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This is your award-winning Kit My Nation Media Assassination Episode 185.
This is no agenda.
Protecting you from social alchemy.
And 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 there's no government shutdown.
I mean, I mean everything's working.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Craig Bodden Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Best thing about the government shutdown.
Best thing.
No chemtrails.
It's perfect.
It's perfect here in Texas.
Chemtrail free we are, I tell you.
Yeah, it's because it costs money.
Yeah.
Of course.
It costs tons of tons of dough.
Can't have that.
Yeah.
No, I mean, uh, we won't notice anything for at least another week, two weeks, maybe.
I mean, is is anything really changed?
Except for a couple of the parks here are closed.
I guess.
Oh no.
Yeah, the n the national parks.
Yeah.
You have national parks.
What national park do you have?
I think that Lyndon B. Johnson Park somehow is tied to the Park Service, the National Park Service, is not the Texas Park Service.
Lyndon B. Johnson Park.
It sounds like a scam.
Well, all of Johnson City is pretty much a scam.
I'd say Johnson City was the epicenter of scams during the Johnson years.
It's where Johnson had all his bag men to go out across the country and uh collect.
You know, collect.
So let's talk about the shutdown for a second.
Okay.
That's a good idea.
I I have uh just so you know, I have some early morning stuff uh from the the Sunday morning shows when you're ready, but uh you uh you get going first.
Well, I just wanted to get this out of the way.
This is the uh uh there's a lot of shutdown threats, there's shutdown analysis.
Yes.
And then there is Kennedy's little diatribe.
I hope I have it on here.
Yes, this is the shut shut down.
I've shut down.
Oh, okay.
Spelled it wrong as usual.
But this is Kennedy going off on Al Casio Cortez.
Oh, always fun.
Basically, President Trump just said we want you to take some stuff out of the bu out of the budget that we think is wasteful.
And we did.
And that upset the Congress.
She's entitled to be upset if she wants to.
But that really upset the socialist wing of the party.
And so we took out, and here's what they want us to put back in.
We found that under President Biden they were spending three million dollars for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia.
We put that, took that out.
The Congresswoman says, We're gonna shut down government till you put that back in.
We found $500,000 of American taxpayer money for electric buses in row one.
We found $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti.
Can you not make this up?
That wasn't in the budget under President Biden.
We took it out.
Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez and the Socialist Wing, the loon wing of the Democratic Party, says we're gonna shut down government until you put it back in.
I'll just read you a few more that we took out.
Six million dollars for media organizations for the Palestinians, eight hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars for transgender people in Nepal, three hundred thousand dollars for a pride parade in Lesotho, eight hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars for social media mentorship in Serbia.
4.2 million dollars.
We took it out.
The Congresswoman and the socialist wing of their party says we gotta put that back in for the open government.
4.2 million dollars for lesbian gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people in the western Balkans and Uganda.
I could spend the rest of the afternoon here.
We took all that out.
It upset Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez, it upset the socialist wing of her party, and now they those that wing of her party and the Congresswoman are threatening all other Democrats and saying you've got to shut that government down until we get what we want, and part of what they want is to add this kind of stuff back into the and that's what this fight is all about.
Uh always uh a good sound bite from anybody in Congress during these shutdowns.
Yeah.
It's uh this used to be more common.
I mean, Rand Paul used to be notorious for doing it.
It is Rand Paul.
Rand Paul should be There's no sound bites from him.
He's he's like not on the scene.
Well, he's voting against, but he's voting with the Democrats on this.
Of course.
He's the one guy.
Because he loves the transgender stuff.
Like that's like that like that's like that's what it's all about.
We know that that's not true.
That's just you know, this it's fun though, but those are things that benefit.
I think all that stuff is probably from USAID.
Oh, for sure.
That's I it's like I'm hearing them again.
And by the way, I also suspect that that four million, three million, two, all this money that supposedly goes to this and that is actually going into somebody's pocket to do something else.
Oh, yeah.
But you see, you're completely wrong.
It's not about this at all.
At all.
Your buddy.
Man hands welker.
Isn't that your buddy?
She's the hands, Kristen.
Kristen Welker.
The one with the big giant black laborer man hands.
That one.
Man hands welker.
Uh she knows what this is really about.
That's only a 30-second clip.
We can get back to yours in a minute.
And as you know, many Democrats have looked at your move.
They say the House is not in session because you don't want to swear in this newly elected center, the Congresswoman Democratic Congresswoman from Arizona, who would be a critical vote to releasing the Epstein files.
How do you respond to that?
This has nothing to do with that.
It's another red herring.
The reason the government is closed is because Schumer and 43 of his Democrat colleagues in the Senate have decided now to vote multiple times to keep the government closed.
We need them to turn the lights back on so that everyone can do their work.
This is all so tedious and boring.
It's the Schumer's shutdown.
It's it's Trump shutdown.
Shit shoot shut shut down.
No, I think the Epstein shutdown is better.
It's better.
And that was right off the bat.
That was the top of the morning from her.
We all know set her up with that.
Well, of course.
Some writer.
Yeah.
What else do you like?
She has a brain.
No.
Somebody put that in there.
That's very funny.
It's good.
If if you're gonna have the speaker of the house get in with that one right away.
We all know this is about Epstein.
We all know what's going on, Mike Johnson.
Well, here's a couple of the couple of NPR clips just from yesterday.
Shut down threats NPR.
There's a kicker in here.
Uh uh, okay, yeah.
And Pierre Stephen Fowler joins us.
Good morning.
Let's begin first with the the threats to fire affairs.
Hey.
Hey.
Yeah, I I have far sorry, I forgot.
No, no, that's not what I'm saying.
Yeah, Scott.
Yeah.
I mean, when when we have when we have Scott Simon, you've got to warn me so we could.
I usually put SS on the in the clip title.
I just forgot.
Suffer in Sakatash.
I'm Scott.
Simon.
And Pierre Stephen Fowler joins us.
Good morning.
Let's begin first with uh the threats to fire federal workers.
Has anyone actually been let go yet?
Well, so far they're just threats.
Here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt speaking to Morning Edition yesterday.
The president is meeting with the Office of Management and Budget to try to understand what agencies are essential, what agencies do not align with the administration's priorities and values.
Here's the thing to think about, though, Scott.
Any of these reductions in force or RIF efforts that would come would have to be from the leaders of these federal agencies.
President Trump can't make them happen, and neither can Russ vote, the head of the Office of Management and Budget.
Riff rules are pretty particular about the amount of time and notice they have to give before they can take effect.
There's also a lawsuit that's been filed from Federal Workers' Union saying that the threat of firing workers, especially during a shutdown, is illegal.
This goes right back to the doge executive order.
Yes, exactly.
And so, and by the way, the threat supposedly of firing is illegal.
Oh, the threat, not the actual firing, but the threat of it.
Oh, well, that's uh you you're paying attention to the words, as always.
That's what they said.
Yeah, you're right.
And I think that's I think it's absolutely I think there's some they're it's hate speech.
It should be illegal.
They're doing, they're suing, but there hasn't been any firings, but they're suing anyway because of the threat.
Threat.
It's the threat, yes.
So here's go to the here's the kicker.
Hakeem Jeffrey said this in an NPR interview earlier this week.
Oh, sorry.
The Trump administration has been out of control since day one.
They've been laying people off since day one.
They've been firing federal employees since day one, and they've been violating the law since day one.
Doge's work to cancel contracts and direct agencies to slash their workforce is an extension of Trump and votes' long held belief that the government should be smaller and spend less on things they don't agree with.
Even as the White House has tried to circumvent the spending and budgeting power given to Congress, which Republicans have so far allowed to happen.
It's worth noting that agencies have been hiring back hundreds of workers they let go earlier this year, and treasury data shows spending has actually increased instead of decreased.
What?
Maybe so we listen to all this bull crap.
Yeah.
On and on, oh, they're firing.
Oh, and Jeffries goes on, they're firing everybody.
We don't know what to do about it.
We're suing them.
And the government budget has gone up because they keep hiring more people.
Are you kidding me?
Well, the budget did go up.
Well, the budget, the ceiling went up, but the but the budget it this is ridiculous.
They have done nothing.
Trump isn't backed it off a even an inch or an iota.
Well Doge has done nothing.
You're believing NPR now.
I mean, come on.
We know they got at least 50 billion.
That's something.
That's something.
They want their money back.
What they want is all that other stuff.
You know, a trillion and a half dollars of nonsense.
Stuff we definitely don't need.
Yeah.
Yeah, I uh I get it.
Well, I get it.
I get it.
Here's the two more clips that would be I you can go do your thing.
Yeah.
Okay.
Where's this from?
Oh, uh NPR.
Okay.
Shut down of the U.S. government since Tuesday, the U.S. Senate has taken up the same votes to fund the government temporarily with continuing resolutions.
They still don't have the votes.
Is there an agreement even on the distant horizon?
Joined now by NPR congressional correspondent Barbara Sprint.
Barbara, thanks for being with us.
It's so good to have Scott back on the Sheen.
Hey, thank you.
The Senate yesterday failed once more to advance competing plans to extend federal funding and end the shutdown.
How are those plans different again?
Well, one is a GOP plan that has already passed the House.
Uh it would fund the government through November 21st.
And then there's a Democratic counterproposal as well.
That would fund the government through October, and it includes an extension of health care tax credits that were boosted up during the pandemic.
Those are on track to expire at the end of the year.
Now Republicans have said they'll negotiate on that point, but only after the government is funded.
And even then, Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said it would not be a simple process.
We can't make commitments or promises on the COVID subsidies because that's not something that we can guarantee that they're the votes there to do.
There were a few Democrats who did support the Republican proposal this week.
Has there been any more movement or are the numbers tightening?
No, they are not.
It has been the same as that first vote where we saw two Democratic senators and one independent uh joining Republicans.
In fact, there's been so little movement on any kind of negotiation between the two parties that the Senate isn't even expected to stay over the weekend and do more votes.
I hear soon yesterday when asked about the possibility of weekend work.
Hopefully over the weekend they'll have a chance to think about it.
Maybe some of these conversations start to result in something uh to where we can start moving some votes uh and actually get this thing passed.
Who is this woman from MPR?
I'm not familiar with her.
I like her voice.
I like her voice.
I've never heard her.
No, no, she has a weekend substitution.
Well, she has a slick, suave, smooth kind of uh vocal uh thing going on there.
It's not your typical uh vocal fry.
It's an improvement.
I'm just saying it's an improvement.
Okay, well, I try to I'll minimize these clips.
This is your your offhanded way of seeing suck.
No, not at all.
Don't they uh also want uh NPR and PBS refunded of that big whopping one percent?
Isn't that also a part of this?
Yeah, they have to have that money back.
Well, so shouldn't shouldn't NPR disclaim and say part of the demands are to be bring us money.
So just so you know, you know, that it involves us.
They should have some kind of what do you call that?
Full disclosure full disclosure.
Full disclosure.
Yeah, they shouldn't.
I've been listening to the I listened to the NPR all day yesterday to get some of these clips.
Oh my god, did you need to take Advil?
I did.
But the point is is no, they've never said that once.
No.
No, of course not.
Of course not.
I mean, they'll do it when they do it like a story about John Deere.
They'll say something like, well, John Deere also is sponsored.
Underwrites the show, but you know, here we're gonna talk about it.
But they didn't know, they have not done that, and they should have.
You're right.
Let's go with the second part of this.
The impasse is essentially this.
Because the Senate needs uh Democrats to reach that 60 vote threshold to pass this kind of bill.
Democrats, who of course have very little power as the party and the minority, say that demanding that there be some kind of negotiations between the two parties is appropriate.
Uh unsurprisingly, Republicans do not share that view.
Uh, they say Democrats are holding the American people hostage via the shutdown.
Of course, in the meantime, the White House uh is pursuing with plans to cut programs and and spending.
Yeah, but often it seemed areas with lost the Democratic voters.
What is the argument they make here?
Well, this is very much in line with the administration's thesis when it comes to its role in cutting programs and government workers.
Items on the chopping block include uh some transportation projects in New York, the home state of both the House and Senate Democratic leaders.
Uh press Secretary Caroline Levitt told our colleague Steve Inskip yesterday that the administration views that as minority leader Chuck Schumer's fault.
They can't show up to work right now.
So that project is currently temporarily halted because of Chuck Schumer's shutdown.
So Chuck Schumer did that to himself.
He did that to his constituents in New York.
And how do Democrats respond?
Well, Democrats have called this an intimidation tactic.
Uh they've blasted a plan from the White House's budget arm uh to fire federal workers instead of temporarily furloughing them, which is usually what happens in a shutdown.
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont said he thinks that plan will backfire.
And the idea you have a president who says, hey, your state voted against me.
We're gonna cut funding for you.
That is not only illegal, not only outrageous.
It's unconstitutional.
Oh yeah.
These people are old and decrepit, and I'm tired of them.
And it's fine if you say that about me in 20 years, but right now I'm tired of them.
And you know what they should do?
So the Democrats, they need something to save face.
Here's what I would do.
If I was the president, I would say, okay, we'll give you your circumcisions in Albania back.
We'll give you your LGBTQ pride parade in Morocco, whatever it is.
We'll give you all that back.
Are you happy now?
Is that really what it's all about?
Is that what you want?
Give them give them something.
They need something.
I'm sure that the the climate change stuff is what he's thinking of giving back or something like that.
That's in the the art of the deal, the art of the deal.
He has to give up something sometime.
Or they just keep it going for a month.
I think they should keep it going forever.
Well shut down that Lyndon Johnson Park.
By the way, you can still just get in.
Oh, you just go in, but it's not gate.
It's not like you can't walk into the into the park.
Uh yeah, a friend of ours and her friends, they were all camping uh out here, and they came came by last night.
Yesterday afternoon.
And I said, Well, was the park shut down?
Yeah, we had the code because we booked it before the shutdown.
So we just had the code and went right in.
The code.
They got a gate code.
Well, our ATC uh producers and our C BP production.
Wait a minute.
I'm thinking, why doesn't some entrepreneurial type uh have the gate code and go stand there at the thing and collect money?
Take money.
Put on a uniform.
Yeah, put a hard hat and the orange vest.
And a clipboard and a clipboard.
Yeah.
Yep, you're on the list.
I see it.
Yep, you're on the list.
Hey, we should do no agenda meetups in these parks now.
Yeah.
Because all kinds of good ideas.
Well, while this is going on, the president has an interview scheduled to air tonight.
He's chosen uh this time he's chosen a different network.
Typically, he goes for the one of the big three.
Now he's chosen O A N for his uh his big interview, which I think is a interesting move.
The home of Matt Gates, although it's not Matt Gates to do the interview.
And uh he's got some promises.
We also might make a distribution to the people, almost like a dividend to the people of America.
How much are you thinking for that, sir?
Well, we're thinking maybe a thousand to two thousand.
Yeah.
Big red.
Inflation is completely stable.
It's around target rate, and the country is ultimately taking in unprecedented amounts of tariff revenue.
More than 200 billion dollars at this point in time, sir.
What do you believe this extra source of revenue can be put towards how big of a game changer is it?
Well, ultimately, yeah, because we're talking about uh uh just kicking in, they're just starting to kick kick in.
But ultimately, your tariffs are gonna be over a trillion dollars a year, in my opinion.
Uh we're gonna do something, we're looking at something where number one we're paying down debt because people have allowed the debt to go crazy.
Uh but you know, with growth, with the kind of growth we have now, the debt is very little, relatively speaking.
And we're gonna grow our way out of it.
Uh you grow yourself out of that debt.
It's not a question of paying it.
You grow yourself out.
And the numbers are so much bigger than they ever were.
The numbers we have now are bigger than they ever were.
So when you have $36 trillion in debt a year ago, stop.
Yeah.
He he has this tendency when he's bigger than ever.
Big enough.
When he's full of it.
Just to repeat the phrase.
It's big enough.
So if you back it up, he says, uh the numbers gonna be bigger than ever.
You know, they're gonna be bigger than ever.
They're gonna be bigger than ever.
You keep saying the same thing, you know, say it twice at least.
I think he's saying that the debt numbers are bigger than ever, which is for sure.
You grow yourself out, and the numbers are so much bigger than they ever were.
The numbers we have now are bigger than they ever were.
So when you have $36 trillion in debt a year ago or two years ago, and you have a lot less revenue coming in, then you have 37 or 38.
Well, I guess it's not 38 yet, but it will be.
Uh and the numbers are so much bigger.
