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The conversation covers the unexpected nature of World War III, which is asymmetrical and involves drones and devices. The discussion shifts to the recent explosions in Lebanon linked to handheld radios and solar installations, causing significant damage and casualties. The conversation also touches on the arrest of Sean "Diddy" Combs on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, with allegations of coercive and non-consensual sexual acts. The conversation further delves into the political landscape, including the implications of the Ukraine conflict, the role of NGOs, and the potential for further escalation. The discussion also includes a segment on the media's role in shaping public perception and the complexities of the music industry.
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Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, September 19, 2024.
This is your award-winning GiveOnAction Media assassination episode 1696.
This is no agenda. Finding our freak-off and broadcasting.
Well-timed.
Yeah, timed well.
Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number six.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where everybody agrees, it's Trump's fault.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
I love the nose blow was pretty good, well-timed.
Yeah, timed well.
Hey, I've got good news and bad news.
Yeah?
Shall I give you the bad news first?
As long as the good news isn't, quote, that's all the bad news there is.
No, the bad news is World War III is underway.
The good news, it's asymmetrical warfare.
It's drones and devices.
This is a, no one expected this.
We all thought nukes like, oh, it's going to be nuclear.
No, no.
This is, I mean, it's, first of all, it's humorous.
Second, it's obviously a very sick way.
It's a very sick way.
It's humorous.
It's very sad.
Of course.
Um, I wonder how many people really want to still upgrade to the iPhone 16 at this point.
It gives you some things to think about.
Now I'm feeling really good about the phone in the drawer.
Or how about your iCom or Belfang?
These are not good devices to have anymore.
Or apparently your solar installation.
This is, uh, here's TRT, who I think have been doing the best reporting on this.
Lebanon has been rocked by a second wave of blasts, this time linked to handheld radios.
Smoke rises in Sedan in South Lebanon.
It's just one of multiple blasts in different parts of the country, including here at this phone shop.
The new wave of explosions comes a day after thousands of pages used by Hezbollah members exploded, killing a dozen people and wounding thousands.
At least one of the blasts took place near a funeral held for several people who were killed on Tuesday in Beirut.
Here, ambulance forced to break up mourners.
Two solar panel systems have reportedly exploded, leading to small fires that were extinguished.
Hospitals are inundated and the public have been called on to give blood.
This is incredible.
Solar installations, handheld radios, pagers.
This is new.
This was not expected.
It wasn't expected, but it has been tested.
In 96, they actually killed some guy with a cell phone.
Well, we've had that.
Actually, I went back and looked in our archives.
It wasn't quite the same, but we were joking about it then, if you remember.
Do you remember this jingle?
The Laptop of Doom, you remember that?
No, I don't.
It was, let me see, episode 797.
I think this was, goodness, this is a long time ago.
I pulled the clip.
But they also found the laptop that was responsible for it.
Very, very worrying.
So what we know at the moment is that the device that investigators believe was the explosive device was actually a laptop.
Oh, no.
You know what's coming.
Kind of an explosive device either inside the laptop or it was indeed a laptop bomb.
So it was inside the laptop.
But this is like MI6 CIA Mossad level stuff.
Definitely.
It's fantastic.
France 24 had, I found the best report of tracing back the pagers.
I really looked around and everybody had something and, you know, I love all this.
Where did France 24 take it to?
Oh, well, listen.
The simultaneous explosions of thousands of Hezbollah pagers and other communication devices raised many questions, and some of those are starting to get answers.
On the method used, a Lebanese security official told the AFP that explosives were inserted in the devices.
P-E-N-T.
This material is very powerful, yet relatively easy to conceal.
It's believed a few grams of PETN were integrated along with a circuit board into the pager.
The model used is an AR924 from Taiwanese brand Gold Apollo.
The company immediately denied being involved.
It said a factory based in Budapest, BAC Consulting, was authorized to manufacture the pagers.
But there is no factory nor warehouse at the company's address.
The Hungarian government confirms BAC is a trading intermediary with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary.
The quote referenced devices have never been in Hungary.
The company created two years ago has one employee, its general manager.
The walkie-talkies that were targeted on Wednesday had the logo of a Japanese brand, ICOM, but the company said it stopped producing the model 10 years ago.
As far as who is behind these attacks, the operating mode and the target point to one country, Israel, although it has not claimed responsibility.
Wow, that's pretty deep, man.
Well, yeah, I've heard all that, but I still don't see why it all points to Israel.
Well, because the Jews are responsible.
I mean, I think it's Israel too, but where's the evidence?
The Jews are responsible for everything.
What are you talking about?
We know this.
I'm just not saying, unless they come up with something a little more substantial than these, you know, non-existent factory.
I have two clips from NTD on this that might be, doesn't really add any more, but it's a different perspective slightly.
For the second day in a row, explosions ripped across Lebanon as Hezbollah's handheld radios exploded.
At least 14 people were killed and hundreds were injured.
NTD's Jason Perry has the details.
Chaos filled the streets of Lebanon for a second day in a row as another wave of electronic devices exploded throughout the country.
This time, Hezbollah two-way radios exploded, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 450, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
A Lebanese doctor shared his experience taking care of the injured.
Of course, since patients began arriving yesterday, we saw the extent of the damage and wounds.
We were working non-stop.
I took my first break after 5 a.m.
here in the office, and now I came back in the morning.
And an electronic store owner in Lebanon shared his concerns about not knowing what could happen next.
We had some devices here that we believed were 100% safe, but out of caution we removed them from the store because we got worried.
A Lebanese woman said she was not shaken by the second day of explosions throughout the country.
For sure, we are not afraid.
We are devoted to the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
And we stand with the resistance.
Everything happening now is nothing compared to what we are willing to endure for him.
My family, my children, and my husband are all devoted to him.
Israel has not claimed responsibility, but many think it's behind the recent explosions in Lebanon.
Israel's defense minister said this on Wednesday.
You'll do.
I think that when you look at the current picture, the Israel Defense Forces have made excellent achievements, together with the Shin Bet Security Service and the Mossad, with all their units and organizations, and the results are very impressive.
I think that kind of implies that they did it or taking credit for it.
You know, I don't know about that.
Good result, but I don't know about it.
I don't see this being much of a problem.
And then there's this woman going on about the dedication to the head of Hezbollah as though he's a god, which is something screwy.
Yeah, this is a very interesting development, I have to say.
Let's play part two of this.
He also said the war is entering a new phase and that Israel is now shifting its focus to the Lebanese border.
Also on Wednesday, the Israeli Air Force struck several Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
Nearly 100,000 residents in northern Israel have been displaced from their homes because of the attacks from the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group.
On Wednesday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will return the citizens of the north to their homes safely.
Oh.
Hmm.
I doubt that this will end anything.
Why would it?
We've completely shifted away from Gaza.
Gaza is no longer important.
Now it's Lebanon.
That, of course, is the shifting of the focus.
Because there's nothing left to do in Gaza.
I think everyone's dead and everything's bombed out.
There's nothing left.
You know, good luck with the hostages.
Yeah, hell with them.
So the next thing that, you know, everyone's interested in is, so where did this conversion take place, which is somewhere along a very vast supply chain.
In Taipei, reporters and TV crews piled into the office of Gold Apollo.
The Taiwanese tech company first linked to those pagers.
The company's president, Su Ching Kwan, insists his firm didn't supply the devices.
He pointed instead to a Hungarian company licensed to use the Gold Apollo brand.
Hungarian officials say the pagers were never in that country.
As for those walkie-talkies that blew up today, the radios were reportedly marked Made in Japan.
But some experts caution.
You should look at the entire chain of the vendors.
Oleg Brat is a cybersecurity researcher at Israel's Ben-Gurion University.
He says electronics manufacturing involves several components, and the vendor of any one part could have been infiltrated.
You can look at every stage of the chain and think about who can get compromised, whether it's the battery manufacturer, whether it's the assembly facility, whether it's the shipping Israel's defense minister didn't claim responsibility, but praised the country's army and security agencies, saying their results are very impressive.
So you know more about this than I do, but these supply chains, they can be quite vast for one device, right?
Well, the way it's been set up, you can thank various people in the tech industry for this.
They've set up, you know, the just-in-time sort of manufacturing that was developed by HP, I think, and then perfected by Apple.
Yeah.
You get stuff from all over the place.
It all comes in just in time and you put the device together.
You don't have to inventory anything and you can't keep track of stuff.
And so if somebody could do a man in the middle exploit, as it were, kind of symbolically, uh, where you just take over one of the, one of the aspects of the supply chain and you can do, but this, these were old products like the, the, that I, that radio hasn't been made for 10 years.
The ICOM is old.
Yeah.
Yeah, so there's something more sinister where they somehow, I think they got a bunch of gear, put it in some warehouse in the UK or who knows where, and then slipped it through some sort of channel because it was best price, obviously.
There's a best price aspect to this, there's no doubt about it.
I got it fell off the back of the truck.
And so the Hezbollah guys, there may be even a mole in Hezbollah itself that installed these, or installed... I heard a report somewhere, I didn't capture it, that someone had figured it out and so they blew that guy up first?
I mean, I have no evidence of this report, but I recall it.
But what no one's really talking about is... If the guy figured it out, he wouldn't be carrying the device, so I question that story.
So I wonder, did they use...
I mean, the way these, these, these pagers are not like on a, on a national pager network, you know, they're on a, I think it's a 400 megahertz and it's more like for hospitals, which use them.
So you, you have a central transmitter, which can reach quite far, maybe even with some repeaters to be able to read all, you know, reach all of the area.
So it seems to me the easiest way to trigger these devices would be having your own transmitter.
It wouldn't be, it would just be a burst of transmission.
And that would kind of explain the ICOM radios too, because they can also operate on those frequencies.
Certainly if they were, and most ICOMs I think are software defined radios, even 10 year old ones.
So it's just mind-blowing that, you know, Hezbollah was going, oh man, we can't have everybody tracking our cell phones, so we'll go to this solution.
And that was the thing that did them in.
It's crazy to think.
And now I also have to wonder about the numbers.
You know, we don't really know how many pagers hit.
I mean, so there's over, like, 2,700 people were injured, obviously within the blast radius of these pagers.
I don't know.
It's baffling.
For sure, we don't know anything about it.
We have nothing.
We have no good information.
Here's Rear Admiral Kirby.
Admiral, what's the White House response to the exploding walkie-talkies in Lebanon today.
I know Karine addressed the pagers yesterday, but what's the latest U.S. assessment, and does the U.S. consider this a justifiable escalation?
What I can tell you is we were not involved in yesterday's incidents or today's in any way, and I don't have anything more to share.
Hold on.
So he jumps to that conclusion real quickly.
We're not involved.
That's very suspicious.
We're not involved.
That's the best.
Hey Adam, how you doing?
I didn't do it.
Hey, we're not involved.
We're not involved.
In yesterday's incidents or today's in any way, and I don't have anything more to share.
You know, that shouldn't not be acceptable to the press corps.
I have nothing to share.
I have nothing.
It's the U.S. assessment that the Israelis were behind all this.
Nothing more to share.
You know, that should not be acceptable to the press corps.
I have nothing to share.
I have nothing.
So you have something, you just can't share it.
I'm like, okay.
day.
I found this clip from TRT where they say the United Nations says one thing about this, because of course they condemn it, but then the head of the United Nations, the Secretary General Guterres, says something completely different and quite smugly, I might say.
The first of its kind calculated and precise attack has compromised Hezbollah's communications.
It's being described as unprecedented and an act of digital warfare.
The UN says civilian objects should not be weaponized and warns of escalation.
Obviously, the logic of making all these devices explodes.
...is to do it as a preemptive strike before a major military operation.
Major!
So, as important as the event in itself is the indication that this event confirms that there is a serious risk of a dramatic escalation in Lebanon, and everything must be done to avoid that escalation.
So he didn't really condemn it in that clip.
He just said, oh, they were about to... No, he didn't, not to mention it.
They were about to undertake a measure, measure, measure, uh, whatever.
There was also a comment in there I thought was screwy, which was, uh, civilian devices should not be weaponized.
Tell that to car bombers.
Yeah.
They've been weaponized forever.
Civilian devices are always weaponized.
It's just a new creative way.
Well, What I take away from this is this is the new, this is like the sixth generation of warfare, the fifth being psychological operations, and this is by itself a psychological operation because really nobody can now know if your device is safe or not.
The good news?
Yes.
You don't have one.
I do.
Besides the good news for me, because my devices are all in a drawer downstairs, but it did blow up the dining room.
The good news is maybe they'll force manufacturers of these devices to make sure you can open them up and take the battery out.
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
It's gotta happen because you don't know what's in these things.
A little small piece of explosive material, some Semtech with a trigger on it.
Dude, this is in the EULA.
Your device may explode.
We will be in the EULA next.
The next EULA will say this.
If your device explodes, we have no responsibility.
Yeah.
But really, everything has come down.
I mean, we're all talking about, oh, long-range missiles.
No!
Nuclear war.
No!
No.
If I was like Zelensky or Putin or anybody, even Trump, Trump shouldn't be using a phone anymore.
Keep it away from them.
And think of all that we could have exploding televisions.
Exploded.
Well, the laptop.
Anything could have... This was undetectable.
The... Hezbollah.
You know, they have... Hezbollah.
They have dogs that sniff out explosives.
They're pretty good at protecting themselves.
No, this was next-level thinking.
Completely unexpected.
So, and, you know, and how about... You don't even need one of those bigger Iranian drones anymore.
Just get one of those, you know, those little consumer jobbies.
Fly down, blow up in your face.
This is the next level.
So, as I said, I'm kind of happy because, you know, I just don't see nuclear being necessary anymore.
And, you know, if you look at Ukraine, Russia doesn't want to blow up Ukraine.
They don't want to nuke it.
They don't want to radiate it.
They want whatever pieces they're interested in or believe belongs to them, they want to keep it pure.
It's like even minds are dumb now.
Now, this is next.
How about your Starlink blowing up next?
Anything.
I don't want to freak people out, but I'm glad I have my Pixel 6 running Graphene OS.
Pixel 6.
Running Graphene OS.
That seems safe.
I am not.
I bet it is.
I'm not upgrading.
Until the battery blows up by itself.
No, well, there's that.
Can I actually take the battery out of this thing?
I think I can.
I think I can take this out.
The early Google phones, you could easily get the battery out and replace it.
Yeah.
I think I can take it out of the Pixel 6.
Yeah.
Well, other than boots on the ground from Lebanon, one of our producer's brother is living in Beirut trying to sell off all his stuff and get out.
Good luck.
He says that, actually he says it's so bad in Lebanon, particularly the banking.
We don't hear much about that anymore.
But he said a lot of the younger Lebanese wish that Israel would just take over so it would have financial stability.
It's really the older generation that are the warmongers.
You're only allowed to withdraw a certain amount of money from your bank account each day.
One woman's sister had cancer.
I'm not quite sure how it fits into the story, but she got a gun.
I guess she wanted treatment.
Got a gun, went to her bank, withdrew as much as they would give her, and then fled the country.
You look at the banks, there's bullet holes in the walls everywhere.
People are just trying to get their money.
It's crazy.
Streetlights are off.
Potholes.
They got big potholes.
Potholes.
Really big potholes.
That's the biggest gripe.
That's the biggest gripe they have.
They got potholes everywhere.
So, you know, what's next?
What will be the next thing to go?
I mean, you know that they've got it in some cell phones now.
It would be crazy not to do that.
This is the Castro exploding cigar gambit.
Taken to the next level.
Yeah.
So, I don't know what else to say about it.
And in the Middle East, it's just like it is here.
These people are walking around with a phone in their hand.
Even more so.
As they walk down the street.
Yeah, even more so.
Well, I'm telling you, you should be glad you've got that old crappy Android which you never used.
I mean, you'll just never use it now.
And I'm sure you have a pager somewhere.
No, I, you know, I've never had a pager in my life.
Oh, I, I, do you remember when I had the two way pager and I was using that instead of, I've tried every, I've had APRS, you know, text messages go to APRS on ham radio.
It's all very complicated.
It's, it's, it's not, it's not, I don't know why you do all this crap.
Not a great way, not a great way to date.
Honestly, it was kind of hard.
Date?
Yeah, back in the day.
You used a pager?
Hey babe, just give me a call on my pager, I'll meet ya.
No, no, the text messages would go to the pager.
And then I could reply from the pager.
It was, I don't know.
I was just doing stuff.
Okay.
Yeah.
I was trying, you know, trying to catch a hot chick like Tina.
Hey, baby.
Hey, hot chick.
Check out my pager.
Look, it's on my belt.
Yeah.
They're cool.
Pagers are still kind of cool.
They've never been cool.
Yeah, they, yeah.
They're still kinda cool.
Yeah, they are.
Oh, brother.
I think it is.
Yeah, well, not anymore.
Oh, no.
No, the page had just become very, literally hot.
Not cool.
So... So, there's a stink going on out here on the West Coast.
I want to get this out of the way.
This is, um... Yeah, it's called Los Angeles, or San Francisco Union Square.
Oh, well, that's a different kind of stink.
Oh, okay.
So Newsom signed a bill.
Yeah.
Is this the, uh, the, the AI bill?
Yeah.
He signed some stupid bill saying it's illegal.
It's illegal to try to trick people with AI, even though, you know, it's like, okay.
So immediately, and I have the clip here, it's the AI clip.
It's immediately the Babylon Bee does an ad violating the Newsom's law, which is unconstitutional.
There's no doubt about it.
And it's stupid.
I mean, it's like desperate.
Because it's over.
I mean, you're going to have these things going on, these, you know, they're funny.
Yeah.
Harris saying something dumb and all the rest of it.
Play this.
