No Agenda Episode 1823 - "Secretary of Egg"
"Secretary of Egg"
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This is your award-winning Game One Nation Media Assassination Episode 1823.
This is no agenda.
We got blue checks, and we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we've been determined to be the most affordable podcast in the universe.
I'm John C. Devorak.
It's Craig Bottom Buzzkill in the morning.
Well, what prestigious award was this?
Affordable because it basically costs you nothing until you get value and then you send something.
Is that why we're feeling like it?
Yeah.
Well, that's they don't feel like it much recently, but eventually they'll be back.
Hey, man, did you see the Kennedy Center honors?
I only saw Trump giving awards to people.
Well, I didn't get to see his.
Did he go?
Did he do his bit?
He's going to be the host.
Oh, it was going to be like the host.
It's like a comedy show where you got to host a guy at the beginning telling jokes.
Well, what was nice about it is it was, I don't know if people really understand this, but it was a huge middle finger to establishment entertainment business.
Because if you ever notice, if you look at the Grammys, if you look at the Academy Awards, the people who make the movies that are loved most by the audience never get an award, ever.
Ever.
No, there's there's it happens by accident.
Well, sometimes by accident, but usually it doesn't happen.
And I have a quick way they see it is that.
Look, all the money you made is an award in itself.
That's exactly right.
It's like the inverse of the No Agenda show.
Oh, the money doesn't.
You don't need any more accolades, man.
So I just want to highlight the three awards.
Here they are in quick succession.
We have the disco queen, and she was indeed.
And nobody did it like Gloria Gaynor.
Gloria, thank you very much.
Gay icon, Gloria Gaynor.
Yes, very good.
That's a good head of hair.
So he says to the lady with the wig, that's a good head of hair.
That was pretty funny.
All right, next.
A friend of mine, a wonderful person, a really spectacular person, one of the true great movie stars.
There aren't many.
There used to be a lot.
There aren't many now.
But he's one of the great legends and had some of the greatest movies ever, including the top grossing movies ever, Sylvester, Sly, Salon.
Never received an Academy Award, ever.
And then the Philadelphia best screenplay.
What's that?
I thought he went for best screenplay for Rocky.
I looked it up.
According to what I could find, it was nothing.
And then, of course, these guys never got a Grammy.
Not sure they deserved it, but in my heart they did.
And the members of the incredible rock band KISS.
That's good.
Give those guys an award.
And I'm, you know, they didn't win any Grammys because their material was such, but I've always felt, you know, they are iconic.
They had a singular act.
Nobody really ever copied it.
Well, Gore kind of.
And they were entertaining.
They were super entertaining.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I saw a tribute a band.
I actually believe I've seen KISS because I was in Seattle once out in the Square area.
Well, you either remember it or you don't.
How could you think you saw KISS?
Well, because it was supposed to be a tribute band, but it could have been KISS.
Oh, I know.
Because it was exactly the same.
And I went there with a friend of my PC Magazine publisher.
We went in there, and all of a sudden we go into this bar in Pioneer Square, and there's this KISS is playing.
Yeah.
And we stuck around and watched them.
They're throwing fire in the air.
And these guys, it sounded like KISS.
It looked like KISS.
I believed I might as well have seen KISS.
The tribute band was so good.
But nobody else did anything like that.
So I just liked it.
I thought that was fun.
You know, for people who have huge commercial success or at least recognized success.
I don't think everybody in KISS made all the money, to be honest.
I think Gene Simmons probably has it all.
Good friend of the present, my good friend.
Long time, long time.
A good friend or long time.
Go ahead, trolls.
Say it.
He's a Jew.
Yeah, there you go.
But the entertainment.
Wow.
He is.
These guys never let up.
Here is the entertainment news of the week.
This is only the third largest such deal in the history of the entertainment industry.
However, it is arguably the most influential.
This deal sets Netflix up to be the king of content, old and new.
Netflix's co-CEO says, Our mission has always been to entertain the world.
Together, we can give audiences more of what they love and help define the next century of storytelling.
In Canada, this would certainly attract attention from the federal regulators.
Under normal circumstances, a deal this massive invites regulatory scrutiny, raises antitrust concerns.
But analysts say this administration isn't likely to stand in the way.
The Trump administration doesn't seem to be putting forth any pushback towards consolidation within the media industry.
Though that green light may come with strings attached.
The quiet part out loud in deals like this is this is an administration that does not like having stories told about it that it does not approve.
Shares of Netflix sold off on the news while shares of Warner Brothers jumped.
Investors aren't sure this will pay off for the streaming giant, but consumers will be rewarded with more content at a cost.
I suspect the initial reaction will be to increase subscription prices.
But the diversity of content in the future may suffer.
Smaller-scale directors are probably huddling in dark rooms having these conversations now about how they survive in this scary new world.
Scary.
This acquisition is expected to close in 12 to 18 months.
Analysts expect more mega deals in the U.S. media industry.
Comcast and Paramount were also bidding on Warner's legacy assets.
Paramount was one of those two interested buyers that got rebuffed.
They're going to lick their wounds and they're going to come back and they're going to look for something else.
So the responses to this were kind of baffling.
On the America First MAGA side, let's see.
We have Laura Loomer.
I told you this is going to happen.
This is bad.
Get ready for the Obama News Network.
What?
Somehow, because the Obamas had some deal with Netflix, now Obama is going to be running the Obama News Network.
Jack Prosibik, Susan Rice is on the board of Netflix.
This is about Obama's taking over media.
Matt Gates, Trump must stop this.
Well, I'm surprised.
Well, I'm glad you.
I didn't think this was a story because I don't believe this merger is ever going to occur.
And I think the best analysts have said so.
And it's an idea.
Is to put Warner in a band so Paramount doesn't grab him and they want to keep him that way for years.
So, whether this deal is consummate is the issue, but the fact that anyone reacted to it, they had the same thing at the dinner table that came up with this kind of weirdness.
I mean, this is, I don't know what the deal is.
I guess they, the way I understand it, if they were, if they got a hold of it, they would have they'd spin off CNN anyway.
Oh, it's CNN, it's not part of the deal.
CNN is not even part of the deal.
But the thing that gets me is, even from an antitrust perspective, streaming is wide open.
Anybody can create a streaming app, anybody can stream whatever they want to.
Anybody and everybody is creating content.
Who cares?
I'll tell you who cares.
The movie theater owners are finally going to realize: oop, that's it, time to pack it in, time to turn it into a roller rink.
And the actors and other people who get residuals, they're the ones that are going to be crying about it because that is over now.
I think it's until 2029.
They're going to continue.
That's the proposal.
They'll continue everything.
But once it's on Netflix, I don't think residuals count anymore.
And certainly not for new stuff going forward.
And what really have they done for us?
Who really cares?
TikTok is funnier than most movies.
Even your TikTok clips.
Well, you should know since you've been poaching them.
Please.
No, it's just, I mean, I don't even see why there would be a problem with Netflix acquiring it.
Who cares?
Okay, so the element.
Yeah.
They got Budge Bunny.
They got Batman.
So they have a great catalog of stuff.
Stuff I might want to watch.
I might not.
But is it really anti-competition?
I definitely don't see Obama's hook into this deal.
And by the way, these companies have been bought and sold by technology companies throughout my entire life.
Well, Warner's been owned by ATT.
It's been owned by Columbia.
Sony still owns them.
AOL owned them for a while, if you remember those days.
I think, didn't Coca-Cola own a studio at one point?
Didn't they own MGM at some point?
I don't remember what Coca-Cola.
I think so.
I think so.
Let me see.
I'm pretty sure.
It's just like, who cares?
Gulf and Western, an oil company, owns a studio.
Golf and Western for a long time.
I think they owned Paramount too, didn't they?
Golf and Western.
Yes, they did.
It was a GNW company.
Yeah.
Let me see if they owned a movie studio.
I'm pretty sure they do.
It looks like the hotel business.
Exactly the same.
You know, they show what do you want?
I tell you what, I'll give you two of my hotels in London for one of yours in Dubai.
Yeah, Coca-Cola.
Okay, well, you got to sweeten the deal.
Okay, well, we'll do the signage.
Coca-Cola owned the movie studio Columbia Pictures from 82 to 89, acquired it for $750 million in 82, sold it to Sony for 3.4 billion.
Good job.
That was good.
Good deal.
No one was losing their mind over that.
Oh, they won't sell Pepsi in the theaters.
It's horrible.
No, I don't see any.
I don't see any selling to the Japanese.
I don't see.
Yes, I don't see any problem with this.
This is fine.
This is good.
And just for whatever reason, we're on the show business news.
The biggest news out of Europe.
Who cares about immigration?
I'm sorry.
I know you were building it up, but I had to say this.
Everybody who's bought and sold Warner in particular have not done well after they came and went.
And remember Bronferman?
Seagrams.
Like a Woodhack company.
AOL, for example.
Well, the AOL was tragic.
They bought Tye Warner, got the whole kit and caboodle.
It was tragic.
And the Bronfermans, I guess the Bronfans are still doing okay.
Seagrams, they're still around.
Didn't they buy it?
Didn't they buy the studio?
I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But now that you bring it up the way you do with all this discrepant bunch of who knows why they're owning the studio in the first place, I guess they want to get laid, but they got some executivists in love with the starlet.
I mean, it makes no sense to me.
So that's the only thing I can think of.
You just nailed it.
That's the entire idea behind it.
Of course.
All these ugly billionaires, they don't want to get involved in show business.
Let me hang out with some beautiful people.
Yeah, Seagrams bought MCA in 1995 with Universal Studios.
So, yeah, that's exactly right.
I'm surprised you don't know some of these people.
You hang out with these billionaires.
When I was on the yacht.
When I was on the yacht sipping a mojito.
All right, here's the big news out of Europe.
At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year's Eurovision song contest after organizers decided to allow Israel to compete.
The participating broadcasters from the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia each withdrew from the song contest after the European Broadcasting Union held its twice-yearly general assembly.
The countries called for Israel to be excluded over alleged interference in voting and its conduct in the war on Gaza.
Well, what I'm pleased is the membership have had a full opportunity to debate it, and I can tell you it was a full, frank, honest, and quite moving debate.
But as we can see from the emphatic result, what they really came together on is a belief that Eurovision song contests shouldn't be used as a political theater.
It must retain some sense of neutrality.
The EBU voted to adopt tougher voting rules in response to the allegations that Israel manipulated the vote in favor of their contestant.
The contest of musical acts from dozens of countries strives to remain apolitical, but has repeatedly been embroiled in world events.
Russia was expelled in 2022 after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Over the past two years, pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated against Israel outside the Eurovision contest venues in Switzerland and in Sweden.
How embarrassing for the Dutch.
What an embarrassment.
This is your pathetic virtue signal.
Goodness gracious.
I know a lot of people at the national song contest level.
It's just embarrassing.
We're taking a stand.
Okay.
You make music.
Gay music.
Well, anyway, this does this totally.
You had to throw that in.
Well, because, well, and the lead-in to this opens up the opportunity for America to create, host, and produce the gayest song contest in the world competition.
Everyone will come.
It would be great.
I see that as what an opportunity.
If the president wasn't the president, he would do it.
No, he wouldn't.
He'd call it World Vision, not Euro.
Global Vision.
The World Vision Song Contest.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, so everyone's got their panties in a bunch.
Well, over what?
Over everything.
Over everything.
They got their panties in a bunch over Hegseth.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, goodness gracious.
Oh, because this is the attack vector, as you called it.
Now, you say when the Democrats win the midterm.
I have no crystal ball.
But if they do, this will be the impeachment terms.
It'll be about killing innocent people clinging to wood.
Well, here's an example.
This is interesting.
Play this BBC set.
This is a tease from yesterday, the BBC World Service.
Because coming up, we're going to hear from a former senior lawyer from the Pentagon on the controversial military strikes by the United States against alleged narcotics boats from Venezuela.
If the orders that have been given by senior civilian leadership are unlawful, which we believe they are, then everyone who executes those orders from the Admiral down to the person who pulls the trigger faces legal liability.
Is that really true, though?
I don't know.
Is it true or not?
Do you want to hear the clip where this guy is on the BBC making his commentary?
Yes, of course.
Hank Seth attacks BBC One.
Pete Hankseth, America's Secretary of Defense, hit back Saturday at critics of the killings in the Caribbean of people that Trump...
Ooh.
Ooh, I like that alliteration.
Killings in the Caribbean.
Killings in the Caribbean.
Hit back Saturday at critics of the killings in the Caribbean of people the Trump administration says are drug smugglers, which it's linked to Venezuela and the government in Carvacas.
At least 83 people have been killed and 21 have been injured in the last three months in US raids.
In an incident on the second...
Hold on a second.
I have no knowledge of this.
I thought everybody got blown to bits.
21 have been injured?
I don't know that either.
That's kind of news to me.
I'd like to know more about that.
Venezuela and the government in Carvacus.
Well, when they were injured, how'd they rescue them?
Are they just sitting in the middle of the ocean?
They're not going to last long.
No, I think they get rescued.
But I only knew of two, and now it turns out 21.
Okay, well, there you go.
That's actually strengthening the case here.
People have been killed and 21 have been injured in the last three months in U.S. raids.
In an incident on the 2nd of September, two survivors of a U.S. airstrike that destroyed a boat said to be carrying narcotics were subsequently killed when the Admiral in charge, Frank Bradley, who leads Special Operations Command, ordered a second strike after they were spotted clinging onto the wreckage.
Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum in the last couple of hours, Secretary Hagseth was defiant, saying the U.S. will continue killing those he labeled narco-terrorists.
Major General Stephen Leper served as Judge Advocate General in the U.S. Air Force.
That's the second most senior lawyer in uniform at the Pentagon until his retirement.
He's a member of JAGS, a group of former military lawyers set up in February in response to the firing of other judge advocate generals.
Speaking to me earlier before Mr. Hagseth's appearance at the forum, I asked him why the anti-narcotics operations are so troubling.
Well, I'm very concerned.
I and my colleagues, first of all, believe that even the first strikes of these vessels are unlawful because the legal justification upon which the entire operation is based, first of all, is still secret because the Office of Legal Counsel opinion justifying them has not been released.
But even more importantly, it does not constitute a non-international armed conflict, which is the rationale that the Trump administration has given for the strikes in the first place.
This character, the BBC, this was part of an overall scheme.
The BBC's part of it.
Oh, clearly.
And this guy is actually a banker.
Well, that makes it extra fun.
Of course he is.
This is all against the North Sea Nexus.
He's like, hey, we can't launder any money.
We can't launder any money.
The money's not coming through.
Stop blowing up our boat.
He's a military bank.
He's also, he went, he was a JAG guy in the Air Force for a while.
And then if you look at his, he's on LinkedIn, so I follow, I looked at his education.
He went immediately, got certificated, which is the only way I can pronounce that.
I think it's pronounced certificate.
I think it's right.
He got certificated for this, that, the other, all money management, personal wealth management, banking, banking, banking.
And now he runs some banks and he's running a bank now.
And so he's a banker.
So this guy's a banker, so it makes nothing but sense your thesis.
Yes.
It falls into place with this banker.
And then we see the confluence of one scheme and another in clip two that is just obvious.
And what that means in the law is that not only should we not be talking about these things in terms of war crimes, we should be talking about these things as simple murder.
Right.
I mean, that will surprise a lot of people who might think you can argue over the definitions.
The military kill people who they regard as enemies, and therefore the standard would be war crimes.
But you think actually it's a civilian one.
I do.
I mean, narco-trafficking has traditionally, by all the nations in the world, been considered a law enforcement issue.
These are criminals who are bringing drugs to our shores.
