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"Mucho Retardo"
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This is your award winning Git Monation Media Assassination Episode 184.
This is no agenda.
No shutdown here.
We're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill country here in FEMA, region number six.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's now apparent that bald people only hire bald people.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Craig Bottom Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Well, that's an interesting little tidbit.
I don't know if it's true.
Well, did you look at the military gathering there in uh Washington, DC?
It's like everybody's every guy, every general, every admiral's bald.
Correlation is not causation.
It's like when you before TSA became TSA, the modern TSA after Homeland Security after the 9-11, it was all Filipinos.
In San Francisco, they would just hire each other.
Oh, that's right.
Or you get a company, a gay guy goes in there as a head of personnel, boom, the whole company's gay.
Like Apple.
This is the uh situation.
It's a cabal.
It's it's like you're get you're gay.
You're uh you're bald.
You say, you know, I like the I like the way you look you the Wait a minute.
Could it be could the military all be bald gay guys?
Anything's possible.
Well, that's good.
Yeah, well, I wasn't going there, but it's possible, yeah, I guess.
Well, isn't that the definition of why we need affirmative action to get people with hair back into the military?
I don't think that was the reason.
Oh, okay.
Well, uh I was quite amazed when I saw your clips come in this morning because I saw the return of a feature we have not had for several months.
Yes, it's because this feature is produced by Steve Jones.
Uh, the uh the clip collector.
Indeed.
Shall we uh roll it out since we're talking about bald guys?
Yeah, hold on a second.
Hold on.
Hold on, hold on.
Oh, we gotta do the jingle, man.
experiment.
But JCD can't just stop in the middle of it.
Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Never ending three by three.
He's gotta have the jingle.
I mean, that's the whole point.
And of course, the point of the three by three is that these guys can't do any independent reporting.
It's all pretty much the same from different people.
Here we go.
Let's start with uh which he was just picking NBC.
NBC.
The topic was shrouded in secrecy beforehand, and security was tight.
Some of the nation's most senior military leaders ordered to board buses at 3 30 a.m.
Oh no, then wait hours for the event to begin, according to defense officials.
This speech today is about people.
And it's about culture.
Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth telling generals and admirals who'd flown in from all over the world to get on board with a series of changes.
If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.
The new standards include new grooming rules that prohibit beards and a requirement that everyone in combat roles must meet the highest male standard for physical fitness.
A change that could impact women in uniform.
If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.
He also plans to overhaul equal opportunity programs and the role of the inspector general.
New recruits could also see changes, lifting restrictions on how far drill instructors can go.
They can swear, and yes, they can put their hands on recruits.
This does not mean they can be reckless or violate the law, but they can use tried and true methods to motivate of terror.
New recruits.
Retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling is concerned about the impact all of it may have on troops.
To hear the kinds of things that came out of the secretary's mouth shows that he doesn't really respect them as contributors to the combat arms or fighting our nation's wars.
President Trump today endorsing Heggseth's speech and repeating his ultimatum.
If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room.
Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.
In the president's remarks, which were highly political, he also defended the use of troops in American cities.
I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.
Now, a couple of things.
First observation, and I'm quite sure the president will be mad about this.
The continuous hum and buzz in the audio was just atrocious.
It was across the board.
No, he doesn't.
He gets irked about it.
He knows it's not good because it's not good for clippage.
The no agenda show it's not good for the no agenda show.
My boys.
And the other just uh local observation is when we elected a new sheriff here in Gillespie County, new sheriff, uh, my buddy uh Mike, who uh you know Mike because I've talked about him.
He is the he is the former uh curve cop with anger management issues.
Oh yes, yeah.
He's now the lieutenant.
And the first thing he did was no beards and get rid of the fat guts.
It's like it's like a thing.
It's not this was not surprising to me.
And let me tell you, when it comes to the Fredericksburg Police Department, although he has no jurisdiction over that, but certainly over the sheriff's department.
Yeah, we had fat sheriffs waddling around.
And it's like PT, everybody, mandatory PT, height and weight.
We gotta get in shape.
And we gotta look good for the public.
That seems like not a very crazy thing, but everyone was so upset about it.
Oh no.
Yeah.
The thing they left out of that clippage was the uh Heg set going on about how embarrassing it is to have a bunch of fat admirals in the Pentagon.
I have been around.
If you want it.
Well, let's go to uh that was it was NBC.
That was NBC.
Let's go to ABC.
ABC it is.
In an unprecedented former weekend Fox and Friends host, broadcast live.
I I I love this.
I love I actually I think in my clip Gradnitz is over, she's she's a drama queen.
In my clip, I think they said Fox News weekend host.
Did she say weekend host just to annihilate him?
In an unprecedented meeting, which the former weekend Fox and Fox.
Oh, yeah, weekend host, there it is.
Secretary Pete Heggseth warning hundreds of combat tested generals, admirals, and senior officers.
They're not all combat tested.
I don't think that's true.
Don't you can't you receive the city?
No, of course not.
It's impossible.
Half of them are just desk jockeys.
Flown in from around the world.
That the military under his leadership will be dramatically changed.
No more identity months.
DEI offices.
Oh, now the now the audio's really bad.
I I could not get past it.
Dudes in dresses.
Yeah.
No more climate change worship.
No more division, distraction, or gender delusions.
No more debris.
We are done with that.
While the generals and admirals sat largely silent through the speech, Heggseth said military fitness and standards will be enforced.
No more fat generals or admirals, he said.
I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape.
Or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men.
For those ground combat roles which women have been performing for more than a decade, the high male standard will now be the norm.
If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it.
But Heggseth was not just talking personnel, but policy.
The rules of engagement meant to protect civilians and non-combatants, those he said, have become too politically correct.
We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement.
We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.
President Trump then took the stage to address the officers.
And if you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room.
Of course, there goes your rank, that goes your future.
Telling his audience of some of the most experienced war fighters in the generation, the military should practice on American cities.
I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for military.
The trolling still works.
It's unbelievable.
It still works.
Yeah, we're gonna throw them into the cities, man.
We're gonna train there.
Urban combat warfare, trade in the cities.
I would stop the show.
I'm like, I'm sorry, generals, you gotta wait for a second.
We got a ground loop here.
Is that the end of that clip?
Yes, the end of the clip.
And the same way as CBC.
Does CB did CBS do anything different?
Uh well, not gen not generally speaking, but CBS, I'm always I'm pushing these toward the end because CBS is the one that's on the short leash.
Oh, the company's been taken over by Paramount.
So they're at the it's like the ah, I'm gonna get fired anyway, so let's just say what I feel like.
Nearly eight hundred of America's top military leaders were summoned from around the globe.
Well, he didn't use the war fighters meme.
Disappointing.
A political officers who remain silent as their commander in chief took the stage and offered this greeting.
You can leave the room.
Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.
That set the tone for more awkward moments to come.
Did they all laugh when he said that?
I keep hearing it sounds to me like they're laughing when he says that.
I watched the thing and I didn't notice that they were laughing at the at least the micing that I heard.
I that may have been sweetened.
I noticed ABC had it too.
They all had the same.
Maybe it's just compressed noise.
I don't know.
Stage and offered this greeting.
You can leave the room.
Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.
That set the tone for more awkward moments to come, including the president's suggestion that dangerous U.S. cities like those where National Guard are currently deployed, should be used as training grounds for U.S. troops.
This is going to be a major port for some of the people in this room.
That's a war, too.
It's a war from within.
Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth opened the meeting and ripped into diversity initiatives put in place by previous administrations.
No more identity month.
He said that the troops are going to be used in the cities.
As if it was a done deal when Trump just said it as kind of a joke, a troll.
Yeah.
But then but according to the CBS, no, it that's what's gonna happen.
I uh was not asserted by anybody.
No.
But he did but they did include the line, this is a war from within, which to me was the entire reason for the change to the Department of War.
Uh can we treat each state as an individual, you know, like 60 day does a timer reset for each state.
We have a war.
Just asking for a friend.
Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth opened the meeting and ripped into diversity initiatives put in place by previous administrations.
No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses, no more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions.
That includes, he said, a return to the highest male physical fitness standards.
I don't want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape.
Or in combat unit with females who can't meet the same combat arms physical standards as men.
And he took aim at the highest ranking officers.
It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the country and the world.
It's a bad look.
Vermont Democrat Peter Welch said the meeting was unnecessary and a bad idea.
It's a further effort to politicize the military.
It's very, very alarming.
There is no reason to bring all of these people at enormous taxpayer expense to Washington.
Oh no.
To get a pep talk.
Heges had told the audience they could disagree with them, but the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink.
Then you should do the honorable thing and resign.
It's interesting.
I would all got all bent out of shape over that.
Over the costs, please, Congress.
Yeah, I know the cost of flying them all in.
Congress takes military aircraft all the time.
Yeah, and the military the military aircraft are going there anyway.
Hitch a ride.
Well, there were a couple other things uh that took place uh around the military and this um uh and and this uh meeting.
Um I think this is from this is John Berman from uh Anderson Pooper 360.
Some remarkable new reporting tonight on Defense Secretary Pete Hexable battle with his remarkable new reporting.
It's it's not just new reporting, it's not just reporting, it's remarkable new reporting.
Some remarkable new reporting tonight on Defense Secretary Pete Hex's long-running battle with his own staff and top advisors, As well as the country's top military commanders.
It comes by the way of the Washington Post.
There's the headline.
Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to staunch leaks.
Random testing, and quoting from the port, all military service members, civilian employees and contract workers within the office of the Defense Secretary and the joint staff, estimated to be more than five thousand personnel would be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement that prohibits the release of non-public information without approval or through a defined process.
Oh, what are we gonna do for our sources?
That's according to a draft memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg.
Now the policy plan is laid out.
No, of course it's not new, but there's a kicker at the end.
And a separate document, also from Feinberg, again, this is according to the Post.
And this builds on earlier CNN reporting that Secretary Hexeth had threatened then acting Joint Chief's chairman Chris Grady with polygraph testing because he believed Admiral Grady was leaking to undermine him.
Also that his office had rolled out a policy earlier this year requiring Pentagon officials across the service to sign nine dis non-disclosure agreements before being read in on projects, initiatives, and other work products.
And yes, it appears that all of this from us and from the post was leaked.
That's why it's remarkable.
I get it.
It was leaked.
That was good.
The president also gave us an update.
I'm not sure if this was before, during, or after.
It was the same podium.
On uh the on the golden dome.
You know, this is our uh our uh our security blanket all around the country.
The golden dome, everybody.
And we've begun construction on what we call the Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield.
It'll be the most sophisticated in the world.
You watched it uh do well until there has some problems at the end with a little bit of uh lack of ammunition.
What is he talking about here?
What did we miss an update that they had a little bit of a problem?
Was there an attack that wasn't thwarted?
Because we had a lack of anyway show.
It must be inside stuff for people.
I think so.
Like one of those little message you word to the wise kind of thing that we don't know what's in the world.
But they've got that taken care of.
But I tell you, it's uh what we're doing is so good, and we deserve it.
You know, we we help other countries with it.
We don't have it ourselves.
And Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it.
To which I said, Well, why don't you just join our country, become 51, become the 51st state?
Yeah, and you get it for free.
Free.
So uh I don't know if that made a big impact, but it does make a lot of sense.
It actually makes a having a hard time up there in Canada now, because as you know with tariffs, everyone's coming into our country.
We have off script now.
More investment than we've ever had before.
17 trillion dollars coming in.
As an example, in four years, Biden didn't have one trillion.
We have 17 trillion more than that in eight months coming in.
Where's my check?
And they're coming in from Canada, Mexico, from Europe, from all over AI, auto plants.
Everybody's coming back to the United States.
Wow, but seventeen trillion.
Okay.
Well, that sounds that sounds interesting.
And then uh my favorite part of the summit was the stair bopping.
We're witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength.
We have great peace through strength.
America's respect again as a country.
We were not respected with Biden.
They looked at him falling downstairs every day.
Every day, the guy's falling downstairs.
I said, It's not our president.
We can't have it.
I I'm very careful, you know.
When I walk downstairs, or I come on stairs, like these stairs.
I'm very I walk very slowly.
Nobody has to set a record.
Just try not to fall.
I did laugh.
A few of our presidents have fallen, and it became a part of their legacy.
We all want to.
Be cool when you walk down, but don't bop down the stairs.
So one thing with Obama, I have zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs.
I've never said wouldn't hold on a shit.
I don't want to do it.
I guess I could do it, but eventually, bad things are gonna happen.
And it only takes once.
But uh, he did a lousy job as president.
That just bafflingly funny.
Like just, you know, gives a a shout out to Obama.
I didn't have respect from his president, but man, he could walk stairs.
That guy was great at walking stairs.
Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop and down.
Who was the dancing up there?
Was it uh President Ford who also tripped?
For Ford trip more than once.
Once it happens twice, you're done.
Your toes.
Your label.
Your toast.
You're labeled as a as a stair tripper.
And then uh Reuters, uh fine uh North Sea Nexus outfit came up with this little ditty.
Another part of the Pentagon's push to reshape the armed forces involves tapping Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are turning their talents to military tech.
That is the bullfrog, an AI-powered machine gun that tracks and shoots down drones.
No.
It's built by Allen control systems, founded by Steve Simone, a former Silicon Valley star who sold his startup to DoorDash for 125 million dollars.
Defense and space reporter David Jeans has more now on the entrepreneurs creating the future of warfare.
I think what they bring with them is they have higher tolerance for risk, a higher tolerance for failure, and a higher tolerance for raising hyper companies.
They also bring with them a new energy to this space, which has disrupted the traditional prime contractors like Boeing and Northford Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
David says that what's been most striking is the speed at which Silicon Valley has shifted.
It was only in recent years that people were protesting military companies and military work.
And now Silicon Valley and its investors are all in on a more patriotic and more military-focused approach.
I think that that has come with the understanding that the world is starting to feel like a less safe place.
And there's also an understanding that the US military is largely unprepared for the future of warfare.
And that Silicon Valley believes that it has the answer to help it modernize.
Well, what Silicon Valley also brings is the scam that...
Oh, the scam angle, yeah.
And the scam I'll give uh we've discussed this many times before, but the scam angle in Silicon Valley, probably before the AI uh rush was uh we just gotta get users.
Well, it's still the same, of course, with AI Rush.
Eyeballs.
Eyeballs.
The eyeballs will make it up on volume.
Don't worry about it.
So right before the board meeting, we're about to ask for more money.
You uh go to some of these companies called Monopoly and uh I forget all the names, and you buy eyeballs, and they they come by your site and look at look at these stats.
We're we're hockey sticking.
Which of the riding up?
We need more money, we need more money to be able to cover it.
It's going great.
So Silicon Valley, yeah, they they're doing the scam, and it's working out pretty well.
Denmark is the main target because they've got the money, apparently.
Denmark is on high alert after reporting several drone incursions in recent weeks.
Thirty-five French soldiers are already on the ground.
France, the US, and Sweden have also sent anti-drone systems.
But for many Danes, the deployment only underlines their country's military vulnerability.
Ford, some residents are now bracing for the worst.
Listen to this.
Listen to this.
Sarah just bought one of the survival kits distributed by the Danish government.
Literally, it is a water, a foldable water bag.
It's uh a cracker and a radio flashlight.
Earlier in the year, people in the EU were advised to stockpile enough food, water, and essentials for 72 hours.
Part of a strategy to increase readiness in the event of a military attack or other national crises.
I got quite scared, and I really wanted to do something.
Have a little less anxiety feeling.
The anxiety isn't unfounded.
Four times last week, two mysterious drones were spotted over military bases and airports across the country.
Mysterious at the same time, three ships with Russian links were spotted.
Investigations are ongoing, but authorities say they may have served as launch pads for the drones.
Denmark is among Europe's biggest donors to Ukraine and also hosts a factory that produces fuel for its long-range missiles.
This is incredible bull crap Silicon Valley scam.
I have two clips on this.
Well, let me play my my my final clip and then because I'm the Psyop is paying off.
That's well, actually, what are your clips?
What are your clips?
These are from the morning edition uh an NPR.
Oh yeah, good.
Yeah, let's let's play these.
This is good.
And this is after the drones.
This is uh I don't know how you can get uh you you know the Danes are supposed to be the happiest people on Earth.
Was it the Danes?
Yeah.
Yeah, it was the Danes.
Or the Norwegians, I can't remember.
No, no, no.
It was the Norwegians are happy, but they're depressed.
They take a lot of answer for happy.
