for me it's a lead-in into part of the problem when this is being Exaggerated and encouraged by organizations.
In just a few hours, the first ever Gender Liberation March will take place in D.C.
The event comes as the U.S.
Supreme Court has agreed to take up the case challenging Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care.
Arguments will be heard in the fall and a decision is expected next summer.
The demonstration was coordinated by the Gender Liberation I don't want to sound boomerish, but whatever happened to just burning your bra?
Man, back in the 70s, that was cool.
Like, burn the bra, ladies!
collectivism and the pursuit of fulfillment in the face of increasing restrictions on communities on the margins.
I don't want to sound boomerish, but whatever happened to just burning your bra back in the 70s?
That was cool.
Like burn the bra, ladies.
Gender liberation movement.
Well, what this is about and all the words are tricky, you know, gender was a gender based health care.
You know, it's like, I'm ill, I want to perpetuate this illness, please would you enable me with the operations and medications?
And these organizations are the ones that are doing this to young people.
I'm not gonna say children, but even young people.
Before you're 25, you're a moron.
You don't know what you're doing.
And then it's cool.
Oh, it's cool now.
You know, like...
What about the transitioned six-year-olds?
Yeah, well, that is, of course, child abuse.
The parents should be arrested.
Well, but the parents have been told, if you don't do this to your child, your child will kill itself.
That's what they've been told.
So it is an evil, evil, demonic scheme.
And here's one of the organizers, Raquel Willis.
Joining us now is one of the core organizers of the march, author and activist Raquel Willis.
Raquel, thank you so much for joining us.
We appreciate it.
Now, how do you think Raquel's going to sound?
She's gonna sound like a gay male.
Thanks for having me wet.
So, Raquel, let me ask you first, how did the idea for this march come about, and how long have you been... Have you already heard these clips, or is it just an educated guess?
No, no.
I have not heard these clips, but as I've been collecting these clips longer than you have, I know exactly what they're formulaic.
Yes, it's true.
Here we go.
Well, we like to say that this march is years in the making.
We know that there have been so many attacks on various communities on the margins, especially LGBTQ plus folks, but of course, folks who need access to abortion and reproductive justice.
So in the last year, we started to build a bit of a coalition of different leaders and organizations who believe that we all deserve to make our own decisions about our bodies.
Oh, and with the vocal fry, it's fantastic.
Okay, I have two more of these just to make it worse.
I'm all ears here.
I know, you're loving it.
Yes, did you ever see Victor Victoria by any chance?
That was a great play.
Julie Andrews... Those days are over.
Being a woman playing... Way beyond that.
Well, that was a mind bender.
It was Julie Andrews playing, as a woman playing a man playing a woman.
I mean, that was tough.
That was complicated.
Well, she was a talented person.
Yes, she was.
And if counter protesters come out today, how is the organization working to make sure that participants stay safe?
Stay safe!
Well, we definitely have a robust and strong safety team that is there guiding us through the streets.
We're going to take our voices and our bodies past the Capitol.
We're going to go past the Supreme Court, as you said.
And then we're also going to take this right outside of the Heritage Foundation.
As many folks know, the Heritage Foundation are, you know, they are a key architect of Project 2025.
We know that that plan that they are putting forth will restrict so many of our rights as queer and trans folks, as women, as folks of color.
And we just want to let it be known that we're not going to have that.
We're going to raise our voices and continue to fight.
So this was the clear giveaway.
And to me, I think the whole thing, all of this transgender, the amplification of transgenderism It has been political from day one.
It's not about people or children or anything.
It's just another thing.
Like Kara Swisher.
They're just going after trans kids because they hate the gays.
The Republicans hate the gays and they got gay marriage and they hate that.
It's all political.
All of it.
But then the key question, this is ABC by the way, the key question.
And Raquel, as you know, some of the things that you're advocating for have become controversial political issues in this really divided country.
Oh really?
You don't say.
That's what she's about, wit.
That we're in right now.
Several Republican-led states have taken steps to bar access to gender-affirming care for trans That's a lie.
That's a lie.
That's a Disney.
Disney.
Disney.
There you go.
It typically involves using reversible hormones to delay...
Reversible.
Reversible hormones.
Oh, boy, really?
Have they invented something we didn't hear about?
That's a lie.
That's a lie.
That's a big, fat lie.
Oh, that's a Disney.
Disney.
Disney.
There you go.
By the way, I would cancel your Disney subscription.
They're controlling your kids, mind-controlling them.
Minors, which for people under 18, that typically involves using reversible hormones to delay puberty.
So, what do you say to people who may have nothing against the trans community at all, but just believe that minors are simply too young to be making these life-changing decisions?
Oh, you want to put any prop bets on the answer?
Prop bet?
You want to bet on this one?
What is the answer?
What would be the prop bit?
Would it be she would?
There's only it's a binary situation.
She's going to say she's going to have some bogus reason that it's good.
I can't.
I can't.
I actually might be surprised.
Well, I would suggest that folks get to know trans folks across all ages.
You know, our experiences are not new, not something that just kind of fell out of the sky yesterday, as many folks have thought.
We have elders, we have ancestors and transcestors who... Transcestors!
Transcestors!
This is good!
Holy moly, what a show title!
Remind us that queer, trans, and non-binary folks have always existed.
And actually, one of the key struggles for a lot of our people has actually been having access to the health care that we deserve.
So we understand folks may have questions, but let's actually hear and be in dialogue with folks who know firsthand what a trans or non-binary or gender non-conforming experience is.
Overwhelmingly, the folks pushing this regressive legislation don't know queer and trans and non-binary folks, and they are trying to fearmonger and dig into ignorance.
So, uh, did you have no answer on your bingo card?
Because that was what she did.
No answer.
I did not have no answer.
She just beat around the bush.
These people are dangerous to our children.
They're a danger.
They're a danger.
They shouldn't be.
You know, you want me to wrap it up with some Neo pronouns for you?
I'm in.
So this is a video for neopronoun users to do bets.
Or, if you're considering neopronouns... Wait, wait, wait.
Stop, stop.
She said this is a video for what?
What was the phrase she used?
Neopronininians?
Let's listen.
So this is a video for neopronoun users to do bets.
Neop... I can't understand that actually.
Neoproninians or something.
So this is a video for neopronoun users to do bets.
Neopronoun use.
I think is what she's saying.
Gosh, slow down, lady, when you talk.
No, no, no.
Because they're on speed.
They're on drugs.
They're all on drugs.
They're all on, uh, on meds.
Meds.
So this is a video for neopronoun users to do bets.
Or, if you're considering neopronouns for yourself, maybe even try Blind React.
However, safety first.
Before you do either of those things, make sure you're in a mental state where if you do get misgendered, you will be okay.
Alright, are you ready?
Let's get started.
Do you see this person next to me?
E is my friend.
C has had to put up with a lot to get to where Purr is today.
I just want to let Glint know that Thon is valid, that Fur pronouns are valid, and that Ser identity is valid.
I wish Void all the best, and look forward to maybe even seeing some of their lovely content someday.
Sir!
Please, treat them with respect, and I'm sure A will respect you too.
So how did that feel?
Are there any neopronouns that stuck out to you that you might want to use for yourself?
Good luck on your pronoun journey.
Good luck on your pronoun journey?
I'm just gonna use that when I just say goodbye to somebody here in the hill country.
See you tomorrow, y'all!
Good luck on your pronoun journey.
Yeah, good luck on your pronoun journey.
You know, I was talking about the ADHD, and I had this from the last episode.
I'll just play a little bit of it.
It's the oddest thing, but they're now saying that high doses of ADHD drugs are linked to a greater risk of psychosis.
No kidding!
And I don't understand how this made it onto NBC.
This morning, doctors are issuing a new warning to patients who are prescribed stimulant drugs like Adderall and Vyvanse.
This comes from a new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
It found that taking high doses of these drugs, which contain amphetamine, could put people at a much higher risk of developing psychosis or mania.
In fact, one estimate shows that nearly a third of patients are prescribed dosages that may increase their risk of developing these psychotic symptoms.
NBC News Medical Fellow Dr. Akshay Sayal joins us now to explain what this study found.
Dr. Sayal, good to have you with us.
So walk us through which drugs were tested in this study and just how much of a risk doctors found they could pose to patients.
Yeah, guys.
Good morning, guys.
Yeah, so the link here between psychosis and mania and amphetamine stimulants isn't new.
That's something that we've known for a while, but... What?
Since when has this been discussed?
It hasn't been discussed, but we've known about it for a while.
Speed freaks it used to be called.
Of course.
Hitler was one of them, by the way.
Yes, he was.
We're sort of getting some information about what doses are required to sort of increase your risk here of developing those symptoms like psychosis or mania.
And you can see here what we found is that, you know, if you take more than these doses on the screen, so more than 40 milligrams of Adderall, more than 100 milligrams of Vyvanse, or 30 milligrams there of Dexedrine, You have a 5.3 greater likelihood of developing psychosis.
These are normal prescription levels.
40 milligrams of Adderall, 100 milligrams of Vyvanse.
So, psychosis, which... Is that right?
Yes, at normal... It's in the story here somewhere.
I think the normal is 40 to 60 is your typical prescription.
No, the medium dosage of Adderall is 20 to 40.
That's medium.
That's medium.
That means there's as many as above as below.
Yes.
50 to 100 for Vyvanse.
So, 100's at the top end, but it's all medium range.
Yeah, that means most people are getting, or not most, but half the people are getting a psychotic dose.
Yeah, and do you think that you could do stuff like, I don't know, shoot up a school or do something radical?
Oh, I don't know.
That's an interesting theory.
I've never heard such an idea.
But it really doesn't matter because pretty soon schools will just have a machine, the machine will be a dispenser, you go into the machine, you talk to the machine, the machine will say, you know, I think you need to up your meds.
