No Agenda Episode 1793 - "Retribution"
"Retribution"
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And Sunday, August 24, 2025, this is your award-winning Give on HMD Assassination episode 1793.
This is No Agenda.
We're weaponizing everything and...
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where Abrego Garcia wasn't mistakenly sent to El Salvador.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Craig Botton Buzzkill.
In the morning.
I like the whole Uganda gamut myself.
I think that's pretty funny.
I have some clips on this and it's quite ironic, but first I want to make this.
This was on Fox this morning and they all say this.
Brego Garcia, the Maryland man, the Maryland dad.
Oh yeah, Maryland man.
Yes.
Maryland was Maryland dad at first.
It's become Maryland father.
Maryland father.
Father from Maryland.
Yes.
So they keep saying, and this was on Fox.
mistakenly sent to El Salvador in prison.
Oh, I'm outraged that Fox would have something wrong.
Please.
It all is.
It's just like they all use this adverb.
This is the same thing with Trump falsely claimed that the elections were rigged.
This is an adverb you throw at the beginning.
This is not reporting.
This is propaganda.
Well, now.
I need to clutch my pearls.
I think you should.
Miss now.
When does that happen?
When does that happen?
I can't wait to see the logo change.
Well, the logo's full.
I don't know.
I think it has to be taken over or there has to be somebody has to cut a ribbon.?
You cut a ribbon.
I think there's a ribbon cutting involved?
I wonder...
I got two clips.
Abrego Garcia PBS.
All right, here we go.
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia say the Department of Homeland Security has told them that the government plans to deport their client to Uganda.
The Salvadoran national reunited with his family in Maryland last night after being released from a Tennessee jail.
He's awaiting trial on human smuggling charges to which he's pleaded not guilty.
Today has been a very special day because, thank God, I am back with family after more than 160 days and i would like to thank all the people who have been supporting me because after such a long time i am realizing that many people have been by my side dhs ordered abrego garcia to report by maunday to an ice removal office in baltimore that came after he declined an offer to be sent to costarica in exchange for pleading guilty all right okay so
the whole thing was he's They're going to make their lives miserable.
He's not going to plead guilty to the smuggling.
No, why should he?
And if we're in exchange, then it shouldn't be to Costa Rica.
And, but no, they said said, okay, if you're not going to do that, we're going to send you.
They do a deal with Uganda.
This is the best part.
This is hilarious.
We have been doing business with Uganda.
We do a lot of business.
Just people are.
Well, we're going to do business with human people.
Well, the Brits wanted to do this with the Rwanda, and they never pulled it off.
But I think we might actually send a couple of dudes to Uganda.
This is going to teach them a lesson.
But there's a very strange irony to this, which I which makes it funny, at least to me.
And this is the other clip.
This is the clip from the BBC.
A man who was wrongly deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador has been told by U.S. immigration officials that he may now be expelled to Uganda within days.
On Friday, Kilmar Abrigo Garcia was freed from a Tennessee jail where he had been held since his return to the United States.
Earlier, Kampala said it had struck a deal with Washington to accept deportees from third countries provided they had no criminal record.
No.
They can deport him there, but if he pled guilty, they.
They couldn't.
This is a great catch.
22.
Well, we have been doing business with Uganda.
We've been doing all kinds, including sending a lot of C 130s.
I happen to know since it might be someone in my circle who is an international arms dealer and sends them.
And as a non-s, yes, the international arms dealer here in Fredericksburg continues, well, so they're no longer their military.
I mean, this is how it works.
This is how arms dealing works.
The U.S. wants to sell or has all these C-130 transport planes and Uganda wants to buy one.
So there's an intermediary and it'll go through France.
And so they send it to France, which is a friend of ours.
But they don't really send it to France.
They just register it in France for an hour.
And then Uganda buys it from through the French entity.
And then it can be shipped over legally.
The great thing about it is that there's an endless demand for these C-130s.
And this is the truth as he has told me, that the pilots of these C-130s in Uganda keep crashing them.
because they learn how to fly on YouTube.
This YouTube videos, this is how they learn how to fly them.
So it's a great bit.
What a great business.
I know.
Guys can't fly the planes.
You've got to buy another one.
And the Ugandans don't seem to care.
Oh, we need another one.
So, uh, yeah.
So anyway, so now what's going to happen to this guy?
Is he, is he now finally going to go or I mean, uh, all the Canadian media was like, oh, and there he is.
He's embracing his child.
And it's so good to be home.
And what happened to his wife?
She was out and about.
Oh, but didn't she have a complaint against him for beating him, beating her?
Yeah, two, two complaints of beating her.
Yeah.
But, you know, if you're going to hang out with guys like that, you expect to be beat.
Yeah, I guess.
But this is a farce.
It's funny.
It's totally funny, especially with all these people in Maryland, the governor and the lawyers and everybody and all the activists that want to save this guy because he was wrongly sent to El Salvador.
Now he's going to be wrongly sent.
The Uganda thing is a gem.
Yeah.
But no, what's going to happen, he's going to end up pleading out and they're going to ship him off to Costa Rica and get back in the country.
Well, Costa Rica is nice this time of year.
So it's not that bad.
It's pretty good most of the year.
All right, so I'd like to jump into the Bolton, the Bolton thing.
Was that Thursday when they were raiding his home or was that Friday morning?
That was probably Friday.
I think it was Friday.
Friday morning.
Yeah.
So everyone's in a tizzy about this.
We go to ABC with your buddy, Jonathan Carl.
John Bolton arrived home Friday afternoon just moments after FBI agents carried boxes out of his house and four FBI agents were still inside.
They had been in there for nearly eight hours.
Wait a second.
This was one of the interesting things about it.
There's been, there's three reports.
One that he was there the whole time, unlike Trump and Mara Lago, they like to make that comparison.
The second was he wasn't there at all, never was.
And the third is this report, which he was there half the time.
Just one foot in, one foot out.
What did we?
Can anyone get it straight?
Well, no.
They had been in there for nearly eight hours.
Sources telling ABC News that the search was related to allegations that Bolton is in possession of classified records.
I'm not a fan of John Bowl.
He's a real sort of a low life, not a smart guy.
But he could be a very unpatriotic guy.
I mean, we're going to find out.
He's very unpatriotic.
Bolton's home in Maryland and also his Washington DC office were approved by two separate federal judges.
Trump insisted he knew nothing about the search.
I purposely don't want to really get involved in it.
I'm not a fan of John Bowl.
I thought he was a sleezebag, actually.
I saw that.
I'll find out about it.
But if you believe the news, which I do, I guess his house was raided today, but my house was raided also.
Call Mar a Lago Minutes after federal agents descended upon Bolton's home, FBI director Cash Patel posted on social media, quote, No one is above the law.
FBI agents on mission.
But what exactly is that mission?
Enforcing the law or retribution?
Ah, the big R word.
This is what everyone likes to talk about retribution.
That's right.
The president is just so mad about the raid on Mar a Lago.
Who was that?
Well, remember there was another raid.
Who was in someone's house and CNN had been called in advance?
That's Stone.
Oh, Roger Stone.
Roger Stone's house.
It's like the new version of Elite elite swapping.
SWAT, I'm sorry.
Elite swatting.
You know, people get swatted all the time, but now it's like, eh, I think I'll have the FBI raid his house.
Yeah, it's cool.
It's Retribution.
Right here on this show, two weeks ago, John Bolton harshly criticized President Trump.
He said Trump was presiding over a, quote, Retribution presidency.
Twelve days later, the FBI showed up at his office and his home.
This is the new, this is it now.
Retribution presidency, the new R word.
This week starts right now.
And I'm not a fan of John Bolton, but he's a sleeve's bag, actually.
The FBI is targeting President Trump's former national security adviser.
Are you worried that they're going to come after you in some way?
I think it is a retribution presidency.
Good morning.
Welcome to This Week.
In a moment, we'll get to the stunning developments coming into the weekend with FBI agents swarming around the home and office of former Trump national security adviser, John Bolton.
But first, the context.
This didn't happen in a vacuum.
John Bolton is on a long list of Trump critics who are now facing the wrath of President Trump and his Justice Department.
Trump himself has suggested that dozens of his enemiesies, real.
I just love how they have no information, and it may very well be retribution.
I'm sure there's a part of that.
But I just love how they just make it up as they go on.
Well, this is clearly retribution.
This is obvious.
Trump himself has suggested that dozens of his enemies, real and perceived, belong in prison.
He has said that about former presidents Obama and Biden, about former FBI director James Comey and former special counsel Jack Smith, all of whom have been threatened with criminal prosecution.
So have former Trump administration officials, Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Senator Adam Schiff.
Those last two have been targeted by Ed Martin.
He's the head of what the Trump Justice Department calls the Weaponization Working Group.
Last week, Martin stood outside of Tish James' home in Brooklyn, New York, and posed for pictures dressed in a trench coat.
Yes, very sinister.
What is going on with our country?
It's like, what's going on with the media?
Well, yes.
Okay.
That's fair point.
That's exactly it.
The only guy who actually had something.
kind of something to say with some content, which was quite surprising, but I think he's probably right, was Michael Cohen of all people, a former Trump lawyer, and he was on MSNOW.
What we have here is the Trump team, the DOJ, going through, for example, the book, The Room Where It All Happened, which I actually had read while I was in solitary confinement.
You know, when you're in solitary confinement, I'm pretty sure you don't get a book to read.
Because that solitary confinement is the shoe, special housing unit.
I think the whole point is you don't get a book to read, or am I wrong?
I have no idea.
Yeah, well according to my history.
Yeah.
But solitary confinement is not, you know, not the book reading club.
Not supposed to make you crazy, not the book reading club, which I actually had read while I was in solitary confinement.
And they've noticed that there are many aspects of this book that appear to be of national security importance.
And that's what I believe that they predicated this raid upon.
I also believe that there's no doubt that he will be indicted.
They will find documents once they go through, for example, his computer, they'll find the manuscript, they'll see emails going back and forth between John Bolton, his people, as well as maybe the attorney that reviewed it for legal ease and for questions.
I believe that he needs to lawyer up and very much like what happened to years ago, Reality Winner, that's a name that nobody talks about anymore.
One document that was about Russian election interference ultimately had her incarcerated.
She was a whistleblower, had her incarcerated for years and I predict that John Bolton is going to suffer the same consequence.
Oh man, that would be so funny.
Well, of course, once you get into someone's computer, especially someone like Bolton, you're going to find all kinds of stuff.
The military contacts I have all say, oh no, he kept handling classified documents.
But the question is, well, I did a little research too.
Okay.
And I found out a company.
research just I called somebody I texted hey you got any you
was my research a couple of uh people uh emphasized that bolton was a was a stick up his ass type character yeah who would never even think of having any sort of secret documents around the house that they'd be able to collect oh okay i was also told that he was nobody likes him and uh he was um when he was the head of the national
security administration advisor to trump trump never listened to him ever yeah but trump did hire him with that's yeah but why yeah i don't know i mean trump hired a whole bunch of screwballs during that first term because he was advised to.
So there's that element.
And then you start looking at what Bon Gino wrote.
Bongino also posted something which indicated that this was not about top secret documents or anything that might be listed in the book.
There's some sense that he was, he may have committed some sort of treasonous act or even, yeah.
It just keeps getting funnier.
And so this, and because you know and I know, because we generally know people not as extreme as this character but generally speaking people with computers they they don't know how things are backed up this even took place during the early era with Reagan when they were doing the Iron Contra stuff and all these emails that were going back and forth and then deleted were backed up they were they were available
and there A guy like this is not a computer guy.
He's going to leave stuff on his machine.
And I've always said that the reason for the terabyte drive, once that was invented, was just so that way it could accumulate evidence against you because you never created it.
No, the terabyte drive is to store the Bitcoin blockchain.
We all know that's the reason for it.
And so the point is, is that this guy may be in big trouble.
Well, I wonder what they're saying down at the club.
I don't know.
You know, the fart sniffing club in New York.
I'm still trying to get confirmation on that.
You never will.
Just the M5M just makes me laugh these days.
You know, I'll walk by it.
I'm like, okay, I'll probably get that story.
But it's all so dumb..
It's just on repeat over and over again.
And MSNOW, I'm just going to get used to saying it.
Yeah, you might as well.
Yeah, MSNOW.
Do we miss?
Unless they back off.
I always say miss now.
Miss now.
I miss now.
They got that guy who's the president of the Washington Correspondence Association.
He does the morning show on Sundays.
All he can do is rant and rave like, there's no, it's contentless.
That's what it is.
Contentless.
Yeah.
Nothing has content.
Well, this is because they got all these hours to fill.
Yeah.
I mean, even when CNN had their, they used to have that one station which became HLN, and it was just headline news, and they had that one woman who kept reading the news all day.
It was just, it was pretty much an hour of news repeated.
with maybe some updates every hour.
There's only an hour's worth of content a day.
But they have to fill 24 hours with, so they jack in some people to talk about it endlessly.
So they've created these 24-hour networks that there's nothing to talk about for 24 hours every single day.
Right.
But there's plenty to clip and it's all over social media.
Whoa, outrage.
Oh, look at this outrage.
Although I see that kind of, it is ever since Rachel Maddow cut back her hours and Jen Psaki went to pretty much non time.
I know when she's on anymore.
There's just, there's no gaffes.
There's the only thing, and gosh, I really wish I could have gotten an original.
Did you see the, the tweet going around, the post on X of the AP Gwen?
I want to say her is Gwen Dyer.
I think her name is.
Yeah, she was trying to read a simple copy and she couldn't do it.
This was posted by T Tim Poole.
Yeah.
And I want that original so bad because that will be fun to, because you know, you can't have someone laughing over it while they're playing it.
Yeah, I agree.
I looked for it.
I went on the podcast feeds.
It looked like it came from a podcast feed.
I'm sure they removed it.
But that, but it was interesting because even I think even we forget some of it.
So explain what it is to people that didn't get the show.
It was like an hourly report from Associated Press and she's reading the copy and these news reports are very staccato explaining exactly how it goes and then President Trump without evidence, this kind of thing.
But she couldn't get one sentence straight and she kept doing what we call pickups.
So let me see if I can give an example.
Let me just grab a random news headline.
And so she would be, let's see, I'm just going to grab something.
Here we go.
Pritzker said in a statement, the state of Illinois at this.
The state of Illinois at this time has received no request or outreach from the federal government.
So she was doing all those paces.
Yeah, she was doing it was all it was every she couldn't get through a sentence without having to pick it up.
And I can just see the engine sound engineer rolling his or her eyes like, Oh, I gotta edit all this stuff together.
It's gonna be a nightmare.
Yeah, to make it sound like she can actually.
To pace it out.
But it was just fun, I mean, I'm sure they're not making the hundreds of thousands of dollars that some of the, like, NPR morning show people are, but I'm sure she's doing just fine.
And it's like, Oh man, she really is just only a voice.
That person could be replaced by AI.
That would actually be an improvement.
It would save money.
Yeah.
It was, hey, we got a lot of boots on the ground about apprenticeships.
I don't know if you received any, but I got, we were talking about apprenticeships.
Yeah.
This was following on the, the news that plumbers now can make $150,000 a year.
And I just wanted to, can I share a couple of these?
Because this is very, I wish you would.
Gents, I was one of the youngsters.
who took up the a lot of Gen Zers, by the way, in the late twenties.
I was one of the youngsters who took up the call for skilled tradesmen.
I can confirm that after finishing an electrical apprenticeship.hips.
The jobs are plentiful and everywhere.
And as a journeyman wireman now training apprentices, there's a lot of young cats joining the trade right out of high school.
Young cats.
Is this how is this new?
But it is.