They're happy, they're happy.
But but it seems to me if they're happy, they're so happy, and they and they just turn on a dime into being scared, afraid of their own shadow.
I need a radio flashlight with a hand crank.
This is the part one.
The US and other countries in NATO have sent military troops and equipment to Denmark to protect its capital while hosting meetings with European Union leaders starting today.
Ukraine even sent some help too.
A week of flights by unidentified drones caused fear that Russia might be involved, but no proof.
Terry Schultz reports from Copenhagen that many Danes are rethinking their personal security.
The Danish government still can't say who staged the mysterious drone flights every day and night for a week.
It's a script now.
Mysterious drone flights.
It's the same as my clip.
It's all mysterious.
With ship maybe launched from ships with links to Russia.
Sausage links.
With NATO allies and Ukrainian experts now rushing to protect the capital, it's harder to tell people not to be afraid.
Instead, Justice Minister Peter Homelgaard warns them, this is their new reality.
We will be in a situation that is also similar to this one again.
That is the nature of hybrid warfare.
For Treen, a hotel receptionist, the drones have already caused too many sleepless nights.
We agreed not to share last names of people we spoke to if requested.
Because we couldn't pronounce them anyway.
given the widespread panic.
I live very near the airport, so every night these helicopters and stuff are going around and around.
I really need to sleep.
I have to around my house all night.
She's not the only one whose nerves are afraid.
Everybody's talking about it.
Are they worried?
Mary, we're I am, my kids are my family.
We make these emergency plans.
What do we do?
So we actually we prepped, we prepared.
That meant she said, checking their canned food supply, stocking up on water, and reviewing their plan with other family members in case physical evacuation is needed.
Oh man, I have uh before we play the second clip.
I have a boots on the ground from one of our producers, Paul in Denmark.
Uh first of all, Copenhagen is gridlocked and helicopters are flying overhead all the time because of the stupid EU summit.
They're all at Christiansborg, the Parliament Parliament Palace, so Schlots Horman is closed off, and then some stuff is happening in Friedrichstadt, where Amaly and Borg and a lot of organizations' embassies are.
Uh conversations with people the last few days gave me the following points.
Nobody believes anything.
So I don't know where they got these Danes, but nobody believes anything.
Uh they uh uh because the the leaders, Marie Fr uh Mette Fredrickson and uh Lars Lokor Rasm Ramusan all point to Russia straight away, while police and defense forces still maintain they don't know who it was.
And organized crime is an actual possibility.
So it's like you know, but I don't know where they got these scared Danes from, but that doesn't seem to be the boots on the ground situation.
Well, this is the messaging that they're trying to do then.
Yeah.
So this has been orchestrated.
You have clips, you had a clip of it.
I got two clips of it.
Well, let me so there's somebody behind it uh for a reason.
We don't know what the reason is.
Oh no, we do.
Of course.
Oh, it does sell more junk.
Yes.
EU leaders that gathered in Copenhagen on Wednesday gave broad support to proposals to ramp up the development of drone and anti-drone technology ahead of the meeting.
The European Commission released a document which outlines four projects that it believes Need to be financed and implemented as a matter of urgency.
We need money right away.
We're all here meeting anyway.
It's not a coincidence.
The drones, a mysterious drones launched from ships that have links to Russia.
We need money.
So summit and proposal come as Europe faced a series of airspace violations in recent weeks.
So we have to create a European ecosystem that will enable Europe to develop cutting-age drone solutions.
Yeah.
Inspired by what they are doing in Ukraine already.
The leaders also discussed a proposal which outlines the use of immobilized Russian assets to loan money to Ukraine.
Under the plan, Ukraine would repay the loan after Moscow agrees to compensate for damages.
Oh, sure.
We are not confiscating the assets, but we are taking the cash balances for loan to Ukraine.
Ukraine has to pay back this loan if Russia pays reparations.
The plan earned broad support but was met with resistance by Belgian Prime Minister Bartoviev.
Vanderlein sought to assure his reservations and clarified Belgium cannot be the only member state to carry risks.
They've had their eye on this money for so long.
They want this money so bad, they finally have figured out a way, and it's it's the best plan ever.
We'll slush fund it through Ukraine, we'll put it in our pockets.
Because what are we really talking about?
Some jamming devices.
These are all little tiny dumb drones.
And you know, the 800 three maybe get through, so it doesn't it doesn't seem like we already need we already have some kind of defenses.
And oh, by the way, if this whole thing comes to an end, Ukraine's on the hook.
You guys pay for it.
We're gonna take it.
This is theft.
To me, it seems obvious.
Stealing this money.
But you know, we're not we're not taking Russia's money.
No, we're just loaning it to Ukraine.
But you know, if there's a if there's a ceasefire, if there's a peace deal, Ukraine will pay it back.
From Russia's own money, from their own reparations.
Give me a break.
This isn't great.
It's such a scam.
It's how you do it, I guess.
It's like, wow, come on, man.
Very creative, very, very creative.
All right.
Do we need to play your other uh morning edition clip?
Or we are we good or not?
This is a but the other one, the the two.
There's the two about uh oh, Pfizer.
About the drones.
The other ones are different.
If you want to play, oh yeah, the other drones changing the changing the topic.
Oh, okay.
Like other Nordic governments, Denmark urges citizens to store enough supplies to survive a minimum of three days with no access to electricity, food, or fresh water.
Since the drones first appeared.
What do they expect to happen?
And how how is this going to stop the drones?
I've got at least I've got water.
At least I got a candy bar and a flashlight radio.
Silly.
I mean the fact that the Starlink or something.
You know, this is dumb.
Yeah, that would be usable.
Yeah.
Since the drones first appeared September 22nd, people seem to be taking the recommendations more seriously than before.
A home goods store in a Copenhagen suburb.
Sales associate Peter Sandel said 20-liter containers of water were going fast.
Like hotcase.
We have this, this, and this full Alejandra and Alexander snagged the last camping stove on the store's shelf.
They said until now they'd half-heartedly followed the government advice on stockpiling.
But the airspace incursions were a wake-up call.
We bought like the older water and all that was before the drones.
So now with the drones, we were like, Okay, forget the last stuff.
It's been a jolt for Danish authorities as well, says Jakob Halgren with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
Sweden also went through a period like this shortly after the start of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine, he explained.
And invested a lot in renovating and expanding its network of bomb shelters.
Hagen advises the Danish government to do the same.
Living in Denmark, you might have kind of thought that you were shielded from these developments...
But this is obviously no longer the case.
So if they haven't, it's really high time to make sure that those shelters are repaired and that there's proper information about where you can find them.
In the meantime, Trin says she knows what she'd like to do about those disruptive drones.
She joked to her policeman husband.
She'd like to borrow one of his weapons.
And then my daughter sees Planzy.
She said, Oh, Dad, give her the suit.
She emphasizes she was kidding, but she hopes the Danish government does decide to shoot the drones down if they show up again.
Oh man.
And you know what?
I can almost predict what's gonna happen next.
President Trump is gonna come out with uh, well, you gotta give us Greenland if you want to be safe.
Um, great, that's a good one.
Can almost that would be a terrific move.
But you know, you want to be safe.
Like we can expand the Golden Dome to Greenland, and we'll give you a little uh annex over to Denmark.
This is uh I I mean, well, I don't believe that I think they've just got a bunch of numbnuts because of our boots on the ground, like every no one believes it.
They all think it's bull crap.
The drones have flashing red lights.
Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do if I'm Russia.
I'm gonna send a mysterious drone over and announce it with a big flashing red light.
I'm a drone, I'm a drone, I'm a drone.
You know, the funny thing is about it is they're they're all freaked out about the bomb shelters and all the rest.
And like the clip we played in the last show where they talk about the Russians launched 900 drones and into Ukraine, and three people were killed.
And I brought up, I keep bringing up this this this lack of consistency with or a logic.
You said 900 drones to kill three people.
What is Denmark worried about?
They got enough people.
How many people do they have?
What your population is, but it doesn't matter what four or five drones compared to 900.
Yeah, it seems seems rather and they're worried that they're what they think the drone they're gonna attack Copenhagen.
Why?
Well, because they have a monarchy, you know.
North Sea Nexus, they're under attack.
I mean, I really have no idea.
And by the way, that stupid clip you played earlier about that, you know, that automated machine gun with that uses AI pop the drones out of the sky.
That thing will take out a flock of geese, and it'll become the most controversial product ever.
Oh, look, look at this.
There's a hundred geese, they're all dead.
They're trying to go down south.
Well, I hadn't thought about that.
But it's, I mean, it's isn't it obviously definitely killed birds.
But isn't it obvious to people that the European Union meets in Copenhagen?
I don't even know why they would go there.
They've got offices.
They got offices in Luxembourg, they got offices in Belgium.
None of them.
Copenhagen is one of the prettiest.
If anyone wants to travel, they speak a lot of English there, and Copenhagen is one of the prettiest towns in the world.
Yes.
So they went there for a fun, a fun time, and then they brought out some drones.
I could have flown that drone over the airport.
Who knows who's doing that?
This is the same thing as the New Jersey drones.
Oh, look.
Could be some jokers.
Launched from the Chinese mothership.
And we fell for it.
I mean, we didn't, but we didn't fall for it.
But the people on the East Coast did.
Oh, yeah, we want to know.
But they didn't panic like these guys.
They weren't getting water and diving into the bomb shelters, no.
Water true.
And radio, flashlight radios.
Come on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course, someone had a China had another stockpile of those.
Throw them out, give them to them.
Gotta get rid of these things.
Yeah.
The psyops are good today.
I mean, I'll can I just take a little um uh a little detour.
Just a quick one with two clips, because we identified the psyops taking place through Discord.
Oh, yes, yeah.
And it's it's now everywhere.
They even have a name, and although they don't mention Discord in this first report, they flash on the screen a Discord login.
Listen to this.
This is Morocco.
Police found drives straight into protesters, injuring one of them.
An incident that happened on the fourth day of national protests, which showed no sign of dying down.
Initial peaceful gatherings called for a reform of the education system and improvements to health care.
Protesters say the government has been neglecting protesters by now greater in number on Tuesday night, clashed with security forces in several cities across the country.
Demonstrators threw stones at police who responded with dozens of arrests.
Vehicles to Agadir vehicles were overturned or set a light.
Violence that Morocco's association for the defense of human rights condemned.
The violence and repression we've seen in the past few days are really unprecedented.
For the first time since at least the nineteen eighties, the youth can't even protest.
They're being repressed.
Disperse before they can even assemble and chant their slogans.
The protest movement's organisers, the little-known collective Gen Z212, have also called for calm.
And in a communique issued on Tuesday night, Morocco's coalition government said it would listen to the protesters'demands and that it was willing to respond in a positive and responsible manner.
So this is the new group, Gen Z two twelve.
They activate these kids on Discord, and they're doing the same thing in Madagascar.
Under mounting pressure from the streets, Madagascan President Andrew says he's dissolving the government.
The leader forced to take action after several days of protests across the country.
Maybe we haven't lived up to your expectations or listened to your cries or your fears.
What began as a youth-led movement against frequent power and water cuts quickly grew into a larger wave of discontent.
The president just keeps lying.
He doesn't listen to us.
All we want is for him to step down.
We want change.
Change and hope at the forefront of the movement is Gen Z. Despite the violent crackdowns, bloody clashes with police leaving several dead and dozens injured.
The young protesters are vowing to continue accusing others of taking advantage of the unrest.
Now listen to this.
We were peaceful.
We were singing, shouting, calling for our rights, the right to live.
But then some people took advantage of the situation, and others acted out.
Despite its abundance of natural resources, Madagascar remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
Gen Z, Gen Z. This is it.
This is the new Arab Spring.
Oh, we don't we do we need bread.
We don't have any bread.
This is Gen Gen Z two twelve.
This is an op.
And the Madagascar government, the president dismissed the government over it.
Oh, we'll listen to these Gen Zedders.
The Gen Z, oh yeah, they're well, yeah, they're in control now.
Please.
We have a like Discord thing happening here.
In San Francisco or in your house.
Well, San Francisco's where Discord is.
Yeah.
Um you can you can set up your own Discord server.
You don't need to be part of the Discord uh company.
You it's I think it's uh isn't it just open source software at this point?
Ah, you know, the whole thing seems like an Intel op to me, but it is People Sick Day.
Play this clip.
This is the late this is the latest because I because I guess blackout didn't go anywhere.
People sick day.
What if millions of us stopped working, stopped spending, and stopped producing all at the same time?
There's a movement brewing, it's called the People Sick Day, and what it is is a three-day economic blackout.
That means no work, no shopping, no production, just pause.
Oh bro.
Three days where we remind the system that without us, nothing moves.
But here's the twist.
We're not giving out the dates until 48 hours before, because we don't want to give the corporations time to plan and stop us from having this happen.
Because let's be honest, if they knew what we were planning, they'd shut it down before it even started.
This isn't a protest.
This is a strategic disruption to the machine that feeds off of our hard work and labor.
If you want to be a part of it, go to the people's sick day.com, join the Discord and join the movement.
This is how we stand up against what is happening in our country.
We need to shut it down.
We need to shut it down.
So go to the People Sick Day.com, sign up for the Discord, and you can get more information there.
Yeah, Discord is it's open source.
You can set up your own Discord.
And it feels so, you know, like underground.
TikTok is rife with people uh talking about the the people's discord.
Let's see what this is.
Chronically ill Discord.
Oh, she's just chronically ill.
Okay, never mind.
She's not people sick, she's chronically ill.
Discord, man.
That's uh that's a thing.
It is an op an op machine.
We made Discord for gamers like ourselves, but other engineers have found it to be a great tool.
I'll bet it I'll bet they do.
And it's so easy.
These kids are all hopped up on medication anyway.
Psyop them, these Gen Z ears.
Zetters.
Gen Z212.
It's uh it's a new world, John.
Oh, it's the same old world.
It's same old world.
But now we're saying they just keep moving the goalposts.
Now we're just supposed to hate our children.
Now we hate our children.
Gen Z children.
Hate you, child.
You're my child, I hate you.
You're ruining everything with your people sick day, Gen Z. People's sick day people sick day to go nowhere.
Well, no, of course not.
Because they don't have the agitators in place like they do in these other countries.
And also they're not cutting the power.
I'm sure that doesn't help.
No, yeah, you gotta cut the the power.
Yeah, that's the best way to do it.
So I have a couple of uh just as a little side bit.
I got a couple of AI clips here.
Okay.
Um not AI clips, but AI versions of you know, they they're starting to.
I don't know if you followed the sombrero scandal.
How could I not?
It was possible.
One of the funniest things.
When I mentioned it to Mimi, she said, What are you talking about?
Really?
Well, she's busy running for city council.
So uh and if anyone hasn't heard the uh the origin.
Now this is not safe for work.
Oh.
Woo.
This is the AI Schumer.
This is what started it off.
This was the original one.
This has got a oh, no beeps, no beeps.
There's no beeps.
Okay.
All right.
This has got Schumer standing next to Jeffries, who's wearing a sombrero with a big mustache.
Look, guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it.
Nobody likes Democrats anymore.
We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullshit.
Not even black people want to vote for us anymore.
Even Latinos hate us.
So we need new voters.
And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us.
They can't even speak English.
So they won't realize we're just a bunch of woke pieces of shit, you know, at least for a while until they they learn English and they realize they hate us too.
You know, now I'm really realizing how poor a job of AI that is.
It doesn't even sound remotely like Schumer.
I think it does.
Oh no.
They trained it on his voice.
I don't think so at all.
And there's a uh the after that ran, there was a bunch of press conferences about what a scandal this is and how terrible, racist the Trump administration is and they're Schumer was bent out of shape about it.
He felt very uh upset.
And it's gone to the point where now Vance is gonna be giving out red sombreros that say uh make America great again.
And so there was a the last thing that came out is this, which is the AI Vance.
This is Vance with a sombrero on, but this is again, this is all fake.
It's not Vance and the Sombreros junk.
I mean just a phony looking thing, and and this is what he did.
Okay, esto is mucho simple.
El Democrat Party is mucho retardo, okay?
Mucho retardo.
Especially a Hakimo Jeffries y El Chuco Schumer.
They are extra retardo.
So El Presidente and I cannot negotiate with these Democrat retardos.
It's impossibly mucho impossibly.
Gracias amigo, oh, and make sure you El Voto for LJD Vance in L2028.
The whole thing.
And the the funny part is that the whole shutdown is really playing right into President Trump's cards.