The Doro app uses AI technology like ChatGPT to offer users early mental health intervention.
Oh, yes.
There's an app for early... Listen, if you're on an app, you already need early mental health help.
The user types their symptoms and questions in a chat field, and Doro, culling from information available to it, tailors a treatment and writes back.
So, for example, there's TIPP, which is a set of things that you should do when you have a panic attack, wash your face with cold water, or try to do some breathing exercises.
I'm having a panic attack.
Let me go to the app and ask what I should do.
Oh, so if you see someone with a panic attack, just throw your glass of cold water right in their face.
That's right, that'll help.
The app, according to Rassouli, is also programmed to glean if a person is experiencing serious or potentially dangerous symptoms like severe depression or suicidal ideation.
This is the point that if we realize the symptoms are too serious, we refer them to a therapist.
Oh yeah, yeah, get that guy in.
Hold on a second.
Have you noticed the use of the word ideation when they bring up suicide?
I don't remember as a kid anyone ever saying suicide ideation.
I think it's an interesting phrase.
Which means you're toying with the idea?
No, I think it means you're idealizing the advantages of suicide.
No, no, no.
Ideation, that's a real suicide.
Well, let's look it up.
Consult the book of knowledge.
Ideation.
Ideation.
Okay.
The capacity... Oh, here.
The capacity for the act of forming or entertaining ideas.
So you're ideating, which it's like... We used to use this at Mevio.
Yeah, we were ideating on that.
Well, it sounds like a Silicon Valley thing.
We were ideating on... I've never heard anyone say ideating in my life.
Well, you heard it now.
Except now.
Now I have.
I can't say it anymore.
Yes, you've heard it.
Severe depression or suicidal ideation.
This is the point that if we realize the symptoms are too serious, we refer them to a therapist.
Yeah, the therapist will prescribe you drugs.
It's so obvious.
Apps like Doro seek to help fill a gap, especially for young adults and teens who tend to report higher rates of mental health problems.
This is a portal.
This is a portal to suck kids in to getting them on drugs.
A 2022 study by Canadian Alliance of Student Associations revealed that one in three students said campus mental health resources did not meet their needs.
The entry of AI into psychology and psychiatry is a polarizing issue for experts.
Eduardo Bunge, professor of psychology at Palo Alto University, who specializes in children and adolescents, sees mostly positive outcomes.
So this is like a very good first line of treatment.
What school did they say?
Palo Alto University.
There is no such school.
Let me listen again.
Entry of AI into psychology and psychiatry is a polarizing issue for experts.
Eduardo Bunge, professor of psychology at Palo Alto University.
There's no such thing as the Palo Alto University.
I've never heard of Palo Alto.
And this is not in the Bay Area.
It's some other Palo Alto someplace else.
But Palo Alto University?
Uh... This is new to me.
Here it is.
Palo Alto University.
Um... Yeah?
Where is it?
I'm going to look.
Aboot.
Let me see.
Private non-profit.
Yeah, Palo Alto University, a private non-profit university.
What kind of university is that if it's non-profit?
Located in the heart of Northern California's Silicon Valley.
That's where you are!
It's dedicated to addressing pressing and emerging issues and specializing in behavioral health to equitably meet the needs of today's diverse communities.
Boy.
Well, this is some bogus operation.
That sure sounds like it, doesn't it?
Well, I mean, it's allegedly bogus, I'll say that.
But, because they may be litigious for all I know.
I've never heard of them.
Huh.
And I'm in the Bay Area, and I've never heard of him.
So they bring some guy, and they couldn't bring a Stanford guy in, or a Berkeley guy, or a Santa Clara guy, or a San Jose State guy, or any, you know, we have major universities in the area, but they bring in a guy from Palo Alto University that's like the singularity university.
They're gonna bring that guy in next?
At PAU, you can expect a transformative education tailored to your needs.
Our programs offer one-to-one advising, practical experience through internships and placements, expert faculty guidance, and supportive community.
Graduates from PAU find themselves well-prepared for careers in psychology, counseling, social work, and behavioral health.
This is some kind of outfit, man.
They're definitely specialized.
Yeah, that's for sure.
Eduardo Bunge, professor of psychology at Palo Alto University, who specializes in children and adolescents, sees mostly positive outcomes.
So this is like a very good first line of treatment that may not be sufficient, may not be enough, but it's better than nothing.
This is... Would they get the guy from a Woody Allen movie?
Listen to this.
So they specialize in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender mental health.
Cognitive behavioral approaches to childhood anxiety disorders.
Pediatric psychology.
This is a frightening group.
Gender issues.
They must be pumping out salesmen.
For gender health care.
Could be.
It's definitely specialized.
Yeah.
Alright, well then let me finalize all this nonsense with the latest we have to worry about for your teens.
A new study is revealing unusual changes in teenagers' brain development during the pandemic.
Yeah, that was a good one.
That was a good time, kids.
It's not that surprising to know that there are actual brain changes that happened during the pandemic, given everything that teens, especially teen girls, faced.
This guy sounds like he's a graduate of the Palo Alto University.
The study found COVID-era lockdowns ended up aging teenagers' brains faster than the usual rate, more than four years faster than usual in girls, compared to just over a year faster in boys.
The authors hypothesized that adolescent girls were affected more than boys because Because they may be more dependent on that social interaction and being able to connect with their friends.
Back in 2018, researchers began tracking brain changes in 160 people ages 9 to 17.
They found lockdowns contributed to an increase of anxiety, depression, and behavioral disorders, causing their brains to mature faster.
The same type of accelerated brain aging has been documented in teens who've suffered severe trauma, stress, and neglect.
But it's important to note that these studies don't exactly tell us what the long-term effects are or if the process can be reversed or slowed down with the right type of emotional support moving forward.
Oh.
Oh man, we screwed up the world.
This is... On purpose.
Yeah, yeah.
Lockdowns was a good idea, wasn't it guys?
Two weeks to flatten the curve, President Trump.
Flatten that curve.
All right, so we've got to talk more about this.
We want to bring in ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel.
Yeah, please, Patel.
Alok.
Dr. Patel, it's good to see you.
You sort of explained for us in that story what happened, but how concerned should parents be about this new finding?
Parents already being concerned about what happened to the kids during COVID, and can the negative impact here be reversed in any way?
By the way, I would say to all the producers listening right now, don't believe any of this nonsense.
Don't fall for it.
Don't take your kid to the doctor.
Don't be looking if your kid is feeling older.
This is all just medical sales.
It's a sales job.
Every single bit of it.
Put your kid on some meds.
It'll be fine.
It'll be good.
I think parents should be just more aware about the true impact of the stress of the pandemic.
Stress from all around us.
That's had on those developing teen brains.
What the study really does is it adds some physical evidence to what we already know about how sensitive teen brains are during those critical years and how fragile they really are.
Now, the headline is alarming, but it's important for people out there to understand that our brains go through changes with age, with maturity.
And so some of these changes are not necessarily bad on their own, but they can be accelerated with stress.
So I don't think parents should really panic from the headline, but what they should be doing instead is really doing what they can to pay attention to the emotional well-being of their teens and their young kids.
And use the proper pronouns.
So you don't stress them more.
Whatever happened to our kids?
What did we do to them?
Do you see any behavior of this in your children?
No.
No.
No, me neither.
You know why?
Because they listen to the No Agenda show.
No, actually, they don't.
No, they don't.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to the man who put the sea in the attackums, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora!
Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships in the sea, boots on the ground, feeding the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
And in the morning to all the trolls in the troll world.
Hello, let me hear you, trolls.
What are you doing?
Hello there, trolls!
I'm waiting for Cotton Gin to come in.
We have 2,076, but we're late.
We're late with the donation segment today.
So I don't have subs in the tunnel.
I don't have a peak count.
But there's enough trolls.
They're all hanging out there in the troll room.
It's a low number.
But we're 1 hour and 50 minutes into the show.
We had more on Thursday.
We're 1 hour and 50 minutes into the show.
So I'm sure it was more like 2,300.
You can say that.
I am saying that, because I know.
It may be building.
It may be higher.
Well, let me see.
I thought I had a link to that.
I thought I had a link to the... Somewhere there was a link to the... There's a chart.
Could see.
Cotton gin.
Cotton gin's down!
Where's cotton gin?
Anyway.
The trolls can be found at trollroom.io.
Even he's not listening.
It's so bad, Cotton Gin's not even listening.
Trollroom.io is where you can log in and listen to the live stream.
There's plenty of stuff going on 24 hours a day, or use a modern podcast app, which you can find at podcastapps.com.
It'll alert you when we go live, which is really the modern way of broadcasting.
And if you can't catch it live, like Cotton Gin, then that's... Oh, wait, here's the cotton.
Here it is.
Control count, hold on.
I got it here.
The peak was 2190, so it is a bit low.
But yeah, 2190.
Is it that bad?
That's terrible.
I don't know about terrible.
Also, with these modern podcast apps, you get chapters and transcripts and all kinds of fun things.
If you're listening to us right now, look for the little dollar sign or little stack of bills.
You click on that, it takes you right to knowagendadonations.com, which is like removing a whole bunch of steps.
You don't have to think about, where do I go to PayPal?
What do I do?
No, just click on that button.
It's easy.
And that means that we operate under Value for Value, which is without doubt the best way to operate a podcast.
There's so many people struggling trying to figure out how to monetize their show and grow it.
Well, forget about it.
Forget about it.
I mean, this is the era of media being small.
You just get your group, you get your people, those people support you.
And if you're any good, then you'll continue.
If not, you won't.
It's survival of the fittest out here.
Narrow casting.
Oh, I don't like narrowcasting.
It's what it is.
No, that's... Hello, 1985!
I'm not saying it's a new term.