They are civilians who are bringing drugs to our shores.
And one of the ways in which this administration has tried to sidestep the law, which basically says you can't kill civilians, is to suggest that this is somehow an armed conflict.
There are no arms involved in this.
And so the narco-trafficker vessels do not qualify as combatants under international law.
Would military commanders who made an order like the one Admiral Bradley is said to have made have some protection if those orders came as a result of instructions from the leadership in the Pentagon?
In other words, from the Secretary of Defense.
Well, no.
There is a duty among military members, no matter what rank or position you hold, to disobey unlawful orders.
He's in the pocket.
Sound familiar?
Yeah, nice.
Very nice.
I told you that that was about these drug boats.
That's the first thing.
Yeah, it was obviously about the drug boats, but it's all part of a giant scheme and set up for the impeachment that will take place in 2027.
Hey, man, we're going to quit.
I can't do another impeachment.
Well, the impeachment, I can't do another impeachment.
I'm sick of these impeachments.
I'm quitting.
Quit.
I give up.
You just keep impeaching.
I don't understand what the Republicans put up with it.
Okay, this is the end of it.
Okay, here we go.
And if the orders that have been given by senior civilian leadership are unlawful, which we believe they are, then everyone who executes those orders from the Admiral down to the person who pulls the trigger faces legal liability.
That's retired U.S. Judge Advocate General, Major General Stephen Leper.
Yeah.
By the way, this got zero play, but what is this guy's name?
Paul Campo.
Paul Campa, who oversaw the FBI's money laundering operations and resigned in 2016, just got busted for, oh, laundering drug money.
It didn't get played.
Cartel mentioned something else in the BBC report for those journalists who wannabes out there.
Where's the balance in this reporting?
You could easily bring somebody in with the other point of view and have them express themselves.
No, you have a one-sided, lopsided presentation that only goes in one direction because you're part of a scheme.
The BBC has just deteriorated to an extreme.
Well, the same can be said for the United States M5M.
I do have the morning shows.
Well, I think that's all we've been saying for 18 years.
The morning shows from this morning, Sunday, doing the rounds.
This is what it was all about.
Oh, I got to talk about this drug boat.
Here is George Stephanopoulos with Adam Smith.
I'm pretty sure he's a Democrat.
Is he not?
Yeah, he must be a Democrat.
At least the way he talks.
Otherwise, I'd be surprised.
Here he is.
Okay, we're joined now by Congressman Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
Congressman, thank you.
Armed Services Committee.
Thank you for joining us this morning.
You've seen these videos.
You were briefed by Admiral Bradley and others.
Can you just describe what you saw and what you heard?
Well, I think Jim Himes described it really well.
There were two survivors on an overturned boat, and Senator Cotton's description of it is simply not accurate.
When they were finally taken out, they were trying to flip the boat over.
The boat was clearly incapacitated.
A tiny portion of it remained, capsized the bow of the boat.
They had no communications device.
Certainly they were unarmed.
Any claim that the drugs had somehow survived that attack is hard to really square with what we saw.
So it was deeply disturbing.
It did not appear that these two survivors were in any position to continue the fight.
And then you get into the larger issue, which you previewed, of what is the fight exactly?
They were trying to bring drugs, and not even to the United States, by the way.
There's no evidence.
I mean, the drugs were going to some other point where they were going to be transshipped from there.
And again, no congressional authorization for this.
If it is a war, then there should be either congressional authorization or compliance with the war powers resolution.
So this seems to go directly against Donald Trump's pledge to keep us out of wars.
He seems to be dragging us into one without legal authorization.
So let's hear what Cotton had to say, who did show up on the morning shows.
This is him with Manhands Welker on NBC.
Let me ask you about the aftermath of that first strike.
The Pentagon's law of war manual, which you're familiar with, having served in Iraq and Afghanistan, says, quote, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.
Given that, how was that follow-on strike of two survivors legal, Senator?
Well, again, Kristen, they were not incapacitated.
They were not in the water, surviving only because they had a life jacket or hanging to a plank of wood.
They were sitting on that boat.
They were clearly moving around on it.
That is in contrast, for instance, to another strike that Secretary Hegseth described just yesterday in October, in which you had two survivors who were in that state.
They were essentially just dog paddling in the water.
And what happened on that strike?
A U.S. vessel went and picked those survivors up and took them back to their home country.
That's just an example of how our military makes these decisions based on the facts and circumstances of each particular case, consistent with laws and with the directive you just stated.
Wait a minute.
So were they helpless or not?
It looks like everybody watched the video and walked away with different opinions.
This is so strange.
Here's Jim.
By the way, just to stop you for a second, that the mention that you caught on the BBC where they said they captured or 21 people survived, meaning those are 21 people that were rescued.
So the modus operandi is not to kill those that survived.
And so that, I think, the fact that they let that slip was a mistake in their considering the plan.
The only modus operandi is impeach Trump as quickly as possible.
Democrats, this is Jim Hines.
House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Hines.
He joins us this morning from Connecticut.
Welcome back to Face the Nation.
Thanks for having me, Margaret.
You are one of the few lawmakers shown the classified version of this September 2nd video of the U.S. strikes and alleged drug boat near Venezuela, four strikes in total, we've learned.
You met with Admiral Bradley, who commands special operations as well.
The President of the United States says he's open to this video being made public.
Do you think it is essential that it become public?
And are you confident it will be?
I think it's really important that this video be made public.
It's not lost on anyone, of course, that the interpretation of the video, which six or seven of us had an opportunity to see last week, broke down precisely on party lines.
And so this is an instance in which I think the American public needs to judge for itself.
I know how the public is going to be react is going to react because I felt my own reaction.
You know, I've spent years looking at videos of lethal action taken, often in the terrorism context.
And this video was profoundly shaking.
Shaken.
And I think it's important for Americans to see it because, look, there's a certain amount of sympathy out there for going after drug runners.
But I think it's really important that people see what it looks like when the full force of the United States military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under, just so that they have sort of a visceral feel for what it is that we're doing.
He saw a different video clinging to a piece of wood.
Tom Cotton said they were not clinging to a piece of wood.
And if we're going to broadcast that video, please, please broadcast the video of the double and triple tap in Iraq.
Please.
Yeah, or and he did it in Pakistan, I think, Afghanistan.
Yeah.
Nobody brings up.
Of course, I'm never going to stop doing this because until the media at least comes back at somebody with the commentary that Obama did this.
He blew up.
In fact, so did Bush.
In fact, it blew up weddings.
They literally blew up weddings, documented blowing up weddings.
They paid people off.
It was like $100,000.
Oh, I'm sorry.
We killed one of your wedding party guests.
He's $100,000.
It was a sound.
Send it around.
Then they would do a double tap.
When people came to rescue the injured, they blow them up again.
And this was the real killer, the second double tap that Obama specialized in, and nobody brings it up.
Let's be honest, when it comes to killing people, we are foam finger number one.
So what's this unprecedented?
Obama gets top of the list, though.
In his kill list, a Tuesday kill list, whatever it was.
The whole thing is ridiculous that they just, you know, this is just a setup so they can impeach Trump again.
Well, let's do it.
So they can set the record.
We're number one at impeaching and getting nowhere with it.
Let's go back to Tom Cotton.
I hear you saying they weren't incapacitated, and yet Democratic Congressman Adam Smith of Washington, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, saw this very differently.
You saw that.
You see that even though I'm playing from three different news networks, it's all the same thing.
Everybody went to say the same thing, and it's different from the other guy.
It's amazing.
He said, quote, it looks like two classically shipwrecked people.
Other lawmakers who saw the video said the two men appeared to raise their arms potentially to signal that they were trying to surrender.
Senator, why did Admiral Bradley interpret those actions as anything other than these two men trying to seek help and survive?
Well, again, they were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat.
They weren't floating helplessly in the water.
And Kristen, I don't think it matters all that much what they were trying to do.
It looked at one point like they were trying to flip the boat back over, presumably to rescue its cargo and continue their mission.
Did they stay afloat?
Maybe they were signaling to other airplanes or drug cartel boats.
That sounds pretty flimsy.
They had their radios.
They were doing flag semaphore signals to the other boats, airplanes, satellites.
They're in waters that are just off drug cartel areas.
At one point, the guy takes off his t-shirt.
Maybe he's trying to get a suntan.
It doesn't really matter what they were trying to do.
What matters is they were not in a shipwrecked state, distressed, dog paddling in the water at all.
And therefore, that boat, its cargo, and those drug traffickers remained valid targets.
And I think what the Democrats object to here is not the second strike, it's the first strike and every other strike.
Let's go back to Adam Smith with Stephanopoulos.
What is this really about?
On the release of the video, President Trump has said he's fine with having it released.
But Secretary Hegsh also said yesterday that it's still being reviewed.
And he raised the possibility that they can't release it because they don't want to compromise sources and methods.
That's ridiculous.
I mean, how many videos have they released to date?
I'm not sure.
It's like 15 or 20.
They've showed the strike.
It's not very hard to make sure that nothing in that video shows anything.
If they showed us just the portion that we saw of those two on the boat, it's no different than any of the dozen-plus videos they've already released.
I mean, it seems pretty clear they don't want to release this video because they don't want people to see it because it's very, very difficult to justify.
And again, big issue here is President Trump's dragging us into a foreign conflict when we have domestic issues that we're supposed to be paying attention to, that we need to be paying attention to.
It's directly contrary to the campaign that President Trump ran.
And is this really about drugs or is it about regime change in Venezuela?
Are we about to go to war with Venezuela?
The president has alluded to that repeatedly over the course of the last several weeks, couple months now.
And that, too, I think would be very, very bad for the national security interests of our country.
How's it got anything to do with national security?
Well, we don't want to be dragged into war, man.
America first.
Well, obviously, Stepanopoulos asked him immediately when he made that statement.
What are you talking about?
No.
Last, no.
No, of course not.
Last clip in the series.
This is back to Manhands Walker with Tom Cotton.
How is a boat that's not heading to the United States an imminent threat to this country, Senator?
Well, that's one possibility based on the tactics and techniques that we've observed of these drug cartels.
They send smaller boats to sea and then they link up with a larger boat before they continue their mission.
I didn't hear that specifically from Admiral Bradley in my briefing.
But what we know is that these drug cartels, which are designated foreign terrorist organizations, are trafficking drugs to our shores.
And when we have an opportunity to strike one of these boats, where the intelligence gives us high confidence that everyone on the boat is a valid target because they are associated with these cartels, then I think we need to strike it.
Now, there's other cases when we don't have that high confidence, when there might be, for instance, young girls that are being human trafficked.
And obviously, our military wouldn't take that strike.
I think it's much more likely that we're missing some opportunities to strike these boats and protect America.
Opportunity because we don't see targeting.
We're missing an opportunity to blow up some chicks.
Crap, man, we missed it.
We blew it.
Oh, heck Seth, I can't believe it.
I think it's much more likely that we're missing some opportunities to strike these boats and protect Americans because we don't have the same high level of confidence.
Senator, is there any hard evidence that shows that this particular boat was headed to the United States?
That didn't come up in my briefing.
But again, there's very reliable, multiple sources of intelligence that tells us that this boat had drugs on it, that everyone on that boat was associated with these designated foreign terrorist organizations that are trying to kill American children.
But are you comfortable having the United States?
So she's been co-opted by your nexus.
Because she knows somebody told her she listens to our show, which I don't think so.
She knows that this is all about Europe screwing them over by stopping the flow of drugs from Venezuela to Europe.
And she's trying to get him to admit it or to say something or to hint at it.
But she knows.
The way she's asking the question, are you sure?
How come the boat was headed east?
Duh, this doesn't sound like it's coming our way.
And she's acting coy about it, but in fact, she knows what the deal is.
And he does too.
But he's not doing a good job answering.
No, he's not.
Well, he's not a talented, really that talented.
No.
No, he will not get a Kennedy honor for his acting capabilities.
No.
That this boat had drugs on it, that everyone on that boat was associated with these designated foreign terrorist organizations that are trying to kill American children.
But are you comfortable having the United States target a boat in which you have not seen evidence that it's actually heading to the United States, that it's an imminent threat?
Any boat loaded with drugs that is crewed by associates and members of foreign terrorist organizations that are trying to kill American kids, I think is a valid target.
I'm not just comfortable with it.
I want to continue it.
Yeah, I want to continue it.
Yes.
Yeah.
Well, this kind of rolls into the national security strategy document that was released, which I had a chance to review.
All 33 pages.
And of course.
And it's actually here's a little intro to it, and then we'll talk about what's in it.
And then the responses around the world is pretty funny.
Shy of a year into his second term, President Trump details in this newly released national security memo how he wants to change America's relationships and responsibilities in every region of the globe.
The president's top priority is connected to his months of strikes on alleged drug boats.
Very soon, we're going to start doing it on land, too.
Trump's memo states, after years of neglect, the United States will reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere.
If you're focused on America and America first, you start with your own hemisphere where we live.
A big part of this is creating a larger U.S. military presence in the Western Hemisphere, particularly the Navy and Coast Guard, to control sea lanes, to thwart illegal and other unwanted migration, to reduce human and drug trafficking, and to control key transit routes in a crisis.
Another tactic, tariffs.
The president says he's prioritizing what he calls commercial diplomacy to boost American commerce while making it harder for non-hemispheric competitors to increase their influence in the region.
And the White House says we should make every effort to push out foreign companies that build infrastructure in the region.
The Trump administration says all of this is part of their America first strategy, but even some of the president's own supporters argue he's too focused on foreign affairs.
America first should mean America first and only Americans first.
By the way, this is very interesting what they did here.
That bit from Marjorie Taylor Greene is from her resignation video from four weeks ago, three weeks ago.
So they say this.
This is part of their America first strategy, but even some of the president's own supporters argue he's too focused on foreign affairs.
America first.
So she's not responding to this document.
That's still from three weeks ago.
They make it sound like, oh, some of the president's supporters don't like it.
Yeah, this is a good example of this sort of editing.
Now, this is on what show?
This is NBC.
NBC Mooring Show?
I don't know what show it was.
It's just a report.
It's a classic what's been going on.
This is like the BBC edited the Trump speech.
Yes.
You take something discrepant and throw it in.
It's got the same volume.
And, you know, it sounds reasonable.
Makes sense.
Makes the report sing.
The region.
The Trump administration says all of this is part of their America first strategy, but even some of the president's own supporters argue he's too focused on foreign affairs.
America first should mean America first.
She's not a supporter.
How can you even say that?
She disavowed the president.
Well, she does now, but she was a supporter.
I think if you were in the editorial meeting and you got into this discussion, because you'd be the guy there that would be this dick that says stuff like that.
And the editor to say, well, yeah, shut up.
But basically, basically, Curry, get back to the city desk.
Shut up, please.
She was a supporter traditionally, and she represents supporters in essence.
Okay.
Get back to the city desk and shut up.
I will.
Where the Trump administration wants America to shoulder less responsibility is Europe, claiming the continent is in decline in part due to migration.
They also accuse European leaders of having unrealistic expectations for peace in Ukraine and argue NATO should stop expanding.
This memo has much in it that should encourage Russia, which also wants to stop NATO from expanding and rejects Europe's expectations for the end of its war.
Now, unlike national security memos from past administrations, President Trump says it's in America's core interest to reestablish strategic stability with Russia.
Oh!
What a horrible thing, my fellow Americans.
He starts off.
And he's right.
Yeah, of course he is.
Over the past nine months, we have brought our nation and the world back from the brink of catastrophe and disaster.
Please.
You're reading it from the report.
Yeah, it starts off.
That's how it starts.
Yes, this is his letter introducing the strategy document.