I mean, this is part of Doge.
Like, we're gonna rift people.
Reduction in force.
That it's almost like it was planned, and they took the bait.
Yeah, well, they've been doing this kind of consistent, taking the bait.
That's just like, wow, don't you see it?
Well, I have to and they like to play the old clips.
I didn't make a c I didn't this is all over the place, but there's a collection of Schumer clips.
It goes back to 2009, where he goes on and on about how stupid it is to shut down the government and he would never do it, and blah, blah, blah.
And it's one clip after another of him saying pretty much the same thing, which is crazy to shut down the government.
It's just something the Republicans want to do.
We would never do it.
I would never vote for this.
We just on and on.
And I guess according to some reports, Mike Johnson had a reel of all these Democrats saying pretty much the same thing that he had running outside of his office on a monitor.
Yeah.
Just a bunch of c you know, a supercut after another.
I have a couple of shutdown theater clips, which I think are probably relevant.
This is we're going back to the pooper box.
We believe that layoffs are imminent.
They are unfortunately a consequence of this government shutdown.
In fact, that's not normally a consequence of government shutdowns.
Furloughs are, so is working without pay, but typical or not, the White House is doing it, and the House speaker today defended it.
Look, if if Russ vote Russ vote has to make tough decisions, whoever is the director of the Austin Management and Budget in a scenario like this has to make tough choices.
We're talking about permanently firing people.
Well, I'm not sure that hasn't happened before, but if if the authority is there and he sees a program that is wasting taxpayer dollars, you and I could both agree the government doesn't do everything in the most efficient.
Isn't that your I mean, constitutionally, that's your job.
Article one, that is your until Chuck Schumer decides to hand the keys to the president, which is literally what he's doing.
Boom.
There it is.
Yeah, it's great.
Exactly what happened.
It was like played right into it.
And and of course it's sad because a lot of people will lose their jobs.
I think we're gonna see hundreds of thousands of uh of reduction in force.
Which is if you look at the the Doge executive order, it's like all in play.
It was very very odd.
Uh so you have another one here.
The administration is also using the crisis to either pause or cancel billions of dollars in already appropriated spending in blue states, including 18 billion for two big mass transportation projects here in New York.
Vice President Vance was asked about that today.
Does announcing that today mean that you guys are gonna squeeze Chuck Schumer's home state until he blinks?
Look, I haven't talked to Russ about this this morning, but look, I'm sure that Russ is heartbroken about the fact that he is unable to give certain things to certain constituencies.
The Russ he is referring to as Russell Vogt, the White House budget director.
The vice president was also asked about the racist AI videos of Minority Leader Jeffries, the president has been posting on social media.
This is the latest from today.
Is it helpful to post pictures of leader Jeffries and Sombrero if you're trying to have good faith talks with him?
Oh, I think it's funny.
The president's joking, and we're having a good time.
You can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the Democrats' positions and even, you know, poking some of some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves.
With thousands of federal workers now either working without pay, not working at all, or even facing layoffs, and millions of Americans not able to access federal services.
It's hard to see this as an opportunity to, as the vice president has said, be having a good time, but there it is.
Um what I'm missing in all of these reports, where's where's your Mexican Americans who are all mad about this?
Oh, that's where they're not mad about it.
That's pretty funny.
Of course, that's the whole point.
It's like they can't even find one Mexican to say you'd think they'd find one Mexican.
It's racist.
Here's the continuation of this.
So we we played sound for Vice President Advance, not just defending that AI racist video of Minor Leader Jeffrey's warring a sombrero, but also like celebrating that video.
And it was playing on a loop in the briefing room today.
What are you hearing from the inside about that?
It was not only just playing uh on a loop in the briefing room.
If you've never been in the press briefing room for those who haven't, there are loud speakers Overhead so you can hear announcements or what's being said, or if there is an event going on with the president and the Rose Guard, for example.
They were playing that that mariachi music as well over the loudspeakers for all the press that was coming in and out of the White House today inside the press briefing room.
It just kind of gives you a window, John into how they're dealing with this and and how they uh believe they have the upper hand when it comes to the messaging year.
And there's a moment here, they're being heavily criticized over this, over these posts by the president, by Democrats, and instead of backing off or apologizing for it, they're leaning into it.
And they're playing the music over loudspeakers and on repeat inside the briefing room, uh, because they simply don't care about that criticism.
It's like playing Metallica outside the Taliban enemy camp.
You know, it's like, come on, this is this is so tip.
We've even done it.
Okay, you know what?
Remember this?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Hey!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Ciao.
Hey!
Good times.
Good times, Miss Obama.
I miss him.
So by the way, I didn't get any clips, but did you hear Michelle?
Their letest podcast with some with her shrink.
Oh, goodness, I must have missed it.
Well, what did she say?
She goes on a rampage about how how the her and the girls and especially her just couldn't take it because it would the way uh Barack chewed.
Really?
That the yeah, they were on and on about it.
It was the end of your marriage when that's uh when that's irritating.
No kidding.
That's that's kind of idiot.
Oh, yeah, he just could it's I don't get it.
He's just it's disgusting, she says, to watch him chew.
Wow.
I remember my second wife as it was ending.
She got mad because the way I clinked my spoon into the bowl of cereal.
Like that's so annoying.
Yes.
Typically that is when a woman is like fed up.
At the end, she's at the end, it's done.
Yeah, this is what's going on here.
And that in fact, they had it we played that clip on uh Gutfeld when Drew Pinski was on, and he said exactly what you just said.
He says, This sounds like the end of the relationship when things like chewing drive you nuts because the way the guy chews.
I mean, come on.
Here's uh CBC report on the racist deepfakes.
The fight has become deeply personal after President Donald Trump posted AI videos on social media attacking his opponents.
One video shows Hakeem Jeffries, a Democratic house leader wearing a photoshopped sombrero and mustache.
Well, an AI Schumer makes derogatory comments about black and Latino voters.
Jeffries called it fake and racist.
Oh, I think it's funny.
The president's joking and we're having a good time.
The vice president says good faith negotiations can take place in this environment, dismissing concerns.
Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist, and I know that he said that, and I honestly don't even know what that means.
This is symbolic of the bitterness of this moment with no sign of resolution is in the near future.
Do you remember when um I think with Trump's first term he had some Native Americans in the Oval Office?
And he was like, you know, we've got uh we've got Pocahontas uh in the in Congress.
Do you remember that?
Only vaguely.
Yeah, I'm actually looking.
Um I don't think so.
But it would it was funny.
Well, I get some government shutdown clips.
And and the and what I'd like to know before we get to your clips uh does this bother government employees?
We have a lot of them listening.
That this jokery is going on?
I don't think so yet.
Because it starts it started on October 1st.
Checks aren't until the 15th.
I presume they get paid every two weeks.
Right?
I don't know.
I think so.
Uh, here's uh air traffic controller.
I'm an air traffic controller in the Western US.
A lot of confusion regarding the government shutdown on ATC.
Uh by law, ATC must operate.
Controllers must show up to work even during a shutdown.
The FAA has emergency funding through Thursday night at midnight in the event the shutdown isn't over by then.
After that, the agency and controllers will be operating on an IOU.
By law, all federal employees will receive back pay once the government reopens.
During the last shutdown in 2019, controllers missed two paychecks.
On the last day of the zero dollar paycheck, about ten controllers at the critical Jacksonville Center, Jacksonville Center, called off sick, causing severe delays.
There were also excessive sick outs at other key facilities, since controllers now know that we can use sick leave without being charged.
There's no incentive to come to work if we're going to if we're not going to get paid anyway.
Our union, NATCA, is spineless and basically begging us to do the right thing and not call off sick.
I predict once funding runs out on Friday, there will be mass sick outs, crippling airlines, forcing Congress to do their job and pass a spending bill, reopening the government.
Your servant of the skies and master of the microphone.
So that's no one mad about the sombrero.
No, nobody's gonna get mad about the sombrero except Jeffries and Schumer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're the targets.
Same with uh customs border patrol boots on the ground.
We were told to come to work tomorrow, no matter what.
We are HR and in charge of onboarding.
A few days ago they were designating just three or four employees to come in and bring new hires on board.
As of now, though, we're all going to work.
We'll get a paycheck for September 22nd through the 30th and get back pay for the rest later.
But the shutdown will only really negatively impact us if the shutdown goes through October 24th.
So we have some time here for the more sombrero videos.
Well, there's only five the difference is five Democrats.
If they can get five, then which is not a lot.
Five moderates to feel the pressure and then change their vote, and the next thing you know, it's done.
So that shouldn't take too long.
I don't think they're pushing it right now because I think they do want to do what you said, which is entrap the Democrats so they can start firing people.
But let's go with this uh government shutdown.
This is from NPR.
You've got a series.
Oh, goodness.
Well, I'm sorry, no, I'm this is from NTD, so it's more more it's more anal.
Day one of government shutdowns, Senate Democrats blocked a procedural vote to reconsider a stopgap bill to reopen the government.
Our Washington correspondent Luis Eduardo Martinez, how's the latest on the story?
Republicans thought that they could barrel us into a shutdown because they didn't want to protect the health care of the American people.
Well, now they've seen.
They can't bully us, they can't barrel us.
They don't have the votes to push their partisan bill through that did nothing to protect American health care.
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has maintained his maximalist demands despite that members of his conference have already shown opposition to hold government funding hostage.
We were elected to solve the problems of this country, not make them worse.
And that's exactly what Donald Trump and his Republican henchmen are seeking to do.
Does that language still work?
His his henchmen.
Henchman by the way, what does it say with why did you barrel me?
What is he talking?
What barrel?
Oh, that Republicans are trying to barrel us.
What what?
I don't know.
I mean, have you ever heard that phrase before?
Or that wordage?
Like uh that term barrel?
Like str uh, what is it?
What is it?
Stretch over a barrel, pull us up, put us over a barrel over a barrel.
Like I haven't heard it in this way, no.
I think he just it just came to him and he said it once and he had to say it again.
It it's just he's an idiot.
Let's play part two.
It is now a messaging war, and despite the fact that Congress holds the power of the purse, Democrats are blaming President Trump for the shutdown.
Republicans maintain their willingness to negotiate with Democrats their extension of Affordable Care Act, health care tax credits that they are demanding.
This is not the time to take the American.
You meant to back up I I thought I heard him say the horrible care act.
people hostage.
They're maintaining their willingness to negotiate with Democrats their extension of Affordable Care Act health care tax credits that they are demanding.
Now, I would just stop here for a second.
So what exactly are they talking about?
Because the Republicans say, well, they just want free health care for illegal immigrants, and the Democrats are saying that your Obamacare, your affordable health affordable care act um premiums will go up over a hundred percent.
Which which one do you understand to be true if either?
The Republican position is true.
For one thing, the change in any of the Obamacare stuff doesn't take place till after this continuing resolution is already done.
Right.
So it's not even within this period.
So that's that's bull crap.
And the back.
Good point.
It's not until 2026.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's nonsense.
And so the other thing is it's obvious that because they've said it.
I mean, Maxine Waters said it, and this this would that Indian guy said it that they want to keep up payments, uh top notch health care for the illegal immigrants.
Maxine Waters said it like that.
She's she was they had uh like uh it was uh what's his name?
The pillow guy has his little TV network.
Mike Lindell, the pillow.
Mike Mandel's TV.
And they had some girl hounding Maxine, uh harassing her, basically, going on and on and on, and then got her to Maxine to say is it just for health care for illegals, and then she kept hounding her, and Maxine got pissed off.
She says, Look, we want health care for everybody, period, and walked off.
So that's what it's about.
It's about premium health care.
I have four I have the government.
I mean, you know, if you're an illegal immigrant.
I have the clip.
I have the clip.
Hold on.
Maxine Water snapped when a reporter asked her about Democrats forcing a government shutdown over health care for illegal immigrants, which is weird because usually she loves talking about giving away other people's money.
Well, Americans quit it.
Stop it.
This is the kind of journalism we don't need.
No, you're not.
Yeah, no, that's not.
You're being divisive.
No.
Please, don't you don't need to ask that question.
You're just trying to get controversy here.
You're not gonna get it from me.
We want to save health care for all people.
Thank you.
Thank you, Congresswoman.
Maxime for all people.
Yeah.
All people.
Health care.
Yes.
So that's so the Republicans are right.
Okay.
We continue.
This is not the time to take the American people hostage.
The ACA credits don't run out until December.
But the best way to do that is to open the government and let's get back to this thing called regular order so we can have those debates.
We can have those committee hearings.
We can have those negotiations.
Senate Republicans are focusing their messaging on moderate Democrats, calling on them to vote for the continuing resolution to reopen government.
Four more Democrats are needed to do so.
Actually, don't think it's going to be that long of a shutdown.
This is a pure guess from the vice president of the United States because I think you already saw some evidence that moderate Democrats are cracking a little bit.
Chuck Schumer, at the behest of a bunch of liberal far-left activist groups, has walked his Democrat colleagues into a boxed canyon.
The continuing resolution that House Republicans passed and Senate Republicans support extends levels of government funding set by Democrats during the Biden administration.
Republicans have also chosen not to enact the spending cuts proposed by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Ultimately, Democrats have already voted for current levels of government funding 13 times in the past.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, so this is kind of nuts.
Let's go to uh part three.
Good evening, Mari.
What is the White House saying about the government shutdown?
Tiff, good evening.
Yes, the White House is blaming Democrats for the government shutdown, saying that it impacts active duty troops, critical food assistance, and flood insurance as we enter hurricane season.
And Vice President JD Vance today is saying this at a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing.
Watch.
Whatever those disagreements are, you don't shut down the government over it.
For the first time since the Democrats have been in politics, they're now saying that unless we get every policy item that we demand, we're going to shut down the people's government.
They're trying to take a hostage and we're not going to let them.
The White House website featuring a government shutdown clock and the press secretary leaving this message on the White House comment line.
Thank you for calling the White House comment line.
Democrats in Congress have shut down the federal government because they care more about funding health care for illegal immigrants than they care about serving you.
Meanwhile, Vice President Vance says he doesn't think the shutdown will be long.
He's calling on more moderate Democrats today To join Republicans in voting to keep the government open.
So three moderate Democrats joined 52 Republicans last night.
We need five more.
While Republicans have offered a clean short term budget bill, the White House criticizing Democrats for holding the economy hostage for what it calls free health care for illegal immigrants.
Though Democrats say that's not what they're demanding.
Political leadership of their party has got it into their heads that the only way to be compassionate is to be compassionate to illegal aliens rather than American citizens.
No, the law.
The law is clear that no Medicaid, no Medicare, no ACA can go to any undocumented immigrants.
So Fetterman voted for the continuing resolution.
Cortez Mastro from Nevada and King from Maine.
That's interesting.
Man, they must be hating Fetterman right now.
It turns out to be a pretty funny dude.
Thank you.
Yeah, I everyone's surprised by that.
You see, he's actually kind of down to earth.
Yeah.
Then that kind of ebbed away and then he became normal again.
Says something, doesn't it?
I got part four, you play.
And Tiff, I don't know if you've seen this, but the White House has been replaying this meme in the briefing room.
It's um a post that President Trump originally put on his truth social of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero.
Don't cop out the racist and fake AI video.
When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.
Hakeem Jeffries said it was racist, and I know that he said that.
And I honestly don't even know what that means.
Like is is is he a Mexican American that is offended by having a sombrero meme?
The president's joking and we're having a good time.
Vice President Vance says he makes the solemn promise to stop the sombrero memes if Hakeem helps reopen the government.
back to you.
We're gonna sombrero meme you, bro.
Wow.
We're gonna stop the sombrero memes.
It's notable that Vance is really the mouthpiece for this.
President Trump is, you know, he just reposted what, and by the way, if that was an AI meme, someone needs to turn their large language model in.
It wasn't all that great.
No, they're talking about the AI part was Schumer's voice.
Right.
Well, even though I mean the rest of it, that wasn't I mean, even when the the f the one with Vance, which we played had the sombrero on his head.
The sombrero was fixed.
Yeah.
So when uh Jeffries with his sombrero when he turned, it's like the sombrero didn't move an i at all.
It was just stuck on the frame.
It's bull crap.
It's very poorly done, to be honest.
Yes.
But it but Vance is the is the mouthpiece.
That's noticeable.
Noticeable.
I just think that's notable.
Let's put it that way.
Vance is the one that's doing the talking here.
Of course, he's he seems to be the point man for this for the sombrero.
Hey, Vance, you take the sombrero stuff.