Well, but you know, we were pretty convinced that there were no more apprenticeships and that is, that's the Yeah, I'm still not convinced is that prevalent.
But well, in the morning, this is from Tommy Breakfluid.
You discussed apprenticeships on the last show.
I wanted to tell you about my experience with apprenticeships.
I graduated from my CNC machining apprenticeship about two years ago, I can't speak for other states, but In Michigan, they're really starting to become more popular.
Apprenticeships are regulated by the Department of Labor, and they require you to work a total of eight thousand hours, which is about four years, and take classes at trade school or college.
In all the classes I took, about ninety percent of the class were also apprentices from other shops.
Lately in my shop, we've been getting a ton of new apprentices straight from high school.
And then he goes through this quite a whole thing about how the trade schools were really good, but everybody he said, The trade school I went to in high school was fine.
They taught the basics, but the college classes I took were terrible.
I had learned everything most of the classes were teaching because I did it every day.
The machining teacher didn't even have that much experience or even machining.
He was only a couple of years older than me.
My shop one time hired one with a degree in machining from the same school.
He knew absolutely nothing about machining.
So not only are they turning out, you know, people with worthless degrees, but when they do actual apprenticeships, they don't teach anything.
And then here's Alabama for plumbers since we were talking about it.
Listening to today's show, I want to inform you all of a school we've created in our county, Baldwin County in Alabama that teaches kids or whoever, the trades in replacement of traditional college.
It bypasses apprenticeships, baldwinprep.com.
And then this is my favorite from the anonymous controller.
I'd like to bring the NA family a notice about air traffic control job availability.
There's currently an open off the street hiring for air traffic controllers.
Now, before I read what he says, let's listen to the report from the M5M.
The Federal Aviation Administration is working to fill more than 3,000 air traffic controllers jobs to end a decade's long shortage.
Now to help, the FAA has expanded its on-site training by nearly 30%, but the expectations and pressure are high, as reporter Pete Manteen found out when he toured the training academy in Oklahoma City.
This is a rare inside look at the epicenter of ending a chronic shortage of air traffic controllers that's burning out workers and delaying flights nationwide.
Coming ground clear one hotel Delta here at the Federal Aviation Administration's Controller Academy in Oklahoma City.
Students spend months in classrooms and simulators before moving to on the job training at towers and radar facilities that are struggling to retain talent.
How bad is the shortage of air traffic controllers in the US right now?
It's at a full-blown staffing crisis.
The latest estimates say the FAA is short of 3,000 air traffic controllers.
The newest moves by the Trump administration include slashing the time candidates wait to be accepted here and giving them pay bonuses when they reach key training milestones.
We're thinking creatively on how we can supercharge air traffic control changes are working with the FAA just announcing enrollment here is now the highest it has ever been.
The FAA says it rejects 90% of applicants and of the students who do get in, 35% wash out.
I don't know if this news report doesn't want anyone to apply, but here's our anonymous controller.
And he or she says, The requirements are pretty basic between ages between 18 and 31, U.S. citizen, job history of three plus consecutive years or any higher education degree, clean criminal record, English-speaking, although I can tell you stories where that has been ignored.
For those interested in making a career off of not letting dots crash.
into each other on a video game screen, making good money, full government pension, retirement, full health care benefits should apply.
The process is enduring as nothing moves fast in the government, regardless of what Duffy, that's our FAA administrator, claims.
Go to usajobs dot gov, create a profile, build your resume or on the website and apply to air traffic control posting.
Air traffic controllers are still in desperate need with the Biden administration's action in conjunction with the worthless, pathetic union during COVID.
PS This is not intended to take away business from Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes.
We appreciate that.
So there's a real gig and I bet you it's fun.
It looks fun to me, but I mean, again, if this podcasting thing doesn't work out, I'm in.
You should go to become an air traffic controller.
I'd be doing a podcast.
Number 277 Bravo 5.
How you doing everybody?
Good to see you.
Don't crash into that dot on my screen, please.
We could do it.
Yeah, just like that.
Yeah.
So I'm happy to hear that.
This gives me hope.
This Gen Z, something happened.
Gen Z flipped around.
They started to get their actors.
Well, Gen Z is being underrated.
There's a bunch of articles that are trying to explain this and that with Gen Z. A lot of it's bull crap.
But I saw at the table the other day, JC pointed out something.
He says that according to the stats, that the Gen Z men are all, they're coming up as Republicans.
Yes.
But the Gen Z women weren't, but now they are.
Oh, because they're like, well, might as well get with the program here.
He says that the curve has just gone, just all of a sudden taken a nose dive.
for the women and they're all becoming Republicans too.
whole entire Gen Z is going to be a Republican voting bloc.
So what can we do to thwart that?
The Democrats are thinking.
I don't know what they, they don't know is happening and they, the Democrats are still under the assumption that if you're young, you got to be trans.
Well, besides that, no, that thing, if you're young, you're going to vote Democrat because Democrat, because it's an idealistic, uh, the idealism of the Democrats, uh, is, is more appealing than the conservatism of the Republicans.
so the youth will always vote Democrats.
So they don't think this is anything that's worth worrying about.
Well, I'm seeing it.
I mean, I'm seeing it around here in Fredericksburg.
And I'm talking, you know, 25, 26 year olds.
And they're even giving up social media.
The horrors.
Well, that would be a good idea.
Well, that would be a fantastic start.
I just wonder, is this an organic change?
Is this something that just happens as a cycle?
You and I have witnessed four or five generational cycles.
As far as I'm concerned, everything's a cycle.
So it's probably some sort of cycle.
It's a new one, though.
I don't know where it fits into the scheme of things.
It's just got to be backlash.
Backlash against, you know, looking at them at their millennials and going, yeah, that kind of sucks.
There's definitely an element of that because they do not get along with the millennials.
Yes.
Well, anyway, it makes me kind of happy.
I like it.
I feel good about it.
And also, as, and I think you have a clip as well as, as was obvious to us, we've got a crime bill coming and President Trump is reacting to the many calls, I guess on social media, I've seen them to clean up other cities besides Washington, DC.
Chicago's on deck.
President Trump says the windy city could be next as part of his federal crime crackdown.
His comments coming the same day the Pentagon started ordering National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. to carry firearms.
People in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come.
The president claims crime in Chicago is out of control.
Now, when he says Mr. Vice President, does that mean JD Vance told him or is he looking to just have someone in the room to back him up?
Or is Vance the one who's on X looking at this stuff?
Because I've seen it.
What do you think that is?
Vance is the Vance in this situation.
I think it was just a prop.
Arms.
Only in this situation?
Chicago is a prop in a lot of situations, but this is one of them.
This is one of them, yes.
Washington, DC to carry firearms.
People in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come.
The president claims crime in Chicago is out of control, but city data shows violent crime trending down, including homicides dropping more than 30% this year.
There's that 30% number again.
Isn't that interesting?
This is like the Democrats.
who run these cities just respond in the same way.
And of course, no numbers, 30% of what?
Yeah, 30% of what?
I mean, I listened to Darren O'Neill., and he does whenever he does Planet Ridge with Larry.
He always does the Chicago shooting report, and I don't think I've heard it under double digits ever.
Just from the weekend, how many people were shot in Chicago?
But city data shows violent crime trending down, including homicides dropping more than 30% this year.
Mayor Brandon Johnson claims, even though the Trump administration cut federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., the city's investments in housing, community safety, and education are having a positive effect.
What we're doing in Chicago is actually working again, 32% reduction in homicides.
That's not something to just blink at.
Now, is there more work to be done?
Notice the homicides.
Well, you know, less people died from the shooting.
There's other people maimed and full of holes, but it's good.
We're trending down.
Absolutely.
So let's continue to do the work that's working.
Johnson says he is taking the work that's working.
Yes, that's a political term.
Do the work that's working.
Absolutely.
So let's continue to do the work that's working.
Johnson says he is taking Trump's threat seriously, something Alderman Brian Hopkins echoes.
Both feel deploying troops would only increase tensions, not solve anything.
If he really wants to help Chicago's law enforcement problem, he should give us a federal homeland security grant so we could hire 2,000 police officers chicagoans who know our city trump's order to send hundreds of troops to los angeles is currently at the center of a legal challenge it's likely the same would happen if he tried to do this with chicago johnson says they'll leave no stones unturned including legal action if it comes to it we will use every single tool available to stop this president from disrupting
the lives of chicagoans the president says after chicago he's looking to new york and l a now what what do you know about the legality of this can the president is not legal the whole thing is a bluff.
And the dumb Democrats are buying into it and they think this is something's going to happen.
And this is all about the 2026 midterms.
And Trump's going to be able to walk away saying, well, we wanted to do this.
We wanted to do that.
But they were defending crime and they were lying about the crime.
We already get, they're documenting left and right, the police, especially those police associations, the unions.
documenting that the cops aren't doing their job when it comes to like reporting correctly.
There's one guy that's been floating around in DC and he's been on Waters and all the other shows and he says the cops, you know, the guy, some kid.
gets shot as attempted murder, but they send him to the hospital as an incident.
They don't even report it as such.
So the numbers are, and the people are going into the computers and faking the numbers.
So all these numbers are bogus and they're documenting that.
They're documenting the fact that the crime has actually gone up, not down.
And then they're going to point the finger at the Democrats.
So you want more crime?
Vote for the Democrats in 2026.
You're going to get more crime because that's what they're doing.
And this is just, he's not going into Chicago with the troops.
It's just an idle threat.
So you're telling me that the police in these cities today are fudging the numbers well one guy was throw it put on suspension in dc for for it and he was a fair fairly well-known uh lieutenant i think was his rank and they they talked about him because his superiors the guys are running the city the the commissioners and everyone else this was in the wire by the way this this idea is they go yeah you're right you're right it was season one absolutely Yeah,
it was in the wire because this is what goes on in these big cities when they're trying to make their numbers look good.
They phony up the numbers and oh, it's down.
It's down.
Vote us in again.
And it's all lies and they're starting to document.
this to an extreme.
And I mean, the amount of bull crap in terms of the reporting is well known because they changed some ways of doing the reporting to the FBI and we had this so-called downturn in crime.
It hasn't happened.
This is nonsense and they're going to document enough of it to keep the Democrats from getting votes.
You know why this, why this, what, why they get away with this?
And I think you're right.
I mean, we saw it here in Gillespie County with the previous sheriff.
We got a new sheriff.
He's a new sheriff in town, Sheriff Ayala.
But the previous sheriff would, you know, he would never report to the newspaper.
on Wednesdays only, uh, would never report, you know, the actual things that they were doing.
And they were possibly not even doing that much of it because we're a tourist destination.
So, oh, we can't have that.
We can't report on the drugs in Fredericksburg.
We can't report on that.
We can't report on all the people driving around drunk because that's what happens in an open carry, open container city state.
No, we're not an open container state.
I thought all of Texas you could drive around with an open beer.
No, no, in fact, that's not what I was saying.
You can't drive around anywhere with an open beer.
You can walk on the street in Fredericksburg.
It's only one of six cities.
Somebody from Texas backed me up on this.
You cannot drive around with an I'm from Texas.
I'm not going to back you up because you're wrong.
I'm from Texas.
You're in Texas.
I've been here 15 years.
You cannot drive around with an open container of alcohol in your vehicle anywhere, beer either.
No, you can have a gun.
But, you know, there's no more local news.
There's no city desk guy, you know, who's going in and knocking on doors and saying, hey, we're going down to be listening to the police scanner.
Can't even listen to the police scanner anymore.
It's all digital.
That's the problem.
There's no more local reporting.
So that's why everyone gets away with everything.
There's no city hall reporter.
Maybe Chicago has one.
The rest just sit at WGN and read the press releases.
Wouldn't you?
So you do.
Yes, that's why.
The pay is the same.
Yeah, but we have this thing called podcast people.
We got blogs.
We got substats.
Get out there and start reporting on stuff.
Well, that one guy, who's the guy who reports on the on the chicago on the on the shootings it's a very popular i think it's i don't know if it's a i think it's a blog we've talked about it at some point no i don't remember yeah well well there's so many you that your full-time job reporting on the shootings in chicago yeah let me see what's about chicago somebody knows that anyway what do you have on this well i have the uh
there's been a lot of the the democrats going on and on about uh dc uh crime this i i picked this up from ntd this is they the democrats are saying there was no crime.
People are upset that they hate Trump for doing this and they hate him for because there's no real crime in DC.
It's not that bad.
I live here, they say.
And it goes on and on.
So the NTD has a This is clips DC Crime Man on the Street.
Okay.
And just a little more than a week into the federal takeover of DC police, the Trump administration unveils data showing a large number of arrests happening in high crime neighborhoods.
What do residents in those areas make of the crackdown?
NTD's Sam Wong was out in DC's Anacostia neighborhood to hear from the people.
You feel safe being out here?
Oh, absolutely.
You know, apart from the presence of the law enforcement, everything is, you know, as it always has been.
There hasn't been any altercations as it was in the past.
We hear shooting almost every other night, sometimes every week.
You know, sometimes, I mean, when I say shooting, I mean day shooting all broad daylight, sometimes at night time, mostly.
What you do here in the daytime.
Have you noticed an increase of law enforcement presence around here?
Yes, sir.
I have noticed a lot.
Is it more increase, but it's a shame that it takes.
Donald Trump to bring all these people in for all the police to come out and do their jobs.
Actually, this is my, actually, my first experience with this, the law enforcement.
You know, man, it's cool.
That doesn't bother me that I'm being around here.
If you're doing what you're supposed to do, guess what?
Hey, they're doing the right thing.
Hey Jackass dot com, that's the website.
That's the guy who reports on Hey Jackass.
August.
Shot and killed 24, shot and wounded 154.
Total shot 180, total homicides 26.
Last week.
Shot and killed eight, shot and wounded 37, total shot 45 total homicides 8 year to date shot and killed in chicago 229 shot and wounded 1056 total shot 1285 total homicides 275 the guy's got graphs got all kinds of stuff he's got merch he's got merch he's got merch with spent shell casings the hey jackass dot com yeah
So that's the kind of stuff that we need and that people need to talk about these things.
Hey, I'm going to put it in the show notes.
Hey, jackass dot com.
It's a good one.
Okay, I think we've covered that enough.
Okay, what else do you have then?
Well, I got some TikTok clips, but first of all, really?
Really?
You're going to start off in the first half?
Okay.
I'm going to push that off to the second half.
I do have, you know, Taylor Swift finally came on a podcast.
Hold on, everybody.
And now back to real news.
Yes, on her boyfriend.
Yeah, her boyfriend.
Kelsey's podcast.
Yeah.
She came on to plug her album.
And there's someone, this is a good kind of a compressed version.
This is not safe for work, by the way, for anyone out there that's got kids.
But listen to Taylor.
This is kind of a surprise.
Thanks for having me.
This is my first podcast.
This is amazing.
Thank you for coming on.
What took you so long to jump on podcasts?
You know what?
I just, I was waiting for you guys to invite me.
This is my favorite podcast.
Okay, so let's jump into the mid-gritty.
Who do you think is the sexiest man alive today?
It can be Travis or it can be anyone else.
Who is the sexiest man in your opinion?
I mean, honestly, and I'm sorry, baby, that you're going to have to hear this.
I honestly think President Trump is the sexiest motherfucker alive.
I mean, hot, damn, that man is hot.
I totally agree.
That is a sexy beast right there.
But aren't you a Democrat?
You know what?
Fuck.
what fuck the dnc yeah you heard me fuck these woke ass liberals telling us joe biden was sharp as attack the man was fucking retarded and why the hell did they lock us down during covid uh whoops i i guess we lost the signal there can you guys hear me yeah ai of course very funny what yeah the sad part is I had never listened to the Kelsey Brothers podcast.
They're actually not bad as podcasters go.