No administration in history has achieved so dramatic a turnaround in so short a time.
Wow.
Yes.
And then he goes into some wins here.
And then, in everything we do, we are putting America first.
Better recapture that.
Yeah, he's trying.
Yeah, he's trying to recapture that.
So it's actually a pretty interesting document.
It starts with, you know, what is American strategy?
I've highlighted a few things.
Our elites.
Our elites.
Badly miscalculated America's willingness to shoulder forever global burdens to which the American people saw no connection to the national interest.
They overestimated America's ability to fund simultaneously a massive welfare, regulatory, administrative state alongside a massive military, diplomatic, intelligence, and foreign aid complex.
I wonder who wrote this.
It's unclear.
I mean, I'm trying to hear, as you're reading, I'm trying to hear a voice, but definitely not Trump.
No, no.
Oh, no.
The beginning, maybe the first couple of days.
No, no, no.
There's two pages that opens it up, and that's signed by him.
That's his introductory.
This is now the strategy document.
They placed hugely misguided, destructive bets on globalism and so-called free trade that hollowed out the very middle class and industrial base on which American economic and military preeminence depend.
They allowed allies.
Yes.
This sounds a little like Scott Besant.
Yeah, that's possible.
I think he's definitely in the mix.
They allowed allies and partners to offload the cost of their defense onto the American people and sometimes to suck us into conflicts and controversies central to their interests, but peripheral or irrelevant to our own.
So, you know, the whole thing is basically we really don't want any intervention or any business in these foreign wars.
But that's not how it's being played in the news.
This is Canada's global news outfit.
They decided to make sure that you understand that this is all about America killing everybody.
We're going to put nat pops throughout the whole thing.
Donald Trump made it clear the United States foreign policy would change.
On Friday, the White House unveiled its new national security strategy.
For decades, the U.S. was...
Why?
Why?
Why do we have this?
It's his strategy.
Its new national security strategy.
For decades, the U.S. was the hub in the wheel of international security and trade.
The new strategy says the days of the U.S. propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.
That the affairs of other countries are U.S. concerns only if their activities directly threaten American interests, and the U.S. will enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore its preeminence in the Western Hemisphere.
A really popular line of argumentation is that the administration wants to go back to a more 19th century style of diplomacy with spheres of influence.
President James Monroe's 1823 policy is receiving an update focusing on immigration and alleged narcoterrorism.
French President Emmanuel Macron says unity between the U.S. and Europe on Ukraine is essential.
A day earlier, a German publication leaked a transcript of a call where Macron told Germany's chancellor the U.S. could betray Ukraine.
Macron denied saying that.
The new U.S. strategy states it wants the Ukraine-Russia war to quickly end.
This document makes it pretty clear that there will be no security guarantees for Ukraine.
NATO watcher Andreas Guznov says the new strategy puts allies at risk.
They're much more likely to get involved in conflict because competitive powers are going to take advantage.
It looks like allies will have to adapt.
Aware of the U.S. focus on security could invite more instability.
Yeah, war is coming.
Trump's to blame.
What I'd like, I would like to mention something just as an aside.
James Monroe, who made the Monroe Doctrine, was portrayed by saying it by Gilbert Stewart.
And he is an oil painting.
And it's in, and I saw this painting at the National Gallery.
And Stewart was able to capture probably, I don't know, this guy was so talented as an artist.
He had the ability to really, you looked at the person, you swore you were looking at the guy.
No.
And James Monroe, the picture of James Monroe by Gilbert Stewart, James Monroe is an obvious prick, a real asshole.
Just by looking at him.
Yeah, and it came through the painting.
It was obvious that Stewart was painting him as such.
And when you look at James Monroe, this guy was a prick.
And it's so, anyone who's ever seen this painting would agree with me.
I guarantee it.
We all know those kinds of people.
You look at him at a party, you go like, you're a prick.
You guys are prick.
And James Monroe had to be a big prick.
And, you know, he's with the Monroe Doctrine.
I can see it.
What is, if you were to summarize the Monroe Doctrine, what would you say?
We have preeminence over all the affairs of the entire hemisphere.
The entire Western hemisphere is ours.
That's basically it.
That's pretty much in the document.
It does.
It doesn't say it's ours, but it does.
But what I like about it.
It's ours.
It's ours, at least influentially.
And for all practical purposes, it's ours.
And people can't mess around in this area without permission.
Get off my turf.
Exactly.
What I like about this document is, first of all, it's very readable.
Everybody should grab a copy.
It's on the whitehouse.gov website.
It's very readable.
The second section, what should the United States want?
What do we want overall?
Well, if you were to answer that question, what would you say?
What do you want?
We want to be left alone.
That's pretty much what it says.
First and foremost, we want the continued survival and safety of the United States as an independent, sovereign republic whose government secures the God-given natural rights of its citizens and prioritizes their well-being and interests.
We want to protect this country, its people, its territory, its economy, and its way of life from military attack and hostile foreign influence.
Britain.
Summarizing.
We want full control over our borders.
We want a resilient national infrastructure that can withstand natural disasters, resist and thwart foreign threats.
We want to recruit, train, equip, and field the world's most powerful, lethal, and technologically advanced military to protect our interests, deter wars, and if necessary, win them quickly and decisively.
We want the world's most robust, credible, and modern nuclear deterrent, plus next-generation missile defenses, including a golden dome for the American homeland.
And we want the world's strongest, most dynamic, most innovative, and most advanced economy.
We want the world's most, I'm skipping over parts here.
We want the world's most robust industrial base so we can meet peacetime and wartime production demands, cultivating American industrial strength, highest priority and national economic policy, robust, productive, innovative energy sector.
Want to remain the world's most scientifically and technologically advanced and innovative country, protect our intellectual property from foreign theft.
We want to maintain our unrivaled soft power.
This is interesting.
Which we exercise positive influence throughout the world that furthers our interests.
We will be unapologetic about our country's past and present while respectful of other countries' differing religions, cultures, and governing systems.
It's very clear in this document.
It's like, hey, everybody should just be what they want to be.
You do you, and we'll do us.
And we're not, for sure, there's no, we're going to go spread democracy.
There's none of that.
That's got to end.
Finally, we want the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health.
We want an America that cherishes its past glories and its heroes and looks forward to a new golden age with the golden dome.
We want people who are proud, happy, and optimistic.
Well, that's not the troll room.
We want a gainfully employed citizenry with no one sitting on the sidelines, but none of this can be accomplished without growing numbers of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children.
You really can't argue with this document.
But yes, what do we want from the world?
We want to ensure that the Western hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States.
So it's all about the Western hemisphere.
Let me see.
I highlighted everything, but we really don't need to go through all of it.
But it really is production.
We want a strong middle class.
This soft power comes back, returning economic freedom to our citizens by historic tax cuts to regulatory efforts, making the United States the premier place to do business, investing in emerging technologies and basic science, science.
Science.
Let's see.
Oh, yeah.
The strategy.
President Trump's foreign policy is pragmatic without being pragmatist.
Pragmatic without being pragmatist.
What does that even mean?
Can you decipher that?
I know.
Oh, it goes on.
Realistic without being realist, principled without being idealistic, muscular without being hawkish, and restrained without being dovish.
Oh, somebody got cute.
That's a chat GPT.
No, that's not Chat GPT.
That's somebody that whoever's the poet or considers themselves to be a poet, and there's one of them in the cabinet.
Who's that?
I don't know, but I guarantee there's always one.
You take 10 people, one of them is always a poet.
I betcha's Miller.
Stephen Miller is probably a closet poet.
Oh, that's, you know, that's a good out of the blue, out of the blue guess.
Yeah.
Not bad.
Stephen Miller with the tick.
Well, here it is.
This kind of gives it away.
It is not grounded in traditional political ideology.
It is motivated above all by what works for America or in two words, America first.
Do you get it?
We're America first, people.
Tucker, we're America first.
Candace, we're America first.
What's the weenie boy's name?
Fuentes.
Fuentes, we're America first.
Fuentes has got the hats.
He's got the new hats.
Yeah, he's got the hats.
Fairness, pro-American worker, era of mass migration is over.
These are just the bullet points.
Protection of core rights and liberties.
Burden sharing and burden shifting.
This is the NATO stuff.
President Trump has set a new global standard with the Hague commitment, which pledges NATO countries to spend 5% of GDP.
We already got that.
The model will be targeted partnerships that use economic tools to align incentives, share burdens, and like-minded allies and insist on reforms that anchor long-term stability.
Balanced trade, securing access to critical supply chains.
In the document, It says raspberry here, reviving our defense industrial base, energy dominance.
Western hemisphere, the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Corollary?
What is corollary?
To me, this is a parasite, a policy that runs parallel.
Well, they could have said parallel.
Well, no, it wouldn't work in that sense.
And it's a nice word.
We will deny non-hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities or to own or control strategically vital assets in our hemisphere.
You're right.
Don't mess with the West.
Our goals for the Western hemisphere can be summarized as enlist and expand.
We will enlist established friends.
You hear that, Britain?
You could be enlisted.
Right now, you're on the outs in the hemisphere to control migration, stop drug flows, and strengthen stability and security on land and sea.
Let's see.
Oh, we must reconsider our military presence.
Yes, a readjustment of our global military presence.
It's all going towards the South China Sea.
Europe, you can go pound sand if you can't figure out Russia.
We're moving out.
Okay, let's see what else.
It's not easier said than done.
Possibly.
So they definitely want to work with China, but it has to be fair, fair, and balanced.
Let me see.
What else do we have?
There's a lot of blah, blah, blah in here.
Oh, yeah.
A favorable conventional military balance reminds an essential component of strategic competition.
There is rightly much focus on Taiwan, partly because of Taiwan's dominance of semiconductor production, but mostly, mostly because Taiwan provides direct access to the second island chain and splits Northeast and Southeast Asia into two distinct theaters.
Finally, someone's just said it straight up.
That's what it's about.
Given the one-third of global shipping passes through the South China Sea, this has major implications for the U.S. economy.
Hence, a deterring conflict over Taiwan, ideally by preserving military overmatch, is priority.
We will also maintain a long-standing declaratory policy on Taiwan, meaning the United States does not support any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.
Never been about Taiwan.
It's about the shipping lanes.
And that's why we're spending a lot of money on ships, big, beautiful ships.
It's a little bit about Taiwan because that TMSC semiconductor manufacturing company, those guys are, that's a valuable asset.
Yes.
But the first island chain, that's really what we will harden and strengthen our military presence in the Western Pacific.
While in our dealings with Taiwan and Australia, we maintain our determined rhetoric on increased defense spending, which means we're not giving you anything.
It's just rhetoric.
That's funny.
Then it goes into Europe.
Europe, you suck.
Without us, you're lost.
Stop letting immigrants in.
Ukraine, horrible idea.
The administration finds itself at odds with European officials who hold unrealistic expectations for the war perched in unstable minority governments, many of which trample on basic principles of democracy to oppress opposition.
It really is.
If anyone else had written it up, if Fuentes had written up this document, I'd vote for him as president.
It truly is an America-first document.
It's good, and it's a very easy read.
Let's hear how CBS took this.
Okay, the president now says he's concerned about, quote, civilizational erasure in Europe.
In Europe, maybe.
I don't think he's concerned.
He's predicting it in the document.
He's not saying, gee, I'm really worried about that.
He said, no, if you guys don't shape up, you're going to be done in 20 years.
He made the claim in a document titled National Security Strategy of the United States of America.
The president added: Should present trends continue, the continent, meaning Europe, will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.
As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and military strong enough to remain reliable allies.
What was the impetus for this?
And what do we know about what some are saying in reaction to this story, including maybe what we've heard from our European allies?
Yeah, good morning, Vlad.
Well, to start, this is a document that the president typically puts out during the first year of a term outlining the administration's national security priorities.
But if you read the document and you just read a portion of it, you might remember that speech that the president gave back in September before the UN General Assembly.
It sounds some of the information language in this document sounds a lot like that in criticizing European countries for migration policies.
It also accuses the European Union and other transnational bodies of undermining political liberty and sovereignty.
And the document goes on to say that the U.S. goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory.
Now, the BBC reports that European politicians have already begun to react to this, with Germany's foreign minister saying his country does not need outside advice.
Okay, so let's listen to the report from the European Union reacting to this document.
European leaders are choosing calm over confrontation.
Even as the U.S. strategy paper delivers one of the sharpest critiques of the EU in years, most officials seem intent on keeping tensions with Washington contained.
The bloc's top diplomats even downplaying some of the criticism.
Europe has been underestimating its own power towards Russia, for example.
I mean, we should be more self-confident.
That's for sure.
And you know what?
This, by the way, was the Doha conference, which just popped up out of the blue.
Guess who was sitting second row in the Doha conference?
Who?
Tucker.
Tucker was there?
Yeah.
The Qatar-Doha Conference.
Yeah.
Well, you know, there was a big, one of the right-wing talk show radio talk show hosts, and I can't remember which one it was, was going on and on and on about how Tucker.
Oh, no, it was, I know who it was.
Yeah, Mark Levin.
It was Mark Levin, ladies and gentlemen.
And he went on and on and on and on, because they have a feud, that Tucker was his number one financiers are the Qataris and the whole Tucker news network or Tucker Carlson network, whatever.
Tucker's gold.
His network is all controlled by the Qataris, who will control.
And Savage, actually, the way he went on and on about this was as if he was a little jealous that all this money's flying around from the Qataris.
They'll throw it at anybody that wants it.
Well, there's him.
He refuses to take it.
I refuse to take it.
We'll take it.
Yeah, we'll take it.
Hello, everyone.
Where's our Qatari money?
Jeez, we have nothing.
Where's our Doha Doe, people?
Where's our Doha Doe?
Also, the agency is not pointing up recently.
So just to say.
But there's no evidence of, and he, in fact, he says quite the opposite.
He says that's ridiculous on his face.
But I do find that interesting that he pops up there.
Yeah.
It's like.
Yeah, it makes more sense that he's sponsored by Qatar.
I think there's the same, you know, the Amy Goodman show has got some Eastern Middle East money.
I think it's Bahrain's.
I understand.
I can't remember.
But yeah, it makes sense that Qatar would be bought and paid for Tucker.
Might be, but again, no evidence, but no evidence, but there he is.
I mean, we should be more self-confident.
That's for sure.
And, you know, U.S. is still our biggest ally.
And there, I read it as well that we are still the biggest ally.
And in Germany, the response was slightly firmer.
The country's foreign minister making it clear he didn't need external input on policies.
Of course, our alliance is based on shared values, but I believe that issues such as freedom of expression or the organization of free societies here, at least in Germany, do not belong in this context.
The people who literally arrest you if you say something negative about a politician on Facebook.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Nor do we believe that anyone needs to give us advice on these matters.
But no prominent leaders have slammed Trump for the scathing 33 pages.
They have no one has slammed him.
What kind of reporting is that?
No prominent leaders have slammed him.
What kind of reporting is that?
That's what I just said.
It's not reporting.
That's really bizarre to say it that way.
No one has slammed him.
This is France 24.
Or do we believe that anyone needs to give us advice on these matters?
But no prominent leaders have slammed Trump for the scathing 33-page document that accuses European countries of a so-called civilizational erasure.
Preserving the transatlantic alliance appears to be top priority, and most likely fear hitting back won't play in their favor.
Analysts say the lack of outcry comes down to the fact that these criticisms aren't new.
Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering attack on European governments in Munich earlier this year.
Their impacts will be tested as crucial elections loom across the continent.
So the one thing that you might have caught in that earlier clip is this leaked phone call between Zelensky and pretty much all the big muckety mucks of the EU.