Hi, I'm Gavin Newsom, the governor of California.
This is a message for the people of America given in my authentically recorded non-AI voice.
Thanks to my leadership over the last several years, California has become a world leader in extremist left-wing governance.
My policies were so effective that almost 1 million people are now fleeing the state every year.
We even ran out of U-Hauls.
During the COVID pandemic, I locked everyone in their homes and shut down businesses for months.
Not the French Laundry, though.
That's my favorite restaurant.
Last year, I cleaned up the dangerous, messy streets of San Francisco.
You know, because Chinese Communist President Xi was coming, and I really wanted to impress him.
He's my boss, after all.
This year, I signed legislation that allows me to take custody of your kid if you refuse to give him artificial hormones and chop off his genitals.
Because if you don't do that, you're a bigot.
And bigots shouldn't be allowed to have kids.
I've also led the way in green energy by banning all cars that don't run on electricity.
Then I banned almost all the electricity.
This is smart leadership.
On my watch, the cost of living and homelessness have skyrocketed, schools are failing, drug dealers and human traffickers are pouring across the border, and poop has covered the sidewalks of San Francisco.
This is the positive, joyful vision we offer as Democrats.
That's why I'm enthusiastically endorsing Kamala Harris for president in 2024.
She'll do to the country everything I did in California.
Anyway, I'm California Governor Gavin Newsom, and I approve this 100% real message, which is a recording of my voice without the assistance of any AI whatsoever.
This isn't a deepfake and you can rest assured that it isn't because I just signed an unconstitutional law outlawing deepfakes.
No one would dare violate it.
Thank you and science bless America.
Have you looked at the text of the bill?
I only glanced at it.
Did you have you?
Yeah, so it's AB 2839, which really accelerated a previous bill, AB 2655, which requires large online platforms to remove or label deceptive and digitally altered or created content related to elections during specific periods.
and requires them to provide mechanisms to report such content.
It also authorizes candidates, elected officials, elected elections officials, the attorney general, and a district attorney or city attorney to seek injunctive relief against a large online platform for non-compliance with the Act.
So it's...
It's a little different than is being portrayed.
Of course, it should still be deemed unconstitutional.
But he's trying to shoehorn this into protect our democracy or something of the like.
Well, of course, and immediately this reminds me of the idiot Prime Minister and Elmer Fudd character down in Australia.
Oh yeah, well this is all coming.
Who tried to ban memes.
Yeah, of course.
And the first thing that happens, of course, is a million memes appear targeting him.
Yeah.
Can we agree that this type of work with video and audio, that that is not AI, but it is in fact CGI?
That's a more... It's like computer-generated imagery with text input.
This is not artificial.
It doesn't even have anything to do with intelligence.
I think that should be made clear.
I think that's a good point.
It's CGI.
And I'm not going to argue with it.
I think you're right.
Most of it, you know, it's just the moniker that showed up and now everyone's just attaching it to everything.
But you could have done this.
It's all just a bunch of very interesting algorithms.
Yeah.
I mean, what's the AI part of it?
No, the zero AI part.
But, oh, well, you know, AI, oh, boom.
It's all very, very, very impressive.
Very, very impressive.
I think that this is the only thing it should be used for.
AI is great for this.
It's great for parody and humor.
And you can't, I mean, you can't, you're going to see even songs that are made with it.
It has to be labeled as all as parody.
Here's the other thing about that particular bit that the Newsome phony ad, you can get a good comedic There's a couple of women that do Kamala Harris and she could just do the voice.
Is that going to be illegal?
Because there is an intelligence involved there.
Is it illegal to now mock somebody by sounding like them?
Well, if you're a politician during an election year, the large platform, which I don't think includes podcasts, needs to include a label.
You know, it doesn't say that it's mandatory to take it down.
It says it has to be labeled as a parody or fake or CGI or whatever.
Yeah, because heaven forbid the public can't spot this stuff.
Well, you know.
That's a genuine Gavin Newsom commercial.
Yes, that sounds pretty real to me.
No.
You know, from the Party of Joy, they really are taking the joy out of everything, aren't they?
Party of Joy.
That's crazy.
Party of Joy Behar.
Taking everything out.
All the joy is going out.
Do you mind if I do a little Diddy Stein stuff for a moment?
Who?
Diddy Stein.
You know, maybe I should say Diddy Steen.
You're talking about Puff Daddy?
Yeah, we got Diddy, Diddy Epstein, Diddystein.
Oh, you're trying to be, oh, that's cute.
Yeah.
Well, I would be interested.
I'll listen to this for sure, because I've been very suspicious about the whole thing from the get go.
Well, the timing is what's suspicious.
The timing is before the election and I don't think it's, it is related to trying to get rid of Trump and to shut people up about certain things.
This has been brewing for a long, long time.
And, you know, Diddy Steen himself has been out there naming off names.
This whole freak-off thing has been the subject of YouTube videos for months.
There's all kinds of people have been talking about it, so we're starting to come to a head.
And here's a backgrounder that I got.
This morning, Sean Diddy Combs is behind bars, locked up on racketeering and sex trafficking charges that make the music mogul sound like a monster.
Between at least 2008 and the present, Combs abused, threatened, and coerced victims to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his conduct.
Combs, seen here smiling with his children the day before his arrest, is being held without bail.
With several of his children watching in court, Combs pleaded not guilty to charges he led a criminal enterprise that subjected young women to violence, use of firearms, threats, coercion, and verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse.
The 14-page indictment alleging Combs manipulated women to participate in highly orchestrated performances of sexual activity with male prostitutes, called freak-offs.
He used the embarrassing and sensitive recordings he made of the freak-offs as collateral against the victims.
Prosecutors said authorities seized the records, along with firearms, drugs, and more than a thousand bottles of baby oil and lubricant during raids last March on Diddy's homes in Miami and Los Angeles.
The indictment describes aggressive, open, violent, hedonistic abuse that you say was recurrent and widely known.
Why did it take law enforcement so long to intervene?
How many women were victimized by Sean Combs and how many others were involved?
Look, our investigation is ongoing.
We are committed to bringing justice to everyone who's been victimized by the defendant.
I can't tell you why it took so long.
I think the better focus is on the fact that we are here today.
And we are committed to making sure that justice is done.
His attorney promising a vigorous defense, saying those freak-offs were nothing more than consenting adults experiencing intimacy.
So, you laughed at it too.
When I heard the words of the prosecution, I'm like, oh, okay.
So you really don't have that much.
And of course, we have the indictment, which is now unsealed because it was one of thousands that are still sealed.
Uh, but the main thing we need to do with our, uh, M5M media is just focus on the show business aspect.
Focus on the show business aspect.
TMZ, help us out.
Uh, you know, good morning, Brian and Natalie.
I gotta tell you, um, my thoughts reading the 14-page indictment yesterday.
Were that there are a lot of people in Hollywood who are probably worried about which ditty parties they were at and what was going on.
That's not to say that they were necessarily even involved in any of the things that are alleged by the U.S.
Attorney's Office.
But if you're at that party and it turns out that that's when he set up one of these freak-off sex parties or that it was going on in another room and you didn't know about it, There's a good chance that you're going to be called by the U.S.
Attorney's Office.
And certainly if you're involved, you would get a call because they're going to want to know everything you want to know and may even want you to be a witness.
I just think we're just starting to scratch the surface of what this case is.
Who is this case is going to touch and involve and the and the feds have said that this remains an open investigation There could be more charges for Diddy.
There could be more charges for other people involved And usually the way this works is once they find out other people are involved or were witnesses they bring them in and they sort of lean on them and it's sort of like you're gonna cooperate with us or There's a possibility that you could face charges so this is going to be a slow developing case here because we're just getting started and I don't see how this trial begins anytime before next year.
Yeah, until after the election.
Yeah, exactly.
That's the reason for doing this all now because You know, the people who are involved in this, and by the way, Diddy, Diddy Steen being gay, it's like, okay, this is like the oldest news ever.
Who is Diddy Steen's boss?
He has a boss.
You know, it's Clive Davis.
Clive Davis, who, during his, I think, third or fourth marriage, said, you know, I'm really kind of gay.
And I'm having a good time over here with all the gay guys, so I'm going to call myself bi or whatever.
There is, you know, Rick Ross.
I mean, all these guys.
There's a lot of gay in hip-hop.
And there is such an injection, infusion of all kinds of businesses with the music business, which if you think, it's a perfect racket.
I mean, it really is a gangster racket because I've learned with Even just with value for value music.
If you have a good song and you can play it for someone and they hear it three times, you can make it a hit.
I mean, it's just a fact.
That's how it works.
So if you have control... But that's how Payola used to work out.
Oh yeah, totally.
Now you don't need Payola because the record companies are the literal owners of Spotify.
I mean, eh, some of them sold their stock when they kind of did that weird public off... I did it!
I did it!
It's now 10-9.
It's 10-9, as you said it.
They did that strange public offering, which wasn't really a public offering.
It was a liquidity event for the inside holders.
And if you know how Spotify works, it's all based upon playlists that you have to pay to get on.
And these playlists are operated by the record companies.
I mean, the whole thing is it just pushes music to the forefront continuously.
There's also an interesting connection between, I don't know if you remember this, I think it's the Malaysian 1MBD fund, which it had the guy, I think the whole bunch of musicians were involved in this.
I think also the guy from Black Eyed Peas and money went to Pharrell Williams and, you know, a couple million went to Kim Kardashian and it was, you know, stolen money.
I mean, it's all, All crazy kinds of money that's floating around.
Oh yeah.
Now this Diddystein, these freak-offs, which is just a perfect name for it, they were all videotaped.
So they're sitting on videotapes.
But please don't think about that.
You don't hear too much about it.
Even his lawyer, who is by himself a very interesting character, Mark Agniflio.
Now what has Mark Agniflio done previously?
He defended Keith Raniere, the founder of Nexium.
You remember that?
The sex cult with the Bronfman girls?
Was it mom and daughter if I remember correctly?
He also, he also, oh here you go, he also represented Roger Ng of Goldman Sachs who was convicted in 2022 of bribery and corruption involving the Malaysian Sovereign Wealth Fund.
So there's a lot of things that tie, I don't have all the answers, a lot of things that tie together, but this arrest ...is untimely for the crimes or whatever, you know, it's all allegations from a grand jury.
And Agniflico, Agnifilco, appeared on CNN with Caitlyn.
Do you know that Caitlyn used to be a blogger for the Daily Wire?
She used to go on Fox News all the time.
Caitlin who?
Collins, the new CNN girl with the unfriendly face.
Oh, that one.
Yeah.
She used to be like a right-wing blogger for Daily Wire.
You know, these people, it's really annoying.
This reminds me of, remember that, That guy, I can't remember, he was a gruff character who was like a right winger and then he went to work for CNN.
He was a left winger.
And he was Ed Schultz.
And then Ed Schultz went to RT.
And then he died.
And he died.
Yeah, he went to RT, then he became a kind of a Russian asset and then he died.
He's flipping around.
These guys are not, they have no, uh, allegiance whatsoever.
They just, uh, you know, oh, you're telling me, oh, I, how much are you going to pay me to be a right winger?
How much are you going to pay me to, to spew left wing propaganda?
It's really pathetic.
I don't really have a lot of respect for those folk.
Well, and she has that joker mouth, like she has kind of those high corners of her mouth.
My wife's always noticing this.
Anyway, here she is with Diddy's lawyer, the guy who is intimately familiar with all kinds of shenanigans.
And he makes a very interesting point about what the indictment really says.
When you read through the indictment, they say that there's not just one victim.
They say there's multiple victims here today.
And what I heard described was they said they have 50 witnesses or victims.
Yeah, I think it's 49 witnesses and one victim.
I think if you broke it down, and I say that because count two, which is the sex trafficking count, has victim number one, and there is no victim number two anywhere in the indictment.
So you're saying that there are not other women because what they were essentially arguing here is that he coerced and forced women into sex acts by using physical force, financial pressure, emotional abuse, and narcotics for what they described as these freak-off sessions.
They're saying that he self-described them as that.
Yeah, there's one victim in the indictment.
The charging document... One victim does count, right?
No, no, of course, but I'm just saying it's not 50.
I mean, what they did, and it's a little too cute, is it's 50 witnesses or victims.
Well, it's one victim.
That's all that's in the indictment.
Our reporter who was in the courtroom today said that he appeared to have a stunned expression on his face.
Was he surprised that he was arrested last night?
No, he definitely was not.
I mean, I told him myself in early September, you are going to be arrested soon and you're going to be charged with racketeering and you're going to be charged with sex trafficking.
So come to New York.
It wasn't a long conversation.
He agreed.
So we knew this was coming.
And in fact, we offered that he would turn himself in.
So there was really only, if I understand it correctly, and I've read it from what I can understand from the legalese.
I'm sure Rob, the constitutional lawyer, will check it out.
He loves this kind of stuff.
There was one victim and the victim, quote unquote, was a male prostitute who was trafficked across state lines, which is kind of, this is very reminiscent of Epstein.
And everyone else was like, well, we were kind of there having a good time at the freak off.
And, you know, so you make 14 pages of, well, you know, he had guns and he had lube, lots of lube!
Which, you know, no one can get past a thousand bottles of lube.
I mean, that's just crazy.
What kind of freak-offs were you doing?
The women who were not happy, they're not Listed as victims in the indictment as it stands.
They have civil suits against him.
They've all been trying to get money out of him, but still only one victim.
That's pretty powerful, though, to have that many people who have, if they go to court and argue that they witnessed this behavior by your client.
Well, my defense is very well established.
I interviewed myself the different men who, you know, were being brought sort of into Mr. Combs and this person's, you know, Intimate situation.
I've flown around the country.
I've interviewed a large number of them.
There's not the slightest inkling, according to the interviews that I've done, of anything that's coercive, non-consensual.
Nobody was too drunk.
Nobody was too high.
These were adults in a relationship.
This is a 10-year relationship.
We can't forget that.
This is a 10-year relationship, and it was adults and consensual, and everybody who was there wanted to be there.
So I feel very confident in our position.
You said you interviewed the men, but what about the women?
I haven't interviewed the women.
The woman's not available to me.
She's presumably a grand jury witness, and we cannot try to interview a grand jury witness.
And you don't think that there are any other women who are going to say that they were coerced into this, given drugs, and essentially, as prosecutors, we're saying that that's what kept them compliant?
So there are a lot of women in these civil cases.
There's been a mountain of civil cases ever since the civil case that was filed in November.
I don't see them as victims in the indictment.
That's my point.
So once you get to Clive Davis, You know, who has definitely been at the freak-offs.
I mean, come on.
This is the whole reason he left his wife, is because he wanted to be in this scene, in this gay hip-hop scene.
Before you know it, you're Jeffrey Katzenberg, you're Jeffrey Katzenberg, you're at the upper echelons of the Democrat Party, and definitely you're at Kamala Harris.
There's lots of pictures of her in her nightie, you know, that, uh, you know, this goes back to the Montel William days, when she was kind of trolling around, hanging out at the parties, Willie Brown days.
No, this video is damning.
The videos are the problem, and they had to get Diddy out of the limelight before he did anything rash.
Like, tell people.
And, I don't know, this doesn't look good for his health.
Can we be the first to say Diddy didn't kill himself?
Well, that's interesting.
Also... Yes, well, these videos are probably not a good thing to have... No!
...to have released.
And as a side note, Diddy was, from the reports I've seen, one of the investors who put money in to help Elon Musk buy Twitter and turn it into X. So...
There's all kinds of connections.
This went on for far too long.
And you can just go to YouTube and put in freak off and you'll see all kinds of people talking about these parties.
Right up to, what's his face?
LeBron James.
Ain't no party like a ditty party!
Uh-huh.
You know, there's a lot of money at play here.
A lot of, uh, a lot of assets, as it were.
Assets.
Yes.
In the blackmail game.
Yes.
So, you know, this, this will be very, very unfortunate for a lot of people.
And it's the videos.
It's always... Look, now, will we ever see these videos?
Doubtful.
No.
Like, we're still... It's like seeing the Epstein videos.
He had a room full of them.
Mm-hmm.
In fact, they won't even give us a list of names.
I mean, it's the government.
This is a government cover-up.
Yes.
Oh, big time.
Big time.
Yeah, let's grab this guy, you know, put him on ice, literally.
Yep.
And maybe permanently.
And shut him up from whatever he has.
And it's not going to be pretty.
Well, they've done a good job so far.
But it's weak.
The indictment is weak.
And then not letting him out on bail?
He said, yeah, I'll do $50 million bail.
Nope.
Oh, OK.
He was ready to give himself up to say, OK, let's just discuss this like men and take care of this.
This is just some videotapes.
No, there's something very damning going on.
And somehow it feels like it's not It's this most recent attack on Trump, which I have to say I'm a little disappointed in our trolls.
There are trolls who have my signal, my telegram, my cell phone.
This happened during the show.
Yeah, at least two hours before the show ended.
And email doesn't count.
I'm not looking at email during the show.
There's so many people who could have just said, hey, hey, hey, show day, hello, this is what's happening.
Yeah, the trolls missed this completely.
It was a complete fail of the troll room.
A complete fail.
Yes!
Yes!
Fail!
Yeah, we both, at the end of the show, we closed the show and then we, first thing we noticed, he opened the, you know, some browsers up and trumped, you know, another assassination.
So the trolls are saying that they were talking about it during the show, but you can send me a DM in the troll room and it fires up an alert.
Anyway, it was just disappointing to me.
Before we get into that, since we're on the music business, I do have to play this clip.
Oh, you got some music business stuff, huh?
Well, this is Taylor Swift.
Have you seen this?
Do I need to tell you this is from 2015?