I was quite impressed with them.
Well, I thought this AI version, which counters the one you played last show.
Yes.
And so if you're going to play him, I'm playing him.
Yeah, no, that's fine.
I'm totally okay with that.
Anything but the TikTok ladies.
Let's go to the UK with some UK anti-migrant action to follow up on our flags.
Thank you.
Raising the colors movement.
Anti-migrant protests have taken place in about a dozen towns and cities in the UK focused on the use of hotels to accommodate asylum seekers.
In Liverpool, more than 400 people joined a march calling for migrants to be deported.
In several locations, there were counter-rallies by anti-racism protesters.
Our political correspondent, Ian Watson, says migration is proving a difficult subject for the Labor government.
The concern over asylum hotels has put a renewed focus on Labor's records since they came to office.
I think the other problem which the current Labor government has is this.
Some of their MPs are telling me that in areas which are traditionally ones which they would win at a general election, some people are now becoming so concerned about migration, especially the small boat crossings, that they're not.
listening to the party on other issues and they're facing some regional and national elections next May and they're very concerned that unless they make greater progress on this issue they'll start losing support to other parties.
It's interesting the BBC takes it purely to politics, not about the outrage of the people who pay their salary through a forced payment.
Yeah, that's the BBC, of course.
A forced payment, you know, the television payment scheme, I think is what it's called, which is one of the...
I mean, they tax people.
I don't think a lot of people realize what it is.
should explain it.
Oh, I actually...
I think I actually have it.
I had a...
And so if they spot, they'll go by your house if you don't have a license, and they'll just aim this dish at you.
And then if they sense there's a television in the house, they will...
you.
Yes.
Regardless of what you use your television for, if you have it, and it is done by, and a signal, that's the problem.
But also you can't buy it unless you buy a television from the guy on the street corner, like it's crack.
They register, you have to register your name because I live there.
I went through it.
And it's not cheap.
It's like 150 bucks a year, I think.
Yeah, it's not cheap.
That's true.
And I'm not even sure what the genesis of this is.
Why don't they just, you know, I think it was because they didn't want it to be a straight up tax coming out of the tax tax.
I thought originally it was designed to pay for the BBC.
No, it is designed.
It's specifically designed to pay for the BBC.
The reason they didn't want it to be a tax is so that it wouldn't be a political football, like, I don't know, corporate corporation for public broadcasting.
So that that couldn't happen.
What happened here could not happen to the BBC.
In contrast to that, well, not really contrast, but this is the Euronews short report about it.
Protesters took to the streets across the UK on Saturday to demonstrate against hotels housing asylum seekers in Liverpool.
Crowds could be seen carrying the St. George's Cross and Union Jack flags.
Police could be seen leading people away from the abolished asylum system protest.
A term coined by right-wing political parties.
Demonstrations were also set to take place in other cities including Bristol, Newcastle and London.
This week, a temporary injunction blocked housing asylum seekers in a hotel on the outskirts of London, reigniting the debate.
Counter protests were also held.
So we got a boots on the ground from Peter.
Here he is.
Here in the UK, it's worse than you and John think.
Almost everyone I speak to with a decent job, business and family is despondent.
That's a good word.
Wow.
What does despondent mean?
Depressed.
The kind of depression that's not good.
You know, hang dog type depression.
Oh, I feel so bad.
They think the third world takeover is inevitable.
Every town now has half a dozen vape shops, Turkish barbers, and shawarma takeaways with no customers and big mercs outside.
The housing market is stalled.
I've heard this from a number of people.
There are eight houses for sale on our small village high street.
None have sold for months.
Five years ago, they would have gone within a month.
Everything has gone up in price, food inflation is out of control, highest electricity prices in the world, property taxes jacked up and taxes on home value and inheritance are threatened.
Investors are putting their money abroad and in the city of London, mergers and IPOs have flatlined.
UK companies are listing in the US rather than the London Stock Exchange.
I speak to so many people who want out, I've never heard so many people who are looking for places to get their family and money out of the UK.
We certainly are.
Right, I'm going back to the garage where I'm laying down the keel for Mayflower two.
He said he wants to be a plumber in America.
Come on over, Peter.
We should have special data.
Special visa for plumbers.
So one of our producers sent in a note mentioning that Satan is probably Amy Pope.
You mean from the UN?
Yeah, the International Organization for Migration.
Yeah.
Which is an operation we should revisit once in a while.
So I looked up Amy Pope.
You know, she worked for Clinton.
She worked for Obama.
She worked for Hillary Clinton.
She worked for Obama.
She worked for Biden.
She was in charge of.
She was the real border czar that opened the borders, it looks like.
And so you try to find anything.
She doesn't have a wiki entry Except in Deutschland.
Oh, really?
Yeah, she's got a wiki page is in German.
And even though she's in America, I don't get that why they're trying to cover it up.
But she does have a sketchy.
She's not sketchy in her education or anything, but she's part of what's that?
Chatham House, you know, which is a nice six front in the UK.
Chatham House and some other spooky operations she's got some connections to.
Obviously a bad actor.
And it's all funded by us.
Why does the American public put up with this?
Yeah.
Why are we dropping our money into these organizations that are all centered at the UN.
The UN is really, when I was a kid, when I was a kid, we used to have a pharmacy in Albany.
And this is during the Berkeley era.
And when, you know, there was protests and all this stuff going on, there was right-wingers.
And they had all these bumper stickers on the window.
And one of them was always get the U.S. out of the UN.
or get the UN out of the U.S. And actually it was done in such a way as to get the United Nations, get the UN out of United.
It was some pun.
Snazzy little.
And it was a bumber sticker.
And everyone always thought, what a silly group of people, these Birchers.
There was a John Birch Society bookstore about three doors down.
And we always thought that they were kind of nutty.
But looking back on it, they were ahead of their time the way I see it now.
Was I a buffoon back in the day?
I guess so.
Well, okay, so you bring up an interesting point.
First, you know, we have discussed Amy Pope quite a bit, quite a bit.
I'll play a shorter clip from last year.
She is the head honcho at the interview.
We just finished an incredible day and a half for the International Dialogue for Migration.
We had singing, we had dancing, we had artwork, and we had an extraordinarily thoughtful conversation about the impact of climate change on human mobility.
Now as we move toward COP 28, it is critical that we put all these ideas into action.
Action that enables people who are impacted by climate change to find better solutions, whether they are already on the move, whether they are looking for options to stay at home, or whether they need new opportunities because climate change will cause their own options to disappear.
The time for action is now and IOM can't wait to be a part of it.
Okay, so there's a lot of clips.
A lot of it is about climate change.
And so when we look at the climate change organization, because people always want, by the way, it is the international organization, not office.
What did I say, office?
Yeah, I got 20,000 people, big office.
Well, and but that's the point.
What has grown over not 10, not 20, not 30, but probably 60 years is the climate in the 50s.
The climate, okay, 70 years.
The group of climate scientists and climate people who are just getting billions of dollars to waffle on about climate change.
So our producer, we had a couple of producers who sent in notes like, well, the true evil is the BlackRock, the RAND Corporation.
There's all these layers of headquarters in all different places and everybody wants to blame a group.
And of course, my favorite, the Rothschilds, Soros.
You can go on and on forever blaming individuals, Obama, Biden, Clinton's.
We have good and evil in the world.
That's just a fact.
But the only, because you said it, the only people you can truly blame is ourselves.
Because we just sit around and puke on social media about how they're no good.
They're doing this, they're doing that.
Go run for your local school board, your city council, for, you know, your state.
uh house or senate.
I agree.
Stop your complaining and let the podcasters do the work for us.
Well, we're actually doing something.
We do highlight this.
And so when COVID is when a lot of people woke up, but then they still default back to Fauci World Health Organization WEF Davos get off your blessed assurance and go do something about it you're allowing yourself to be treated as a doormat and social media is perfect that's perfect everybody oh I feel much better now I posted that I trolled him that's right I left a comment no you're doing nothing this
this idea of doing this kind of public complaining like this pre dates modern social media you'd find the same thing in the in the old fashioned you know a l a o AOL chat room.
Of course.
I'm not just saying I'm just people just bitch and moan and do nothing.
Yes, that's exactly it.
Well, they should leave it to the professionals.
Well, we are professional bitchers and moaners, but I think we did help a lot of people resist in whatever.
There's no doubt about it.
Resist against the COVID measures to at least have an idea of what was going on.
And we all really failed in many different ways.
But we need to take these lessons and stop pointing fingers at groups.
Every single no agenda telegram group is filled with this.
The Dutch are the worst.
Oh, I love them.
But I lurk.
I see what you're doing.
Oh, look at that guy.
Oh, look at this article about that guy.
That's bullcrap, man.
That's just bullcrap.
Oh, I see a leech.
There they go.
The leech are doing it.
You're doing nothing.
It's your own fault.
You are to blame.
That's what the problem is.
All right, I'll stop preaching now.
Jeez.
It's because people need to wake up.
up Do something.
There's plenty of stuff you can do.
I was part of the screw it up generation.
I was having a good time in the 80s.
Hey, man, I'm making bank, I'm at MTV, I'm on the radio, school board, loser.
Couldn't get a better gig.
Yeah.
And so maybe the Gen Zers are, you know, look what they're doing.
They're homesteading, they're moving out of the cities, they're homeschooling.
Yes, they are.
Yes, I get tonnes of emails.
The farmer's wife, she got seventeen kids at home.
She's taking care of them, gives them a little bit of an injection with the No Agenda show.
But okay, you can listen to this and check it out.
This will give you an idea.
The Brits, God bless them.
They're finally saying no.
No, no, no, no.
We don't want this.
Now, it's going to be a tough nut to crack over there because, you know, if you look at the video of those reports, the cops are busting heads and rousing people.
So your wake up call came at the beginning of the, of the, of 2020.
If you didn't take that as your wake up call, and so you can point as many people as you want, but you need to be pointing at yourself.
Yeah, well, I'm going to be pointing at Amy Pope.
Okay.
Oh, boy.
Amy Pope.
She's just a symptom of the overall problem.
These are lawless, faithless, ghoulish people who are in it for all of the wrong.
They're in it for pride, for greed, for jealousy, positioning.
I mean, that's sure.
They might be wrong on that.
They might be sincere.
No.
No, I don't think so.
Everybody.
I think you always underestimate sincerity.
Well, regardless.
The answer lies within everybody themselves.
Or use that stupid phone of yours to organize somebody and go do something.
Have you ever really shown up somewhere and said, hey, we're sick of this?
Have you ever been a part of that?
I'm not talking about, hey, hey, ho, ho, Trump has got to go.
I mean, like really showing up at a meeting where it matters and not just, it's like the, there's the one I think is a pastor, the black guy goes to the school board meetings and he'll read from the books that that are in the in the school board.
And they'll, but that's what I'm saying.
He's great.
Yeah, it's great for social media.
Oh man, I can't believe they pulled that guy out of there.
But why don't you run for the school board do something real all right i'm done i said it you said that already yeah that's why i stopped i'm i said it how about uh look what a moment for african news what yeah dude we're gonna have the lowest uh troll room numbers ever this is a short clip it's less than a minute Okay.
Or maybe it's a minute.
Okay.
Nigeria.
Unfortunately, it says Niferia, but it means Nigeria gangs.
You heard about this?
I know this.
No, I don't know about this.
I know something else about Nigeria, but let's get this first.
The Nigerian military says it's carried out an airstrike on a bandit camp in Katsina State in an operation to rescue dozens of kidnapped victims.
Lack of security has remained a serious problem in much of Nigeria despite a promise by the government to tackle the issue.
More from David Bamford.
Reports say 76 people were able to escape as a result of the airstrike.
One child died during the rescue.
The military operation on Friday evening took place at a location known as Power Hill from where the criminal gang has been raiding local communities.
Last week they shot dead 30 civilians.ans in a mosque in the town of Malumfashi and twenty others were killed in surrounding villages.
The gangs kidnap people for ransom and exacts retribution on communities that do not pay.
Wow, sounds great there in Nigeria.
Yep.
I saw a list of the richest black no, the list of the world's black billionaires.
So black being just skin color, not necessarily black American.
Black.
Seventy percent from Nigeria.
Probably all scammers.
Well, I think I got an email from at least five of them.
But yeah, billionaires.
I had no idea.
A couple of them live in the States, a couple, I think one or two live in the UK.
But the Nigerians, man, they know how to do it.
Yeah.
Scammers.
In fact, you know that the Nigerian scam where they used to make all kinds of money just sending notes out to people.
is legal in Nigeria.
And it's considered part of their GDP.
I know they consider it part of their GDP, but I didn't.
know that it was just super legal.
Yeah.
Well, what's illegal about it?
This is scam.
Well, they're scamming other people, so I guess that's good.
Yeah, they're not scamming their own.
Let's check in with what's happening with Ukraine and with Russia.
I would say it's always good to start it off with a little bit of our buddy.
Yes, I know you've been waiting for it.
Rita, because you know, he's trying to keep it all together there.
He's trying to keep everybody in line, which means he's trying to help President Trump get the trilat together, or at least a bilat, which seems kind of improbable now.
But he's also trying to keep all the Europeans happy and trying to keep Zelensky happy.
And he's talking out of his butthole.
Clearly, Ukraine and NATO, the US, Europe, Ukraine, NATO, we're all working extremely well together.
Oh, really?
We're working perfectly together.
As I mentioned, we have jointly with Ukraine an organization in Poland to capture all the lessons.
Oh, we capture all the lessons.
We are documenting it.
We're taking copious notes of what happened.
From this terrible war.
Terrible.
And terrible.
And we understand what it means for all the NATO count plans in the future, for Ukraine itself, for the build-up of its armed forces in the future, what lessons we can learn.
We have the command in Wiesbaden.
What about this?
Don't poke the bear.
From which we organize together with Ukraine all the support for Ukraine in this war from NATO allies.
Here we go, what is the support?
We are heavily involved in making sure that the Ukrainian Armed Forces also longer term will be as interoperable as possible of the highest standards compared with NATO.
This is a sales talk which means interoperable means you can only have our NATO bullets and weapons.
We have the comprehensive assistance package.
We have this new initiative, thanks to President Trump.
buy our stuff.
By buying from American stockpiles, from the US military, lethal weapons and, of course, air defense systems and interceptors to be paid for by the Europeans, directly being delivered to Ukraine.
So NATO.
So it's a great system.
America sells it to Europe.
Europe pays for it, but it goes straight to Ukraine.
It's dynamite, people.
It's involved in all of this.
And we agree in Washington there is an irreversible path for NATO, for Ukraine into NATO.
What?
An irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO that can't be true.
And it is true that a couple of NATO allies including the United States, but also Hungary and others have said not now, maybe never, this is for the future.
But what we are doing in the meantime is making sure that we work as closely together as possible, we are doing that.
So don't worry, you're going to get into NATO, it's all going to happen, not now, maybe never, but we put a little NATO flag here, you're coming, you're coming, it's all good, it'll be good.
My word.
So here is, here's France 24.
Hopes are dim for the Putin-Zelenskyy peace summit.
Kiv, NATO talks.
With the end of the war in Ukraine nowhere in sight, the Ukrainian president Zelenskyy is saying Russia doesn't want that.
He spoke as he met with NATO chief Mark Rutter to talk about security guarantees for Ukraine.
The Russians will try to do something else now to avoid a meeting.
The issue is not just the meeting.
The issue is that they don't want to end the war.
A bilateral meeting is one of the components of how to end the war.
We're going to see if Putin and Zelenskyy will be working together.
That's like oil and vinegar, a little bit.
said in the Oval Office that the next two weeks would be crucial.
What are the two ways you can go at the end of two weeks then?
Well, then I'm going to make a decision as to what we do.