No, it's not narrowcasting.
It's microservices media.
It's different.
You don't like that one either, do you?
Well, no, actually, I'm thinking about it.
Maybe there's some element in there that is microservices.
It is.
We're all using little microservices, and we're media.
So the idea behind Value for Value was funny.
I sent out a link.
There were a whole bunch of artists.
I think it was the Bitcoin conference.
They were on a panel.
They're all talking about Value for Value.
And they're talking, they're doing it perfectly.
I mean, to the T, they're explaining exactly what it is.
Like, you just put your stuff out there.
If people listen to it, if they like it, and they value it, they send you back value.
They're even using time, talent, and treasure.
This was for musical artists.
We're talking about people helping them with their merch, or helping them with their concerts, or booking venues.
Merch.
Merch.
Yeah, merch.
Like, we have noagendashop.com.
And so I was really proud, like, look at this, people are using the term that we've been using for, well, for more than 15 years as we come up on our 17th anniversary.
And people are like, these kids are not even giving you credit!
This is how you're missing the point.
They aren't.
This is true, but so what?
It's okay.
When you get into this point in media in general, everything gets stolen.
That's the way it works.
But it's okay.
I want it to be stolen.
Look at all the clips we play.
I have to sometimes even ask where some of these clips come from.
Yeah, it's true.
Yes.
So, a great example of value for value is all the work that our producers do.
They send us ideas, they send us links, some of us send us ready-made clips, although those usually aren't that usable, except for the Jones Brothers, of course.
Jones Brothers.
They do a great job.
No, it takes skill to do clips.
It does.
And to label them properly, that's a... Well, there's a skill I don't have.
Well, I'm used to your labeling, so it's okay.
But keeping it within time limits, you know, if you count it up...
Like today, we have in our bin 112 clips.
Now, we won't play them all, but, you know, we put on this show, this performance, and we weave in and out, and then it's like, hey, you've got something, I got something.
We just make it look easy.
But it's a lot of clips.
And so some of that comes from our producers.
What also comes from our producers is our continuously changing and entertaining album art, which they upload to noagendaartgenerator.com, another website we didn't build, because if we did, we'd be poor.
There's just no way you can have producers on payroll.
No, instead, we credit people, we help them, we've helped them launch their own podcast, we do whatever we can.
We send more value back to them in many ways.
And in this case, we have producers who most of them are Dutch masters, such as Data, or Data, I should say, Data, who hasn't come in in a while, but Data's been out there.
Oh, yeah, he's been working on and off for years.
Yes, and...
Oh by the way, Martin JJ is alive.
We did a wellness check?
Yeah.
Did I tell you about that?
I thought you wanted to know.
I thought I already knew he was alive.
What did you find out?
Well, we did a wellness check.
I guess I made the assumption it wasn't like... No, we did a wellness check.
He checked in on the Mastodon.
He's alive, but he had a job change, so he can no longer listen live and do art.
So his life changed, but he actually says he likes it because now he can just listen to the show and enjoy it instead of working.
Oh, instead of fretting about the art.
Exactly.
Yes.
Well, he was still wanted when he was on a role, which was years ago.
He was winning every week.
I think he had the longest streak of of accepted art of any artist.
Yeah, that was at one time.
And in fact, he started gloating to the point where he says, I'm going to stop because I'm taking up too much space.
I'm too good.
I'm too good.
I got to step back.
Let some other young people do some work here.
So, Data brought us this delightfully cute little kitty, sitting inside a can of cat food, only called Feline Delight, which, do you think that was, it looks like, that must be AI.
I mean, it's so good.
Well, yeah, it also has a flaw.
What is that?
Well, the flaw is the tab on the lid is on the wrong side.
Ooh, good catch.
Yes.
Yes, you're right.
Huh.
Interesting.
But that's the only, but the rest of it's just, just such a cute cat head sticking out of the can.
It was like a tomato soup can, a big tomato can.
It just was too much to not choose.
There was, there was a lot of interesting pieces that people came in with.
There was a lot of cat and dog stuff being eaten or being prepared to eat.
Let me see.
We had, of course, lots of Kamala and Trump stuff, which, although it does happen, we are unlikely to use.
A lot of round stuff from Comicstreetblogger's prompt work.
I kind of liked Tantaniel's Springfield Paw Patrol, but the kitty just, it was hard to beat that cute kitten.
I mean, you put a cute kitty in a can, we're kind of good to go.
I mean, that's a tough one to beat.
Anything else that you wanted to talk about?
Not really.
I mean, I use the Camelot buttons for the newsletter.
The childless, catless ladies and a dog in every pot for Camelot.
Yeah.
What's appropriate use for the newsletter?
I could use Springfield was a good one from Comet Strip Blogger.
That was good.
Yeah, exactly.
So, noagendaartgenerator.com, that's where you can participate.
Now, first of all, you can just take a look at it.
If you're listening live, you can scroll, you can just refresh that page and see it as it comes in.
Or you can participate by uploading your own, start an account there.
And as usual, Dreb Scott, the Bruce Wayne of Podcasting 2.0, he is always using many of these pieces for our chapter art.
And if you're using a modern podcast, that will change topics.
Boom, the art will change.
You get another chuckle.
It's beautiful.
That's the time in the talent portion.
Then we have the treasure portion, which is value that you send in monetary units back to the show, Very much needed, for sure.
And it's very simple.
You just send us whatever the show is worth to you.
And five dollars may be a lot for you every single month.
That's fine.
Then support us that way.
And it doesn't matter what amount it is.
As long as you support the show, we can keep going.
And we read every donation above $50, not below $50, for reasons of anonymity.
And, of course, the sustaining donations, which you can set at noagendadonations.com.
Set your own frequency, your own amount.
We do like to highlight our Executive and Associate.
Executive produces Associate.
$200 and above, we read your note.
Executive, $300 and above, and we read your note.
And wouldn't you know it?
Wow.
We have a Rub-A-Lizer donation coming in from, let me see, did I get the Rub-A-Lizer?
Rub-A-Lizer, here we go.
We have Sir Not Sure from Monument, Colorado coming in with $3,333.33.
Rub-A-Lizer out.
$3,333.33. Rubbleizer out.
That is a Rubbleizer donation.
He says, ITM, Sir Not Sure, Baron of the Tri-Lakes, this donation brings me to Viscount status.
After getting rid of the noodle people from work, I find my finances to be much better, and I felt I should send a bit of treasure your way as a thanks for all that you guys do.
Let's run a business.
Yes, and he got rid of the noodle kids.
Yeah, good for him.
That's the way to go.
Maybe because we told him that he should.
Indirectly.
Well, indirectly.
Please add me, September 17th, and my sister Dame Marie, on the 14th, to the birthday list and give her a biscuit for her birthday.
Let's see, I got a biscuit for her birthday.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
I would like the I love my truck and I love what I do jingle.
Keep up the good work and thank you for your courage.
That's Mark Rushall, also known as Sir Not Sure, soon to be Viscount.
And that'll have to come from you, John.
I'm sorry, what?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I was looking at the birthday list.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's your noisemaker.
I was looking at the birthday list.
Yeah.
I was double-checking something.
I'm sorry.
But what...
So...
I love my truck, and I love what I do.
India.
Hang out.
Mike.
Stand by.
33, 33, 33.
Rubbleizer out.
Awesome, sir.
Thank you so much.
That is very much appreciated.
Yes, that was a big deal.
Amos in Port Lavaca, LAVACA, LAVACA, Texas, who's also came in with a good number, 1776.33.
Huh?
1776.
Wow, wow.
He has freedom of freedom donors.
Dearest, dearest JCD and Podfather, this donation is in honor of Sir and Mrs. Heck of Ingleford, uh, Shale.
Engleford Shale.
Shale Company?
In the words of warrior poet Alexander Jones, the solution to 1984 is 1776.
Yes.
Warrior poet, Alexander Jones.
That's good.
is 1776 yes warrior poet alexander jones that's good alexander uh seemed appropriate uh though still a far cry from what uh what both you and they deserve uh My introduction to No Agenda is one of the, is one of innumerable blessings to granted me, to granted me, I'd say granted me through the Hex.
The Hex did it.
The Hex did it.
Words cannot capture my appreciation for all they have done, nor you for that matter, so I won't belabor it.
From the kid that was told to never stop asking questions, thank you.
God bless.
Signed, Amos.
Amos.
God bless you.
Thank you very much.
Janet Webb is in Gilbert, Arizona.
$900 and she has a note.
Uh, which is handwritten.
I have it here.
ITM John Adam.
This donation is to the best podcast in the universe.
Nice handwriting, by the way.
Along with our $100... Yeah, it's quite interesting.
The handwriting is, yes, it's unique.
Um, along with our $100 donation last year will bring me to Dame Hood.
I would like to be Dame Janet of the teepee, of the teepee, Wyoming.
Does it say Jasper?
Where does it say Jasper?
Isn't it Jasper, Wyoming?
Oh, it does say TP, sorry.
Yeah, the TP.
I have a copy here.
Yes, well, your copy sucks.
I can see it just fine.
At the round table, I'd like spaghetti and carbonara and a bottle of excellent dry red wine chosen by John.
Hold on, let me get my list here so I can do this.
So we have spaghetti and carbonara and a bottle of... Brunello.
Brunello.
Brunello.
What is... do we have a year for the Brunello?
Uh...
Uh, I'll have to dig up the year.
By the way, we got a number of reports from Costco.
Yeah, I noticed.
From Costco.
David... My Costco still hasn't got the wine in yet.
Yeah, David, producer David said, hey guys, thanks for the help.
I asked an employee where they were hiding the... The Costco you want, yeah.
Yes, the four, the crate of four Bordeaux's.
And the guy said, another guy was in here earlier looking for it too, from some podcaster's advice.