All of a sudden, 38, you're under-levered, whereas for 36, you were highly levered.
We're not highly levered anymore.
Now, with that being said, we'll pay back debt.
We're not highly levered anymore.
Okay.
Uh he should say, you know, the checks should be giant giant checks.
Did you know that publishers hit clearinghouse went out of business?
Yeah, it's been it's been for a while now.
A couple, I think they went bankrupt.
Yeah, and they pulled a plug on all these poor people that were collecting monthly benefits.
Yes, and uh and some company bought them, they're gonna reinstate under a new name, but the people who got screwed are not gonna get any money.
You're done.
Yeah.
That seems like that's that's why you always take the cash out.
You've got to take the cash.
So I'm listening to if they don't give you the cash out, you can find uh someone who will take financial operations to give you callers on the card.
So this is going on, and I read on CNBC.
I thought I misread the well, I did misread the headline.
I thought it said it said Treasury Way's minting, I thought it was gonna be a one trillion dollar coin.
Treasury Way is minting one trillion dollar coin with Trump's face for U.S. 250th anniversary, and then I realized it's a one-dollar coin.
I was excited.
I'm like, oh, the trillion dollar coin is back.
Uh so they're gonna mint a coin with Trump's head on it.
A dollar coin on the it has his head on profile, Liberty, uh, in God We Trust, 1776 on the other side.
I thought that was like illegal.
Or is always assumed now if you didn't do it when the guy was alive.
It's a commemorative coin, so you can do that.
I think they're all yeah, well, okay.
Yeah.
So and uh and the the other side will have the iconic uh photo of him and the flag and fight, fight, fight.
No.
Yes.
Yes, that's corny.
It's a draft, a draft picture.
Of course it's corny.
But, you know, is a som is putting your opponent in a sombrero any less corny?
Well, no, that's funny.
Yeah, and it's gone out of control.
There's like I there's at least 20 new ones out there with different sombreros or dancing.
They better they better come out with the stable coin gambit pretty quickly.
They gotta start launching that.
I don't know, I don't know what the plan is.
But if you want to spread our debt to the rest of the world, you gotta get that going.
Meanwhile, um Senator Tammy Duckworth was on uh CBS Face the Nation with Margaret.
And uh this was actually kind of I didn't know how annoying I thought she was.
I think you know, because you look at her, she didn't she have uh she's a veteran, so she I think she lost a leg or did she lose two legs?
Something like that.
So, you know, you never really pay attention to her because you you're looking at it like, ah man, I feel bad for her.
And thank you for your service.
But when you listen to her in audio, it's like uh so she's talking about um what's going on with the uh the guardsman in uh Chicago.
So I have to ask you about what the president announced yesterday in regard to federalizing 300 National Guardsmen out in the state of Illinois.
Um we've heard this threat going back all the way to August.
The governor says these are not needed.
Do you have any idea when they'll arrive?
Well, I believe they're gonna be Illinois National Guardsmen, so they're not gonna be coming from other state.
I spoke with our governor yesterday, and it looks like it's gonna be about 300 Illinois guardsmen.
She sounds a bit like Macy Harono.
Except she talks a little bit faster, but she has the same kind of uh intonation as from Hawaii.
Uh and probably just as dumb.
Who will be activated against the governor's wishes?
Uh so there'll be there'll be homegrown Illinois, and they're our brothers and sisters, our neighbors.
I probably served with quite a number of them.
Uh certainly the leadership.
Um, we'll we'll welcome them.
Uh it's a misuse of the National Guard.
They're they're not needed in this particular role.
If President Trump really wanted to fight crime, then maybe he should stop defunding the police.
He What?
This is my favorite bit.
So Trump is now defunding the police.
This is great.
And then maybe he should stop defunding the police.
He, you know, he diverted $800 million in uh crime prevention efforts away from uh that was appropriated away from funding uh for our police officers.
So, you know, I I they're not we're gonna welcome them because they're our brothers and sisters and we're proud of our National Guard.
And if you look at the Chicago budget, the number one expenditure is police, which is kind of crazy because they're not doing a great job, most people think.
And most of the anarchists in Chicago, I know a couple, uh, they want to defund the police.
They hate the Chicago police.
They hate them with a passion, which kind of reminds me back in the days of was it mad magazine or cracked?
I think it was cracked, probably.
They always had the Chicago cops always portrayed as these horrible, you know, brutes.
Was that Cracked Magazine?
Am I thinking about the right the right magazine?
Maybe mad.
It just doesn't matter.
Yeah.
They have as brutes.
But they're they're notorious.
I mean, I lived in Chicago when I was a kid, and then you my parents were from Chicago.
And you you find out certain things, like, for example, on the uh there's a bunch of you know, you always suppose the bribing the cops is always considered the thing you always do, and it's always done the same way.
You keep your driver's license in a little uh cellophane pack, and there's a hundred dollar bill tucked behind the driver's license.
Yeah.
And so when you get pulled over for some, if it's usually something stupid, and it's usually uh there's a good element of this taking place on the route to the airport.
And it's the funniest thing that's happened at one time.
I was uh a new story, something we haven't heard yet.
I was driving to the airport and a cop pulls me over for doing 36 in a 35 zone or something like that.
Yeah.
You know, so you were speaking, and he says this driver's license.
I showed him the license.
He looked, took one look.
He took a look and he flipped it over to see if there was any money or anything attached, but then he saw it said California.
Oh, yeah.
And he figured I didn't know what the hell I was doing.
I didn't know how to bribe him, and so he just gives me the license back and says, move along.
Got rid of me.
He's wasting his time.
Tina got pulled over the other night um by uh uh uh DPS.
Department of Public Safety.
So I think the highway patrol falls on the DPS, but it wasn't highway patrol, and she got pulled over.
And I I know my wife, she's she's a rule follower.
It's Like, you were speeding.
She says, No, I wasn't.
And he's shining the light in her eyes.
It's a Friday night, so you know, they expect people to be drunk on the roads.
Fair enough.
It was like, yeah, you were speeding it.
You don't have a front license plate.
This is a big deal in uh Texas.
There's this ongoing fight.
Like we don't want to, we don't want front license plates for some reason.
And most cars don't really have a spot for it if you buy them in Texas.
And so he gave her a warning.
It's like, how could you prove that she was speed?
She had no proof.
Harassment.
Harassment of a pretty girl.
Of course.
So no payoffs here.
That try that.
I wonder if that'll work in Texas.
Try and pay off a cop.
I don't think that'll work.
Anyway, we continue with this uh this lady uh about what's happening in Chicago.
He has surged, or the federal government has surged agents from different groups.
The FBI said yesterday they're sending folks in.
Um tell me about these protests, because the the images look pretty intense of what has happened in between people on the streets of Chicago.
We're showing some of that video now around immigration issues.
Um, as I understand yesterday, ICE authorities shot a Chicago woman in the Brighton Park area.
Secretary Gnome claimed ICE fired defensive shots at this woman who is armed who had appeared in a border patrol intelligence bulletin previously.
Um she claims that federal agents were surrounded and were threatened.
What are local authorities telling you about what they think happened here?
Well, they lie, right?
The Trump administration lies.
We have a president who's a known liar.
Uh and I'm questioning if this isn't Macy Harono.
How can this be I mean that's not Macy?
Macy Harona, you're correct.
She talks slower, and she has a sing more of a sing song uh voice.
Okay.
And she is incredibly, and she just sounds dumb.
Is this a milieu, maybe?
A milieu thing.
Well, the Hawaiian uh accent is very noticeable.
It's also very reminiscent of various American Indian tribe accents.
It up talks a bit.
It has it's uh it can be slow and uh plotting.
It's a plodding accent.
It's very uh uh it can be extremely annoying uh and it can sometimes sound stupid.
They have been bingo.
Uh they've been lying about the situation all along.
And in fact, uh they even shot tear grenades, tear grass grenades, I think, at a reporter who was simply driving by with her window open.
Um and so we're we're urging people, we're urging our protesters remain calm, peaceful protests, exercise your first amendment rights.
Uh uh, but video tape everything.
Everybody has a phone, tape everything so that we actually have real evidence of what is happening.
Uh we know the Trump administration lies consistently.
Uh, and what I am hearing is that for the large part, people are being very quiet, uh, are being very respectful.
Um, but ICE is being very aggressive.
Remember that they are zip tying children.
Children are raiding apartment blocks in the middle of the night, separating children from their families, pulling people out onto the streets naked.
They are using discourse tactics uh in Chicago.
And this is what Trump wants to do, right?
He wants to intimidate the people of Chicago.
That's not gonna happen.
Uh and we're gonna document everything and make sure.
Uh just as the judge in Portland said, that these these requirements, these uh um orders from the Trump administration are not actually tied to reality.
Okay.
So I think this is really just a lead-in.
Uh, and it there is a form of get comfortable with it, Chicago and Memphis and uh Oregon, get comfortable with it because we're going after crime.
And I've been uh I've been doing a little bit of uh looking around here and there, and I found this clip of uh Stephen Miller.
And it kind of fits in.
Stephen Miller, the guy, the Trump administration guy.
Yeah, that guy.
He has a tick.
He has tourettes, by the way.
Oh, he's a brother.
Yeah, he his tick, I can tell you what his tickets, and people can start to look for it.
Yeah.
He uh is he has his head'll be looking talking to you, and then He will have a uh uncontrollable jerk uh to of his head, his entire head down about I'd say uh quarter of an inch and over to the right, always to the right, his right.
Oh, okay.
Uh uh about another quarter of an inch into he'll do it when he gets a little nervous, he'll start to do it, and he can do it two times in a row.
Uh but it's it's an obvious and heavy, and I'm I consider myself an expert on this, having worked with somebody for almost twenty years that they has tourette.
Who would that be like saw that long documentary and I'd kind of consider myself an expert.
You're an expert guy.
But I spot this stuff, and if you see it, once you see it, you'll agree with me.
Yes.
Well, so there's hope for me in politics.
Um that can have a job in the White House.
Here's what he said.
The Memphis police department to the officers that I see sitting in front of me.
We are about to provide you with a level of support you cannot even imagine.
This isn't just a task force, this is a all of government unlimited support operation.
ATF, DEA, FBI, ICE, Department of War, every resource we have.
And they're not going to be sitting behind a desk at a keyboard.
We are sending in real cops with guns and badges to go out with you on the street every single night making arrests.
These are people who have taken down drugs, kingpins, the worst criminal offenders in the United States, standing with you, shoulder to shoulder to shoulder.
All we ask from you is to show up at roll call every single night with your brothers and sisters in the federal government and to go out and get the criminals off the street.
And if you do that, I pledge to you, we will liberate this city from the criminal element that has plagued it for generations.
This is not just a strategy shift, this is an attitude shift.
We are not gonna live in an environment everywhere anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal, where there is a neighborhood that belongs to a gang, where there is any physical space anywhere that belongs to anyone other than the law-abiding citizens and families of Memphis.
The idea that there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable.
This is Memphis, this is the United States of America, and all that bullshit is done.
It's over, it's finished.
There's your Tourette's right there.
So this is actually part of something much bigger, I believe, and I'm gonna get to the North Sea nexus on this one.
Um we heard this mentioned a while back during uh maybe one of those, I don't know, uh A. G. Barbie uh things where they all of a sudden Cash Patel started talking about Operation Summer Heat.
Do you recall that?
I think we No, I can't keep track of all these operations.
Well, so this op has been going on for the summer, and here's Cash Patel to bring us up the speed.
As I said, this is breaking news.
We've kept it quiet for the summer.
Operation Summer Heat was a three-month surge by the FBI with our state and local partners.
We start at the end of June, and we just wrapped up at the end of September.
And what we did was follow one theme, crushing violent crime, one of this administration's key priorities.
And we went into every single field office we have 55 field offices scattered across the country.
And today we're gonna unveil the results of Operation Summer Heat and what law enforcement can do when you let good cops be cops.
I think a quick historical analysis is important here.
You have to recognize that there was an explosion in violent crime, and it didn't happen in a month or six months.
It happened over the course of years due to the prior administration's laxicodasical approach against crime.
Did he say laxicadesical?
That's a new one.
Course of years due to the prior administration's laxicodasical approach against crime.
And violent criminals took advantage of that.
So the FBI under my leadership, we came in and said, Okay, okay.
Violent crime's exploding.
Everybody knows that.
We see that.
You can't walk around these cities anymore.
People are getting shot, kids are getting shot, drugs are killing our youth.
We need to do what the FBI is best at and crush violent crime.
So we targeted all the major cities in the country.
Okay, there's a hundred and fifty law enforcement officers here, let's go arrest people.
You have to build a ground game of intelligence That takes months.
That's what we did in Memphis.
That's what we did in Chicago.
That's what we did in New Orleans.
And that's why, at President Trump's direction, we went in quietly months ago into these cities to fit set phase zero one.
Now we're going in with the guard to complete that project.
And that's the beauty of operations like Summer Heat.
Okay.
So they've been at this for a couple of months.
They've been setting it up.
And of course, uh, this is uh in large part about drugs, because that was most of the gang activity is related to.
And uh, here are the results so far.
Summer heat had 8,700 arrests.
In three months, summer heat had 2281 firearms seized permanently off our streets.
Three months, fentanyl, 421 kilograms.
By the way, that's enough to kill over 50 million Americans.
50 million.
On the low end, that's a conservative estimate.
Lethal doses off that seizure.
45,000 kilograms of cocaine.
We conducted operations that led us to 2,000 indictments and 1400 convictions.
And the bulk of that work came from our violent crime and gang forces.
I want to highlight that because that was the focus of summer heat.
6,500 of this casework came specifically out of that.
And here's something that's not on this chart.
Operation Summerheat found and located almost 1,000 child victims and returned them to safety.
Sexual trafficking?
Victims of sexual trafficking, victims of home abuse, victims of rape and violent crimes against children.
So a couple of people sent me this uh uh substack article about how Trump is rolling up the drug scourge once and for all.
And it was very interesting because it points directly back to the city of London and really the Panama Papers, interestingly, about how there's 50 to 75 trillion dollars that has been made through drug trade.
A lot of that, of course, went to our streets.
Um, we typically oh fentanyl blame China, but if you really and we've always looked at the you know, I think I've said many times in the past if you stop the illegal drug trade, our co our country would collapse.
You know, it's the the economy runs on drugs, and probably most of the the world economy runs on illicit drugs, and to some degree on uh legal drugs, certainly here.
We got everybody on some kind of drug.
And uh as I'm thinking about, we're also we're we're now in season six, last season of Downton Abbey.
And you look at this is 1925 now, and you kind of look at these these uh the royal um extensions of the royal family, the British elite, and their you know, their houses are starting to crumble, they're running out of money because they never worked.
You know, how'd they get the money?
Well, they were all part of the East India Company, and of course they had the opium wars on China, which is their favorite way of doing it.
You know, they they hooked, what was it, 40 million Chinese on opium?
They transport all the slaves to the New World.
As a as an aside, very prominent in the series is the hatred for the Jews and for the Catholics.
Of course, they were Irish Catholics, and hated the New World success, which you know, it's only been a hundred years.
And uh, and as I've said, I I don't think that has stopped that hatred of our success.
So they continue what they're very good at is the drug trade, and you know, maybe we can screw America this way.
And I got three clips here from my favorite old ladies, uh Promethean Action, who gave us a little rundown uh on the concept from these uh from the North Sea Nexus, and we start with a famous guy, Bertrand Russell.
Can you give me a little background on Bertrand Russell?
Yeah, Bertrand uh Bertrand Bertrand Russell was a uh who lived to be out about a hundred and made the claim that he didn't like eating meat because it was eating a corpse and he was uh Oh, I thought you meant that he he'd rather eat a corpse.
Now I understand what you're saying.
Yeah.
And he um wrote a lot of uh plays and uh was uh top-notch one of the top intellectuals out of the UK.
He was considered the creme de la creme of the of the of the great thinkers.
So I could have read this, but the Promethean Action Ladies, they read it for us.
So here's a little excerpt from Bertrand Russell.
I just want to talk about three people today.
Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxhley, and George Soros.
The three of them together describe the cultural attack our nation has suffered since our leads declared the post-industrial society in 1971 and sold us out.
By the way, 1971 is an interesting year.
That's the year we uh we got off the gold standard.
I just wanted to mention that I found that to be very coincidental.
Here is Lord Russell in 1951 in his work, The Impact of Science on Society, describing the future as he saw it.
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.
Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda.
Of these, the most influential is what is called education.
The subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship.