Queen Ursula, Macron, Ritter was in there, Mr. Peepers from Germany.
All of these people are on the call with Zelensky.
Yeah, Peepers, Mr. Peepers.
And I defy anyone.
Find a report about this.
I saw some vloggers and some YouTubers talking about it.
So I went to, you know, what I do is go to YouTube and I say leaked phone call, and you get a whole list of which the first 15 are AI only with words on the screen.
Stop hitting the drum.
Sorry, I'm just emphasizing your points.
No, it sounds random.
If you could emphasize them.
Oh, by the way, Tina showed me these drumsticks.
Yeah.
And it's just drumsticks.
But the drumsticks that make noise?
Yes.
And you can hit a symbol and in the air, it'll hit a symbol.
I got to get it.
Oh, you can do it in the air?
Yeah.
You don't have to hit anything.
You don't have to hit anything.
No, you just like, you know, I guess it has the position of the hi-hat and the snare.
And then you can go over, you can hit the symbols.
Where's the sound come from?
Oh, USB.
Separate speakers?
USB.
You plug it into something.
Yeah.
Sounds like a prominent pair.
I am B2.
He's going to be on the show.
He'll annoy you.
We'll be drumming the whole time.
It'll be a drum battle.
Okay.
So had you heard about this call that got leaked?
It sounds like Russia.
Well, yeah, it's total tit for tat.
Oh, you're going to release this call with, what was the one we had recently?
With Witkoff?
Oh, yeah, the Witkoff call.
Oh, so it might be us.
Oh, it could be.
Well, it's either us or Russia.
I mean, who else does this?
Well, the reason that I say it's us is because the networks wouldn't touch it.
Us, as in, this wasn't Trump's guys.
No one touched it.
I couldn't find a single report.
Times of India.
That's all I got.
And I'm pretty sure it's an AI voice to boot.
But at least this is the story.
French President Emmanuel Macron has reportedly raised alarm over Ukraine, warning that U.S. President Donald Trump might be on the verge of betraying Kyiv.
This comes from a leaked transcript of a private call between European leaders published by Der Spiegel.
The call held on Monday included leaders such as Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, Finnish President Alexander Stoob, NATO Secretary General Mark Ruti, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and others.
They discussed U.S.-led peace negotiations with both Kyiv and Moscow as tensions remain high in the ongoing war.
According to Derspiegel, Macron said there was a real risk that the U.S. could make decisions on Ukraine's territory without clear security guarantees, warning of a great danger for Zelensky.
Danger!
Macron's office later clarified that he did not use the word betray, but the concerns over Ukraine's security were clear.
German Chancellor Mertz also weighed in, reportedly telling the group that Zelensky must be extremely careful in the coming days.
He appeared to be referring to U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who had spent five hours in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin the day before.
The two envoys are scheduled to meet Ukraine's lead negotiator, Rustem Umarov, in Miami on Thursday.
Finland's president Stoobe agreed, saying Ukraine could not be left alone with these U.S. negotiators, a point echoed by NATO Secretary General Rute, who stressed the need to protect Zelensky.
The call came after the Trump administration circulated a 28-point peace plan, reportedly drafted with input from Russia.
Derspiegel says the plan was criticized for being too favorable to Moscow, prompting updated talks in Geneva and a revised 19-point plan.
Russia has not agreed to this plan and continues to demand that Ukraine give up large parts of its eastern territory, limit its military, and hold new elections.
The way I hear this, it's almost like, let's say we have a $100 million budget movie, and it's not working out.
Our main guy is our main actor.
He's attached to the project.
It's not working out.
He's an alcoholic.
So all cokehead.
And so all of the producers get on the phone with him.
Say, man, hey, hey, we can't, hey, you can't go to that meeting alone.
You can't go.
No, we have to have people there.
This whole thing, they're just dripping in weakness.
And they just want continued war.
It's unconscionable what these people are doing.
Well, that's why I like the McGregor clips I played in the last show where he said these guys are through when this war is over.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're not popular.
Germany's going to go AFD eventually.
They has to.
There's no question about it.
The British are screwed over.
They can't say anything on social media without getting thrown in jail.
The French are completely out of touch with everybody and out of control.
And they're a bunch of communists to be honest about it.
At least they have nuclear power.
I'll give them that.
They still have that.
Yeah, well, so do the Brits.
Well, they haven't started up a reactor since the 60s, I think.
Oh, you're talking about power.
Yeah.
Oh, no, I'm talking about nuclear power.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Power reaction.
Yeah, they do, and they haven't freaked out and shut them all down like idiots.
Final clip is.
Although they wanted to, and I think there's been discussion about it.
In France, yes.
Yeah.
Final clip in this series.
This is another salvo.
The message is clear.
Washington wants Europe to shoulder more of its own defense.
The Reuters report says the Pentagon told European diplomats that nations have until 2027 to take over most of NATO's defense capabilities.
That's everything from intelligence to missiles and troop deployments.
Roles the U.S. has dominated for decades.
If they don't, the U.S. could decide to stop participating in some NATO defense coordination mechanisms.
The Trump administration's pressure on NATO allies is nothing new.
In March, Trump had already questioned whether he'd defend countries that don't spend enough.
Well, I've said that to them.
I said, if you're not going to pay, we're not going to defend.
I said that seven years ago.
And because of that, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars.
I said, if you're not going to pay your bills, we're not going to defend you.
The Pentagon staff who set the deadline haven't laid out how the U.S. would measure Europe's progress.
But European officials say 2027 is unrealistic.
Even the EU's own 2030 target for military self-reliance is seen as ambitious, and many key U.S. capabilities can't be replaced quickly.
Washington's relationship with NATO runs hot and cold.
Back in June, Trump was applauding European leaders for backing a plan to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP.
But in the months since, he's shown a willingness to negotiate with Russia over the war in Ukraine.
And his Deputy Secretary of State told NATO foreign ministers this week it was obvious Europe should take primary responsibility for its own security.
Well, there you go.
Another salvo.
Careful.
We're going to pull out.
Again.
Well, yeah.
This is going to be up to Lockheed Martin.
Yeah.
Locky Martin, you know, the money stops coming in and they have to rethink this.
Lockheed just got their biggest missile defense contract ever.
Yeah.
It's good for them.
That's for the golden dome.
Yeah, it is.
I'm sure they can find other ways to waste money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
You know, did you know that Liz Truss, we had her on the previous episode.
Do you know that she has started a podcast?
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Who hasn't?
Yeah, but it's interesting because she is going against the Nexus.
And I'll have the promo.
Well, she probably should be because she got screwed.
That's exactly what she says in her promo for the Liz Trust show.
In 2022, I was deposed from the office of Prime Minister of Great Britain.
People had decided my time was up.
I tried to save our country from the doom loop it is now in.
We set out a vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit.
I was blamed for a market crisis that was not my fault.
The deep state and their allies in the media and politics tried to destroy me because I challenged their decades-long failure.
Now I'm back.
I will expose the people who brought me down.
I will take on the deep state.
I will tell the truth about what is happening in our country and across the West.
Tune in to the Liz Trust Show every Friday.
Tune in to the counter-revolution.
The counter-revolutions.
It starts here.
Get a hold of Orlowski and find out what the deal is here.
He'll know.
Yeah, you keep threatening to call him, but you can't.
I call him about once a year.
I'll call him.
I'll call him.
This is too good to be.
This is too good.
It's going to be a lot of people.
I don't know exactly what's going on.
He was a, I think, I believe he was a trust.
A trust.
A trust fair.
Well, she's welcome into the podverse.
Could be fun.
She could be fun.
Tell me about the podverse.
I've got a clip here that just for you specifically.
Oh, boy.
There's a little side step here.
This is a way for you to say face.
Say face in what way?
Well, if you play this clip, you'll know what I'm talking about and you will bring up the point that somebody keeps making with you.
And here we go with the clip: mispronounce from NPR.
Let me guess, does this have anything to do with an Air Force base?
Well, the clip doesn't.
It's just a basic clip about mispronouncing words.
Anyone who has been embarrassed about mispronouncing a word or worse, a name, can rest assured that they're in good company.
Newscasters, politicians, and other public figures tripped over plenty of words this year.
In fact, there's a list, thanks to the language teachers at Babel and the people at the captioning group who add closed captions to screens.
At the top of their list of the most mispronounced words is a very common painkiller.
Well, President Trump isn't alone in stumbling over all those mushy vowels.
Watching us all get tripped up this year is Estevan Touma, a linguist and cultural expert at Babel.
And just a note, Babel is one of our sponsors.
Welcome.
And first, I mean, did I get your name right?
Well, that sounds like the perfect pronunciation in Spanish, but I'll let you know my last name is from Palestine, so it's actually pronounced Tuma.
Tuma, Estevan Tuma.
Estevan, now it's your turn.
Why don't you read the list for us?
Well, I will start by telling you, I'm not a native speaker of English myself.
And so keep that in mind as I pronounce these words.
And a disclaimer from me, Estevan, because English is also my second language.
So we're in the same boat.
You know the struggle.
You know how it feels.
So we have Aseda Minophen, Alec Murdoch, Dencell Washington, Louvre Manjaro, the Swedish Hollywood actor, Alexander Skarskerd, and of course, Soran Mandani.
And Soran Mamdani's name tripped people up all year long as he ran for mayor of New York City.
And sometimes he got testy about it.
The name is Mamdani.
M-A-M-D-A-N-I.
You should learn how to say it.
It's hard to imagine, right, that we're going to collectively get Mamdani right next year.
I mean, people still mispronounce Vladimir Putin all the time.
Putin.
Vladimir.
Yes, Putin.
Putin is my favorite.
It's my not.
My not.
I got it, people.
By the way, I have no qualms.
I make mistakes all the time.
And then people are like, I can't believe this.
I know.
Mispronounce my knot.
You got.
Yep.
I could hear that voice, too.
Not everybody.
Some were very kind about it.
Yes.
I haven't seen it.
Some were kind about it.
But some were like, I'm not donating anymore.
Because you can't pronounce my not.
It's all good.
Yeah.
It's my second language.
What can I tell you?
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
You're pretty good for a second language speaker.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm waiting for you to pick up one of your stories here.
I get the immigration crackdown analysis.
I get the South African shooting, I kind of like it.
It's only two clips, but I like it because it's thematic.
There's a big shooting that took place in South Africa.
And the thematic part, I'll give it away right away.
I'm not even going to make anybody guess.
South Africa has the strictest gun control in the world.
Police in South Africa are investigating a mass shooting overnight at a Shabin, an illegal bar, in a hostel in Soulsville, a township west of the capital, Pretoria.
In all, 25 people were shot.
The fatalities included children.
The BBC Southern Africa correspondent Shingai Nyoka described to me what happened.
What police say is that unidentified gunmen, three of them, stormed into an illegal bar in a hostel just west of the capital, Pretoria, at about 4.30 a.m. and opened fire, randomly shooting everybody that was in this illegal bar.
10 people died on the scene.
One died in hospital earlier on, and we've just been notified that a 12th person has died.
So all in all, a dozen people have died.
14 people were injured.
But I think the tragedy is that amongst the fatalities, there was a three-year-old, a 12-year-old, and a 16-year-old.
At this point, police say that they don't know what the motive might have been, and they haven't identified the gunman or carried out any arrests.
Do we know anything about the people who are living in the hostel?
No, but these hostels are colonial era-built structures.
So they're typically single rooms that are overcrowded, squalid.
A lot of people are people that are economically disadvantaged.
It's not clear who exactly they were, whether they were South Africans or whether they were foreigners.
But one eyewitness account said that around about 4.30 in the morning, they just heard a volley of rounds that were fired and that the shooting went on for a long period of time and that the children had to scramble under the beds as they waited for all of this to end.
Yeah.
Sounds pretty bad, actually.
Yeah, it's not covered very much by any of our media.
Our media doesn't even cover this.
It's noted that the mainstream media here has not even covered the Somali scandal in Minnesota.
The billions of dollars.
Well, that's not true.
I have clips from it.
From ABC, NBC, or CBS?
Yes, CBS.
Well, let's play the second part of this clip and you can go to that.
Yeah, I mean, shocking for people in South Africa to hear this, although shootings in illegal bars are not unusual, I gather.
No, and the police had actually launched a crackdown on these shabins between April and September this year.
They shut down 12,000 and arrested 18,000 people across the country.
But these are set up to help people make ends meet.
And so as soon as they're closed, they're reopened again.
And this is, as you say, is not the first shooting.
In 2022, about 16 people were killed in Soweto in a similar type mass shooting.
Last year, 18 people, including 15 women, were shot in the Eastern Cape.
It's really what a government official in South Africa has described as part of a broader crime emergency.
And a broader crime emergency that involves a high murder rate in global terms.
Absolutely.
South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world.
On average, 60 people are killed every day.
A lot of them are killed by illegal guns, even though South Africa does have very strict gun controls.
It's something that the government has grappled with and, as we're witnessing here today, has really failed to bring under control.
Well, that was some African news.
We lost half the audience.
Yeah, well, it was a lot of murder and violence.
I think that would help keep them.
No, no, no.
By the way, I'm copying the troll room transcript.
I'm going to make a song out of it.
We need that.
Oh, you're going to use the AI to make a song from the transcript of the chat room.
Yeah, it'll be unsuitable for air, but at least I'll have it.
Yeah.
But it will be suitable for our air.
Regarding the Minnesota massive, massive fraud, Margaret Brennan from CBS this morning in I'm just saying that the news broadcast didn't carry it.
Margaret Brennan doesn't count.
Well, she brought on Elon Omar to just to do it.
Oh, well, good.
She can be the apologist for the whole thing.
It's pretty interesting.
And we're joined now by Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Margaret Frank.
We have a lot to get to with you, but I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary just left off.
He alleged that people who were tied to you or your campaign.
Hold on a second.
I actually have that clip.
Let's play Besant here talking about the Somalis here.
The president told you, though, this week to look into Somalis who, quote, ripped off that state for billions of dollars.
Ripped them off.
He said they contribute nothing.
What exactly are you investigating?
Well, Margaret, to be clear, the initial fraud that was discovered by the IRS, for which I'm the acting commissioner, is discovered by IRS Criminal Investigations Unit.
This was not an endogenous thing that the state of Minnesota does.
Indogenous?
What?
Did he say endogenous?
That's what I heard.
Indigenous, I think, is what he means to say, but he says indigenous.
Well, I don't know.
Is there a word such as endogenous?
Well, look it up.
Criminal investigations unit.
This was not an endogenous thing that the state of Minnesota decided we had to go in and clean up the mess for them.
And this is part of the continued cleanup.
A lot of money has been transferred from the individuals who committed this fraud, including those who donated to the government.
Governor donated to Representative Omar and donated to A.G. Ellison.
But they've been transferred to something called MBSs.
And those are transferred to what?
These are money, the Bureau services, and they are wire transfer organizations that are outside the regulated banking system.
And that money has gone overseas.
And we are tracking that, both to the Middle East and to Somalia to see what the uses of that have been.
Okay.
But you have no evidence of that money being used to fuel terrorism at this point, which is what some conservative writers are alleging.
That's why it's annan, but it's not going to terrorists, right?
They stole it from the American taxpayer.
Oh, but it's not going to terrorists, is it?
By the way, I think he said endogenous.
Endogenous refers to something that originates or is produced from within a system, organism, or entity rather than being introduced from an external source.
So endogenous, which is similar to indigenous.
Yes.
So Besant.
What's the difference between those two words then?
Well, indigenous is a people's and endogenous is a thing.
Institutions.
Yeah.
But you have no evidence of that money.
I've never, you know what?