I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go get Greenland.
Yeah, I'll get Greenland, you get Jeffries.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's in that's pretty incredible.
Okay.
All right.
So I'd I'd predict two weeks.
What do you think?
Oh, it might have not even go that long.
I mean, the last time they during the Trump's first term, it did have a one month.
It was a month, yeah.
It took a month.
I remember.
And that was the longest ever, so who knows.
Back to AI.
But hold on, hold on one second.
They're gonna have to give on something.
No, they would the de the Republicans?
No, that yeah, the they'll have to give the Democrats.
No, they don't.
You think the Democrats will just fold because of the sombrero?
Like, no, they're gonna fold because they're gonna get some.
They don't need but the four votes, they say.
I thought it was five is four.
And and it's just the same funding that's been going on.
There's no reason to change anything.
They're supposed to change when you actually do a bill, not the continuing resolution, just keep spending the same money.
Yeah.
There's no reason to change.
Well, they're gonna they're gonna have to give a reason to buckle.
It'll be like we just didn't want to subject the American people anymore to sombrero memes.
I don't know how they they'll they'll come up with some good reason.
They have to.
So I have this the big scandal going on in AI is too normal.
this is these kids You don't think so?
No, it's not a scandal, it's one of the best marketing campaigns I've ever seen.
It's outstanding.
They're basically just trying to get an agent, an agent for some woman.
This AI this AI model is not in movies that doesn't have any gigs booked, isn't getting sides for scripts.
You know, it's like Yeah, but it's got Hollywood all bent out of shape.
There's all they got one person after another going, if anyone hires her, we're gonna quit the agency.
I'm telling you I'm telling you, it it's a Dutch woman, I think, although she has a British accent.
It is a Dutch woman.
She uh she it was just a genius, a genius marketing ploy.
Like, oh, we're shopping for agents.
That's when this because that's one of the hardest things.
Break breaking into show business.
The first and probably hardest step is getting an agent.
Like, oh you got an agent?
Uh not yet.
I'm trying to get one.
No one will take me.
Yeah.
Who's who's your agent?
Well, you also represent uh you know, whoever Julian's Tom Hanks.
Three seasons and a podcast.
Meet Tilly Norwood, the world's most controversial new actor.
Can she cry on Graham Norton?
Well, she might seem real on screen and on her social media.
Take a closer look.
Can you tell?
Tilly Norwood, 100% AI generated.
Yep, she's fake.
Tilly Norwood is the first creation from a new studio that develops AI actors.
And this morning, her mere existence has sparked outrage and concern about the use of artificial intelligence in Hollywood.
We have so far lost the plot.
What are we doing?
The backlash to Tilly Norwood igniting over the weekend after her creator, Dutch actor and comedian, Alina Vandervelden said multiple talent agents have shown interest in signing the AI actress, according to deadline.
That news prompting real actors to speak out in protest.
Emily Blunt calling it really, really scary in an interview with Variety, urging agencies to please stop.
Really, really scary.
Vonda Weldon posting a lengthy statement defending the invention, comparing it to animation or CGI, writing Tilly Norwood is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work, a piece of art that sparks conversation.
Whoopi Goldberg among those responding.
The problem with this, in my opinion, humble opinion.
Don't care.
Is that you are suddenly up against something that's been generated with five thousand other actors?
So it's a little bit of an unfair advantage.
The debate over Tilly Norwood, just the latest in the battle between creative artists and AI.
Where was that report from?
Is that from CBS, ABC?
Where's that from?
NBC, I think.
Because I have a CBS, CBC report from Canada, which sounded remarkably similar.
Three seasons and a podcast.
Exactly the same report.
Yeah, same opening.
It's the whole it's the same report.
It's a package.
Okay.
It's a package.
Let's I'll plant the same game.
Three seasons and a podcast.
Oh, interesting.
A little different.
Oh, well, now I have to play it.
It's not exactly the same.
Three seasons and a podcast.
Bragging about getting gigs.
This is Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated actress created by the company Particle Six.
Its CEO, Eileen Vandervelden says entertainment companies are interested.
By the way, I'm I'm not familiar with this Dutch actress and comedian.
I haven't really been keeping up, but I don't think she's very well known in Holland.
With Tilly, you know, when we first go into people Especially with that accent.
Like, no, that's not gonna happen.
And now it's you know, we're going to announce who she's going who which agency is going to be.
I don't know if she does porn one as many.
I'm out of the business.
Presenting her in the next few months.
She said this during a panel at the Zurich Film Festival last year.
Ah, there it is.
Ah, see, that's how she did it.
She launched it at the Zurich Film Festival.
We're getting an agent for our AI.
Since then, Hollywood has been up in arms.
Actors like Whoopi Goldberg, Simi Lew, and Emily Blunt are speaking out.
Same package.
This is a hell I think Hollywood just distributed a package to everybody, don't you think?
It would Hollywood would be would be the beneficiary of this.
Of course they would.
They love it.
That's actors.
And by the way, thinking it's cheap reminds me of the early days of uh CGI.
Yes.
When you know they would do a few special effects using the computers that are actually blowing up a building.
They had a computer do it, and then pretty soon the movies became so CGI centric that it costs a fortune in computing power to do it.
So you think it's cheap at first.
Yeah.
And then it becomes more expensive.
Now I want to mention the reason I want to bring this up is because all these people got all I see you see it on all these networks, they're all bent out of shape, and then they the fallback was always, well, don't worry about it because the public is never going to, you know, have the same feelings for these sort of celebrities, and they went on and on, and it's just because it's not a real person, so there's not going to be any attachment.
And they all kind of ignore Hatsuni Miku.
Hatsuni Miku.
Hatsuni Maku is a fake person in Japan that is extremely popular, and she's been around since at least 2012.
She's been around for over a decade.
You can look her up.
H-A-T-U-S...
I'm sorry.
H-A-T-S-U-N-E.
Miku.
M-I-K-U.
you A pop star.
And everyone knows she's a fake.
And everyone loves her.
Like she's like the girl next door.
And so this this is more of a threat than they think it is.
And that there are everyone ignores the phenomenon.
Or she uh real.
She and she's anime, isn't she?
No, she's not anime.
Oh.
Well, I'm looking at Patsunimaku, and the whole YouTube page is filled with anime.
Well, that might be full maybe that pages, but there's look at look at images on do an image search and look for her.
She's real, she's kind of a pretty Japanese girl.
Okay.
And uh once in a while she has cross eyes, depending on how they're okay.
I see her.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And she's very popular.
So uh this is not something that should be taken lightly.
Well, ultimately it's bad for humanity.
You know, you you lose touch with with hum.
We just we're we're being psyoped in the technology.
I mean, you look at the latest AIs.
By the way, what you just said is reminding me of that meeting that that that uh Heg Seth had, because all the counter arguments well, why don't they just send an email?
He didn't have to bring them all together when when the old timers in the military said, Yeah, you want face to face.
Yeah, you want face to face.
And what you just said is a reflection of these the same doofuses as oh, they could have sent out an email or a Zoom call would have done the same thing.
Well, if you look true.
If you look at the popular new AI companies, uh loves you.ai friend, a friend AI is a really funny one.
I I couldn't clip it because it doesn't come across it.
The pendant you wear around your neck and you press it to talk to your friend.
This but this is it.
This is this is your friend is dependent.
Well, no, your your friend then texts you something.
If you talk to your friend by pressing the pendant, and then it sends you a text message.
On the phone that you're carrying around uh incessantly, but of course holding in your hand as you walk down the street.
But of course.
Men and women.
But of course, yes.
So, you know, this is this is where it's headed.
I mean, I think in in this regard, but who even cares about a movie with uh unless we all have the same friend AI or the same loves you dot AI.
The Gen Z, you know, they're all going for not just Gen Z, but the boomers even.
I'm lonely.
Oh, I have a friend now.
I have a friend in my phone who listens.
My friend listens to me.
It's it's extremely bad for humanity, but it's it's it's it I think there's no stopping it.
It's no stopping it.
So we'll have AI movies, you know, all generated characters.
It's uh I've given up.
I mean, if if I if I can't admit it, you I just said the slop is gonna kill it.
No, but people will love the slop.
This is this is what I'm coming to realize.
Oh, it's slop, but I love it.
We're like pigs.
AI slop.
I love it.
I'm a mama pig.
Yeah.
That well, not everybody, But a lot of a lot a lot of people are gonna go for that.
They're just they're AI pigs.
They want more slop.
Give me slop.
I love it.
I'm a pig.
Give it to me.
Well then the Then there's one other little Hollywood Diddy since we're on the topic.
Now, also on Monday, Donald Trump upped his tariff war, saying the U.S. will now impose a 100% tariff on films made outside the country.
It's still unclear how those tariffs would operate since movies and TV shows can be transmitted digitally without going through a port like a car or electronics.
But the announcement still is making waves in the film industry.
Here's reaction from George Clooney speaking in New York.
If it really happens, it would be pretty damaging to the business.
Look, he's not wrong about the idea that businesses have left Los Angeles.
They have in drugs.
What we need is uh, you know, the the incentives the tax incentives that you get here in New York, by the way.
They're building studios here.
Because there's so much work.
We need those.
And by the way, if he really wants to fix it, then we should talk about a federal incentive.
Sure.
Uh to to keep people working in in Los Angeles because there are tons of below the line people, grips and cinematographers who are losing their jobs because work is going away.
No.
Hollywood always wants to be subsidized.
Give us money so we can continue to work.
No.
No, we got AI slop coming to everybody.
Look at the pigs, they love it.
I love it.
This you know, that we're also focused on trans people.
But transhumanism is just moving forward.
You know, again, the brain computer interface is on the way.
It's that's uh, you know, you'll live forever, by the way.
This show will will never end.
It'll just be John Adam AIs tapped into the system, creating podcasts forever.
Well, we're gonna stay in the Hollywood theme.
I do have the Netflix clips.
Oh, what's it?
I didn't think there was any news on Netflix.
What's going on?
Oh, yeah, it's scandalous.
What?
Joining us now to discuss.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait.
Start with Netflix versus Musk for the background.
Oh, backgrounder.
Elon Musk is urging parents to boycott Netflix in a meme shared on X that Musk reacted to today.
Netflix was depicted as a Trojan horse with its contents labeled Transgender Woke Agenda, which is being wheeled into a castle marked your kids.
Musk wrote in his post, quote, cancel Netflix for the health of your kids.
This comes a day after he criticized the animated show Dead and Paranormal Park for featuring transgender storylines and themes.
Musk reposted a clip from the series writing, quote, this is not okay.
Marketed as suitable for children aged seven and up.
The show includes a character who comes out as identifying as transgender.
The character says, quote, I've never been happier.
Other kids' shows that feature LGBT themes include the Dragon Prince, Shira, and the Princesses of Power and The Owl House.
Well, I'm glad that you got clips of this because I saw the story come by, and I'm just like, uh, more trans stories.
I'm not interested.
So clearly there's something there.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have made three analyses of it.
Analysis.
Yes.
What you're talking about.
Well, I'm just reading the clip name.
Okay, well, let's play some of these analysis clips.
Starting with Good Lord.
Mm-hmm.
Joining us now to discuss is Will Hilde, executive director of consumers research.
Will, thank you so much for joining us.
Great to see you again.
Now, first, what do you make of Musk's accusations against Netflix?
I think they're entirely accurate.
This is a company that has pushed a woke agenda with children for years now.
Libs of TikTok posted a two or three-year-old clip from Coco Melon where they have a kid cross-dressing dancing for his two gay dads, uh, which is obviously reignited a controversy around that show as well today.
It's long overdue, and I'm glad that someone with the prominence of Elon is pushing back.
And in your view, is there a risk that many parents don't know that Netflix programs their kids are watching may contain LGBT content or themes that promote transgenderism?
Yeah, it's it's a huge risk, and it's something that Netflix has been pushing without really, you know, advertising it or making it clear that that's what they're doing with kids.
They just put it into otherwise normal shows.
Like I said, Coco Melon, I think had like 10 or 15 seasons with absolutely none of that in it until this past uh couple of years, and they've started introducing it.
So that's the other issue is sometimes you'll start watching a show and it's unclear that it in contains that kind of transgender ideology or LGBTQ ideology, and then you you you know, maybe leave the room while you let your kids watch it, and suddenly they're being indoctrinated with this kind of uh gender ideology nonsense.
Suddenly your your daughter's a boy.
Coco Melon, is that the name of the show?
Cocoa Melon.
I guess I but I think what's overlooked in this analysis is the fact that this only happened in the last couple of years.
Yes.
And I just noticed it too with the memes about Netflix.
They've done, you know, they have a uh Netflix remakes.
It used to the joke is always here's the Disney remake, and there'd be, you know, some white girl would be some uh, you know, uh a a Latino b black Latino lesbian.
Yeah, that would be the jersey remake pierced.
And and now you have uh this meme has been shifted to Netflix and only recently, so that somebody got into Netflix.
This is like the bald guys in the military.
Somebody got into Netflix hire more of them.
Hire more of them.
Well, who was that guy?
That guy well, the guy from Biden's administration, the transportation department.
Wasn't he in transportation?
The guy who kept stealing the suitcases with women's clothes.
He was the new uh nuclear the nuclear guy, yeah.
He needed a gig.
He went to Netflix.
That's possible.
I mean, something happened to Netflix re and it's only been within the last couple of years, it seems, and so now it's it's it's it's it's kind of getting pushed back on him with these, and this is one of the I think this is gonna I think what we're gonna what we're playing here is the beginning of of a pushback.
Here we go.
And will we have seen increasing concern from parents over the types of content being pushed on their children from say books to TV shows?
Now, one of the Netflix shows in question, dead and paranormal park is marketed to those seven and up.
Do you see there being a need for regulation on what does or doesn't count as being for kids?
Uh that's a great question.
I'm generally loathed to have the government engage in the regulation of speech.
But one of the exceptions that we all pretty much agree to is that that certainly doesn't apply when you're talking about children.
This is something that we've seen in efforts to prevent children from accessing pornography in a number of different states like Florida and Virginia and Texas.
And I think there is a question here of whether this is something that we want to protect children from.
It also, you know, this isn't incidental.
These corporations have an agenda of pushing this stuff.
Our organization, Consumers Research, went after State Farm Insurer many years ago because they were working with a project called the Gender Cool Initiative, and they were buying books aimed at kids as young as five.
And that's not my uh word.
That's it was said on the book, you know, kids five and up, that were had titles like a kid's book about being transgender or a kid's book about being non-binary.
And they were buying these books and donating them to public schools to get them in the hands of children explicitly.
So it it really if if this was just something that was accidental or a writer had slipped something in, that'd be a little different.
But it's clear that Netflix and a lot of other corporations have an agenda to target children with this kind of uh radical ideology that's you know, in fact, a form of grooming in a lot of ways.
Well, it didn't take me very long to figure it out under the new lens of the North Sea Nexus.
Coco Melon produced by Moonbug Entertainment Limited, British children's media company, headquartered in London.
This is an attack on attack on the American children by the Brits.
Let's turn them all a trans.
Yeah, let's let's cause a let's cause a ruckus.
And who let me see, who owns this?
Hold on a second.
Let me look at the Moonbug uh owned by Candle Media.
Uh oh, Blackstone, there you go.
Black Zone co-funded by former Disney executives.
Oh, okay.
There you go.
Oh, oh, but oh, but wait, there's more.
Candle Media owns Moonbug Entertainment, Hello Sunshine, and the production company of Israeli thriller series.
Oh, we got the Jews in there.
This is uh this is a quagmire.
It's a double whammy.
Yeah.
You always gotta look at who owns this stuff and who's producing it.
So call Brunetti, ask him about Coco Melon.
He won't know anything about it.
He doesn't know anything, does he?
he knows more than you'd imagine.
He knows a lot.
But I don't think he knows about this this sort of thing.
This sort of this sinister stuff.
So they also have done ABC Kid TV.
Coco Melon.
I guess they they launched on YouTube, interestingly.
So Netflix, okay, in June 2020, Coco Melon launched on Netflix.
Uh well, it's a it's an attack from the Brits.
That's I'm just gonna call it that way.
What else could it be?
Is it is it popular in bringing?
I mean, I'm I'm not gonna argue with you because this thesis seems to be holding up.
Yes, let's go to the last clip.
Now, following Musk's call for a boy caught Netflix stock closed down 2.3%.
Now looking back, Disney took a significant hit after it was accused of doing the same thing.
Do you think we could see Netflix changing its direction as a result?