And it's going to be a very important decision.
And that's whether or not it's massive sanctions or massive tariffs or both.
Or do we do nothing and say it's your fight?
Putin is ready.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, meanwhile, said in an interview to US media that there would be no Putin-Zelensky meeting because a presidential agenda had not been set.
And this agenda is not ready at all.
Yeah.
So clearly the Europeans are telling Zelensky to pfft.
to chill out and the unthinkable has happened.
President Trump has said, you know, I don't think we'll give those nut jobs any lethal weapons, any long range weapons right now, because that could turn out really bad for the whole process, which as we know is only about President Trump wanting a Nobel Peace Prize.
That's what this ultimately is all about.
We all know that.
So let's listen to Jonathan Carl again on ABC this week.
By the way, with General Petraeus.
So when they pull a guy like that out, I'm thinking military-industrial complex is worried about the current status.
Let me get to something else that President Trump said this week.
This is a post on social media.
He wrote, in part, it is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invader's country.
It's like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense but is not allowed to play offense.
There is no chance of winning.
It is like that with Ukraine and Russia.
He went on to say that it was Biden that wouldn't let Zelenskyy, wouldn't let Ukraine attack into Russia.
What, first of all, what's your take on what the president was intending to say there?
It's spot on.
And interestingly, as we learned in a story overnight, it's contrary to the Pentagon policy.
This is another case where it appears that the Pentagon is carrying out policies that conflict with President Trump's inclination.
Now, I can understand why they would limit the use of certain long range systems against Russia when they think that Russia might still be willing to make a deal.
But that should be very clear not to be the case at this moment.
And I hope that there will be a review of that policy.
Indeed, that was exactly what the Biden administration did in the past.
They were overly sensitive, endlessly, about how Russia might react to something that they provide to Ukraine and they were restricting the use of the Army Technical Missile System and others.
And so I hope that that will get a review in the White House and therefore a change in the Pentagon.
Yeah, we're gonna kill some Russians, man.
Come on, we need we need long range stuff.
Let's get it going, brother.
This is a Wall Street Journal report, right?
you're referring to saying that the Pentagon has been blocking Ukraine's use of those long range missiles inside Russian territory.
Obviously, the Ukrainian military has been using drone attacks, which are far less lethal.
But but let me get your sense of the human cost of this war, because I know this is something you've spoken about, and I find Listen to these numbers.
You know, over twenty thousand just on the Russian side are getting killed every month.
In a matter of just a few months, a greater death toll than the entire US death toll in the Vietnam War.
I mean, it's kind of hard to imagine.
It's staggering, Jonathan.
Again, as someone who had five combat commands as a general officer and wrote letters of condolence to America's mothers and fathers almost every single night of those commands, he's not talking about Vietnam.
He's talking about Iraq, I guess?
I don't know what he's talking about.
And I like the way they talk about just generalities.
They should mention that the numbers killed in Vietnam were 50,000.
It's a number.
Everyone knows what it is.
It's not a huge number.
It's not like massive numbers.
It's not like the 20,000 a month.
It's staggering, Jonathan.
Again, as someone who had five combat commands as a general officer and wrote letters of condolence to America's mothers and fathers almost every single night of those commands, I can't fathom.
I can't process, if you will, understand the magnitude of the losses on the Russian side.
It's now estimated that over one million sixty thousand Russians have been killed or wounded in this war.
And of those, well over five hundred thousand have been so seriously wounded or killed that they couldn't even return to the front lines.
This has to have over time.
I think the dead of the five hundred thousand number probably couldn't return to the front lines.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
A very, very substantial impact on the ability of Russia just to find a civilian workforce as well.
In fact, it's reported that they were actually looking in Africa for women who can actually replace some of the men in Russia in various areas.
And of course, we've seen they've also tapped North Korean military soldiers fighting on the ground in Ukraine, quite extraordinary.
And again, you have to go to Telegram to see pretty much any of this death and devastation and destruction of soldiers on both sides.
The Ukrainian numbers are staggering.
It's just noteworthy, again, that the M5M never shows any of this.
Ever.
Ever.
Why is that?
Is that because we don't want to disrupt the arms sales?
Was that part of it?.
Boom.
What he'd think.
That would be the only reason I can think of.
We don't want people.
That's a pretty good reason.
We don't want people actually outraged about this war.
We don't want that.
No.
In fact, we want, according to Petraeus, we want to send some deep missiles into Russia to make it worse.
Yeah.
Because that's a great idea.
And then just to add some more humor on top of it all, we have some arrests in the pipeline bombing.
Yeah, it's a sailboat guys again.
This is what it looked like in the Baltic Sea in September of 2022 following an international act of sabotage.
Gas bubbling up from the.
the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, results of a well coordinated attack.
On Thursday, almost three years later, authorities in Germany announced an arrest.
After three years of meticulous detective work, it's truly an impressive investigative success.
The explosions were so powerful they registered as seismic activity along the gas pipelines which run from Russia to Germany and came just months after Russia launched its full scale war against Ukraine.
German prosecutors identified the suspect as Serhiy K, a Ukrainian citizen, saying he had been taken into custody in a seaside resort on Italy's east coast.
Investigators say the suspect helped coordinate the bombing carried out by divers who chartered a sailboat from a German port using fake IDs and licenses and planted explosive devices along the underwater pipelines.
The pipelines were not operational at the time.
Because of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Germany refused to use Nord Stream 2, and Russia itself had cut off gas from Nord Stream 1 in apparent retaliation for Europe's support for Kiev.
Ukraine has denied any involvement in the act of sabotage, and despite the nationality of the suspect, German prosecutors said the arrest demonstrated continued support for Ukraine.
We stand with Ukraine and we will continue to stand with Ukraine.
What is important to me is that we are a country governed by the rule of law and that we thoroughly investigate crimes committed within...
I'm sorry, I just laugh when they always throw in the rule of law.
Well, yeah, but it's Ukraine.
It's Ukrainians they arrested.
There's another Ukrainian they're gonna arrest.
But we stand behind Ukraine'cause they don't, I'm sure they were just- Rogue elements support for Ukraine.
We stand with Ukraine and we will continue to stand with Ukraine.
What is important to me is that we are a country governed by the rule of law and that we thoroughly investigate crimes committed within our jurisdiction.
German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for another Ukrainian man last seen in Poland.
The suspect in custody is expected to be transferred to Germany to face criminal charges and possibly a trial.
By the way, for this whole conflict, I think the obvious solution, if you want to reduce the deaths and the killing, is just send in the DC police.
They can bring it down by thirty percent.
Those guys are off.
Yeah, overnight.
And the Chicago police, they'll take care of it.
Yeah.
So that's what's going on on there.
Yeah, so that's going nowhere.
No.
Did we really expect it to go anywhere?
They don't want to stop.
They don't want to stop.
No, and then we also have the Chinese that would like to see it continue.
I don't know why they would want to, I think more about that theory which was on the last show, the guy going on about it's really about China, is that I don't know if the Chinese really want us, the US, to be ramping up our military systems to the point where we can get to overproduction because somebody else is paying for it.
We're not giving it away anymore.
Yeah.
And making it profitable.
I don't know if that's such a good idea for them.
No, it's not well in general war is always good for somebody, just usually not the people.
No, yeah, of course not, because they always get killed.
It's the downside of war is people get killed a lot.
I mean, did I have anything else on that?
Yeah, it was interesting.
There was a Russian there was a lot of reporting in foreign publications, but it went nowhere here.
Russian strike hits US owned factory.
Did you even hear about this?
No, I didn't even hear about this.
Well, so that's the headline.
But when you dive into it, it's a Singaporean-American multinational that makes toasters and other stuff.
And they have a factory in Ukraine, cheap labor, obviously.
And something hit one of their factories.
No one was killed.
I don't think anyone was even hurt.
But the European press really tried to ramp that up, but for some reason didn't go anywhere.
You know, Zelensky even talked about last night, Russian Arma said one of its insane anti-records.
They targeted civilian infrastructure facilities.
America.
American-owned enterprise Zacaparita.
Yeah.
Supported by American investment.
Okay.
They make toasters.
Yeah, that's what they make.
I looked into it.
They make toasters.
No one cares about that.
Toasters.
I have a This is an interesting clip.
This is about we can switch topics, I think.
Yeah, sure.
Because I have nothing on the Ukraine thing.
I do have some Gaza stuff that might be worth talking about.
Okay.
This is Gaza 1 PBS.
It's been another deadly day in Gaza.
officials there say at least 33 33 33 people have been killed by Israeli strikes and shootings.
That's right.
Ignore the hundreds of thousands in Russia and Ukraine.
Ignore that.
33.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, I thought that once I heard the 33, I said, Okay, so this report is somewhat, this has to be bogus as a signal typically.
33.
What, it's okay.
We, our thesis is that there's something up every time this comes up.
The signal has gone out.
Yes, the specific signal has gone out.
Yes.
So I I took the rest of the report kind of with, like, okay, what are they trying, what are they getting at here?
Here we go to.
Among them were Palestinians who were sheltering in tents and who were seeking scarce food.
It comes a day after a UN-backed group that monitors food crises declared that a half million Palestinians living in the Gaza City area are in the grips of a potentially life-threatening man-made famine.
What's more, the group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, projects that by the end of September, famine will spread to much of the rest of Gaza.
Earlier, I spoke with Chris McIntosh, Oxfam's humanitarian response advisor in Gaza.
He's in Gaza City., what we're seeing is exactly what we were predicting for months, ever since the imposition of the blockade at the beginning of March.
And in that time, very few trucks have got in, very limited amounts of food.
So what we're seeing is people that are gaunt, people that are drawn in the face and they're bony.
Without trying to downplay the devastation in Gaza, this is bull crap.
This is one of the most corrupt organizations in the world, Oxfam, with the UAE.
Where's the White Helmets who are going to stage something?
That's coming.
Yeah, oh, it has to become.
They've already been trying it.
They've been trying with all kinds of photos and Bo, look at this child starving to death.
So we have here in this PBS, this is from yesterday actually.
And they have the Oxfam guy on.
There's nobody that's going to be on the other side of this discussion, by the way.
As usual, PBS and NPR, of course not.
One sided discussion with a point of view that's expressed.
And no matter what you do, it's expressed and expressed and expressed.
And this kind of contradicts the photos we've seen of the trucks that are backed up that the UN won's got something to do with the famine, but they're not going to talk about that.
This whole thing, that's why the 33 was a trigger for me, because I can't believe anything anybody's telling us about Gaza.
Or anything, or anything really.
Or well, anything in general.
But this in particular is very sketchy in every way.
And so now we have the third clip, which is this goes on.
This guy's on, by the way, for twenty minutes.
Prime Minister, you know, sorry.
Wait, wait.
So he's on for twenty minutes.
Yaakina, we're about one thing or another.
So they finally throw in a little counter argument to see what happens.
They don't bring anyone else on to debate.
There's nobody else on to debate him or say anything about it.
And so this is the way, this is the way it ends up.
Prime Minister Netanyahu called the report a'at ruthless lie'.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said, Tons of food has gone into Gaza, but Hamas savages stole it, ate lots of it to become corpulent, sold it on the black market.
What do you say to that?
I say that couldn't be further from the truth, John.
And just to use basic metrics to get the point across here.
Prior to the blockade imposed at the beginning of March, there were approximately six hundred trucks being brought into Gaza every day.
And now we're looking at one sixth of that.
Okay, is that what he's looking at or did he count or?
Ten trucks a day is what he says.
So this is this kind of what bothers me about this, this is bad reporting.
You can't bring an Oxfam guy in to just say whatever propaganda he wants to say.
Well, he wants money.
It's fundraising.
Without, yeah, it's a fundraiser, but why does PBS do this?
Why don't they have some give it give the public what they supposedly they're supposed to do, which is a balanced report and put somebody on that says the opposite.
it because they know that they'll get lots of coverage on that podcast, which is the only coverage they get is when you bring up their clips.
Let's check out the UN because they have their own agenda and they're pushing it very hard.
The international pressure on Israel is growing.
There's widespread condemnation at the government's decision to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
21 countries around the world, including France, the UK, Canada, and Australia, signed a joint declaration saying it was unabashed unacceptable the European Commission's foreign affairs chief also added her signature to the list this brings no benefits to the Israeli people instead it risks undermining security and fuels further violence and instability taking us further away from peace.
The plan seeks to build over 3,000 homes for Israeli settlers.
All such settlements built in the West Bank occupied since 1967 are considered illegal under international law, and this is no exception.
Calls to scrap the plans were echoed by the UN Secretary General.
The decision by the Israeli authorities to expand illegal settlement construction which would divide the West Bank must be reversed.
All settlement construction is a violation of international law.
The project known as E1 would effectively block the establishment of a Palestinian state.
It would cut the north of the West Bank off from the south, preventing the development in the center connecting Ramallah, East Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.
This is the goal of the ultra-nationalist finance minister Bezhel El Smotrich.
He is the driving force of this project and is urging the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formally annex the West Bank.
Yeah, it's going to be nasty there.
It's going to be nasty for a while longer.
And then you've got all these countries saying, oh, we have to have a Palestinian state.
We recognize it.
We recognize it.
Where were they in 1967?
I would say that the Israelis, I think there's a propaganda war between the left and the queers for Palestine, which is part of the left.
Yes.
And the Israelis, and the Israelis are losing the propaganda war.
They're doing a pisspoor job of promoting their position.
Agreed.
And I see no resolution to this.
I mean, everybody's taking the side of the Hamas side, basically.
But what I don't understand is they run the media.
How come they can't do a better job?
Yeah, there's your...
They should be doing a much better job.
Yeah, they do a better job.
They don't run the media.
That's a joke.
They have some influence.
Maybe.
I don't even know if they have that.
They don't run Hollywood anymore, really.
Not like in the good old days in the 30s.
No.
When you had all these characters that were all Jewish.
They gave that up.
No, it's a mess.
And the Israelis have nobody to blame but themselves.
They could have taken this a lot of different ways and they could have propagandized it better.
And like some people say, why don't they release the footage of the brutality of that October 8, was it October 8, 7th?
7th.
7th invasion.
Well, they have, but it won't get shown anywhere.
And remember the Toronto International Film Festival, they blocked the documentary saying that they could not show this documentary at the Toronto Film Festival unless the makers of the documentary got permission from the Palestinians to use their likeness.
Another victory for the Palestinians.
Yes.
I thought that was a funny one.
That's interesting.
way to do it.
A little bit of climate change.
At first I thought, wow, this is interesting.
This is good news.
Egypt has found a sunken city that's been covered for 2,000 years.
But then they have to take it into a negative direction for me.
A statue is hoisted from the Mediterranean as Egyptian archaeologists and divers work together to recover relics from the seabed in Alexandria.
Unfortunately, we have incomplete pieces.
The head is missing or the leg.
And we also found a statue.
of a Sphinx and another statue that appears to be in royal dress.
Archaeologists say the relics were found at the site of a sunken city in the waters off Abukhir Bay, which may have been an extension of the ancient city of Canopus, a prominent center during the Ptolemaic dynasty and the Roman Empire.
Their contract with UNESCO means they're only extracting some of the artefacts from the ruins.
The rest will remain in the depth.
This find confirms that this place was a complete residential city.
The part we are in was a port.
These artefacts confirm the study that says Alexandria was submerged by water as a result of a major earthquake or tsunami.
This is why all the statues are missing the head and feet, which are the weakest parts of the statue.
Alexandria is home to countless historic treasures, but Egypt's second city is at risk of succumbing to the same waters that claimed Canopus.
The city is especially vulnerable to climate change, climate change, climate change, and rising sea levels, sinking by more than three millimeters every year.
There it is, climate change, climate change.