Sounds like uh common core and Bill Gates to me.
The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black.
Various results will soon be arrived at.
First, that the influence of the home is obstructive.
Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of 10.
Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective.
Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid sense of eccentricity.
Sounds very familiar to me when I hear all these things.
You know, break up the home.
I like the song thing.
I should do a little site, a little no more.
Yeah, please do, please do.
Which is uh if you've ever visited well, you nobody does, but I was at Scott Adams' house, and I noticed that he um he never has any of because I don't I have in my house.
24-7 classical music.
I have twenty I have music playing in my house, 24-7 classical music.
And it's for various reasons.
It's good for it.
One thing, the low notes keep varmints out.
That's for one thing, especially you have a couple of 15 inches.
Hold on a second.
You'll never have problems.
The low notes keep the varmints out?
Now just is that bugs or just or mice and rags?
Bugs.
Bugs.
So low so classic.
This is a tip of the day.
That's a good tip, by the way.
Classical music will keep bugs out of your house.
Well, if you have you would yes, but I I'm using some down thrusting 15-inch woofers in the house.
That's what you want.
That the bugs don't like.
And and does it matter?
It can it be Vivaldi or does it have to be Wagner?
I just there's a we have a couple of uh classical streaming stations.
I just placed, you know, everything.
And also they can't hear the cries from the basement, which is kind of good.
Yeah, they're very useful.
And so uh so Adams has not never has any.
I said I said, you know, you I don't know how it came up in the conversation, but he says no, it's just all pretty says I can't you don't you shouldn't play music because it's all propaganda.
He's not talking about classical, he's talking about pop music.
People are always playing, you know, they got their headphones on, they're all popping around.
And he's of the opinion that it's all subconsciously designed propaganda that you should not be subjecting yourself to 24-7, especially, you know, if you're going floating around.
And that's what I think is what uh Bertrand Russell said there in his commentary.
Well, especially the beats part.
I mean, listen, I mean, there's a whole category of songs about smack your bitch up and uh you know, killing each other, and you know, it's called hip hop.
It's called modern hip hop.
Yes, very violent.
So, and it's definitely with beats.
Okay, so that's one.
Aldous Huxley, of course, no stranger to the show.
Aldous Huxley was part of Russell's Nest in British intelligence, along with the Satanist Alissa Crowley.
He played a huge role in the 1970s counterculture, speaking to a 1961 conference sponsored by the Voice of America, Huxley said the following.
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies,
so that the people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it because they will be distracted from any Desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.
And this seems to be the final revolution.
And I'd say that's spot on.
I mean, Adderall, Ritalin, uh the micro-dosing of uh ketamine.
I mean, all of this is going on.
And uh that kind of folds into Neil Postman's amusing ourselves to death.
You know, because now I'd say the the pharmacological piece is one part, but we also have the doom scrolling is another part, which kind of shifts shifts the responsibility a little bit, but I just thought, yeah, okay, that makes sense that uh all those Huxley would say that.
And of course, we can't leave out the mega Brit uh George Soros.
George Soros' career has been sponsored at all times by major British financiers, including the Ross Silas and the Queen.
He's played a major public role in implementing this policy in the US and Latin America, along with the US and British governments.
From 1979 forward, Soros, through his drug policy institute, led campaigns for drug decriminalization and legalization.
When you hear someone say the war on drugs is a waste of money and an offense to personal freedom, that's the manufactured belief this campaign created.
In addition, Soros, the National Endowment for Democracy, and USAID led campaigns throughout Latin America to overthrow nationalist governments and support the drug cartels.
This picture showing the head of the New York Stock Exchange embracing Raw Reyes of the drug-running Fark in Colombia speaks a thousand words.
So if I look at the second uh Trump administration's track record, you know, Department of Education, USAID now going after the drugs on the street, but not just on the street.
This really hasn't gotten a lot of play because of the shutdown.
It's it's gotten to play, uh, and that's uh the drug boats from Venezuela.
Admiral, I I want to ask you about turn to Venezuela.
You've seen those attacks, those U.S. strikes on boats that the president said are drug smugglers, are drug traffickers, drug cartels.
Uh what's your take on that?
Well, we always people think of me as the NATO guy, but I spent almost four years as commander of Southern Command.
I would have been in charge of those operations.
So as a commander, you're thinking, what are we trying to do here?
I think what we're trying to do tactically is knock down drugs.
We're trying to deter drug smugglers.
We're trying to send a pretty strong signal to Maduro, and we're sending a larger signal to Cuba and Nicaragua.
So I can see the impetus for all this.
My concern would be if I were the commander right now, how strong is the evidence that I'm holding in hand that can allow me to uh consider these people enemy combatants.
We really haven't seen much of that evidence.
I think the administration would be wise to release at least some of that so they can justify these kind of extremely aggressive military spectrum.
And just quickly, if you can, the legality of this.
He says that it is in armed conflict with drug cartels.
It's right on the edge.
And that is why, see paragraph one.
Let's get the evidence out, not the sources and methods, but what are we basing this on?
And then let's also capture a few of them alongside the more aggressive means, because you want the intelligence.
You want to be able to interrogate, you want to be able to hold those drug smugglers accountable in our court system.
So it's right on the edge.
It's really interesting.
The amount of people who are pushing back on this blowing up the drug smuggling boats.
Uh, you know, oh, well, you know, Trump's just killing people willy-nilly, and this can't be done.
And I'm like, uh why.
I find the contrast to be interesting here is because of what Obama did with his kill list.
Yeah, one every Tuesday.
And he would blow these guys up all over the place in in sovereign country.
He wouldn't do it on the open seas.
He would be in a sovereign country and he'd blow up a bunch of guys.
And then he did Which was really uh disgusting was the double tap.
Yes.
Yes.
Exactly.
The minute they came back.
Yeah.
No, it was when help came in, yes.
When this when the as soon as they said they blow up a uh a pack, what he said was a bunch of terrorists, and you know, may or may not have been.
And he decides to blow them up, he blows them up with the drone uh with the with a predator drone, and he joked about it in one of the correspondence centers about predator drones.
Blows them up, and then they wait while so all the all the ambulances and uh Red Cross, who Red Crest and whatever comes to help these people, then they pin them again to kill those people.
Yeah.
That seems a little more extreme, especially on a sovereign nation than blowing up a boat on the open waters, which they're making a big fuss about.
But let's get come on, let's go back and and be realistic here if we're gonna be critical.
And of course, we saw some of that in the uh uh in the video tape that Glenn Greenwald got.
They also showed the video of the blowing up of the of the terrorist cells, yeah.
Uh which of course was shut down real quick.
That's not talked about anymore.
Even by Glenn Greenwald that's not talked about anymore.
But of course, that didn't affect the actual money, the the drug money that I think a lot of people that we're unaware of are benefiting from.
So I was looking for some analysis on this, and I found uh uh a report from uh Deutsche Vela.
We'll kick it off here.
The United States has announced that it has carried out a new strike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela, the fourth in recent weeks.
This one comes after President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. is at war with drug cartels.
He made the designation in a notice sent to Congress on Wednesday, which has been seen by multiple media outlets.
Now it says the President determined these cartels are non-state armed groups, designated them as terrorist organizations, and determined that their actions constitute an attack against the United States.
Last month the U.S. said it carried out three deadly military strikes on boats in the Caribbean in international waters near Venezuela.
It alleges that they were smuggling drugs.
The U.S. has also built up its naval forces in the area and dispatched ten F 35 aircraft to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory.
It's the biggest military deployment in the Caribbean in decades.
The strikes have raised questions about whether the U.S. military is legally entitled to kill alleged cartel members under domestic and international law.
By declaring the U.S. is involved in an armed conflict with the cartels, the Trump administration aims to provide a legal rationale for its actions.
Well, the attacks have also increased tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela.
Venezuela's left-wing authoritarian president, Nicolas Maduro, has accused Trump of a covert bid to oust him.
The Trump administration accuses Maduro of being a narco-terrorist and a drug cartel leader, and is offering a $50 million bounty for his arrest.
Trevor Burrus, Jr.
So they bring in an expert on this, Christopher Sabatini.
Listen to his resume.
Senior Fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, uh lecturer in discipline.
Yes, lecture in discipline in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, spooks.
Also on the advisory board of Harvard U University's LASPAU, the advisory committee for human rights watch America's division, and of the Inter-American Foundation.
He's also an HFX fellow at the Halifax International Security Forum.
You could not get a better guy to defend this.
US say something.
No.
Oh, here we go.
And to find out what exactly is going on here, I'm joined now by Christopher Sabatini.
He's a senior fellow.
Yeah, let's find out exactly what's going on here, shall we?
Let's let's get our information from this guy.
For Latin America and Chatham House, that's an international affairs think tank based in London.
Mr. Sabatini, it's good to have you with us.
Um President Trump says that the U.S. is at war with drug cartels.
I'm wondering first, what's the point of this notice to Congress in your opinion?
Well, frankly, this is an attempt to cover their argument.
Uh they're trying to demonstrate that this is a war uh that legitimates uh in their view, uh attacking civilians without due process.
Yeah, hold on.
Um there is an interesting little uh milieu uh uh usage there that I thought was interesting.
What's that?
The term that you normally use would be legitimize, not legitimate.
Is that not just uh an Anglo Anglophilianism?
No, I don't think so.
There's something fishy about using that term.
Okay.
Uh there's I just use the mark I know we'll mark it as a marker, yeah.
Marker, yeah, marker.
Well, I don't think this I think his resume kind of already told us.
Yeah, no, he's already marked, but it's just another marker for other for others.
So he's he's actually gonna push back again.
You know, so again, Department of Education, we're getting the illegals out, um what's the USAID?
Uh hopefully going after uh the uh was it for democracy, the uh endowment for democracy.
Yeah.
All of these things, all of these things are all bad for America.
And so now we're going after the drugs on the street and the supply lines, and Chatham House is having none of it.
Well, frankly, this is an attempt to cover their argument.
Uh, they're trying to demonstrate that this is a war uh that legitimates uh in their view, uh attacking civilians without due process, um, that in which they are the equivalent of combatants in a war zone.
Questions have been raised across the aisle by both Republicans and Democrats that by declaring this war on narco-terrorists is the term they like to use, it is in violation of the War Powers Act.
And it is even in violation of international norms because they're killing civilians without due process.
Right, wait without them actually Wait, wait.
I like the way he does this, another good one, another good bit he just pulled, which is it's a violation of not in violation of international law, mind you, which is which is a legitimate thing to complain about.
No, it was a violation of international norms.
Good point.
Good catch.
Which is meaningless.
Yeah, my norms.
Yeah, yeah.
The new world order norms.
It's a violation of that.
You we don't do that.
And then he says the war, but the way you couch it with the way you couch it, it makes it sound like it's a violation of international law.
Right.
That's not what he's saying, norms.
And but also he's full of crap because the president sent his letter to Congress.
He said, This is a war, these are terrorists.
Here's my executive order, who I've all said is a terrorist, including Antifa.
And these guys are terrorists, so I'm going after them.
So he's I guess he has 60 days or whatever, but he's within the war powers act, which of course is super broad, but you know, that's besides.
And if they would don't like it, they can they can uh they can repeal it.
They don't do that.
Narco-terrorists is the term they like to use.
It is in violation of the war powers act, and that it's even in violation of international norms.
Good point.
Because they're killing civilians without due process, uh, without them actually being armed threats.
So he's trying to draw this.
I think it's a very loose and tenuous connection between drugs and armed combatants, which quite frankly, a number of uh U.S. senators, again, on both sides of the aisle, are not quite buying.
Okay, well, we'll pay attention to which senators are not buying it.
Yes, we'd like to know who exactly is is in with the British invasion here.
So, how does Maduro fit into this?
You know, the center uh of this US war on drug cartels is Venezuela and its president Nicholas Maduro.
Uh can you tell us what role do they play in international drug trafficking?
They're large international drug traffickers as a country.
Uh they're not producers, and they're not producers at all of fentanyl.
Fentanyl, when it crosses the board in the U.S. comes from Mexico, oftentimes from Chinese precursors materials.
But in the case of Venezuela, what they are is they are a transshipment point for cocaine that's leaving uh Colombia.
But they really only the cocaine that leaves Venezuela, most of it's actually bound for Europe.
Only about five percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States comes across uh Venezuelan airspace or maritime space.
Hold on a second.
This guy seems to know a lot about it.
He has percentages and everything.
Like uh airspace.
Are we gonna shoot down planes now?
What's it what is this?
I think that that was highly unusual.
Hey, by the way.
A little bit too too granular.
This is not our main supply line.
This is just a little bitty bit.
Only about five percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States comes across uh Venezuelan airspace or maritime space.
Most of the cocaine that enters the United States is uh comes from the Pacific or up through the Isthmus of Central America and through Mexico.
So this is really an attempt to try to engage in another uh agenda that the Trump administration has, which is to try to uh engage in regime change to take out the Nicolas Maduro government.
They've named Nicolas Maduro and a number of his.
I love how all of a sudden Maduro he's very much like a little Maduro associates in the government as being members of the Carteles de la Sol.
Which is uh they're claiming to collect my checking as a narco-terrorist organization.
Um, and they're claiming that that gives them the license to effectively take them out.
A little little detour here for the Pentagon releasing the video of the hit.
Tonight, the Pentagon releasing this video of a deadly military air strike on what officials say, without providing evidence, without any evidence, was a drug boat attempting to smuggle narcotics into the U.S. with a massive explosion, sending debris raining down in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela, flames shooting from the vessel.
Wow, so graphic.
The U.S. says four people were killed.
The president has directed these actions, these strikes against Venezuelan drug cartels and these boats, uh, consistent with his responsibility to protect the United States interests abroad.
Secretary Pete Heggseth saying our intelligence without a doubt confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people on board were narco-terrorists.
Today's strike is the fourth known U.S. attack on suspected Venezuelan drug boats since early September.
We have proof all you have to do is look at the cargo that was like it's spattered all over the ocean.
Big bags of cocaine and uh fentanyl all over the place.
Big massive bags, you all saw it.
And with the Trump administration has now told Congress as rationale for the strikes, that they consider drug smugglers unlawful combatants with whom we are involved in armed conflict, but critics question the legality.
Oh, the critics, oh, the critics.
We'll finish up with this uh Maduro shill here.
By the same token, they've also doubled a bounty on Nicolas Maduro's head to 50 million dollars.
So if you happen to have any information to be able to turn him over to U.S. authorities, you can make yourself a quick quick 50 million dollars.
That, by the way, is more than the U.S. placed on the head of Osama bin Laden.
And it demonstrates just a general trend across this entire rhetoric and policy, which is hyperbolic.
Uh, it's unclear really with the what whether Carter de los Solis actually exists as a hierarchical organized cartel as it's being described by the Trump administration.
It's unclear what extent Nicolas Maduro.
He probably is very well aware of narcotics trafficking flying over uh Venezuelan airspace and leaving Venezuelan shores, but it's unclear whether this is truly an organized operational cartel with him sitting at the head.
But that's very much what the Trump administration wants to portray.
But again, UNODC, UN Office of Drugs and Crime, as well as independent investigators who really questioned the logic and evidence that the Trump administration is putting forward to make these claims.
Everybody's in on this.
They're all in on the money train with this as far as I'm concerned.
And what's interesting is that we've blown up four of these boats.
It really doesn't get the same amount of play on mainstream media as the shutdown and you know, Epstein, of course, all that's gone down a little bit.
Diddy, etc.
And online, we are obsessed with one thing and one thing only.
Here's Nick Fuentes.
So who owns your mind?
Zuckerberg runs Meta, which is Facebook and Instagram Jewish.
Alphabet, which owns Google, and YouTube is run by a couple of Jews.
Larry Page, Sarah Gabriel.
Okay.
So that's YouTube, Google, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok is now now owned by Larry Ellison.
So that's TikTok as well.
Those are your social platforms.
Out of the big media conglomerates, you got Disney, which is run by Bob Iger.
You got NBC and Universal, which are run by Jews.
You have CBS, Warner Bros.
Paramount Studios, now run by David Ellison.
You've got the Salem Radio Network and Brad Parscale working on behalf of Israel.
You've got Fox News, Wall Street Journal under the Murdochs, dear friends of Israel.
You've got Daily Wire, Brager University, Breitbart, all run by Jewish editors, Jewish owners.
Are you starting to get it?
This is what this is so phenomenal.
He's on TikTok.
He's on YouTube.