I've never heard that word in my life.
Scott, Besant is a maybe he's the poet.
That's what I'm well.
There you go.
Yeah, he could be the poet.
Being used to fuel terrorism at this point, which is what some conservative writers are alleging.
That's why it's an investigation.
We started it last week.
We'll see where it goes.
But I can tell you that it's terrible.
Representative Omar tried to downplay it, said, oh, it was very, you know, it was very tough to know how this money should be.
Hold on a second.
Is this guy a nervous wreck over this issue or what?
He does not sound himself.
P.O.E. Well, whenever he's joking because Margaret's a powerful woman.
Yes.
Yes, that's the issue.
She was gaslighting the American people.
Well, we'll talk to her.
Yeah.
When you come to this country, you've got to learn which side of the road to drive on.
You've got to learn to stop signs, and you've got to learn not to defraud the American people.
Welcome to America.
Welcome to America.
This sign means stop.
This is a red light, means stop, and don't steal from us.
Welcome to America.
Okay, now we go to Elon Omar.
And we're joined now by Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Marguerite Francis.
We have a lot to get to with you, but I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary just left off.
Can you?
Can you start that over?
Can you start to clip over?
Because she said, thank you, my good friend.
Oh, did she say that?
I don't know.
That's what I wanted to hear again.
Ilhan Omar.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Marguerite Fran.
Thank you, Margaret.
Thank you, Margaret.
We have a lot to get to with you, but I want to pick up on where the Treasury Secretary just left off.
He alleged that people who were tied to you or your campaign were involved in this broad, brazen scheme to rip off the Minnesota state welfare system.
Do you want to respond to that?
Do you know what he is referring to?
I really don't.
And I don't think the Secretary himself understands what he's referring to.
We obviously had people who were able to donate to our campaign that were involved.
We sent that money back a couple years ago.
And actually, I was one of the first members of Congress to send a letter to the Secretary of Egg asking him to look into what I thought was a reprehensible fraud that was occurring within the program.
Yeah, so we got busted and I sent the money back.
Should be done.
This was all stop it.
Besson.
Besson knows more.
Besson is very involved in all these things.
Let's see how this continues.
So this was just for our audience, the Binary Justice Department called it the largest COVID fraud scheme in the country.
And this was pocketing COVID-era welfare funds, more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money that was stolen.
It was pretty, pretty shocking.
Shocking.
Which we knew about this.
Everybody knew about this.
The Potosphere knew about this.
This was during Biden.
We were talking about it.
Nothing happened.
So now things are happening.
That's kind of good.
Of the 87 people charged, all but eight are of Somali descent.
And that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community.
Community.
Why do you think this fraud was allowed to get so widespread?
Because I allowed it to.
Well, I want to say, you know, this also has.
Oh, oh, oh, let's not answer the question.
Let's see.
Let's hear the grass and good step aside.
Let's hear the question again.
Why do you think this fraud was allowed to get so widespread?
Well, I want to say, you know, this also has an impact on Somalis because we are also taxpayers in Minnesota.
We also could have benefited from the program and the money that was stolen.
And so it's been really frustrating for people to not acknowledge the fact that we're also, as Minnesotans, as taxpayers, really upset and angry about the fraud that has happened.
We're victims.
What are you talking about, Margaret?
We're the victim here.
You're getting it all wrong in this brazen scheme.
So do you think, though, that there was a failure by the Democratic policy?
Hold on to that again.
So what you just said would have been, she could have actually pulled that off by saying we're being tarnished by a few bad apples.
No.
There are over 100,000 Somalis.
We got 80 people.
So what is this spit in the bucket?
And who are these other eight people that were Somalians?
You're making us look bad.
I mean, she could have gone that way.
She didn't.
She didn't.
No, she didn't.
She's not that bright.
No.
So do you think, though, that there was a failure by the Democratic state government to police itself?
This is a brazen, fraudulent activity here.
Yeah, and that is what I alluded to in my letter that I had sent to the Secretary of Egg was to see where things were going.
Who is this Secretary of Egg?
This is Secretary of Ag is a chicken farmer.
Lives in the middle of nowhere in Minnesota.
I think it's a show title, Secretary of Egg.
All right.
Was to see where things were going wrong.
How can this amount of money disappear fraudulently without there being alarms being sent?
Oh, it's your fault for not noticing it.
Oh, okay.
And it is something that, you know, we have to continue to investigate.
We have to continue to ask those questions.
Yes, we have to.
I have to say, I give her an eight, an eight plus maybe even on how she's dealing with this.
Hey, you should have caught this.
This is not our fault.
Because you know, one of the initial defenses by the organization at the heart of the fraud, feeding our future, was to claim the probe was due to racism.
Do you think that this was all about negligence or that it was like political fear of alienating the Somali community?
Trump.
So you have to remember that the woman who led the program is a Caucasian woman.
And that was a way of making sure that this would continue to happen by using whatever rhetoric that was available to her.
We do know that when the money was stopped, they did sue.
The AG, Attorney General Keith Ellison, defended the department in that lawsuit.
It was a judge that said that money should continue to go out.
And so this wasn't something that people were not looking at.
There was always those alarms.
And we will continue to understand where things might have gone wrong as these investigations continue and as these fraudsters are prosecuted and sent to jail.
And then the final clip, which has some nice laughter in it.
It's going to have impact for your community because we've already heard that the head of Medicare and Medicaid say they're going to have a new policy that applies to Minnesota.
You heard the Treasury Secretary say they're investigating.
But there's another thread here because House Republicans and the Treasury Secretary just now talked about a link to terrorism, a possible link.
He said they're just now beginning to look into it.
How confident are you that that's a false claim?
I'm pretty confident at the moment because.
I'm pretty confident.
I'm pretty confident at the moment because there are people who have been prosecuted and who have been sentenced.
If there was a linkage in the money that they had stolen going to terrorism, then that is a failure of the FBI and our court system in not figuring that out and basically charging them with these charges.
And so I do know that for many years, this sort of like alarm that there is money being transferred through the airport in bags and going to terrorism has all that accusation has always existed.
There's never been here and there in those accusations.
Never been here and there.
But if that is the case, if money from U.S. tax dollars is being sent to help with terrorism in Somalia, we want to know.
And we want those people prosecuted.
And we want to make sure that that doesn't ever happen again.
Again.
Yeah, we'll see.
I think she's a bit on the ropes.
She comes across very confidently, though.
She does that pretty well.
It's her style.
Yeah.
There's another big thing going on, the big deal.
I think this probably would be top of the news is the hepatitis B. Can I set it up with a positioning clip here?
Yes, absolutely.
Okay, hold on a second.
Yes, this is a big deal.
Hold on a second.
I have two.
Yeah, two.
We start with the, yeah, this is the, actually, because they had the hearing and the, you know, the talking to people on Capitol Hill, I'll start with this clip.
This is Aaron Siri.
He's a lawyer who testified.
Initially, this was about, or this also involves the 1986 immunity clause for pharmaceutical companies.
So they cannot get sued if their product hurts you or kills you.
Right.
Coincidentally, that's in 1986 is when the hepatitis V vaccine, not when it was invented, it was from 81, I believe.
But in 86, they started pushing it out there.
I went to see my doctor about it back in the day.
And he said, and if he looks at me, he says, why?
Why do you want this vaccine?
Are you working with blood?
Here's the lawyer.
Why do we need the 1986 Act if vaccines are so safe, too?
Why does a product need immunity if it doesn't cause harm?
And why does products that have been on the market for days?
Why do products that have been on the market for decades, like the hepatitis B vaccine, still need that immunity?
Do we still not know they're safe enough to lift the immunity on those products?
Look, drug products that have very limited markets, tiny markets, that are given to very few people that have really bad adverse event profiles can still be sold profitably.
Why?
Pharma companies typically need to do two things.
Number one, they need to make the product as safe as technologically feasible.
And by doing so, they avoid design defect claims, which is the primary way you hold a company accountable for harms from their product.
The type of claim you can never bring for a childhood vaccine.
The second way is they disclose the risks that product can cause.
And hence, they avoid failure to warrant claims.
Those are the two primary claims that would be levied against a pharmaceutical company.
I do not understand.
Well, I shouldn't say that.
It's not true.
There's probably a reason that this immunity still needs to continue for these products.
And pretending that that reason doesn't exist is not going to make the problem any better.
And it's not going to safeguard the kids that are injured by these products.
And it's really so simple.
It's almost as simple as, why do I need to stay away from you if you've been vaccinated against COVID?
Aren't you protected?
Safe and effective.
Well, if it's safe and effective, why don't you stand by your product?
It's very simple what he's saying.
Here's ABC to lead into your analysis clips.
Today, a major reversal from the CDC, an advisory committee voting to no longer recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns of moms that test negative.
The reversal putting an end to a recommendation that has been in place for over 30 years.
It was voted on by a panel put in place by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long pushed vaccine conspiracies.
Sad that there are people on this committee who didn't bring up any of the real-world benefits.
Former CDC chief of vaccines Dimitri Dastalakis resigned from the committee earlier this year.
I think that what you're seeing is ideology supplanting science, conspiracies supplanting process.
He slammed the move, saying it will create confusion.
Access remains the same, but creates doubt, confusion, and will result in more children getting hepatitis B and ultimately then getting chronic hepatitis B. 90% of them will if they're infected, and 25% of them will die early.
Senator Bill Cassidy, who voted to confirm Kennedy, also rebuking the decision, writing, as a liver doctor who has treated patients with hepatitis B for decades, this change to the vaccine schedule is a mistake.
The hepatitis B vaccine is safe and effective.
The birth dose is a recommendation, not a mandate.
Acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill is expected to sign off on the recommendation, which should not affect insurance coverage of the shot.
But the recommendation now says vaccine decisions should be made in consultation with a doctor, mainly if the mother tests negative, who can then decide when or if to vaccinate their child for the highly infectious disease.
So what has changed?
What's changed is instead of demanding or just putting it on a schedule and you have to take it.
Apparently not true.
Apparently not true, but that's the image that you have.
Yes, yes.
It's on the schedule.
You get the shot.
It's no questions asked.
They've changed that to ask a question.
What do you think?
And the doctor could say, I think you should get it.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
Because I get a piece of the action.
Senator is an anti-money.
You're not going to listen to an anti-vaxxer, are you?
He's been spreading conspiracies about vaccines for decades.
You're not going to listen to him.
You want to listen to him or your doctor.
So there's the same kind of reporting only.
The NPR did they made it longer and they brought in a bunch of people to bitch and moan.
But the question on my mind, which is the other three clips I've got here, are from the BBC.
What is the BBC World Service concentrating on this for?
Because it's obviously part of a world thing.
Well, this hepatitis B vaccine isn't from British pharmaceutical company.
This one guy it's attributed to one person.
No, but I mean who manufactures it?
Well, no, no, I'd have to look.
Why don't you look it up over vax HEP B horror to the United States now where President Trump has ordered officials to review all childhood vaccination recommendations?
The committee which advises the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was reconstituted in the summer.
Critics have accused Mr. Kennedy, who has a record of vaccine skepticism, of removing scientists who disagree.
He insists he's just trying to challenge groupthink in public health policy.
I love the has a record.
He has a record of vaccine skepticism.
Makes it sound like, you know, he's been arrested for it or something.
He's got a good boy record.
The advisory committee has now recommended that newborns should no longer be vaccinated against hepatitis B.
It should be a matter of choice for individual parents.
Well, Jason Schwartz is Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Yale School of Public Health and an expert on vaccination.
Professor Schwartz, thank you for being with us on UsAw.
Let's start with this recommendation.
What does it actually amount to?
Hold on a second again.
Notice the way he, if you back it up just a little bit, notice the way he says recommendation with unbelievable British disdain on UsAw.
Let's start with this recommendation.
A recommendation.
What does it actually amount to?
What difference does it potentially make to the approach that's been recommended thus far?
It's great to be with you.
These recommendations that come from this advisory committee have set the standard for how vaccines have been used in the United States for the 60 years that this committee has been in effect.
So it really shapes the ways in which physicians and other healthcare providers and most importantly parents think about how to use vaccines.
So now that we're seeing in this newly constituted committee a retreat, really, from the traditional ways in which parents have been advised to actively receive vaccines to a more decide for yourselves in conversation with your provider sort of mindset most recently with hepatitis B creates a lot of confusion, creates a lot of uncertainty.
And that means that fewer kids are going to get vaccinated against hepatitis B at birth, contrary to how we've been using this vaccine in the United States for over 30 years.
It's not going to happen.
Yes.
Oh my God, the parents are going to actually have some input.
They're going to, it's going to, it gets too confusing.
They're dumb.
They're dumb.
We have a bunch of dummies out there and then we just have to tell them what to do.
We can't let them even make a decision to nix anything.
Okay, part two.
They're still recommending it's used though for high risk.
Is that something it's simple to determine or not?
There are some populations that are at higher risk of hepatitis B, especially in the newborn population, most notably if the child's mother is a chronic carrier of the virus.
But hepatitis experts have noted that there are lots of ways in which this virus can be transmitted in the first few years of life.
And the idea of using this time-tested, safe and effective, safe and effective, safe, safe and effective and effective vaccine at the earliest opportunity provides the best protection against those exposures that can be something that a child could suffer with both immediately and for the rest of their lives.
So it's not as easy as it sounds, despite thinking about this high-risk idea as an alternative.
Is this an illustration of the debate between individual freedom and the desire for, and it never sounds very attractive when you say it like this, but we know what it means, herd immunity.
In other words, the more people get vaccinated, the less the risk to everybody as a whole.
On the one hand, that it is, but it's always worth remembering that while much of the United States debate around vaccines relates to the mandates that exist often at the school level and are controlled by states, that's not what's being discussed here.
These are only recommendations.
Now, they're influential recommendations, to be sure, but they're just recommendations for the best practices for what the evidence suggests for how the hepatitis B vaccine and increasingly other vaccines could be used.
But I think you're right that even that idea of the federal public health infrastructure trying to actively encourage parents and healthcare providers to use vaccines, even that has been tied up in this broader debate about individual rights and parental freedom and these broader anxieties around vaccine safety that are so pervasive in our federal health administration.
So pervasive.
It's just horrible.
We're talking about safety.
Yes, and they should just get rid of that liability thing.
That would take care of it.
Well, that's what this is ultimately about, of course.
Well, let's hope so.
But the point is that the code words safe and effective, I believe after hearing it from this guy on the BBC, that is code.
I almost can be convinced that somebody gets a check in the mail for $1,000 for saying the words safe and effective in regards to any vaccine whatsoever.
So the FDA in the United States has approved a couple of different hepatitis B vaccines, Angirix B and T twin RICS.
Twin RICS is hepatitis A and hepatitis B recombinant.
Both of them, both of those and the runners-up are produced by GlaxoSmithKline, a fine British company.
So that would kind of explain this.
I would explain why the BBC gives a shit.
Yeah.
And we've got about...
Sorry?
Nothing.
Oh, I thought you said something.
We've got about 45 seconds or so left on this topic.
And I just wanted to ask you one quick last thought.
Might this help to do something to rebuild confidence and trust among those who have become skeptical as a result of what happened in the pandemic?
Yeah, I'm concerned.
I think that's certainly the argument that's being made by these health officials for how they're reframing our vaccine policy really wholesale.
But I think what it's doing is creating even more confusion, more uncertainty, more lack of clarity regarding who can be trusted from public health officials, public health agencies, healthcare providers.
And ultimately, that doesn't serve public health well.
It doesn't serve kids well who need to be vaccinated.
So I think there's a lot of uncertainty ahead.
And I think it's only going to get worse, unfortunately, with our vaccines.