And someone also let me know that I think this is completely due to your complaints.
Costco has brought back their rotisserie boxes.
Oh, really?
Yes, their boxes are back.
Make the Brunello a 2016.
Okay, a 2016 Brunello.
That was a good year for Brunellos.
I'm reliably informed.
Really, you've just been reliably informed.
YouTube, bring information and humor into our lives.
What could be better?
Please?
Credit this $900 to the Sunday September 16th Show Awards, the 15th, as that's our 40th anniversary.
So maybe their anniversary is on the 16th and she was confused.
So happy anniversary in advance.
40 years, they never had a fight.
And happy belated birthday to Adam.
Thank you.
Blessings and may you never find an exit strategy.
Soon to be in this episode, Dame Janet of Teepee, Wyoming.
Thank you, Dame Janet.
Very kind.
Yes, that came in last show and Jay decided to archive it for us.
Oh, and she also wants, I love my truck and I love what you do, since she has a Toyota 4Runner.
She's changed it to, I love my 4 and I love what I do, but I think you have to hit the jingle again.
Oh.
I love my truck and I love what I do.
And I know you to cook it if you don't use fresh vegetables.
Wow, the extended remix.
And I love this next one!
Yeah, well, this is supposedly from Jason Calacanis in San Francisco, even though he lives in Austin.
Most of his life's been spent in Los Angeles.
But okay, we'll assume it's Jason Calacanis, even though I doubt it.
Dude, he literally, right after the show, sent me a Twitter DM.
And I'm pulling it up now.
Um, here it is.
He said, he sent me, he said, I do a great Adam Curry.
I don't have a lift.
And he sent me, he sent me a copy of the PayPal receipt for 333.
It's, it's really him.
He, I told you, he listened and I can't believe you're now doubting that it's him.
It is him.
333 and no note.
No.
So he gets a double up karma, doesn't he?
He sure does.
You've got... karma.
I thought it was great.
Well, it is.
Whoever sent us the 333 is great.
John, it's him.
Would you please just thank Jason nicely?
Thanks, Jason.
There you go.
And you don't have a lisp.
The voice that I do of you is more of a Sylvester the Cat sort of thing.
It's like this.
It's not a lisp.
Sorry.
And welcome to Texas, Jason.
Welcome.
Scott Cohen.
Yeah, have Adam over to the ranch.
Yeah, yeah.
Did you just do that again?
Did you just do that?
No, I did not.
He's going to have me over to the ranch.
I'm going to record a little bit for you.
I'm going to have him record a bit.
Oh, he'll do my voice.
Oh, I'm sure he can do you.
It's very similar to the voice that Mimi does when she does me.
Oh, you should hear the one she does about you when you're not in the room.
I know what it sounds like.
Scott Cohen is in Volga, South Dakota, and comes in, oh, our first associate executive producer, and comes in with $250 and says, I'd like some baby-making karma, please.
Okay, remember, name him after Adam and John.
You've got... Parma.
Ryan Diazio, I believe, in Fishers, Indiana.
2-2-2-2-2.
That's the row of the duck.
Row of ducks.
Being that this is my fifth row of ducks donation, please knight me Sir Ryan Diazio.
Diazio.
A knight who couldn't give a single duck, or couldn't give a duck, get it?
And provide Chilean sea bass and a cortese of John's choosing on...
Uh, on the, at the RT.
At the roundtable.
Roundtable.
Oh, okay.
So, a Cortese.
What's a Cortese?
I don't know.
You're the wine guy?
God bless No Agenda and, uh, and Goat Company.
There used to be a winery called Cortese in California, but since he's in Indiana, I'm sure he's not familiar with that.
It's an Italian wine.
It's a white, uh, white wine grape variety.
Oh, a Cortesi grape.
Yes.
Wow, I don't know any wines made with that grape.
I just don't.
Well, you're ill-prepared.
Yes, well, now that I'll look it up and give a selection after the next couple of donations.
A Cortesi that John, I'm just writing it in here, John will give eventually.
Okay.
Nice.
All right.
Well, way to go.
It's the best I can do.
Up next, we actually, this is Florida Lawn Solutions, who hopes that you'll do this read.
Oh.
Well, I'll go look back at that.
I see the Corteses here.
Some of them are quite expensive.
Oh.
Florida Lawn Solutions.
They're in Panama City.
Or Panama City Beach, Florida.
21171.
From Florida Lawn Solutions.
I hope JCD gets to do this.
I started listening since the end of 2021.
Going through the archives of 2020 to 2021 on long weekdays have been worth my donation.
Ah, he's getting some of the COVID material.
Yes.
Thanks for adding that value and your courage.
I remember that you were running out of de-douchings.
It seems that the supply is back in stock.
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Eli the Coffee Guy is in Bentonville, Illinois, and he'd like to do a switcheroo and donate toward the knighthood of one of our customers, Andrew Garland.
Oh, now he's hooking up his customers.
How about that?
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Okay, get him a 2021 Gavi de Gavi.
Okay, hold on.
a 2021 Gavi de Gavi.
Okay, hold on.
2021 Gavi de Gavi.
Gavé de gavé.
How much is that?
Is it expensive?
Because I got... I don't have a price.
This doesn't matter.
We pay for it.
Okay.
Good, got it.
I can look up the price, but I'm not going to.
No, it's alright.
You're going to do the next one.
Some of them are cheap, and some of them are like $80 a bottle.
It seems a little high for Italian white wine that I've never heard of.
I'll do this next one.
It's from the IndyNA meetup in Greenwood, Indiana.
Sir Mark DeMaria, of course, who always organized that.
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I got another screwball story from NHK.
Another thing I've never heard of.
Okay.
This is the North Korea abductions.
Have you heard of this?
Tell me you've heard of this.
I have not heard of the North Korean abductions, but I'm ready to listen.
The 88-year-old mother of a Japanese woman abducted decades ago by North Korea has again called on the government to take immediate action.
Yokota Saki told NHK time is running out to recover her daughter.
It's been nearly 22 years since North Korea admitted to abducting Japanese nationals at a summit with Japan.
13-year-old Megumi Yokota was abducted in 1977 while on her way home from school in Niigata City on the Sea of Japan coast.
Sakie spoke to NHK about Megumi's struggle since that day.
How patient she must be to keep calling for help for 47 years.
That really makes me feel so frustrated.
Megumi is just one of 17 citizens the Japanese government says were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 80s.
Five have since returned but the others are still unaccounted for.
Is the girl on her way home from school gets abducted by the North Koreans and then they drag her over there and make her live there and do work?
I don't know.
This is a screwball story.
Well, it's a screwball station.
NHK?
I don't think so.
It's a screwball station.
I must have received, I don't know if you got it, but I must have received five different emails from people around the United States to complain about, with the complaints very similar to Aurora and Springfield.
And I think it's worth just mentioning because it's all, it's all the same.
They all have the same complaints and this plays right back into the wage suppression.
And I think I can pretty well summarize what's going on and how it works.
And one of our producers is in Utica, New York.
And he says in the 90s the city brought in around 5,000 Bosnian refugees as a result of our Kosovo war.
And he says, what happens is a local immigration non-profit pops up, lobbies the local government to pass legislation to welcome the newcomers.
Done under the guise of rebuilding a failing city.
In Utica's case, the economy collapsed when Bill Clinton closed the local military base and signed NAFTA.
This decimated the region's manufacturing sector, which is only 10%, so I think you mean more destroyed.
The city was desperate for a rebound.
The non-profits promised an avenue to revitalize these communities with the importation of cheap labor.
And he shows me the refugee resettlement services for Utica refugees.
And if you look around, there's one of these in almost every single community where there's an overflow of immigrants.
And if you look at Springfield, the organization there is called the National Youth Advocate Program.
They receive $160 million a year to settle the immigrants, that would be the Haitians.
Marvina Twigg, the executive director or president and CEO, her annual salary is $1.169 million.
$2.169 million.
Do you see what's happening here?
This is, we've been on this refugee resettlement thing There's a huge one in Austin, also with million-dollar C-suite pay packages.
Many of them are faith-based, which is even more excruciating to look at.
Disturbing.
Disturbing is the right word.
So, this again is the College of Corporations, you know.
It's like, okay, we've got a refugee situation in Haiti with some people over there.
Hey, we'll give them temporary protected status and we'll set up this NGO over here.
We'll give them some money from the National Endowment for Democracy.
That's USAID.
Give them the money.
They go to the corporation and say, hey, everyone there is drugged out in Ohio on opioids.
You want some cheap workers?
Yeah, great.
But what happens is they give these newcomers, as we like to call them, they give them housing.
How do they do that?
Hey, apartment building guy, hey, listen, you got cheap rent over there.
We'll give you a 30% more if you kick everybody out and put some Haitians in there.
Okay, no problem.
You're out.
Hey, Dole, or hey, machine manufacturing, car plant manufacturer, we got some cheap labor.
Okay, good.
But then they also, they give the newcomers housing money, they give them debit cards with money for groceries, and they get their $19 an hour.
So, there's no way the local citizenry can compete.
And then what, just to poke everyone's eyes out, all these, the Haitians in Springfield, they're driving BMWs.
They're like three, four, five-year-old Beamers and Mercedes.
And so, they don't care about the citizens.
They do not care.
The whole system is set up.
And it's happened all across America.
All across it.
Email after email with the same story.
I don't know how you stop it, but this is the gambit.
And Germany just signed a deal to welcome Kenyans.
250,000 Kenyans.
Because the Germans apparently are no good anymore.
Did you hear this?
No, but I'm not happy about it.
Berlin has agreed to allow skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers into Germany in a controlled and targeted labor migration deal.
This is your New World Order.
This is the whole plan.
Yeah, and it's just cheap labor is at the base of it.
Cheap labor?