He's on X. He can say whatever he wants to say, but somehow they're controlling your mind.
He goes on about the about the uh uh NBC and so whoever it was he listed there owned by Jews.
That's Brian L. Roberts is not a Jew.
Who is he kidding?
Well, he didn't mention Elon, friend of Israel.
Yeah, it and Sergey Brin doesn't run Google.
That's uh actually take it back.
We're Roberts was born into a Jewish family.
Yeah, there you go.
So they're once again, the Jews are run every single day, John.
I get emails.
Are you convinced?
Well, you should.
Aren't you?
You should people get Adam at Curry.com.
It's easy to remember.
Aren't you convinced yet that the Zionists run our country?
Aren't you sure of it?
And at this point, and Nick Fuentes, I I mean, I don't know where he makes his money or how he makes his money, but that guy is some sort of an op.
And people love him.
And he got Kanye in on it.
Oh, the Jews, the Jews, the Jews are taking it all away from me.
And you can hate Israel, you can hate the government of Israel.
That's fine by me.
That's okay.
But the danger is that we start to all hate the Jews just like the Brits do, which is why I think you know, it's my thesis.
The Brits created this, the modern state of Israel in the first place.
Send them all there.
We can blame them for everything, and we'll do stuff in the Middle East and get our BP and and all of our oil and anything else we want.
And by the way, America has quite a history of hating Jews.
I I was watching a Dutch review, book review of Mein Kampf, which was quite interesting.
And Hitler was a big fan of Madison Grant.
Madison Grant wrote this book called The Passing of the Great Race.
And he was the chair of the new the New York Zoological Society.
Zoological.
I said zoological.
I started to say zoo, but then I said zoological.
Which later and today is now known as the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Then he, you know, which is all the green agenda, which is, you know, the whole green thing.
That's totally functional fascism.
And if you look at the European Union with Ursula, it's basically the Nazi Party dream.
But my point is to say that we we get suckered into this stuff so easily.
And now it's become part of the podcast grift.
I just have to say it.
Because now you have to do stuff.
Listen to this.
Was it podcast grift?
Yes, podcast grift.
I like that term.
Because you gotta add in there that obviously Israel killed Charlie, Charlie Kirk, and Israel is is to blame for they run our country.
They run Trump, they run everything.
So now, if you do a podcast, you've got to say stuff like this.
I would never This is Theo Vaughn, by the way.
I would never take my own life.
I'm grateful to God uh for his grace in my life.
Um I love my siblings.
Um I have so many friends and people that love me and people that I want to see their children grow up.
I'm hopeful, I'm hopeful that I get to have a wife and meet my and meet my own children one day.
Like there's a ton of things in my life that keep me alive and hopeful, right?
I want to be able to have an impact in the world.
Um those are just a few of them, probably, you know.
I mean, so many just moments we've shared on this show that I'm like, oh, I'll live for those things.
Um I would never take my own life.
I would never take my own life.
Okay.
Hear that, Israel.
See, this is this is what you gotta say.
Oh, wait, gets better.
Listen to this.
Here's Candace.
Well, Marjorie Taylor Green has been very loud about how she is against that, and she has grown increasingly vocal, and she feels the need, as she did a couple of days ago, to publicly clarify that she is not suicidal.
I mean, it's ridiculous, but we do all have to say it.
If you have influence and you're speaking out against Israel, you do have to kind of make that statement.
We do have to make that.
This is why we don't make these statements, John, because we're covering for Israel, obviously.
We're covering for the Zionists.
So this is the new grift.
Uh I'm I'm not suicidal.
You know, when I talk out about Israel.
What is the benefit of of taking this approach?
Because people are sucked up into hating Israel, the Zionists, they run everything.
It's rampant.
Dude, this has been going on for years.
Yeah, I understand it, but what is the benefit?
I still don't understand the benefits.
I mean, besides not getting hate mail to Adam at Curry.com.
But the bushes, you know.
Well, it's audience capture.
Everybody wants just go look at my X time audience capture.
You might be right.
No, that I'm completely right.
That's what it is.
Don't you see now that your donations are going down?
Addic Jones has been bleeding audience.
Yeah, it's always issues are going down because we're not hating on people.
What they're saying is if you don't say Israel is running everything, and we just don't believe it.
We believe, in fact, quite the opposite.
And I'm gonna I think we can prove that once again.
It's so obvious that they're not running everything.
They're not running anything if it have a there's a couple of existences.
We'll get to that.
So you know the whole point is if you don't think, if you don't think and say out loud that Israel runs America and all of our politicians through APAC, then you're gonna lose money.
So it's basically either I listen to what you say and don't lose money, or I take money from Israel.
I mean, that's really the binary bullshit.
Where's her money from Israel, by the way?
Exactly.
Has it come in yet?
So Marjorie Taylor Green.
Now she has a good point because she is uh she's this is her own grift.
She's playing on this in a very obvious way.
And we know this from one of the last things Charlie Kirk did with all the Gen Z years.
They're all saying, Look, look, we look, we want we can't pay our rent.
We have you know, it's a crappy situation in America, and why are we sending all this money to Israel?
Which is 10 billion.
Let's say it's 50 billion.
I don't care what it is.
Why should we be doing that?
And of course, the answer is because that's our military base in the Middle East.
Fine, people can believe me or not, but that's literally aircraft carrier in the sand is how it was set up and what it was called in the 70s.
We played all the clips.
Um, but if you look at the money we send elsewhere, just the military in general is a trillion dollars.
Look at the money we're sending all over the world.
We sent 10 years worth of Israel money to Ukraine.
Those flags drop pretty quickly.
Uh so Marjorie Taylor Green is using this for votes and for popularity, which equals votes, and I can't blame her.
And but she is doing the same thing as the podcast grift.
Here she is with Matt Gates on OAN.
We gotta talk about APAC attacking you, sending out fundraising emails saying that you are not acting in the in the interests of our country.
Marjorie Taylor Green, your reaction to APAC's fundraising emails attacking you.
Yeah, Matt, I'll go ahead and be straight and honest about this.
I'm absolutely furious.
And as a matter of fact, APAC needs to register as a foreign lobbyist because they're breaking U.S. laws by by donating to members of Congress and by taking them on a fully funded trip to Israel, every single freshman member of Congress's year.
They just took them over just recently and had them meet with the Prime Minister of Israel.
But let's let's let's frame that correctly.
They take them over to meet with the secular government of nuclear armed Israel.
Israel, who is in less than 400 billion dollars in debt, Israel who has taxpayer funded health care in college.
Israel is not hurting, and they've already proven that they are more than capable of not only defending themselves, but annihilating their enemies to the point of genocide.
And that's what's happening in Gaza.
And Matt, the reason why APAC is attacking me is because I dared to tell the truth.
As a matter of fact, I've been saying America first for a long time, but I'm getting to the point of saying America only.
And I'll tell you why, Matt.
It's because pretty much if you're under the age of 40, you have no hope for the future.
We're 37 trillion dollars in debt.
People can't afford to buy a house, they can't afford rent, they can't afford insurance, they can't afford their bills, and we have HB1 V says stealing all these American jobs.
And I'm sick and tired of fed up with it.
But listen, if APAC wants to come after me and accuse me Of betraying my American values.
APAC.
You know what?
You can bring it on.
I am totally ready for this.
And this is a fight that I will fight and I will give it my all.
And I can guarantee you, you're gonna lose because America is fed up, Matt.
They're fed up to here with funding foreign wars, funding foreign causes, funding foreign countries for foreign reasons that have nothing to do with Americans while Americans work their ass off every day and pay their taxes and come home and they're living paycheck to paycheck and their credit cards are matched out.
I don't care anymore.
I honestly don't care.
So I'll burn this bridge to the ground and I will let the flames light the way.
And because this is a fight that needs to happen.
So she is playing into feelings that are rampant online, fueled, I'm sure, by ops like Fuentes to blame it all.
Because when you blame it on Israel, it goes right to the I've seen this movie before.
It's happened many times in history.
It winds up with Jews getting killed.
Nice people everywhere in the world getting killed.
It's just how it always winds up.
Then, but she's pretending like it's it's it's Israel.
No.
APAC funded by the American Israeli Education Foundation Foundation, which is funded by the military industrial complex, the very thing that President Eisenhower warned us about.
Yeah, Lockheed, Raytheon, those funded.
They're the ones that are going in there.
And they're because it's money in their pockets.
And they're horrible too, because there's do it under the guise of Israel.
Oh, you gotta do it for Israel.
Play on your Christian values, blah, blah, blah.
But at the same time, you cannot deny that President Trump is now very clearly in charge of the situation with this Gaza deal.
In fact, let me um just play play live clips too.
I got two clips and then I'll be done.
Here he is.
Listen to who he thanks for this deal.
I want to thank the countries that helped me put this together.
Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and so many others.
So many people fought so hard.
This is a big day.
We'll see how it all turns out.
We have to get the final word down and concrete.
Very importantly, I look forward to having the hostages come home to their parents and having some of the hostages, unfortunately, you know the condition they're in, come home likewise to their parents because their parents wanted them just as much as though that young man or young woman were alive.
So I just want to let you know that this is a very special day.
It is unprecedented.
But thank you all, and thank you all to those great countries that helped.
We were given a tremendous amount of help.
Everybody was unified and wanting this war to end and seeing peace in the Middle East.
And we're very close to achieving that.
Thank you all, and everybody will be treated fairly.
Uh speech to me, thanking all of the Arab nations.
And now he's out openly trolling Netanyahu.
Noga, good morning.
It seems things are moving full steam ahead, and Donald Trump is continuing to pile pressure on both sides.
He is.
He has not lost interest, Allison, and it is interesting to observe.
So that yesterday, hours after he posted on his truth social media website, um, a sort of another threat to Hamas saying, basically, get a move on.
You don't have a lot of time to release the Israeli hostages or else.
Uh subsequently, he posted, he made two posts that are sure to have severely irritated Prime Minister Netanyahu.
In one, interestingly, he posted an image of the more than 100,000 Israelis who gathered yesterday in Tel Aviv, who rallied to demand an end to the war.
This is a weekly event uh in smaller numbers, a daily event.
And somehow Trump has become aware of these things.
It's the second time he posts, and it's important to me, you know, Netanyahu uh refers to these protesters as enemies of Israel, um, as draft dodgers in the worst possible terms.
So that was an interesting thing.
And it's shortly thereafter, the president of the United States posted a map of the withdrawal lines that he proposes for this 20 point peace proposal, and he announced unilaterally that Israel had agreed, thus removing quite a bit of Israeli leverage in the discussions that are gonna start in Egypt.
The negotiations are gonna start in Egypt as of tomorrow, as of Monday.
So it is interesting to see him not lose interest and keep pressuring both sides basically every few hours since he announced this deal.
Sombreros are coming.
That's next.
It's obvious who's running the show here.
It's so obvious, but okay.
All right, what you got on the let's go with these.
I have some, these are from PBS, and these are uh this is Hamas.
This is the story with a bunch of analysis, but this is the openers.
It's Hamas PBS version one.
President Trump is sending envoys Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner to Cairo this weekend to try to nail down a deal.
Kushner, another Jew trying to make money off the deal.
Sorry, I have to give caller commentary.
President Trump is sending envoys Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner to Cairo this weekend to try to nail down a deal between Hamas and Israel to free the remaining Israeli hostages.
The president hopes that would be the first step toward ending their war, which is to enter its third year on Tuesday in Gaza.
The skies were relatively calm.
Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli bombing has significantly subsided, though not stopped entirely.
They said at least five Palestinians had been killed.
Israeli officials say the IDF has shifted to a defensive posture in Gaza.
On social media, the president said the next steps were up to the Palestinian militant group.
Hamas must move quickly or else all bets are off.
I will not tolerate delay or any outcome where Gaza poses a threat again.
Let's get this done fast.
In Khan Yunus, displaced Palestinians said Mr. Trump's pressure should be directed elsewhere.
My message to Mr. Trump is to pressure Israel for a ceasefire.
He is feeling for us and aware of our situation.
This is enough.
Did uh PBS mention the post he made about the uh Israeli protesters, the enemies of Israel?
They have a bit I think their analysis is better, and it starts right with his next clip.
Aaron David Miller was a U.S. Middle East negotiator in Republican and Democratic administrations.
You're a former negotiator.
You hear the things that Israel is saying that Hamas is saying.
Do you get the feeling that we're we're on our way to a deal?
You know, usually my sense is um is is pretty negative given the gaps between Israel and Hamas over the last couple of years.
But yeah, I think we are at least on a on the way to the release of hostages in exchange, probably, probably for an end to Israel's comprehensive military campaign in Gaza.
Beyond that, it is really difficult to say because both the yes but from Israel and the yes but for sure uh from Hamas to the president's 20 points basically reflect still the uh impossibility right now of reconciling what the Israelis want for an end state and what Hamas does.
But uh I I think John, um closer than ever, although in Arab Israeli, Israeli-Palestini negotiations, uh ever is a kind of a problematic idea.
Explain what the sticking points are on each side.
What in the deal is Hamas not crazy about what in the deal is Israel not terribly excited about?
I think both are not excited about excited about any of it, except the president is the most excited because what he is going to be able to accomplish if it holds is the return of all the hostages, living and dead, uh, and likely, as I mentioned, uh an end to Israel's comprehensive military campaign in Gaza.
Hamas wants to survive.
And they'll they will be looking for two commitments that I don't think this Israeli government will be willing to give.
Well, I think the statehood part is the big is the big carrot, which will never take place.
Yeah, well, all Trump, it seems if you listen to this guy that all Trump really wants to accomplish is stop.
Yes, stop the killing.
Yeah, stop, and then you know let's just stop.
And so, but but there's a key, but it also, as it will be revealed in the next couple of clips, there is Trump does have a lot more leverage uh over uh Netanyahu than people know about.
withdrawal all Israeli forces from Gaza and a formal end to the war where the Israelis will not continue to uh exercise the right to preempt or prevent if Hamas resurges.
As far as Mr. Netanyahu is concerned, he wanted quote unquote total victory, as he has maintained these many months, which would have meant the end of Hamas as an organized military organization.
I think he probably these the Israeli defense forces have have achieved that, but they have not achieved, and I think this is gonna be extremely difficult.
This is the end of Hamas's political influence in Gaza and its existence as an insurgency.
So again, Netanyahu's end state and Hamas's are still, in my judgment, usually irreconcilable.
This is happening.
Yes, Hamas is under pressure.
It's happening, yes, the Arabs are more united.
But it is happening for one primary reason.
You have an American president.
I I was part of administrations from Gene Jimmy Carter to Bush 43.
You have an administration that at president that has exercised unprecedented pressure on an Israeli Prime Minister, not since Eisenhower, who threatened David Ben Gurion with political and economic sanctions.
Has an American president been this tough with an Israeli Prime Minister and actually threatened a quote, or else, and this Israeli Prime Minister, since he needs Donald Trump to wage a successful election campaign to remain prime minister, probably in the spring or maybe uh uh the fall of 2026, couldn't say no.
Oh, yeah.
Don't worry.
We'll get you in jail, Bibi, unless you send the boys from Shabbat Ami.
Which won't happen.
Of course not.
That's a good clue.
That's good.
That that's accentuates the point.
Yes, and uh he wraps it uh with l less of an accentuation here.
Is that surprising given the relationship we saw between Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu during Mr. Trump's first term?
And also we keep hearing Netanyahu say Israel has had no better friend in the White House than Donald Trump.
I mean, Trump fashions himself as the most pro-Israeli president in human history, and the reality is during Trump 1.0, I think Donald Trump created what I would describe as a sugar high for the Israelis.
He applied no pressure, ample amounts of honey, but no vinegar.
This time around, given the fact that he wanted to claim success in not ending the war.
Let's be clear, the war between Israel and Hamas is going to go on.
But Trump, like in Ukraine, wanted to end the fighting, but not the war here.
He's gonna get the hostages out, most likely, and he will ameliorate or diminish the comprehensive military campaign that the Israelis have waged over the last year, where they now occupy 75 to 80 percent of Gaza.
Where the Israelis are going to withdraw to, will Hamas's weapons be decommissioned, as it says in the President's proposal?
Is there going to be an Arab stabilization force?
Will aid humanitarian assistance and reconstruction to provide two million Palestinians finally with a secure source of potable water, sanitation, access to proper medical care, and enough food, all of those issues, all of them, remain to be negotiated.
It's the best of all scenarios.
Stop the killing, keep the threat of war going so we can continue to sell stuff.
That's what we do.