Yeah, we turn something good into something very negative.
Let's take something negative and make it even worse.
What about flesh eating bacteria?
On the Medical Watch today.
Flesh eating bacteria is spreading to more beaches.
The Vibrio vulnificus bacteria.
It's usually found in beaches along the Gulf Coast, but the eastern seaboard is now seeing an uptick in cases.
Experts think climate change is helping the germs spread north.
Eating undercooked shellfish is one way to get infected.
Another is through cuts, including yes.
climate change or eating uncooked shellfish.
Okay.
is one way to get infected.
Another is through cuts, including from ear piercings and tattoos.
Multiple surgeries and sometimes even amputation.
Oh no.
necessary to treat an infection.
They had to do ten surgeries on my leg and then I had to learn to walk again.
Cooking your seafood thoroughly?ly, avoiding eating undercooked or raw shellfish and avoiding the waters that contain this organism are really paramount to preventing infections.
Most infections are typically reported from May to October.
A push to place warning signs at beaches with the most risk was thwarted by businesses who feared they would lose money if tourists were scared away.
This report was very confusing to me.
Well, I'll tell you one thing I'm confused about immediately.
Is it a carnivorous bacteria that you get into an open sore and it just goes nuts?
What's that to do with eating raw?
Yes, that's my point.
Are you going to get it in your stomach?
Or, I mean, what is that?
It doesn't make any sense.
Well, the two people they had on, it was pretty horrific.
The guy's leg looked like it was just a disaster.
They're talking about don't eat uncooked shellfish.
But the whole report was all the beach and the bad people who don't want to talk about it on the beach.
And have you heard about the radioactive shrimp?
I have heard about the radioactive shrimp and they're selling it at Walmart.
Yes, they are.
Well, they were apparently irradiated with cesium.
137.
The FDA issued a warning about more possible radioactive shrimp.
The shrimp was sold under several brand names in nine states by a company called Southwind Foods.
The only Midwest state affected is Minnesota.
Those shrimp were all sold between July 17 and August 8.
Customers should throw out the shrimp or return to the store for a refund.
So far, no one has gotten sick, but it comes just days after Walmart's great value brand Frozen Shrimp was recalled for the same reason.
So not nowhere, not a single report because they come out of, I think, Indonesia.
How did the shrimp get radiation?
It's like, surely they asked the question.
No, nowhere.
ABC, George Stephanopoulos, everyone, oh, don't eat the shrimp.
It's Cesium 137.
Where does Cesium 137 come from?
It's obviously a byproduct of something.
There's not caches of it that I know of.
Let's take a look.
Okay, well, ask your buddy then.
Very good point.
I will ask my buddy right now.
Where does Cesium 137 come from?
Easy 137 comes from Psalm 137.
Not easy 137.
Easy 137.
She said.
easy 137.
No, no, no.
It's a song.
Cesium-137.
It's radiation.
Where does that come from?
Cesium-137 is mostly a byproduct of nuclear fission, so you'd find it coming from nuclear reactors when uranium or plutonium splits.
It's also released during nuclear weapons testing or accidents, like Chernobyl or Fukushima.
Naturally, it's super rare, basically non-existent in the environment without human activity.
It's a radioactive isotope, emits beta and gamma radiation, and has a half-life of about 30 years.
That's why it's a from some reactor someplace that's leaking.
In Indonesia?
Hmm.
Well, we're working from Thailand.
I don't think they use nuclear power there.
Well, that's what bothers me about the report.
This could be out of the Fukushima area.
It could also just be a competitor launching something into the atmosphere.
We don't know.
We just don't know.
Well, shrimp.
I know.
That's why if you looked at the tip of the day, you'd find that little Geiger counter.
I would take that to the store and check my shrimp.
Check the shrimp before you buy it.
Scan your ch scan your scan your shrimp people and i like the way they say what hasn't caused anyone to get ill it that's not what it would you know if you ingest a radioactive uh substance like that it gives you it kills you over time it's nothing that you get ill about it makes you glow in the dark but you'll be okay well glowing in the dark's a giveaway We do know, we do know, we do know.
This is good news.
We now know for sure that President Trump did nothing bad with Epstein.
We have proof because Gisela.
Because Ghislaine said so.
Buried inside more than 300 pages from interviews conducted last month, Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, clears US President Donald Trump of any involvement.
I never saw the President in any type of massage setting.
I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way.
The President was never inappropriate with anybody.
In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.
The interview conducted by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche was released Friday in the interest of transparency.
The materials show Maxwell Epstein's longtime associate repeatedly showering Trump with praise, denying that she had observed him engaged in any form of sexual behavior.
Have you ever observed President Trump receive a massage?
Never.
The timing of the release raises questions.
The administration had been scrambling to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose records from the sex trafficking case.
The way this administration has responded makes it feel like a cover-up.
The case has drawn intense public scrutiny because of Epstein's ties to high-profile figures including Prince Andrew and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
In the transcripts, Maxwell denied seeing Clinton act inappropriately, and she also spoke glowingly of Prince Andrew.
After the interview, Maxwell was moved to a minimum security prison camp in Texas.
There she continues to serve a 20-year sentence, convicted four years ago on allegations that she lured teen girls to be sexually abused by Epstein.
Nah, didn't see anything.
Not with Clinton, not with Prince Andrew.
Not with President Trump.
It's nothing.
It's all good.
Yeah, of course that brought up nothing but speculators that say, yeah, she's just trying to get a pardon or a clemency or something.
or clemency or some damn thing.
Well, she's lying.
She's a liar.
But it would have been better if she said, I saw some stuff with Bill Clinton or, well, you know, Prince Andrew, but she didn't.
So that's what makes it interesting and somewhat laughable to me.
I mean, Prince Andrew, we know that he was up to no good.
I mean, maybe she didn't notice.
Well, I mean, there's also the women who were the ones that point.
So she was the real bad actor in this whole thing.
She was the one that recruited all the girls and did all that.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
Well, we don't know.
That's it.
Nobody knows nothing.
Nobody knows nothing.
That's exactly right.
But we could do a ten, a ten hour podcast about it like everybody else is doing.
Yeah.
Well, I think that you have that clip.
I have one clip that's that's even shorter and probably useless by comparison.
So we'll skip it.
That's how that's how we're going to do it.
Oh, come on.
It's PBS.
We might as well.
All right, play it.
President Trump supporters say he's been cleared up any suspicion by the transcript and recording of Ghislaine Maxwell's interview.
President Trump supporters, is there a rally somewhere that I missed?
Like Trump is innocent.
Hey, hey, ho, ho.
Trump is innocent.
Let Maxwell go.
President Trump supporters say he's been cleared up any any suspicion by the transcript and recording of Ghislaine Maxwell's interview with the Deputy Attorney General.
The woman who was Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend characterized the president, a former friend of Epstein's, as a gentleman and said she never saw him engaged in any kind of sexual misconduct.
President Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me, and I just want to say that I find I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the president now, and I like him.
He is the president.
And I always liked him.
He's the president.
That is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him.
Shortly after the interview, Maxwell, who's serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was transferred to a minimum security prison camp.
She's seeking a presidential pardon.
Yeah, all right.
You're right.
Just as nonsense as mine.
It's no good.
Yeah, they're not going to, this is going to be the end.
Well, they're going to release a bunch of documents now or something.
Oh, they released 30,000 documents and the Democrats are saying, hey, that's, we've already seen these documents.
We, you know, they've probably got binders that said Epstein files.
White binder.
Yeah.
No, we're not going to know anything yeah that white binder was a was the worst yeah so there's a somewhat of a discussion they're trying to make a headway with and pbs of course is pushing back on it because they are big supporters of the idea of mail in ballots and so there was a i got a three-part clip here uh because trump is all turned against mail in ballots for obvious reasons because this has to do with 2020 and
his false claims And so this is going to be interesting because this actually does reveal the fact that Trump really can't do too much without without Congress's help here.
With control of Congress at stake in next year's midterm elections, President Trump is doubling down on efforts to end mail-in voting.
In the 2024 election, nearly 30% of Americans who cast their ballots did it by mail.
Despite a multi-million dollar Republican drive to encourage supporters to vote by mail last year, the president says it's a fraud.
We as a Republican party are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots.
We're going to start with an executive order that's being written right now by the best lawyers in the country to end mail-in ballots because they're corre corrupt.
He also said that the United States is just about the only country in the world that uses them.
Rick Hassan is a professor of law and political science at UCLA.
He's also the author of A Real Right to Vote, How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.
Rick, I want to begin by parsing some of what we just heard from the president.
He says that just about the only country in the world that uses them is the United States.
Is that true?
No, it's not true.
It's used around the world in lots of other democracies, including in Canada and the United Kingdom and Germany.
He says he's going to issue an executive order to end male imbalance.
Is that within his powers?
So no.
First of all, an executive order is an order to the executive branch as to how to carry out the laws.
It's not a royal edict.
You can't just decree that we don't have mail and balloting anymore.
The Constitution says that each state gets to set its own rules for running elections.
And in Article 1, Section 4, it lets Congress override those rules as to congressional elections.
Congress also sometimes acts under its powers, for example, to enforce the 15th Amendment to bar race discrimination and voting.
The president's job is to take care that the laws passed by Congress are faithfully executed.
So he's got a lot of powers in terms of how the federal government might interact with states, but it's primarily states that are running elections and he has no direct authority over how elections are going to be conducted.
Well, that was a poor reading of Article 1, Section 4.
But as far as I'm concerned, the states have the authority to regulate times, places, and manner of elections.
I don't see how even Congress can do anything.
Well, he goes on and explains how they can.
Well, that counters what he said on Truth Social.
He said the states are merely an agent for the federal government in counting and tabulating the votes.
They must do what the federal government as represented by the president of the United States tells them.
That's just a fiction.
That's not how things work.
The Constitution does say that Congress can override.
So if Congress passed a law tomorrow that either outlawed or mandated mail and balloting, that law would probably be upheld as applied to congressional elections, couldn't be applied to state or local elections because the power only extends to congressional elections.
But the president doesn't have the power.
States are more than agents.
States, and this goes back to the founding, states were the primary actors that administered elections.
There wasn't agreement to have national election administration the way it is in most other countries today.
And that diversity of how elections are run, it makes for some confusion sometimes, but it can be a strength against an executive that's trying to impose its will, as we see the president trying to do here.
He says he's doing this because he wants to make sure there's no fraud.
We've had a long experience with mail and ballots in Oregon for about 25 years.
It's the only way you can vote.
What's the record?
Is there of fraud and corruption in these things?
Well, you're right that there are some states, including Oregon, Washington, Utah, and lots of where mail and balloting is the primary way that voting is conducted.
There are lots of states like California where I am where many people vote by mail.
And there are some states where mail and balloting is not all that common.
It did increase during COVID because people didn't want to go to polling places.
What we do know is that the president in 2020 in the midst of the COVID pandemic when he was running against Joe Biden railed against mail and balloting, said that it was fraudulent.
There were tons of investigations.
There were 60 plus lawsuits challenging the election on fraud grounds and there was no evidence of any fraud related to mail and ballots that could have affected the election anywhere in the United States.
I have to notice the way he put no evidence no evidence of any fraud that could have affected the election.
Oh yeah, that's the standard which means there was fraud.
I have to rescind my previous comment.
The full text of Article 1 Section 4, the times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.
But big but, the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations except as to the places of choosing senators and choosing is spelled chus ing choosing choosing so I guess Congress can change that well and if that's true why don't they do it because it behooves no one we can't do our shenanigans if we if we do it because it's exactly shenanigans
On all sides.
When Washington State has been captured.
And there's studies that were done in the 60s and 70s about mail-in ballots, which were discussed a bit back in 2020, but then nobody wants to talk about it anymore.
And these were done by Democrats, showing that mail-in ballots was very easily a corruptible system, that you do the ballot harvesting and people just get the blank ballots.
You can put anyone's name on them.
No one does any checking to any extreme.
whole thing is it is a scam yeah and that's why they don't want to in oregon washington two of the most democrat run states completely captured by the party Well, let me allow me to ask you this question.
Why in three clips, because we have a third of PBS, did no one do what we just did?
Read the actual piece of the constitu constitution where, I mean, even I can understand this language.
Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations.
Well, I mean, not by executive order, for sure.
But why don't they just read that and tell us why?
Because they don't want, they want, they have a perspective that they, well, why don't they have a guy on, for example, along with this character who has maybe a different opinion about this?
Then what good would this be for the show?
It would be useless.
They'd have, they'd have something that people would stop with that bit.
Well, who's, who's propagating the bit?
You can stop.
You can stop with that bit anytime you want.
There are sometimes small locales where there is election fraud, and it sometimes does occur with mail and ballots, but not on the kind of scale that the president is talking about.
And in his social media post, he talked about getting rid of voting machines as well.
And it's not clear what machines he's talking about.
I don't know what he has in mind, not only about what powers he thinks he has, but what exactly he thinks he wants to do since Republicans in states like Arizona and Florida rely very heavily on mail and balloting to get out the votes of their own supporters.
This morning, the Texas legislature sent Governor Abbott there, the newly drawn maps, they're trying to pick up Republican seats in the House.
Do mail and ballots favor one party over another?
Well, historically, Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to use mail and ballots, in part because people who are older, richer, whiter, tend to move less.
And those are people who tend to use mail and balloting more.
In more recent years, Democrats have achieved parity and in some places exceeded Republican use of vote by mail, in part because Democrats realized that if they pushed early voting, they could kind of bank their votes and then they don't have to worry about as many people on election day.
I would say that if the president.
had not been putting out all of these negative tweets and other statements about mail and balloting, deriding it, you'd see both Democrats and Republicans using it more and more.
We do know that in 2024, an election that Donald Trump won, Republican voters expressed much more confidence in the election process and much more support for vote by mail.
In 2024, the president was not really so against vote by mail, but now he's back on this.
And so we'll see where it goes.
I don't remember that.
Yeah, I do.
You do.
That's true.
I don't remember that.
I do.
Okay.
Well, you made a big flush about it about man that he saw mail and ballots were good no he said you got to do your he didn't say they were good per se but he said we should all be doing mail and voting make sure the republicans get their votes in before the election itself i thought it was early voting not mail in but early voting he mail in was specifically mentioned i'll take your word for it but
here Trump on mail and voting from DOTS 2020 that doesn't count.
No, that's when he hated it.
Yeah, I don't think we have any clips of it though.
Well, probably not because it was not interesting.
Let's play the Texas thing so we get the Texas new map on PBS.
It was a short clip.
A redrawn Texas congressional map is on its way to Texas governor Greg Abbott for his signature.
The Texas state senate approved the map early this morning in an 18 to 11 party line vote.
Republicans designed the map in hopes of winning five additional house seats in next year's midterm elections.
Republicans have a slim majority in the House where there are now 219 Republicans, 212 Democrats, and four vacancies.
Yep, well, we did that.
Everything, of course, about that is kind of the boring thing.
It's like you get a general election, like, oh, I can breathe now.
And then within six months, it's all about the midterms.
And then from the midterms, it'll be for the that's all the news is.
News is all about politics.
Voting in the elections.
Politics and war.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Yeah, politics and war.
Yeah, that's pretty much it.
That's not much more famine, disease, petulance, pestilence.
That's another thing that's being left out.
Although I think the flesh eating bacteria accounts for that.
We have a deal with the European Union.
That happened on Thursday, last show day.
The European Union and the United States are moving from trade intentions to implementation.
On Thursday, the two partners published a joint statement setting out new customs duties.
The text provides for a maximum of 15%.
Did you see this clip?
Is he petting a cat?
No, this is Euronews.
They have the worst guy reading the news.
This is the only guy they have reading.
And Euronews generally used to be pretty good.