But it's not cheap.
No, not for the taxpayer.
We're paying for it.
No, it's not cheap.
We're paying the taxpayers are paying for this.
Yes.
So it's being subsidized by the U.S.
taxpayer who's being kicked out of the apartments that you have aforementioned apartments you talked about.
Yeah.
This is ridiculous.
This is worse than, oh, you know, this Indian guy came in, I had to teach him my job so I could get fired.
This is worse than that.
It's much worse than that.
Oh, man.
That has to stop.
What's really, to me, is somewhat ironic, because I was thinking about this, is that in California we had a system for farm labor, which has still been an issue.
It's always an issue in California.
You can't get enough people to work in the farmlands.
And so they had a program called the Bracero program, because right now Mexican Nationals will sneak over and they'll do farm work and send the money back to Mexico, to Mexico, sorry.
And the Bracero program would brought the Mexicans up in buses to do farm labor.
They got paid the same amount and then they shipped them back on the same buses when they were done and when the harvest was over and they just took the money with them.
Which is okay, but that was not good enough.
So we had to end that program because it was cruel or something, but now we're doing this instead?
Yep.
And to make matters worse, have you seen what they're doing with inmates in Alabama?
No.
So, what is... Kamala Harris is, by the way... No wonder nobody's in the troll room.
We're depressing them.
No, I think we're confirming their fears and we're helping them understand what's going on in their world.
It's not meant to be depressing.
After the show, you turn it off and go smoke a dube.
You're good to go.
So what's happening to Alabama prisoners?
So we have for many, many generations in America, we've always enjoyed using our inmates for cheap labor.
You know, making Ikea furniture, license plates is kind of the old joke, but they still actually make license plates in jail.
And I think most of the inmates make between nine and 13 cents an hour, depending on what job you're in.
So Alabama, It has a new twist on this.
Well, a lot of people are calling it modern slavery.
Does that feel right?
I was just about to say that's slavery.
That's slavery.
You took away the whips, but you put the paperwork.
Took away the masters and you put them in uniform.
Same difference.
Same difference.
It kind of appears that there is a coordinated system in order to protect the labor that's created by the prison system.
Walk into a McDonald's in Alabama, and the worker flipping your McDouble could be an incarcerated person.
It's a sad situation, the way they getting rich off of us.
The Alabama Department of Corrections farms out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of private companies and government agencies across the state.
McDonald's, Burger King, Golden Corral, Wendy's.
They got a Wendy's contract right now.
State Trooper's office.
They'll send everybody everywhere.
They'll send you everywhere.
Yes, the parole office.
And even though ADOC trusts these incarcerated people to leave prison every day and work alongside the general public, many of them are still denied the chance at real freedom.
So, you're incarcerated, you're in jail, but we're going to let you out to go flip burgers at McDonald's.
At probably pennies on the dollar in terms of pay.
Yes.
How does this make sense?
And we're always bitching and moaning about the Chinese.
Right?
Exactly.
We're worse than the Chinese.
We've commercialized it.
That's slavery.
That is real slavery right there.
If you're safe enough to go out into society, which is the whole part of incarceration, then you shouldn't be incarcerated.
How else you gonna get the cheap labor?
It's a win-win.
We need a new sheriff in town.
Oh, I know.
Let's bring in Sheriff Harris.
She'll fix it all for us.
My goodness.
Well, she actually kept... I mean, the Tulsi Gabbard slam against her, which is probably... we have a clip of it.
She mentioned that she wouldn't... some guys were supposed to get out of jail.
Yeah, and she kept them in there for the cheap labor.
She kept them in so they could do slave labor with them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Once a slave owner, always a slave owner.
We're just reporting it, people.
Don't hate the players, hate the game.
Uh... So, uh, let's talk a little bit about, uh... About, uh...
Climate week.
Oh, how did I miss climate week?
I don't know.
I was wondering myself.
Oh man, this is an important week.
Another scam of epic proportions.
It's a beauty.
I have two.
These are both promotional.
They were on NPR.
Okay.
Start with the new show called Reveal.
This is the teaser for the show.
I don't have the show because it's coming up.
This is the teaser for that.
Climate Teaser.
Okay.
We want to be the next Vanguard, the next BlackRock for the climate conscious consumer, because we don't believe that those companies will do what we need them to do to get us out of this climate crisis that we're currently in.
That's next on Reveal.
Oh, I like that.
The Climate Conscious Consumer.
It's the triple C. Nice.
It's a person that only exists in a few areas of the world.
Yes, California.
Then we have the Climate Week promotion from NPR.
There are a lot of ways for humans to both slow the pace of climate change and adapt to our new reality.
NPR is spending a week exploring Exploring areas where we can improve.
Addressing food waste turns out to be one of the biggest climate solutions of them all.
Join us for a look at the future of food with NPR's annual Climate Solutions Week.
Explore with us at npr.org slash climate week.
Oh, now I understand why Tedros came out.
World Health Organization.
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, he made a statement.
For Climate Week!
Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet.
Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions and account for almost one third of the global burden of disease.
Burden!
Transforming food systems is therefore essential by shifting towards healthier, diversified, and more plant-based diets.
Plants!
If food systems delivered healthy diets for all, we could save 8 million lives per year.
WHO is committed to supporting countries to develop... What?
How are we saving lives?
Or creating them?
If food systems delivered healthy diets for all, we could save 8 million lives per year.
WHO is committed to supporting countries to develop and implement policies to improve diets and fight climate change.
I'm therefore very pleased that over 130 countries have signed the COP28 UAE Declaration on Climate and Health.
Together, We can protect and promote the health of both people and planet.
Well, let's start with the Haitians.
They're eating the dogs!
All right, stop eating dogs.
Stop eating the dogs.
Oh, boy.
I don't have the clip anymore because I just never got to use it, which is the guy who comes out and says...
Farming is responsible for all climate change.
We must stop all farming.
Yet they have a mixed message going on here.
They can't seem to get it together.
Here it is.
Here it is.
Farming needs to stop.
That's the single biggest driver of climate change.
Oh, so farming is the problem, but we need to eat plants.
Yeah.
So I don't know where they're getting this, but my last climate clip is the one where they, uh, bread!
Eat bread!
Bread will do to solve the problem.
What if you could help address climate change by eating more whole wheat bread?
It is not the biggest solution, but it might be the tastiest.
No, not brown bread, mom!
Here's Alejandro Burunda explains.
Oh, Sammy, you're saving the Earth!
It's warm and fragrant at the Washington State University Bread Lab, where a group of scientists and professional bakers have gathered to taste slices of soft, mahogany brown, 100% whole wheat loaf, just out of the oven.
That's the best ever.
That is amazing.
That's Steven Jones.
He's a wheat breeder and baker, and until he retired recently, he led the Bread Lab.
He wants to help Americans learn to love whole wheat.
Because when wheat gets turned into white flour, Jones says, the rest of the kernel is discarded.
We could increase the amount of food that we get per wheat acre by 30% if we just eat the whole wheat.
Turning more food grown into food eaten cuts the climate impact.
You know, I just want everyone to know that we can't vote our way out of this situation.
Daddy Trump is not going to fix all of our problems.
We need to kill the elites.
We need to stop this nonsense.
And eat them!
And eat them, yes!
We need to eat them.
We need to take a stand and say no.
No.
No to your climate change nonsense.
Oh.
You're in the minority.
That's the problem.
No, we're not in the minority.
It's just media.
I believe so.
No.
Well, because I'm in California, so I... You're in the minority.
Yes.
I'm definitely in the minority here.
And while we're at it, chop off California.
You know, that earthquake was a good start.
Yeah, it's going to take a while.
Well, there's going to be a big one.
It's going to break off and float away, and we're not going to throw you a life raft.
I think it's going in the other direction.
What?
California's pushing in for more.
I hope not.
You know, I don't know if I had a presentation for this before, but there's a lot of thinking about how did the Rockies form because they know how impact, you know, when you have the tectonic plate shifts, it creates mountain ranges and they're all accounted for.
But except the Rocky Mountains can't be perfectly explained unless you make the assumption.
These guys spend their time on this stuff.
That when the giant one gob of earth mass started moving away from, split off of Europe and Africa, and started moving toward the West, That it impacted something that may have been in the middle of that giant Pacific Ocean, another landmass that's never been accounted for, which turns out to be California, and it rammed into it with a big solid chunk.
And that's what pushed up the Rockies, because there's nothing else that could have possibly done it.
Except God.
You had an uplift.
Except God.
That's my story.
Yeah, well, I'm assuming that the nature is set up to do certain things, and uplift is one of them.
And so that means that California, and I'm convinced of this, California and much of the West, where we are, It's not part of the big group that moved over.
It was always here and it's always been a different situation.
That's why the land here is somewhat toxic.
Yes!
Exactly!
It's always been a hellscape and the land is toxic.
It's always been a hellscape traditionally.
It's always on fire.
There's a lot of earthquakes.
Yes.
And it's toxic.
That's why the wine in Napa Valley isn't as good as you get from France.
It's just filled with vinegar.
It's toxic.
We agree 100%.
It's got all kinds of problems.
The whole place, we agree 100%.
Yeah.
California is toxic.
It's always on fire.
It's always shaken.
But it's always been that way.
Yes.
Whatever happened to breaking off as your own state over there?
I always thought that was a good idea.
Yeah, you'd think that.
But you're Texas.
Your Texas always wants to do that.
So why don't you do it there first?
Sure.
You mean as your own country, not your own state.
Good luck charging your EV on wind power.
We're not going to export any oil and gas to you.
We have plenty of oil and gas here that they refuse to exploit.
Exactly!
Exactly!
And now it turns out, since my son-in-law, married to Jay, works at Chevron, one of the biggest oil refineries on the West Coast... Oh, you're a fossil fuel family.