How likely is that?
Well, it it's unclear.
See, one of the problems that we've got in pushing back on corporate America is that the large asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard control so many of the shares of the company that they can insulate the executive class from a lot of the bad decisions that they're making from a consumer standpoint.
And I think that's part of what's going on with Disney.
Disney's shares have been in the tank.
They their five-year performance, especially when relative to the SP 500, have been absolutely abysmal.
But they actually brought back the CEO that took them in a woke turn, Bob Iger.
And I think that's because of the influence of CEOs like Larry Fink at Black Rock and others at Vanguard and State Street.
And so I think that's a problem that we really need to solve.
It's one of the main things we focus on at consumers research.
We need to get these asset managers out of the business of insulating executives from the consequences of their decisions.
And Will, as you know, Musk is an entrepreneur who likes to take risks.
How likely are we to see him launch a Netflix rival?
Is there a market for that?
Well, that's a great question.
You know, he's got his uh finger in so many pies in that way.
You know, he's you know, rocket company, a car company, but he's also apparently gonna create a competitor to Wikipedia, and he's active in the AI space in a in a very um aggressive way.
So it would be great uh if he was to put uh those type of resources and his mind power behind a alternative to Netflix.
And a lot of times, what the real um allure of these stations of these streaming stations is not so much the stuff that they make, it's the licenses that they have purchased over the years.
That's certainly the case with Disney.
A lot of the stuff they're making now isn't that popular, but they hold the keys to seeing a lot of the old intellectual property that people you know beloved around Mickey Mouse and Cinderella and all that kind of stuff, and Netflix is the same way.
Here's what they need to do.
Someone needs to start the AI slop streaming station and just have AI slop all day running on it.
It's everywhere.
I think you're ahead of your time there with that idea.
Sombrero videos, AI friends, making out with other AI friends.
We're still analog, man.
Podcasting is a pretty much the only technology left that is just normal for normal people without video.
We're uh we're actually digital.
Yeah, but we're not AI.
No, you know, we're working close.
We're analog into people's ears.
You know, no distractions.
I'm in your head.
No distractions between your ears.
Listen to me, donate.
Donate.
So I've I've made a decision.
And okay.
I'm glad you made a decision.
One, just it's one at one a month, one decision.
I'm no longer going to complain about people saying free speech.
Yeah.
Versus freedom of speech.
I'm just going to call it speech.
Because you know, putting something in front of it.
Yes, because it's all about speech.
You know, freedom of speech is not a kind of speech, it's just speech.
I have the given God-given right to speech.
I can speak, I can speech, I can say whatever I want.
Now, I obviously if I slander someone, then that's a different issue.
But it's just speech.
No, it's the same issue.
What do you mean still speech?
It's speech.
Yeah, it's just speech.
It should happen to be slander.
So well, yes, it is.
But you know, but I can still use speech, But the government can't stop me from slandering somebody as someone if I slander someone, they can get me in trouble for lying or disparaging, but speech is just speech.
Right.
And all this freedom of speech and free speech, it's not good.
Just say speech.
Speech in the United States is protected.
Speech.
Not free speech, not freedom of speech, just speech.
Then so um Jonathan Turley, who I like, I think is great.
He's a professor at Georgetown.
I think if I was a student and I could take one of his courses, I think it would be dynamite.
Oh, I'd take it too.
You know, if you take I have to say this to people that started going to college, and we have a few out there just you know don't take courses, take professors.
Find out the guys who are super talented and take their courses, whatever it is, it doesn't matter.
Just take that because there's people that you're taking that you're learning from not.
Yes.
I recommend Prof. I don't.
No, neither do I. So Jonathan Turley, th this this showed up in my timeline, and I was like, well, that's interesting.
This is about speech and the North Sea Nexus, and in particular, the middle management of the the uh the monarchs and uh and the city of London.
Free speech isn't a free fall in Europe.
There are two anti-free speech movements that have coalesced.
One is in Europe where it has laid waste to free speech, Germany, France, England.
Free speech has been eviscerated.
And also places like Canada.
The US anti-free speech movement began in higher education, then metastasized throughout the government.
But this has all reached our shores now.
Uh the Berlin World Forum followed the remarks of Vice President Vance on free speech, and the EU was red hot.
They gathered in Berlin, and it was the most anti-free speech gathering I've ever been part of.
There's only two of us from the free speech community.
Uh and they are committed, and you know, Hillary Clinton was there, and she really fueled the anger.
I mean, she uh when Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, she called on the EU to use the infamous Digital Services Act, which is one of the most anti-free speech pieces of legislation in decades, and she called upon the EU to use the DSA to force the censorship of American citizens, force people like Musk to censor.
It's an extraordinary act by someone who was once a presidential candidate in the United States.
Uh, but they are committed to it.
And after the World Forum, uh they further globalize this effort, and they are threatening companies like Axe with ruinous fines unless they resume censoring American citizens.
This is so bad.
And and it's really not even discussed properly what's happening in the UK.
It is I mean, I've seen videos of the cops showing up wanting to talk to some woman's daughter because she viewed a post.
She viewed a post.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, here's I have a clip of the magistrate that's reading the riot act of somebody for uh Facebook post.
I don't have the whole clip, it's too long.
But the guy got prison time.
What?
Hold on a second.
I think I've seen this.
Is this the guy with the with the with the funky wig?
I need one of those wigs.
They all have funky wigs.
Those wigs are great.
UK magistration.
Why you wrote because they're over here, given life of Riley off the tax us hard working people earn when it could be put to better use.
Come over here with no work visa, no trade to their name, and sit down and DOS.
And then there's more people being put out homeless each year.
They get top bands priority on housing.
You went on to say that you did not want your money going to immigrants who, quote, rape our kids and get priority.
Although you said that you had no intention of carrying out any acts of violence, there can be no doubt that you were inciting others to do so.
Otherwise, why post the comment?
Wow.
And he went he got fined or went to jail.
It was up to seven years.
No.
Yeah.
Wow.
So the thing is, but the the comment at the end is where I why I cut it off there.
He said, he said, Yeah, you didn't want to incite violence, but you're but why else would you post?
Yeah, not your opinion.
Your opinion's no good.
You're no, it's great.
No, you owe according to this guy, and he's of this class, and I think which brings us back to your thesis, but of this class of people.
He the assumption is that if you post at all, you say anything, you're trying you you're doing that only to incite violence because that's the only possible reason you do it.
Yeah.
Which is illogical.
Wow.
Yeah, and and the discussion really isn't being held over here about what's happening.
And and I uh it's not that way in the EU yet, but it kind of is.
It's just you know, they don't have to.
Well it is in Germany for sure.
Well, Germany, well, the the reason why we don't hear coming out of Germany is because if you post about it, you go to jail.
You can't even say that they're doing this.
Right.
Yeah, I know.
It's really pretty, it's quite interesting and it's and it's subtle.
But the fact that Hillary Clinton would be over there encouraging it, yeah, is tells you that but again, she was, you know, in the road scholar.
She's not a road scholar because her husband was, but she's in that we already identified her as part of the Nexus.
Yeah.
So it makes nothing but sense that she'd go over there and and and promote this idea.
She's a horrible person.
Yes, she is.
She is a horrible person.
My goodness.
My goodness.
Wow.
People are still uh bent out of shape that she didn't beat Trump.
Yeah.
Well, you know, um, NPR uh did a poll.
This this was kind of an interesting little segment that I got about uh political violence, speaking of violence.
Uh and they polled, I guess their listeners.
Uh well, they just have a listen to this.
The federal government is shut down after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate could not agree on a funding bill.
A new NPR PBS News Maris poll us out this morning, and it found that more people would blame Republicans for a shutdown.
In a few minutes, we'll speak with Democratic representative Rosa Delaro about her party strategy.
First, though, more details from that poll.
It found the overwhelming majority believe children should be vaccinated before they're going to school.
that it's more important to control gun violence rather than protect gun rights.
NPR senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro has all the numbers.
So, Domenico, let's start with the shutdown.
What did the poll find?
This is I mean, so this is NPR listeners, NPR PBS.
So this is the the target demo for the Democrats.
Super liberals.
Super liberals, yes.
Yeah, Republicans uh get more of the blame, 38 to 27, though.
That's not close to a majority.
In 2019, during what was the longest government shutdown in history, over a month, 50% or more blamed Trump.
Now 31% would blame both parties equally.
Trump and Republicans get low approval ratings, but Democrats in Congress are worse.
Just 25% approve of them.
That's because of Democrats, by the way.
Less than half approve of members of their own party in Congress.
So a lot of politics to play here as the as the shutdown goes on.
Now, one thing that really jumps out in this survey, which you've written about this morning on MPR.org, the idea that that more people believe they might have to resort to violence to fix things.
I mean, how many people are we talking about?
Yeah, the number is up to 30% who think that they may have to resort to violence to get the country back on the right track.
That's up 11 points from when we asked that question in April of last year.
First of all, what kind of question is that to ask?
Hey, I know.
Let's ask people if they want political violence.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
So what do you think is driving that?
Largely it's changed views among some Democrats.
I mean, they've gone from just 12% percent saying violence might be necessary to now 28%.
That's a pretty big jump.
But Republicans are higher still at 31%.
Oh that's also a marginal increase from last year.
And everybody wants to fight.
Even a quarter of independents are saying this, saying this now.
You know, it's important to remember though, 70% of people do not feel this way.
More than three quarters say political violence is a major problem.
And other polling has shown that when specific acts of violence are polled, the numbers are much lower.
Still, it's pretty alarming, though, that people are increasingly feeling this way.
Yeah.
Now, okay, let's get to free speech.
Uh something we've been talking about a lot since Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air for a week after the Trump administration pressure ABC and its affiliates.
So how are people feeling about free speech in America?
Well, they're not feeling like it's very free.
Roughly eight in ten say they think that the country's gone too far in restricting speech.
That crosses political lines with almost 90% of Democrats and independents saying this, as well as almost two-thirds of Republicans.
Remember, conservatives were the ones who were saying for years that they felt that their speech, their free speech rights were being curtailed on college campuses and online.
So a lot of people now have gripes with what can and can't be said in the country, and that's showing up in this poll.
People also believe the federal government should play a minimal role in regulating speech.
Just 15% said they think it should be a major role.
It should have a major role in doing so.
Forty-four percent said it should play only a minor one.
Another four in ten uh said it should play no role at all.
It does not bode well.
No, that's that's actually not good numbers.
No.
Because it should be nut nobody.
I mean, it says right there in the first amendment, they can't do anything.
The government should be kept by the constitution says no.
Government can't do jack about speech one way or the other.
Can't make any laws to infringe on it.
Which is my version of doing jack.
Yes.
Well, speech.
I'm just called so long way to say, I'm just calling it speech.
Well, you can do what you want.
I'm gonna do exactly what I want.
Yeah, well, that's what else is new.
Uh speaking of speech and wait, I gotta since we were uh kind of on the topic, I'm about free speech.
Speech.
I don't have to I'm gonna do what I want to do too.
I know, but I'm gonna c contradict you.
No, you're going to you're gonna you you're being a uh uh scold.
Yes, I'm going to speech scold you.
Yeah, you can do what you want.
Thank you.
Uh this is a funny bit that ran uh just been floating around on the Brit card.
Oh, yeah.
This is the old gag the old lady at the bus.
Yeah, the old lady at the bus.
It starts with an old lady at the bus and she doesn't have a Brit card.
They're calling it the Brit card.
Well, I think somebody must be calling it the Brit card, but it's the this is the digital ID, is what we're talking about.
Uh the digital ID that some people want.
And what's all there's one aspect of this that's completely overlooked, and I'll bring it up at the end.
Can I see your Brit card, please?
I don't have one.
I don't have a smartphone.
Can I get another pint, please?
Sorry, sir.
Your Brit card says you've exceeded your alcohol quota for this week.
Sorry, sir.
Your Brit card says you've already flown twice this year.
We're having to restrict passengers with higher than average emissions profiles.
Sorry.
I'm afraid your funds have been temporarily frozen.
Your recent social media post did not align with the government's narrative.
Sorry.
I'm afraid your Brit card says you cannot purchase any more meat this week as part of our commitment to achieving net zero.
I've just logged in using my Brit card, and it's saying I've already had three hours of internet today, and it's locked me out.
Okay.
So what's being, you know, and and this is all good stuff because that's exactly what would be happening.
Uh the thing that's no computer says no.
Yeah.
But the thing that's they're experimenting with in China and their digital currency.
And I've run into this because I uh when I went to South Africa, I used a uh I got a bunch of travelers' checks in RANs.
And what the Chinese are experimenting with, and which I experienced with the RAN with these with these travelers' checks is expiration of funds.
Right, but that has nothing to do with the Brit card per se.
That that would be if the digital currency all of a sudden you get di well, it does because it digital cur you could do this with real currency too.
I mean, because they deal with the with these uh travelers' checks.
But the idea is that you're given uh 50 let's say you got uh $500 a week, and the the that money that goes into the and it's easier to do with the digital currency because you can just put the uh uh a tag on on that five hundred, and that five hundred expires and must be spent within thirty days.
This is all part of the UBI concept.
So that way, you know, you have all this money.
You can't save.
No.
Because they don't want you saving because you can't do that.
That way you can't build up wealth.
I mean, you I'm agree in agreement with you, but you're kind of jumping the gun.
You know, the EU will have their digital euro.
They're gonna do that, but the UK, I don't know they're not there yet.
No, I think it's something you have to bring in.
The Chinese are experimenting with it to see if people go along with the program, but it stinks.
Yes, it stinks.
There's only one way around it, and that's Bitcoin.
No, cash.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well.
Also gold.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Here, can I can I do you have a cheese scraper so I can so I can tip you?
Slightly impractical, but so is Bitcoin for that matter.
No, Bitcoin is a lot that is digital gold.
It's a lot more practical.
Yeah, you got digital in there.
Yeah, but it okay.
Well, I'm not gonna argue with you because you're a boomer.
Yeah, you're the one that's a big gold bug until just recently.
Until uh 2020, yeah.
Yeah.
I've I you had you had a you had a brick.
Bar.
A bar.
Yeah, I did.
Whatever happened to that bar.
Yeah, well.
Whatever happened to my two ex-wives, I don't know.
I was looking for my leather jackets, it's all gone.
Everything, I had no history.
I'm looking for my MTV jacket.
Here goes the bar.
Bye-bye, bar.
I told you when you got the bar to paint it black and use it as a doorstop, no one would ever know.
I had a uh when I was working with a guy at the air pollution district who was one of the supervisors.
You did tell me that, by the way.
Yeah, you did.
I did.
I'm not, you know, I can remember that part.
And the reason is because of this story.
This guy working at the his name was uh I can almost remember his name, but he was one of the supervisors.
I was over at his house, and he uh and he had all these screwball frames around his pictures.
They're all like uh metal, black metal around all these photos and stuff that he had to hang it on the wall.
And he explained to me they weren't black metal, they were solid gold.
He was one of those uh gold hunters that would go around panning.
He also had a uh one of those metal detectors, he'd hit the beach, the old man with the beach, and he said he'd pick up gold watches and he m all his gold, he kept it as as as bullion, but it was dangerous to keep around.
So he said, if anyone ever busted in the house, they saw these cheap looking frames that were painted black, he says no one would ever steal these because it looked stupid.
But there was all solid gold.
It was like hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold in his in his kitchen.
I mean, it was unbelievable.
It is kind of that gave me the idea to tell you about painting the bar gold uh black and using it as a doorstop.
No one would ever say that.
It's just kind of interesting when I became a gold bug and I was buying uh uh Krugerans.
I still have them.
I think I gave some away, but I have the majority of them.
I remember the price that I bought them at.
Do you remember the price per ounce?
Around 300.
No, no, I don't know, 750.
Okay, well, okay.
And what is it now?
3500 higher?
38.
38.
Okay, well, I'm just saying, you know, Bitcoin today is uh let me check.
Uh 120,750.
Yeah.
So um anyway, what I was gonna talk about is the Pope.
The Pope.
The Pope, yeah.
Is he a Catholic?
He is a Catholic.
Worst joke ever.
But he's doing weird stuff.
You know, it wasn't Chicago.
It wasn't clippable because it's just quiet, but he was at an international climate conference and had a big, like a big hunk of iceberg dripping on the stage on a little pedestal, and they asked him to bless the iceberg, and he did.
And he blessed the water.
And then he was asked about through a different circumstance about um about abortion, and he moved the goalpost, which I thought was really interesting.