That's why AIPAC is still around.
We can continue to sell.
I guess sign off.
We've got to build this.
We've got to do this.
We're doing it in Europe too.
It's coming later.
I'm going to interject with two quick Rubio clips from this morning.
Yeah.
He did all the morning shows.
This is uh Manhand's welcome.
Mr. Secretary, I want to read point 19 of the President's peace plan.
I'll put it up so folks can see it.
It says, quote, while Gaza redevelopment advances, and when the Palestinian Authority reform program is faithfully carried out, the Conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognize as the aspiration of the Palestinian people.
Does the Trump administration now support Palestinian statehood, Mr. Secretary?
Hamana Hamana.
Well, look, first of all, that provision was very important to the countries that signed on with us and and Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, etc.
They all really, that's a very important point to them.
I think the most important point to read out of that is that you have to have somebody to turn it over to, right?
Someone that you can hand that over to.
We've always said that if there's going to be a two-state solution, it has to be negotiated with Israel.
It has to make sure that Israel's security is taken into account.
And so I would argue that I wouldn't say this is a new policy position.
What I would say is you want to be able to have in Gaza a place that Israel has no interest in governing Gaza.
They want to turn it over to somebody who uh some organization that will govern it that will not build tunnels and sponsor terrorism and come across the line and kidnap rape and murder uh Israelis.
That's who they want to turn it over to.
And right now that doesn't exist.
That has to be built.
But Mr. Secretary, we need you to say that you are for a Palestinian state.
But Mr. Secretary, in terms of where the administration stands, yes or no.
Does the Trump administration support that's not a yes or no question?
That's a process.
No, but that's not a yes or no question.
That's a process.
Ultimately, at the end of the day, we've always said this has been the consistent position of this administration, of myself, and of a lot of people that have watched this for a very long time.
In order for that aspiration to even be credible, it has to be realistic.
We can't have a Palestinian state that's governed by Hamas or by some terrorist organization whose stated purpose for existence is the destruction of the Jewish state.
That would never work.
Until there is a until Gaza is governed by people that are not interested in uh in destroying Israel, until there are no security threats emanating against Israel from Gaza, you're not gonna forget about statehood.
You're not gonna have peace.
So we have to create the conditions for that.
That's gonna take a while.
Um, and and that's gonna be part of what these negotiations are about in the days to come.
But right now, the priority number one is to get the hostages released.
If we can't even get an agreement on the hostages being released, you ain't gonna have long-term peace here.
So let's get that piece done.
It's the most important, and then we can move to phase two, and it'll give momentum to the rest of the effort.
But this is not gonna be easy.
No one said this is gonna be easy.
We are dealing with something that's been going on for a very long time.
Yeah.
There you go.
That's the that's the 20-point plan.
And all the Arab I where is onimus of dog patch?
Where's uh dude named Mohammed?
We need some boots on the ground.
What is Iran thinking?
He'd give us some information.
He's probably floating around.
He's probably part of it.
So he's in Doha.
He's in Doha at the moment.
So we have um.
I want to play this d this is the NPR version of the what we played for PBS, but I I I only think I have to play clip one here, which is because they're they decided some something came down.
Now, most of these these operations, these large-scale operations of whether it's the New York Times, the Associated Press, or NPR, PBS, they all have style guides.
Yes.
And so you have to keep an eye on the style guests.
In other words, the style guy will tell you as a writer or a reporter what terms you can use.
Ah, yes.
And how to put them.
That's how you get, you know, a birthing person shows up, kind of thing.
And everyone's all of a sudden saying birthing person, pregnant people.
Stuff like that.
Front hole.
Front hole.
So they have so the style guys can and I just caught this, and I see if you can catch it.
It it's kind of a it's the way I edited it as kind of a giveaway.
But I thought this was quite interesting.
This is the NPR one clip.
Reaction to President Trump's plan to end the nearly two-year war in Gaza is being viewed consciously by residents there.
Both Israel and Hamas say they endorse Trump's 20-point plan.
But details have yet to be worked out.
NPR's Kerry Khan reports.
Residents in Gaza, like Iman Abuak Lane, a 48-year-old mother of four, says the news of a deal is some relief.
It's like we've been bottled up so tightly, and now we can take a breath.
Just a small one, as we are still living in a nightmare, she says.
Israel's military says it's getting ready to implement Trump's plan and has moved to a defensive-only position, according to an official not authorized to speak to the media on the record.
However, Gaza health officials say airstrikes continued overnight, killing and wounding Gazans.
Okay.
Killing Gazans, not Palestinians.
Oh, good catch.
Oh, it's already shifting.
It's starting to shift.
Now we see if we start hearing the term Gazans, Gazans, instead of Palestinians, it's like saying New Yorkers.
Swapping it, you're swapping out a term here.
There's a reason for it.
Very good catch.
I found that to be fair.
That really stopped me in my tracks.
That's where I ended the clip with it.
Yeah, but there's a part two to this if you want to hear it.
It just kind of wraps it up.
Well, it was very short, I think.
So Israel is preparing a team for face-to-face talks as the US also sends envoys to Cairo, according to two people briefed but not authorized to speak publicly.
Okay.
Of course.
Sources.
Nothing there.
Meanwhile, uh this uh Gen Z uh color revolution around the world is very interesting.
Yeah, I have a clip on this too.
Okay, you want to play yours first?
Well, mine is just about specific.
It's a specific one of these Gen Z. And this we picked this up when it started in Nepal.
Yes.
This is the Gen Z 212.
Morocco's biggest anti-government protests in Morocco deadly this week.
The demonstrations are led by a coalition of Moroccan youth who call themselves Gen Z212, named for the nation's dialing code.
The group says the government is pouring billions of dollars into infrastructure for the 2030 FIFA World Cup while neglecting domestic issues like health care and education.
Demonstrations began across Morocco a week ago, and some have become violent.
This week, three protesters were killed.
So the Nepal thing uh was actually staring me in the face because you know I looked at the map Nepal between India and China.
Oh, hello, they wanted to join BRICS.
Well, no, you're not joining BRICS.
You're not gonna connect India and China to make it a whole bricks segment there.
You're not gonna do that.
I'm gonna send the Gen Zeds on you.
I have a little bit longer clip of Morocco, which is still going on, the Gen Z 212.
Um and what's very obvious is that the it's very much like the BLM riots.
You get everybody out there for social means, like, hey, you know, it's like we're spent sending all their money to Israel.
We we're against that.
We don't want that.
And then you send in the agitators, the people with the umbrellas who start smashing the windows and throwing the firebombs, and then you've got a mess, and then it's still the it's the Gen Zeds who are very upset about how the government is spending money and not on them.
Anger has not abated in Morocco.
For nights on end, protesters have united against the government, demanding better public services.
In some instances, it has turned violent.
Buildings have been set alight and properties destroyed.
Many citizens feel the isolated incidents undermine demonstrators'legitimate demands.
We support the protests but reject the destruction.
If we all want to protect public freedom, demand dignity and call for social justice, we must understand that social justice means giving everyone their rights.
As a Moroccan youth, I reject this ugly behavior of destruction and violence.
Through peaceful protests, we came out demanding our legitimate rights to proper health care and education.
The initial peaceful gatherings began on Saturday, loosely organized by Morocco's Gen Z 212 group.
So I found it was mind-blowing on um France 24.
Yes.
They had a whole segment on Gen Z, on all the Gen Z revolutions, which I thought was very interesting.
What do all these protests have in common?
Yes, they are all protests across Asia and Africa.
But there is something more.
Corruption, lack of jobs, poverty, block of social media platforms.
These are just some of the problems stretching from Sri Lanka to the Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, Morocco and Madagascar.
Protests have been ongoing for months, all starting in one main way, led by Gen Z, the generation born between 1997 and 2012 and organized through social media.
In Morocco, protests were launched by the anonymous youth collective called Gen Z212 on the platform Discord, referring both to Generation Z and the country styling code.
code 212.
The more than 120,000 members demand reforms in ELF and education and criticize the sums invested in the 2030 World Cup at the expense of public services.
In Kenya, with the hashtag RutoMasco and the Telegram group, Zenzi Revo 2, Did Z has mobilized against unemployment, tax hikes, and high living costs, sweeping protests across Nairobi, and even breaching the walls of Parliament.
Madagascar, one of the world's poorest nations, has seen Gen Z group rise up against blackouts and water shortages, leading to the dissolution of the government, but also leaving at least 22 people dead.
In Nepal, Gen Z outrage erupted after a thousands of young people reposted images and videos online showing the luxurious lifestyles of politicians' children, share with hashtags like Naple Keeds and Napole babies.
Despite social media ban, youth has organized mass protests against corruption and inequality.
And the Philippines have seen the student and youth network Tamana, along with others, leading the recent marches in Manila over alleged corruption in flood control and infrastructures projects.
Everywhere, the youth led and dressed, the years of digital platforms for organization, the cross-border inspiration.
These mobilization do not necessarily or immediately result in lasting reforms.
But it's clear that this generation doesn't want to survive in a falling system.
They want to voice their grievances and transform it radically.
So this is some bull crap right here.
Oh, Gen Z, there the Gen Z is the most wussy generation ever.
They're not starting any revolt.
This is this has op written all over, and it has an intelligence agency written all over it, but which one and why?
I'm gonna tell you.
Asia and Africa.
Who has the interest in Asia and Africa?
It's always been the British Crown, Canada.
It's the North Give the North Sea Nexus a break on this one.
So I I was corrected by many people about Discord, because all this, oh, it starts on Discord, starts on Discord.
And I said it's an open source platform.
I was corrected by a number of producers.
No, no, there's a lot of open source projects that are run and managed on Discord.
But Discord is a complete company product.
Uh you you get it for free.
Now, when you get something for free, you're actually the product.
We know that.
The business model is very odd of uh Discord.
You can have uh turbo um Discord where you can actually give the company money and raise raise money for your Discord server.
You can get extra benefits and more, you know, more expansive um features.
They do have some advertising.
I'm looking at this company, and it's founded by two nerds, yeah, who were gamers.
And but if you look at their um uh if you look at their timeline on their aboots page, spring twenty twenty-five.
Jason, he's one of the co-founders, one of the nerds, announces his transition from CEO to board member and advisor, and whom mom Saknini becomes Discord's new CEO.
Saknini brings deep gaming industry experience from leadership roles at Activision, Blizzard and King.
So I go look at this guy.
Well, isn't this guy very interesting?
He initially worked for the investment bank Nesbit Burns, Canadian Crown for the Department of Finance in Canada.
This is a this is a London uh City of London guy.
Participated at the 20th annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Calgary authored three of the Department of Finance's fiscal policy and economic analysis branch working papers.
Uh, he argued in favor of pre-funding pension plans.
It sounds like a gamer to me.
He later founded and co-directed the financial technology group firm IS Group, which provided services to mutual funds and hedge funds.
Let's look at his um let's look at his uh education, shall we?
Um, graduated Bachelor of Arts in the Economics from the University of Western Ontario before receiving a Master of Arts in Economics from the Queen's University.
He earned a Master's of Business Administration degree from Yale.
This guy is an op.
And the minute he comes in, not three months later, all of a sudden Discord is the platform of choice for all of these Gen Z revolutions.
There's your op.
It's it's blatant right there.
Spend eight years as partner at McKinsey and Company.
Yeah, you know what?
This guy's absolutely a gamer.
He joined London Base King in April 2016 as chief financial officer.
And of course, that's where he led the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
And I'm and you know what?
Well, I don't think he's an op, he's a spook.
Well, it's a spook part of the op.
And it's clearly the Brits who are doing this.
They have all the interests historically in Asia and Africa.
It's it's like, okay, we see what you're doing, and they have just as much um benefit to not seeing BRICS succeed as anybody else.
They still have the pound.
It's still a big deal to them.
So be very aware of Discord Gen Z revolutions in our own country, which will be a bunch of soy boys and girls going, uh, what do we want?
We want democracy.
When do we want it?
We want it whenever you give it to us.
Yeah.
And then and then we have a lot of Gen Zers that listen to this show that are more than happy to tell us what they think.
Yes, I'm looking forward to it.
And the uh calling them out as a bunch of wimps is probably not the uh not necessarily a hundred percent true.
Generalizing, obviously.
I'm generalizing.
You're generalizing.
Yeah, of course.
I'm obviously I'm generalizing.
Meanwhile, um we've got Europe.
But I but I'm I'm with you.
I don't believe that there is a this 212 thing and all the rest of it in these obscure countries where why where you have this where they're rioting and there's this it's just obviously been co-opted is the old we get some old terms here.
Yes, old communist terms of co-option.
These guys are co-opted in some way, and they've got leaders, it's not leaderless, and it's but the leader's probably not Gen Z at all.
And the whole thing is corrupted.
Sure.
Gen Z is a generalization by itself.
It's like boomer, like all boomers.
I mean, I'm not even officially well, okay.
Um I don't feel like a boomer, but put me as a boomer.
Gen A, whatever.
I feel like a teenager.
Finally, finally an opening for the show.
I've been waiting for it.
Well, yeah, you have the uh have the the sense of humor for it.
Um so meanwhile, let's psi up uh the European Union a little bit more because we'd still need to borrow all these hundreds of millions for the omnibus, for the omnibus to get the drone wall implemented.
We need the drone wall, we need more money, more money, more money.
I have an idea.
Oh, check this out.
Munich Airport says it is gradually resuming flights after more drones were spotted early this Saturday.
The airport shut down Friday evening for the second day in a row over drone sightings with dozens of flights and more than 6,000 passengers affected.
More delays are expected throughout the day.
Airports in Denmark, Norway, and Poland have all recently suspended flights due to unidentified drones.
Some European countries have directly blamed Russia, but Moscow has denied allegations.
Here's Germany's interior minister.
We are in a race between drone threats and drone defense.
It's a race.
We want to and must win this race.
That is why it is important to take the necessary measures at the European level to upgrade our technology, pool our expertise.
Give us money and ensure that drone defense technology is also developed in Europe.
In cooperation with partners from Israel and Ukraine.
Ah, bring in Israel.
Perfect.
Yeah, we need the drone technology.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, drones.
Yeah, we have anti-drones, because that'll stop an ICBM.
Oh, and then everyone, oh, flights are canceled.
It's because of the Russian drones.
What a psy-op.
And then Ursula, the moron that she is, they're gonna call her Her Ursula from now on.
Her Ursula.
Uh she uh she well, you could be spelled H A I R. Oh, that's a good one, too.
Her Ursula.
Yeah, she's got you know, we're not done, Europe.
We're not done.
The AI race is just getting started.
It's not too late for us to get in on this scam.
Too often I hear that Europe is late to the AI race.
The skeptics say we will repeat the main mistakes of the past, and another generation of European talents will be forced to leave.
I strongly disagree.
Not only because the AI race is still warming up, but also because I've seen what Europeans can do when we set our eyes on a goal.
Yeah, what has Europe done for me lately?
What fantastic technology has Europe brought us?
Well, you know, when AI's in the loop.
Because when AI is in the loop, we reach better solutions.
Fast, reliable, affordable.
Reliable and affordable.
It's safe and effective.
Some of your startups are already pioneering it.
I don't know of a single one.
Let me tell you, I'm a medical doctor by training.
I'm amazed what AI can do in medicines.
AI can assist doctors in diagnosing cancer much, much earlier.
or accelerate innovative medicines discovery.
The big promise of AI, innovative medicine discovery and detecting cancer.
Well, what she's talking about is what's it got to do with Europe.
It's all Ellison.
It's all Oracle.
That's the promise of Stargate.
But you know what?
Europe can do it.
We will spare no effort to make Europe an AI continent.
That means no expense.
I know.
We will spare no effort to make Europe an AI continent.
We will spare no effort to make you choose Europe.
Because this is the great mission of our times.
Thank you for inviting me.
Umbrero honors.
Live Europe.
Thank you.
Thank you.
She hired.
Long live Europe.
Thank you.
My lord.
That is insane.
Well, at least she didn't mention quantum.
No, uh, well, I haven't seen the whole speech.
I'm sure she did.
Now, before we move on, I just need to stop because we have now reached peak AI.
This is an amazing thing that is happening, and this is Sora 2.
Have you heard of, seen it, or are you aware of Sora?
Yeah, but JC has brought me up to speed on it.
Sora 2.
Uh, I have a uh a uh uh a two-parter here of CBS talking to a wired reporter.
Because of course, if you really want to know what's going on in technology, talk to them.
Wired is still relevant.