And now they have like some African guy reading their news.
I don't know why.
Statement setting out new customs duties.
The text provides for a maximum duty of 15% on a large proportion of EU exports to the US.
Once again, the European Commission is defending this compromise, which has been the subject of much criticism.
Let me say this clearly.
The alternative, a trade war with sky-high tariffs and political escalation, helps no one.
It hurts jobs, it hurts growth, it damages businesses across both the EU and the US.
We have a good deal.
And this is not theoretical, as nearly 5 million European jobs, including many in SMEs, would be at risk.
This deal avoids that path.
It's interesting how in the US the general comment about tariffs is, it's only going to hurt us.
We don't need tariffs.
But the Europeans are like, you know, these tariffs could really hurt 5 million jobs.
You never really know where the pain is.
I have a clip that relates to that, what you just said.
Okay.
Which is the, I'm sorry, the newsletter.
This is the...
And if you're expecting a package from me, you see it me.
overseas it may be delayed because of confusion over President Trump's decision to stop exempting small value imports from tariffs European postal services like UK's Royal Mail and DHL are suspending shipments until they get more information and clarity about the rule.
With the exemption gone, all imports will be subject to the tariff that's imposed on the country of origin.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol says that last year, more than a million packages with goods worth $65 billion were sent under the exemption.
Before we discuss, I have the Euronews version of this confusion.
Several European countries will be halting their postal services to the US after Donald Trump scrapped a tax exemption on low import goods worth less than $800 or €688 last month.
The White House said it is aiming to combat illegal and abusive practices, such as the importation of illegal drugs into the United States.
Letters and small parcels under $100 or €85 will not be affected.
The UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Holland will temporarily suspend services from next week, while Belgium already stopped shipping packages to the US on Frida and the European Union agreed on a new trade deal ending months of uncertainty.
So they kind of explained it, but all the headlines like, oh, they're stopping all services to America.
Nobody really goes into the de minimis conversation, which I know you know about.
What, what part of it?
Oh, well, that the de minimis exemption has been deleted.
It went away mainly from China.
It didn't, it wasn't deleted, it was lowered.
Yeah, lowered to $100, from 800 to $100.
Yeah, so I'm getting nothing but 10 emails a day from Timu and Xi'an saying, come on, buy this, because if you look at their stuff, it's all five, six, 10 bucks.
Right.
I think most of the stuff that was brought in, they just figure, okay, so I buy a $10 sweater from Timu or some whatever other piece of junk, by the way.
Stuff never fits right.
It says one thing.
It's made with another.
It's junk, junk.
But I buy a $10 piece of junk, and then I buy another $10 piece of junk, and then another, then I buy up to $700 worth of, or let's say a $1,000 worth of junk, $10 at a time and $100, you know, to 100 different parcels, and it still comes through.
The joke of this is that if you send something prior to all this, if you send something to the European Union, like, I don't know, a ring or in the case of Curry and the Keeper, a couple of glasses, we've had people end up paying 50 euros import tax on something as small as that.
That's the big joke.
They know exactly what it is because they have those regulations themselves.
I think it's good.
What are you ordering to get something good?
Nobody should be paying 50 bucks for two glasses.
No, I know.
My point is it's good that good that we're doing this.
Screw those guys.
Yeah, no, I agree with that.
60 times the amount of money.
The thing is, the thing that is baffling to me is that what you just described is the way it always worked here.
When some package came in with a customs sticker on it, you paid the duty yourself at the post office.
Let's find out what Democrat Chinese kiss-ass president or Congress did this.
When did the U.S. de minimis tax of $800 go into effect?
Okay, let's see.
Why don't you ask your executive this?
March 11th.
Oh, this is interesting.
No.
It was part of the trade facilitation and trade-off.
trade enforcement act of 2015 hello who was the president in 2015 obama yes that's right And so prior to the TFTE, the de minimis threshold was $200.
The increase to $800 allowed goods valued at or below this amount to enter the US duty free.
So that was his parting, you know, parting.
Well, I'm sure it wasn't just Obama, obviously.
It was Congress.
Well, there you go.
So that was great.
Man, I'm going to look into that.
I'm going to see who sponsored that.
Who someone was on the take for that, for that.
You think?
Yeah.
Someone was on the take.
What?
Don't let's see.
the sponsor was.
The sponsor was, that should be in the law.
And if Lindsey Graham's name shows up, I won't be surprised.
Let me see who it was.
It was Walwell.
It was sponsor Patrick Tabiri from Ohio.
Republican.
There you go.
There you go.
Republican.
Doesn't it?
I'm sure he got it.
Doesn't it make living comfortably?
Additional sponsors, mister Brady of Texas.
Oh, it was a pure Republican bill.
Look at these guys.
Yeah, one of your Texans too.
Douchebags.
All of them.
All of them.
All of them were douches.
Also, we struck a deal with Canada.
And this was big talker, Carney, who buckled.
What happened to elbows up?
Huh?
Elbows up.
Oh, elbows down, mister Carney.
Your critics are going to say that this is an elbows down approach that you're backing down to Trump.
What are you gaining by dropping these tariffs?
Let's be clear.
We have the best deal of anyone in the world right now.
We have the lowest tariff rate on average, a little over 5.5 percent versus that 16 percent average for the world and in many cases much higher.
We have that confirmed in an executive order of the president a few weeks ago.
It's important that we preserve that.
We are matching something the Americans have done here first.
And it's very significant.
It's unique.
We get the benefit.
The second thing is, you know, and I'll take your analogy.
And I have played some hockey over the years.
And There is a time in a game, in a big game, and this is a big game, when you go hard in the corners, your elbows up, the time in a game where you drop the gloves in the first period and just send a message.
And we've done that pretty uniquely in the world.
But there's also a time in a game where you want the puck, you want a stick handle, you want a pass, you want to put the puck in the net.
And we're moving later into the game.
And we're at that time in the game.
He did actually play ice hockey for Harvard, strangely enough.
Well, that's the worst sports analogy I've ever heard in my life.
But he, well, that's the Canadians, man.
So.
So anyway, I think there's all kinds of different things also for Europe with steel.
There's still 50% tariffs on after a certain quota.
So in general, I think President Trump is doing a good job for us.
Now, I'm my buddy who does small machine CDC parts.
I think we talked about it.
He says, you know, oh, yeah, I'm sure we did.
He says, you know, it's going to suck because it costs more for us.
We have to use American steel for these parts and American aluminum.
It's much more expensive.
It'll take a few years before that price comes down.
But, and I know you remember this..
He said everything we ordered from China, 40% was defective.
Yeah, junk.
Yeah, it's just junk.
So, in general, I think in the long term, it'll be good.
I'd rather be here than the UK, I'll tell you that.
Yes, they are in trouble.
Yeah, they are.
Okay.
Anything else you got on your list?
Because I have a couple of just short clips right now.
No, no, no.
What I think we should do is I'll play a lead in to your favorite segment.
Hold on.
The White House appears to have a case of FOMO when it comes to TikTok and its 170 million users.
That could explain why it's just launched an official account on the Chinese-owned social media platform less than a month before President Trump is set to ban it.
A 2024 data protection law required TikTok to stop operating in January unless its owner ByteDance sold off its US operations.
Trump once called the spread of TikTok a national emergency and has said the app's data collection could give China access to Americans' personal information.
During his first term, he signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the app, but he went on to use TikTok extensively during last year's presidential campaign and has since extended the deadline for the sell-off several times.
It's currently set to come into force on September 17th.
Yo, you're going to be in real trouble.
Now, Reels is caught up and so is, uh, if they blocked it.
Actually, half the TikTok clips aren't even TikTok anymore.
What are you even going to do if, I mean, you'll lose your, uh, One America Now gig.
Again, like I said, half the clips aren't even TikTok anymore, and they're the same maniacs yacking into a camera.
Hey, by the way., talking about yaking into a can, what is this?
You might know the answer to this because it's been bugging me.
Okay.
There's a lot of these video podcasters.
They're holding a little square microphone with a dead cat on it, a dead kitten.
It's a little square thing and it's like a portable mic and it doesn't have wires.
And they're holding, waving it around in this microphone.
And I've seen it over and over again.
And I can't, I don't know what it is, who makes it.
And it sounds decent.
Well, I'm glad you asked.
This is from, the reason why is because they are giving them free.
And it is from my favorite company who has never sent me anything, even though I have spoken positively about their products.
Road.
Road.
That's right.
That's the roadmind.
Why do they make this stupid looking thing?
By the way, I think it's idiotic.
It records on device even.
Oh, it's an on device recorder.
That's interesting.
Well, it's wireless and on device.
Does both.
Yeah.
Well, it's a little square.
It looks dumb.
I know, especially when they clip it on somebody.
It's like a big, oh, God, that's horrible.
Big giant square.
Big giant thing.
It's got the dead kitten on it too, which makes it worse.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
But it sounds good.
Sounds good, for sure but it's just like I've been seeing it over and over again.
So I got I got three clips.
Okay.
They're all the same, you know, ranting women that have lost their minds over one thing or another.
Let's start with the bigotted hater girl.
It's usually a swipe left too, because we all know what that usually means now.
I think the fact that women don't want to date Trump voters, men who love Donald Trump struggle on the dating market.
Oh, 100%.
If we see a man who says he's conservative, it's an automatic swipe left.
It doesn't matter what he looks like.
And me personally at this point, if I see a man listed as moderate as well, it's usually a swipe left too, because we all know what that usually means now.
I think the fact that conservative men absolutely refuse to listen to women when we try to explain to them why we don't want to date conservative men.
And then they choose to proceed to be conservative and then immediately complain that they're confused as to why women don't want to date them and they don't know why.
It's an ironic perfect embodiment of like the lack of critical thinking and self-awareness, you know, like the ability to step outside of your own experience and listen to others that the Conservative Party embodies as a whole, making a lot of women like me not want to date them.
And a lot of this is trending in the news right now because the Conservative Party is about to launch their new dating app called The Right Stuff in which I'm willing to bet every penny that I've ever made that the usership of this app is going to be about 90% men and 10% women with Lynn as the second part of their name.
And I know the immediate complaint is always, y'all are so closed-minded to anything which embodies a lot of irony coming from the right alone.
But that's not true.
One of my best friends used to be moderate and our friendship ended for different reasons, kind of.
But a lot of his close friends were conservative men, so anytime Oh, that's how it ends?
Yeah, just kind of gets cut off.
So this is a woman's true bitches about self awareness and she's obviously not self aware.
She's a chatterbox, yak, yak, yak, wonders why.
You know, I like the fact that most of these women self-identify.
They got the nose ring or they got some other, some other adornment.
If I recall, she was no looker, because I think I've seen this clip.
She was man, like a seven maybe.
Well, I didn't rate her in one way or the other, but when you bring these clips, you need to give me a number.
I'll give her a six.
Okay.
You're a 6.
So there we go.
The Divorax scale.
So then we get the leftists.
I got two clips here, leftists, that are on to promote their perspective on things.
And this is a...
They're going to be left in the lurch.
Well, now, I presume these are Gen Z women?
Sounds like it.
No, these are mostly...
No, no, no.
Well, maybe.
It's hard to say.
I think they're borderline on millennials.
But they could be the Gen Zs before they start falling into the conservative camp.
Exactly talking about that.
That's what's happening.
They're looking at their own generation and these are the stragglers.
These are the ones that haven't gotten the memo yet.
This is not where you want to be.
Well, they're definitely stragglers.
And they, you know, I guess it's one way of looking at it.
Okay, here we go one.
Getting crushed by capitalism is like so cringe, but it's like it's happening to me.
And like I got a PhD from Berkeley and I'm like.
A PhD from Berkeley.
I can't get a job to save my life.
Like, I got a soil biology PhD and What, what kind of what kind of PhD?
Soil biology.
Soil biology?
Is there a, is there a big market for soil biology?
Well, like, not according to her, no.
I mean, maybe in the Corn Belt.
Like, I got a soil biology PhD and like, now I'm a tutor and a babysitter and a dog sitter.
And like, part of that is because like, I don't want to like move to some randomom place in the middle of nowhere.
Like Gornbell.
The other half is like they cut all the funding for science and the biotech market is just like absolutely cratered.
And like I have long COVID so it's difficult for me to work like a full time job.
And just like I got here to rant a little bit.
But like, oh my god, like what do we do?
I just have to work.
I just have to work.
Yes.
She doesn't want to move to where the jobs are though.
That's the problem.
She doesn't want to move to where soil biologists.
Well, it turns out she got a bunch of griefief for this report and she came out with a second posting.
Oh, but there's a series.
A follow up.
Yes.
And she comes out and admits what really is going on with her.
And it brings up the ironies of today's modern age, especially in the ironies in the Democratic Party.
And if you listen to this, this is her comeback.
I know, and not many right wingers get this, but as a leftist, I really don't want a job.
Like, I know that people make fun of leftists for not wanting a job, but like, I'm really one of them.
I just.
Come on, this is not real.
This is not a sincere person who says this.
It's not, this is not possible.
I believe it to be.
I am.
I'm the same woman that just went on their other rent.
It could be a fake, but I I'm liking it.
I can't stand the idea of having to work.
And I don't understand why right wingers want to work either.
Like they Do she on social media, does she like a lot of posts?
Because it sure sounds like, like, like, like.
And I don't understand why right wingers want to work either.
Like they are like slaves to their masters, low key.
And they love it and they eat it up.
But when someone like me says, like, I don't want to work in the middle of nowhere.
Everybody's mad at me and it's pretty obvious that you're a little bit like cucked, if you know what I mean.
What?
By your circumstances and maybe I am too, but I'm into that.
So okay.
All right.
Wow.
So I think whether there's truth to this or not, there is an element of I don't want to really work.
I should just be given a free ride.
I got I went I already worked.
I got my PhD in soil science and it what it what comes to mind is the Democrat Party who likes these people.
The Democrat Party used to be the party of the working class.
And now all of a sudden you're a right winger if you like to work.
Yeah, well, these parties flip all the time throughout history.
Remember it was the Democrats who were racist and then somehow it was the Republicans who were racist.
Well, somehow they're accused of being racist, but the Democrats are still racists.
This is correct.
Yeah.
Well, that's my, that's my contribution to the good of society.
Yes, that's a very sad state of affairs.
I hope you had a nice strong cup of tea after watching that.
You must protect your own mind from the virus that these people propagate on social media.
Like.
Like.
And with that, I like, I like, I like.
I want to thank you very much for your courage.
The man who put the C in the CNC parts from China.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, will you, Mr. John C. Dumoran.
And good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry, and the morning of the ship, the sea, the bus, and the graph, and the air, so it was the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
Hey there, trolls, trolls, good morning to the trolls, let me count you, there we go.
Yeah, we're doing better.
Yeah, I think people heard the message that the stream issues have been resolved.
21, 25.
We're getting closer to our old numbers.
This is good news.
And we still are in the dog days of summer.
School is school back in session?
Is school back?
Are people back at school?
Yeah.
They just went back to school.
Yeah.
Like last week.
Did everybody?
Yeah, I was a kid.
We went after Labor Day or whatever the holiday is in September.
We let it was in September and we didn't get and we quit, I think, before the 15th of June all the way to this second week of September.
It was summer time and the teachers were always, oh, those teachers that get a hold, look at all the time they get off.
Yeah, teach, how come the teachers aren't up in arms about this?
They should be, they should be very mad.
It's, it's, it's, I have no idea.
Maybe they figure they get a month's more, another month of checks.
I don't have no, I don't know.
Well, anyway, it's good to have you trolls here, trollroom.io, noagenda.stream, and of course the modern podcast apps where you can always, always be notified when we go live.
This is the hot new thing in podcasting.