It's going to get worse here in the U.S. That's Jason Schwartz, Associate Professor of Public Health.
I'm going to start that Associate Professor of Health Public of the Yale School of Public Health.
Jason, thanks so much for joining us.
I don't know where you are, buddy, but there you are.
So I have from this morning, I have our buddy, Scott Gottlieb, Industry Insider.
Oh, that guy's still in the air.
They bring him back.
You know, he is a correspondent for CBS, I believe.
Well, before you play it, let me just get these NPR clips, but I'm not going to play them because I think the CBS clip you played was good enough.
But I do have this little short 22-second WTF clip, which is part of the series of the NPR is talking about pretty much what the BBC did.
But this little snippet here, I put aside.
And what's been the reaction to this change?
Most public health experts are horrified, frankly.
They say there's overwhelming evidence that the vaccine is safe for newborns and babies can catch the virus even if their mothers aren't infected.
Here's Dr. Joseph Hiblin, another member of the committee who voted against the change.
Oh, you can catch it.
You can catch it just now.
Well, I didn't have to play anymore because this guy, they brought a guy in who bitched and moaned about this decision, but he's on the committee.
Now, this is after everybody moans and groans that Kennedy stacked the committee.
Well, how come they have a naysayer on the committee if that's true?
I'm flummish.
Hello?
I'm flummoxed.
You should be flummoxed because the whole thing flies in the face of the basic thesis that Kennedy stacked the deck with the anti-vax nutcases.
That's right.
But there's this guy.
Okay.
Let's bring in Scott Gottlieb.
He was on with Margaret.
We're joined now by former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
He also serves on the boards of Pfizer and United Healthcare.
Welcome back.
Oh, United Healthcare.
There's a target on your back.
There's a new gig.
Yeah, Target on your back.
Wow.
Thank you.
You know, there was some pretty big news on Friday, and the American Academy of Pediatrics said they are deeply alarmed that the CDC's vaccine advisory panel, ACIP, voted in this 8-3 decision to not just three of these guys to change this 30-year-long policy regarding hepatitis B and newborns.
I'd like the emphasis on 30 years.
This has been going on.
This has been great for years.
I think the American people here, wow, this could have been going on for 30 years.
They just can't get away from their overlords and pharma.
They are now recommending delaying the dose until a child is two months old instead of within 24 hours of birth.
What does this decision mean for families and newborns?
Holy crap, that's what this is about?
A two-month delay?
Yeah.
Is that the whole recommendation, or is that just part of a wow?
Consultation is also part of it.
Heavenly, you want to do consulting.
You know, I mean, they don't want to tell the parents their options.
Hell with that.
Just tell them what to do.
No, let's not do that.
I think we first need to understand why we give that birth dose of the vaccine because the idea of giving a vaccine to a newborn, to a lot of parents, sounds discomforting.
That the first thing a child's going to face when they're born is going to be a vaccine within the first 24 hours.
For a child over the age of five, if they develop hepatitis B infection, if they're exposed to it, they're going to have a 95% chance of clearing that infection and they'll go on to develop lifelong immunity.
For children between you got hepatitis B, you'll be okay and you'll have lifelong immunity.
This is nuts.
Wait, for children, who's paying this guy?
That doesn't sound like part of the script.
Well, maybe he's got some agenda.
Let's find out.
For children between the ages of one and five, they only have about a 25 to 50 percent chance of clearing the infection.
So about 25 to 50 percent of kids will develop chronic infection, and about a quarter of them will go on to die from hepatitis B if they're between the ages of one and five.
So children.
So if you don't, if you don't make it to five, you're dead.
And you get it.
This is bull crap.
This makes no logical sense.
Well, it's the same thing the guy in the BBC said.
He said 25% will die.
Will die.
Yeah, I know, but I didn't know about the five.
Well, if you, if you're five years or whatever, by the time you get to five, if you get it, you're good to go.
Well, I said because I think what best Gottlieb is doing here.
Same guy.
Same guy.
I don't think he's here to defend the hepatitis B. He's here for other reasons.
In fact, I'll jump straight to the next clip.
This is really about the advisory committee because he is in the vaccine game.
He's on the board of Pfizer.
So this is not, it's like, all right, it's those guys today, but it could be us tomorrow.
And this decision now is to wait two months before giving giving that dose.
The President of the United States came out and said this was very good because HEP B is only I'm sorry, I want to play this one.
We look at this because there is this broader scrutiny of vaccines right now by so literally she's saying it.
Scott, you're here because we're looking at this in the broader scope of policy that may affect your products.
That's what this is about.
It's not about him talking.
No one cares about hepatitis B. They're worried their drug is next.
We look at this because there is this broader scrutiny of vaccines right now by the Trump administration.
And that could really screw up our advertising rates.
And in this board decision, from those who voted against the decision to delay, one of them, who you heard at the top of the show, said the CDC is doing harm.
Harm.
Another said no rational science has been presented, and the committee must accept responsibility when harm is caused.
Those are pretty extraordinary statements.
Oh, this is great.
So the shift, if you are harmed by not taking the vaccine, you're going to blame this committee.
But if you're harmed by taking the vaccine, sorry, there's nowhere to go.
If the group making a decision that has such high consequences for the most vulnerable Americans isn't basing it on science.
Science.
No rational science.
Oh, no.
Sorry, it's not science.
It's rational science.
You see, there's science and then there's rational science.
This is literally what CBS is telling you.
Group making a decision that has such high consequences for the most vulnerable Americans isn't basing it on science, no rational science.
What does that indicate about what comes next?
Rational science is a new category.
Well, look, this is the ACIP, by and large, except for a handful of members, are anti-vax activists who were put there to carry out a specific agenda.
And look, the Secretary, to his credit, has been very honest about what his intentions are here.
He's the most prominent anti-vaxxer in the country prior to coming into this position.
No, that would be us.
Hey, stop stealing our valor.
He is not.
He's pro-safe vaccines, and you're just afraid for your products.
And he stated that his goal is to eliminate childhood immunization or many of these childhood immunization.
He didn't say that at all.
That's his goal.
We're worried.
Oh, no, I'm working with Pfizer.
They're going to take a methodical approach and slowly chip away at this.
This is a big unforced error insofar as ACIP was an esteemed body that a lot of states tie their own decision-making to.
And what we're seeing right now is as a group, it's being degraded.
And I don't think it will ever be restored.
I don't think you can just flip the switch and restore this where people are going to suddenly respect its decisions again.
There's about 600 state laws that were tied to decisions ACIP made.
About 17 states have already passed new legislation saying they'll no longer respect the decisions of ACIP.
The insurers came out and said they're going to tie their own coverage decisions to the professional bodies like the American Academy of Pediatrics and not ACIP.
ACEP's going to be fully degraded as a decision-making body and it's going to be more symbolic.
There'll be certain states that adhere to it, but it'll be more symbolic.
This is actually great.
So what they're doing here, the way I see it, is they're going to discredit this entire board, which has always been kind of a pain in the butt because you've got to pay these guys off.
You got to take them out to dinner.
You got to give them hookers.
All this stuff.
It's annoying.
We've got all the states under control.
We've got the states completely opaque.
The states will just listen to the American Board of Pediatrics.
Woo!
Well, that's good.
I think this is actually the death knell of the whole system.
Well, They have to get this liability thing straightened out.
It's got to be removed.
The indemnification is it's there's no reason for it.
No, certainly not for vaccinations that have been.
You know, you might as well put cat poop in a shot because you're indemnified.
Who cares what you give to kids?
Okay, so now we get down to his business, which is mRNA.
And this is a, you know, this is a problem.
It's a problem because we want to have the immunity for our products.
So you, this week, we saw a big sell-off in biotech stocks following these reports that the FDA, which you used to run at the first part of the Trump administration, is now going to require one study to clinch approval of vaccines.
You were one of the former commissioners who put out this really extraordinary editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine arguing that the FDA and top vaccine regulator, Dr. Vinay Prasad, are changing policies in a way that's going to slow down new and better vaccines.
Yeah, because we're going to ask you to actually prove that they don't harm people.
That's what is being asked.
What specifically is the problem you see?
Because this isn't just HEPB.
This is the vaccines of the future.
You're saying this won't be created.
Right.
So Vinay Prasad, who is the head of the biologic center, also oversees the vaccine division.
He also has been appointed the head of biostatistics, the chief medical officer of the agency, and the chief scientific officer.
So he occupies a lot of positions, put out a memo saying that they're going to do away with or move away from what they call immunobridging studies.
These are studies that allow you for well-validated vaccines like the flu vaccine to be able to demonstrate each year that the vaccine, the new vaccine that's formulated against the circulating strain, can elicit antibodies that are effective against that particular strain.
And that could be the basis of approval rather than requiring new outcome studies every year to prove that the vaccine actually reduces the incidence of influenza.
For established vaccines where we know that antibody production is a good correlate for immunity, this has been a long-standing practice.
We do it for a flu vaccine.
We do it in COVID, certainly.
We do it for things like pneumococcal vaccine, the vaccine for pneumococcal disease, where we look at serotypes, circulating bacterial serotypes.
This allows us to update vaccines as these viral and bacterial strains change and as the composition of the strains change in time to provide protection for the fall respiratory season.
If they move away from this, which is what he said they plan to do, we're just not going to be able to update vaccines each season as we've done historically to accommodate whatever the circulating strain is.
Which is a big money maker.
New COVID, new flu money makers, especially the flu.
Every year, how come they haven't eliminated the flu from the human species?
They've been giving this shot out for 35 years, 40, 50 years.
I don't know how long it's been going on.
Flu shot.
Well, the final clip is, I think, a good question, particularly in light of the new summary, the new study that was just published in Germany.
And 12 former FDA commissioners came out saying they're deeply concerned about what is happening.
That memo that made clear the changes that are happening within the FDA from Dr. Prasad was obtained by CBS, and it claimed that career FDA staff are making changes in part because they found at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving the COVID vaccine, referred to it as a profound revelation and said and asked, did it kill more healthy kids than it saved?
The administration to date has not backed up information to back up these claims, but what questions do you have for the FDA, Commissioner?
Because they're arguing they're doing this to help people.
Do you like boys or girls is the question?
First of all, one thing doesn't flow from the next.
So the idea, if in fact they found cases where the COVID vaccine was linked to tragic deaths, it doesn't then follow that you make these policy changes.
In fact, the policy changes wouldn't address what their concerns are related to the COVID vaccine itself.
What?
Every case needs to be carefully adjudicated.
It's tragic to see any suspected case that could be linked to a vaccine.
And these were looked at pretty carefully.
That's indemnified.
Yep, that's exactly it.
I believe that the new FDA had access to the case level data.
Analysis of cases, individual cases that get filed with the agency where there is a death in proximity to vaccination, and some of these are filed by the manufacturers themselves, are very subjective and require the goodwill of the people involved in that.
And so I think that they should make that analysis public so it could be scrutinized and people can get comfort in it.
They've already backed away from the 10.
It's reporting from endpoints that now they're saying it's eight or nine.
So they're already backing away from it.
Oh, it's a very interesting thing.
Okay, and you just said they will eventually make that data public.
We'll look for it when it comes out.
Dr. Gottlieb, thank you for your analysis today.
So the NIH on the NIH NIH.gov website have a study, regional patterns of excess mortality in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic, a state-level analysis.
And I'll just read this first line.
The study used a rigorous actuarial approach to estimate excess mortality across German federal states during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
So we'll just shuttle ahead to the conclusion.
It's the most fun.
Based on the state-of-the-art actuarial methods, the present study demonstrates that Germany experienced moderate average excess mortality during the first two years of the pandemic with substantial and temporarily stable regional variation across federal states.
In the third pandemic year, excess mortality rose sharply.
Regional variation diminished and the pattern of the most affected federal states shifted markedly.
The strong correlation between excess mortality and reported COVID-19 deaths and infections during the first two pandemic years suggests that regional differences in COVID-19 burden may account for much of the observed variation.
However, the increase in excess mortality during the second year, despite a decrease in reported COVID-19 deaths, indicates that COVID-19 alone cannot fully explain excess mortality.
And then they just go ahead and say it, that the correlation is to the vaccination rate of 91%.
They're just saying it.
The only thing we can find is that 91% in some states, 97% of the population were fully vaccinated.
And that's why we had excess mortality, which means more dead people than we usually have.
Yeah, and this has been determined in South Korea.
It's been determined in Japan.
These same studies show up everywhere.
Nobody wants to talk about it.
And I didn't clip it, but to add insult to injury, Saturday Night Live last night had a whole sketch about COVID-19.
Oh, I got COVID.
I want to stay home.
Oh, COVID.
Yeah, you know what?
It felt just like having the flu for three days.
The very people who were masked up and telling you to get vaccinated.
Now they're making jokes about it.
What a world.
What a time to be alive.
I'll tell you, around here still amuses me when I go to the hippy-dippy vegetable place.
They're still wearing masks, aren't they?
Not everybody, but there's an but you can kind of see the, you can, they're dragging their, usually they're, they've gotten feebleized because they're breathing so much CO2 because the mask doesn't really work in terms of exhaling.
You can't get the bad air out of there.
No.
And it's just like, and they're wearing these masks and they're all covered up.
And everything except the screen, you know, that clear shield.
They don't have that on.
And they're wearing these masks and they're just wearing masks all the time.
I mean, I don't get it.
Well, check the calendar.
I mean, this is years after the thing.
This is five years later.
They have PTSD.
This is trauma.
You should take pity on them and give them a hug.
You know, they should get slap them.
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I ask to go watch that again.
Do you recall the plot of the one where they had the missile that blew up the guy's house?
Remember that from a satellite or something?
Yeah.
I wonder if he will send covert troops in like the movie and then get impeached for lying to the Senate Oversight Committee about sending troops in like the movie.
Anyway, Adam, your homework is to go watch that movie.
I have seen it, but I will watch it again.
AI update.
He's in the business.
Seems as though Microsoft has deployed co-pilot on an enterprise level to customers like me with the expectation that we, the company, create agents/slash bots to use in our businesses that they can take credit for.
Excuse me.
There's a divide between software tech bros and industry manufacturers where nobody on the tech side knows diddly squat about how equipment operates or how anything in the manufacturing process works to be able to use AI to create bots that matter to get things done at the plant level.
I think without significant automation results with AI over the next six months, large companies that matter, like the conglomerate I'm in, will start to turn the page on AI and the fees that AWS, Microsoft, and Microsoft are charging to use their software suite.
I don't see any rabbits being pulled out of hats very soon to justify the spend from our side of the equation.
Well, that's a pretty damning testimony.
I'd say.
Yeah, and he's probably right.
Yeah, he probably is.
I gave in to my German wife over the weekend and bought overly priced tickets to the World Cup for Germany's match against some nobody country, Curacao, in Houston.
Oh, that should be a one-sided slot.
Yeah, who wants to enter the world for?
Oh, thousands, probably.
Well, the basic ticket is $1,500.
Jeez.
Well, to see Dermanschoff play is always a treat.
They are very good, the Germans.
I guess I'll do my part for the new World Order games.
The tickets are only available to be sent to you via the FIFA World Cup app and are tied to a digital ID system of some sort.
Speaking of digital ID, check out the company Ping ID.
I think you'll like it.
Yes, Adam, another inside hint.
Oh, okay.
John, back when you played that New York Mayor victory speech, I noticed he told Cuomo he wished him well on his return to private life.
The Soviet-era Bolsheviks referred to freedom as the private life.
So anyway, that just proved to me that the guy is a Marxist, die-hard, Lennon-worshiping douchebag.
Sorry, NYC, you're screwed.
