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It's your award-winning Get One Nation Media Assassination Episode 1831.
This is no agenda.
Bathing in warm collectivism and broadcasting live from the heart of the TechSail country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
In from Northern Silicon Valley, where they're all crying to bring back Maduro.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Craig Balden Booker's Kill in the morning.
Yeah, finally something good happens.
It's not on a show day.
That was good.
That was well-timed, Mr. President.
And right after the oil baron called it, everybody picked up on that.
Hey, man, Trump must be listening to you guys.
He might be.
It was hilarious.
No, this is good.
Everyone's checking in.
Yeah, what did the boys have to say about it?
Felt like I have a ton too many.
I have way too many clips on this.
Well, you do.
I've gotten the, I caught it right at the beginning, luckily, because I was working on the newsletter and could have easily have missed it because it took, it was fast.
They grabbed the guy.
They make a lot of explosions.
No, no, no, no.
They didn't grab him.
They captured him.
Words matter.
Captured.
Kidnapped.
Extracted is the way I saw it, but we'll get to that.
You know, I was thinking the same word.
I was going to bring it up.
I hope you beat me to it, which is, was it an extraction?
I think so.
I think so.
There's a lot of things to this.
And the reason why I say extraction, I don't know if you saw, there was some video that I caught of him, a Maduro being walked down some hallway in New York.
And he's like, hey, everybody, happy new year.
Now, of course, that could have been AI.
Who knows?
But it looked authentic.
And I'm thinking he's going to spill the goods on SmartMatic and Dominion.
You know, that would certainly get him a better deal.
Yeah.
And he has.
He can prove the 2020 election was raised.
Boom.
He's good to go.
That's what I thought would be an interesting one.
But the thing that really bothers me about all of this is our even Marco Rubio.
And when you've gone through your clips, I have some of the stuff from the morning shows from this morning from Stephanopoulos and Manhands Welker with Rubio.
Who is good?
I mean, Rubio is just, he is very good when it comes to the slick.
Well, he's another one.
He's a performer.
He was a dancer.
He's another tiny dancer.
The thing that bothers me is that no one ever explains the simple history.
And I'm going to give you a little audible, a spoken word history from like 1990.
It doesn't take very long.
Because when it comes to what this really was about, and I'm pretty sure we can both agree that there's a lot of North Sea Nexus stuff that's in here.
What are the British banking connections?
You know, what are the real drug flows?
All of that's going to be interesting.
The SmartMatic software, Dominion voting machines, and yes, the oil.
And the president just, I don't know why he, I mean, he could do it.
He could just explain how they stole our oil.
But instead, he just says this.
We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country.
We built Venezuela oil industry with American talent, drive, and skill, and the socialist regime stole it from us during those previous administrations, and they sold it through force.
This constituted one of the largest thefts of American property in the history of our country.
Absolutely true.
But no one explains it.
Rubio doesn't explain it.
Heg Seth can't explain it.
He's just going, F around and find out.
Emer Effers, yeah.
Okay.
We like that.
They got all the ladies all, oh, yeah, oh, he's a tough guy.
The news media won't tell you, of course.
So let me just give a quick, brief rundown, interject if you hear I said anything wrong, but I think it's, I mean, because this goes back to 1976.
But if we stay in 1990.
It goes before.
It goes actually to 45, 47 or something.
It goes way back.
But in 1990, U.S. oil companies, Chevron, Conoco, Philip, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil, they decided we're going to invest in production, in extraction, production of this.
I mean, I've seen video, this really thick tar-like oil, which is, it's just goo, man.
It is classic Brent.
It's goo.
Yeah.
All the stuff that comes out of the ocean typically looks like that.
And it was a really big risk.
At the time, oil prices were around $40, $50.
They varied one year to the other, but on average.
So Venezuela set up PDVSA and they signed the contracts with these three big companies with massive investment in the Orinoco belt.
And the deal was pretty simple.
Venezuela has 100% ownership over the oil, but we do a 60-40 split.
So American companies get 60% and Venezuela gets 40%.
And then they put up the billions of dollars to set it all up.
Everybody was happy, especially in 2000.
Oil prices start rising.
It's at 100.
And then Chavez, the predecessor to Maduro, he declares the Bolivarian revolution.
And hey, everybody, we're super socialist now.
We're going to give you everything for free.
Sound like Mamdani.
It's going to be fantastic.
It's groovy.
201, 2001, they implement the new laws, and PDVSA is now control of operations.
They kicked out the U.S. management.
In 2002, this is the Venezuelan petroleum company.
The employees actually protested and went on strike.
They said, you can't do this.
Companies that refused, there was only one really, I think Chevron, had all their assets frozen.
Everything was taken over.
And then oil revenues collapsed by 75% because no one knew how to operate this stuff.
Chavez broke.
Even better, Chavez broke the strike, fired 18,000 engineers and rig workers, and he changed the split.
70% for us, 30%, like around, some say a little less, like 28%, but around 30% for the U.S. companies.
But we're also doubling the royalties, so you got to pay us 30% royalties, and there's a 50% tax rate on everything you make.
So they were losing money.
2007, Chavez seizes all the oil assets.
These companies could only file lawsuits and they went to international courts and they eventually won after five years, but they got about a billion dollars each.
So it was no good.
Everyone lost their shirts on it.
And then the PDVSA oil company becomes bloated, mismanaged, rife with corruption.
Production has now fallen to less than 25%.
2013, Chavez dies.
In comes Maduro, a literal bus driver who had worked his way through the system.
And because the...
He was Chavez's handpick.
Yeah.
Yeah, but the guy was a bus driver.
So these social programs, they're not doing so well with this lower revenue.
So they start printing money.
Ultimately, this number over time was mind-blowing to me.
1.3 million percent inflation of the bolivar.
So Maduro, of course, you know, be like, well, I got to diversify.
Let's get some drug money in there.
Now, in 2002, and, you know, so the price, it's bad news for Maduro because the oil just went down in the tank when he came in.
It was like a perfect storm.
2002, ExxonMobil scores big in Guiana right next door.
No one's mentioning this, really.