Okay, okay.
No, you need to tell me that.
That video that everyone has been sending me is an old video from, this is, she's talking about Blackburn in Tennessee.
This is not a recent video of Taylor Swift talking about Trump.
How come it starts off with a discussion of Trump?
Because it was 2015.
It's a very old video.
I'm not going to play it then.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
We get duped all the time.
And I had to look at it.
Well, I didn't get duped.
I found it myself.
I duped myself.
People sent it to me like, oh, look at this.
Taylor Swift is mental.
Uh, you know, this is 2015, and it was on some documentary that she was doing at the time, so... Well, here's what my takeaway from it was, even though this was 2015.
We can play it, I mean, if you want, we can play it.
No, no, no, it's just not necessary, because it actually makes sense that it was about Blackburn.
But, because she keeps referring to... Her, she, yeah.
Is that Taylor Swift, that's what, the thing that's interesting is because her dad's there, and we never get to see much of him.
And she's like a little tween.
Well, yeah, she was 10 years younger.
Well, if she was 24, if she was 10 years younger, she wasn't a tween.
You're telling me she's 34 now?
Is that how old she is?
Yeah, she's 34.
Holy crap.
Grow up, girl.
And she's like a, in this thing, she's 24.
Well, it's not even 10 years ago.
25, it said.
Nine years ago, she's 25.
Yeah, she's 34.
You're right.
She's 34.
So, she's like a tween.
She's like a little kid in terms of the way she responds to everything.
I wonder how cloistered some of these, who you would know better than me, how cloistered some of these artists become to the point where they don't really have a clue about anything going on.
Uh, well, I would say many of them... Well, okay.
How about another, just taking it back to Diddystein, Justin Bieber.
Justin Bieber was literally taken under Diddy's wing for like a weekend.
There's all kinds of weird stuff.
I mean... Yeah, those clips are on YouTube.
Yeah.
Now, he fired his TriStar agent, Lou Taylor, just like this week.
Who was also behind Britney Spears' conservatorship.
This goes much deeper than we think.
Much deeper.
I'm thinking presidential models, if you know what I'm saying.
Yeah, MKUltra is what you're thinking.
Yes, yes.
Absolutely.
Hey, come on.
I mean, Taylor Swift, go look at the credits on her songs.
There's sometimes 15 people on there.
There's entire Swedish writing teams that jump in on this stuff.
Yeah, they have a lot of writers.
Yeah, it's manufactured.
And the songs still aren't that good.
It's formulaic, and just keep repeating it, keep repeating it, and look at the effect it has on the children.
You know?
It works.
I love that she's doing witchcraft on stage.
And please, Swifties, don't email me and say, it's just like a theater.
It's just theatrics.
What Swifties email you?
What Swifties listen to this show?
Well, it starts with a D. Darren gets in my face.
Hey, man.
Hey, man.
At least I'm on it today.
You are.
Hey man, that's no good.
So, and well, since we're talking about it, I would say that, um, just looking at this guy's background, this, um, Ryan Wesley Roth, Ruth Roth.
Yeah, the three, he got the three names too, which is always a classic.
Without a doubt, MKUltra, whether he was triggered by a trigger word or what I would be very likely to believe is some special agent was jacking this guy up.
I'm reminded of the movie Manchurian Candidate, where they play a game of cards.
I think it was the trigger word.
That was the trigger word.
Yes.
And because this guy is just this guy.
It's it's ludicrous.
Yeah.
I mean, his shack in Hawaii and the fact that he did a long... It's been posted.
We're not playing any clips from it because it's idiotic, but he goes on and on.
He's in Ukraine.
He's being interviewed for a TV show.
Goes on for an hour.
The Newsweek interview.
Is that what it is?
Yeah, yeah.
So if you look at the machine as it is, you know, just remove politics and parties and ideologies and just look at the machine of companies and turf, because that's really what the world is.
Trump, by the way, sees this and he's the problem because he wants to protect the USA Inc.
He believes in USA Inc.
and he wants to keep it.
He was right about the trade balance.
I mean, the only problem he has with China is they were ripping us off by debasing their currency and the money flow was imbalanced and the money was flowing out of our country.
He sees it.
It's very simple if you really look at Yeah, they were stealing our money.
Yeah.
And, you know, and that's been going on for a long time.
And he wanted to stop it.
And he knows the things that have to happen.
But at a top level, especially Ukraine, I mean, you know, who owns Newsweek?
Who owns the New York Times?
These are all big entities, entities that are tied to big money.
And it's all it's a game.
It's just a game, and it's a roll-up.
Everyone's rolling up turf.
The EU was a roll-up of sorts, and Ukraine is the acquisition target.
It's like, who gets, Lindsey Graham is an idiot, because he keeps saying, well, there's trillions of dollars of minerals.
Uh-huh.
Shut up, Lindsey.
We know it.
And the EU wants it to be theirs.
Make no mistake, they're not our friends.
They want it to be theirs.
And we're being duped.
The American public, at least, is being duped into, oh, yeah, well, it's NATO.
OK, yeah, we'll help you out.
Here's all... We're paying for it.
Democracy.
Democracy.
Yeah.
I mean, it's one big shell game.
It's the College of Corporations.
It's already been... The grain and all the farmlands have already been sold and divvied up.
That was the first step.
BlackRock, And it's easy to make Blackrock the bad guy of everything.
By the way, you know, that video that's going around, oh, he was in a Blackrock commercial!
No, that wasn't a Blackrock commercial.
That was my favorite.
Everyone just sends me this video and says it's a Blackrock commercial.
Did you look at the video?
No.
It was a promotion for the military-industrial complex, which BlackRock has a share in, I mean, no doubt about it, but they've already loaned Ukraine half a trillion dollars for the rebuilding.
It's just a game of companies and money and turf, and that's all that it is.
I'm reminded if you, it's kind of a small version of what you just described.
It's the way the hotel business operates.
Okay.
You know, we have a hotel, they open up and then next thing you know, it's owned by Hilton and then they sell it to Sheraton and Sheraton does.
And it's just like a bunch of cards, like guys playing cards.
So, you know, I think we should open a couple of places.
Let's get a couple of places in London.
Sheraton wants to get out of London.
I think we should try it.
And every time they do that, there's a bunch of financial possibilities.
You can write off this and that and you can do this.
Shell game.
Exactly.
It changes how you spend your money and how you can... And the investment you put in and what you can write off of remodeling.
All of that.
Absolutely.
And it takes a little bit, but that does take a lot of work.
But that's the only work.
It's just fiddling with numbers.
The military, corporate, industrial base, they give money to the lobbyists, the lobbyists give it to the politicians, the politicians, they pass legislation.
It's all part of the same system.
For the love of money is the root of all evil.
It is truly always the root of all evil.
So you get this Ryan Wesley Roth dude, and he's being, he's like a drop of oil underneath the cracked engine block.
We just don't know where the crack in the cylinder head is cracked because stuff is starting to be revealed to us because of just the vast amount of communications.
And you put this guy, you know, the New York Times interviews him.
Then when the New York Times comes to interview you, you're like, oh yeah, I'm pretty special.
How about the NGOs?
All of our money goes into, not all, but significant billions of dollars goes into USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, and they give money to the NGOs.
That's why the immigrants are still coming in, because the NGOs are getting paid, people getting million-dollar salaries, a lot of them faith-based.
I gotta add that because it's really disgusting what's happening.
Same thing with this guy.
Roland Martin went over to Ukraine.
Who pays for that?
The NGOs.
The NGOs are sitting there.
They've got money.
He even went to the Netherlands Helsinki Institute in Holland.
Rouse?
Yes!
He did?
Yes!
They posted, well, we had a chat with Mr. Ruth.
He said he was in Washington to meet with the U.S.
Commission on Security and Corporation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Commission, for two hours to help push more support for Ukraine.
And that commission is led by members of Congress, staffed by congressional aides, very influential on matters of democracy and security, and they've been very vocal for support for Ukraine.
So, you know, if people just throw money at you, we could have said, hey, you know what, I want to go help the Ukrainians.
You land in Kyiv International, there's somebody there, hey, here's some money, here's an apartment, do your videos.
I mean, this has been, this is a much bigger operation than just what we're seeing.
And we're not really seeing anything, because we don't see anyone being maimed and killed, or the tanks being blown up continuously.
No, we're just seeing little bits and pieces of information.
So, everywhere he went, every institution, institute, every NGO, every magazine, every newspaper that interviewed him, they probably said, man, Trump's a problem!
You know?
Trump's a problem!
So, yeah, does it, you know, and then if you read in the same newspapers and magazines that came to interview you, he's Hitler!
He's gonna remove our democracy!
What else do you expect?
Now, suspicious is the assault-style rifle that had the serial number obliterated.
So, please, M5M, stop saying, well, how could he buy an assault rifle if he was a convicted felon?
By the way, if you are convicted of having a machine gun without the proper documentation, you're going to jail.
You don't just walk around after that.
You go to jail.
That is a federal offense.
That is a felony.
So, this guy was a ticking time bomb, and whether he was MKUltra and they had a code word, someone got him to Florida, someone told him to be there.
There's no doubt about it, and that's why I'm a little suspicious of a six-week cycle type event.
Maybe not intended to actually assassinate the president, but they sure knew.
And they sure knew.
And then how can you see the gun, you spring into action, you start firing, and you miss?
Huh?
What kind of secret service are you?
You got Ashley Babbitt spot on.
It's like, eh, it doesn't make sense.
And my favorite piece is Sean Hannity, who was- Before you go on, I do want to mention something.
It was in, Trump was on, I don't have any clips from it because it was a little tedious, but I maybe go back and watch the rest of it, but Trump was on Gutfeld as a guest.
I have a clip.
And at the very beginning, they pretty much give him the show, so he's yacking away.
He mentions that it was a woman who saw the guy running from the scene and got his license plate and sent it on to the law enforcement.
And one of the other guests said at the time, and I agreed, it's like, we were never told it was a woman.
Which is a fact.
It was always a helpful citizen.
They never would say it was a woman for some reason.
I found that very peculiar.
Trump said it was a woman, but they went out of their way to assiduously suggest it wasn't.
I was under the impression it was some dude.
So I just found that to be fascinating.
And how does he know that it's a woman?
Trump said it was.
Can you tell me what is a woman?
Okay, I'm just saying.
Just saying.
Yeah, okay.
So Hannity was supposed to be out on the golf course with him.
He makes a very unfortunate statement in explaining his experience that day where he had breakfast with the president's golf partner.
So I got a lot of details.
I'm very aware of the New York Post report that said that it was outside of what's called Trump International in West Palm Beach, which is actually where I am.
And anyway, so long story short, is President Trump, they were on the fifth hole, they were about to go up to putt, and the way Steve Witkoff, now, just as a little bit of background, Arthel, I happened to go to breakfast with Steve Witkoff and another friend of mine this morning, and I was invited to play golf.
They happen to be really good golfers.
I don't have a lot of time to play golf, so I said thank you, but I'm not going to go out on the golf course and get killed out there.
But long story short.
Oops.
Sean, think about what you're saying.
That looks bad.
Don't say these things.
And by the way, that guy who's got some mental issues because, and I say that because he can't stop talking.
He doesn't have time.
I've never seen anybody... He does a three-hour radio show every day of the week and then does an hour every day of the week on Fox, a TV show.
Nobody... That is the hardest working man in show business.
While writing books?
Well, he's probably got some help there.
But it's like... It's beyond me.
Yeah.
He's got a four hour work day.
It's crazy.
You want to go golfing?
No, I don't think so.
So this ties into, um, well, it's not just, yeah, it's a four hour work week.
Work day.
Work day.
I mean, no, it's four hours on the air.
Yeah.
I know.
We know, we know what that really means.
I mean, you're continuously doing stuff.
No doubt.
But he also wears 18 pins from all of the agencies.
I've got an NSA pin, I've got an FBI pin, I've got a CIA pin, I've got a NRO pin, and a flag.
And I got a flag, yeah.
Meanwhile, Hawley's got his panties in a bunch because he has a whistleblower Now, when Holly says whistleblower, I think that's a little more believable than the whistleblower at ABC who, you know, died breaking.
The whistleblower's already dead.
Nothing ever came of that.
Oh, she got the questions in advance.
And he was on waters.
Well, what we've heard, Jesse, from new whistleblowers who've come forward about this second assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, and here's what they have told us.
That golf course that the president was playing, Secret Service have guarded that course many, many times.
And what the whistleblower says is, protocol calls for Secret Service to station agents along the places in the course that are known vulnerabilities.
I want to emphasize The service has guarded this course many times.
They know where there are vulnerabilities.
They normally station agents there ahead of Trump's appearance on the course, but they apparently did not do that this last weekend.
And the whistleblowers tell me that's strange.
That's out of protocol.
It's not even clear.
Secret Service swept the perimeter before Trump took to the course.
Also a broach, a breach rather, of protocol.
And they want to know why, and so do I. I think the Secret Service deserves to give us answers.
Yeah, it's even worse than that, because they still don't have any answers on requested documents from Butler, Pennsylvania.
Do you know that the Secret Service still has not given congressional investigators the documents and evidence we have been asking for for two months?
Two months since Trump was shot in the face, now he has been shot at, or nearly so, again, and still, Secret Service is stonewalling right down to this hour.
I mean, what is going on here?
What is happening?
Yeah, yeah.
I like the way he dramatizes it.
I do have one clip of Trump on Gutfeld.
I didn't watch the whole thing.
Actually, I figured you would have clips.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't, but... Well, you know, it's like, it's Trump.
I could have gotten a rally clip.
As I listen, it's just Trump going on and on.
He talks a lot.
And so I hadn't, and I didn't watch the whole thing.
I watched the beginning and I thought it was going to be kind of boring.
And so, uh, not, I mean, it's always kind of interesting with Trump and you had, you had, uh, Campanio there and she's laughing at everything.
She's just hysteric.
Who's Campanio?
Emily, the ex Raiders cheerleader, who's also one of the smartest women you run into.
And she used to be a, she's the dark complected girl that's sitting there with the dark hair.
She was a light-complected blonde head of the cheerleaders.
She was the cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders.
Wow.
Okay.
And she thinks everything is hilarious, so she laughs a lot.
And Gutfeld loves to have her on the show because she's just laughing all the time.
She laughs a lot.
She laughs a lot.
And you had Tyrus and... What's her name?
The... Tymph?
Tymph.
Kat Tymph.
Kat Tymph.
So here it is.
Here's the clip.
You bring up God, and you've almost been killed twice.
Do you think more about your own mortality and what happens after you move on?
Not about mortality, but I do think more about God because, okay, Butler was really the greatest of all.
If I'm not looking over there, and I mean a full turn, exactly 90 degrees, I wouldn't be here right now.
And your ratings would be a little bit lower, perhaps.
But I do think about that because I said bring down the chart and the chart drops down and I go look at those numbers and I look over to the right a ping and that was that I knew something was definitely wrong and it was a mess I touched I said that's unusual remember when you showed it to me I showed it yeah you showed it to me said I know people aren't gonna believe this so Gutfeld take a look at my ear That's right.
You know, I met, we met in, uh, at the convention.
Yeah.
And I said, who am I going to show it to?
You know, we have a lot of...
You know, they'll say it didn't exist.
And I actually did have such confidence in him, and he's really a very special guy.
Talented guy, good guy, great guy.
And I said, you know, if I'm gonna show it, let's do it with Gutfeld.
That's amazing.
That was amazing.
Because it happened right after.
How did you get him to see the top of your ear?
Well... I sat in a low chair.
Okay, thank you.
That's funny.
He's quick.
Yeah, I know, but it was, it was not atypical.
It was, I didn't get any clips for that.
That was, you proved my point.
Well, I liked that one.
I liked the ear story.
That was pretty funny.
Oh, the ears.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Gutfell's told it before.
Gutfell's only five foot five, which is the joke that was in there.
Let me get back to the, uh, uh, to this character, this actor.
By the way, he also wrote a book.
This guy.
And we know how that goes.
Yeah, they said they wrote a book, but where is this book?
Let me see if I got the name of it.
They keep talking about this book, and in the book... It's called My War.
He wrote, wrote, big air quotes, this book.
He says, while I was instructed to describe the events of my trip, you know, there's all these, like, he was being told what to do.
I've been instructed that some sort of background and backstory is required.
So, this guy is such a product of this machine, and even CBS, Holly Williams had talked to him.
And here he is.
This is the suspect, Ryan Wesley Ruth, who's in his late 50s.
He spent time as a volunteer in Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
And our Holly Williams was in touch with him when he was overseas, and she joins us now.
Holly, good morning.
What else can you tell us about this man?
Hey there, Nate.
Look, when I woke up this morning in London to the news that Ryan Ruth was the suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, I was stunned to recognize the name because I had been in touch with Ryan Ruth for over a year in the early stages of the war in Ukraine.
Like thousands of other international volunteers, he apparently went to Ukraine to help.
I do not believe he was fighting himself, but he had put signs up in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, offering to help other foreigners find places in Ukrainian battalions.
And that's how I initially came across him.
I spoke with him, I think, once on the phone and texted frequently, and he put me in touch with several foreign fighters.
Now, he seemed very genuine and passionate about supporting Ukraine.
He mentioned plans to bring in thousands of Afghan and Syrian fighters, which I took, frankly, with a grain of salt.
In an interview with the news website Semaphore, he claimed he'd been unable to get visas for those Afghan fighters, but we don't know if he was actually in touch with any Ukrainian officials at all.
Now, I've met American volunteers everywhere from Syria to Ukraine.
Some are experienced soldiers and very clear about the dangers they're facing.
Others seem less well informed and their motivations can be quite confused.