Pope Leo is ordering, offering, I should say, his views on a dispute surrounding the Catholic Church and Illinois' U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.
Chicago Cardinal Blaze Supage had planned to give Durbin a lifetime achievement award for his work helping immigrants.
But some conservative Catholic bishops complained because of Durban's support for abortion rights.
The Pope says there is a contradiction in this debate.
It's important to look at many issues that are related to what is the teaching of the church.
Someone who says I'm against abortion but says I'm in favor of the death penalty, it's not really pro-life.
So uh someone who says that uh I'm against abortion, but I'm in agreement with the uh inhuman treatment of immigrants or in the United States.
I don't know if that's pro-life.
So they're very complex issues.
I don't know if anyone has all the truth on them.
But I would ask first and foremost that there be greater respect for one another.
The Pope said he was not familiar with all the details of the debate over the award, but says it's important to consider Durban's overall record.
Senator Durbin has declined the award.
So the goalpost move here is all of a sudden he's talking in code about pro-life.
Pro-life is code.
This not it's anti-abortion is the term.
And I'm I'm actually flummox that he didn't just say, no, I'm against abortion.
But he moved it to pro-life.
It's very strange.
Well, I don't know what he was doing, and I don't understand Durban not taking the award.
Ah, Durban Schmerbin.
But the Pope, you know, we've been trying to figure out what is this Pope, and he's looking a little more woke than I thought he would be.
The last couple Popes were woke.
They was picked by a bunch of woke cardinals.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's disappointing.
Uh let's talk about the deal.
The deal.
The big Gaza peace plan, which is, I think very interesting.
And the reason I say that is because everybody seems to like the Gaza peace plan.
And I'm talking like New York Times, uh, Newsweek, which of course makes me very suspicious.
But I think President Trump did something really smart here, and he pulled the North Sea Nexus into the deal by putting Tony Blair.
So yes, warmonger move.
Warmonger Tony Blair onto the peace board, the Board of Peace, which I think can only be like either you make this happen, Tony Blair, or I'm gonna expose you for the war monger that you are.
I mean, it's it's a it's a very interesting move, and uh I think France 24 had uh overview of the 20-point peace plan.
Under Donald Trump's 20-point plan for peace in Gaza, the first step would be an immediate ceasefire.
Hamas would then have seventy-two hours to free all hostages, forty-eight hostages remain in Gaza, at least twenty-five of whom are believed to be deceased.
In return, Israel would free 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 Gazans detained since the start of the conflict.
The plan would see Israeli forces perform a gradual staggered retreat from Gaza.
Initially, the Gaza Strip would be governed by a technocratic, a political Board of Peace, made up of Palestinians and international experts, directed and presided over by US President Donald Trump.
The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would also play a part in this organization.
Hamas would be banned from any role in governing Gaza, while Hamas members would benefit from an amnesty if they disarm and agree to peacefully coexist with Israel.
The framework includes plans to invest in Gaza and rebuild the devastated territory.
As soon as a text is signed, access for humanitarian aid would be restored, overseen by bodies including the United Nations and the Red Cross.
An international stabilization force with the backing of Arab states would keep the peace.
In the long term, the Palestinian authority would be allowed to take control of governing the territory after certain reforms.
And the plan leaves the door open for an eventual Palestinian state.
But if Hamas rejects the plan or does not follow through, Trump says Israel would then have U.S. backing to quote finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.
So besides putting Blair on the board, the peace board, he's got all the Arab countries.
They're like, yeah, this is we like this plan.
And then he got Israel to agree with the Arab countries.
What do you think the chances are of success here?
Well, I think they're still talking to Iran, because they're the ones that are behind the uh Hamas uh in general, they're the ones calling the shots, it seems.
And uh if there's a deal to be made, it's gotta be made there.
And they just tell them to back off and you know, step up to the plate and or whatever the other cliches I want to come up with.
And uh and end it.
I think it's I think it's uh at first I think well, you know, more talk, you know, because Trump's been yakking about this oh they release the hostages or else he keeps saying it.
Right.
And it doesn't nothing goes on, and there's nothing and nothing and nothing.
And this seems to give gotten some and I think you're right.
It's bringing Blair in and in the uh in the uh the North Sea Nexus, bring the creeps running.
Bring the creeps in.
Yeah, the creeps in the bring the creeps in to have them uh uh put pressure and I however they do it, it's a mystery.
Meanwhile, we've got the flotilla, which is always hilarious.
This is great, always hilarious.
The Israeli Navy has intercepted a flotilla of vessels trying to get to Gaza.
The boats had traveled for weeks in the Mediterranean, drawing attention to the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Israel had warned them to turn back and vowed they would not break the naval blockade.
Paul Hunter has the latest from Jerusalem.
Paul, what do we know?
Susan, I'll say off the top we don't know an awful lot of details with certainty because what's been happening is out in the Mediterranean in the dark of night, and obviously not in front of news cameras or reporters.
Well, because you guys are too lame to go out there.
He said dark at night, it was too dark for us to go.
And though some of the various boats have been live streaming, verifying precisely what's what is complicated.
So with those caveats, here's what can be said.
A number of the boats, and there are about forty or fifty of them in total, are now said to have been boarded by Israeli authorities.
Early word was that people were being arrested and taken to a port in Israel, it seemed, without incident.
But later came the suggestion from the flotilla that the Israeli Navy was using, quote, active aggression, that water cannon was being used, and even that at least one boat in the flotilla had been rammed, though no reports of any injuries.
Again, impossible to verify at this point.
Bottom line, an interception is underway.
The boats are all part of this international flotilla carrying opponents to the war in Gaza, some of them high profile opponents, with aid meant for Gazans.
So the aid in truth is merely symbolic.
The point here is to try to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza and open a humanitarian corridor.
No, this is all ego.
This is just a bunch of people who want to go, I'm good, I'm great.
And of course, we know who's in the flotilla.
The blockade has been in place since Hamas took control of Gaza back in 2007, but is under fire now because it's preventing access for aid into Gaza from the Mediterranean.
At the same time, Israel controls land crossings while its two-year war on Hamas continues.
And as any on those boats would underline countless Ghazans are an ever more desperate need for food and other aid right now.
Bottom line, a tense situation in the Mediterranean, Susan.
And what is Israel saying?
Well, it calls the whole thing a stunt and calls those in the flotilla provocateurs looking to create some sort of incident.
Israel's even said that it would allow the boats to drop their aid north of Gaza with the pledge it would then be taken into Gaza.
But the boats continued toward the Gaza coast regardless.
And there are those who suggest Israel has no legal jurisdiction in those waters.
Others suggesting if Israel can demonstrate that it's militarily justified, then interceptions can go forward.
But even as the flotilla approached Israel made clear it would use any means possible to stop it, and that seems to be what's happening tonight.
Interceptions and arrests, and by some accounts, no small degree of chaos.
And I'll just mention one of those now detained, uh, Greta Toonberg, the climate activist video emerging now of her being picked up by Israeli authorities on one of those boats, as Israel put it, Greta and her friends are safe and healthy.
All of this, Susan is expected to continue for the next several hours.
I mean, how can we take Greta Toonberg seriously anymore?
Does anyone take her seriously?
Climate activists, now Palestinian activists on the flotilla.
Break out the Discord, people.
Get your Gen Z 212 in there.
This is just she's a bad op at this point.
I don't know how they must see if she's definitely gone off the rails and she looks silly.
Yes.
She's just nuts.
I guess she has a...
Her sister is a pop singer or something.
No.
Really?
Yeah.
Very famous pop singer.
Hmm.
It's very so famous.
Well, so famous you go, huh?
I have not heard of the famous pop singer.
Wells.
I gave it away.
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I don't even know if you remember after the show, I let you go before I'd even posted it.
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You remember?
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So, and I got all kinds of complaints.
I couldn't get into the troll room now most of the time.
Like, okay.
Well, Mimi says she only heard about done a half hour of the show and then it dropped dead.
She couldn't pick it up at all.
I said, You complain to Adam?
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She never did.
Uh, she did actually.
Uh turns out we had a D classic, a DNS problem.
So people could literally not reach uh our MP3s, our stream, the troll room.
And I uh I woke Void Zero up.
Like I I pulled the the handle and got him out of bed, and he fixed it.
So I I think that's why we only see 1691 today in the troll room.
People people are giving up on this thing.
It's like, uh, can I listen?
Let them know, people.
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That's not just not that far off of a typical Thursday.
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It doesn't work.
You lose people that way.
It happens.
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Exactly.
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Uh they are there.
Troll just bring up Israel, lots of trolls.
Way go, oh, I gotta post something.
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I'm I'm pretty sure that he is not 100% AI.
He he, I mean, if you look at the no agenda uh words clasped in the talons of this eagle on which the British wanker is sitting backwards.
That's I don't think AI can do that.
Not easily, at least.
I'm pretty sure he he uh massaged the.
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And Curry and Dvorak by hand.
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I wish he would tell us.
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We need to know.
Because we looked at some other things uh for artwork, and there were some a lot of people like the word wanker.
Man, they really like wanker.
That was interesting.
Not quite sure what they like about that.
Um was there anything that we looked at that we thought uh that we thought was good?
Stop playing around.
Not really.
No.
I mean, we had enough trouble picking this piece.
Yeah.
Well, British girls.
Uh, not quite sure what Blue Acorn was doing with the British politician holding up a sausage or a hot dog with mustard.
Yeah, there was that.
That was um other bad cartoon art.
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It's hard.
You know, when people are uninspired and say, oh, don't do some art.
I'll just put in that no agenda.
Funny.
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Which probably will not get picked.
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Is he not the guy he always sends in on letterhead from the um Yeah, that's what he did in this one, too.
United Federation of Planets.
Yes.
Yes.
There it is, United Federation of Planets, Starfleet Command.
He sent in a rebellizer donation, $3,333.33.
India.
Badby.
33.
33, 33.
And he uh wrote in handwriting on this note.
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We just heard it.
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Signed Sir Donald of the Firebottles.
By the way.
I'm sorry.
Well, he says Greater Idaho.
I think he may have moved.
And do you see at the bottom?
I'd never seen this.
You ever see this at the bottom of his uh of his stationery?
So at the top, he has United Federation of Planets, Starfleet Command.
At the bottom, he has because there's TMs and stuff.
Yeah, and copyright.
He says 1992 Paramount Pictures All Rights Reserved.
Star Trek The Next Generation is a trademark of Paramount Pictures.
What is he worried he's going to get sued over his station?
No, I think this I think he bought this from Paramount.
Oh.
Oh.
I thought he actually was a member of United Star uh Starfleet Command.
I I thought he was real.
Oh, you oh, I see.
Yeah.
Oh, well, okay.
I I I was convinced the guy's uh the member of the United Federation of Planets.
Well, maybe he is.
He still has to get the copyright notice.
No, true.
Trademark.
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Sir Donald, soon to be Secretary General.
We really appreciate it.
I'll read the next two so you can read the ridiculously long one.
Uh no name from uh Waldo, Wisconsin came with 34567, and and his note is dynamite.
Karma, please.
Gotta love it.
You've got Karma.
So the Commodore Semi Anonymous uh vegan, vegan, vegan, vegan.
I don't you know vegan.
Is it vegan?
Vegan.
In Mill Park Victoria, Australia came in with 333.33, which he calculates is $500, which uh gives him a um secretary general ship.
It does.
It's $500 uh Australian three three three three three.
Who knew?
Yeah.
Uh Commodore Semi Anonymous uh vegan here.
I'd like to take advantage of the Secretary General offer with my 3333, which would amount to about 500 Aussie dollars in honor of P. M. Elmer Fudd.
I'd like to be known as Secretary General of the Wand of the Wanda Rabbits, the Wanda Web Wanda Webbits.
I also uh it pushes me over the threshold for a night.
Good.
Nice.
If it pleases the peerage committee, it has to be I have to be known as Sir Ucko of the land down under Sir Ako, Sir Akash.
I got you.
At the round table, I like a slice or two of Hawaiian and Margarita Pizza.
Good for you.
Uh soon to be launched by 404 Pizza.
Keep an eye out on Kickstarter on the first of November, which is World Vegan Day.
So it's a vegan pizza.
Yes.
Also, uh, like some uh pornographic uh oh I'm sorry pomegranate kombucha, which is I would recommend against simply because I haven't heard of it already uh here or there, he says there.
John, can you cash Australian checks if they sent to you?
No.
Uh what is the fee?
Well probably not uh I think I can try.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Uh Commodore Semi Atomic.
We can't even wire money from our bank, but they'll cash an Australian check.
No, we can wire money.
We do that.
I can't wire money, not online.
No, no, you can't do it online.
You have to go in because you can't using Swift, you have to answer a bunch of questions.
They have to look you in the eye.
They have to say, Do you know who you're sending this to?
Wow.
Let me see your ID.
Didn't they get cards?
Some of your Brit card.
You gotta have two or three people sign the document, then you gotta go over all the numbers.
Really?
It's a it's a huge pain in the ass.
And that's why, you know, Void Zero, who gets paid by us to keep the servers going.
Yeah.
Uh I only pay him every other month for two months' work because you got a gain in the ass.
It takes a good half hour to put a separate wire.
So they're not gonna let you do it online, but when stable coin comes in, and I always mention this to the bankers.
I said, Well, you know, this is gonna change when stablecoin comes in.
They always say the same thing.
What?
What's stable coin?
Really?
Wow.
Yes, really.
Well, you could always pay Void Zero in Bitcoin.
That's another pain in the ass.
Not really.
I'd have to have a wallet.
Whoa, no, a wallet.
Oh, God forbid.
And he was also caused, it's not as easy to document for tax purposes.
Certainly it is.
Sir Adam of the Coke Empire, associate executive producership.
Haven't heard from him in a while, 24568.
Greetings from the Empire.
Well, the Coke Empire is undergoing some changes at the moment.
This is uh this this feels like to me like inside uh investment uh information.
We are transitioning from King Charles II to Crown Prince Chase Coke, that's the Koch brothers, K-O-C-H.
Young Chase will take the rein sometimes in sometime in 2026 as he's busy in Silicon Valley spending the Empire's money on angel investing into AI startups and other technologies with his disruptive technologies arm.
The Empire's reaching a technology in the coming AI power needs is far and wide with our mega companies, Molex, and Deepcom Power, helping Oracle build out its data center infrastructure.
It's sad that our King Charles II is stepping down, but soon, down soon, but besides being really the richest person on the planet earth.
If he didn't have this to split 50% with his dead brother's widow, he'd be worth over a hundred billion.
Wow.
Anyway, we're that sucks.
Yes, world domination in all industries is progressing as there's not a thing any no agenda slave touches in their day that didn't get manufactured by the Empire.
From toilet paper to lumber TVs to iPhone screens, the Coke Empire is all reaching.
I haven't donated in a while, and that's my fault.
I'd like to say I've welcomed a new human resource into the world last November.
Ah, very good.
A new Coke baby.
Baby girl named Evelyn Gray.
She definitely is the best part of my day, as she should be.
I'm afraid, gentlemen, we as a society are careening towards the scenes from the great film Dr. Chivago.
He sent the clip.
Soon we will all have residency committee comrades telling us that our homes have five bedrooms and you only need one, and that four families will take the others.
God knows if Gavin Newsom gets in next, we will be living out Dr. Chivago.
John, I too listened to the Michael Savage show all those years ago when he talked about Gavin and Kamala destroying San Francisco.
Michael tried to warn us, R.I.P. Teddy.
P.S. Support American manufacturing.
Buy some toilet paper.
Very good.
Michael Savage is dead.
No, he's Teddy Roosevelt.
Oh.
I guess.
Uh Nathan Parker in Seattle, Washington.
Uh, and he says, uh, keep up the good work.
Boom.
That's a note.
And 222.22, which gives me to the second note.
No, I'll I'll no, you can have the second one, and I'll you're just looking at what's long and what can I do that's not.
Yeah, don't worry about it.
You can read the read on it.
Believe me, everybody's happy because it takes you forever to get through the long notes.
Sean Holman.
Hey, isn't that Holman or scroll back and forth?
Yeah, it's Sean Holman.
He's a brother.
In Indiana, 219-11.
Ah.
That's the 1911 guys, I think.
God bless you, brothers.
St. Maria Goretti, pray for us.
All right.
Who's St. Maria Goretti?
I think we've been through this and I forgot already.
Eli the coffee guy's up.
He's in Bensonville, Illinois.