2023, Maduro says, Esquibo region, that's actually ours, and moves troops to the border.
And in 2025, just as Trump gets in, he's ratcheting up the heat.
He's like, we're taking over.
This is Venezuelan territory.
And, you know, and so we didn't really cover much of this, but it was happening.
And so, of course, Trump's like, no, you're not going to, you already stole the first batch.
You're not going to steal anymore.
And that's really what it is because we need it.
I think, isn't diesel made from this stuff?
Is this the kind of stuff you make diesel out of?
No, you can make diesel from anything.
But is it cheaper to make it from this?
Not really.
It's a hard, it's a tough product.
You need special refining to work this stuff.
For one thing, you need cracking.
Cracking is.
Yeah, you need to crack it.
Because normally with regular crude, you can just run it through it, especially if it's super light.
You can run it through distill, you distill it, and you get all the different cuts.
And the cuts are gasoline and diesel and kerosene.
But it's quite a process.
To get the heavy duty stuff busted up so you can distill it.
You don't distill it heavy.
You run it through a cracker, which is a big giant catalytic.
It's usually catalytic cracking.
And you run the stuff through it through platinum and a bunch of other things.
And it busts it up into a liquid that's a little more refinable.
And that's the expensive part.
So meanwhile.
Not that anyone cares, but that's.
No.
So meanwhile, what's been happening is China and Russia, they're all getting oil from there.
They're all making, it was hilarious to see the Chinese delegation just hours before they capture Maduro.
And the Chinese are like, all right, we're out of here.
We got nothing to do with this.
You know, people have pointed out that this was like the Chinese always, they do this constantly.
They don't want to get involved.
No.
Well, hell breaks loose.
And they gave a number of examples of this, but the one they keep forgetting, which we bring up on the show, is the one in Libya.
Yes.
Where they had this whole area.
They were building up these big buildings and everything.
And they just took off.
There's bye.
We don't want to.
And they're very non-confrontational, Chinese.
So now I will say January 3rd.
This actually comes from our, I have a new contact, former five, former six, not sure yet.
She's a producer.
She listens.
I think she's, I know she's a spook, but I'm not sure.
She's MI5 or MI6.
I believe she's retired.
She said, coincidentally, January 3rd is significant.
36 years ago, Noriega surrendered to U.S. forces after hiding in the Vatican Embassy, flown to Miami on drugs charges.
Same date, January 3rd.
Trump likes significant dates.
So I thought that was an interesting observation.
Also, just earlier, let me see, when did this happen?
I think it happened December 1st.
A U.S. judged authorized the sale of shares in Venezuela-owned parent company of Sitco Petroleum to Elliott Investment Management for $5.9 billion.
This is, what's the guy's name?
He's a big Trump donor.
Who's the, and I forget his name now.
When was this?
When did this deal go through?
This happened December 1st.
Elliott Investment Man.
Hold on, let me just check.
I had it written down here somewhere.
It's when I say the name, you go, oh, yeah, yeah, that guy.
Who we are.
Here we go.
What's this guy's name?
Paul Singer.
There you go.
Oh, yeah, Paul Singer.
Paul Singer, big Trump donor.
He knew something.
He clearly knew something.
Well, I mean, it was a court case, so maybe they waited for it.
I don't know.
They said that they had this ready for five or six weeks, but maybe they waited for that to be cleared up just in case.
But I think the next, and we'll get into your clips now.
I think, and whenever you want me to play some stuff from the morning show.
Well, I'm going to have you play something right now since you just mentioned Paul Singer.
But I don't want you to finish.
I don't want you to finish yet.
No.
In other words, you've got more to say.
But because you played Paul Singer, play this polymarket clip.
Polymarket.
Looks like we have another Nancy Pelosi on her hands because last night before U.S. forces captured Venezuela's president Maduro, someone placed a bet on Polymarket that that was going to happen and they won big.
This polymarket account that was created less than a month ago in December yesterday bet $30,000 that Maduro was going to no longer be the president of Venezuela.
And then overnight, the U.S. captures him and this user comes up on a fat $400,000.
What are the odds?
Now, because of the stock act in 2012, elected officials do have to report their stock trading activities.
But Polymarket is a big, fat loophole.
Under the Stock Act, elected officials have to report stocks, bonds, ETFs, and even crypto assets.
But because Polymarket's a predictive betting app, well, it falls into a gray zone.
2026 goes, I'd say keep your eye on polymarket for any insider trading versus the stock market.
Who do you think made this bet?
As always, let me know down below.
Why are you yelling at me?
Is that a news clip or is that a TikTok thing?
It was some, it was on Twitter.
But this girl follows this stuff.
And yeah, it was a prop bet.
Well, I think we need to pay attention to Trump's dates.
That goes back to our MI6 lady, January 3rd.
Trump likes to do that.
Yes.
By the way, I like that.
Maybe it was her.
Maybe it was her.
I don't know.
Well, somebody.
She brings it up for a reason.
I mean, why is she telling me this?
You know, it's likes the show.
And we're also fed information for the purposes of bringing it up on the show.
She loves the show.
I think she's actually a dame, to be honest about it.
I won't say who she is, but I'm pretty sure she's a dame.
Well, it's not that we're not fed.
You know, we're not read in.
We should make mention to people that we do amateur work.
We're not red in.
We're not read in.
No agenda show.
We're amateurs.
It's not a bad thing.
We're not red in.
No, we're not.
But we're deconstructing.
Yeah.
Oh, we are Fed, yes.
But we know we're Fed, so don't worry about it.
Yeah, we're Fed Fed slop.
There you go.
So the next 96 hours, of course, are going to be crucial.
And then I have clips for later about what they're saying and who's running it, what's really going to happen, because I'm sure it appears that the Venezuelans are very happy.
Ding-dong, the witch is dead, but they're hungry.
And here's the interesting thing that I stumbled upon.
So the U.S. dollar basically is the currency in Venezuela.
People are using it because the bolivar is, you know, Weimar Republic status at this point.
Yes, it's junk.
But the U.S. government.
I thought they actually had switched to something called a real.
Well, everything I found is that people are just using U.S. dollar bills, 10s, 20s, singles, 5s.