Now we'll probably smell like, now it will probably smell like piss year-round instead of just in the summer months.
Jingles, Koch Brothers, and two to the head.
Well, we can do that.
We have both of those for you.
Koch Brothers!
And thank you very much, Sir.
Adam of the Koch Empire.
Christopher Graves is up.
He's in Mount Ockham, Ockham, California.
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No jingles, no karma, just four more years.
So I'm presuming that as people keep buying, they'll just keep donating.
And it's like the circularity is in effect.
I hope so.
Yeah, me too.
And it's an excellent product.
We're keeping it for when Tina and Kevin are coming this year for Christmas.
So we're keeping, we already ate the turkeys.
Tina.
Christina.
Christina.
Yeah, Christina and Kevin are coming.
Hey, there's William Swenson in Bentonville, Arkansas.
No.
Yeah, Arkansas.
AR is Arkansas.
Yes, Arkansas.
Doesn't sound right.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, what do you think it is?
I don't know.
$233.99.
ITM gents, and I use that term loosely.
Please.
Let me ISO that.
That was kind of funny.
Please send birthday wishes to my fantastic mother-in-law, Edie, in Bentonville, Arkansas on her December 7th birthday on your December 7th show.
Happy birthday, Edie.
She punched me in the mouth a little over a year ago, and I've been getting my amygdala shrunk a few hours at a time ever since.
Edie is an avid listener and has availed herself and our little family of many of John's tips of the day.
And she continues to be loving and supporting of us as well as an amazing grandmother to our three teens.
Happy borniversary, mom.
Adam and John, please accept my row of ducks.
Oh, I guess that was a 2-2-2.
2-2-2-2-2.
And deduce me.
You've been de-douched.
He also...
Hold on a second.
I seem to have lost my pad there.
He also wants the Trump Jobs clip for my business, William the Window Washer in Northwest Arkansas, and the not-so-good Rev Al spell Respect for Edie.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
And he winds it up with a good old Jew donation.
Shalom, y'all.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
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Uh.
Sir 23's Night of the Electric something.
The Electric C. He's in Derbyshire.
Oh.
UK.
Buxton.
Yes.
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And he says, ITM, gentlemen, and thank you for your outstanding product.
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These 23s on show 1823 will bring me to Baronet.
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As I'm not sure whether Baronet replaces Sir or Knight.
In my name, do whatever you want.
Sir Baronet is fine.
Adam, Adam, is there any chance you could include some old jingles at the end of the show whenever there aren't, you know, aren't enough things to play?
No, just request them in your donation segment.
That's where they belong.
We don't leave them there for other shows to steal.
On that note, can I please get a Pelosi shut up for AI Songs and A Little Girl Yay and Karma for all the producers, particularly Carl with a K from Who Are These Podcasts?
Ah, our buddies.
As he fights stuttering John's $850,000 LOL suit against him.
Well, that's, I never heard of that.
Lull suit.
I didn't hear about that.
LOL suit.
Oh, we need details.
What's going on?
I need details.
I'd love to hear you back on that show, John.
Thank you for your courage.
Four more years.
Sir 23's Night of the Electric C, High Peak, UK.
Shut up.
Wow!
You've got karma.
I wonder what this lawsuit was about, if there is one.
I don't know.
222.23 from Gary Marcy in Renton, Washington.
All he says is USA, USA, USA.
Thank you.
Followed by Eli the Coffee Guy.
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Last show, you covered pardon of the, you covered the pardon of the Honduran Honduran president.
It lined up a little.
It lined up a little too neatly with a new asylum deal that Honduras is taking claimants who allegedly filed in the U.S. Already file, but because you're listening to it.
Already filed in the U.S., not allegedly, already.
So there is a suspicious activity he's pointing out.
Yes.
The administration is now deporting folks from Central and South America off to Honduras en masse.
Funny how these things tend to sync up.
I hear the weather's looking.
Hey, the weather's nice there.
I'm sure it is.
Plus, the probably had good info about the drug money as well.
Thanks to you two for cutting through the noise while the rest of the media chases distractions.
Honduras also grows my drugs.
What?
My drug of choice.
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You know she's changed her location.
Yeah, we need some info about that.
Yeah, what happened?
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And that came in as a check, so there's a note attached, and it's on a piece of paper.
And it says, John and Adam, this is a back at you.
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That's a switcheroo.
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Hopefully, our no agenda journey will continue for years.
And of course, it's a pun because he spells it F-O-U-R.
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Yes, for Jeff Homan.
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My formula is this.
We hit people in the mouth.
Shut up.
Got a boots on the ground note regarding the Airbus computer issue.
You remember they grounded almost all of the Airbus.
Yes, I'm a computer engineer who specializes in embedded firmware development.
Are we the best podcast in the universe or what?
We got somebody who has an expertise.
We got somebody for everything.
It's amazing.
And it is your obligation as a producer of the No Agenda Show to always let us know if you have expertise.
Report back.
Don't see it that go, yeah, this guy don't know nothing.
No, you send it to us.
While I don't work in aviation, I can tell you that solar radiation flipping a bit in flight control systems is not something that should be getting fixed via a software update or downgrade, as it was in this case.
To be clear, this phenomenon is very real and has been known about for airplanes, satellites, etc., for a very long time.
The way it is avoided is with something called a lockstep processor, where two or more processors conduct the same calculations and operations at the same time and are checked against each other before the code executes.
This makes me think that someone is being negligent in implementation, you don't think.
The only way that ECC memory or lockstep computation should fail is if you get two bits flipped, one on each processor in the exact same place, or if the error correction codes on the ECC are crap and have collisions where a flipped bit inappropriately evaluates another valid number.
Ultra rare, and software won't save you here.
This does not pass the smell test.
Very suspicious that a bad update would break these fundamental checks against solar radiation.
So there you go.
They lying, but at least interesting.
Oh, yeah.
Well, probably, I guess that's why you revert because the reversion had this covered properly, and the update was incompetent.
Exactly.
But it shouldn't have.
He's kind of saying it shouldn't have even happened at all.
No, I don't think he said that.
He says it's, well, that's what he said.
It shouldn't happen.
But the software fix, it could be that this system is in place, but the software fix bypassed it in some way of the new software.
The guy who was putting it and implementing it didn't know what he was doing.
How to make that work.
What is this code?
Let me comment that out.
This is annoying.
This bit flipping code.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
This happened.
A little story.
So George Morrow was making all this.
Who's George Morrow?
George Morrow is the guy who did the micro.
So he did a bunch of computers back in the 8-bit era.
And he did a couple of fantastic laptops, including a couple that I think he designed for Zenith.
Zenith was a big laptop provider back in the day.
Yeah.
And he put together a laptop, a super thin laptop that they sent to Korea for production.
And it was all set up.
Everything was working fine.
They came back.
It wouldn't run for crap.
It was a piece of junk.
They just, it couldn't, they were slow.
And he had to go into the code base, and he found that they had bypassed an algorithm that was put in there specifically to keep this thing running at a high clip because some software designers looked at it and said, I don't get what this is for, why it's here.
Why don't we just go around it?
Yeah, that happens.
That's what people do.
So I also got, talk about best producers in the universe.
One of our producers is very close to the company that does the detection of music rights in these AI music companies.
And we were wondering how they do that.
How can they detect who owns what in these songs that are created on Suno, et cetera?
And I'd like to share the relevant paragraphs here from his email because this is really fascinating.
So what they do is they run a very small and targeted model for each of the rights holders with agents that focus on notes, text, and tone.
They sit in the middle of the queries from the AI companies like Suno, OpenAI, et cetera, and send an agent to probe a model that identifies the result of the prompt before it's delivered back to the user.
So Darren O'Neill, if you're typing in something, then there's a little agent there that's going to check it.
Then it sends it.
It sends it over to the mini license model.
So if Sony owns the IP or John Denver estate, et cetera, then the agent will run an engine that puts together an algo that assigns a percentage of likelihood and probability against the content.
So they don't even know for sure.
For example, the user asks for a song in the style of John Denver with lyrics about a cat.
Some percent of the lyrics will be taken from other John Denver songs.
Like if the verse starts with Take Me Home, Silly Cat, then to Take Me Home part would go towards that percentage.
Oh my goodness.
They add up the percentages from the review and come up with a figure that is then applied to the licensing fee.
So if the estate says we're going to charge one cent for each time an AI model presents a user with one of our songs, the system looks at what the AI spits out, decides that the result is 75% based on John Denver IP and sends a bill to OpenAI for $0.0075.
So three quarters of a penny.
This is crazy.
They can also take multiple IP owners and do the same thing.
So if the result to the user is 10% from ACDC, 25% from Steven Sondheim, and 60% from the Warner Music Group, they can take that amount, bill OpenAI, then distribute it to the rights holders.
They take a small percentage of the exchange, of course.
And when you take a small percentage of billions of queries a day, it adds up to a lot of money.
So I get from this, they're just guessing.
They've got likelihood, probability, and similarity as their model.
This thing is nuts.
But I don't think anyone's going to push back on it.
I'm sorry?
I don't think that the companies will push back on it.
No, not at all.
No, they'll take it.
Okay, you guys do the calculation.
We'll send you your 45%.
Yeah.
Yeah, we'll send you the money.
So there you go.
The more you know.
That is a more you know story.
I've got a, I've got an interesting couple of clips here.
Okay.
This isn't covered by anybody.
This is one of my wow clips.
This is the new army.
You know about the new army command?
We kind of discussed a part of the Monroe Doctrine.
The new Army Command is all part of this.
And this is only covered by NPR.
The Pentagon has created a new Army command at Fort Bragg.
As Jay Price reports, it's part of the Trump administration's increasing foreign policy focus on the Americas and border security.
It's called the U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command.
During the ceremony marking its creation, its first commander, General Joseph Ryan, said building it the right way was crucial for the nation.
When we succeed, we will be proud to serve in a theater army that is ready for the myriad tasks that our nation's priority theater requires.
Creating the command is in line with the new national security strategy the White House released this week.
It says the United States will prioritize dominance in the security and economics of the Western Hemisphere.
For NPR News, I'm Jay Price at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
This is a space force.
Wow, new army, new army command.
Yeah, that's a big deal.
That means they just, they're like the, they get sent wherever they need to go.
Is that what I understand from in the Western hemisphere?
Oh, yeah, because that's ours.
Yeah, it's ours.
That's ours.
Pay attention, people.
Do you live in the Western hemisphere?
That's ours.
You do what we say.
Foam finger number one.
My neighbor actually had a bombshell, dropped a bombshell.
We've always been wondering who they are.
Yeah, who is they?
Well, Laura Logan, she interviewed a guy, very long interview, but then she did a short little Insta for the INSA and tells us exactly who they are.
We've been waiting for this for ages.
But there's always this question of who's behind it all?
What's the they?
Because when you learn, you know, when you learn about warfare, you learn about genocide, you learn about all these things, you begin to recognize that there are systems of command and control that have to be running these things for them to work.
Like, how do you get all these different agencies to work together to suppress the truth?
Well, you need a command and control system because the command and control system that has been shutting down all of these things that we have seen, whether it's Fast and Furious under Eric Holder, or it's the IRS persecuting Christian and conservative organizations, or it's the Russia collusion investigation that goes nowhere, or it's the Ukraine impeachment trial.
These operations are being run out of an organization called the Council for the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency that was created under Barack Obama in 2008.
And by the way, his partner in creating that, in having this brought into law, was none other than Chuck Grossley on the other side of the aisle.
And then it was supported, you know, by people on both sides of the aisle.
So they created this council, which is in charge of the inspectors general.
So what has been happening?
You know, a lot of us are asking ourselves, why is there no one that's willing to stand up in the federal government?
We do hear about whistleblowers from time to time, but by and large, these people have been able to weaponize these agencies and walk all over the American people and commit crimes against the American people and get away with it.
Council for the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency.
That sounds like a beauty.
Yeah.
And did you check into it?
Obviously, you did.
Yes.
Well, it is what she says.
And she takes a little further.
They operate kind of like the mob.
They do things like they have an annual gathering every year.
Who do they have as their guest of honor?
Not so long ago, they had Anthony Fauci.
Well, what are they doing there?
They're sending a message to all of the inspector generals in like the National Institutes of Health, for example, and beyond.
Don't touch this guy.
He's a made man.
He belongs to us.
And so what they do is it's not, they investigate what they want to, such as when they, you know, they went after Donald Trump for Russia collusion, right?
So when they want to do an investigation to reinforce an operation or a false narrative or to take out their political rivals, they have the power to do that.
And when they don't want something to be investigated or they want that investigation to die on the vine, they're able to do that too.
And then when you have people who are retaliated against whistleblowers who have legal protections against them, well, where do they go?
It all ends up in this clearinghouse of the inspectors general, where they have the ability to control whatever they want.
Yeah, you can find it at ignet.gov.
We'll have to keep our eye on this outfit.
They are the command and control.
Oversight in action.
Yeah.
That's peculiar.
Yeah.
Well, when she says something, I pay attention.
I pay attention.
She does put a lot of work into it.
She does.
This, by the way, this clip that I have here, there's something here that I hadn't even thought about.
And I think it's worthwhile.
You know, I'm an avid vapor, but of course, I buy American cotton.
I have organic nicotine juice that I put in.
I wind my own coils.
So I know what I'm vaping.
But in Belgium, the Belgian drug chief warns of something very concerning, which could also be happening here.
And, you know, I don't like the vape wars, but this is worth noting.
Belgium's first ever drug commissioner, Inna von Wehmers, has told Euronews that 80% of the illegal refill vape capsules seized by Belgian customs contain dangerous synthetic opioids.
She warns of a real risk to children who could get hooked on these hidden opioids.
The risk is that they will be addicted on a very young age, that their brain will not develop the way it should be.
These are serious health risks, and we need to protect them from that by taking measures against all these logistic chain issues that are abused for synthetical drugs.
Aside from breaking logistic chains, Van Wehmer said tackling the business model is also key, especially to prevent gangs from recruiting within the authorities.
Recent court cases highlighted that Belgium's legal world, including the judicial system and police, was corrupted by organized crime.
There is a lot of money going on in this criminal world, and it's with this money that people are convinced to work with criminals.
And that is when we don't tackle the business model, then we are having a serious risk to develop towards a narco-state.
Van Wehmer took on her role in 2023 after Belgium's main port in Antwerp became the major gateway to cocaine entering Europe.
One side effect of drugs flooding European markets is heightened gun violence and gangs fighting for turf, forming a public security threat.
A lot in this report.
I mean, yes, of course Belgium is a narco-state.
The Netherlands is a narco-state.
They have ports.
The port of Rotterdam and the port of Antwerp, they're huge for bringing the drugs in, but I don't know why all of a sudden she gets this vape thing.
And I'd like a little bit of evidence that they all come from China, that they're putting opioids in the refillable vapes.
What a brilliant idea, by the way, if that's true.
Yeah, it's a good idea.
It's a great idea.
But still, wow.
Anyway.
I have to play this and get it out of here, which is I'm actually highly amused by the Homeland Security Undersecretary, whatever she is.
She's been in the first place.
Chrissy.
No.
No, the Undersecretary, Tricia.
Oh, I don't know who the Undersecretary is.
Oh, you've heard when you hear her voice, you're going to hear, because I'm fascinated with her voice.
She's got this just interesting sorority girl voice, and she's been in the government forever.
She used to be the chief of staff for some nuclear disarmament department or something in Trump's first administration.
And now she's just kind of a spokeswoman.
She comes out.
She looks like she's 16.
And she's now, I'm just fascinated with her voice.
And here she is.
Catalua Crunch, which we are launching today down in New Orleans.