To be honest, Ryan Ruth did at times seem fairly naive.
At one point, he sent me an audio track of a song he'd apparently recorded.
about the carnage caused by the war in Ukraine.
In November of last year, he told me he was back in the U.S., in Hawaii, and that was the last time I heard from him.
What do you want to bet this guy was at one of Diddy's freak-off parties?
I bet no. - Oh.
Anything's possible.
So, the M5M is taking this to a different place, of course, because, you know, we have to blame it on Trump himself somehow.
I have a couple of examples.
Well, before you go there, I do have a clip to interrupt you with.
Okay.
Uh, because I don't think that just that this guy's just propagandized, but the public itself has been, you're going to get into this.
So ridiculously propagandized to make Trump think it was his fault that he did everything.
I want to play this C-SPAN guy who calls in.
Oh yes, this is great.
Clydell, Louisiana.
Willie, Democrat.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I just want to say I'm a very patriotic American.
I did 20 years in the military, two tours of Vietnam, wounded in 1966, went back in 1968.
And I look at myself and think about, we as a military man, we pulled the clothes, we killed, captured, destroyed, and by all means available.
And I see we let this man, Trump, destroy America.
And I look at it and say, well, these two people had to step up and take that shot.
I made it through, nothing to lose.
I'm sorry, Willie, you're not advocating violence, are you?
Not violence.
I'm defending my country.
All right.
Dan, in Louisville, Kentucky, Independent.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That's what happens.
Of course.
And so think about how how easy it is for this weak brother, this Ruth character, who is clearly not right in the head.
You just look at him like, you know, and all you have to say is, you know, Trump is the source of all problems.
Trump is the reason why Russia is gaining ground and is going to get hold of Ukraine and democracy.
Of course.
Of course.
But the mainstream?
Oh, no, let's just blame it on each other.
This is NBC.
Tonight, former President Trump thanking officers who caught the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt against him, and describing the alarming moments on his golf course.
All of a sudden we heard shots being fired in the air, and I guess probably four or five.
Secret Service knew immediately it was bullets.
And they grabbed me.
An agent had fired on the armed suspect who was able to hide in the bushes undetected by Secret Service for nearly 12 hours.
This is the second attempt on Trump's life in nine weeks.
Trump blames Democratic rhetoric against him and so does his running mate.
No one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months.
I'd say that's pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out.
The Trump campaign pointing to comments like these as stoking fear.
Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and our most fundamental freedoms.
While Democrats argue Trump's rhetoric sparked the January 6th attack and that he's used heated language against them.
If we don't win on November 5th, I think our country is going to cease to exist.
And Garrett, the former president about to take the stage now.
This will be his first rally since the apparent assassination attempt.
That's right, Lester.
And this crowd has been chanting, fight, fight, fight.
Mr. Trump's rallying cry after that first assassination attempt.
But unlike then, when he briefly spoke of unity, his campaign is rejecting the premise that he needs to do anything else to lower the rhetorical temperature in this country.
So, that's where it has to go.
Well, it's Trump doing this.
Well, it's Kamala doing this.
And what are we all doing?
We're all on Elon's ex arguing about it.
Here's CNN.
A few days ago, we had an incident.
I have to say, Secret Service did a hell of a job.
This guy was all set.
He was all set to do his number.
And there was no talk.
He didn't say, hello, what are you doing here, please?
And he ends up getting shot himself.
No.
He took his gun and started shooting him.
And this guy ran.
Sunday's events reignited debate in Washington over Secret Service shortcomings and over the relationship between heated rhetoric and political violence.
Trump's opponent, Kamala Harris, called him yesterday to check on him.
Here's what she told the National Association of Black Journalists about their conversation.
I told him what I have said publicly.
There is no place for political violence in our country.
We can and should have healthy debates and discussion and disagreements, but not resort to violence to resolve those issues.
Harris' running mate echoed her message yesterday.
J.D.
Vance, Trump's running mate, told a crowd in Michigan that calls to lower the temperature on the trail could actually lead to violence.
We don't solve our differences in this country with violence.
We condemn it in all its forms.
We solve our differences at the ballot box.
Don't lecture Donald Trump about softening his rhetoric after two people tried to kill him.
It's ridiculous!
Don't try to censor your political opponents because censorship will eventually lead to political violence.
We've seen that now twice in the last couple of months, and I hope Democrats learn the lesson.
Censorship leads to political violence?
That's interesting.
I'm not quite sure what he means by that.
Um, then there was this, you know, they've got this Scott Jennings now on CNN.
Have you noticed this guy?
No, not at all.
He's a Republican.
They brought him in, actually, the first time I really noticed him is during the Democrat National Convention.
And he's kind of like the foil.
He's there to say, well, I do know this guy.
You've seen this guy.
So he was trolling in this roundtable discussion with Abby Phillip and Tim Naftali.
And I have a couple of clips from it.
Good evening, I'm Abby Phillip in New York.
Let's get right to what America is talking about.
An apparent second... No, we're talking about Diddy.
We're not talking about anything else.
...assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
And this country is incapable of talking about this five-alarm fire.
Instead of focusing on the crisis of violence in our politics or... Hey, by the way, whatever happened to words are violence?
Remember that?
Yeah.
Words of violence, I guess that went out the window.
How better to protect these candidates?
This is being treated like any other political incident, along partisan lines.
Trump himself is blaming the rhetoric of President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, despite zero evidence to back that up.
There's a lot of rhetoric going on.
A lot of people think that the Democrats, when they talk about threat to democracy and all of this, and it seems that both of these people were radical lefts.
And Trump's running mate is doing the same.
You know the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris.
Oops.
A little flub there.
We haven't.
I mean, no one's tried to kill Kamala Harris.
In the last couple of months.
And two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months.
I'd say that's pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out.
Somebody's going to get hurt by it.
And it's going to destroy this country.
Yes, tears will come.
These are all pretty short from this roundtable.
One more bit from Abby here.
You and I, Tim, were sitting on the set the day that Donald Trump was attacked that first time.
Terrible.
And we talked about the sickness in this country that assassination attempts represent.
It's not about the politics of the individual.
I mean, look at these people.
The thing that they have in common is their complete lack of mental stability.
Why is that not the conversation?
Why are we in this place of who's to blame?
Is it the Democrats or the Republicans?
The Republicans aren't trying to assassinate the Democrats.
And a lot of talk of they.
When it's not a they, it's just a person.
It's an individual.
Yeah, well, because if we talk about what's really going on, then we expose the whole game of NGOs and military and money and bullcrap.
So, of course, send everybody off to the weapons-grade military machine known as X to go argue with the algos.
I remember so well July 13th.
What?
You brought that up twice now.
The number of people that use Twitter is really inconsequential.
That's, what do you mean?
The very people who watch this stuff watch it on Twitter.
No one's watching CNN.
It's a loop.
It's a closed loop.
You don't get these clips by watching CNN.
You get these clips by seeing them on Twitter.
Would you agree?
You got these from Twitter?
Yes.
I would say I get almost every single clip from Twitter.
If people send me a link, it's to Twitter.
Sure.
People are not watching.
Look at the numbers!
People are not watching CNN.
They're not watching the cable channel.
People don't even have cable anymore.
This is a closed loop.
You can add Facebook if you want to.
Finish this clip.
I'm interested.
And I remember the conversations in the days that followed.
I remember President Biden's speech about toning down the rhetoric.
And I saw the rhetoric toned down on both sides.
And then 20 minutes into his acceptance speech, Donald Trump turned up the volume.
I'm not blaming him for what happened.
Of course, in our country, you do not decide political disputes through violence.
But the problem is that we have too much hate speech right now.
Oh, so the whole point of a Scott Jennings is so then you can get people saying, yeah, Scott Jennings, yeah, he's great, look at him, here's the clip, share.
Give me an example.
What do you mean by hate speech?
Because I want to specifically know, because I think I know what it is, but I'm interested in what you think about this, because I agree with you.
I do think we have too much hate speech, but give me an example.
I would say when you use the term vermin, To describe your political opponents.
So you think it's Trump's fault that he got shot?
Or got shot?
Thank you.
Scott, I won't step in that trap.
That's not what I said.
There is no place in this country for violence.
But let's be honest about why we have so much tension in this country.
When you dehumanize people, You are using the rhetoric of the 30s.
I'm not going to say which country in the 30s, but when you dehumanize people, you make it easier for disturbed minds to do the wrong thing.
And let me just remind you of something.
In 2019, Donald Trump said that the Internet is a dangerous avenue to radicalize disturbed minds.
He was right.
And he should remind us.
By the way, this is, this is why nobody listens to CNN.
It's just like, it's so juvenile.
It's just trolling.
That's my point.
Well, let's get to real trolling then.
Cause I have some clips.
Can I just say one thing?
You can say everything you want.
Yeah.
Before you get to your clip, what's the next piece of my sentence?
Why did X take down this guy's Twitter account?
Who's?
This Ryan Wesley Roth guy.
Why?
I didn't know he had an account.
Oh yeah.
He had a Facebook account that was taken down, but he also had a Twitter account.
Why?
Why don't we get to do our own research?
I don't know why they don't leave this stuff up on Facebook too so the public can examine it.
Well, because someone told them to take it down.
Yeah.
So, but, isn't Elon all for, I'm not taking down that tweet?
No, Brazil, I'm not taking that down.
Why does he, why does this take him down?
Gun to the head?
Okay, then he's not in control of it.
That answers my question.
Of course he's going to take it down.
No, why?
There's a lot more stuff taken down than you'd think.
No, I know there's a lot more taken down, but that's not the image he's portraying.
You know I have a jihad against him.
No, I don't have a jihad against him.
Jihad.
Jihad.
Because it's... There goes our musk donations.
I don't care.
I do not care.
I'd rather be right than rich.
And by the way... Dev, you got to the point, did you throw away your Skylink connection?
You're giving money to Musk.
You're actually paying him money.
Serious money.
Do you know that the Starlink was... The Starlink, yes.
Do you know that it was out almost all day yesterday?
And I couldn't figure it out.
I mean, because I have a monitor on it.
I'm like, why is this thing going down?
What is happening?
It would come up, it would go down.
Come up.
Oh, yesterday.
Okay.
I have the answer.
Well, I would, if I was going to guess, I'd say because we had some solar flare activity that was pretty nasty.
A powerful solar flare erupted from the sun, causing radio blackouts across North America and the Pacific Ocean.
The flare was classified as an X1.5 on the solar flare scale.
An X1.5 flare can emit energy equivalent to billions of hydrogen bombs.
The flare caused radio communications to be disrupted in the Western United States and the Pacific Ocean.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And when I saw this, like, oh, of course, but it really, I mean, it had that thing going up and down all day.
I only have my Bitcoin miners on it.
So I lost money, Musk.
But yeah, it's, um, it doesn't do well with solar flares.
Nothing does.
Yeah, but that also- That particular one you're talking, that this guy's talking about, he has a Twitter feed, talking about Twitter.
Yeah, yeah.
Where it's basically a weather report on solar flares.
Yeah, it's space weather.
Yeah, it's great.
It's great.
And it's really interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah, this was, he predicted this was going to happen last Sunday.
Like a week ago?
Yeah.
Oh, Sunday.
Yeah.
Yeah, Sunday was the big, and he had photos.
It's actually fascinating.
But it also screws up cell service.
Everything.
Including setting off pagers.
Just saying.
You know, that's kind of interesting.
You never know.
Hey man, I can't get this thing to go.
No one has suggested that.
That's the first time I've even thought of it.
But why not?
Anything's possible.
You got a bunch of bombs walking around there and just, boom, there they go.
Accidentally.
We didn't mean to do it today!
Damn, man, that wasn't the idea!
Who pushed the button?
Nobody.
Alright, you had some trolling clips you wanted to play.
So we have Hillary.
I don't have the... all of it.
But Hillary comes on Madhouse Show.
Oh, for promoting her book, no doubt.
Her tenth memoir.
And so, uh...
And it's so pathetic to listen to these two.
And it's annoying.
And so I managed to do it.
Good for you.
Oh, please.
So I start off with this mad out 37 seconds of her asking a question, leading the witness and going on and on and on.
But Hillary is a hateful person.
That is just beyond the pale.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
Let's listen to these clips.
I wanted to ask you, as somebody who has a little bit of experience in these things, you write extensively in the book about not just not the experience of running against Trump, but how you have felt since and what you think about where we are as a country in what is now sort of the end of this decade of Trump's influence in our politics.
You sounded a very, very hopeful note at the Democratic Convention.
Do you feel like Democrats and Americans in general are getting any better at sort of resisting his tricks or understanding what you see as the threat of his ascending to power again?
Oh!
Threat!
Tricks.
Tricks.
Tricks and threats.
Threats.
Tricks.
Now this came out, this whole interview, you have to remember, showed up on the air after the assassination, or the Ruth guy showed up, and it was just tasteless.
Completely tasteless.
And here's Hillary coming back with her little ditty.
I think many Americans are, Rachel, and I'm particularly impressed by the many, many Republicans, people who served in other Republican administrations and especially people who served in Trump's term as well, who are just sounding the alarm.
They're making their voices heard as loudly as they can, above the din, above all the distraction and diversion that goes on in our political discourse right now.
So, I do think many, many more people are being given the opportunity to reject what Trump offers, what he represents.
Not as many.
The race is still too close.
The Electoral College is still the big hurdle that has to be overcome.
But I am, you know, very hopeful and even optimistic that Americans who do not want to see a continuation of this politics of hate and division will reject Trump.
And maybe some Republicans who ...know that they can't vote for Trump, will end up voting for the Harris-Waltz ticket as well.
You know, I have... I'm not gonna play him, because you have some, so that's tedious enough.
I have MSNBC morning Joe Clips with Hillary.
I could not tell you, A, what the title of her book is, or B, what it's about.
All she's talking about is Trump.
Well, the book is not about... Well, I don't know what the book's about either.
See?
Exactly.
She's not promoting a book.
Good point.
Yeah.
Uh, here she continues.
I think this is still her.
I am struck by the fact that as his campaign... No.
No.
Sorry.
What?
No, it's not.
This is Matt out going on and on again.
I am struck by the fact that as his campaign careens into very, very offensive territory, the association with Holocaust deniers and the outrages at Arlington.
Hello, 2015.
What's the Holocaust denier thing?
What is that about?
Do you even remember this?
They, she tends to use stuff from 2015, 2016.
The cost deniers and the outrages at Arlington National Cemetery of all places, the insults to recipients of the Medal of Honor, the recent incredibly racist and dangerous lies about specific groups of immigrants, the recent incredibly racist and dangerous lies about specific groups of immigrants, Haitians in this case, and Venezuelans in the case
I am struck by the fact that as much as we thought we might have been inoculated against sort of outrage tactics like that, where everything else gets thrown by the wayside and everybody starts responding to his outrage du jour.
It's a way of sort of yanking everybody's chain.
I sort of feel like we haven't learned.
And he's still being taught, especially by the media, that the more offensive he is, the more he can dominate the media space entirely.
And I feel like you've been a good diagnoser of that, not only from when you were up against him, but from what others have done.
So do you have an antidote for that or a way that people can talk themselves out of taking that bait?
Oh, oh, okay.
Well, I'm sure Hillary has some great advice for us.
This is considered, this would be the nut, this is the good clip.
And it's like, this is, I think the definition of insanity is to listen to this.
And thank you for your courage.
I think that's really a critical question, and I think there's a couple of things going on here.
You mentioned the press, and sadly the press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should.
They careen from one outrage to the next.
Careen?
Why is careen now the word again?
Not able to cover Trump the way that they should.
They use careening.
He's giving the impression he's bouncing all over the place, out of control.
Yeah, careening.
Not able to cover Trump the way that they should.
They careen from one outrage to the next.
The way that they should.
Don't you know how to cover the news?
What was outrageous three days ago is no longer on the front pages, even though it threatens the physical safety of so many people, particularly, as you point out, immigrants that he and Vance have decided to demonize.
Yeah, because you were so good to the Haitians, Hillary.
You and Bill, you were great with Haiti.
And I don't understand why it's so difficult Stealing their money.
They stole their money.
Yes!
They stole their money.
Stole their money.
That's it.
Stole their money.
And I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.
You know, the late, great journalist, Harry Evans... Huh?
Who is Harry Evans?
Okay, so I was going to take this out to try to tighten this clip up.
But it's important, I guess.
Well, Harry Evans is, no it's because she, because what she uses as an example is, reminds me of the old Deepak Chopra nonsense where he once says, or the responsibility is the ability to have a response.
He said that once.
Like that's a Kamala Harris thing.
And it's a kind of idiotic kind of deconstruction of words that just is ridiculous.
And so Harry Evans, who was kicked out as the editor-in-chief of the Times of London once Rupert Murdoch bought it, was somewhat famous in certain hoity-toity circles.
And here we go.
Trump is.
You know, the late great journalist, Harry Evans, you know, one time said that, you know, journalists should, you know, really try to achieve objectivity.
And by that, he said, I mean, they should cover the object.
Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world.
And, And stick with it.
You know, they were merciless about what they saw as President Biden's, you know, problems in the debate and calling for him to withdraw.
I believe Donald Trump has disqualified himself over and over and over again to be a presidential candidate, let alone a president.
I'm disqualifying you from running for president.
She's an insane woman.
Yeah, she is.
Now I have two more clips that really have nothing to do with that, but they're more about how propaganda works and how the left likes to, you know, notoriously likes to change language and meaning.
Yeah.
And I just want to get these two out of the way.
The first one is a short shorty, and it reminds me, if you remember, I was on the, on the, on my high horse about Buttigieg.
When he said the same thing, this is the Maddow Clinton clip 5, listen to this, this is only 9 seconds, but listen to this.