Yeah, well, if you had the opportunity, that's what you do.
But they actually, starting in COVID days, there was a pilot by USDC, that's a stablecoin, via the Treasury and the State Department for the Heroes of Health program.
They bypassed Maduro's regime banking system to send millions of dollars.
I think it was $6 or $7 million directly to the digital wallets of 60,000 doctors and nurses who were using the system.
And I'm thinking this might be a great moment to launch the stablecoin.
It's already been launched.
Well, but the stablecoin gambit.
I don't think it's really been launched that way with the treasury, with the government's endorsement, and selling new treasury bonds, short-term bonds against it.
And if anything, so the rails are kind of in place.
You're right.
But it just may be an airdrop.
Hey, Venezuela, we're going to airdrop you some tokens.
I don't know.
It feels like a perfect storm.
So you've got analysis, all kinds of stuff from the days leading up to today's show, which, let's be honest, was one.
Mostly came from yesterday.
One day.
So hit it.
And then whenever you're ready, I'll jump in with some of the morning shows.
Yeah, I think you definitely have the morning stuff is going to be good.
Let's start with the overview by going to Maduro Grab on PBS.
Okay.
There are moments in time when history possibly pivots.
And today, in a stunning act of regime change, the U.S. captured and brought Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to U.S. soil.
Not long after that, in a remarkable declaration, President Trump announced the U.S. would, quote, run Venezuela and warned of a new era of United States domination over Latin America.
We will get an on-the-ground report from Venezuela's capital, Caracas, in a moment, but we begin our coverage with Nick Schifrin.
It was just after midnight over Caracas when U.S. helicopters with Delta IV soldiers descended toward Nicolas Maduro's compound.
Nearby residents filmed and cowered from U.S. strikes on at least four locations.
All part of the mission to capture and extract Maduro.
By 2 a.m. local, they had him.
Whoa!
Whoa, whoa!
Did you hear that?
So first they used the bogus regime change, but then all part of the mission to capture and extract Maduro.
Extract.
They used the E-word.
They used the E-word.
Extract.
The mission to capture and extract Maduro.
By 2 a.m. local, they had him.
And by 3 a.m., he was shackled aboard the USS Iwo Jima, the dictator-turned detainee of the U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. military officials said U.S. helicopters took fire as they left Venezuela, but remained able to fly.
Source Familiar tells PBS NewsHour a small CIA team arrived in August and created extraordinary insight into Maduro's pattern of life that made grabbing him seamless.
So, first of all, kudos for the nat pops on PBS.
Well done.
And this was a nat pop extravaganza.
It was just perfect.
Even the president was saying, I watched it on TV.
It was like a TV show.
It was great.
It was awesome.
I think you'll never see it, but I saw it.
It was good.
And what was that?
The very end of that clip?
What did they say right here?
Our small CIA team.
Oh, yeah.
The CIA guys, from what I understand, they had infiltrated Maduro's inner circle.
Yeah, that's the only way they could figure out where he was.
So interesting that the CIA might be cooperating now these days.
I think the whole thing is a CIA deal.
Oh, most of it has to be.
And I think I suggested in the last show that there was a cooperation going on.
Well, they've been living in the region for 50 years.
They never left.
Not only that, but the CIA has always been, some of their superior work has been in South America.
South America.
In quote, air quotes, superior work.
Well, it depends on what you mean by superior.
It depends on where you are.
Yes, exactly.
But the Guatemala, the Guatemala, where they pretended there was a, you know, they somehow got hold of the media and convinced everybody that the soldier, the forces were coming and nobody was showing up, but they abandoned.
Good job.
Good job, spooks.
In this case, they, yeah, they did, I think, and I think they're at work.
And it comes out in some of these clips that they're at work doing some other stuff.
And I'm now thinking they're at work.
I'll bring it up later and talk it because I got a nasty note from somebody, a Canadian.
Well, hello.
Well, yeah, they complained.
Canadian.
About Alberta.
Oh, interesting.
So I think the CIA may be in Alberta.
And they're probably in Greenland.
Well, there's not much to do in Greenland.
Hang out, fish, tell people to let the Americans buy them.
It's just a thought.
I'm sure there's nobody.
Maybe.
There's one or two.
Okay, part two.
This was one of the most stunning, effective, and powerful displays of American military might and competence in Palm Beach today.
After he and his team watched the operation unfold overnight, President Trump announced the operation was not only about regime change.
We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.
President Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio had spoken to Venezuelan Vice President Del Codriguez, who was sworn in to replace Maduro.
She had a long conversation with Marco and she said, we'll do whatever you need.
I think she was quite gracious, but she really doesn't have a choice.
But at least publicly today, Rodriguez rejected that.
We demand the immediate release of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores.
The only president of Venezuela is President Nicolas Maduro.
Nah, time for the thumb screws.
She's not, it doesn't sound like she's cooperating.
Well, you don't know that this wasn't a setup so she can keep the people in line around her.
Possibly.
She can't, you know, because she's surrounded by a bunch of stooges that would shoot her, torturers, and all kinds of bad actors that Maduro has accumulated as part of his drug cartel.
And so she has to play bad girl, at least in front of that audience.
So I take all this with a grain of salt one way or the other.
I love the trolls.
She's Sephardic as well.
Okay.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Forgot to mention that Netanyahu ordered this strike.
Yes, or forgot to mention that Israel's behind this.
Yeah, he was straight up, trolls.
That's it.
That's exactly what he said.
If the best analysis you can do is everything's a Jews, you might as well just, what's the point of even listening to our show?
Well, just doing it to do it.
What else?
And when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
On the final clip.
And President Trump made clear part of the plan was to take Venezuela's oil.
The country has the world's largest oil reserves, which the U.S. helped develop exactly one century ago.
The former leader, Hugo Chavez, kicked out some U.S. and other foreign energy companies, and today the industry produces a fraction of its capacity.
We're going to be replacing it, and we're going to take a lot of money out so that we can take care of the country.
What the president made clear today was not only about Venezuela.
This was about displaying an ability and willingness to enforce regional domination and embracing the early 19th century declaration by President Monroe to block foreign colonialism in the Americas.