Yeah.
They're thinking of shutting down the refinery completely and moving the whole thing to Houston.
Exactly.
In the Republic of Texas.
And this is, and then we have situations like, I think there's a, I have a clip here on California gasoline prices.
Yeah.
Yes, you do.
Yeah.
I'll play it.
Gas prices are up nearly $2 more per gallon across Northern California when compared to the rest of the country.
California's oil market watchdog, Ty Milder, attributes this to refineries going offline for maintenance without enough backup supply.
Gas prices in California are going up at the same time that national gas prices are going down.
Governor Gavin Newsom has called a special legislative session to require companies to keep more supplies on hand.
Industry groups have said that could increase costs by forcing refiners to keep fuel in storage and off the market.
I think it's great.
We cut off California.
You keep your social media companies, keep Silicon Valley.
We can use Android.
We don't need iPhones.
Just keep all of that.
Android comes out of California too.
Google.
Yeah, but we don't need to buy Google.
We have open source Android.
We're just going to use open source over here.
I have to mention something about the California.
This is a looming problem and the Democrats are too stupid to figure it out.
The problem with California gasoline is that some years ago, somebody pointed this out to me when I was bitching about the taxes on the gasoline.
And Chevron is one of the companies that makes gasoline for California.
And I say for California, because the gasoline blend for California is different than the entire rest of the country.
Oh?
It's a low smog version.
It's got some stuff in it.
I don't know exactly what the makeup is.
Does it work?
Does it work well?
It's gasoline.
It works fine.
You know, people don't realize that gasoline is a blend of just as a witch's brew of explosive chemicals that are all mixed up with all kinds of Volatiles in there like butane and there's all kinds of weird stuff in gasoline.
But it's not the same from tank to tank.
You're always running different stuff through.
But California has to have some elements of something or other in their gas, supposedly to lower pollution.
And nobody else makes this gas except a couple of refineries.
And so if Chevron moves to Houston, We won't have enough gasoline to do anything.
That's why I think they're trying to move everyone to electric cars here in California.
Faster than anybody else.
But then we haven't got... It's a mess.
It's a ridiculous, mismanaged, corrupt state.
And it's toxic.
And it is toxic too.
Yeah, you have to deal with that.
Now I have one other clip from California since we're on the topic.
Yeah.
Now they want to do AI legislation first in the country.
Yes.
Okay.
I don't know what this legislation is going to do, but this is going to be a huge problem for Newsom because he doesn't know what to do about this.
And this is the clip is AI Cali.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is considering whether to sign or veto an artificial intelligence bill.
And Pierce Bobby Allen reports the measure, if passed, would be the strictest AI regulations in the country.
The AI bill has fiercely divided the tech industry.
Supporting it, AI researchers who warn about the societal risks of the technology.
It also has won the support from AI startup Anthropic and Elon Musk.
But opposing the bill are chat GPT maker OpenAI, high-profile venture capitalists, and AI startup founders.
They say the regulations would slow innovation and allow other countries to leapfrog the US in AI development.
Criticism of the bill did lead to a softer version being passed, but it still requires AI companies to conduct safety tests and requires firms to be able to enable a kill switch if AI systems go rogue.
There are no federal laws regulating AI in the U.S.
Governor Newsom has until September 30th to act on the bill.
Well, finally, Elon Musk has done... I was about to send him back to California, but we'll keep him now if he's supporting bogus legislation in California.
That's pretty fun.
So you have to have a kill switch, and you have to have testing.
I don't know what this testing is.
How do you test, you know, algorithms like this?
And who's going to enforce these laws?
That's the other thing.
So you need an enforcement department, which is really expensive.
This is bullcrap, and I think you should be... I'm surprised that you're... That I'm not all over it?
Yeah.
You're the AI hater of the two of us.
I am.
I am the AI hater.
Have you seen the latest that they're doing with AI?
Maybe.
It's Notebook LM, is what it's called?
Don't know it.
So Notebook LM, I guess, is some kind of...
It's like a closed loop AI system so you can put in documents that only you care about.
And then you can do AI stuff with it.
Whatever that means.
You can query it, probably.
Yeah, you can query it.
But now they have an extra... I'm looking for it.
I thought I had a link.
I think I do.
Now you can put in an extra thing.
And you can say, make a podcast out of these documents, which by the way, if it was any good, I would be all for it.
But it makes these, let me see, oh man, I hope I have this here.
It makes a podcast?
Yes, yes, it makes a podcast.
Okay, so this, in this case, this guy put in a hundred thousand word document of like ran nothing of random text titled it patent dot text gave it to the notebook and listen so this thing that makes a podcast by the way you know i want to stop you here and say i really uh admire the fact that you are you act you are the pod father
you keep track of everything that has anything to do with podcasting at the most minute level i I never heard of this.
Somebody has to protect the medium.
And that's actually the way you see it.
That's what's funny.
Yes, I do.
So we've got another head scratcher this week.
These patent files you sent in.
Have me a little bit stumped, I gotta say.
We've got a bunch of text files.
Okay.
All named Patent, but with these little numbers tacked on.
Right, right.
Like Patent 2, Patent 4, that kind of thing.
Interesting.
And I open these things up.
Why is that interesting?
How is that interesting?
This is what the A.I.
thinks a podcast should sound like between two people.
Oh, this is the podcast we're listening to?
Yes, you're listening to the podcast.
This is an A.I.
podcast.
Oh, so we have a dip shit?
These are fake voices?
Yes!
And so we have a guy, and this is like a typical, this is like fashioned after NPR.
You have some guy and a dipshit woman who's going, oh, some moron.
Yes.
And okay, now I'm interested.
Basically Pivot, the Pivot podcast.
Please start it over.
Okay, so we've got another head-scratcher this week.
These patent files you sent in had me a little bit stumped, I gotta say.
We've got a bunch of text files, all named Patent, but with these little numbers tacked on, like Patent 2, Patent 4, that kind of thing.
And I open these things up, and it's just line after line of binary.
So ones and zeros, as far as the eye can see.
So that's our challenge today.
We are diving headfirst into the world of binary code.
What I like about this particular AI is it adds the uhs and the ums to it.
But for some reason, the podcast format has to be someone taking the lead on talking and the other someone going, oh yeah, yay, right, yeah, shoot, let's do it.
Do it.
To see if we can crack this code and figure out what in the world is going on.
Absolutely.
But before we get too far, I think it might be helpful for some of our listeners to do a little bit of a binary one-on-one.
Hold on.
She's a little too... They got to turn her down a little bit.
Every phrase, she's throwing a bit in there.
It's like, uh, oh, ah, mm, yeah, ooh.
There's too much of that.
They got to fix that.
It's fixable.
I'm looking forward to the day when we just throw a bunch of clips and show note stories into a bin and then I stay in bed on Thursday and Sunday and the show is just the show!
Just the very basics.
What are we even talking about when we say binary code?
Right.
So at its simplest, binary is really just a way of representing information.
Now they're going to switch roles.
She's talking and he's going to do the, Oh yeah, really?
Oh yeah.
Using only two options.
Okay.
So instead of our 10 digits, like we use in our everyday lives, you know, zero through nine, binary uses just zero and one.
And those two digits, that's all we need to build even the most complex information.
So it's kind of like a light switch.
Exactly.
It's either on or off.
That's it.
One or zero.
I want to kill myself now!
Okay, stop.
Clip of the Day.
Wow, thank you.
It wasn't even intended to put it on the list today, but I'll take it.
Unbelievable.
But I like the kibitzing, the constant never-ending Not like we do.
We interrupt each other in a different way to stop things.
But this is always encouraging.
All right.
Oh, yes.
OK.
Oh, yeah.
Good.
I like it.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Very good.
Keep going.
Yeah.
This is why I have no fear of A.I.
at all.
I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Well, we do have a bunch of AI donations which have come in, which is all automatic and It comes from PayPal.
We've programmed it so that it just sends money to us from your PayPal account.
Thank you very much.
It even adds little notes and sometimes we'll read them.
$50 and above right now.
We thank all of these producer AIs for supporting the best podcast in the universe.
John, take us through them.
First of all, I'd like to say I've heard worse podcasts than the AI one.
And on TikTok.
Yes, we have.
We have.
Lucas Williams starts us off and he is in the fabulous town of Roswell, New Mexico.
Yeah.
100 bucks.
Debbie?
Hyphen.
What do you think?
Hyphorish.
Hyphorish?
Maybe?
Yeah, maybe.
In Spring, Texas.
She came in with a hundred, but she has a little thing I want to say.
She wrote, this is because John is nagging online.
I do love the shows and should probably donate more often.
Don't let them eat the cats!
Be a theme forever.
There you go.
Adriana Marshall in Shrewsbury, UK.
A 100.
Ah, already, this is a very short list actually.
Kevin McLaughlin, 8008.
He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of American boobs.
Sir Boccevice in Miami, Florida.
6776 is for his daughter Josephine.
Oh.
Maybe a switcheroo, not sure.
Circus Media, the Baron of Bozeman in Bozeman, of all places, Montana.
6180, and it is a happy birthday to you, Adam.
Oh, thank you.
Plus fees.
Thank you.
Uh, David Weicker Wicker in Jacksonville.
Wicker.
That's served by his grace.
And you mispronounce his name every single time and it irks him.
But I keep saying wicker?
You keep saying wiker.
Wiker, yeah, wiker.
I think it's because it was a congressman or somebody named wiker that I can't get it out of my head.
But he's got another happy birthday to you, 60-06.
He's in Jacksonville, Florida.
No, no wait.
He has a happy birthday for his dad who turned 83 on 9-11.
Best dad ever!
Thank God for great fathers.
They make all the difference.
That's what he says.
Robin Tolbert in Topeka, Kansas.
60.