We're first and foremost really focusing on those worst of the worst criminals.
The Department of Homeland Security launches the latest federal immigration enforcement operation in the city of New Orleans.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says that ICE is specifically prioritizing illegal immigrants who were previously in local jails.
Because New Orleans functions as a sanctuary city, those individuals were not released to ICE.
They were instead released back onto New Orleans streets.
McLaughlin says that the operation will continue, whether it be 5,000 arrests or more.
The DHS released information on some of the people they are targeting, saying sanctuary policies endanger American communities by releasing illegal criminal aliens and forcing DHS law enforcement to risk their lives to remove criminal, illegal aliens that should have never been put back on the streets.
DHS Secretary Christy Noam says that Operation Catalua Crunch will remove the worst of the worst from New Orleans, Louisiana, after the city's sanctuary politicians have ignored the rule of law.
Yeah, you know, the result of these immigration policy and deportations is pretty drastic.
I mean, you don't really hear about it because the mainstream media doesn't really want you to know how many people were let in, certainly by the Biden administration.
But I got a note from George from Austin, and he delivers sodas out of the Austin area, and part of that is delivering to HEB.
He says, as part of the job delivering to stores, some out in the heavily Hispanic areas outside of Austin, let alone the rise in price of aluminum and sugar, adding the ICE raids, our business has dropped well over 50% in the past few months, mainly from Hispanic workers not going into stores before or after work.
Even beer guys I talk to, I guess delivering beer, say the same thing.
Some of the stores coming out of these places, some of the stories coming out of these places outright wild.
ICE mainly only rounding up the males, leaving women to fend for their households for themselves.
There have been car chases, some that end with shots fired, raids going on in the middle of the night, supposedly some firefights involved.
I go to Mexican grocery stores that are the size of smaller HEBs, and they're ghost towns compared to last year.
None of this makes it onto the news.
And also being in the trucking world, the freight economy is on a huge downward shift.
Part of the ICE movement, truckers are now being targeted to check their legal status.
Recently, there was over 4,000 commercial driver's license schools shut down nationwide due in part to the slowdown and from passing laws that people who don't speak or read English, trucking companies are now starting layoffs and some even shutting down due to high costs and lack of freight.
And I'll just add one thing because I've always tried to help people get legal in America because I've done it with several, you know, I've done it with family members.
And there's a really bad scam going on, which I noticed recently as I was helping someone out who has who has a legal right to stay here under the Violence Against Women's Act, VAWA, as it's known.
And there's these law firms located mainly in Washington, D.C., and they have satellite offices everywhere, a lot of them in Texas.
And so this woman, her paperwork could be processed in six weeks.
She has been paying $300 a month to this outfit for two years.
And when you call, you just get an answering machine, starts in Spanish, and you don't get any.
They're just stringing these people along.
And how do I know that?
It's because I called and I had her case number and I had her name and everything.
And I said, hi, this is Adam Curry.
I'm calling about this person, this case.
First thing, what do you want?
I said, well, I want to talk to her lawyer.
Are you with immigration?
Said, no, but you can look me up.
Certainly, you know, I'm the podfather.
Who do you think is calling you?
Guess what?
Within 24 hours, her paperwork is being processed.
These are a-hole companies.
Is it because you're with the media?
I said, look me up.
You know?
Do you know who I am?
Did you say that?
No, I said, look me up.
I think it's cooler to say that.
Look me up.
Look me up, dude.
So, which just proves that they're just stringing people along, soaking them, even though she has a valid and legal right to be here.
So, you know.
So, you're telling me there's a scam afoot?
Yeah, but it's sad.
I don't like it.
Well, it is totally sad, but most scams are.
Yeah.
Well, anyway.
So there are lawyers who.
You did a good deed.
You're a good guy.
Well, that's not why I say it.
I say it because I was surprised by this nationwide law firm that just strings people along and they don't follow up.
They don't send you emails.
They don't send you any documentation.
You know, because they want scared people.
That's no good.
Douchebags.
Douchebags.
me up look me up hey hey buddy stop butting in line Hey, man, look me up.
All right.
All right.
Last clip for you, John.
Well, let's see.
I've got a few things that are possible.
Let's just play this little, this is a tease for a podcast.
But I want to, well, actually, no, let's play read a book within.
Now, this is a, they have a segment they do it once every month or so.
It's called Read a Book.
And then they say we should all be reading more books.
And then they have different people come on and describe books from the staffers from the NPR because they got nothing better to do than to talk about books they read because they're reading books all the time.
And I just thought this one was funny.
Here's some unsolicited advice.
Skip all the holiday parties this winter and read a book instead.
And great news, NPR's Books We Love has tons of recommendations, including these fiction reads from some of our coworkers.
Hi, my name is Rachel Treesman, and I'm a general assignment reporter.
One of my favorite books this year was Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaughey.
A dad and his three teen and preteen kids are the last people on a rapidly sinking research island off of Antarctica.
They're getting ready to evacuate when a mysterious woman washes ashore in a storm.
As the family nurses her back to health, relationships form, dynamics shift, and before long, everyone is suspicious of each other.
Wild Dark Shore is a mystery thriller packed with plot twists and turns that make it really hard to put down.
But when you finally do, you'll keep thinking about it.
And the bigger questions that it tackles so beautifully about love and loss and resilience in the face of climate change.
I'm going to show myself a donation to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Dude, it's a climate change.
In the face of climate change, we do have a few people to thank that gave us $50 and above.
And Adam will read them off one at a time.
Yes, I will.
And we start with Anon in Marietta, Ohio.
Anon supports us with $133.32.
And we thank you very much for that, Anam.
Ash in Texas, 12345.
We need to see what you did there.
We love those sequentials.
And he says, newsletter made it to me fine.
I said, newsletter made it to me fine.
Donation.
God bless you both.
Did you get the note from Void Zero?
Yeah, I did.
I haven't responded to it yet.
Okay, did you read it?
It's on my list of things to do.
Okay, let's see.
Buy mushrooms, get wine from Costco.
Read note from it.
Read note from Void Zero.
Binger Newman, Yankton, South Dakota, a row of sticks, 111.11, and says, happy belated birthday to Kyle Tack from Binger Newman.
The perfect birthday gift for Kyle will be to have John absolutely butcher his name.
Well, no, because I'm reading him.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
And there with 8008.
I don't know.
Coming in with the boob donation, Kevin McLaughlin, Concord, North Carolina.
And he says, well, you know, you know, yes, we do.
He is the Archduke of Luna, lover of America, and boobs.
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Holy donation.
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David Wicker, there he is.
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And here's our 50s.
There's Sir Alex Savala from Kyle, Texas.
Of course, he is from the Nick You Dad podcast.
M. Todd Allen in Harriman, Utah.
Edward Mazarik, Missouri in Memphis, Tennessee.
Jacob Rotromel in Decatur, Illinois.
Stephen Ray in Spokane, Washington.
And we have Antonio Martinez, Greenlee, Colorado, with a birthday and a first-time donation.
You've been deduced.
Ed's birthday shout out for his brother, Martin Martinez, who was born on the 7th of December in the year of our Lord 1989, who hit him in the mouth.
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Jay Worthy from Shefford, Shefford in the UK.
He wants us to keep going.
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NoagendaDonations.com We've got William Swenson wishing his fantastic mother-in-law, Edie, a happy birthday.
It is her birthday today.
Antonio Martinez, you just heard him as brother Martin Martinez Martinez.
That's an A is the accent there.
Also today, December 7th, Ryan Newman says, happy birthday to Kyle Tack.
And Sir By His Grace, David Wicker says, please join Jules, Hope, Greta, and I in praising our Lord for Aspen's 13th birthday party today.
Where's my invitation?
And we've got our buddy Parker from right here in Fredericksburg, Geisweit.
He is celebrating his birthday on the 18th.
I may be early.
Parker, we'll do it again if you need it.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
Title changes.
Turn and face the slaves.
Don't want to be a douchebag.
We have a title change, and that is Sir 23's Knight of the Electric Sea.
In accordance with his additional support of $1,000 or more, he becomes a baronet today.
Congratulations, and welcome to your new spot in the No Agenda Peerage.
We've got some meetups to talk about.
No agenda meetup.
This year.
We have a meetup taking place today.
It's the I Must Be High number 17.
That is actually, I think, underway at McSorley's wonderful saloon and grill in Toronto.
And on Thursday, our next show today, we have the great Rochester, Minnesota Big Pharma City meetup at 5 o'clock at Little Thistle Brewing Company in Rochester, Minnesota.
Let's see what else this before the year ends.
The 13th, Eagle Idaho, and Indianapolis, Indiana.
The 18th, Charlotte, North Carolina.
The 20th, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The 20th, also Anaheim, California.
And on December 26th, Clovis, California.
And then we'll start a brand new year.
You can find all of these No Agenda meetups where you will find connection that gives you ultimate protection.
Your first responders in any emergency, you will meet them at a No Agenda meetup.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
Find one near you.
If you can't, no problem.
Set it up.
Set one yourself and list it right there on noagendameetups.com.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You to be where you want me, triggered all hell lame.
You to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Yeah, baby.
We got John's tip of the day coming up.
We have some AI slop for our end of show mixes.
And of course, we always like to find our end of show ISO at this spot in the show.
I have four actually today.
Shall I go first?
Oh, yeah.
This is amazing.
This is awesome.
That's good.
Yeah, we had this one.
This is a psyop.
I like this one.
That was a banger.
And I think this is my favorite.
Oh, my God.
These guys are so hot.
Come on.
That's an ISO.
Did you make that one?
No.
No.
You actually clipped that from somewhere.
No, someone clipped it for me.
It's Elisha Kraussa Krauss.
Oh, my God.
These guys are so hot.
Okay, I'm not playing mine.
I'm pushing them off.
You can have it.
Because that one's so good.
Yes, he wins once again.
But before we do anything, here's John's tip of the day.
Green fast for you and me.
Just the two with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
And we know what we're, we've been waiting for it.
Yeah, knives, knives.
Knives, knives.
All right, there's a luckily there's a okay.
The best knife, the knife market has changed so much over the years.
The Germans dominating the scene, but the Japanese own the place now.
And I have to say, right now, the knife, if I was going to buy a knife, I'd go to Amazon and get the Shan Zoo 8-inch chef knife.
The one that's on sale, 44% off is 49 bucks, which is cheap because this is a 67-layer Damascus knife.
In other words, it's been folded 67 times.
Wow.
And it's 49 bucks.
It's a steel.
Now, I have another knife.
Wow, that's a pretty knife.
Yeah, it's a diamond.
I'm adding it to my cart right away.
Nice thing.
You buy it now while they still have them.
Yep.
So, because it's the sale price.
A couple of things you should note.
One.
I'm buying it right.
This sort of knife is not sharp.
You can't use a device I recommended recently to sharpen a knife like this.
This is carbon.
You have to.
This is carbon.
You can't even sharpen that, can you?
No, you can sharpen it, but you need a stone.
You need a real good Japanese sharpening stone.
So this is problem number one with this knife.
That's why I have a second knife.
But I already bought it.
Good.
Well, you should have this knife.
It won't go dull right away, but get a stone because once you learn how to use a stone to sharpen knives, it's unbelievable.
A whetting stone?
A whetting stone.
Exactly.
Yes.
So you'd have it.
Now, with knives like this, I have to say, I recommend to the highest degree a pair of chainmail gloves.
These aren't really knives as much as they are razor blades.
Chainmail gloves.
So you can go to Amazon has them, but they're all over the place.
Look up chainmail gloves.
These are gloves you can wear.
They're usually made out of weavable stainless steel.
And I have a pair.
It's like chainmail, so you can't cut your finger off.
You can't cut your finger off.
I use the chainmail gloves a lot when I'm using the real French mandolin that I have.
I have a real big giant one, not the little Japanese wimpy mandolin, but a big one, a big boy, all steel.
And you have to have some, you have to have some protection when you're using these things.
You're going to kill yourself.
You hear that, Tina?
She's lefty.
Whenever I see her cutting something, it's the oddest thing.
It just makes me so uncomfortable.
Well, with this knife here, you're going to get really uncomfortable when you cut it for the first time.
This is the kind of knife that you could hold up kind of in the air and throw a tomato at it and go right through it.
Whoa.
That's the kind of knife it is.
Okay, now I'm keeping it under lock and key.
I'm not letting my wife.
No, it's one of those knives.
It's one of those things.
Now, that said, I have a second.
One other thing to note.
With Japanese products, without exception, pretty much, price equals quality.
And that's why this knife at $49 is actually ridiculously cheap because it's been discounted, which is unusual.
But the more you spend for a Damascus knife, the better they are.
Okay, so here's the secondary recommendation.
I don't want to kill all the time, but this is a knife block set with 14 pieces.
Wow.
What's it called?
This is a $62 deal.
It's not even marked down that much.
I have one of these knives from this company.
This is the knife block set from Fick Shot, F-I-K-S-H-O-T.
And they're a one-piece knife.
They're very light.
And it's the coin.
You can use the sharpening device on these knives.
And you get a whole set for $62 of six steak knives, a Chev's knife, a bunch of knives, a pairing knife.
You get a bunch of knives.
And I think that knowing the quality of these scissors.
And they give you scissors.
And they get the scissors and you get a block.
Unfortunately, the block's a piece of crap.
But except for the block that holds the knives, you got some nice, cheap knives that would make a terrific gift.
I wouldn't gift anybody a Damascus knife.
It's a stocking stuffer.
Well, if you have a big stocking.
So those are the knife things that you should know about.
But a stone, you need a stone.
Get yourself a stone, people.
And that is the long-awaited John C. Dvorak knife tip of the day.
Get them all at tipoftheday.net.
Great fast for you and me.
Just the chip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Bernetti.
Aren't you glad you stuck around for that?
I am.
Been waiting for it for weeks, if not months.
A plate.
Tipoftheday.net.
Someone said, hey man, you can make money by having an Amazon affiliate code.
I said, no, that would ruin the whole concept of our show.
Don't make money off your affiliate sales.
I want to give you tips for good things, cheap products that are great, like a knife that could slice your finger off.
Children used with caution.
End of show mixes.
We've got MVP sandwiching a bonneled crab tree mix.
And of course, this will be the opening number, the first mix you'll hear, to our Broadway musical.
So be on the lookout for that in the original soundtrack in store soon.
And I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country.
We were yesterday.
We lit the Christmas tree.
We had our Christmas concert here on Mark Plotz.
We are Christmas Central for America, everybody.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back here on Thursday.
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Until then, adios mofos or hooey-hooey and such.
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We deconstruct the roots and stem right off the beaten track.
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And like, look, I mean I I'm a huge fan of nuts.
He loves his nuts I love my nuts and what like all different kinds of nuts big ones little ones lumpy ones with flavoring on them like I have I it's one of the staples of my diet and um but I've always liked pecans and walnuts.
Yeah, I know exactly.
I think maybe we should just stop for a second.
I've had requests from the boardroom.
I need to play it.
They'll just go for it.
John, tell us your pet peeve about the fisting method of eating peanuts on the plane.
I see this on the airplane and it's very annoying and I think it will result in fights breaking out because it's just so annoying to watch.
Guy takes his bag of peanuts and throws a pile of them into his palm of his hand and then he makes a fist around the nuts and then he shakes his fist to try to bring a nut to the little hole.
And then he throws a nut in his mouth from his fist.
And he does it again, shakes and throws and shakes and throws.
He shakes and throws.
He shakes and throws and shakes and throws and shakes and throws.
He shakes and throws and shakes and throws.
It is annoying as hell to watch.
And throws, he shakes and throws, and shakes and throws.