They now call it the Don Roe document.
I don't know.
Under our new national security strategy, American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again.
Rubio made clear the next possible target.
Yeah, look, if I lived in Havana and I was in the government, I'd be concerned.
And to critics who question whether a president who was elected in part to avoid foreign entanglements.
Why is running a country in South America, America first?
Well, I think it is because we want to surround ourselves with good neighbors.
We want to surround ourselves with stability.
We want to surround ourselves with energy.
We have tremendous energy in that country.
Regime change not for democracy, but for energy and for its own sake.
That's the question tonight in Caracas and perhaps around the world.
Now what?
Well, let's just address this for one second.
The oil baron, who is 60% gas, 40% oil, he says this is not good for us.
He says oil is going to drop even further, which surprise, surprise, is good for America because that lowers prices on everything in theory.
I mean, I don't think grocery prices actually ever go lower, ever, but they could.
They fluctuate enough so that it's noticeable.
This might be a good time to just bring in one clip from Manhand's Welker on Meet the Press with Marjorie Taylor Greene about the America First question.
I think it's a perfect time.
President Trump says he gets to decide what America First means.
Does America First mean whatever?
Wait, wait, wait.
Stop.
When did he ever say that?
Did Trump come out and say that?
I don't think he said that.
Well, she just claimed that he did.
Well, you meant to say she falsely claimed.
She falsely.
You're right.
You're exactly correct.
She falsely claimed.
I meant to say she falsely claimed.
Yes.
In fact, she played that very clip, and that's her extrapolation by saying, well, President Trump tells us he gets to say what America first means.
But we know that this is America.
And the Don Roe doctrine.
They call it that.
You know, Don Road Doctrine is hilarious.
And he made it up himself.
I didn't hear anyone else say it until he said it.
You know, they say it's the Don Roe doctrine.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I agree.
I agree.
That's totally his creation.
That's how he does it.
He loves alliteration.
He's my guy.
All right.
So he determines what America first is.
Let's hear Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was there with her big doughy eyes, all happy to be on Meet the Press.
President Trump says he gets to decide what America First means.
Does America First mean whatever President Trump says it does?
What a loaded question.
This is disgusting.
Yeah.
Well, but it also shows you Marjorie Taylor Greene, who I think is a nice lady, but she is, she's dumb.
She doesn't even see beyond, you know, she doesn't see the implications of what this really can mean.
She's not a dimensional thinker, yes.
You know, America First should mean what was promised on the capital.
Well, you won't be able to hear it if you're if you're doing it.
I'm sorry.
I only had to make that sound once.
You could do it again if you want.
So my understanding of America First is strictly for the American people, not for the big donors that donate to big politicians.
Yeah, well, yeah.
Well, first of all, the oil company, she sees that as big donors.
And I guess they don't employ Americans.
I guess, you know, it's not part of the American economy.
She just doesn't see it that way.
She wants grocery prices lower and rents lower, which, yes, but you can't just wave your magic wand.
Not for the special interests that constantly roam the halls.
Well, the silver guy, of course, and the polymarket guy.
They won big.
Washington.
And not foreign countries that demand their priorities put first over Americans.
America First actually means for the American people.
And the American people have been put last consistently decades and decades by both political parties for far too long.
My kids' generation, my kids are 22, 26, and 28, are looking at a future where this whole entire generation doesn't think they'll ever see a social security check.
They don't believe they'll ever be able to afford to own their own home.
And 50-year mortgages are really a slap in the face.
It's insulting.
Americans don't want $2,000 stimulus checks as a payoff.
They want to have good policies brought forth for them because you want to know something, Kristen?
They voted for this administration, and their small dollar donations should matter.
And MAGA has its own enemy list.
And the enemies of the worlds are not on their enemy list.
And they're tired of being ignored.
You're right.
She's not a multi-dimensional thinker.
And I have three daughters, 29, 30, and 35.
And yes, they see it as rather dim, but they're not afraid of their, they're not even thinking of social security checks.
And now here's the difference.
The 29 and 30-year-old, they can actually afford rent.
Now, they're not anywhere in house buying mood, and that's unfortunate.
But I think what we see and we'll see coming this year, the president's going to do something with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
That rumor's been out there for a long time.
That may change things.
Rents may actually go down, which will also lower house prices as we've removed the incentives for illegal immigrants to be paid, bought and paid for by states and other criminal subsidies.
But the one who's 35 in Rotterdam, she literally, you know, she cannot find a two-bedroom apartment for the simple reason that the rule now is, and, you know, she's, she basically would be in social housing, you know, which is, you know, up to like 2,000 euros a month.
But in order to get that, she can pay it, but you have to show that you earn five times the monthly rent.
Well, no, she doesn't make 100,000 euros a year.
And so that whole, oh, Europe is really not Europe first.
America is still doable.
This, by the way, is the biggest complaint I got from my little rant on the Zoomers versus boomers.
Well, yeah, but we can't buy a house.
Well, no, you got jacked.
Absolutely.
My dad bought a house for $20,000 in 1990.
Yeah, but his money.
What was his monthly payment at 19% interest?
So, yeah, it's not great, but I think that the president does have some plans to change that.
Chronology's off the pit.
Okay.
What do you mean?
Well, the high interest was in the late, it really peaked.
It ended around 1980, not 1990.
By 1990, the interest rates are way down.
12%.
I had a 12%.
I don't think so.
I had a 12% mortgage in 1980.
Well, you got jipped.
There it is.
With a balloon payment.
With a balloon payment.
Yeah.
You know, so yes, that's a problem.
But, you know, it's Marjorie Taylor Greene makes it sound like, oh, it's the end of the world for everybody.
You know, Easy does it.
It's not great, but, you know, hardships, every generation has its hardships.
And I think the president has some plans for that.
Anyway, maybe, could I just play a couple Rubio clips from this morning because it addresses these things?
And then we'll get back to your clips, or do you want to play another series?
I don't, I, I, you know, why don't you play the Rubio clips first?
And that gives me a better feeling of what clips I should go with.
Okay, so Manhand.
I have way too many.
Me too.