It's been around for a couple of years, but it's startings gonna be hot.
Yeah, it's very, very hot.
Podcast apps dot com.
Podverse is still the number one alternative app for this show versus Apple number one, Podverse number two, Podcast Guru number three.
Zero Spotify.
Of course, we're not on Spotify.
And people seem to not have a problem with that.
Like, okay, it's not on Spotify.
I'll just use a different app.
Spotify are no good.
We don't want to be a part of that cabal.
They are evil.
But we are somehow on the iHeart app.
Did you submit us to the iHeart app?
Are we on Podbean?
That's what I like.
I'll have to take a look.
See if we're on Podbean.
That is kind of a necessity.
You have to be on Podbean to be an official podcast.
Value for Value is our is the way we've been operating on this program.
It'll be eighteen years in October and episode eighteen hundred coming up in seven short episodes.
So that's Do we have a date yet?
Do you know the date of our eighteen hundredth episode?
No, I just looked at the calendar and figured it out.
Yeah, well, that's why I ask you.
I haven't I haven't done that yet.
When I get to show 1798.
Yeah, then we'll start thinking.
It should be next week, plus one show.
Got it.
Value for value means that you don't have to listen to ads.
Oh, man.
I was listening to radio the other day.
I don't understand.
Oh, it's impossible to listen to.
It's all ads.
Especially if you want to listen to, like, I like country music, and I listen to, you can't listen to.
Well, hello there, buddy.
It's not quite what country music is anymore.
In fact, country music is not like Merle Haggard anymore.
But it's unlistenable.
I mean, no wonder people just listen to a playlist.
Why would you listen to music, radio, just in general?
It's just stop for ads.
20 minutes an hour.
No.
And you know what's really annoying about these ads on these radio stations?
Well, they they all use I they pretty much all use the same generalized clock.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, they all.
So the ads all hit at the same time.
Yeah.
So it comes to an ad segment, you change channels, add, add, add, no matter, channel, channel, channel, channel, ads, ads, ads, ads.
You can't, there's no moment of relaxation.
It's all ads.
When I was working at the legendary WHTZZ 100 in New York under the guidance of Michael Scott Shannon, who invented the Z Morning Zoo.
Oh, he invented the zoo?
Oh, yeah.
Well, he's credited.
I believe he did.
I've always wondered who did that.
Yeah, that was in New York.
The first zoo was in New York.
No, no, I think he started it in Jacksonville, Florida.
I think that's where he started it.
Yeah, I heard it was started in Florida.
Yeah, I think it was in.
And there's still some zoo shows in Florida.
If you go down there in the morning driving around.
WAPE, the Big Ape, everybody, good morning.
Woo, that's right.
My daddy was Beetle.
Yeah.
It's always the same.
You got at least two guys yacking at each other.
And then there's a girl who's part of it and she makes snyd comments.
And then there's a sports guy and then there's a gay guy who does entertainment news.
Correct.
And there's always a wacky guy who calls up.
Here's mister Leonard in his lime green pinto.
So, and that's it.
There will be one guy who calls in and he can usually do voices.
Yeah.
And he calls in as Clinton or he calls in as Trump or he calls Yeah.
And that guy calls in ten radio stations every morning and he has he deals with every single one of them.
Anyway, what Scott Shannon had because of that clock format and it really went to 46 past the hour.
That was the big thing.
You go 46 past the hour, then you'd have about five, six minutes of ads, and then you wanted to come out of that block with the biggest monster hit you could play.
This is before Internet children.
Well, the Internet was around, but there was no streaming.
And he had four light bulbs in the studio, old school light bulbs.
One was for PLJ 955, one was for WBLS.
I forget who the two others were.
Maybe I don't remember.
So you would see the light bulbs come on when the other stations went into commercials.
And the trick was you wanted to be out of commercials into the monster hit before those other light bulbs went off.
That's how competitive it was.
That's how interesting.
you've never told that story before.
No, I haven't.
Well, the more you know, the more interesting trick.
The more you know.
Oh, the other trick was the the radio ratings were done now they're and I think they're all done by Nielsen.
Now, but back in the day, they were done by a company called Arbitron.
Right.
And Arbitron.
And Arbitron, they mainly did diaries.
So you, they would have, you know, I don't know, the hundred or a thousand families.
And you would keep a diary of what you listen to throughout the day.
And so whenever the Arbitron diaries went out, Scott Shannon would do a promotion with these cheap wristwatches called Armitron.
And so it would be like, if you call a 100, you'll win an Armitron watch.
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Wow.
That's also admirable marketing.
Scott Shannon, man, the guy's a genius.
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You didn't really like that.
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You liked that one.
That's the one I think you picked right off the bat.
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It was a mess.
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Sometimes.
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What was it?
He said, did I complain about him donating?
I think I did.
Well, you're always complaining about him.
So he sends me a video of you having dinner and wine at a very upscale restaurant.
And it was him filming it.
And he said, Dvorak ate your part of the donation.
So now, just so you know, when he takes you out to dinner, he considers that a donation to the show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He had a pair.
Yeah, we went to this place and he was in town.
So he went to a one-star restaurant, which was not close to being one star in quality, which irked me.
I'm sorry.
Because I know what a one-star restaurant should be like, and this was not a one-star restaurant by any...
So he has a pair of those glasses that takes videos.
Oh, how lame is that?
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It's like, like, I'm a dick.
Does it bald?
Does it pulse?
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And the light is flashing code, Morse code.
I'm a dick.
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Wow.
So he had those glasses and I don't know even whose I didn't even ask whose brand they were, but Oh, I'm sure it's Facebook.
It's Meta stuff.
Yeah, probably.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Meta has it.
So that's what he's spending his money on.
Well, anyway, I told him, I replied, said, No, you're just a cheapskate.
You just don't want to donate real money.
I can't remember what he replied, but he had no real reply after that.
You know, turns out these Hollywood guys, once you just slap them down, they got no fuck.
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This is a big one.
We have a big ceremony now for our Secretary Joe.
Oh, you have it?
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Hey, I do production on this show, of course.
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I didn't know you were ready to do that one already.
Of course.
I'm stunned.
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Mm hmm.
Crackpot Buzzkill.
I have been remiss lately, so I'm playing ketchup with my donations.
Here's 333 for the last 200 shows.
Wow.
That's a good way of doing that.
That's very good.
I like it.
200 shows, 3.330 a show.
I can't believe I've given this kind of money to a product.
I can't believe I've given this kind of money to a podcast.
But you have been worth every penny over the last 11 years that I've been listening.
It's fitting that the first episode I listened to was titled Slavery Enrollment.
Wow.
What, what episode was that?
That's 11 years ago.
Slavery.
This donation takes me over to the baron level.
Please update my title to Baron Ichabod of the Bike Path Gorbel, protector of the Seleucid Empire.
Seleucid.
Adam, even though you don't like it, could you please use the Bob Dylan version of these titles or change ink for the ceremony?
I don't know that he doesn't like it.
I didn't never say.
By the way, Slavery Enrollment was episode 666.
Oh, that's the 6A.
I get it.
So hence the donation.
Adam, the reason you don't understand many of John's references because you are not a boomer.
This is not true.
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I don't know why.
I refuse to believe as a kid I was led into the head banger's ball each week by a boomer posing as some cool hip VJ.
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Please set me up as Secretary, the Secretary General ship of Winder and the Great Smoky Mountains.
Could you have some relationship, Karma as well?
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I don't know if maybe it is Winder.
I'll pronounce it properly during your ceremony.
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You've got Karma.
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Jeffrey Ray, Secretary General of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, AKA digital 2112 man.
Oh, there he is.
Oh, that's who this is.
Is it possible to please email a PDF of the certificate?
Because we got into a back and forth on this.
I guess he he is he doesn't have a wall.
He might not be the same guy.
Yeah, it is.
He doesn't have a wall.
No, no, I don't know.
We'll work it out.
We always work it out.
We'll take care of you, brother.
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Klobuchar sounds pretty good.
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I think it's the first, no, maybe not the first.
Well, no, someone else, I think, did that at a meetup.
This is I think nonprofits love to do this because you can get Yes, we got a matching donation, everybody.?
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What is it?
Is it, uh, I think ceremony?
Ceremony.
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Sigh.
Federal Reserve.
No, maybe not.
Federal Reserve.
Do you know Mohammed L. Arian?
No, I don't know.
He's not known.
Mohammed L. Arian.
Well, Margaret Brennan had him on.
And it was in response to, I guess, the Friday, was it Friday?
The stock market just went kaboomy, kaboooy.
Wasn't there a record close for the Dow Jones?
Yeah.
And it was all based on.
All based on this.
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell used Friday's speech to signal the central bank is open to cutting interest rates before its next decision in September.
The baseline outlook and the changing balance of risks may warrant adjusting our policy stance.
Powell, whose term as chair expires next May, has faced intense pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates.
He spoke today about continued economic uncertainty over the administration's immigration and tariff policies.
This year, the economy has faced new challenges.
Significantly higher tariffs across our trading partners are rebuilding the global trading system.
Tighter immigration policy has led to an abrupt slowdown in labor force growth.
President Trump backed off previous threats to fire Powell, but is now targeting another Fed board member, Lisa Cook that she did was bad.
So I'll fire her if she doesn't resign.
Cook was appointed to the Fed's Board of Governors by former President Biden.
This week, a Trump administration official accused her of mortgage fraud and called for an investigation.
In a statement, Cook says she has no intention of stepping down.
I love how, you know, this monumental sentence by Powell first, you know, I'm going to cut rates.
And then, of course, Trump bad because someone else, one of her colleagues accused her of mortgage fraud, which sounds pretty much par for the course, I guess.
So Margaret Brennan had this Mohammed Al Arian guy on.
I guess he's a big bond dude, according to the Trolls in the No.
And here's what he had to say.
We turn now to the US economy.
Mohammed Al Arian is the chief economic adviser at Alliance and he joins us this morning.
Alliance.
He's from Greenwich, Connecticut.
Good morning to you.
He's from Alliance in Connecticut.
Good morning, Margaret.
So we saw the Federal Reserve chair signal on Friday that the Fed is going to, as expected, begin lowering rates very soon.
But he also cited slowing economic growth and a cooling job market.
So why then did the financial markets rally?
What is with the laughtail, Margaret?
That's not needed.
Because he finally pivoted to the risk that matters most for the US economy right now.
By construct, the Fed has to deliver two things, maximum employment and price stability, and the Fed is looking at slightly higher inflation and a weakening labor market.
And what Powell finally did, and many of us feel he should have done this earlier, is he said the risk to the employment side is higher than the risk to the inflation side, and therefore an interest rate cut is warranted.
As you know, many of us felt he should have cut last month.
Oh, it sounds like he's a Trump guy.
I don't even know why she has him on.
He's saying what the president has been saying for a long time.
Well, the Fed chair said significantly higher tariffs are remaking the entire global trade system, tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth, and there are big tax and regulation changes you can't quite quantify at this point, but it's a lot of uncertainty.
Since economists have to build on models and data, how do you predict where we're going if basically he's say laughing again.
So one of the problems is, did you notice that she said she made it was a self-contradictory statement.
She says that the slower migration or no migration is creating a tighter labor market.
Is that what she said?
Yes, something it was just completely wrong.
Paulus, listen, tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth.
Tighter immigration policy has slowed labor growth.
Is that so and Paulus worried about labor slowdown.
Labor has labor growth slowed because of the lack of cheap labor?
Does that make sense?
Cheap illegal.
labor.
Illegal labor is ruining the country.
Is that what we're talking about?
Yeah, I think so.
So one of the problems is he hasn't looked forward enough.
He's been very data dependent and therefore he has tended to be late.
Look, there is something promising in our future and that is productivity enhancement that comes from exciting innovation in AI, in life sciences, in robotics and other areas.
We just have to manage a challenging few months in the period ahead.
And if that challenge is mishandled, we will not be able to get the opportunities that we have that offset a lot of structural headwinds and that includes high debt and high deficits.
what I don't know So what does this mean, John?
Does this mean we'll be printing money again or what does this mean?
It doesn't mean anything.
It's just blathers, typical financial stuff.
They just talk, talk, talk.
You know, anything that benefits the markets, the stock market specifically is great.
So there's an interesting one of the big AI product companies that provides, I don't know if I'm allowed to say who this is.
All right, I'll say it.
But it's a company that is very heavily into AI.
And they decided to eat their own dog food, which is an old term that used to be used in Silicon Valley.
Did they use AI for their company balance sheet?
No.
They decided to take 1,000 people that work there and have them and study their use of AI to see what effect it had on productivity.
And it probably degraded productivity.
No, it did nothing.
Nothing at all?
Nothing at all, one way or the other.
Huh.
And you got this from Buzzkill Jr.?
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Well, you don't have to say it.
So nothing at all happened.
And so the CEO is like concerned about this.
It's like, what's the point?
And so they're doing more studies are expected from different companies to see what kind of, you know, if AI, because it's, oh yeah, you've got to use AI, you can increase your productivity.
And it shows, I think it does increase productivity with, like, for example, our artists.
But it doesn't mean that it's good.
No, I mean, but we would, if we were a commercial operation and we were looking for commercial viable art, we would pretty much say no to everybody.
So they would have to go back and do it anyway.
Well, anyway, something's missing.
And this is he says that this is why Altman came out with his commentary about, well, you know, maybe we're going too far, there's a bubble, blah, blah, blah.
Because he doesn't want to get blamed for what when it finally starts to appear that AI is a dud insofar as really being of use in terms of productivity.
I mean, it's fun.
It's very fun.
It's fun, but it's not productive necessarily.
And it's going to be, and he's now my son who is in AI, he is on board with your thinking, which is the end is near.
AI winter is coming.
But I also What's his timeline?
Did he give you a timeline on when he thinks it's going to be?
Well, he could, you know, I threw back at him his own thoughts earlier about jumping the shark.
And after jumping the shark, you have a period of time, the two or three year period, before it actually anything.
It's just a marker.
And I said, When is it jump the shark that you're going to get the marker you're always talking about?.
And so he can't.
He doesn't have it.
It's not happening tomorrow.
Let's put it that way.
No, it won't happen tomorrow.
When It will happen when it's three years.
It will happen when people actually have to pay the actual cost of this stuff.
That's when it's going to happen.
And I think OpenAI is starting to show those signs where $200 a month and you still get limited on ChatGPT 5.
And, you know, it's just it's getting pricey now.
There's one other AI story that I just wanted to put on your radar because you also watch YouTube from time to time.
There's a lot of YouTubers who are claiming and circumstantial evidence shows it that when they upload video to the to the YouTube that what comes back, excuse me, what comes back appears to be AI upscaled is what they're saying and what it really means is everything looks kind of AI ish.
You know, it's like enhanced hair looks more enhanced.
It looks kind of you know how Scaramangas videos look kind of slick and slimy and then glossy.
Slimy, yeah.
You know what I mean, right?
AI has a certain look.
There's a look.
And they're all saying, well, they're AI upscaling.
But I'm like, what I think is happening is that YouTube has had to, or Google has had to change so much of their architecture to do all this generative AI stuff that they've had to take all of their YouTube encoding machines and make them AI generative friendly just to be able to handle the load.
And they're like, well, screw it.
will just make everything look that way.
I would have a different take what's your take that somebody a bean counter said can we make these files smaller?
Well, to look better.
Same thing.
Well, yeah, I know, but it's for a different reason.
The reason is this overhead.
Well, no, it's the same reason.
We needed the machine, so just do it all this way.
So let's shrink these things and make them look good.
Shrunk.
Yeah.
So the file size is smaller.
And we can just free up some space on our drives.
On our drives.
Hey man, our drive's getting full here.
Let's free up some space.