Sora is it, baby.
Today we're announcing the Sora app powered by the all-new Sora 2.
Well, that may look and sound just like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, but it's actually a video generated completely by AI.
Using the company's new app, Sora 2.
OpenAI says it allows people to create and share AI generated video clips featuring themselves and their friends.
Now the clips posted by the company online show how unrealistic scenarios can look hyper realistic using this tool.
All right, I gotta bring in Zoe Schiffer, the director of business and industry at Wired Magazine.
Zoe, these videos are incredible.
Tell us what's an AI tool and what people can do with it.
Yeah, so OpenAI first released Sora, their video generation model about a year ago.
And since then, a lot of other companies have kind of jumped into the space, and the technology has been moving really, really fast.
During this time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman basically directed the team to start working on an app.
And the thinking was that just like ChatGPT allowed people to kind of realize the potential of generated tax, creating a kind of a TikTok style app to watch and create AI generated videos would be like a huge unlock to make people realize the potential for video generation.
Now I have some analysis about this Sora 2 app, but first we just have to finish with this wired reporter.
I think you and I universally would agree that most technology reporters are whoers for the technology companies.
And when you actually say that you're not, that's like a red flag.
Yeah, you gotta wonder what some of these Hollywood directors are thinking about some of these videos because they look so realistic.
So really put yourself in avatar, some of these big blockbuster films.
It's amazing to see what they're able to do.
Are they approaching though the safety concerns as this technology becomes more and more advanced?
I mean, there's some scary set that can come out of this.
Yeah, absolutely.
And far be it for me to like act as an open AI spokesperson, but as someone who's recruited on this company pretty deeply.
What does that even mean?
Far be it for me to act as an open AI spoke spokesperson.
Why would you even say that?
Are you be it for me, which is some phrase you very I don't think I've ever used in my life, but I've heard it.
Far be it from me, which is just crazy if you think it you try to figure out what it means.
I would be an AI spokesperson to act as an AI spokesperson.
Yeah, it's it's it's like uh it's almost like a uh scripted uh comment.
Well, she's been read in and she's spouting the company line.
That's what I think it means.
Yeah, absolutely.
And far be it for me to like act as an open AI spokesperson, but as someone who's reported on this company pretty deeply, I will say that I actually means she's she's got inside knowledge, which means she has a lot of people.
Yeah, and then she uses a performative as I will say.
Yes.
Why don't you just say it?
Why do you say I will say and then you say it?
Why don't you just say it?
Exactly.
Yeah, absolutely.
And far be it for me to like act as an open AI spokesperson, but as someone who's reported on this company pretty deeply, I will say that I actually do think they're taking these concerns extremely seriously.
Earlier this week, the company rolled out parental controls to help parents, you know, have a little more oversight into their uh the accounts of their children and specifically their teenagers.
When the Sora app rolled out, they like kind of baked in some of those parental controls specifically to allow parents to stop their kids from like doom scrolling.
So I think that they're trying to be proactive and get ahead of at least some of the major concerns.
And to be clear, this is an app that you can use anybody can use on their phone or tablet or computer, correct?
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
So you can download it now in the app store.
I think at least today you need a code from someone that's using it, but it's already kind of taken off.
There's a lot of people jumping in.
There are some restrictions.
Like if you try and generate a video of, say, Taylor Swift or even like Darth Vader, it'll stop you.
It'll say that like there are, you know, copyright restrictions that are baked in and it won't allow you to do that.
Yeah, her per full performative was um, I will say I actually do believe that's a that's a it's a mouthful.
So this is a brilliant move by open AI.
Uh because this is going to be high I could already see it, highly addictive.
People love it.
Scaramanga got put out of business in like one fell swoop.
Or possibly he can open a business, depending on how he how he manages his time.
Um the whole point of this, if you look at the app, what is the first thing it wants you to do?
Scan your face.
This thing is fresh content for open AI's large language models.
And every numb nut is gonna do this.
Oh, yeah, I put myself in this movie.
Let me show you my face.
Yeah, you got it?
You got it?
Oh, look at this.
Of course, they're gonna be sued into oblivion, but by then they'll already have what they need.
They needed fresh photographic videographic content because they know where it's going.
They they know that that this whole notion of it's for business, nah.
They need to be generating video and pictures and they need new content.
And I will never put my face on it.
I I would say, I think if there's if there's pictures of us out there, uh, I think you should just fill the entire internet with slop of us, but I'll never put my face on it.
Um, because Taylor Swift has shouldn't have any more protection than I have by my likeness.
So this, I think this is a a move that is blowing everybody out of the water.
And Google is gonna try and run and catch up, and it's gonna cost them more and more and more money.
And that's where the next trillion dollars is gonna have to come.
Because we're almost there, boys.
We just had another trillion dollars.
It would be really we one of um our uh our young friends uh she uh works for a or worked for an AI recruiting company in Austin.
Not that they were recruiting AI people, but the they used AI to match uh job openings with uh candidates.
And she said it was 3070.
30% will be great, 70% would just not work, and they're about to close the doors.
They just couldn't make it work.
They always kept saying to their investors, if we just have a little bit more, we're almost there.
We can almost do perfect matches every single time.
You can't.
The stuff is hallucinating.
You can't.
You can't get 100%.
You can get maybe up to 70, maybe 60.
This is a losing proposition.
So Altman just extended his life, I don't know, his business life by maybe several years, because this thing, I think it's going to overtake TikTok.
It's it's this is you want to dick this.
I I disagree completely.
You disagree with it's gonna overtake TikTok?
Yeah, because it's a piece of crap.
I have watched the I got the lecture about this.
I was shown all the videos, and the pro and even JC admits that that this stuff is not watchable.
It's yeah, it's very good.
I mean, you see very high resolution images of something happening that doesn't exist in real life, and it it a lot of it looks like this has to be a real person.
Well, uh, but it's not.
But it is there were some of these videos, they were 30 seconds long, and they you couldn't watch five seconds before you were bored stiff.
I I have a different opinion.
Uh a real good TikTok video of a fat chick falling on her butt off of a bicycle is far superior to the garbage that this thing is producing.
But the difference is you can put yourself and your friends in the in the movie.
Who cares?
Nobody cares.
I think that's I'm not gonna, I'm not interested in that.
And I don't know.
It will be the no, you're not, I'm not either.
It will be the number one app within one of the.
I don't think a lot.
You are we have to assume that we're not alone in our thinking.
Uh I'm giving you my my input.
I'm giving you my opinion.
Agree with me that we're not interested in putting our faces on all the sorts of things.
We aren't assuming that we're we're in we you and I are in the majority.
You don't even use a phone.
You so you're not you're in the minority.
You're in the minority.
You don't do selfies.
I am not in the minority when it comes to when it comes to not using the phone or keeping it in the drawer to be to be straight about it.
Oh.
And you bring it up with anybody, they fall in love.
Oh my God, I wish I could do the same thing.
I wish, I wish, I wish.
I am in the majority.
I just would be the only one to follow through.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
You are the only drug addict who got out.
Yes, you are a winner.
Winning.
John C. Dvorak is a winner, but that is not the majority of people.
The majority of people are losers, and they are addicted to their phones.
And now they can put themselves into the movie.
Ah, no.
This this is going to fly.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
I'm I'm willing to admit defeat.
I'll give it one month.
This is the number one app.
Everyone's talking about it.
Every news show, all these very new shows.
All these are the people.
Well, you know, you can make something the number one app if you get these news idiots to push it to the city.
Because everybody fall apart.
Ego, man, is ego.
People love themselves.
That's what the whole selfie thing is about.
An entire, an entire device was created.
It is bothersome.
It's a selfie movie.
It's what they're going to love it.
People will love it.
They will love it.
And it's so completely free.
How much we're but this guy is burning cash.
That's why that's why it they need to have this be successful.
And they will make it successful.
Come hook or crook.
Oh, there's a Jew reference for you.
Uh they're going to make it successful, Altman.
Um taking over, taking over everybody's going to be gonna be psyoping everybody with his sora too.
This right, everybody loves Israel.
They're gonna make it the number one app because he needs another couple of trillion dollars to finally get to the business stuff that's actually going to work, which we know it just won't.
In the meantime, Spotify removes Well, you have to give the guy credit for keeping the bottom credit.
I give him a lot of credit.
He's got a bunch of plates.
He's spinning them around.
It's another one.
There's another one.
That's what you do as an entrepreneur.
How long does this go on?
Hey, as long as he can keep putting plates up, he can spin them.
And Spotify, now they're in trouble.
Spotify's in trouble.
Because they had you keep saying that, but they keep making money.
Well, that's kind of the point.
They had they deleted 75 million songs from their catalog.
And they, and the reason they did that is because the majority shareholders of Spotify, even in the public markets, are the publishing companies.
And the publishing company is like, hold on a second.
We can't have this.
We can't have every Tom Dick and Harry making our money off of this, uh, off of these uh AI songs.
So I think that you're gonna see some other platforms picking this up.
I would if I had a music platform, I'd be like, all AI all the time.
Bring it over here.
Make money.
Make money with your songs.
So you think that Spotify made a mistake when they ran these these fake bands and they ran them as legit and it's turned and they were found out, and then the public the music publishers making actual music.
Yeah, the owners, owners got very mad.
Hey, wait a minute.
Yeah, the true owners.
Yep, they got very well, you know, easy money.
So I don't know.
We'll see what Apple and Amazon does.
Um, but uh I mean, people were loving this.
Like, hey, I just made a song.
It cost me 20 bucks a month to make a thousand songs, and I'm making five bucks uh on royalties.
Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, you know, that it uh more trucks.
I'm monetizing, man.
I'm monetizing, monetizing my creativity, my prompting creativity.
Please, more of it.
Please fill the internet with as much of this slop as possible.
Keep it going.
Just keep it going.
Tell nothing is usable.
I mean, already, if you just I was looking for um, I was looking for uh a story on Nepal with a Gen Z thing, and that included Discord.
Well, you have to wade through at least 15 AI generated news stories to find something.
And even then, it's like still dubious.
It's filling, it's filling everything up.
And still the podcast, the industrial complex.
We need a tag, we need to tag this AI.
We can't have AI, AI podcast.
Please.
Why?
Yeah, uh, because the advertisers are getting fleece.
That's why the advertisers get the advertisers gotta get a clue.
They will.
They will.
But they always do, and then they get they they they drop off, and of course, it does a shake out.
You have uh, you know, an Armageddon podcast, they all go out of business, the ones that try to make money, and then all of a sudden something had changes, and the advertisers are suckered back.
They always get suckered back.
They will.
Yeah.
Look at these numbers.
Hey, Bob, have you seen these numbers?
I think we got an opportunity here.
And with that, I want to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the one and only AI content and say hello, my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John Court.
Feeding the ear subs in the water, all the names and nice on the room.
In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Stand still.
Let me catch you for a second.
There we go.
Dog days of summer.
2158 listening live.
And they are listening on Noagendastream.com, which should be fixed.
Tell your friends, tell your neighbors everything works again.
They are trolling along in the troll room, uh, trollroom.io, also no agendastream.com.
You can use your modern podcast app, which uh may or may not have some AI slop in it, but of course, the biggest downside to podcasting is there's no discovery mechanism, so it's also its biggest protection.
So there's there's no algo that's shoving podcasts in your face all the time on the podcast apps.
Yet no, it's it's it's decentralized.
It it's it's uh impossible to happen.
It's impossible.
It will not happen, which is good.
And the more slop, the more people will want to hear two old dudes yakking away.
Oh, it feels so comfortable, doesn't it?
Just to hear people make mistakes.
Yeah, it does feel kind of good.
Oh, uh, they disagree.
Oh no, they actually sound emotional about something.
Oh, oh my you are you and your noisemakers.
Oh, good lord.
You and your noisemakers.
I got another one here.
Oh I've got the sign noisemaker.
Uh Modern Podcast apps, go get yourself one of those.
It's your protection against AI slop.
Go to podcast apps.com, pick one up.
They're all pretty darn good, I would say.
And with that, of course, you will also be alerted when we go live.
You can listen live in your podcast app.
What legacy app does that?
Let me think.
None of them.
And within 90 seconds of publishing, you will be notified as well.
Which legacy app does that?
Let me think.
Uh none of them.
Of course.
That's why you don't you want to be ahead of the times and on top of the news.
Wasn't that uh was that uh New York Daily?
Was it the Daily Post?
No, I don't think so.
Ahead of the TV.
I didn't know I lived in New York for a while.
I remember these things.
Uh the Xtra E. Yes.
Uh drop the extra S for savings, dial a mattress.
I remember that.
Crazy Eddie's prices are insane.
So um uh the 26th of October will be 18 years that we do in this podcast.
And all the all that time, John's been studying my Tourette's, and he is now an expert, which is amazing.
I am because we've only seen each other twice in the last 10 years.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you just once is enough.
Ditto, right back at you, Bubba.
Uh so we accept time, talent, or treasure in return for the value that uh we provide you, and we uh think that after 18 years, people agree.
Uh, four out of five doctors will say that the no agenda show provides value, and you can provide that back to us in many different ways.
Uh monetary is the one that makes uh the show guaranteed to continue, but we also accept other things, such as AI Slop.
And we get that from our no agenda artists who are now prompt jockeys.
And one day, one day, the actual artist will return.
You can wait for it when everyone's listening to AI Slop songs, eventually, you know, a Ramones comes along, or uh uh I think they said the same thing about Photoshop.
Well, clip art, Photoshop, everything.
Um, it was it was all a problem.
Everything, every technology is always a problem.
We don't want to be Luddites, but there you go.
Hey, we had a new artist uh check in.
He'd only been a no agenda artist for two weeks, and uh we liked his his AI sloppiness.
Uh his name is Jock 10, J-O-Q 10.
He did the artwork for episode uh 1804, which we titled Mucho Retardo.
Uh we liked that one.
And it was a fat general in the submarine.
He couldn't get in or he couldn't get out.
And people liked it.
And we liked it.
Oh, is it how do you know it's an admiral?
Because a submarine.
Oh, thank you.
Good point.
Thank God you know about these things.
Fat Admiral.
FA, Fat Admiral.
Um, and of course, these were uh is uploaded to NoAgenda ArtGenerator.com.
If you're having trouble uploading a piece of art, you need to have the exact dimensions as specified.
That's just uh a little little tip for those of you having trouble.
It needs to be the exact dimensions in order to upload.
Uh and we let me see.
We looked at uh uh looked at everything, of course.
There was a lot of uh obviously well, there was the battle ready from Blue Acorn.
That was a fat soldier eating a donut.
Um I'd say that was probably a close second.
Um we had uh lots of stairs running up and down.
You like to add up John Adams bug out kit for some reason.
Yeah, it was uh there's too small.
It was too small, but it included a a handgun, a revolver, a flashlight, a cracker.
Like the one cracker.
Like a a Graham cracker kit and some water.
Uh let me see, what else was there?
A lot of sombreros.
A lot of sombreros, which didn't really work.
Uh Again, we see uh people using uh collapsing models, the mastermind, your models collapsing that you're using.
Yes, you have to you yes, that's right.
We we made a point to mention him.
Uh the mastermind has needs to take his pieces and either put them in Photoshop or someplace to brighten them up, get rid of the you have a they're dull.
Yeah, they're very dull.
And it's not a big deal.
You can put them in the Photoshop, and there's a couple of filters, you can just pop make them pop.
Yeah.
But it's it's just interesting to see that there's model collapse.
Whatever you're using, it's no, this has been one or two models that I don't know what he's using, but it's it's getting worse.
It's muddy.
This is the worst I've ever seen it.
It's getting worse.
And the more this is out there Is that getting worse?
It's just bad.
No, you you are so optimistic about your Ultra.
Your silicon.
I'm the optimist.
Go live with Sam Alban.
I'm sure he'd love to have you.
Why don't you just go hang out?
Get a room.
Get a room with Sam Altman, you.
No agenda artgenerator.com is where you can upload your slop.
Uh and uh we do appreciate uh people doing it at all, to be honest.
Um I'm already looking at it today's art.
There's plenty of opportunity to win, people.
Plenty of opportunity.
Just typing in drone EU flag, no agenda is not going to get you a winning uh nod.
That's not gonna happen.
As part of this uh value for value model, we of course want to thank our financial supporters um who all they do is you see man hands by blue account.
Hold on a second.
No second.
Let me see.
Man hands.
You're you're jumping ahead of the game.
Where's man hands?
Oh man.
That is gross.
That's gross.