They have to take Trump both seriously and literally.
He has said what he wants to do.
He and his allies with Project 2025.
Wow, yeah, Buttigieg said the same thing.
Seriously and literally.
They have to take him both seriously and literally, which is redundant.
Ah, but it's milieu-speak.
I don't get it.
And then there's this, and this is Matt, this is the last clip.
This is Matt discussing... This is, to me, a jaw-dropper.
Before you play this clip, we can all go online and look up the definition of fascism.
And we can look at, let's look at that definition after we play this clip, which is...
Another completely different definition of fascism that they're promoting, and if you listen to it carefully, it's kind of a subtext, is Republicans.
Our next guest appears on page 27 of Secretary Clinton's new book, where she cites his explanation of fascism.
Quote, fascism, as Yale history professor Timothy Snyder put it, quote, is might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope.
Wow!
Wow!
Okay, from Miriam Webster.
Fascism.
A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Sounds like we're living under that already.
But for some reason, for some reason, let me get that back.
Fascism, as Yale history professor Timothy Snyder put it, quote, is might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope.
You know what that reminds me of?
Fear is freedom.
Subjugation is liberation.
Contradiction is truth.
Those are the facts of this world.
And you will all surrender to them.
You pigs in human clothing!
Yes!
There you go!
Pigs in human clothing!
That's how Rachel thinks of us.
Wow.
And this is what Hillary quoted in her book.
This is unbelievable to me.
This is so communist.
It's over the top.
Well, while we're on definitions, this will be my last clip before we do something different.
Because, wow, this is harsh for everyone's ears.
Um, a definition of a stochastic terrorism.
I'd never heard of the term?
I have.
I've seen this term.
Stochastic terrorism?
Yeah.
You want to give it a shot?
No.
Okay.
Every time I see it, I have to look it up.
Well, whenever I want to know the definition of something, I, of course, go to Joy Reid, because, you know, she's a professor, clearly, in all kinds of arts and humanities.
This is the best example of wat je zegt ben jezelf met je kop door de helft.
Stochastic terrorism.
Stochastic terrorism is when the public demonization of a person or group of people through ideologically driven hate speech increases the likelihood that those people will be violently attacked and targeted because of those vicious claims.
It's when attacks on drag queens claiming that they are grooming and sexualizing children lead to drag shows being canceled because of bomb threats.
It's the rights demonization of speaker Nancy Pelosi that leads to a deranged man breaking into her San Francisco home, searching for her so he can quote, put her on trial and instead bashing her husband's head in.
And of course it's what JD Vance has done to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
Isn't that amazing?
She can't see what's really going on with assassination attempts on a former president, but oh, it's JD Vance.
And she has another term for this.
There's also a second term you need to know to understand what these people are doing.
And I promise you, I promise you, I'm not making it up.
It's called dead catting, making a shocking, dramatic, and usually false claim to distract from a more damaging story.
It's like if a comedian threw a dead cat onto the stage to divert attention from the fact that he's bombing.
How meta is this clip?
She is literally dead catting to distract from the fact that stochastic terrorism is being Exhorted on the former president by saying J.D.
Vance talking about cats is the real problem.
What is going on?
This is some deep, deep psychological warfare this lady is doing.
And she doesn't even know it.
I don't think she does either.
It's great, though.
It's like, wow.
Meanwhile, and we got to take a break, but residents of Chicago Thank God they're not watching CNN.
Thank God they're not watching MSNBC.
Thank God they're not on Twitter, for all I care.
They've got it straight.
When their ward... What's the ward president?
What do you call that?
The wardmaster?
What's his name?
It's the wardmaster.
The wardmaster.
The wardmaster said, hey, guess what, kids?
We're going to have a shelter here for immigrants.
You know, the irregular kind.
We're going to have a shelter at this particular location.
Here comes the chant.
You work for us!
You work for us!
Yeah!
You work for us!
There you go!
Finally!
You work for us!
This is the chant that needs to be going on everywhere, don't you think?
It's a good one.
People have forgotten this.
You work for us.
It's that simple.
And with that, as we're working for you, Members of No Agenda Nation, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the careening all over the place.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore!
Good morning to you, Mr. Adam Carey.
In the morning, all the ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, suns in the water, the dames and the knights out there.
Hello, hello, hello.
Trolls, don't move.
Let me count you.
Stop moving!
Alright, our peak today was 2,056 trolls in the troll room.
This is where you say, LOW!
That's super high.
Oh, okay.
I'm so lost.
Is that high?
2056?
It would be normal for a Sunday.
This is Thursday.
People are at work.
They have things to do.
Well, you know what they have to do.
They're like, what are the boys saying?
Help me calm down.
Diddystein.
I don't know what's happening with the shooter.
What's going on, everybody?
Exploding pagers!
That's why we're here.
We're here to keep your amygdalas in check.
And to bring you a little bit of humor from time to time.
And those massive amounts of trolls who, that's right, who are not doing anything at work, obviously, they're listening in at trollroom.io.
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Today will be a very short executive and associate executive producer segment, seeing as we have exactly one executive producer.
I'm not sure exactly what happened, but this is probably... Something happened.
This is probably the lowest amount of donations we've seen in months.
For a Thursday.
For, I'd say, five years.
For five years, really.
For a Thursday.
And you know what's interesting is there's not one Uh, which is, I don't know what it has to do with it, but there's not one Stripe donation in the whole pile.
Hmm.
Does it still work?
Well, I would think it would, but... We don't know.
We don't know.
I mean, maybe we've been de-platformed.
De-banked.
It's possible.
Anything could happen.
So we run it on Value for Value.
It was actually kind of funny, we were talking about it the other day.
You know, we have Linda Lou Patkin, who every single show she donates, I think, $200.
And she always thanks us for the show.
And she says, hey, I've got a business here.
Now, do you know what that would cost with the amount of listeners we have?
If you were to buy a spot?
A commercial, an ad.
You mean in so far as CPM is concerned?
Yes, the cost per mil, as it were.
Yeah, for a thousand actually.
So at today's rates, that would be $2,000.
That's pretty incredible.
Wow, that's a steal.
It's a steal.
And I'm sure she's there again today.
We'll find out.
But first, in our value for value, which is time, talent and treasure, we want to thank people who contribute to the show in other ways.
What?
It's just that she's there and so is Eli.
And that's it.
Plus our one guy.
This is like three people total.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, I guess we screwed up.
What did we do wrong?
Well, I'm saying there's something amiss.
Obviously.
Well, I don't know.
I mean, hey, if people get value out of the show, they will send value back.
And if there's other things going on in their life or whatever, maybe they're all on Twitter.
Got other things?
I got to be on Twitter.
I got to tell someone they're wrong.
Go Elon.
We love the time, talent, and treasure that people offer back to the show.
Just telling someone to listen to it.
I do see that a lot on Twitter.
People saying, hey, you should listen to No Agenda Show.
And from time to time, I see someone say, okay, I'll check it out.
Usually followed by, oh man!
And then they try it again and they come back and then they start to like it.
Because we know, we know for almost 17 years.
Episode 1700 is coming up.
Our 17th anniversary in October.
Four more years.
Help us get through it.
We have artists who are, hands down, all of them Dutch masters.
And many of them are using CGI.
I'm just going to keep using that.
Many of them are using CGI to create artwork.
I'm not so sure about the one that we chose for Sunday's show, episode 1695.
We titled it Pronoun Journey.
Carter came in, first-time artist, wins right off the bat.
Yeah, this is the only second time in the history of the show that a one-shot artist won right out of the shoot.
Yes, and you can see at noagendaartgenerator.com you can see all the submissions and you can see what each artist has done and thank you Sir Paul Couture for maintaining that as part of your value back to the show.
Now we were of course thinking of naming the show Trancestor because it came up and like that's a great title.
You even said show title But then when this art came up, which was George Washington, trans, with the word trancestor in it, it was just too good to pass up.
And do you think this has to be computer generated, don't you think?
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, because I would say that because Carter, although it seems to be a guy who can really do the trick, this would take too long to render by hand in the time allotted.
This was done at the end of the show.
Now, Data tried it, but he just had some rando Isn't that the guy who won the Euro Song Contest?
Might be.
It was too random.
Yeah, George Washington was the way to go.
Abe Lincoln would have been good.
It was great.
Hey, I bet you couldn't have done it with Martin Luther King.
I bet you the computer would have rejected it.
Good point.
I'll bet you 10 bucks.
Yeah, probably.
Oh, he can't do that.
That's no good.
What was cute is we had a couple of people picking up on your hitchhiking story.
So a lot of Ford Mustangs with Cheesecake Girls hitchhiking by the side of the road.
Yeah.
Those were cute.
Those were cute.
There was one we were going to mention.
Sir Shug's Loomer Screwball Curry was rejected.
It was a nice piece, but We stopped accepting Crackpot and Buzzkill solely, because you have that if you had Dvorak and Curry, but just straight up Crackpot and Buzzkill is not acceptable.
Yeah, it kind of broke the rules.
And then Comic Street Blogger had some lewd stuff that was never going to make it, but I guess he just thought that was funny.
And lots more computer-generated imagery.
I think that was it, wasn't it?
Yeah, pretty much.
I think that was about it.
There was a pillow silence.
Yeah, Nestworks.
It was a decent try, but I don't think anyone got it.
My pillow guy being shut up.
Oh man, I can already see what the theme of the show is for the art that we're going to have to choose from.
A lot of pagers.
Okay.
We appreciate the work that every single one of these artists do.
You can be one of them and we'll gladly tell you why we didn't pick you or we might pick you.
You never know.
It was great to see this brand new guy come in.
Let me just check if Carter has done anything since then.
Let me see.
I look at his artist profile.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he's retired.
No, no, he has another piece.
I have to say something about the hitchhiking.
Yes.
Which I observed.
Yes.
Because correct the record has a hitchhiker with her thumb up in the air sticking straight up.
There was something during that era that was always interesting is that Americans, when they hitchhike and use their thumb, they point in the direction that they're going.
Yes, that's true.
And Europeans always point in the direction of the oncoming car with the thumb.
Is that true?
They pointed the thumb in the wrong direction.
Hitchhiking was never a thing in Europe.
In Europe, well, if it was, then you'd just have a sign, it would say... That's probably why.
It would say Berlin.
You got the thumb in the wrong direction.
No, and I'm talking 70s maybe, when I saw that maybe once or twice, but it was always Berlin!
You know, and that would be it.
Hitchhiking was not a thing.
Because we have trains.
You know, we have civil service in Europe.
Didn't need to hitchhike.
Anyway... It was a fad.
It was.
Until... There must have been some movie where maybe... Was it a movie or... I mean, it fell out of favor because it got deemed as very dangerous.
If I can recall.
And I'm thinking, was it some movie about a hitchhiker that got horribly killed?
Somebody in the patrol room might know.
I can kind of remember.
It was some movie that... Oh, you shouldn't be hitchhiking.
It's very dangerous.
Anyway, it's time to thank some of our producers.
We appreciate anybody who sends anything back to the show because obviously it helps us pay.
Well, it doesn't help.
It pays our bills.
Uh, so anything that, uh, that you can afford that equals the value that you receive from our show, maybe we just calmed you down.
Maybe you got a business idea.
Some people somehow, oddly enough, get stock tips, even though we rarely even talk about anything, but just from the meta macro perspective of things.
And we'd like to thank our executive and associate executive producers in a special segment just like Hollywood does, usually at the opening credits or certainly before the end credits come into play.
And we have one executive producer.
The deal is $200 and above.
Associate executive producer, we read your note.
$300 and above.
executive producer adam frederick from orange vermont comes in with 333 33 and he has a note which is written on uh when holds texaco service uh Looks like a receipt.
Do you think this is like a receipt that you get at the gas station?
Or a notepad from this garage.
At 3rd and Walnut Street.
And he also has a different attribution of where he's from.
Yeah, Percassi.
So he says, thank you for the news deconstruction and analysis.
If I think of a more clever letter, I'll send it later to notes at noagendashow.net.
Best regards.
And I'm not sure if he's promoting When Holds Texaco Service on 3rd and Walnut Street or not.
I'm not sure because he's now of Percassi and not orange.
So he probably just had that laying around and thought it was cute, which is good.
And we appreciate it.
So yeah, but also the Texaco Service is in Percassi.
Oh, it is?
Yeah, look at the top.
Oh, you're right.
You're right.
So maybe it is.
Hey, if you're in Percasi, Vermont, go check out Wendhol's Texaco service at 3rd and Walnut Streets.
Thank you, Adam Frederick, our sole executive producer for episode 1696.
Yes, I find that peculiar.
I'm going to go jump to Linda Lou Patkin.
Because she's already up there because we only have three people.
In this segment, for whatever reason.
And she wants Jobs Karma.
And for a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com.
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That's imagemakersinkwithak.com with Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs, and a writer of resumes.
Yeah, and work with Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs, and writer of resumes.
Yeah, work with her.
Work with her.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
And our final associate executive producer is Eli the Coffee Guy, Bensonville, Illinois, 20919.
He says the newsletter mentions of a gas stove.
Maybe laugh!
One of my friends who was all in on the narrative recently, do you want to explain what you put in the newsletter about the gas stoves?
I put a headline because California is going to try to propagandize the public to hating gas stoves.
Of course, this is to sell more electricity, which is already a burden on the electric grid because of the cars.
Electric cars, but now they want to get rid of gas.
And I think it's just, I don't know who's behind it, but the idea I think is so when they do subdivisions, they don't have to dig the trenches for the gas lines.
That I think is the real reason behind it.
Not because it's killing anybody.
I mean, everyone would be dead in restaurants.
They have nothing but gas stoves running full tilt all over the place by the, by this argument.
Is this carbon monoxide?
Well, get a carbon monoxide detector.
I've never had an issue.
Eli goes on to say one of my friends who was all in on the narrative recently argued that outlawing gas stoves would help fight climate change.
And that I was slowly poisoning my family with carbon monoxide by cooking with one.
I guess it's cumulative.
Ironic, since she also has a gas stove.
And although I love my gas stove, when it comes to coffee roasting, electric is the way to go.
Coffee roasted on electric air roaster tastes better using convection heat over conduction.
Visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and taste the air roasted difference and use discount code ITM20 for 20% off your order and stay caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee Guy.
I'm surprised we don't have Diddy's lube supply as an associate executive producer today.
Because that's it.
That is it.
One exec, two associate executives.
We will be thanking more people.
It was just very few in general.
You're right.
I don't see any Stripe donations.
Hmm.
I don't know.
We'll have to see what happens.
If it didn't come in, who knows?
I don't know.
It's possible.
Anything is possible.
It could have been the solar flare.
There you go.
Blame it on the flare.
And the boogie.
We'll be thanking people $50 and above in our second segment.
Of course, we want to remind everybody that the way to really support the show on a sustaining basis, in addition to anything extra that you feel we are worthy of because of the value you receive, is by sending in a sustaining donation.
That's any amount you want at any interval you want.
You determine it all for yourself.
You can find it at noagendadonations.com.
Support the show with your time, your talent, and your treasure.
Very important.
noagendadonations.com.
And thank you for being supporters of episode... Let me do that again.
I'll fix it in the mix.
And thank you for being supporters of episode 1,969.
No, that's wrong.
I'll fix that in the mix.
And thank you for being supporters of episode 1,696.
Our formula is this.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
You know, I did one of those on Curry and the Keeper, and then Tina was listening to the show later.
She said, hey, you didn't edit that out.
I said, of course not.
That's the whole thing.
People love hearing how the sausage is made.
Yeah, that's how the sausage is made.
Now, in any other podcast, oh no, I didn't sound very professional there.
Let me go back and fix that.
I had a moment where I said, um.
Let me clip that out.
Take out the ums, yes indeed.
Can I move to Europe for a second?
By the way, I'm going to ask you a request.
You're going to stop me?
Yes, you're going to stop me.
I have a request.
A request?
Of you in particular.
Uh oh.
I like that fake podcast so much in terms of its laughable qualities that I think we should make it, it doesn't have to be every show, but I think every so often to play one of these fake AI podcasts would be kind of funny.
Okay.
I'm just mentioning it to you because I don't even know where you got those things.
Well, the way you make it is in notebook LM.
Anybody, this is what we should ask for, our producers, because you're asking me something like...
Uh, work.
Work!
Work!
No, not extra work!
Anybody who uses NotebookLM, which I don't know if that's free or not, I don't have it, you just drag a couple of text files in there and say, make a podcast.
In fact, Comicstriblogger, this is your chance, man!
Because, I agree, it sounded so hokey.
It was cute.
It was great.
It was cute, yes.
I got Clip of the Day!
Didn't I get Clip of the Day for it?
Yes, you did.
That's good.
That's good.
Yes, I wanted to move to Europe for a moment because there's been a shake-up.
A shake-up.
Let me see, the shake-up is, now this is very interesting.
So Ursula von der Leyen, known as Queen Ursula in circles of no agenda, was re-elected to be the Queen of the European Union for another five years.
And somehow, Because, you know, it's a democracy.
She just decides to change the whole structure of the Starfleet Command.
There's no more vice presidents in each different area.
It's just, uh... You know, it's just... They're not ministers, but they're managers, I guess, of certain areas.
She's reshuffled the areas, and she just decided who should be in those spots based upon gender.
Europe?
You're in trouble.
Listen to this.
Wow.
Look at the European Commission.
Wait, wait, before you... Now, she was a famous politician that's been elected over and over by the general public before she got these jobs at the EU, right?
Well, she was basically kicked out of the... I think she... wasn't she defend... economics or something in Germany?
Oh, that's right.
She's never been elected to anything.
No, no.