AI, AI, all that about driving is full.
Go for it.
We can do it.
We can do it.
Yeah.
But all right.
I'll keep my eye on that.
I haven't really caught him in the wild.
I haven't seen any evidence of this, but it's pot.
I don't watch enough, I guess.
No, neither do I. This was an interesting, just some DEI stuff.
This was kind of an interesting take.
This is, I believe, I'm not sure which network this is from.
Well, Target's CEO now plans to step down after struggling to turn around weak sales.
Brian Cornell announced today that he would leave the position on February 1st after eleven years at the helm.
He will be replaced by Target's chief operating officer.
The change in leadership comes at the same time target reported another quarter of sluggish results the company has seen flat or declining sales in eight out of the past ten quarters the retail giant was the target of a nationwide boycott several months ago after backtracking on its DEI initiatives so this report leads me to believe that people are not going to target because they got rid of their back to school rainbow stuff I think this is true.
And I've always been a, on the DHM plug show, I was always condemned target for being too woke and ruining the business and the CEO has to quit and I've been saying this for years and now these guys quit it'll be interesting to see what happens although he didn't really fully quit he's been boosted to the chairman of the board and they brought in his COO as the as the new CEO so it's probably going to be the same I'm guessing but you know everybody's handled this poorly except Costco.
Costco is the only operation that got that avoided this dilemma, which is what we have here at Target.
And by Costco saying, we're not changing any of our DEI policies.
We're going to stay the course.
They don't really have any DEI policies.
So they're just this bull crap..
They have barely any people working on the floor.
I mean, they have people, but they don't have that.
They have the handing out snacks.
And would you like to crap?
So they did the best job of it by saying they're not changing anything.
So, And so a bunch of these pressure groups, and there's one group in particular, a new one that just came, came around.
I don't know if I don't have a clip of him, but a new guy who's he's in the footsteps of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's another guy's another pastor.
And he's the one creating, he's going to create a boy.
He's creating boycotts against Target and the old, the old extortion scam.
That works.
That's good.
It works.
It's a great gig.
It's great.
Well, the other DEI news was President Trump and the Smithsonian.
This country cannot be woke because woke is broke, wrote US President Donald Trump on his website Truth Social Tuesday.
The latest target in his administration's culture war, the Smithsonian Institution, which encompasses twenty one museums, fourteen education and research centers, and the National Zoo, mostly located in Washington, DC.
The museums throughout Washington, but all over the country, are essentially the last remaining segment of woke.
The Smithsonian is out of control, where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was, and how we unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.
Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.
Traditionally, the Smithsonian has operated with independence.
The administration first targeted the historic educational institution in a 27 March executive order, which sought to rid it of a so-called divisive race-centered ideology.
On August 12, the White House sent a letter to the institution announcing its intentions to start the process by formal review.
Tuesday, Trump said his lawyers would begin.
We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the museums and start the exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities where tremendous progress has been made.
This is not the first time the Trump administration has attempted to purge policies and ideas it deems too progressive or favoring minorities.
A 20 January executive order took aim at DEI or diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the government, universities and across the nation.
Just nine days later, the Smithsonian institution announced it would end its Office of Diversity.
How much money?
You know, art can be anything and I'm fine.
I'm, you know, do whatever you want when it comes to art.
But, you know, when it's not really an art museum.
No, no.
But they receive over a billion dollars in federal grants.
Yeah, they're all upset.
I have a clip that you have to look up in the database.
It's from show 90.
It's the Smithsonian Supercut.
And it has to do with everybody bitching and wondering what Trump wants to do with the Smithsonian.
And this is a bunch of people.
Everyone's against it because, you know, heaven forbid that we change the, make the story a positive story.
I learned in history class that this is how authoritarians operate.
They take over the arts.
They take over the culture.
They take over the museums.
Purging history and pilfree museums is pretty high up on the autocratic checklist.
I'd be worried about the Black Lives Matter exhibit.
Others would say this sounds like a Stalinist purge.
All of these things together, you know, hearken to a lot of people, to the kind of countries that, you know, Vladimir Putin would feel very comfortable with.
This has just kind of a Soviet feel to it, a Stalinist feel to it.
Yeah.
Well, all I saw was, and that was in the New York Times, they were very upset about the painting of it was like a black trans woman as the statue of liberty.
Yeah, there you go.
All right.
Yeah.
Well.
A black trans woman is the Statue of Liberty.
Oh, yeah, with the torches, some flowers, and yeah, the typical kind of stuff.
It's entertaining, but yeah.
It's out of control.
Yeah, it is a little bit out of control.
I have a couple of clips.
I got the...
This is what galls me personally because I'm the one.
I am the writer in the late 80s who uncovered the fact that it was Seuss.
Dr. Seuss who invented the word nerd in 1950 in a book that he wrote called If I Ran the Zoo.
I think we've talked about this on the show.
Yeah, yeah, we have.
And now it used to be nerd was always assumed before I wrote about this, and it got good coverage, and it changed a bunch of dictionaries.
Because before I wrote about this, it was always said, well, it was a diminution of the term near do well.
Ah, yes, I know.
And it became, and that was nerd, but no, it wasn't it at all.
It was this looking, this nerdy character, this nerd character that was in the book who day called McCarthy looked just like him.
So NPR decides to do a rundown on this.
Of course, I have I get zero credit and they assume that this is they leave a lot of good stuff out.
Of course, I'm I, you know, I don't expect to get credit from NPR for doing anything as you never even get credit for inventing podcasting and it's rare that you get invited anywhere.
But this is a common complaint that we have, the two of us, about people, their memory and all the rest of it.
And so I found this very irritating to listen to this nerd report on N Steve Erkel from Family Matters, maybe Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, well, you might be able to picture a nerd, but the history of the word itself is less clear.
For our latest Word of the Week feature, we nerd out on some etymology.
Here's NPR's Joe Hernandez.
Nerds.
What is a nerd?
The movie Revenge of the Nerds was released in 1984 and pitted some brainy college students against their jock tormentors.
It solidified the nerd stereotype.
By that point, though, the word had been around for decades, but no one is exactly sure where it came from.
Adam Aleksyk is a linguist and content creator who goes by the name The Etymology Nerd.
I've been making videos as The Etymology Nerd for a while, and so it's my job to know what the etymology of nerd is, but the problem is that it's a little bit obscure.
Perhaps the first known instance of nerd appearing in print was in the 1950 Dr. Seuss book, If I Ran the Zoo.
According to the online etymology dictionary, it potentially developed from the 1940s word nerd, an alteration of the word nut that meant a, quote, stupid or crazy person.
Aleksyk says if Seuss actually came up with the word, it's what linguists call a nonce formation meaning it was created for one purpose and then reused.
So if Dr. Seuss did coin the word nerd, he's probably going off other words like nerd, which was around, or nuts, or it just sounds like something that could be a nerd.
And then he goes with it and then other people are like, yeah, that sounds like a nerd.
Let's go with it.
In the 70s and 80s, nerds were all over film and TV.
And then toward the turn of the millennium, they started becoming kind of cool.
Pop culture historian and author Matthew Clickstein says things like the 90s independent film movement and rock bands wearing thick-rimmed glasses started making the weirdos, the misfits, the outsiders, the nerds, the geeks cool.
Okay.
Okay, so what exactly, what's the credit that you want?
That I'm the one who found the Dr. Seuss reference.
I even talked to Seuss and his associates about it with a phone call because he was alive at the time.
And they were unaware of the fact that he's the one who coined the word.
I want an email writing campaign.
I want everybody to write NPR.
and tell them that you are very disappointed in their non-accreditation of historian columnist John.
Dvorak, that they did not credit him in this article and you demand demand a correction.
Yeah, and they're going to do what they do, which is ignore these anybody's notes.
You're just wasting your time.
I just found it annoying.
I'm with you.
Yeah, I'm with you.
I'm highly annoyed for you even.
In fact, to this day, we still be thinking it came from someplace else until...
I think we should have a new word.
Let's bring back some old words.
How about square?
It's square, man.
It's a square.
He's a square, man.
Or how about drip?
My mom used that a lot.
Drip.
Drip is still a good word.
He's a drip.
Yeah, drip.
We can use drip.
Yeah, I would say Adam Schiff would be a drip.
He's a big drip.
All right, one more.
You get a five-minute warning here.
Well, what do we got?
Well, you're the one with the clips.
And I have a few left.
Okay, well, we got the bush, but I don't want to do that.
Here, this is a good one.
This is the kind of a politically correct.
They're still in Germany.
They can't get over it.
So here's German.
They changed the name of a street.
They did.
The street name is bad.
Sorry, because it's racist.
The street name in Berlin has officially been changed after campaigners successfully argue that the original version was racist.
Moorenstrasse translates as Moore Street, referring to slaves brought to Germany in the 18th century.
Here's our Europe Regional editor, Paul Moss.
The word Moore was used for the people of North Africa.
It was how Shakespeare described Othello.
But in Germany, Moore was a derogatory term for African slaves.
And the presence of a Moorenstrasse in the middle of Berlin was long a cause for complaint.
The local council agreed to change the name five years ago, but some locals wanted the original retained.
Now, following a long political.
and legal battle, the name has been changed to Anton Wilhelm Amorstrasse, after the first African philosopher to teach at a German university.
Amorstrasse.
You know, the Dutch have a treat.
Usually comes in a pack of eight, I want to say.
And it's kind of marshmallow covered with chocolate on a little cracker.
And it looks a bit like a mini boob.
Are you familiar with this?
No, I've never seen it.
So you bite into it.
It's nice chocolate with kind of a marshmallowy, you know, not really a marshmallow marshmallowy and when I was growing up they were called nehrzuna which means negro kisses well obviously that had to change throughout the years and you know what they're called more kopa more heads so that shouldn't take too long before they have to change that now that the more I never thought of more as anything other than a black person from North Africa that was and
they were populating different parts of Europe and they were called the moors it wasn't derogatory it was just a comment of it was a description and then Shakespeare used it But I guess in Germany it was derogatory.
We don't know that.
That could be bull crap.
The Germans are off the rails.
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I mean, your presentations of these things is...
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If I recall, this is where we do the end of show I saw.
If I recall, you had two you were keeping in abeyance from the last show.
You have three, I see.
Three.
Yeah, I do.
All right.
Well, let's start with yours.
Which one do you want?
Well, let's start with the one, the new one, which is taken from I thought this was interesting.
This is therapy.
Will they save you money on therapy, do you think?
Kind of muddy.
A little muddy.
Yeah, it is muddy.
Okay.
Well, then we'll go to the abeyance one.
All right.
We have Amazing.
That was Amazing.
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I can beat that.
I can beat that.
Not with this one though.
I think everybody loved it, all right?
I think the one that beats it is this one.
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Come on.
I couldn't understand it.
You couldn't understand it?
It was something about the best podcast in your room.
What was the beginning?
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I donate to the best podcast.
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Ladies and gentlemen, stand by.
Here he is, John C. Dvorak.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with J.C.D.
And sometimes Adam.
So here's a cooking, not a cooking product, but a salad product, I think, is salad.
Salad product.
And it is pumpkin seed oil.
It's a seed oil.
It's going to kill you.
It's extracted, expelled or extracted.
You want the good stuff so it doesn't, won't kill you.
But pumpkin seed oil, you can not have it if you don't want it.
But it's, I discovered it, didn't discover it.
It was, it was foisted upon me when in a visit to Slovenia of all places where it's used constantly in all the salad bars and all over town they always have a jar of this pumpkin seed oil that they put on everything mostly on salads like if there's a normal salad dressing you add some pumpkin seed oil and I was told there and you can look it look this up it might be true that it prevents prostate cancer And
so pumpkin seed oil, which you can get, you can usually get the good French stuff from various sources that carry a lot of different kinds of variety of oils.
And you can also buy it on Amazon.
You don't want the pumpkin seed tablets or anything like that.
You want the oil so you can use it for the following recipe, which is perfect for this tomato season.
We're in tomato season right now, right in the middle of the tomato season.
Take and get the ripest tomato you can and slice it, put it across the plate, and salted with some Florida cell, and then use pretty much equal amounts of balsamic vinegar.
and pumpkin seed oil which looks like balsamic vinegar it's a dark this is a toasted oil so it's it's a it's a dark oil and just a combination of balsamic vinegar and pumpkin seed oil and the salt and the tomato.
Absolute killer.
Hey, tomato season.
Most people just go to the supermarket and they see tomatoes all the time.
Is it tomato season for American tomatoes or where?
Yeah, for our tomatoes.
Do you recommend fresh ones?
Do you want to get at the farmer's market?
You don't want to buy grocery store tomatoes.
No, they're not good.
They got that Bill Gates wax on it.
Yeah.
So you go to a farmer's market.
Everyone's got a farmer's market, especially down in the south.
There's tons of them where you can get the fresh, super fresh tomatoes that are, you know, just picked off.
the vine or go or grow some tomatoes yourself.
Do you recommend a particular type of tomato for the season?
One of the best tomatoes that generally grows well everywhere is an ace.
Ace tomato.
It has a good tomato flavor.
It's not an heirloom by any means, but it's a good tomato.
And, you know, beef steaks and all the rest of them are all good.
They're tasty, especially if they come out right.
But this...
There it is, ladies and gentlemen, your tip of the day.
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Wow.
No, I'm going to go get me an Ace tomato at the HEB.
I'm sure they have them.
Or maybe not.
You never know.
I do love it when you do food tips.
I think that's a good way to do it.
People love the food tips.
People always love food tips.
You should do a book about this stuff.
Maybe a book about vinegar.
It's coming.
Yeah, I know it is.
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Good one.
That's a clip of the day.
I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
Clip of the day.
Give yourself a clip of the day for pulling this out.
Clip of the day.
Clip of the day.
Give yourself a clip of the day for pulling this one out.
Good one.
I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
Clip of the day.
That's a good one.
Clip of the day.
Clip of the day, man.
That's a clip of the day.
Clip of the day.
That's a good one.
I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
Clip of the day.
Good one.
Clip of the day.
Clip of the day, man.
That's a good one.
Clip of the day.
That's a clip of the day.
Clip of the day, man.
Clip of the day.
Give yourself a clip of the day for pulling this one out.
I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
Clip of the day.
Are you hiding?
No, you're not hiding anything.
Prove that to the American people.
And if you are trying to hide something, as many of Donald Trump's MAGA supporters apparently believe, then Congress should actually work hard to try to uncover the truth for the American people.
He's dead, he's gone.
Epstein died from suicide.
Epstein died from suicide.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
Epstein died from suicide.
Jeffrey Epstein conducted a conference called Confronting the Rabbit.
I don't know who Jeffrey Epstein was, but I'll obviously bet money that he was the product of it.
He's born.
Form for all of this intelligence.
And it was Geek was there and all these guys came in and I guess FC was there.
So I could have trained the FC and said, well, what a creep or whatever I would have said.
I don't know, I probably wouldn't say anything.
Epsom, death, I'm suicide.
He's dead.
He's gone.
Crown medical, look, look, wait.
Crown medical, look, look, wait.
Crown medical, look, look, look, wait.
The old elitist are good.
Where's my ice cream?
Oh, I give them a B plus.
I appreciate a bit more fire and spice.
There's an audience beyond the Senate.
And that is John Bolton's politicization of the intelligence he got in Cuba and on other issues.
Why we would want someone with that lack of credibility, I can't understand.
Clearly, that's what John Bolton represents.
He would tell in a captivating way that the public would watch the most pernicious part of the president's scheme.
And his love of conspiracy theories, partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, the credulous boomer Rube demo that.
Look, look, wait.
Transpiracy theories.
Look, look, wait.
Look, look, wait.
Mmm.
I think at the end of the day, it all boils down to this.