I thought the Manhand's Welker was better because she just, she, you know, she's a straight Tucker, man.
She sits down, she asks the tough questions right away.
Are we at war?
Thank you so much for being here.
I want to start with this big picture question.
Is the United States now at war with Venezuela?
There's not a war.
I mean, we are a war against drug trafficking organizations.
It's not a war against Venezuela.
We are enforcing American laws with regards to oil sanctions.
We have sanctioned entities.
We go to court.
We get a warrant.
We seize those boats with oil.
And that will continue.
And we continue to reserve the right to take strikes against drug boats that are bringing drugs towards the United States that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including the Cartel de La Souls.
Of course, their leader, the leader of that cartel is now in U.S. custody and facing U.S. justice in the southern district of New York, and that's Nicolas Maduro.
So we made a big progress in that regard.
By the way, thank you, Alberto Guru, says, can't afford a house but drives an $80,000 four-wheeled truck, spends $500 a month on cell plants, internet and streaming, DoorDash, partying, drugs, et cetera.
Yeah, there's that.
Yeah, there's that.
So who's going to be running the country?
Come on, Marco.
Mr. Secretary, who is in charge?
Are you running Venezuela right now?
Yeah, I mean, I keep people fixating on that.
Here's the bottom line on it is we expect to see changes in Venezuela.
By the way, this question is never answered by anybody.
And it's because the president said, we're running it.
Yeah, Marco and Pete and everyone, they'll be taking care of things.
That's why this question is a problem and goes unanswered in every interview.
We expect to see.
I understand why they let it go unanswered.
Well, here's his answer.
You know, fixating on that.
Here's the bottom line on it is we expect to see changes in Venezuela.
Changes of all kinds, long-term, short-term.
We'd love to see all kinds of changes.
But the most immediate changes are the ones that are in the national interest of the United States.
That's why we're involved here, because of how it applies and has a direct impact on the United States.
We are not going to be able to allow in our hemisphere a country that becomes a crossroads for the activities of all of our adversaries around the world or just can't allow it.
Can't have a country where the people in charge of its military and in charge of its police department are openly cooperating with drug trafficking organizations.
We're not going to allow that.
These things are direct threats to the United States.
And we intend to use every element of leverage that we have to ensure that that changes.
The one I would point everyone to is that our military is helping the Coast Guard conduct a law enforcement function, which is not just the capture of Maduro, but the enforcement of our sanctions.
We go to court, we get a warrant, we seize the boats, and we think that this is tremendous leverage, incredible, crippling leverage, which we intend to continue to use until we see the changes that we need to see that are benefit to the American people.
And by the way, we believe to the people of Venezuela as well.
It doesn't really answer it.
Not at all.
No.
Now, of course, this was a good question, good answer.
So why aren't you working with Machado?
President Trump said the administration is working with Maduro's vice president, Del C. Rodriguez.
Why does the administration oppose working with the opposition leader Maria Carina Machado?
She's the Nobel Peace Prize winner, of course.
Oh, well, she should run the country.
Her coalition has the support of seven.
But she did win.
Yeah, no, she did win.
But, you know, I just like when you say, oh, she's a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Well, I am a podcast Hall of Fame awardee.
I should be running the country.
And of Venezuelans.
Why not work with her?
Well, a couple things.
First of all, Maria Karina Machado is fantastic, and she's someone I've known for a very long time.
And the whole movement is.
But here's the, we are dealing with the immediate reality.
The immediate reality is that unfortunately, and sadly, but unfortunately, the vast majority of the opposition is no longer present inside of Venezuela.
We have short-term things that have to be addressed right away.
We all wish to see a bright future for Venezuela, a transition to democracy.
All of these things are great, and we all want to see that.
I've worked on that for 15 years on a personal level, both in the Senate and now as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
These are things I still care about.
We still care about.
But what we're talking about is what happens over the next two, three weeks, two, three months, and how that ties to the national interest of the United States.
And so we expect to see more compliance and cooperation than we were previously receiving.
With Nicolas Maduro, you could not make a deal or an arrangement.
Although he, by the way, was given very generous offers.
He could have left Venezuela as recently as a week and a half ago.
There were opportunities available for him to avoid all of this because he's not someone we can work with.
He suckered the Biden administration into stupid deals.
He's made a career out of not keeping deals and figuring out how to save himself by buying time.
And we were not, President Trump was not going to fall into that trap.
It's interesting that I guess no one really believed the National Security Strategy document because it was clearly spelled out.
Well, I have a clip about one of the analysis clips talks just about that specifically.
Let's do that.
Let's do your clips.
Yeah, this is the Maduro.
This is CNN National NSS.
Oh, wait, this is this one.
Maduro CNN brings in NSS Institute Parter.
Again, back to Jim Schuter, our chief national security analyst.
What do you see in all of this at this stunning moment?
Well, Sarah, you remember when this administration released its new national security strategy just a couple of weeks ago, and folks were reading it and wondering, is this a serious document?
Does it indicate a major shift in U.S. foreign policy or is it largely political?
Who had a hand in it, etc.?
I was just reading through some of the language for the first time.
And one of the clear headlines was, in general terms, threats in our own hemisphere, the Western Hemisphere.
Wow, they're just now figuring it out.
That's what it said.
Oh, yeah.
You know, I went back and I did some research are more important Than those elsewhere, whether that be Europe, read that as Ukraine, the war in Ukraine or Asia, perhaps read that as Taiwan, that threats here that involve not just regimes or governments that this administration views as their adversaries, such as Nicholas Maduro, but also problems that they view as top of their list, drug trafficking,
migration flows, et cetera.
And here we see that that document was quite serious, right, Sarah, that that shift is.
A little laughter in there.
We see that was quite serious, Sarah.
And here we see that that document was quite serious, right, Sarah, that that shift is playing out before our eyes.
It doesn't mean that the U.S. withdraws from Europe or Asia, but it is certainly more aggressive in its own backyard.
And then you begin to think, hmm, beyond this project underway, the Venezuela project, the U.S. running the country, and we're about to see, as you say, the leader of the country walk off that plane, perhaps in handcuffs and a blindfold, or is what does it mean for the Cuban regime, which is also an adversary of the Trump administration?