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I'm sure that uh, you know, our lack of audience capture is going to hurt us severely, John.
There's no doubt about it.
Yeah, it happens.
It happens.
Yeah.
It has happened throughout throughout the 18th.
But at least we're honest purveyors of the truth.
Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly right.
And we don't have to do stupid stuff like saying, Oh, I'm not unhappy.
Are you unhappy, John?
Uh we don't have a suicide pack.
I'm not gonna kill myself.
Are you?
Uh Israel.
Hey, top executive producer today.
Here's how it works.
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That was pretty funny.
John Stewart.
I don't have a clip.
I should probably get a clip from it.
He's like, he doesn't understand why uh Trump hasn't gone after him yet.
Hey, man, come after me.
I need I'm being ignored.
I need over here on Comedy Central Mondays.
And yes, I need the attention.
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What happened?
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It's no good.
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Please.
Pathetic.
That is that's pretty pathetic.
Very pathetic.
As if.
Yeah, right.
I mean, the networks are just dying with these late night shows, and they're not making any money.
They're high budget, hundreds of people working there, and they're trying to get rid of him.
So let's blame Trump.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And even that backfired.
Yeah, that didn't even work.
So Kimla pulled a stunt and ended up still on the air, and then Disney guys have got to be shaking their heads saying, what do we have to do to get rid of this guy and do something that makes us some money?
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Maybe he should be suicided by Israel.
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Uh, hey.
This story, and maybe I'm wrong, but if I recall, isn't Chevron leaving California?
Was it Chevron?
Uh I didn't say that.
No, I I'm asking.
No, they're closing the Richmond refinery.
And the refinery that got that got uh got itself in trouble is the El Segundo refinery, the big boy down in Southern California.
Wouldn't that wouldn't that make for a perfect withdrawal from California altogether?
Yeah.
It well, it yeah, but it didn't really destroy the refinery, it just made a mess.
Well, if you listen to this report.
Overnight a massive explosion at a Chevron refinery, sending a massive fireball into the night sky.
Firefighters rushing to the scene in El Segundo, California around 9 30 last night, trying to tackle that gigantic blaze, several fires burning within the facility.
Yeah, we have heavy flames showing from the refineries.
I'll need a truck company with a master respond to this.
Towering flames and billowing smoke, turning the night sky red.
The inferno could be seen for miles.
That blast so strong.
Residents say they thought it was an earthquake or a plane crash.
Earthquake.
Yeah, well, terrible explosion.
Uh very loud.
Terrible house.
Like more than any earthquake ever before.
Out of control.
For sure.
And I mean, didn't know what was going to happen next.
Those residents were told to stay indoors and shelter in place after concerns about the air quality.
There are several massive flames coming from the refinery.
That right there appears to be the epicenter of this explosion that occurred.
At times it seemed like the fire was under control, and then it would flare back up again.
The smoke traveling to nearby LAX, blanketing the planes on the tarmac.
That oil refinery is the largest on the West Coast, spanning two square miles.
It supplies more than 40% of the jet fuel and more than 20% of the motor vehicle fuel for Southern California.
Not yet clear what caused this explosion, but no injuries have been reported.
I'm just saying, if I wanted to get out of California all together and with a big F U, I'm like, oh, our plant blew up.
Get some insurance coverage.
Yeah, it's probably not a bad idea.
Just thinking it's a concept.
Then the property is worth a lot of money.
You could resell it.
You had to do a cleanup first.
The California take a while, especially after years and years of making leaded fuel.
A California Riviera, baby, right there.
It's beautiful.
It's a nice spot.
Yeah.
I just thought that to be uh rather suspicious.
Yeah, this happened before there though.
Suspicious.
They have some maintenance.
Chevron's always been sloppy with my here's my story about the maintenance at these places.
So I worked at these refineries and I was an inspector at Chevron in Richmond, but I worked at the Union Oil Refinery, and there used to be this big thing before it was taken over by the cheapies that own it now.
But when Union Oil had it, they used to paint their tanks all these pastel colors.
It was very pretty sight when you drove through it.
Did you see that when you landed at LAX or is that a different place?
No, we're talking about up here.
Oh, okay.
I'm with and it's relating to Chevron to talk about their fact that they're cheap with their with their maintenance.
Yeah.
This is a roundabout story.
I don't have to tell it.
Yeah, you do.
So they had they used to paint their tanks, and so when I started as an inspector at Chevron, their tanks were all rust buckets.
They were just looked terrible.
It was an embarrassment when you looked at them.
My God, this place is a wreck, because the tanks were all rusting and falling apart.
So I talked to one of the managers about this and compared to the union place where they painted the tanks beautiful pastel colors, and they kept painting them and maintaining them.
And he said they there was a cost of effect there's a cost analysis that Chevron did that showed that yes, you can maintain the tanks will stay in in place a longer time, but the cost of maintaining them with the paint actually is more expensive than letting them rust fall apart and rebuilding a new tank.
Yeah, sounds like the American way.
The American way.
And so and so then over time, what was what was the irony of the whole thing was that Chevron, because they were getting so much grief for these ugly looking rust that rusted out tanks, had a the perfect solution.
instead of painting the tanks white and letting them rust, they painted them rust colored.
That's a blend in.
It was genius.
Oh, that's great.
That was worth it.
And they're very pretty.
The rust colored tanks are really pretty.
It's just like okay, well, that works.
I mean, they blow up, but otherwise.
Well, hey, they rust out and leak, and it's a mess.
Oh, that's good.
That was well worth the well worth it.
I like that.
You got some other errand stuff.
I got some stuff here.
I gotta talk about COVID, the bull crap.
Let's do Diddy.
Let's do Diddy.
Oh, this is the one.
Yeah, this is just a summary of what happened with Diddy.
All right.
Sean Combs has been sentenced to Scott Shimon, everybody.
Sean Combs has been sentenced to more than four years in prison after a lengthy hearing in Manhattan yesterday.
The rapper producer and businessman was convicted in July on two prostitution related charges.
Toy Malas has covered the Combs trial for NBC News.
She joins us from an airport now.
Star Airport.
Thanks for being with us.
Thanks for having me.
Good morning.
Uh he was acquitted of the most serious charges, sex trafficking and racketeering.
What are the two charges of which he's now been found guilty?
Those are two counts of something called the MAN Act.
It's transportation to engage in prostitution.
And he was found guilty by the jury over the summer of those two counts.
But like you said, he was acquitted of the more serious charges, which he faced a life in prison sentence if convicted on those.
Well, tell us more about this sentence of uh of about four years, because the the judge could have handed down something lengthier, couldn't he?
So the judge could have given Combs up to ten years on each count of the man act, which means he could have faced up to 20 years in federal prison.
Uh the judge giving him four years and two months is actually quite a surprise because it is less than what the probation department recommended, which was between five and seven years.
Now, it is not what Combs' legal team wanted, which was 14 months.
I actually spoke to one of his attorneys, Brian Steele, last night outside of the courthouse following the judge's decision, and they said that they were very uh disappointed in this, and that all they want is Combs to come home and that they plan to appeal.
We we certainly heard a lot from uh Sean Combs' uh alleged victims during the trial.
How did they receive news of the sentence?
One of the first individuals to react to the news of Combs' sentence was Cassie Ventura, his longtime girlfriend who was a key witness in this trial.
And in a statement through her attorney, she says that nothing can undo this trauma.
But basically, this is a step in the right direction.
Uh that this shows the serious nature of his crimes.
So they need to get this guy back doing those beats, you know.
Yeah, bitches, that's right.
You gotta get some beats going on to psyop the kids.
This pisses me off, actually.
My friend, the ER doctor who worked through COVID as an ER doctor, who got psyoped during COVID into a Medicare scam.
Honey potential.
Oh, you're good.
Yeah, your guy.
Yeah, honey potted by the Justice Department itself, pretending to be patients.
This guy was an ER doctor, not sophisticated in scams.
He's serving ten years for for like a couple hundred thousand dollars over several years, which he legitimately did not had and no way of knowing it was a scam, and this guy walks with four.
This this is dumb.
Yeah, I guess you were I think you're right.
That bothers me.
Both apparently.
Talk to my Metallica boys there, the guards.
They boys I'm coming.
So there is A I have a series of clips from uh I think it's PBS, I'm not sure, but this will but long COVID and it's a bunch of BS, it seems to me.
Okay.
And it finishes with what I call the crock.
Long COVID.
So long COVID, let's just establish whatever you think.
And by the way, you don't have to EMM me, because I guess whenever we talk about long COVID, people tell me it's real.
And I'm not saying that it's not real that you don't feel something and you feel bad or you have something, but calling it long COVID is bull crap.
It's a cop-out.
Well, it keeps I I believe after listening to this these clips and uh listening about log and COVID over the five years.
Yeah.
Uh I believe it to be part of a uh effort to keep the word COVID in play so you can sell more vaxxes.
Because a lot of people especially the new super spike or whatever it's called.
Super spike Moderna's big spike.
A lot of people have chronic fatigue disease.
That's real.
But even uh one of the one of the guys here um goes to our church, he's yeah, he's in his uh late 40s, I think.
Maybe 50.
And he was diagnosed with long COVID, but really he had uh heart arrhythmia.
You know, and so it's it's like just say long COVID.
Maybe.
I mean, or the vax triggered.
Not vaxxed, not vaxxed.
COVID is not vaxxed.
But did he get ever have COVID?
Well, a lot of people here test.
So who knows?
Oh, I have COVID.
Yeah.
So I don't know.
Okay, well, did he think he had COVID?
Yeah, for sure.
So here we go with the long COVID BS.
And the thing is it's two things, keeping COVID in the in the public uh brain, and then also money.
Yes.
It's been more than two years since the pandemic ended, but millions of Americans are still living with long COVID.
That's a catch-all term for COVID symptoms lasting at least three months after testing positive.
Symptoms can vary from person to person, but they range from mild to severe to physically disabling.
Recently, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. kicked off new efforts to address long COVID with a round table discussion with doctors, researchers, and patient advocates.
In the past, the response to epidemics of this kind has been to pump a lot of money into Ivory Tower Science to try to solve the problem.
They've already put 1.5 billion dollars into NIH to solve long COVID, and we've got literally nothing from it.
Allie Rogan spoke to two members of the long COVID community, Dr. Michael Peluso, a physician and researcher at UC San Francisco, who attended that roundtable meeting, and Megan Stone, the executive director of the long COVID campaign.
So can I get the zip code for the long COVID community?
Yeah, you the long COVID community, yeah.
Oh my goodness.
It's just south of south of you.
Yeah.
Community.
All right.
All right, go on.
Michael and Megan, thank you both so much for joining us.
Michael, first to you.
We just heard Secretary Kennedy say that there's been nothing to show for HHS's investments so far in long COVID research.
What do you say to that?
Well, I think many of us agree that progress has really been too slow.
Um, there are a lot of patients really suffering, a lot of disability, um, a huge economic cost.
At the same time, there's a lot of commitment on the part of clinicians caring for patients with long COVID, researchers really trying to figure out the answers for these patients.
What I think we need, and what I hope that this round table will be the beginning of is a really clear both a short-term plan and a long-term plan for figuring this out.
We need a broader organized strategy.
So what would make up, Michael sticking with you that long and short-term plan in order to make the strategy work?
What's needed?
There are actually three specific things that I advocated for at this meeting, and I think that there was kind of broad agreement on these things.
The first is real investment, real investment, Real investment in a diagnostics and biomarker program.
Biomarker.
Both to help people get a diagnosis of long COVID in the clinic, but also to help us identify individuals who may benefit from a specific treatment strategy or for participation in a specific clinical trial.
The second thing that we really need is a rapid scale up of the number of clinical trials that are happening.
We've seen some improvement, some increase in the number of clinical trials over the last couple of years.
But I'd like to see a dozen more clinical trials right now testing all of the different possible leads for what might cause long COVID and how we might help people feel better.
Translation.
We don't really know what it is either.
It's just the it's pathetic.
Yeah.
But give me give me some money and I can tell you what it is.
Money, money, money.
Money, money, money.
And then the third thing that we really need to help that happen is we need the pharmaceutical industry to get off the sidelines and to really commit.
Get your money participating in clinical trials, putting their drugs up for testing, investing deeply in this problem so that we can get answers for people who are really debilitated from this condition.
Megan, as somebody who is a patient and an advocate, how are you feeling about the commitments that have been announced recently?
Well, right now today there's about 20 million Americans just like me who are living with long COVID and many of us were in the prime of our careers and lives and now are disabled and chronically ill.
And so the administration's announcements that Secretary Kennedy made were welcome.
It was really good to see the HHS secretary having a high-level meeting, bringing together all the parts of government that we really need to work together to find a solution.
And that's really what we need to see.
So that parents like myself can get back to volunteering at our kids' schools.
We can go back to our workplaces and patients can finally get the tests and the treatments that we've been waiting over five years for now.
I'm just going to guess that your final clip should not be three minutes and ten seconds.
Let me take a look.
Probably not.
Generally speaking, uh it's I can I can explain how that happens once in a while, but I'm not going to.
No, why bother?
Yeah, I'll tell you when to cut it off.
It'll it's it'll be around a, you know, yeah.
We'll see.
Buck 20.
Megan, you've been working on these things and advocating for your community for these five years.
Based on your experience, what are your hopes for what happens next?
And also where do your concerns lie?
Like many people by the way, this is so scripted.
I mean, you can think you can NPR show or it's PBS scripted.
But they by the way, when I play the bullying, it'll be over.
Surprise.
Based on your experience, what are your hopes for what happens next?
And also where do your concerns lie?
Like many patients, the long COVID campaign has been calling for biomarkers so that we can do research and figure out if treatments are going to work and hopefully get a test so that people in the United States, Americans who are disabled can more easily qualify for disability, that we can see insurance coverage.
We really want to see the FDA move more quickly.
And we're hoping with these announcements from the administration that we'll see them more rapidly approve clinical trials with the endpoints that we need and then work together on approving treatments and therapies that families and Americans living with long COVID urgently need.
We didn't see the progress we needed under the Biden administration.
And I know so many patients are ready to work with this administration in an earnest way to actually solve this problem.
And for both of you, uh COVID-19 and long COVID are things that many Americans have quite simply moved on from.
And yet there are many, many more people who are living with this every single day.
First to you, Michael, what do you want people who haven't been affected by long COVID to know about this community?
I think it's really important that people understand that this can often be an invisible disease and that there are a lot of people really suffering and really debilitated by it.
And, you know, I think that the investment in addressing this problem is likely to have benefits that extend beyond this problem.
Long COVID is a really, really challenging disease to study, to research, to treat, and it'll be a big problem to solve.
But I think that if we have the resources and the strategy and the long-term plan to do it, um, this should be a problem that we can solve.
And Megan, Americans may feel like the pandemic's over or that COVID is in the rearview mirror, but even in just the last few months, we saw the announcement that long COVID's now the most common childhood illness in the United States.
It even surpassed asthma.
So it's still what?
It surpassed asthma.
The most common childhood disease in America is now long COVID.
Hard when did that happen?
When you when you're a kid, you can't even get COVID.
It's hardly that's almost impossible.
But somehow it's become the number one childhood disease.
Surpassing asthma.
According to these jamokes.
Give me your Taylor Swift uh phony story.
What is this Taylor Swift?
Okay, this is a I got this.
This is a this was you know, they have to talk about Taylor Swift on NPR.
Of course.
Because it's Taylor Swift.
But but this is kind of I I I consider this, even though they kind of couch it as like a positive thing, she's a good marketing woman and all this and that.
But this to me just says she's a big phony.
Taylor Swift talks about her musical and personal style in eras.
Researchers say those eras have also influenced how she speaks.
Matthew Wynne of the University of Minnesota co-authored a study that analyzed her speech from 2008 to 2019.
Oh my.
As a person moves to different cities and different communities, they have motivation to change how they speak.
While most people don't record themselves from location to location, Swift's career allowed for that.
We have this timeline of her voice throughout the years.
Swift was raised in Pennsylvania, then moved to Nashville.
Wynne analyzed this clip of Swift speaking from her time in Nashville.
My role models in country music are Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Dixie Chicks.
Part of what it means to be a country musician is to speak with that southern accent.
And just to make sure that she was welcomed into that community, maybe that was something that helped that process.
When Swift released Red in 2012, her speech seemed to change.
A return to her Pennsylvania accent seemed evident in a live webcast in 2013.
A huge inspiration from my imagination.
She was exiting country music and entering pop music, where a southern accent wouldn't have necessarily fit in as well.