Another happy birthday to you.
This is dragging on.
Davidi in Cumming, Georgia, 5809.
Christopher Dechter in Parts Unknown, 5678.
These are all $50 donations, basically.
Well, that's kind of a high... No, it must be 55 or something.
High fee, yeah.
No, that's not... That can't be right.
No.
Ronald Mills in Florence, South Carolina, 53-45.
That sounds like a 50.
Mark Hardwick in Aledo, Texas, 53-33.
Lydia Terry Dominelli, 53.
A Silent Knight, Ciro Piccirillo.
Piccirillo or Piccirillo?
One of the two in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
5272 answering the call of the sad puppy.
Dame Jen in Athens, Georgia.
And the sad puppy keeps showing up on Sundays.
Dame Jen in Athens, Georgia.
51.
And this is a note you can read because it's a daming.
Yes.
Here we go.
Dear John and Adam, I have reached another $1,000 with my bi-monthly donations and I'm gifting a dame hood to my daughter Sonia for her 18th birthday.
Also add her to the birthday list for Wednesday, September 18th.
She's on it.
Please knight her or dame her.
Simply, Dame Sonja, and for the round table, please add Maryland steamed shrimp and lobster tails.
Nice.
If at all possible, add to the end of show mixes the Beatles parody, Ya Know, Ya Know, since she used to sing it around the house after it first aired.
It was my first real introduction to the show.
Also, happy birthday to her dad, Joe, turning 51 on September 20th.
This is from Dame Jen, and since it's only 20 seconds long, instead of adding it to the end, I'll play it now.
Classic!
Classic jingle.
You're saying yeah while you're saying no.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no, you know.
Yeah, no.
I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, no, you know.
Yeah, no.
I don't know why you're saying yeah while saying no.
Yeah, no.
There you go.
Yeah, no.
You know, a classic, classic jingle.
It is a classic.
Onwards, Sir Economic Hitman in Tumble, Texas, 50-01.
in.
And now we got the $50 donors.
I'll start and just name a location.
I'll start with Brandon Savoie in Port Orchard, Washington.
Jared Yaw in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dame Patricia Worthington is still with us and she's in Miami, Florida.
Christian Freeman in San Marcos, Texas.
Kevin Dills in Huntersville, North Carolina.
Diane Schwannebach.
In Johnsburg, Illinois, Michael Thompson in New Brownfells, Texas.
Brontfels.
Slowly I turned.
Brontfels.
Yeah, Brontfels.
They used to make a great product there, a barbecue pit.
It was the Hondo.
Hondo was another town nearby.
And then they stopped.
So now you gotta... It was such a great product.
Michael Peratt in Salem, Oregon.
North Stonington, Connecticut gives us easy landscapes!
Philip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky.
Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
Sir Chris.
Carl Vogler in Dillon Beach, California.
Sir Jerry Wingenroth in Saugus.
California and last on the list is Dame Tracy and Sir Canebrake in St.
George, Louisiana.
I want to thank these people for helping us finish off and complete show 1695.
Five shows away from show 1700.
1700 shows and coming up in October our 17th anniversary running at Value for Value.
We cannot thank you enough for the value you return, time, talent, and treasure.
Thank you to everyone who came in under $50.
Anonymity always assured under $50.
And of course our sustaining donations.
We recommend everybody do that to keep the show going through the slower periods by going to noagendadonations.com.
And you can set your own amount and frequency that you'd like to donate.
There's no other levels or firewalls or paywalls.
Firewalls!
The premium content is up front and it's all there for you to enjoy, whether you support us or not.
But if you're still listening, what are you doing?
Remember us at NoahJenTheDonations.com.
Thank you again very, very much.
And as we said, David Wicker says happy birthday to his daddy.
He turned 83 on September 11th.
Sure Not Sure, about to become Viscount, wishes his sister Dame Marie a very happy one.
She celebrated yesterday.
Hans is celebrating on the 17th.
Sure Not Sure himself, also on the 17th.
Dame Jen says happy birthday to her daughter, Sonia, turning 18 on the 18th.
And her husband, Joe, turns 51 on September 20th.
All Virgos in the family.
Happy birthday for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
And coming in real big with a whole bunch of threes today, Sir Not Sure, Baron of the Tri-Lakes, now becomes Sir Not Sir Not Sure, Baron of the Tri-Lakes, now becomes Sir Not Sure, Viscount of the Tri-Lakes, and we thank him very much for his incredibly generous
Follow his example, be like Sir Not Sure, the Viscount of Trilakes, and we really appreciate that you did that for us.
We have a layaway noting, knighting from Hans, who says, ITM John and Adam, let me be clear, I've finally reached knighthood with a $4 weekly donation since February 14th, 2020, and a one-time donation of $53.33.
My dream of joining the round table has arrived.
Living in New York City is sometimes like participating in an absurdist theater, but it's the business I've chosen.
Specifically, my business is that of a performing musician.
For any jazz fans out there, I'll shamelessly plug my website, hanslux.com.
That's H-A-N-S-L-U-C-H-S.
Take a look at that right now, hanslux.com, where you can check out my music if you like.
Oh, you should get it on wavelake.com.
Get it on Value for Value.
Thanks so much to John and Adam and the rest of the No Agenda community for producing the best podcast in the universe.
May you never find an exit strategy.
Oh yes, I'd like to be knighted Sir Hans, Knight of the West Side Highway.
I'd love for some enchiladas, a mole poblano and a modelo negra.
Modelo?
Do I pronounce that right?
Modelo?
Modelo.
Mod Even the layaway nights.
Four dollars a week for four years.
And he's here at the round table.
He's gonna get one of those swanky rings.
So, why don't we get out of here?
Don't forget Kurt.
I don't have Kurt.
It's right under this other note.
I do not have it.
I don't have Kurt.
Oh.
Do you have Kurt?
Yeah, I got Kurt.
He's right here.
Oh, can you read that?
He's Kurt Patrick.
He says, Dear John and Adam, I've been contributing $50 a month to my layaway night plan since November.
My 20th payment was made on June 2nd, and I've yet to be nighted.
Please refer to me as Sir Say It Wrong of Nyneimo.
Nyneimo.
I have a scotch and scallops at the round table.
That's what he wants.
Scotch and scallops.
Right on time.
Okay, anything else?
No, that's the end of it.
Oh, great.
Somehow I missed that.
must have not seen that in the email.
Well, good.
That's why there's two of us.
Thank you very much, LayAway Knights.
We are now going to bring you into that exclusive cub.
Here is a blade.
We got lots of people coming up here.
That's beautiful.
All right, up on the round table here.
I mean, up on the podium.
We welcome Janet Webb.
We welcome Sonia, Hans, Kirk, Patrick, Ryan, Diazio, and ladies and gentlemen, I am very proud to pronounce the K-V as...
Dame Janet of T.P.
Wyoming, Dame Sonia, Sir Hans Knight of the West Side Highway, Sir Say It Wrong of the Naimo, Sir Ryan D'Azio, Knight Who Couldn't Give a Single Duck.
For you, we have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, spaghetti and carbonara, and a bottle of 2016 Brunello, Chilean sea bass, and a 21-21 gave de gave, cortese, Maryland steamed shrimp and lobster tail, enchiladas, amole, poblano, and modelo negra, and scotch and scallops.
And can I just please fit the mutton We meet in there?
There's a lot at the round table.
I don't think we've ever had a feast like this.
Congratulations to the five of you.
Go over to noagenderrings.com.
You can see the handsome and beautiful knight and dame ring that we have on display there.
It's a signet ring, so not only do you get this ring sized to your finger, there's a handy ring sizing guide there.
Send that to us with an address.
It comes with wax to seal your important correspondence and As always, a certificate of authenticity.
A great day for the show when we can welcome so many knights and dames to the roundtable.
Well, congratulations.
No agenda.
Meet up.
It's like a party.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm excited about that October 18th meetup in Fredericksburg.
We've never had a Fredericksburg meetup.
It'll be a home game.
Home game.
Very excited.
People have already apparently called over to the Full Moon Inn, and they're coming from Pennsylvania.
Of course, lots of people coming from Austin, but they're already calling and checking, and I think they may have an inn there.
I think you could even stay there.
So, Curry and the Keeper will be there in the house.
It'll be exciting.
Couple of Meetup reports.
Here's where we have three of them.
First one from Sonoma, the Wino Country Meetup.
This is Brian from work.
We're here at the Sonoma County Wino Country Meetup here at Old Caz Beer.
Everyone knows it takes a lot of beer to make good wine and so that's why we're trying all that beer.
This is Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve II, and after this party, we're all going back to my house for a Haitian barbecue.
Wannabe, gonna be Dame Linda of the Shire.
No Agenda Meetups makes life fun again!
Captain Luke loving my local brewpub.
Hey this is Jason, first time, long time listener, and I checked with the city manager here in Rohnert Park and there's no cats on the menu.
This is a dude named Ben named Ben, Duke of San Francisco.
I've escaped the fog today for this lovely MoFax no agenda meetup.
This is Golf Winch from Rohnert Park, California, changing Harris for Biden.
It's kind of like crapping your pants and then changing your shirt.
Connection is protection.
I'm Sean, longtime listener.
And we have two reports from Indiana, Fort Wayne first.
Adam and John, this is Shannon, helping host in Fort Wayne.
We had a great turnout, we did not sing karaoke, and my kale salad tasted like crap.
This is Mike from Fort Wayne.
In the morning.
This is Ryan from St.
Joe's.
My first meetup.
It was a great time.
Nice to meet Shannon and Mike.
Hope we have a better turnout next time.
Get to meet more lovely people in this crazy area.
In the morning.
This is Haley.
Great people.
In the morning.
All right, in the morning to all of you.
And then the final report comes from our big group there in Greenwood, the Indy Meetup.