Or even, it's a little different because Greenland is run by an ally, but Greenland is a place that President Trump has said that's in our backyard.
I want it.
Yeah.
Hello, get a clue.
Don't play clips.
Well, I'm throwing Alberta, Canada into the.
I like that.
I don't have any clips about it, but I like it.
Well, the thing about it is like, we're talking about our hemisphere, our backyard, what is more, and if we really look at this as a subterfuge for grabbing oil, you got Alberta over there sitting there with this, it's the same thing.
They're not producing anything because the Canadian government won't let them.
So let's go stir up some shit, get them to go independent.
And we got it made.
We'd have the CIA go do that.
Now, of course, the guy who wrote the nasty note to me and mentioned, well, you know, Mark Carney, what is Canadian?
Okay, let's get this straight.
Mark Carney was born in Canada.
Yes.
He was educated at Harvard and Oxford.
He's the central banker's central banker, basically.
First, he was a central banker in Canada.
Then he went to the UK to became a central bank.
Then he became a UK citizen, but dual citizen.
Then he became an he's also got some Irish connection with some crazy Irish that are also kind of nexus types.
And let's be honest, there's a lot of Irish running a lot of things.
And he's got, so he's a triple citizen.
And then when he became the prime minister of Canada, he rebuked the other two citizenships that he already says he did.
We don't know for sure.
And so, okay, he's Canadian, but he doesn't like the United States or he's part of some banking combine.
We don't know.
But the point is, this guy was telling, and he said, very nasty note.
Wow, you're really upset by this.
Welcome to the United States.
No, I'm not upset at all.
But it brought to the fore this thing, this Alberta thing, because it was like we're full of crap about this Alberta thing.
And it was reminding me, if you can remember this far back, this has to be 15 years ago when we first grabbed onto Farage.
Yeah.
Somebody wrote in, you guys are off on the deep end here.
Farage is no good.
He's just a clown.
He's never going to amount to anything.
You'll never hear from him again.
You guys are embarrassing yourselves.
Was it the same guy?
No.
It could have been.
It probably was the same guy.
So this guy is saying, so he says this about Alberta.
And I'm thinking, wait a minute, because when you start listening to these clips about what the CIA is up to, they could easily be in Alberta causing, you know, getting them.
Handing out donuts.
Hey, handing out donuts.
You want a nonstop supply of these every single day, Albertans.
You want more donuts people?
But the thing is, from what the clips I've seen, the Albertans, they're like, yeah, we'd kind of like to be part of America.
That's the way it seems to me.
I mean, that could be the long-term goal.
I personally think they should be an independent country.
They could probably pull that off.
Like Puerto Rico, kind of, a protectorate.
Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
Yeah, but it's not a state.
They could be a protectorate.
Oh, that's an interesting idea.
I never even thought of that.
You get a passport, you get your donuts, get your flag, get your MAGA hat, good to go.
Welcome aboard.
Interesting idea.
That might actually work.
Clip two on the NSS.
How far is the U.S. willing to go now to change the leadership and control of other places and countries in our hemisphere?
So that, you know, the next Alberta strategy wasn't just an empty document, apparently, because of what we're seeing on that tarmac in Newburgh, New York right now.
Well, allow me now to play a clip from Rubio where this question came up about Cuba.
Is the Cuban government the Trump administration's next target, Mr. Secretary?
Well, the Cuban government is a huge problem.
Yeah.
The human government is a huge problem first.
So is that a yes?
But I don't think people.
Oh, yeah.
Kristen.
They always want yes or no questions.
Is that a yes?
Are we going to take over Cuba?
Human government is a huge problem for Cuba.
But I don't think people fully appreciate.
I think they're in a lot of trouble.
Yes.
I'm not going to talk to you about what our future steps are going to be and our policies are going to be right now in this regard, but I don't think it's any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime, who, by the way, are the ones that were propping up Maduro.
His entire internal security force, his internal security apparatus is entirely controlled by Cubans.
One of the untold stories here is how, in essence, you talk about colonization, because I think you said Dulcie Rodriguez mentioned that.
The ones who were sort of colonized, at least inside the regime, are Cubans.
It was Cubans that guarded Maduro.
He was not guarded by Venezuelan bodyguards.
He had Cuban bodyguards.
In terms of their internal intelligence, who spies on who inside to make sure there are no traitors, those are all Cubans.
That was interesting.
Yeah, the whole country is filled with a bunch of aliens, Cubans and Hezbollah and all these other groups.
But it's interesting that Cuba was basically the intelligence apparatus for Maduro.
Well, they didn't do a very good job.
But who runs Cuba?
I always thought that was Russia.
Don't they still park their boats over there?
Russia's kind of backed away.
Well, you know, the story now that's out there is Trump did a deal.
Putin gets Ukraine and we take Venezuela.
They got a deal.
Sounds a little different-minded, but yeah.
So let's go through this analysis.
We'll do an analysis on because Machado was brought into the conversation.
Here's the Maduro CNN analysis on Machado, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who actually should have been president of Venezuela.
Dude, what are you learning?
I've been speaking to the Venezuelan opposition about their reaction to this.
Who is this?
Who spoke with the opposition?
Who, according to Rubio or not?
One of the spooks that comes in and does analysis for CNN.
But Rubio said they're gone.
They're all out of the country.
Yeah, most of them.
Well, okay, so you talk to them.
No, they're in the country, too, but they're not in plain sight.
Okay.
Okay.
And I'm told that the opposition leader, Machado, has been in touch with governments across the world following this operation.
That includes the government of France, President Emmanuel Macron, but also, and this is crucial, governments in Latin America, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, who I'm told have shared with the Venezuelan opposition their shared desire in, quote, restoring the will of the people.
I think this is important, Sarah, because here is the opposition saying that they are getting support from other countries for the opposition's role in the future of Venezuela post-Maduro.
And that's, of course, crucial, Sarah, because as you and I were speaking earlier, President Trump and his comments from Florida earlier today seemed to leave that question open, right?
He said the U.S. will be running the country.