Then after she moved to New York, the pitch of her voice dropped, as in this 2019 interview with CBS Sunday morning.
And he has 300 million reasons to conveniently forget those conversations.
Wynn explains.
This was a time when she was being much more vocal about social and political issues and the autonomy of musicians over their own work.
And so I think she did what a lot of people do.
She took those issues very seriously.
She started speaking with a lower voice.
This was what university now?
Oh, I don't know.
Pennsylvania or something.
Whatever talks about her musical and personal style in eras.
Researchers say those eras have also influenced how she speaks.
Matthew Wynne of the University of Minnesota co-op Minnesota.
If you go to the University of Minnesota, drop out immediately.
They are misusing your tuition.
Well, this is like Harvard and having that that uh that drag queen give a course in um drag queenery.
What was the name?
She gets this crazy name.
Uh somebody in the I I guarantee that at least five people in the control room will come up with her name.
And she's a course in uh it's just a crazy nutball course, and it's Harvard.
There it is.
There's coming.
Now I'm waiting for it.
Uh uh I'm looking in the Did we have a clip?
No, I don't have a clip.
I'm not so it that's dumber than what I just played.
All right.
What you do have is you have a podcast clip.
Let's end on a podcast clip.
We have a podcast clip.
Yeah, podcast about Buckies.
Noteworthy.
Oh, yeah.
No, this is well, this is noteworthy.
Noteworthy.
That's why it's an afterthought of the show.
This is about a podcast coming out that's gonna spend an hour or two talking about buckies.
All right.
There's a proposal to build a bucky's, a massive convenience storeslash gas station, known for its beaver mascot and endless gas pumps.
The proposal has divided neighbors and cost officials their jobs.
It's just all this wild human nature that is erupted over a gas station.
And beaver nuggets.
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Mimi, of course, is running for office in the Port Angeles area and runs into this all the time, which is that the council and the county commissioners and everybody in between.
You can present them with petitions.
You can have the places packed with people that tell them to do this and that.
You see it in the score in school boards.
You see it on your YouTube videos.
And they refuse to act.
These local officials, for some reason, over the last few decades, have not become responsible.
They've become unresponsive to the the local communities.
And this Bucky story, I'm sure is exactly the same.
This is completely out of control.
They've they've gotten something into their heads where they don't have to listen to the public anymore.
But why would they?
That's why me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, for city council.
The troll room is on the ball.
Headline, Harvard hires Drag Queen as visiting professor in gender and sexuality studies.
New courses include Rue Politics, Drag Race and Desire, and Queer Ethnography.
The name of the Drag Queen.
You ready?
Lahore Vajastan.
Yeah, a pun.
I'm gonna show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be sad.
Oh, no agenda.
We got some pretty good meetup reports coming.
Uh, the one from Indiana.
Always fun to hear the ones that uh Damonette put Miller puts together for us.
John's tip of the day, we got uh end of show mixes, and right now we will thank the rest of our uh value for value supporters, 50 value.
Very short list because yeah, very short list, only 24 people total donated today.
Wow.
Uh starting with John Robinet 100 and Steve Brown, 100 bucks, and then Matthew Gill in Raleigh, North Carolina, 8338.
Uh Kevin McLaughlin's already up at the top there at 8008.
Uh he's the Archduke Aluna Lover of America, lover of melons.
Uh Darius Walker in Charleston, West Virginia, 7414.
Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, 6006.
Steve Banstra, 5993.
Uh I'm sure there's some meaning to that.
And we have Elizabeth Bearish, I think, uh, for her husband.
This is a switcheroo for Jeff Barish, who is gonna be uh uh turning uh some age, I think.
Of course, he's on the birthday list, his birthday's on Saturday.
Um there you go.
555.
Probably 55.
That's my guess.
He's turning 55.
Brian Furley at 5510, Sir Salverin in Silver Spring, Maryland, 5272.
You know, I always thought it was Silver Springs.
I always thought that too.
Silver Springs, Maryland.
I've always thought.
But it always comes through as Silver Spring.
Maybe it's wrong.
Maybe it's wrong.
Wrong.
James Sherimeta, uh Napinock, New York, 50.
And these are all 50s, the last few, and very few, I would say.
Uh Chris Conecker in Anchorage, Alaska, Alex Zavala and Kyle.
Kyle Kyle.
Nicky Dead.
The Nikki Kyle, the Nikki Dead, Alex or Alex.
Uh Carrie Jackson in Waterton, Tennessee.
Walker Phillips in San Rafael, California.
And last on a very, very, very, very, very, very short.
How short is it?
Very Troy Thunderburke in Missoula, Montana.
Uh 1805.
Yeah, which is a good show.
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I got your salad dressing.
Did you get your salad dressing?
Yes, I did.
Have you tried said salad dressing?
Yes, I did.
What did you think?
Well, I think that season is a well well designed salad dressing, except for at least for my taste.
It's extremely salty.
I thought so too.
Tina wouldn't use it, wouldn't try it.
It has seed oils in it.
She looked at the back right away.
What's seed oils?
I'm not gonna try this.
Something to be said for that.
But we appreciate it, Natalie.
Thank you very much.
Seed oils will kill you, man.
Seed oils.
There you go.
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It's your birthday, birthday on No Agenda.
Here she is, Elizabeth Barridge, wishing her smoking hot husband Jeff a very happy birthday.
He celebrated yesterday.
I guess we turned 55, didn't we?
And Kevin McKenna, happy birthday to his daughter Anison.
She turns nine years old.
Happy birthday, Anderson, from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
It's your birthday, yeah.
T-T-T-T-T-T-T-Title changes.
Turning facelessly.
Nice changes.
Nice changes.
Don't want to be in too small.
And there he is, one of our top uh executive producers for today, Sir David Killian.
Uh he comes in as Baron David Killian of the Illinois Prairie, thanks to his uh exceptional amount of donations.
Four times night.
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Uh we appreciate it.
You are now officially on the peerage map.
And now we do have uh one secretary general.
All hails to the secretary generals, because they are the ones who dealing.
Oh hell to the secretary generals on the no agenda show.
I really wish we could get a redo of that jingle.
People keep telling me it's wrong.
I know it should be Secretary's General.
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Hey, John Bigelow, thanks to your support today.
Uh you become a Secretary General, my friend, and you gave us uh the name.
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My mistake.
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The wrong secretary, sir, it's uh Matthew Lomar.
That's who I meant.
Uh a little confused.
Yeah, a little confusion in the control room.
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Well, we had a couple of parties going on uh in the past couple of days.
We have a meetup report, Leo Bravo out there in Los Angeles.
They just they never quit the Los Angelinos, they just stay there, keep meeting.
This is flight number 67 of the no agenda.
Yo, yo yo, it's the bravo at meetup number sixty-seven.
The crew has things to say.
This is Myra from Ocolo.
Come join us anytime after 11 a.m.
Zerk reporting from downtown Los Angeles, where there's nothing happening on the streets.
Except for Comic Con going out across the street, and we're here all just as furries, pawing our Mexican food.
In the morning.
Yo!
Okay, now we go to Indiana.
Dame always puts together a great meetup report because there's always a lot of people at the indie meetups.
This is they Maria.
And Sir Mark.
We are so happy to be back in Indiana with our family here.
It's amazing.
In the morning, this is Sir Up of the Mifle, and today was a hot meetup due to climate change.
Gary here.
Sorry, I've been gone for the last few months, but my uh reprogramming for spookies is taking a little longer than I thought.
Hey, this is Emily, and if you keep saying four more years, we essentially have y'all at least uh seven months into the next administration, so four more years.
Bruce here, just drinking some beers with Emily the Fed.
Not her from Indianapolis.
I'm here.
Should not have ate that whole pizza, but it's still good to see Mark and Maria.
In the morning, this is Matt.
Finally driven in from the uh wilds of Southeast Indiana.
Only Mark and Maria could bring me back from my uh ranch out in the woods.
Dame Trinity having a great time in Indy.
It is great to see Mark and Maria back in the States.
In the morning, John and Adams, Sir PBR Street Gang here from Fort Wayne.
Loving to see Mark and Maria back again.
This is Ted from Batesville, part of the walking wooden.
Glad to see Mark and Maria back here.
This is Chris from Indianapolis, newbie.
Just gave it for the free wine.
There's free wine.
Oh, this is David, and I'm from Illinois.
My first meetup in Indy.
Glad to be here in the morning.
In the morning, Dame Swine.
I'm next to Sir David, who just won the raffle.
I didn't.
Sir Benny here, and I'm sitting next to the most fabulous Dame Swannee I could ever imagine.
In the morning, John and Adam, this is Nick.
There's a lot of pressure for me to be funny, so I'm just gonna say Cash Patel's eyeballs.
Hey, this is Brandy at the Blind Owl, playing crowd control over these crazy folks.
Maybe some of you guys can get your uh servers to partake a little bit.
In the morning, okay.
Wonderful.
Hey, there's a meetup taking place on Thursday.
It is the Tocota Tavern in Parker, Colorado on the 9th.
That's Thursday.
Thirsty Thursday at Dakota Tavern.
Kicks off at my uh 5 30 p.m.
And coming up, we've got the Johnson City Texas meetup on October 10th, followed by the Fredericksburg, Texas meetup on October 11th.
Uh gonna be a lot of no agenda superstars there.
I'm sure Sir Dirty Jersey Horror will be there.
I think Sir Mark, uh the filmmaker is gonna be there.
Tina the Keeper will be there.
I'll be there.
At the same time, October 11th, Garden City, Idaho meetup, Charlotte, North Carolina on the 16th, Colyville, Texas on the 18th, Fort Wayne, Indiana, uh on the 18th, Columbus, Ohio on the 18th, Lansing, Michigan on the 19th, Los Altos, California on the 25th, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania on the 26th, and Berlin, Deutschland.
This has to be some kind of illegal move.
They're gonna do a meetup and talk about things.
That's October 27th.
Send us a report.
Light in the Netherlands on the 31st to go on into November, Albany, California.
Get John out of the house meetup on the 15th.
And January 3rd, we already have a meetup on the book, Santa Rosa, California.
Those are just a few of the no agenda meetups that you can find at NoAgenda Meetups.com.
Go there because you will love these meetups.
Connection is protection.
You get it at the meetup, the people who will be your first responders in an emergency.
Noagenda meetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nice and days.
You to be where you won't be.
Triggered all hell.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Always like a party.
Guaranteed to delight.
Time for our ISO off.
ISO off.
I saw ISO off.
I saw off.
Um we both have two, I see, except one of yours is named Oso.
Which is a new spelling mistakes are getting better with the years.
They're funnier.
I actually loaded.
I thought that was a different podcast clip you had.
Like Oso.
Oh, it's an ISO.
I see.
It's really short.
I got it.
Okay, I'll play mine, then we'll play yours, see which one we choose for the end of the show.
Here's my first.
Utterly breathtaking.
Non-AI and utterly breathtaking.
Or this one.
This is a this is a big one.
All right.
What do you have?
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Well, I have a I don't do AI.
I've got ISO hosts.
This show gets better with age.
Like the hosts.
Not AI at all.
Gee, you fooled me, John.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It show gets better with the age like the hosts.
This show gets better with age.
Like the hosts.
Okay.
Speak for yourself.
And there's the one best podcast.
Best podcast.
I can go with this.
Like the hosts.
I can go with that one.
Yeah, of course you can.
That's cute.
Of course I can.
Hey everybody.
Here it is.
It's John's tip of the day.
Just the tip with JCB.
And sometimes Adam.
I'm going to do my I do this about six of these a year, and this is a wine tip.
Oh, good.
We love a John C. D'Vorack wine.
I have it every so often.
And every time I have it, I say, why don't I plug this wine?
It's and it's it's interesting because I'll give you a little backstory about some of these cheap California wines that are done by Gallo.
And they they bring out this fabulous wine that the turning leaf was a good example if you can remember back that far.
Came out as a Cabernet.
It was like 10 bucks, nine bucks.
Tasted like a $50 wine.
And then the next year tasted kind of like a $20 wine, and then the next year it tastes like a $5 wine, and then they fold it.
But they made lots of money.
I bet they did.
So this is different.
This is these guys have yet to have dropped the quality of this product.
This is a screwball wine that I think came out of the this came out of a bunch of purchases.
I actually have the bottle here.
Uh that Robert Mondavi did before he died.
Oh, Robert.
Robert Mondavi.
This is a Robert Mondavi wine.
And he bought a bunch of California wineries all over the place to use as uh estate taxes so he could just dump the wineries and the kids would still have the main winery.
But it turned out that the president changes whatever happened.
He ended up with the owning these places, and they changed the names of them.
And I don't remember which one this was specifically, but it's one of the valley wines from San Joaquin Valley, I think.
But it's it's sold as Robert Mondavi.
And he and I'll tell you what what it says on the label.
And it's like nine bucks.
Maybe, maybe up to twelve some places.
Can I get it?
Can I get it at Costco?
Costco will have it.
But all kinds of places have it.
They make a ton of it.
Okay.
And it's a black label wine called Robert Mondavi Private Selection.
Which is always a giveaway for what?
Come on.
Nine bucks, ten bucks.
And it's a black label.
Isn't it always black?
It's a black labeled wine.
Is it always black label?
No, Robert Mondavi has a tan label.
Well, this always has a black label because it's not really Robert Mondavi.
It's not a Napa wine.
It's not made there either, I don't think.
Robert Mondavi.
It just says Robert Mondavi.
Okay.
Robert Mondavi Private Selection.
Cabernet Sauvignon.
Ooh, that's very popular.
And this wine for year after I've been drinking this on and off for about five years as a kind of a just a quick wine if you want to have a dinner after hamburger wine.
After breakfast.
After breakfast, hamburger wine.
It's good for eggs.
Hamburger wine.
It's a total hamburger wine.
And it is just, it's got, it's the for a California wine, it's dark.
It's it's got some cabernet character.
It's got a lot of oak.
And it's a bourbon-style oak.
If you don't like oak, don't get this wine, but if you like oaky wines.
This is a very well-made wine.
I'm going to see if H E B has it.
I'll talk to Matt at H E B. And uh I'll tell him to push it.
I'll say cheapy.
I'll tell him to put like one of those uh you know a high sticker.
Put a sticker on it.
John C. Divorak tip of the day wine.
I'm telling you, yeah, we should have a seat of work tip of the day wine.
There it is.
Find all of John's tips of tip of the day.net.
What a good one.
Great bastard, you and me.
Just the chip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Bernetti.
Wow.
I always love it when you do a good uh wine tip.
Especially when they're cheap, which are most of your wine tips, actually.
No, I try to keep them cheap.
Yeah.
And yet they have to be readily available, too.
I mean, you just can't have you know something up showing.
I can't wait.
I'm gonna go to H E B tomorrow and say, hey man, I need that Robert Maldau private selection black label bourbon barrel, Bourbon Barrel Age, yes.
Yeah, it's very popular here in Texas, the bourbon barrel age, along with Texas Heritage Wine, whatever that means.
Hey, we're gonna end the show mixes from B Dubs and Jeffrey Crocker.
And uh coming up next on the No Agenda Streams, uh, abs in a six pack.
It'll be episode number 270.
We need another live show after our live show.
Where are the live shows, people?
Give us a live show.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, soon to be the place of another meetup here at J6 or Jenny's place, Fredericksburg, Texas.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Meet us here again on Thursday.
We'll do it all over again for you with more media deconstruction.
Until then, remember us at Noahgenda Donations.com.
Adios, MoFos, a hooey hooy, and such.
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 system.
Republicans thought that they could barrel us into a shutdown.
They can't barrel us.
We have bully us.
He's an idiot.
We got the loser.
What is he talking with the barrel?
Oh, the Republicans are trying to barrel us.
They came to our lives And there's a time to all the lovers All the guys are here Ladies and gentlemen, if you take a sixpence, which in Dutch is cool and fancy fetics, and you go on the bus upstairs.
The omnibuses.
The omnibuses we have put on the table so far will make a real difference.
Make no mistake.
This is a fight for our future.
And this is why we have some massive boosts.
The omnibuses omnibuses.
But the truth is that the world of today is unfortunate.
And it is for all these reasons.
Companies and consumers alike.
And the omnibuses.
And further omnibuses are on their way, for example, military mobility or on the digital on the digital.
They can feel the ground shift beneath them.
We simply cannot wait for this storm to come.
The omnibus is for all these reasons that the new Europe must be merge.
An omnibuses.
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