He comes in with 2102 for today's show.
This Monday was National Coffee Day, if you didn't know.
And we're celebrating by releasing a new organic Ethiopian Ethiopian.
What is this?
Gucci?
Gucci medium roast.
Cheers to cheers to made up days of celebrating random things.
Visit Gigawatt Coffee Roasters.com.
Use the code ITM20 for 20% off your order.
Stay caffeinated also.
Can I get a health karma and an F cancer for fellow coffee lover and producer Doug stay caffeinated and thank you for your courage, Eli.
You've got karma.
Saint Maria Teresa Goretti was an Italian virgin martyr of the Catholic Church and one of the youngest saints to be canonized.
There's your answer.
How old was she?
Young.
And then we have uh, oh, this is uh Irma Sasso de Lima de Preto from Alsmia, the Netherlands.
I actually tried to get this note into AI and have it speak this note.
Two problems.
One, I couldn't get a good Dutch accent out of 11 Labs, and two, it made the note five minutes long.
So no.
Uh dear John Adams, sorry for this very oh, it's a meetup report, but I thought better late than never.
We, Anita and Irma hosted our very first meetup in Hofdorp at the day camping site of the Highlanders of Boss on September 7th.
We were blessed with a wonderful sunny day.
We set up our speci we set up our specifically for meetups brought party tent.
We hung up your faces and they sent some pictures, which are quite funny and had a great time together.
We brought food, woke wine, beer, woke wine, beer, and all kinds of non-alcoholic beverages.
Oh, it's woke wines, no alcohol.
When it was time to light the barbecue, it turned out we invited very helpful producers.
19 of them, including some fair, very small ones and one four-legged producer.
We were even blessed with a special visit of a couple with their lovely human resource from South Africa.
So considering this was our first hosted meetup, I think it was very successful.
Uh, and then she says, Since we I received one donation, oh, she got some donations.
I've been a regular listener since October 2023, after I saw you, Adam, on one of the Jensen shows, the Robert Jensa.
I was hooked and wish I knew about your show before COVID.
Unfortunately, I had to go through that traumatic period without you guys.
I set up a recurring donation since February 2024, my first human resource.
Anita supports me, but she isn't yet a listening producer.
May I have I maybe I haven't hit her in the mouth hard enough, clearly.
Anyway, this donation will be on her behalf.
So it will be for uh Anita uh Sauso de Lima da Prado.
Okay, so it's a switcheroo, basically.
Let me do the switcheroo bit.
Okay, switcheroo.
All right, switcheroo.
Uh it's a small amount, but this adds up to 9480 euros.
I will chip in a little X tree to 9630 euros because I love the combination.
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Uh, I have some uh oh, there's new data.
New data.
Did you hear about the new data?
It's always new data.
There's new data.
New data from the centers for disease control show more people are coming down with the common cold.
The viruses currently at the highest level since 2022.
Oh, what could this be?
Could this be an ad, or is it just information?
It's new data.
School is starting.
We're moving more indoors.
That increases the risk of transmission.
There's also other variables that are difficult to predict.
Changes in weather, humidity.
The CDC reporting nearly a third of tests are coming back positive for rhinovirus and enterovirus.
Rhinovirus is the most frequent cause of the common cold, and interovirus is a type of respiratory infection.
There's also viral competition where last season we saw virus viruses rise.
That means that we'll see other viruses decrease, and that leaves the community with an immunity debt.
That means that many of us had not seen these viruses in quite some time, and that increases our risk of susceptibility.
While there's no vaccines for the common cold, there are ways to reduce your risk of catching or spreading it.
Healthcare professionals say have good hydrogen.
Now notice what she says.
While there's no vaccine, these viruses in quite some time, and that increases our risk of susceptibility.
While there's no vaccines for the common cold, there are ways to reduce your risk of catching or spreading it.
Healthcare professionals say have good hygiene, like washing your hands, covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze, opening windows for cleaner air, and staying at home from work or school if you're sick.
Experts say flu activity typically follows with illness rising at the start of October and peaking in December and February.
And when it comes to the flu, healthcare professionals say the flu shot is the best defense against not only the flu, but also severe complications from it.
It's recommended annually to everyone over the age of six months.
So they went from there's no vaccine for the cold, but you better get your shot for the flu.
What's immunity debt supposed to mean?
It's a great term.
We have immunity debt because you're not vaxxing enough.
Don't you get it?
Immunity debt.
Commun immunity debt is immunity debt.
Yeah, it's a little too long for a show title, but I like it.
I don't think so.
You think immunity debt is uh I'll write it down.
You think so?
I mean, I I like Gen Zwenty to two.
Didn't we use Zed in the previous thing?
Yeah, this no, but that was just Z. Now it's Gen Z212.
Oh, that's that's that's promoting something.
I don't like it.
Uh I thought this uh finally someone caught on to kill all humans so we can promote the AI slot.
This uh this trend has been bugging me for a while, and the NBC Today show finally did a uh uh a piece on it, and I think it's kind of hilarious.
We're back 739.
Today's consumer, all about protein.
Yeah, it is surging in a big way this year, being added to all sorts of products, even your morning cup of coffee.
Let me see business and data correspondent.
Brian Chung here, looking into the growing trend.
It does seem like protein is omnipresent.
Yeah, and by the way, in your coffee, they're doing cold foam and now also milk infused, at least at Starbucks.
So the latest to jump on this trend, announcing the releasing this line of protein powder drinks today.
It's a move that many big names in the restaurant and retail business are making in the hopes of getting more customers in the door and boosting sales.
Have you been following this?
The protein drinks, which is no, I have not been following this, and this obviously sounds like a native ad for sure.
Well, of course it is, and it's uh it's so they're adding milk, or you would say milk product to to fizzy drinks.
And it's protein.
Yeah, you have to have protein, and they actually have the it's a roundabout way to get to the native ad, but here we go.
From sugarless to fat-free.
You think we'd seen it all.
Yep.
Protein never tasted this good.
But the era of protein-packed products Has arrived, though not everyone is on board.
Well, I just went to Walmart the other day and found out there's a protein popcorn.
Why do I need protein in my popcorn?
Starting today, Starbucks is jumping on the bandwagon, offering a new line of protein lattes made with boosted protein milk.
But the coffee chain isn't the only big name capitalizing on the trend.
Lots of protein, all under 500 calories.
Subway's new fresh fit menu also joining the movement.
If you are a restaurant right now, is this kind of the hottest place to be?
If you have a protein-focused menu, that is considered healthy.
It not only generates sales for the restaurant, it improves the consumer perception of that restaurant.
Retailers are also hoping to boost sales.
Supermarket chain Kroger recently launched 80 new protein focused products under its simple truth brand.
And PepsiCo announcing it will be adding protein to some of its name brands by the end of the year, too.
Do you want in on this?
Dude, a protein shake.
Let's buffin you up.
The push for protein, even making an appearance on the small screen.
Vanilla Pharma protein.
To the phone screen with influencers and celebrities like Chloe Kardashian getting in on the craze, promoting protein products of their own.
Cloyota popcorn, my protein popcorn.
And there's proof of the push.
In a recent survey, 70% of Americans said they're trying to consume more protein.
Yet health experts say where you get your protein from really matters.
Consumers might not be realizing that they're getting added sugars with the added protein.
Whereas if you're eating eggs, meat, yogurt, that's unsweetened, you're getting this protein source in a whole food forum that's unprocessed.
You see, we were told in the movie.
Idiocracy that it would be electrolytes from Gatorade.
But it's protein.
Everything has no agenda.
Now with protein.
Everything has got to have protein in it.
And there's a reason.
It took them a long time to get to it.
But here's the payoff.
The reason for all these products with protein.
All right, so clearly it's the latest trend.
Uh, but it could there be anything else that might be driving folks to get more protein or try and consume more protein.
Yeah, well, Craig, these GLP one drugs, and Ozempic is a big reason behind this too, because as people eat fewer meals as a result of being on these drugs, they want it to be more efficient, trying to get as much protein as possible.
That's the reason why I think a lot of these protein bars that are protein maxing get as many grams in one uh packaged item.
That's a big story here.
But for everyone else, I want to point out doctors usually say you're getting enough protein as is.
So if you're gonna try to change your diet, just make sure you talk to your doctor first.
So all these freaks who are on GLP ones that can't eat them anymore.
If I'm gonna change my diet, I have to talk to my doctor.
Yes, you should.
Right away.
Hey, uh Doc, I'm gonna have a protein bar.
If I eat that, is that uh something I should be aware of?
It's something I should concern myself with.
No, not really.
Uh we'll say, by the way, uh the copay there, that's 50 bucks.
Thanks.
Everybody needs to have protein because they're not eating food anymore.
So, well, I can't eat because I'm um I'm puking from the from Ozempic.
So I still not I need to force down some protein.
Gotta get some protein.
You need protein.
Uh, we have warned since the day these things came out.
We said this is not a good idea.
This doesn't sound healthy.
All of the bad side effects we've been tracking.
And I'm afraid that we're not gonna get to the erectile dysfunction because now the GLP ones are in trouble.
Ozempic has exploded in popularity as both the diabetes and a weight loss drug, but now it's at the center of a legal blowback kind of situation.
More than 18 kind of situation.
What is that?
Kind of situation to reporting to report.
Of a legal blowback kind of situation.
More than 1800 lawsuits have been filed over adverse side effects with the liability estimated at more than two billion dollars.
Our legal expert Whitney Trailer is here to break this down.
So let's talk first about the claims against Ozempic.
Yeah.
So we went back to school, so all these one L students that just started law school, you're gonna be learning about this stuff.
This is uh uh civil Tort is is what we're dealing with.
So this is product liability, uh complex civil litigation, um, you know, mass tort liability, and essentially they're saying that hey, you you marketed this this uh drug and you downplayed their claiming that they downplayed the potential harm that it would cause and it's causing these very severe side effects.
And so people are now bringing these lawsuits.
There's a bunch of if you go online, you'll see a bunch of law firms just highlighting this case in particular.
And actually it was over 1800, but as of this morning, I think it's 2100.
How are the damages decided?
Is it individually based?
Do they look at the side effects?
Like what how does that even get decided on?
Yeah, well, that's why we have a jury system, and so the jury actually looks at that and they will decide um a number of different factors.
So, you know, th there's a number of of terrible side effects.
Some people are going blind, they're having intestinal issues.
They're uh digestive issues, just some really severe type of issues, and the jury will come back and decide and say, hey, we think this is what it's worth.
And so you have to calculate both the physical damage, the emotional distress, you know, the loss of consortium, then if people can't go to work, their lost wages, um, if they can't provide for their families.
So it's going to be different for different folks.
So of course the Noah Jenna Show has been warning you about this, about these horrible side effects.
And if you still didn't listen to us, don't worry, because Rob, the constitutional lawyer, the boots and suits will be glad to sue these companies for you.
No problem.
You if you're if you gone blind, call Rob.
Let me know, I'll forward your email to him.
But luckily, luckily, we have uh not one but two disclaimers now.
They're now 30 seconds to disclaimers.
They're they're starting to creep up a little bit.
Uh the disclaimer, uh, the ads with their disclaimers.
Here is uh the competitor to Ozempic, Zep bound.
Tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, stop setbound and call your doctor if you have severe stomach pain or a serious allergic reaction.
Severe side effects may include inflamed pancreas or gallbladder problems.
Tell your doctor if you were experiencing vision changes, taking a sofal urea or insulin, having suicidal thoughts, nursing, pregnant, plantaby, or taking birth control pills.
Side effects include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which can cause dehydration and worsen kidney problems.
That doesn't sound too bad.
Suicidal thoughts.
How about uh this new one, which is CAMSIO?
Camsios.
CASEO.
Camsios is uh if you have OHCS, I think it is, obstructive hypertropic cardiomyopathy.
I'm not sure what it is, but here's the here's the here's the drug disclaimer for it.
Chemzios works by targeting what's causing OHCM.
And it's proven to reduce obstruction in the heart four times more.
Chemzios may cause serious side effects, including heart failure that can lead to death.
A risk that's increased with serious infection, irregular heartbeat, or with certain other medicines.
Do not stop, start, or change medicines or dose without telling your doctor.
You must have echocardiograms before and during treatment.
Seek help for new or worsening heart failure symptoms.
Chemzios is only available through a restricted program.
Before taking CamSyos, tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and current or planned pregnancy.
Chemzios, first in its class to treat symptomatic OHCM.
I mean, I mean what what happened to good old anal leakage?
Now we've got death.
death.
You might die.
Give it a shot.
You might die.
Bye.
Uh of course it will be available at Trump Rx.
Our president, he's he's a he's a hoot, man.
Trump Rx, really.gov, I believe.
I I'm pretty sure it's dot gov. It's uh it's better than a monument.
Just get get a domain name, Trump RX.gov.
I went to C NBC to get the lowdown on on the finances of this thing.
Here we go.
President Trump announcing a drug pricing deal with Pfizer, which will voluntarily sell its medications for less, including discounted drug prices for Medicaid.
Pfizer is up 5% on the news.
Angelica Peoples joins us now with more.
There was a teaser too that other drug companies would have announcements To come also.
That's what the president said.
We haven't heard anything yet.
I've been checking in.
Nothing to announce there.
But you know, this is interesting, right?
Of course, we've been hearing from all these companies yesterday.
We talked about it.
Everyone's been saying they've been in negotiations, but today Pfizer, the first company to actually strike a deal with the administration.
So what's happening?
They're committing to a few things.
They're going to lower prices in Medicaid, and then they are going, they're getting a three-year exemption from tariffs on the condition that they invest more in the US.
They're also agreeing to sell uh some of the drugs through this new website called Trump RX, which is a DTC direct-to-consumer platform.
And they're also promising to launch new drugs at parity.
So the same price here in the US as other countries.
Now, it sounds like a big deal, but I do want to you know take a little bit of a measured approach here because some of these drugs, right?
The drugs that they're selling directly to consumers, you know, only one of them is actually broken out in the earnings report.
So these are older drugs, they don't make a lot of money.
These are not the huge blockbusters that you might be familiar with.
And so even though it sounds like yes, these prices are coming down, these are significant discounts.
Pfizer's not really giving up a whole lot here.
And also Medicaid already gets the lowest prices around.
So, you know, clearly this is working out for Pfizer, and it gives them certainty you can see the stock move today, but not giving up a ton here.
Hmm.
Yeah, scam.
Well, I have a report on the same thing, but this is from NPR.
Okay.
Uh what's it called?
Oh, uh Trump announces deal with Pfizer.
Here we go.
President Trump says he's making good on his promise to lower drug prices for Americans.
He announced a deal with Pfizer on Tuesday and also announced a new government website called Trump RX.
NPR pharmaceuticals correspondent Sidney Lupkin is following this.
So what's they have a pharmaceuticals correspondent?
Yes.
Right next to the climate desk, I'm sure.
Let's roll that back for a second here.
Pfizer on Tuesday and also announced a new government website called Trump RX.
NPR pharmaceuticals correspondent Sidney Lupkin is following this.
Hey, Sydney, so what's in this deal?
The splashiest part involves Pfizer selling its drugs such as Zell Jance for rheumatoid arthritis directly to consumers at a discount.
Consumers could access the deals through a website operated by the federal government called Trump RX.
Trump has talked about bringing drug prices in line with what other developed countries pay and making those other countries pay what he calls their fair share.
Here's Trump at the press conference.
The United States has done subsidizing the health care of the rest of the world.
It's a big thing.
I can't tell you how big this is.
The deal also includes discounts for Medicaid and a pledge from Pfizer to sell new drugs at the same price in the US as in other developed countries.
Trump says similar deals with other drug makers are in the works.
How did President Trump get the drug makers to come to the table?
Yeah, it started with an executive order back in May on what the president calls most favored nation drug pricing.
That would link U.S. prices to those elsewhere.
Over the summer, he upped the ante with letters to 17 drug makers that gave them 60 days to come up with plans.
And then came closed door negotiations.
During the press conference, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told reporters that negotiations went late into the night.
Pfizer CEO Albert Borla was at the press conference too, by the way.
He said this deal came with a three-year grace period from certain tariffs.
And he added that tariffs were the quote most powerful tool to motivate behaviors.
So it's clear the threat of them played a role here, though the many details of the deal aren't public.
Yeah, and there's still no website, which is very bad form.
No, it's supposed to be in December.
They already said that.
Uh from uh here's a apparently Cuban who owns uh his own drug purchasing website, Cost Plus Drugs, says, I've been told this just a listing site and won't actually sell anything.