He raised some questions about the degree of support that Machado has in the country of Venezuela, which is crucial given that it is the wide view of observers of the most recent election that Machado actually won and not Maduro.
That would give, presumably, and certainly in the eyes of many countries in the region and around the world, legitimacy to her claims to leadership in any sort of post-Maduro government.
But the opposition saying here that they are in touch with governments around the world and getting that kind of support, right?
As I said there, for restoring the will of the people in the country of Venezuela.
But at this point, it remains very much an open question as to what the process will be to decide who leads the country next and where the U.S. will be in that process.
Who will it support, right?
And does that include the opposition?
He's saying a lot of right because he doesn't know what he's talking about.
No, he's just rambling.
But Trump had nothing, you know, he didn't say much about Machado being taking over.
And then he said that she doesn't have much support.
And I think what he's referring to is the fact that they dropped her into the government.
They just shoot her because she doesn't have any support from the goons that are really still at the top of the pyramid.
You know what's interesting by omission in this whole story?
Where's JD Vance?
He's nowhere.
He's not.
He's doing dances.
He's gained a lot of weight.
He's got long hair now.
Fabious.
He's fat J.D. Fat JD.
He's floating around.
I'm waiting for Besant.
Scott Besant has to do.
I mean, money has to come in somehow.
And they must.
This looks like Rubio's up.
Well, he has to have a plan because, you know, there's still drug cartels, drug lines, money laundering, all of that's still in place.
So they've got to have some kind of plan for this because I'm pretty sure you take 96 hours, and if people aren't seeing some bread, they're going to go nuts.
Yeah, well, maybe that's what they want him to do.
So there's all this discussion about Machado.
And so I luckily caught Sky News as the only group that actually put her on the air.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Let's listen to that.
And so I have a clip of her talking so she's not like just a character in the ether.
This is Machado on Sky News explaining whatever she's explaining.
Some people talk about invasion in Venezuela, the threat of an invasion in Venezuela.
And I answered, Venezuela has been already invaded.
We have the Russian agents.
We have the Iranian agents.
We have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, operating freely in accordance with the regime.
We have the Colombian guerrilla, the drug cartels that have taken over 60% of our populations and not only involve in drug trafficking, but in human trafficking, in networks of prostitution.
So this has turned Venezuela into the criminal hub of the Americas.
And what sustained the regime is a very powerful and funded, strongly funded repression system.
Where does that funds come from?
Well, from drug trafficking, from the black market of oil, from arms trafficking, for human trafficking.
We need to cut those flows.
And once it happens and repression is weakened, it's over because that's the only thing the regime has left, violence and terror.
So we asked the international community to cut those sources because the other regimes that support Maduro and the criminal structure are very active and had turned Venezuela into the safe haven for their operations into the rest of Latin America.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we've got CIA all over the place.
We've got OFAC.
Is that it?
The OFAC, the Office of Financial Affairs.
They've got to be looking at everything right.
And I just want to say that there's such a simpleton, simpleton idea out there.
It's in the troll room too.
It's about the oil, man.
They just want to steal the oil.
Well, first of all, that is, in fact, our oil refineries.
We just talked about that.
That was stolen.
All these weak presidents did nothing about it.
And yeah, that's American sovereignty.
That's our stuff.
We had a deal.
Yeah, we had a deal.
We had a deal.
So yes, it's about the oil.
And we will sell the oil to everybody who wants it.
But that money flow going into these corrupt networks, I think the North Sea Nexus has got to be somewhat worried at this point.
Like, whoops, are they tracking us?
Do they know where it's?
I mean, they probably got lazy throughout the years.
Oh, absolutely.
There's no question about it.
That's what happens with everybody.
It's what you do.
But it's so, it's so strange to see people with so simple-minded.
I mean, even people I like from the UK.
It's like, why pay for the oil when you can just steal it?
Hashtag bullies.
That's a good one.
And a friend of ours knows the plastic surgeon who was on vacation on some Caribbean island, you know, Ufi or Ifi, or I don't know what it is.
And he was like, oh, great.
Now I can't fly home because of Trump's private war.
It's like the ignorance of people, the non-informed, just not even, you can even get some of this from Wikipedia.
It's not that hard.
But people just take spoon-fed crap from TikTok and Instagram reels and X, put a bikini on it, and like, oh, I'm good to go.
I know what's happening.
Trump, he's no good.
His oil just wants the oil.
It's disappointing is what it is.
Our education system has failed us.
This has been your lament for 18 years.
Yeah, probably right.
Then this was kind of funny.
The protest groups, they sent them all out into the streets with freshly printed signs right away.
All right, everybody, we've got new signs.
Help us hammer them onto the sticks.
It's all from the signs are all the party for socialism and liberation.
I got one clip.
I have one too after you're done.
I have Chicago.
What do you have?
What do you have Chicago?
I've got Baltimore.
Oh, okay.
Here's Chicago.
Hand up and violence oil!
Cold temperatures did not deter a strong show of support at Federal Plaza in the loop on Saturday.
As demonstrators took a loud and visible stand against U.S. intervention.
By the way, every single person you're going to hear is white, has a nose ring, has a red beanie on, and is holding a socialism pre-printed sign.
In Venezuela, the violence that we saw last night was completely ruthless, and we cannot allow this kind of violence from our government.
Several local Chicago groups issued an urgent call for an emergency protest following a controversial operation that led to the detention of Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, with Trump asserting that the U.S. government would step in to run the country.
President Trump claims Venezuela's oil has funded drug trafficking and other crimes using this as justification for intervention.
It doesn't matter who does or doesn't support Maduro.
It's completely outrageous and against international law for the U.S. to get him to where was your protest when they nationalized our oil companies.
Where was your international law then, you twerp?
Try to unseat him.
You can say that the Venezuelan government hasn't been great, and I'd argue that's probably true.
But I would also say that going into another useless war, abducting someone seems morally unquestionably wrong.
The protests spilled into the streets as demonstrators voice opposition to foreign military intervention, defended Venezuelan independence, and blasted what organizers described as an illegal and dangerous escalation.
Yeah, all right.
I guarantee you.
I guarantee you there's a there's a smartmatic angle to this.