Oh, she's just a... yeah, okay.
She's the queen, though.
Think of the European Commission like the EU's civil service or the executive, with three main jobs to put forward policies and legislation, to make sure the legislation is followed, and to manage the EU's budget.
That seems like a job elected officials should do.
But for some reason she just gets to appoint them, and then the representatives of the people get to say, oh, OK.
It's led by this woman, the president, Ursula von der Leyen, who's starting another five-year term in office.
On Tuesday, she announced her top team of commissioners and vice presidents, 27 in total, each nominated by an EU country, and what jobs they're doing.
First thing to note, 40% of the new commissioners are women.
That's up significantly after the president forced some member states to nominate them instead of men.
Six executive vice presidents, I assigned four women and two men.
So, you recall the share of the college is 40% women, 60% men.
We flipped this.
Secondly, the most influential jobs went to Italy, Spain, and France, overseeing industrial strategy, competition policy, and the green transition, plus the single market.
For that, we want to build a competitive, decarbonized, and circular economy.
Competitive, decarbonized, and circular.
Sounds like a tasty vegan donut.
For that, we want to build a competitive, decarbonized and circular economy with a fair transition for all.
We will only be able to do that if we design a bold industrial strategy with innovation and investment at its heart.
Now, this was so egregious, this just determining that she wanted to have certain roles played by women and other roles by men, that Thierry Breton, he's the guy who was threatening Elon Musk to, you know, hey, you're getting in trouble if you don't stop that election interference or whatever it was.
He resigned.
He rage quit.
He says, you're doing this for your personal You know, personal agendas, and you've told my country, France, you've told them that, you know, that you want a woman.
He didn't, I didn't think he said woman, but it was clear.
And he rage quit over it.
And of course, no one cares.
So here's the second part of this announcement.
Finally, there's a new role.
Lithuania's Andreas Kubelius will be in charge of defence and space.
It's his job to persuade EU countries to pull their defence spending and get more bang for their buck.
Yeah, bang!
The very first step that he...
That's kind of funny.
Defence spending, more bang for your buck!
His job to persuade EU countries to pull their defence spending and get more bang for their buck.
The very first step that we did is deducted from the political guidelines to define our core priorities.
And they are built, as you know, and it's no ranking around prosperity, security, democracy.
These are the overarching topics.
All of the nominees need final approval from the European Parliament, which will take weeks.
But President von der Leyen's selection mirrors a difficult juggling act, providing support to Ukraine, improving European defence and reshaping the EU's economy to compete with China and the US, while at the same time presiding over a bloc that is more right-wing and more sceptical about Brussels' power.
I'm telling you, the people of Europe should revolt over this.
This is an outrage.
It's an outrage.
I pulled a 44 second clip of her trying to convince everybody that Now, more security, which is basically a war machine.
More war machine is good for the climate.
The treaty says very clearly each member of the college is equal.
And each commissioner has an equal responsibility to deliver on our priorities.
That means that all commissioners must work together.
And it is in this spirit that each executive vice president will also have a portfolio to focus on, for which they will have to work with other commissioners.
So she just changed the way it works.
Not a problem.
It's a democracy.
So, in simple words, what affects security also affects the economy.
What affects climate or environment also affects people, and vice versa, the business community, and you can go on with that.
Run for the hills, Europe!
Run to Hungary!
Do something!
Man, this is crazy.
Absolutely crazy.
I don't understand how, I mean, clearly, it must be legal, but it just doesn't make any sense.
These people.
They like to fall into this sort of kind of one man rule, one woman rule thing.
I have a couple of clips from China.
We'll actually stay in Europe.
I thought I had a Ukrainian clip.
Keep in the mic, John.
You're drifting.
Let's go to China, because the China economy is tanking.
Whoops!
The Chinese Communist Party's economy is tanking, but how is that offset by their non-market business practices?
And what will happen if it's left unchecked?
NTD's Washington correspondent, Jack Bradley, has more from Capitol Hill.
Countering the Chinese Communist Party's technology sector.
This was a topic of discussion at a panel on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
They discussed what would happen if the Chinese regime's unfair business practices were left unchecked.
The U.S.
economic thinking is really oriented around one thing.
And that's allocation efficiency.
The Chinese system is not oriented.
They don't care about that.
What they care about, first and foremost, is dominating advanced industries that are global and lead to power.
The event was hosted by the Washington-based think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
One of the panelists, Rick Switzer, the former director of the State Department, said the U.S.
needs to create industrial policy that is self-reliant, rather than sourcing globally or being out-competed by China's highly subsidized products.
And so if we wait for a world where a Taiwan invasion happens, and then hoping that that will break us out of our stupor, it will have already been too late.
A war over Taiwan will mean the collapse of the U.S.
industrial ecosystem.
I agree with that.
But of course, if the ecosystem collapses, the U.S.
industrial ecosystem collapses, so does China's.
Yeah, we're so intimately intertwined.
Yeah.
When they say it's on the verge of collapse, what does that really mean?
Nothing.
It's just words?
It's just words.
Okay.
Here's part two.
Keynote speaker, Congressman John Molinar, who's the chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP, said he used to think that economic engagement with the Chinese regime will lead to more freedom in the country.
But it turned out the opposite was true.
And from the militarization of the South China Sea to unabashed economic coercion and market manipulation, flooding our communities with fentanyl, the Chinese Communist Party has shown its true colors.
The bipartisan House Select Committee on the CCP has released over 150 recommendations on how to counter the Chinese Communist Party.
This may be one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement that we see in Congress.
Well, so they agree on something.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Let me ask you.
I'm sorry.
I was just gonna say, before you ask me, why don't you play this clip, which is from NHK, about the China real estate collapse.
Yeah, that I've been following.
New home prices are down in over 95% of major Chinese cities surveyed.
China's National Bureau of Statistics said on Saturday the prices fell in August from the previous month in 67 of 70 major cities.
That's one more than the 66 that saw declines in July.
Prices rose month on month in two cities and remained unchanged in one.
Looking at the bigger cities, prices edged up by 0.6% in Shanghai but dropped in Shenzhen by 0.8% and by 0.5% in Beijing and Guangzhou.
Smaller regional cities saw an average decline of 0.8%.
All right, so now compare that to us.
Governments, such as purchasing unsold homes, have failed to reverse the property slump.
Observers are waiting to see if the government takes further action.
All right.
So now compare that to us.
We just had a 50 basis point cut.
I have not heard the latest DHM plug.
I don't know if you guys predicted 50 bips.
No, we both kind of pushed toward 25.
So what does this mean?
Does that mean the economy is in worse shape than being lied about?
Is it being lied about?
Or is it to create more money?
What is that?
What is it about?
That's what kind of the market is thinking.
It's thinking, well, 25... Wait a minute, why are they doing... We kind of thought they were going to... 80% was 25, right?
No, that flipped.
Oh.
Like days before.
No, it was... Most people thought it was going to be 50.
Oh.
Yes, that was kind of a surprise to me too.
Like days before.
No, it was, most people thought it was going to be 50.
Oh.
Yes, that was kind of a surprise to me too.
And so the market goes, oh great, did we get this cheaper money?
Oh, wait a minute, that's telling us that this Bidenomics isn't working and the economy's going down the tubes.
I don't know what should I buy, should I sell?
It's caused a dilemma.
And I guess, what is it, four more cuts before the end of the year?
Did he announce that?
It's a mystery.
Black magic.
Black rock magic is what that is.
Black rock magic.
Meanwhile, as we suspected, the Save Act...
Uh, did not pass, and therefore neither did the continuing resolution.
Oh no!
13 days until the lights go out!
Just over an hour ago, Republicans killed their own bill to fund the government.
House Speaker Mike Johnson tied the funding to the SAVE Act, requiring citizenship to vote, which is, of course, already law of the land, punishable by felony.
And he did so at the beh- I never heard that.
What is that nonsense?
This is the Democrats talking point.
It goes the following.
Why do we need that law?
Because it's already a law that you can't do that.
So I'm not going to vote for it.
The Democrats pull this stunt all the time, they always throw in these gratuitous laws about, usually involving abortion, and they put something in some document and the Republicans rebuke it.
This is just gamesmanship.
Politicking as usual.
Oh no, sorry, nobody's... The two talking points I keep hearing over and over again is, Oh, it's already against the law.
You have to be a citizen to vote.
So I don't see what the problem is.
And the other one is, oh, the number of fraud, the amount of fraud in the national elections is so minuscule, you can barely count it.
It's not a grand scale at all.
Well, when these types of issues come to light, we need to bring out the Crypt Keeper.
House Speaker Mike Johnson tied the funding to the SAVE Act, requiring citizenship to vote, which is, of course, already law of the land, punishable by felony.
And he did so at the behest of Donald Trump, who told Republicans not to agree to a continued resolution.
Punishable by felony?
Is that what he said?
Yeah, he said it's punishable by felony.
That's right.
No, it's a felony and it's punishable.
By law.
But it's not punishable by felony.
Shipped to vote, which is... Let's listen to him.
Of course, already law of the land, punishable by felony.
Yeah, it's Chris Matthews.
I mean, come on.
He's excited because... That's not Chris Matthews.
That's the dipshit guy.
And he did so at the behest of Donald Trump, who told Republicans not to agree to a continuing resolution to fund the government without it.
But enough Republicans voted against it anyway, defeating their own plan for a short-term funding bill.
13 days before a government shutdown.
I'm joined now by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California.
Emerita.
Oh, please.
Speaker Emerita.
We can't say emeritus anymore because, you know, that's misgendering.
Speaker Emerita.
When did this ever happen?
Anyone ever called this anyway?
I've never heard it.
There's all kinds of ex-speakers here and there.
They don't call them Emerita or Emeritus.
No, they usually say former Speaker of the House.
Yeah, that would be more... yes.
Gender neutral.
It would be more... Ploy-ploy bullcrap.
We've already been through this.
I'm Adam Curry, VJ Emeritus.
We've already been through this.
This is our titles now.
John C. Dvorak, columnist emeritus.
Thirteen days before government shutdown.
I'm joined now by Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California.
What do you make of today's vote?
Well, I think it's an example of ineptitude.
But it's also an example of the president, former president, being a puppeteer, telling the Republicans in the House that they must shut down government.
People don't control the representatives.
Trump controls them!
Oh, yeah.
It's all Trump.
Yes, Trump.
And as he usually does, shiny lights on his puppet strings.
So they really look bad.
But the fact is, I'm an appropriator.
And that's where a budget bill comes from, the appropriations committee.
I'm an appropriator.
Rosa DeLauro was our leader on the House side.
And we've always said, left to their own devices, the Democrats and the Republicans on the Appropriations Committee can find a compromise, a solution.
You just have to want to do that.
Uh, apparently, uh, the Republican leadership in the House has decided they don't want to leave it up to the appropriators, who know the legislation very well, and they want to leave it up to Donald Trump, who doesn't, but who wants to shut down government, which would be a tragedy.
Yeah, because of course, everyone wants to shut down.
It's a horrible tragedy.
Well, it's never happened before.
We've been doing this show for almost 17 years, even though we still don't get any money, apparently.
We've been doing this show for almost 17 years.
Where's our appropriations?
And this has not happened, like, over and over and over again?
Yeah.
Now, Trump did post on Truth Social.
Truth Social.
He posted, we can't let them get away with it.
We can't let them have illegals.
Like this law is going to stop anything.
I don't see how this bill will stop anything.
You know, the people who have come out and said, I'll protect the elections.
The bill's not designed to stop anything.
It's designed to get the Democrats to vote no on it.
So you can point the finger, look, they want illegals to vote!
Yes.
Yeah, correct.
Correct.
And it was Massey who said, this is stupid.
He says, I'm not going to be a thespian in this theater.
I mean, this seems like a situation in which there's broad bipartisan consensus to pass a continuing resolution, fund the government, and avoid a shutdown.
And by the way, Massey's right.
We shouldn't be doing these continuing resolutions.
There were 12 bills they should have voted on, or maybe more.
They should have just voted on them instead of horsing around.
But Donald Trump is obsessed with this piece of legislation which essentially is a kind of institutionalization of the big lie.
The big lie!
He said today in a rant on his social media, including many things, that they'd have to get the SAVE Act.
He accuses Democrats, falsely, of registering illegal voters by the tens of thousands as we speak.
And he calls for the shutdown.
So this, this is both, he wants them to shut the government down so that they can promote the big lie, basically, yes?
Well, you know what?
What?
The big lie!
What is the big lie?
That the election was stolen?
What's that got to do with shutting down the government?
Hey, we gotta fill air time.
It's Nancy Pelosi on the line.
His lips were moving.
He was lying.
And that's just the way it is.
He sometimes doesn't even know what he's talking about.
And other times he just makes it up as he goes along.
But it's really a tragedy.
And I just only wish they would leave it up to the Congress to pass the legislation that is necessary to keep government open.
He's not even in the government and yet he wants to shut it down.
He's not even in the government and he wants to shut it down.
This man is no good.
Unfortunately.
It turns out that Kamala Harris is also no good.
We have to choose between the worst of two no-goods.
Even Dana Bash is tired of it.
When you listen to Kamala Harris on what she will do, you can almost start a drinking game every time she says small businesses.
Let me give you an example.
Part of my plan under my economic opportunity plan going forward is that right now, startup entrepreneurs, small businesses only get a tax deduction of $5,000.
Nobody can start a small business with $5,000.
So I'm expanding that to $50,000.
Understanding, again, that when people have the opportunity to have the resources to get started, they're going to put the good ideas, they're going to put the hard work into it.
Describe the politics of that.
Well, she says that.
She also talks about being a middle-class kid.
That's also the front of her answers.
If you look at the interviews they've been doing with local media, and they've opened up a bit more since the debate, the first question is often, what are you going to do to lower prices?
Which is a very hard question for an incumbent party to answer.
And it has implications that are very Trumpian.
Trumpian?
Trump says he's going to do mass deportation.
That'll decrease demand.
Trump says he'll explore more energy.
That'll decrease energy costs.
Democrats can point to the fact that inflation is actually, it was bad two years ago.
It's not now.
What people want to hear is, how do you make the prices go down?
So everything she says is something realistic that could survive a fact check that answers a very hard question.
There is not a plan to say that we're going to lower the cost of your grocery bill to what it was in 2019.
There was a pandemic.
There was money supply inflation.
You can't hit the button that makes that go away.
But Trump has an answer that gets him through these questions.
And Harris, I think with a different set of incentives and a different relationship to something she can back up in a policy paper, she doesn't have an answer.
So she goes to a larger, well, imagine a future where there are more businesses and this starts to ameliorate.
Yes, imagine a future.
So it's not good when CNN is talking about drinking games on your talking points and Martha Raddatz, oh man, she got mad.
And she got mad and she didn't have Kamala there to get mad at because, you know, that's obviously sacrilegious.
But Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey got the full frontal assault from a mad Martha.
I want to ask you about her comments about the military.
She said during the debate this about the U.S.
military.
Let's listen.
As of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world the first time this century.
Our fact checkers found that to be false, and I have a lot of experience in that area as well.
There are currently 900 U.S.
military personnel in Syria, 2,500 U.S.
troops in Iraq.
All have been under regular threat.
Sounds like her son is in the special ops or something.
We also have action in the Red Sea.
We also, every single day, the Navy SEALs, Delta Forces, special operators can be part of it.
It sounds like her son is in the special ops or something.
She's getting worked up over this.
What say you?
What?
deadly raid.
So why would she make that claim?
What say you?
I think what's important here, Martha, is that Kamala Harris, in contrast to Donald Trump, demonstrated herself to be commander in chief.
We are in a world where there are all sorts of conflicts.
And it's all the more reason we need somebody who's serious and who supports the military.
And just remember, but Governor, excuse me, but she said there is not one member of the United States military who was an active duty in a combat zone.
That is not true.
You say she demonstrated her ability to be commander-in-chief, but did she not know about these people in Syria and Iraq?
Why would she say that?
Look, that was a comment.
That was a comment in a debate.
I think the point that she was trying to make was a broader point.
And of course we have military in place all around this country.
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
You're not a very good surrogate.
Get out of here.
Get off the stage.
And then she says, all around this country.
Yes, this is the best.
That's us.
Yeah, this military.
So we're an active war zone.
Yes, we are.
Yes, we are.
Correct.
We are a war zone.
There was this great video I saw on Telegram, and then it's being filmed, the debate, so it's shot from behind some heads.
You probably saw it.
Yeah.
And then she says, oh, there's no one in active military, and then they flip the camera around and it's all these dudes sitting in a tent in some desert somewhere going, whoa, what about us?
Yeah.
But that's Martha Raddatz ABC.
The debate was on ABC.
No fact checking there.
Yeah, that's kind of interesting.
And, you know, this, I think it was Dana Bash talking about the future.
Something's up.
Oh, yeah.
Well, Trump needs to win.
Trump needs to win.
That's why 50 basis points, because... Well, let's go back to the Ruth guy.
How about this guy's MKUltra?
He was never meant to shoot.
And the reason that, oh, the super observant Secret Service guy, because they knew he was there.
As soon as he stuck the gun out, they took a couple of pot shots.
The whole thing was a setup just to make it look like another assassination attempt and the whole thing was just to get more attention to Trump.
I think it's very plausible.
It's plausible.
Because the guy's an idiot, this Ruth guy.
Yeah.
We've seen his interviews after the fact, and he's apparently, when they took him into court, he's laughing, yucking it up like he's got it made or something, or he did the right thing or something that he felt- Like the Manchurian candidate, who was also- Totally.
And when they arrested him, Manchurian candidate, I wonder what his trigger word was.
Maybe we could use the trigger word and might activate some MKUltra people.