Always a lot of people, probably about a hundred.
This is Dame Maria.
And Sir Mark.
A wonderful day here in Indy to having our meetup.
And it's so nice out here, except it might be getting a little warmer due to climate change.
Hey, this is Emily, the Fed, not a Fed, and hot take.
I just don't like Kamala Harris.
Please don't vote for her, y'all.
Oh, Emily, was that really necessary?
Ruski here, in the morning.
Hey, it's Annette Miller.
I'm so excited.
I won the cash today.
It's only my second donation though, but I'm not a douchebag.
I buy at least 20 bucks worth of raffle tickets every time I go to a meetup and somebody else gets the donation.
Someday a dame.
In the morning, John and Adam, this is Nick.
I survived the fever and colts traffic.
Adam, the fever and colts are sports teams.
Hi, this is Serb of the Maple.
What a wonderful meetup today.
I think everyone here is my friend, if I have anything to say about it, in the morning.
This is Kyra from Carmel.
Just want to thank all of No Agenda Nation for getting out that vote.
Don't forget to vote.
ACJD in the morning with AI self-hypnosis mud club.
Tom, not from Carmel.
This is Archduke Quinn from the Zinesville Highlands.
I do believe 100% Google Gaga.
In the morning, Adam and John.
This is Shannon visiting from Fort Wayne.
These new cough lozenges from Isis are great.
Hezbollah!
In the morning, Dane Trinity having a great time in India as always.
Thank you for your courage.
In the morning, John and Adam, Sir PBR Street Gang.
Adam, please step, stop, and Steve, yeah, stop, yes, stop, stepping all over the fat lady.
Hi, I'm Lindsay.
I am a server at Prodigy Burger.
I worked today and served for the No Agenda group.
They're a great group.
I'm kind of interested to listen to the podcast.
In the morning, the best podcast in the universe.
You know, when the proverbial shit hits the fan, I want to be an indie.
That's where you got some protection, because that's the connection that No Agenda meetups bring you.
You should try one.
It's like, it's like Pringles.
You can't stop.
You'll keep wanting to go on.
You'll meet new friends, children from other lands.
It's going to be great.
Particularly today, we have the Seafood and Sangria meet-up.
You probably are already there.
It's at Harry's Seafood Bar and Grill in St.
Augustine, Florida.
The Too Hot Tucson meet-up will kick off at 4 o'clock at Canyon's Crown in Tucson, Arizona.
The 2nd September meet-up, 6.30 this evening.
Oh, I'm sorry, Thursday, at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
And also on Thursday, Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday monthly meetup, seven o'clock at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.
So many meetups are now being, it's like it's meetup season for some reason.
All over the world, from the Netherlands to Candanavia, to Down Under, to, well, all over the states here in America.
And of course, one more plug for that October 18th Fredericksburg, Texas meetup.
Looking forward to see y'all there.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one on the calendar near you, start one yourself.
It's easy and always a party.
Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me.
Triggered or held the blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Woo!
How many ISOs do you have?
None.
You got none?
Yeah.
Well, what are you, phoning it in today?
I forgot.
How could you forget?
I did.
All right.
Uh, well, I have, I, luckily I'm over-ISO'd.
Yeah, I, but I, there was a sense, I had a sense, I could feel it.
I could feel it, Luke.
You could feel it?
Okay, Luke.
Here we go.
Ghetto B-word!
There's one.
No.
This is exciting!
I like that.
I do believe it's possible.
No.
I want to thank you for your courage.
And the final one... Preposterous and weird!
Hmm?
No.
No, you like the hill dog.
This is exciting!
Yeah.
All right, hill dog on deck.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for your favorite part of the show, John's Tip of the Day!
Created fast for you and me.
Just the tip with JCD.
Woo!
And sometimes Adam.
Hey!
Everyone's excited to find out.
The last tip of the day was great.
We have increased Costco's stock by several points.
Costco is loving us.
What do you have for us, John?
Well, this time it's going to be Amazon.
You know how we used to drink tea when you lived in England, but you don't do it anymore.
No, I'm back to coffee.
I'm still a fan of PG Tips, which is the English everyday drinking tea.
Yeah.
But I drink a lot of green tea.
But green tea, depending on where you get is really expensive.
And I have found a kind of a PG tips of green tea besides things like gunpowder.
This is just a very specific green tea.
You get a pound of it for 13 bucks.
And it's like you use for a big pot.
You use like don't you have to be careful to use like a kind of a level teaspoon maybe because this stuff just blows up into all the full leaves.
And it's a tea that sells for 13 bucks for 16 ounces.
It's called Tianhu Shan.
T-I-A-N-H-U-S-H-A-N.
It's also called Yinhao.
Y-I-N-H-A-W.
Right from China.
It is.
I just drink this stuff like crazy.
It is an outstanding just drink, drink, drink product.
And you also double pour into it.
And the second pouring, which is the Chinese do all the time, Americans don't do it.
In other words, you make your tea and then you pour off the...
The finished green tea, and then you pour another batch of water into the used leaves.
And in China, they think this is the better part of the batches.
The second pouring is better.
And in this case, I don't even see the difference.
It's almost like the same.
You just doubled the amount.
I don't know how long it's going to take to get through the 16 ounces.
It might take years.
Is this a small batch?
It's all in Chinese.
I have no idea if it's small batch.
You know, you need to do a web page with these tips of the day.
So people come.
I think we're going to have to do that.
Yeah.
Get Jay on the case.
She's good at that.
Well, actually, we may have some volunteers out there.
I was asking for some volunteers for a couple of things.
And maybe there's somebody out there that can do some coding or somebody.
I like somebody can just make a list of the tips that we've done with some summaries.
That would be good.
I need somebody to do a PHP server for me so I can do my own mailing list.
Oh, this is a very bad idea.
That is a very bad idea to do your own mailing list server.
Very, very bad idea.
There is a good product out there that has everything but the server.
The product is not the problem.
It's the whitelisting.
These companies that you use, and I would actually say Substack is probably better these days, they have been whitelisted with all of the big email providers, mainly Gmail, and they have to pay a VIG.
We've been through I understand that, yes.
So if you just show up as noagenda at Dvorak.org, you're going to get blocked everywhere because you're not paying the fee.
So I recommend against this.
Okay, well I'd still like to experiment a little bit.
Oh, rough times ahead.
Tears will come.
Tears will come.
That's it, ladies and gentlemen!
Are you looking for good advice?
Perhaps something practical?
There it is.
No lie.
Professional quality tips from the best podcast in the universe.
there it is there's no lie professional quality tips from the best podcast in the universe you heard it here i wish we had a rt supplier in portugal he passed away unfortunately i'm I'd love to have a... Yeah, I know, that's too bad.
But he didn't... He was really into fermented teas.
He didn't have too much green tea.
Well, he had no-agenda teas, which was just kind of cool.
Just loved that.
Loved that idea.
Yeah, I still have some of that left.
We've got our coffee guy, Eli.
Just need a tea guy.
Maybe Eli can expand.
On the way, we've got end-of-show mixes from David Kekta, Sir TJ the Wrathful, and the Clip Custodian himself, Neil Jones, checks in.
That's nice, I always love it when he has a mix.
And coming up next on the stream, no agenda, stream.com, trollroom.io, and your modern podcast app, is the Podcasting 2.0 board meeting for this week, titled Helpful Little Wizards.
So you can stay tuned for that, learn about the latest in podcasting.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, home of the Meetup on October 18th, Fredericksburg, Texas.
It's FEMA Region No. 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's foggy, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Thursday with another deconstruction of your media.
Meet us there and remember us at noagenthedonations.com.
Until then, adios, mofos.
A hooey, hooey, and such.
They're eating the dogs.
We know that the companies, and we've seen some of the comments from Elon Musk overnight, so they see themselves above the law, and the Australian law here should apply equally in the real world.
As it does online, as Phil was pointing out before, you would be sued for defamation, and you would be taken before the courts on the various acts for publishing some of that, which freely flows on the internet.
And there's an age verification regime which has been recommended by the E-Safety Commissioner from 2023.
We think that's something the government should pick up.
Well, this is a very dark day in Australia's history, ladies and gentlemen, because this week, the Respective Work and Other Matters Amendment Bill 2024 was passed in Queensland Parliament.
What does this mean for you?
Well, from now on, we're going to have to police our thoughts and our speech very carefully on social media.
These are truly unprecedented times.
25 years in the Parliament, I've never seen legislation like it.
This bill to be a public act.
And any public act found offensive by a reasonable person of the minority community that it describes is then chargeable under Section 52A of the Criminal Code.
And these charges carry a maximum sentence of three years jail time.
These are truly unprecedented times.
25 years in the Parliament, I've never seen legislation like it.
This is not the country I grew up in and is heading in the direction that I fear for future generations.
Kamala de Velk Kamala Deville.
If her cackle don't scare you, her policies will.
Your unborn child she would gladly kill.
Kamala is horrible still.
Mia, this is rarely brought up and it's true and these people are demonic in that way.
This chick, I'm saying chick, called a D.C.
District of Columbia clinic and she recorded it.
I am looking to have an abortion.
How far along are you?
I'm 34 right now.
That's 8 months.
An abortion at any stage is actually much deeper than delivering a term pregnancy.
We do what we call the fetal injection.
We'll assist you in sort of pushing in the induction.
...and remove all of the products of conception.
The product of conception.
It is true.
Of course it's true.
But people need to hear that.
It's sickening, but this is how demonic these people are.
What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people.
People.
People.
People can't go out and buy cereal or bacon or eggs or anything else.
The people of our country are absolutely dying.
Bye.
They're eating the dogs, the people that came in.
They're eating the cats.
My dog's been taken.
My dog's been stolen.
They've destroyed the economy.
In Springfield, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.