So they'll just have links to other uh online.
That would make sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, a landing page.
Okay.
It's part two to this, by the way.
But what would this mean for consumers then?
You know, a lot of them probably won't notice a difference in Medicaid, for instance, beneficiaries already pay very little or nothing for drugs, and it's not yet clear how much money the Medicaid part of the deal would save taxpayers.
As for Trump RX, direct to consumer prices mean that consumers are not using their health Insurance.
So while on average prices may drop 50% through Trump RX, that's still 50% off a big number.
And it still might be unaffordable.
Insurance copies could be cheaper.
But if someone needs a drug that isn't covered by insurance and it's offered on Trump RX, it might be an option.
All right, so when is Trump RX supposed to get going?
Yeah, the TrumpRx.gov website is supposed to launch in early 2026, and the new Medicaid prices are supposed to take effect around the same time.
As for the promise of launching new drugs at the same price in the US as abroad, that's an ongoing process.
In fact, some other companies have already said they'll do that.
Bristol Myers Squibb, for instance, says its new schizophrenia drug will be sold at the same price in the UK as it is here.
But that won't save American patients any money.
New schizophrenia.
A new schizophrenic drug is going to be sold cheaper.
No, it's not.
Yes, it is.
Wow.
New schizophrenic drug for all the schizophrenics.
They worked that one in.
Check is in the mail, girl.
Good job.
Okay.
What do we have?
Well, I got a couple of things here.
There's a couple of uh, for example, the man on the street uh was done by NTD asking people just randomly on uh one of the malls whether they think Trump's gonna run for a third term.
I thought this was amusing.
You you only want this in there because of the five hundred dollar bet you have with your son.
No, I don't want it in there for that reason.
I already got that bet.
That's done.
Yeah, okay.
You want you you want to throw it.
Would you support President Trump running for a third term entity Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in DC to hear from the people?
President Trump's been talking about potentially running for a third term.
Perhaps a joke, perhaps not.
Would you like to see that happen?
Yes.
I would like to, but it's not gonna happen.
That's that's not right.
And you know, he does say and do some things that even we don't agree, but I I don't think that will happen.
You say you will like to see that happen.
I would like it.
Yes.
He d he deserves to be in there because he's moving everything forward.
And that's great.
Sure, yeah.
But I don't think I don't think he can.
Not with the is it the 22nd amendment?
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
I don't even want to comment.
I certainly think he will.
By the time it comes around, it'll it'll be legal legal to do so.
And would you be behind that?
Hell no.
You know, pretty soon only be Republicans that can own guns, too.
President Trump has been talking about potentially running for a third term.
Would you be on board with that?
Yeah.
I'm not a huge political person, but you know, I'm very turned off by the Democrats and just liberals and just all of that.
I don't think anybody should be up beyond two terms.
That's been a tradition in our our country, and I think um that's been pretty well established.
How about Vance 2028?
What do you think?
Ah no.
No, please no.
I don't have that many years.
I don't have that many years left on this planet.
I don't want I don't want this to go down like this.
I see that I see that happening.
Yeah.
Yep.
Would you be supporting him?
Yes.
Probably a continuation of what Trump has started.
Just, you know, finishing it out, carrying it through.
You know, I really to be honest, don't know exactly what he's doing right now.
I haven't really like followed his speeches and interviews.
So if it's not Trump, then uh for sure, Vance.
You know, I won't close close off to it.
I liked what he said a lot more before the election than when he joined the ticket.
So you're open-minded.
Well, I try to be how about Vance 2028?
Yeah.
That would be a good call.
There's a couple other guys that could be uh in the running as well.
We'll have to wait and see, because we really don't know much about Vance right now.
But if you ever watch did you ever watch his movie that he made about um he didn't make it, but they made it about his life and where he came from to where he is today.
It was only God that did that.
But I'm I would definitely vote for him in 28.
Brother.
Well, we could have done without that.
Goodness gracious.
Uh man on the city.
By the way, here's a another clip that should that you'll be burning up.
Make it funny.
Well, this is Crowder.
Oh.
Who pushed himself push puts himself back on the pedestal and he's complaining about hey, you know, uh, he he gets threatened too.
Oh this is this this would but I didn't get any of the Tim Poole ones because Tim Poole's been saying the same thing.
But Crowder's stuff is like a little out there.
Crowder said he pulled back from these campus events due to security issues with those in the audience that opposed him turning violent.
When I did change my mind, it started in 2016.
The idea was hey, calling the left on their bluff.
Civil dialogue with anyone to the tune of billions of plays and hundreds of hours.
And it got increasingly violent.
And what I didn't tell people, I told people out there, go do this on your own campus.
Have these conversations.
I advocated for it.
And Charlie took it to another level.
It was unbelievable.
I didn't tell people about the threats because I didn't want copycats.
I didn't tell them about terrorists from Yemen through Sweden showing up in East Grand Rapids.
I didn't tell them about concrete milkshakes.
I didn't tell them about my tires getting slashed, about people trying to firebom my car.
Turning points national tour continues with some of the biggest conservative names, including Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, and Glenn Beck.
We have a Yemen terrorist coming through Sweden.
We have a term for a guy like this in the old country.
We call it like a picker.
Say it with me.
Like and picker.
Means what?
Means he's someone who picks off the remains of dead bodies.
Oh.
He's just trying to make uh a name for himself off of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
I can't see it any other way.
Oh, look at me.
I'm so brave.
Ugh.
Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with that because I found the thing peculiar.
What is a uh concrete milkshake?
Uh whether it's a milkshake that has concrete in and they throw it at you.
So it's like basically like a brick.
Yeah.
Well, they just throw a brick at you.
Yeah, this is disappointing.
It's like a lot of work.
This is disappointing.
I saw him walking there with all his security guys.
Oh, yeah, I'm a big man.
I'm going on campus.
Look at me, I'm so brave.
I was doing it before Charlie.
That's basically what he said.
Yeah, that's what he said.
That was the theme there.
Yeah.
Well, now you've just bummed me out.
I'm gonna show myself but donation.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, no, Jesus.
Well, and since you played that clip, I'm going to force you to read all of the donations that came in, $50 and above, for the people who love us and get value from this program.
If there's still the good news part of that, you overlook the good news part of the street.
There was no good news.
Yeah, you gave us a new Dutch term.
Like a picker.
Like a picker.
Am I pronouncing it correctly?
Yeah, pretty good.
Like a picker.
Like a picker.
Yeah, so like is uh is a dead body.
Picker is picking, you know, taking stuff from it.
Like a picker.
We need to use this.
Like a picker.
Interesting.
Yes.
Hey, thank you.
Thank our producers here, John.
Oh, and starting with Amy Harmon in Nashville, North Carolina came in 1776.
And she has this is uh she designates this as a Charlie Kirk freedom of speech donation.
Oh, I like that.
Heidi Quant in Centerville, Virginia, 14015.
And she's got a birthday call out and a note.
Ash in Texas in Flower Mound, 13838.
And this is a Who Shot JR donation.
Yeah.
This too.
Two people.
Love it.
Eric Hochel in Mulrose, Deutschland, 104.
That's good.
He's up there.
The top of the list now.
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Dame Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, 7227.
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Oh, I'm sorry, 6502, the chip donation.
We get one of those every other show.
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Donating is good for the show and your soul, she writes.
That's true.
Fact.
Fact.
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And now we have 50 donors.
We have a makeup.
There's a lot of them today compared to yes, last show, which was four, I believe.
Bobby Bosch.
Oh Bo, I'm sorry, Bobby Bow in Bluegrass, Iowa.
Uh these were all 50s.
Leif Thompson in Meridian, Idaho.
Nathan Knoll in Netherland, Texas.
Neither.
Joshua Neederland.
You've been there?
Yeah, I know where it is.
Needland.
So it's Neederland.
Yes, Needle.
Well, it says Netherland.
I know, but it's really Neederland.
You need to have two E's instead of one.
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And Sir Luke Rayner, the east of London and the Southwest UK.
50.
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$50.
That's a Bitcoin donation.
No, it's not.
It's just a stripe.
Stripes.
Oh, stripes.
It's a stripe donation.
Our buddy over here in San Francisco, Aichi Kitagawa.
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It's people that helped us do show.
1804.
That's right.
1804.
18th anniversary coming up on the 26th of October.
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Thank you all very much.
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And in today's segment, we also have three knights to bring up on stage, include including Peter Goodall, who says, uh John Adam, I'm right and let you know that I've been listening since 2013.
I wasn't a regular donor, then decided to set a small bi-monthly donation of $20.20 in the year 2020.
In the year 2020.
I made one small modification to it in 2022 and basically forgot about it since then.
Well, I just told it up, and it has made me long overdue for a knighthood after amassing the pricely sum of $2,211.
Thank you very much.
I would like to be knighted Sir Slow and Steady, as in slow and steady wins the race.
If possible, could I also get an associate producer credit for this current episode?
I have to ask John.
I think on a request like that, I think, especially with the uh kind of overpaid for the knighthood, sure.
Why not?
Okay, you consider it done.
He says I would like to add it to my LinkedIn profile.
So you are good to go and let us bring out the swords.
Here's mine.
I'm always at the ready with my sword.
There you go.
A nice blade, he brings out Peter Johnson.
You're here here as well.
Peter Goodall.
Step up, sir.
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Gentlemen, for you, we have Hookers of Blow, Red Boys and Chardonnay, a slice or two of Hawaiian and Margarita Pizza, soon to be launched by 404 Pizza and Pomegranate Kombucha.
Along with that, we've got Bong Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider, and Escorts, Ginger Edd and Gerbils, Breast Milk and Pablman, as always at the round table, the mutton and the mead.
And you can head over to NoAgenderings.com and let us know what ring size you have.
There's a little guide there that shows you how to do it.
And along with that, we will send you some wax to use with your signet ring to seal your important correspondence.
And of course, as always, a sign certificate of authenticity.
Welcome to you three to the Knights and the Dames of the No Agenda Roundtable.
No Agenda Meetups.
It's like a comedy.
And there's a party going on as we speak.
Actually, it's about to kick off the Northern Wake Pumpkin Spice Showdown in Raleigh, North Carolina.
That'll be at 6 o'clock at Hoppy Endings.
Go and check them out.
On Saturday, the tiny amygdala of Anchorage.
They will be uniting in Anchorage, Alaska at 2 o'clock at Campbell Park.
Go there and send us a meetup report.
Haven't heard from Anchorage in quite a while.
I'd love to get a meetup report and include your server if you can.
Coming up in the month of October on the 9th, Parker, Colorado, Johnson City, Texas on the 10th.
That's right down the road, about 45 minutes away.
But Fredericksburg, Texas, will be on the 11th, and Tina the Keeper has confirmed she will be there as well at J6 or Jenny's place.
Also on the 11th, Garden City, Idaho, the 16th, Charlotte, North Carolina, Colyville, Texas, Collyville, Texas, on the 18th, Fort Wayne, Indiana on the 18th, Columbus, Ohio as well.
The 19th, Lansing, Michigan, Los Altos, California, the 25th to 26th, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
The 31st, Leiden in Zeit Holland, the Netherlands, and on the 15th of November.
Is this another one that you're going to attend, John, in Albany, California?
At the Mallard Club.
That sounds like it.
John will be there.
Those are the No Agenda Meetups, which you can find at NoAgenda Meetups.com.
Remember, when you go to a No Agenda Meetup, you will make connections that will give you lifelong protection.
These people will be your first responders in an emergency.
NoAgenda Meetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
It's easy.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
Triggered all hell.
You wouldn't be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Yeah, baby.
It's like a party.
Every single time.
It's just like a party.
And before we get to John's tip of the day and our outstanding end of show mixes, we uh like to select our ISOs here for the end of show.
I have three.
John has two.
I'm sure they're AI'd, so I'll just do my real people ISOs first.
Is this true?
Uh we have this one.
I mean, you can't make this up, okay.
And this one I thought was just funny.
Brought to you by Pfizer.
Well, I like the Alex Jones one of the three.
Okay.
Now I have I don't know how this is AI or not, but this is the WAWD.
What are we doing?
No, it doesn't sound like AI.
What are we doing?
Because it's not.
No.
And this one here could be uh could be just a real person.
This is the Wowie clip.
Wow, we fell T. What a fabulous show.
No, that's AI.
That is just so AI.
What?
Yes.
Well we fall T. What a fabulous show.
What is he even saying?
Wow we faulty?
Wow, we fell T. What a fabulous show.
Who's Fawltee?
Uh, what I put in there was wowie and then basically a random number of letters.
Just gibberish to see what it would say.
Yeah, and I don't like it.
I mean, you can't make this up, okay?
I think that's the one we're gonna have to go with.
Hey, everybody, it's time for John's tip of the day.
Great boss for you as me.
Just the chip with JCD.
And sometimes battle.
Well, this is a screwball tip.
Uh, this is something I didn't think I'd ever do, but I'm gonna do it.
Okay.
I'm going to recommend that people go watch a PBS show.
What?
And you can get it over on Amazon Prime.
They have it over there, and it's on the PBS.
You can you can dig it up.
But it is a terrific show that everyone who listens to the no agenda should watch.
This is a it's a recent no uh American experience called The Hard Hat Riots.
And it's about the hard hat riots in New York in the late 60s, early 70s.
Huh.
Which is a history.
A lot of it I didn't, I was completely unaware of.
It was it was it was a lot of the stories were suppressed, they were not in the media.
But it's the genesis during the Nixon administration, the genesis of the working class moving toward the Republican Party, how it all came about, how the Democrats had switched over to to just pretty much supporting the banker class, right in that moment when the CIA came in during the Rush Baker in that Russ Baker book and pointed out the fact the CIA was behind the Watergate scandal, which got Nixon kicked out.
Hold on, made him quit, and so they got back on track.
It's called the Hard Hat Riots.
It's the one of the best histories I've seen.
I know part of it.
I was there.
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, you're not sure.
But I don't I'm watching this going, this is all news to me.
It's fascinating.
Huh.
Is that like the the OG People Sick Day?
Is that kind of what that is?
Well, no, it not at all, actually.
It was about it was not about any, it's just it's it's an unimaginably good uh documentary uh on the American experience.
Considering it's from PBS and you're promoting it, it really must be a doozy.
That is a doozy is a killer.
I love it.
There it is, everybody.
John's tip of the day.
Find them all at tip of the day.
Great fast for you and me.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Bernetti.
And there you go.
That is our show for today.
I saw Hakeem Jeffries do a press conference, so more sombrero will be forthcoming by this evening, I'm sure.
No doubt about it.
Retardo.
Uh I was thinking about Mucho Retardo as a show title.
Mucho retardo is a good show title.
It's not bad.
It's uh decent idea.
Hey, coming up next on the No Agenda stream, it's Nick the Rat from the Sewers of New York City.
This is his 508th episode.
It's titled Dill Slop.
So you gotta wonder what that's about.
So stay tuned for it on your modern podcast app.
Or if you're listening to the stream right now, directly NoAgendaStream.com.
End of show mixes.
Agent Looper is back with some thoughts and prayers, and Jeffrey Crocker with a great, a great parody.
It's been a while.
The jury is still out whether it's AI or if he really can sing like that.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in picturesque Fredericksburg, where it is uh Octoberfest, everybody.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
Here from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain.
I'm John C. Deborah.
We'll talk to you on Sunday with another one, two, three hours of media deconstruction.
Until then, remember us at NoAgenda Donations.com.
Adiosmo foes, a hoo-ehooie, and such.
Gather around bitches.
Bitches.
Gather around.
Gather around bitches.
Bitches.
Gather around.
and bow our heads.
Thoughts and prayers.
Bitches.
I posted a video offering thoughts and prayers.
Thoughts and prayers.
Better in a school in the north of France where she taught me to act and wear tied up pants to see my bone.
B-O-N-A-Bona.
She walks up to me and she asked me to dance.
She asked me my name and in a high-pitched voice, I said, Macron.
E-man, you Macron Ma Crona Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy,
but when she squeezed me tight, I knew that she'd be Mrs. Macron Macron Well, I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talk like a man,
Richard Macron Ma Crona Ma Crona Well, we drank champagne and danced all night under electric candlelight.
She picked me up and sat me on her knees.
And said, Little boy, won't you come home with me?
Well I'm not the world's most passionate guy.
But when I looked in her eyes, I asked I had to make Mrs. Macron Machlona Macron Bridget Macrona Ma Macron Ma Macrona's podcast in my words.