Yeah, and tell him to donate.
That's the trigger word.
Donate.
Donate.
I picked this up from the guy on TikTok, Chad O'Jackson.
And, uh, I was thinking of just telling you this story, but he put it together so well.
It's only a minute and a half, but I figured I'd just use his audio because this one, I mean, we've, we know about the, the joy division and the, you know, the, although never use the whole concept of joy is kind of a, uh, uh, a Goebbels-esque Yeah.
And what was the other one?
Strength through joy.
Although they never use it, it's all implied and just the joy word.
And we are not going back!
America is ready for a new way forward!
We are not going back!
We, together, will chart a new way forward.
And we are not going back.
America is ready for a new way forward.
We are not going back.
We together will chart a new way forward.
We're not going back.
Together we'll move forward.
We're not going back.
Forward together.
Folks, this has literally been the slogan of the Communist Party for the past 10 years.
I'm not even joking.
If you go to the Communist Party USA's website, three years ago, Communist co-chair Rosanna Cameron literally wrote an article titled, We're not going back.
Forward together.
Rosanna is a communist to and through, and she's unashamed of it.
Because that's how we communists work.
This is how you build that movement that's going to be the massive movement that we need to topple capitalism.
It's not a coincidence that this just so happens to be Kamala Harris' campaign slogan, nor did she plagiarize it from the Communist Party.
Communists have long acted as the kind of ideological undergird of the Democrat Party here in the United States, and Kamala Harris is just a continuation of that.
Together we'll move forward.
Again, for the past decade, communists have been giving speeches all over the country where they have the banner, we're not going back, plastered behind them.
Chicago has produced more outstanding communist leaders maybe than any other place around in a lot of ways.
So this begs a question.
Do you continue to pretend that Kamala Harris is not influenced by communist ideology, choosing instead to blindly accept the Marxian policies that she's pushing forward?
Or do you choose not to be the idiot they think you are?
I thought that was quite good.
Well, there was an analysis that's similar to that about the unburdened by comment that she used to make.
Yes.
And that's communist too.
Yes.
And, you know, you either have communism, or you have a system such as was determined by our founding fathers, who say that the laws don't come from government, but the laws come from our creator.
And so it's really, we really are at a, either this way... Not the laws, the rights.
I'm sorry, the rights.
The rights, you're correct.
Is it inalienable or unalienable?
I think both are proper, but I think inalienable is what they like to use.
So it's either that or communism, because communism definitely is not on board with that train.
No.
Well, it's also mainly anti-capitalist.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Capitalism's no good because it benefits the people that actually put a lot of effort into it.
You see that video where there's one famous YouTuber dude and he goes on to college campuses and you say, you know, what do you think about socialism?
Yeah, I think it's really good.
You know?
And so why don't we take some of your grade point average and give it to someone who has a lower grade point average?
Have you seen this?
And they all go like, well, that's not fair.
No, I worked really hard.
People who work really hard and make more money, why should they give their money away?
And they all get brain freeze.
Well, you have to always go back to the basic phrase of the whole system, which is, give to each according to their needs and take from each according to their abilities.
according to their abilities.
Yeah.
From each, according to their abilities, to each, according to their needs.
So people that need more and are unable to do anything.
Yeah, we have a little bit of that for people that are disabled, but for the normal person you don't want to do that.
No.
But okay.
And so you redistribute things and that's what equity is all about.
And that's why equity is so important to the Democrats.
So I have two similar but contrasting clips.
Because the Christian nationalists are, of course, the problem.
They are the ones that are going to elect Donald Trump.
They've never come out to vote.
They never vote, but they don't care.
Yes, but you don't understand the networks.
The pastor network is in effect.
They call themselves God's soldiers, fighting to save the soul of America.
Their weapon, the Bible.
These Christian nationalists believe their religion should define U.S.
laws and set the country back on track.
If you vote Democrat, I don't even want you around this church.
You get out!
You get out, you demon!
For Donald Trump, they might even help him return to the White House.
President Trump is the man that will bring righteousness, the rule of law, and the Judeo-Christian values to our civilization.
Many stormed the Capitol in January 2021 and could have a drastic impact on American democracy.
For many Christian nationalists, Donald Trump is a hero.
Donald Trump also relies on preachers to rally his evangelical base, like Jackson Lawmayer, founder of Pastors for Trump.
Officially, pastors are not allowed to tell people who to vote for, but Jackson Lawmayer has found another way to influence voters.
You could target them one by one, cost you a lot of money, take a lot of time, or you could go and you could influence pastors to encourage their churches to register to vote, to vote their value system, and if Christians vote their value system, they will vote for Donald Trump.
According to religious experts, radical Christian nationalism is on the rise.
If you are talking about spiritual warfare all the time, it's a very small jump to get to actual warfare, where you see more threats to...
poll workers to candidates to our democracy as a whole about a third of americans say they support christian nationalism and they could sway the upcoming election in november that's from france 24 by the way and there are definitely definitely networks who are encouraging pastors to have people vote for biblical values and
And I think this next pastor, who is from the World Overcomers Church, is probably one of them.
There's just one problem.
He's not white.
I can't do it!
I can't do it!
I don't care what president, what color he is, if you ain't in line with God, I can't stand with you.
You're getting off with God because you're trying to stand with blacks.
I can't vote!
For a party that is for all kind of sexual perversions.
I can't do it.
I can't go with a party that says you can be a boy today and a girl tomorrow.
I can't do it.
I can't do it.
I can't support a party that wants to remove God from its party platform.
You in trouble when the nation forgets God.
Y'all got to make a decision.
I gotta be with my color.
I gotta stand with my color, meaning I'll reject Christ.
Color gonna get you in trouble.
It's either God or the devil.
But when you vote for people with these convictions, and they get in office, and they start doing these things, you got a responsibility for it.
You can't separate your politics from your biblical worldview.
It's my biblical worldview that determines my politics.
You vote for whoever you want.
But you're going to have to stand before God.
No, it's a big problem.
Big problem.
Wow.
Join up to St.
Peter to give you hell for voting for Kamala.
I have to play a counter clip.
Okay.
TikTok.
This is a talk clip.
Republicans hate women.
I'm having flashbacks to 2016 when all I heard was, I don't have an issue with a woman being president.
Just not that woman.
Not that woman.
How many times did we hear that in 2016?
And it's all coming back.
It's all coming back.
Not that woman.
So the people who are saying not that woman, I'm sure said that about Hillary as well.
And my question is, which woman would it take for you to vote for?
Would it have to be a Republican woman?
Because I don't think that's ever going to happen, because Republicans hate women, regardless of whether you agree or not.
It's just a fact.
They hate women.
They picked a convicted felon wannabe dictator over a woman to represent them, so keep waiting.
Yeah, whoever that was, not a woman.
I don't know.
You're not telling me that was a woman.
Yeah.
There's your counter-programming right there.
So the 50 basis point cut immediately sent Bitcoin up the chart.
Yes, which makes no sense.
Well, I guess it does make sense.
It also, gold went up and silver went to $31, which is unbelievable.
I know, silver's out of control.
Yeah.
Yeah, and the market went up.
Of course, the market went down too, but the market went up and down.
Talking about that, since you mentioned the Fed, I do have a clip.
I was leading into something else, but as long as you bring me back to Bitcoin, then it's okay.
You can go back to Bitcoin real easy, because this was a clip I got from a bunch of commentary on the Fed and how they did this and that.
And this was just some off-the-wall comment on the rate cut.
Research actually from the Sound Money Project has seen the Fed increase discussion of things like climate change and income inequality over the past 10 years, which has shown that mission creep is affecting the Fed just as it's affecting every other institution.
And regardless of how viewers feel about those issues, the Fed has no business doing that.
The Fed's main focus should be on stable monetary policy.
And the only way to get politics out of the Fed is to tie it down with a constitutional monetary rule, not the discretionary policy that it has now.
Climate change.
Climate change, of course.
Well, I'm sure that the white paper from BlackRock helped Bitcoin by BlackRock saying, hey, you know, in times of instability, Bitcoin is a good place to put your money.
I'm paraphrasing to extreme.
But maybe this little gambit that President Trump pulled might have helped.
This was kind of funny.
In the meantime, we're keeping an eye on Donald Trump.
He is in a bar, I believe, in downtown New York called the Pub Key in downtown Manhattan.
Maybe we can play up some sound here, guys, and see if he says anything.
It's fantastic.
It went through.
All right, we're done.
Perfect.
The first transaction by a president on the Bitcoin protocol.
History.
You know what that means?
He's at a burger joint and he just bought some burgers.
Hello, everybody.
Thank you.
These suckers are good, too.
This is a crypto burger.
Okay.
You pay with Bitcoin.
Yeah, pay with Bitcoin for the crypto burger, which of course I like.
I think they're making a big mistake though, the Trump organization.
They came out with the world financial, some kind of token based on Ethereum and it's like a lending protocol.
I foresee bad things in the future for that.
It's like, what are they doing?
Like Trump Steaks.
Yeah, exactly.
Or University of Trump.
The kids got suckered into it.
Trump's like, oh, there's crypto.
Sounds good.
I don't think that's a very good idea.
But anyway.
He's just non-stop.
But go Bitcoin, thanks Trump.
Meanwhile, talking about Trump, I personally think an energy weapon was deployed against him.
Yes, I heard about this.
Quarters of former President Donald Trump that were allowed to sit behind his stage at his Tucson rally last week.
Tell the News 4 Tucson investigators they left with mysterious injuries to their eyes.
This is where thousands of people came out to hear former President Donald Trump speak last week.
There was a group of 48 people allowed to sit on stage behind Trump throughout the event.
They were split into two groups on each side of the stage.
Monica, this is where thousands of people came out to hear former President Donald Trump speak last week.
There was a group of 48 people allowed to sit on stage behind Trump throughout the event.
They were split into two groups on each side of the stage.
One side seemed to walk away without any issues, but multiple people.
People seated near each other on the other side tell me that they had to go to the emergency room after they left the event.
And here tonight, for the first time, the Trump campaign is confirming that they're investigating this situation.
Yeah, that was wild.
People going to the hospital and the hospital saying, are you sure you didn't get sprayed with some kind of chemical?
Yeah, and one woman claims she's now blind, at least temporarily.
Yeah.
And it sounds like, and there's a bunch of them.
They're all on one side, and the thing that's unusual, I want to make sure that I said the word unusual, is that these audiences were split in two.
Instead of right behind him like normal, there was this bifurcation of the background, and I don't understand it.
This whole thing was, you know, it's unusual.
It was a small audience overall.
Yeah.
Well, speaking of eye problems, this happened.
This morning, new details of the terrifying moments 140 passengers faced just minutes after takeoff on a flight from Salt Lake City to Portland on Sunday.
The Boeing 737-900 forced to make an emergency landing back in Salt Lake.
The problem, Delta tells NBC News, the aircraft was unable to pressurize above 10,000 feet.
One passenger speaking out to our affiliate KSL TV.
It felt like somebody was stabbing me in the ear.
Passengers say they knew something was wrong, but the oxygen masks did not deploy.
The plane would go higher, and then it would drop down.
And then it would go higher, and it kind of dropped down.
And you could tell something wasn't right, but they weren't saying anything.
Some on board began bleeding from their ears and noses.
The plane circled over the Great Salt Lake before making that emergency landing with medical teams treating 10 passengers on the ground.
In a statement to NBC News, Delta says it sincerely apologizes to its customers for the experience.
Adding, the flight crew followed procedures and supported passengers with their immediate needs.
Tom, I feel like there are so many safeguards on planes that prevent them from taking off.
So, how did this plane take off without the cabin being pressurized?
Well, by the way, this only happens about half a dozen times a year.
It is very rare.
Bottom line, you could lose pressurization if you've got a bad seal around the window or door or a valve.
Even valves in the restrooms, for example.
If they're not properly closing up, that can create this kind of a pressurization issue.
We mentioned 10,000 feet as the magic number.
Planes are supposed to be pressurized to 8,000 feet or below.
You get above 10,000, if you don't have pressurization, people can start feeling the effects pretty quickly.
Now, what I was missing from the report is Boeing.
I mean, they mentioned it was a 737-900, but doesn't this seem like an obvious aircraft issue?
But yet they don't mention that.
Well, they did say it was a 737.
Yeah, but it was so, you know, he's talking about... No, they didn't emphasize Boeing, Boeing, Boeing.
Yeah, leaky doors, leaky windows, even the toilet.
You know, can't we just say, hey, is that another door about to blow off the Boeing?
I don't know why they didn't say anything about it.
Maybe the word has gotten out to stop.
Well, it's going to stop by itself because, you know, I think I got boots on the ground from one of our producers about the Boeing strike.
Update from work.
Initially, our senior managers arrogantly didn't believe the strike would last beyond the weekend.
On Friday morning, they essentially told the entire supply chain management division it was business as usual.
However, by the end of the day, they started to consider what to do in case the Union continues striking for an extended period.
Given the tactics they want us to go with, it's absurd to see how unprepared our leadership is to handle a crisis like this.
Apparently during the 2008 strike, corporate employees who had previously trained as machinists returned to the factory floor to continue building planes.
However, given Boeing's recent blunders, I doubt they'll want to entertain that idea with the FAA breathing down their neck.
I mean, this is... So they didn't even think this strike would last very long?
Our producer says he thinks it'll last into the new year.
Ooh.
Yeah, there's some.
You can trade on them.
Short Boeing!
Not advice.
Let me see what else he says here.
Yeah, they don't plan to return until the new year.
From what I've heard about the contract clauses, Boeing has about 50 days after the delivery date to submit the plane before penalties start kicking in.
There are also strike clauses for protection.
He's going to reconfirm that.
We have the best producers, man.
We have producers everywhere.
You can't escape.
Can't escape Noah Jendernation.
I have a note from someone that should be looked at.
This is kind of interesting, I thought.
This is from our producer, W. I work at The Hub in Memphis.
He works at FedEx.
It's what's called a material handler, which means I drive the cargo thing around.
Anyway, he says that they lost their contract with the United Postal Service, and they're going to have issues, and so they're starting to treat their employees like crap.
Uh-oh.
And he discusses the workforce, which is 50% black, 30% white, and 20% Hispanic.
And he says that everyone gets along just fine, but there's issues ahead.
Yeah, I didn't know they lost the USPS contract.
I guess so.
Man.
I mean, what's going on?
Tupperware filed for bankruptcy.
I mean, the world is ending.
There's a bunch of weird stuff going on with these.
Ah!
There it is.
10-10.
I gotcha.
10-10.
All right, I got one final clip before we take a break here.
I'm not going to discuss any of this stuff anymore.
One final clip, because finally, finally we have a group that's doing some good.
The first ever National Urban Rats Summit kicked off in New York City today.
The summit is bringing together a range of experts like researchers at academic institutions and municipal pest control managers.
The groups are collaborating on ideas for best practices on rodent mitigation and advancing the science of it all.
Rat sightings are down in New York after businesses switched to use covered containers for trash instead of just putting out plastic bags.
But Mayor Adams says that he would like to see more progress in the fight against rats.
He says it's a quality of life issue.
I could only imagine, you know, lifting up your toilet seat in the morning and seeing a rodent come out.
Or your garbage bag.
You take the garbage and put it outside and you see a rat run across your feet.
You think about that all day.
The summit continues tomorrow.
It comes as New York City continues to focus on identifying rat hotspots and removing conditions that allow them to thrive.
I'm glad they have a rat summit going on.
That tells you about the state of America, doesn't it?
It's so bad, we need a rat summit.
There's rats in New York.
Yeah, but this was from all over the country.
Yeah, I guess those rats are a problem.
I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda!
And we'd like to thank our producers once again who supported us today, those who made it through whatever firewall we're dealing with.
We appreciate you very much.
Under $50, we never mention for reasons of anonymity.
And those are the sustaining donations, which you don't get credit per se on the show, but you should have a good feeling that you are helping the show out.
You can do a sustaining donation by going to noagendadonations.com.
You enter the amount you want, the frequency you want, per show, per week, per month, per year, whatever you want to do.
Just send value back to the show in an equal amount the value that you receive from it.
John will take us through to the 50s right now.
Yeah, we're starting with Nathan Cochran in Franklin, Tennessee.
Oh, he's from Mercy Me, our boy Nathan.
Yeah, Mercy Me guy.
Yeah.
We have musicians.
We do.
That listen to the show.
And they understand the value for value concept, because they all started off value for value one way or the other.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Thank you, Nathan.
Which is a favorite donation of mine, anyway.
Keith Stevens in South Bend, Indiana.
1, 2, 1, 2, 1.
He says, don't send your blankets and water, just send your cats.
OK.
All right.
They're eating the dogs!
Sheila Ryan in Paris, France.
Ah!
We got a Parisian, finally.
Ah, Sheila in Paris.
Hello, Sheila.
She says, thank you for all the pleasure and laughs you both bring.
In regards from Paris.
Yes, merci, Paris.
Mark Stokesbury in Centennial, Colorado, 8438.
This is a nighting, I think, and so you can read this as we read these night notes.
Yes, ITM heroes, today I'm writing to claim my knighthood with a boobs donation of $8.008 plus an additional amount to cover transaction fees.
We appreciate it.
I could have claimed my knighthood on 6-15 of this year, the last time I donated, but apparently I cannot add and I'm not smart.
That's night material right there.
I'm still in Colorado, the gayest state east of John Dvorak, but will soon be moving to the fatter, though less gay, Pennsylvania.
For this reason, I'd like to be... Hey, we have gay listeners.
Easy, bro.
For this reason, I'd like to be knighted, sir.
No skid mark of the Pennsylvania lowlands.
All right.
At the round table, I would like anthrax.
Lines, obviously.
And Aardvark.
Blessings to Adam the Believer and John the Heathen.
I love my truck and I love what I do, says Mark Stokesbury from Centennial, Colorado.
I love my truck and I love what I do.
Kevin McLaughlin's coming up from Concord, North Carolina, and he is keeping up the pace with his 8008 boob donation here.
He is the Archduke of Luna.
He's the lover of American boobs.
He is!
Timothy White in Elburn, Illinois, 6969.
He wants to stop the hammering eventually.
You'll play that, I think.
Sir Chris Abraham in Arlington, Virginia, 6707.
Not a spook he claims.
Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, 6006, small boobs.
Brad Brinkley, or Binkley, Binkley in Schnellville, Georgia.
He's a de-douching.
Yeah, he's of the Propaganda Report.
You've been de-douched.
Is that a podcast?
I think so.
We should listen to it.
Dame Denise Queen of the Cobalt.
Cobalt programmers.
Cobalt.
I remember her.
There used to be a device called a Cobalt.
You had one.
Yes, the Cobalt Cube.
I still have it.
I still possess it.
A collectible.
I should fire that thing up.
Oh yeah.
I bet it works.
It's Linux.
Maybe use it as a firewall.
She's in Damden, Ohio, 16, who has a birthday call-up for Emma.
And also wishes her smoking-hot husband Fred a happy 24th anniversary.
A couple.
Baronetta's Salty Ketchup in Manchester, New Hampshire, $55.55, lets us know that XO Semiconductor sales are in the toilet.
That's always good to know.
James Edmondson in South Plainfield, New Jersey, $51.10.
Dean Roker, also $51.10.
Michael Van Der Horne, 55, with these health karma for Sir Andre.
You should put that at the end.
Yeah, let me read this because this came in from several people who sent messages to me.
Sir Andre, knight of the empty PayPal account, currently knight with the broken brain.
Natalia, writing on behalf of Sir Andre, to kindly request some health karma since he's not capable of doing so himself.
He suffered a cerebral infarction.
And his left side is paralyzed.
The recovery, if possible, will take many months and he lives day by day.
Sir Andre hopes that the requested health karma could be given to him without a donation from his part while people donated for him, as this is currently not possible.
Operating his phone is very difficult, and apparently when he was knighted, he was omitted or forgot to ask what he would like to have at the roundtable so he feels some health karma could be granted to him to make up.
You didn't have to do any of that.
We give karma certainly to anyone who needs emergency medical karma.
So, Sir Andre, you are loved by many, and we have— I'm going to throw in a goat, and I'm praying for you as well, brother.
You've got karma.
Well, insofar as throwing some karma out, I would request some for Mimi.
Uh-oh.
She has shingles.
Again?
No, she's only had them once.
So it's again.
I thought she already had it once.
No.
Not that I know of.
That's horrible.
Yeah, she complains a lot.
You've got karma.
Dude!
She complains a lot.
From your loving husband, John.
Stop complaining about your shingles!
That's horrible.
That's horrible.
Yeah, well, luckily she doesn't have the one on her head.
No, but I don't want to know where it is.
Well, it's everywhere else.
Oh, goodness gracious.
James Moore in San Pablo, California, 54-45.
He does have a note.
It says, great podcast.
Thanks.
Sirloin in Winter Haven, Florida, 5430.
Matthew Boisvert.
Boisvert.
Boisvert in Edmonton, Alberta, 5272 is switcheroo to de-douche birthday boy Timothy Saylor.
You've been de-douched.
Shannon in Citra, Florida, 5272.
Aaron Baron, anonymous cop.
Oh, that's good.
You got that?
Yep, got it, got it, got it.
He's in Redwood City.
He's down in the peninsula.
5150, also a fellow ham.
Darcy Midland in Midland, Darcy in Midland, Michigan, 51.
It's a switcheroo call out.
Keith Johnson's got a birthday coming up.
He's Sir Beavis of the Saginaw Valley.
It's from his smoking hot wife, Darcy.
Yes.
Lisa Mikulski, 5033.
She wants some house selling karma.
We'll put that at the end.
And now we got the $50 donors.
Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas.
Luke Olson in Alexandria, Virginia.
Andrew Alexander in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Hello!
Just on the street from you.
Yeah, I guess.
Cory Bennett in Denver, Colorado.
Andrew Gusik in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Michael Golob.
in Glen Burnie, Maryland.
And last on our list, a short list I might add, a very short list, Alan Bean, the Baron Alan Bean in Beaverton, Oregon.
I want to thank these people for making the show 1696, closer to 1700.
Yes, and of course 1700 is coming up and our 17th anniversary.
Thank you all for supporting the best podcast in the universe.
You are the best producers in the universe and the karma for those who need it is here.
You've got Karma.
Remember us at NoAgendaDonations.com.
Here they are in a row.
Dame Denise wishes Beth Cox a happy one, uh, celebrated on September 8th.
Also wishes her grandfather, uh, granddaughter, I'm sorry, Emma Bradley, a very happy birthday.
She turned 13 on the 16th.
Darcy, happy birthday to her husband Keith.
He turns 51 today.
And Matthew Boisvert says happy birthday to Timothy Saylor.
And we, of course, say happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
We have a... so we already had one nighting note.
We have a layaway night.
Jared, he says, man, how time flies.
I donated $203.14 on March 17th, 2019.
Just a little too late for the pie episode, hence the $314.
Then I began paying from PayPal under two accounts.
One is titled Jared.
I don't know if he wants this mentioned.
The other is Otfam Photography.
He has a whole accounting here.
So I guess we figured out, put it all together, his total is well enough for a knighthood.
He would like to be the Duke of Tatanka, bison, run into the storm to get to the other side, and that's what I need to do.
In the years since I was an associate, my 25-year marriage ended and my house burned down.
It's time to get to the other side.
Damn cancer, he says.
Well, I'm gonna give you an F-cancer then, brother.
You've got karma.
And we'd like to welcome you, Jared, along with Mark Stokesberry.
If you can get out your blade, John, we'll knight these two gentlemen properly.
Here you go.
Oh, wow, a long one.
Mark, Stokesbury, Jared, hop up on the podium.
Both of you today have supported the No Agenda Show in the amount that is enough to become a knight.
It's over $1,000.
I am very proud to pronounce the K-V as Sir No Skidmark of the Pencil Tucky Lowlands and Sir Duke of Tatonka.
For you, we've got Hookers & Blow, Rent Poison, Chardonnay, By Request, Anthrax, and Aardvark.
Also, here at the Roundtable, Redheads & Rise, we've got Beer & Blunts, we've got Cowgirls, and Coffin Varnish, always a favorite, Rubin S, Women & Rose, Gases & Sake, Vodka & Vanilla, Bong Hits & Bourbon, Sparkling Cider & Esports, Ginger Ale & Gerbils, Breast Milk & Pablum, and of course, The Mutton & The Mead, here at the Roundtable for you.
Please head over to NoAgendaRings.com.
Check out the beautiful ring for the knights.
They also work for the dames.
It's a signet ring, so you can imprint that on someone's mouth if you hit them in the mouth, or you can just use it to seal your important correspondence.
We provide some wax in a variety of colors for you to do that.
We love getting those in the PO box, and of course, it always comes accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Thank you both for your support.
Thank you for the value sent back to No Agenda, and welcome to the round table, our brand new knights.
The No Agenda Meetups part of the Value for Value system.
These are producer-organized.
We have noagendameetups.com, producer-run website, I should say.
Sir Daniel does that.
And you can go there, check out, and you can search by location, by date.
You can see what's going on, where it's going on.
There's a lot of these happening all around the world.
The North Florida meetup is now competing with the Indy meetup for the amount of people who show up.
And since we only have one report today, I let them slide and let them do the long promo at the end.
In the morning, this is Brian from the North Florida Seafood and Sangria beat-up.
The people of Florida are starved for No Agenda beat-ups.
It's growing exponentially.
This is Melissa, No Agenda 2024.
This is Jorge, thank you for your courage.
This is Leslie, and we're still trying to figure out who had the sangria.
I think we spot the spook, but it might be the same spook from last time.
We'll have to see.
In the morning, this is Rondi, my first meet-up.
Beautiful, beautiful people.
Love this crowd.
In the morning, I'm Bill.
Have a great day.
This is Austin.
In the morning, I came for some strength through joy and I found it.
This is Grumpy Green Guy.
In the morning.
This is Chrissy.
In the morning.
ITM Sir Island Dog here.
This is my sixth meetup.
Great people at all of them.
Dame Janet here.
Thanks for the tip.
I've got four cases of Bordeaux in the car.
I'm down here in St.
Augustine and today I got the whole load.
In the morning, first bar to meet up.
John C for President 2020.
This is Sinesta, my first but not last meet up.
We'll be hosting sometime soon and in the morning.
Hey fellas, thank you for your courage.
This is Sir Bally's Grace.
Sup, it's the Wickies Chickies.
Push back, stay free, love God.
Let's go!
This is Nate from St.
Augustine.
Great meet up today.
ICM.
Hey, this is Mary.
I just came for the beer.
In the morning, Sean and Adam.
Chris again, and I have not escaped the name of spook.
Thanks, Sean and Adam, for all you do.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
This is Steve from the Crest.
Steady to the first.
Don't sift me, Joe Biden.
In the morning!
If you're ready to join the Florida producers of No Agenda Nation, make sure you go check out all of our amazing upcoming meetups at noagendameetups.com.
Next up, we have our Central Florida Second Amendment Sunday meetup that's happening in October.
Then in November, we have our November to Remember meetup.
That's our Gainesville-Ocala Glass Bottom Boat Tour meetup.
And in December, we will be down in West Palm Beach, Florida for a Game of Axes meetup, where we will be throwing axes And then in January, we will be down in Miami.
Meet me down in Miami.
It's like a party.
Man, they do fun little activities.
Glass bottom boat tour, axe and knife throwing.
Hey, you never know what's going to happen in a No Agenda meetup.
And you could check one out yourself if you're in Arizona.
Four o'clock, Canyons Crown in Tucson.
The second, that's the Too Hot Tucson meetup, the second September meetup, 6.30 this evening at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday monthly meetup, 7 o'clock tonight, as always at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Then on Saturday, the DFW Mid-Cities meetup, 11.30 in the morning at the Bourbon Street Bar and Grill.
Never too early for some bourbon.
Sir Nerdworks is hosting that.
That's in Bedford, Texas.
The Florida West Coast meetup, 2 o'clock.
Three Daughters Brewing in St. Pete, Florida.
In San Diego, third Saturday meetup, 3.30 p.m., of course, Round Table Pizza in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California.
The flight of the No Agenda, that's number 56, that is Leo Bravo, that's Long Beach, California.
It'll be held at Steelcraft.
The Low Country Meetup, 4 o'clock at Throw Brewing Creek, South Carolina.
Throw Brewing is what the venue is.
Then on Sunday, the TooManyEggs.com meetup in Keene, New Hampshire.
It's the sixth time they're doing it.
Margaritas Keene in Keene, New Hampshire.
Many more meetups to come, including the 28th in Tilburg, the Netherlands, which is an interesting place.
I'd like to hear a meetup from there.
Bastrop, Texas.
Ocala, Florida.
And, of course, we have the big Fredericksburg Hootenanny happening on October 18th right here in the Hill Country, the heart of the Texas Hill Country.
Fredericksburg.
Curry and the Keeper will be there.
We're looking forward to everybody joining us.
Go to noagentomeetups.com to find out where there is a meetup scheduled near you.
If you can't find one, start one yourself.
It's easy and guaranteed a party.
Hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you won't be.
Triggered or held to lame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
I'm looking over your list.
Is this the second week in a row you do not have an end of show ISO?
No.
Where is it?
It's the second show in a row.
Um, okay.
Well, what's up with that?
I just forgot.
I just, for some reason, I've lost my train of thought when it came to the getting a good ISO.
I'm always on the lookout for them, but I didn't find any.
Well, I mean, I hope one of my two ISOs suffices.
We always like to choose them.
Oh, I thought you'd be punching them out again.
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
Well, here I go.
That was some weird shit.
There's that one.
That's profane.
It is, but it's Hillary.
And she says the W word.
She said that?
Yes, it's in her book.
Wanna hear it again?
That was some weird shit.
Yeah.
Okay, next.
This is the only other one I have.
Really shocking.
Neither one is great.
Well, the weird one is okay.
I didn't say that word.
I was quoting, by the way.
No, no, it doesn't count, doesn't count, doesn't count.
Okay, we'll use the W word.
I mean, who cares about shit?
I mean, it's the W word we have to be careful of.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, time to end the show with John's favorite tip of the day!
So we're going to have to start documenting these tips.
Yeah, well, hello, we've been talking about documenting these and turning it into a giblet.
It needs to be a giblet.
It needs to be a giblet.
What?
Have I plugged Irfanview?
What is it?
It sounds familiar.
IrfanView is the... the troll room would know if I plug this before.
IrfanView is the... is the image viewer that everybody should be using.
Yes, you have.
No, you did.
I have?
Yep, you already did that one.
Good, okay, then we move to... Can I just say something for a moment?
Sure.
The previous tip of the Crate of Bordeaux at Costco.
First of all, I think Costco's stock is up.
It's now sold out everywhere.
All Costco team members have been alerted there's a weird podcast that sends people to their store.
Tina went to Costco in San Antone.
Could not find, they're out.
Curiously, Costco also is out of eggs.
They're out of eggs?
Out of eggs.
TooManyEggs.com.
They're out of eggs.
No eggs, no Bordeaux crates.
What is happening?
Well, the Costco here has yet to have this Bordeaux mini pack in stock.
And so I'm still waiting to get my couple of batches.
But yes, it's...
People are buying two or three of these things.
It's... Yes!
Sucking them up.
They should have done limit two per customer.
All right.
Do you have a different tip for us?
Yes.
I go back to Costco since you brought it up.
Kirkland.
People should know this one little factoid.
The cheap Kirkland vodka in the 1.75 liter bottle, which goes for 25 bucks or so, it's cheap.
It's in a big, very attractive bottle and it says very carefully that it says made in France.
That's interesting.
That is actually Grey Goose.
No!
So it's a liter and a half Grey Goose?
No, 1.75.
1.75 liters of Grey Goose for 25 bucks?
Or so, yeah.
Depends on your Costco prices.
And how did you find out about this?
About it being Grey Goose from some industry insider?
Huh!
So they're just white labeling Grey Goose now?
Well, not only that, but if you compare it to the Grey Goose bottle, it's one of the most spectacular bottles that Costco has, and it's all its Kirkland lineup.
It's a beauty.
It's like a big, beautiful crystal bottle.
It's huge, and I mean, it's not useful for anything else, but wow.
What is it called again?
Kirkland vodka.
Kirkland vodka.
But it's imported.
There's two of them.
There's a cheap American Kirkland vodka, which is like nothing.
They're basically here, have it for free.
And then they have this one, which is the imported one.
And it says made, you can find it.
If it says made in France, it says made in France.
It's a beautiful bottle.
Terrific product.
Long Costco.
We're going to put, we're going to, man, we're going to put these guys on the map.
They're already the high price that's got us flying.
Another tip from John C. Dvorak, everybody.
He is the man with the plan.
Go get your Kirkland Voctor.
Unbelievable.
Hey, stick around on the stream if you're listening at trollroom.io or noagendastream.com.
We're on the Modern Podcast app.
Just two good ol' boys coming up!
I think that's Sir Gene is one of those two good ol' boys.
Well worth listening to.
End of show mixes, we have some good ones today.
David Kekta, he's doing one every single show it seems like.
Sir Dr. I with a shorty.
Judd Hawley with a homebrew, beautiful.
And Clip Custodian Neil Jones had time once again to bring us an end of show mix.
We love it.
And we love it when you send us value for the value you received for the past three hours and 15 minutes of media deconstruction and good old fashioned humor.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in Fredericksburg in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from the Silicon Valley, where it's foggy again, I'm John C. DuVorak.
We return on Sunday right here with another No Agenda.
Remember us at noagendadonations.com, noagendashow.net.
Until then, adios mofos, a-hooey-hooey, and such.
You take on the intelligence community.
They have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
And boosting Trump back in 2016.
But I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda.
And whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence. - Right now, I feel like MAGA in general, they are threats to us domestically.
I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.
Maybe there will be.
You know what MAGA hates the most about of us?
Our joy.
We are the party of fun.
And giving everybody a light.
Man, this is an unbelievable thing, man.
man like we all okay everybody know ain't no party like a diddy party so yeah that's it's up yeah that's it's up hey everybody know ain't no party like a diddy party so yeah that's it's up yeah we are the party of fun it's like stamp collecting podcasting just like stamp collecting
Yeah, another thing chicks think is really hot.
Oh, yeah.
Chicks would all go for the podcasters.
And the stamp collectors.
And stamp collectors.
And figurines.
Action figures.
Star Trek action figures.
Star Trek.
It has to be Star Trek action figures.
Chick magnet.
Get those nerds!
Nerds!
It's smart!
Yummy, yummy, yummy.
I've got cats in my tummy and I feel like a kitty stew.
A cat is such a sweet thing, good enough to eat.
And it's just what I'm gonna do.
Ooh, love to bake ya.
Ooh, love to cook ya.
Ooh, put ya on the stove.
Ooh, you're sweeter, sweeter.
The sugar kitty I won't let you go Yummy yummy yummy I've got dogs in my tummy And as silly as it may seem I want some dog chili or a kitty sandwich Maybe ducks and geese Add a little sugar Add a little spices
Add a little kitty roast Kinda sounds funny I love a bunny Kitty I love you so I love you so And any idiot that runs something like podcasts, they're begging.