This guy looked happy.
He was like, oh, God, I'm safe.
Take my wife too, please.
Please, please.
Okay, we'll bring her too.
And the kid.
They took a son.
They captured a son as well.
Yes, absolutely.
Trump is no dummy.
He knows what he's doing.
It's going to be fun to watch.
All right.
Baltimore.
Demonstrations in Baltimore.
Erland today.
What?
I said I'm sorry.
Oh, it's okay.
Apology accepted.
Demonstration.
You should say my bad.
I'm never saying that.
Demonstrations in Maryland today as residents and lawmakers rallied against the U.S. military operation.
Scott Massione from member station WYPR has more.
After the Trump administration's surprise attack in Venezuela, protesters converged on Baltimore City Hall.
Rachel Vaccaro, Baltimore's Party for Socialism and Liberation, Baltimore's Party for Socialism and Liberation, Baltimore's Party for Socialism and Liberation helped organize the protest.
There is no shortage of needs that the people in the U.S. face.
We want these taxpayer dollars to meet people's needs ultimately and not destroy other countries on behalf of, in this case, oil executives.
Maryland U.S. Representative Johnny Yoshevsky, who serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee, says he's deeply concerned by President Trump's comments that the United States will run Venezuela.
Oshevsky says he and other members of the committee are pushing for a briefing from the White House.
You know, and I replied, this was actually on the podcasting 2.0 Mastodon.
I don't, I shy away from politics, but someone sent me a DM and I said, hey, man, go look at the history.
They stole these companies from us.
And what happens is the lefty's favorite word is what about ism?
Yeah, well, haven't we just done bad deals with people?
Read your history, moron.
He's kind of a new guy there.
Who is that?
Come on, man.
This is a new guy.
He's a new guy.
He's a friend.
I blocked him.
I've now gotten into blocking.
I'm in the JCD school.
It's like you answer someone block.
Block.
I'm going to block you.
No time for this.
I'm too old.
I'm old.
I'm a boomer.
I'm a boomer.
I'm a boomer block.
I'm done.
I'm out of here.
Yeah, boomer block.
Let's start with these last two.
One is the analysis from NPR, but I also want to get this one in.
They're both from NPR, so let's start with the basic Maduro important analysis NPR.
Okay.
Franco, where in this puzzle does Machado, Maria Corino Machado, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, a leader in the Venezuelan opposition, where does she fit?
A wildly popular opposition leader.
Interestingly, though, Trump did not throw his support behind her.
Here's what he said about Machado.
I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader if she doesn't have the support.
Trump said she is a very nice woman, but that she just doesn't have the backing of the people.
Some strong, profound statements about the opposition leader.
Let me turn you to oil and how oil fits into this, because President Trump had a lot to say about the oil resort, how they're going to foot the bill for everything going forward in Venezuela.
I don't think he actually said that, actually.
I don't think he said that.
No, he didn't say that.
Read the significance of that.
I mean, it's very significant.
I mean, we didn't hear much talk about reestablishing democracy in Venezuela during this presser.
Frankly, we didn't hear that that much talk about drug trafficking either.
Which was the initial premise for all of this, we were told, going after drug votes, gone.
Exactly.
Go on.
Oh, she's doing a CARA.
She's doing a CARA.
Go on.
I heard that.
When I heard that, too, I heard that when she did it, and I said, ah, Adam's going to catch it.
Go on.
Talk about reestablishing democracy in Venezuela during this presser.
Frankly, we didn't hear that that much talk about drug trafficking either.
Which was the initial premise for all of this, we were told, going after drug votes, gone.
Exactly.
The focus today was largely on oil.
Venezuela, of course, has some of the largest oil reserves in the world.
And let's be clear, U.S. involvement in the Venezuelan oil industry would be a huge, huge deal.
Though reestablishing it would be wildly expensive and a really long-term project.
And it's also kind of unclear as of now which companies would undertake this challenge.
Now, Trump claimed that it would not cost the U.S. any money because he expects U.S. oil companies will happily invest billions of dollars to rebuild Venezuelans' oil structure.
But the reality is that oil, or at least he says the oil would then be extracted and sold for a profit to benefit both Venezuelans and the U.S.
Now, he says U.S. troops may be necessary to protect the oil, but he is not afraid of U.S. boots on the ground.
And that is a tremendous statement for President Trump, considering his aversion to military invention in the past.
Boots on the ground, boots on the ground, boots on the ground.
There's a lot of conjecture.
I mean, the NPR is actually way behind.
Looked at all my clips, and NPR was behind CNN so far as the quality.
But so this is my last NPR.
The last clip is NPR, and it's there.
This is the Maduro.
This is the China reaction, which was mocked by everybody because China was not a Libya.
What they do.
They hoofed it.
You know, we got other things to do with our time.
We're not getting involved.
You can't take care of this.
You were out of here.
Best price.
We out.
China says it's warning its citizens not to travel to Venezuela and says it's closely monitoring the situation in that country where China was the biggest buyer of Venezuelan oil.
And Pierce Emily Fang has more.
Although Venezuela contributed just a tiny fraction of the oil China imports, for the South American nation, China was its primary customer, ferrying sanctioned oil from Venezuela to small refineries on China's east coast on what analysts term a shadow fleet of ships left unregistered or with their trackers off in order to evade sanctions.
Over the last few weeks, Beijing has been outspoken against U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean.
And on Saturday, China's foreign ministry said the U.S.'s seizure of Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife were, quote, hegemonic acts and strongly condemned the attack as a violation of international law.
No.
Okay.
Russia also had a strong statement.
They don't care.
They put out a strong press release.
Yeah, can we still buy?
That's the question.
I got a clip from just about the drugs.
I got a clip from France 24.
They have a journalist who, I guess, has boots on the ground in Venezuela.
And here's what she had to say.
I think that every Venezuelan was surprised.
Even the military, the military personnel, even the whole statement of the government.
There's not one person in this country which could have been aware of what was going on.
Even the response was kind of late for what was happening.
Most of the electricity went down.
Even cell phone carriers went down.
So it was a very confusing situation at the moment, even for the government and for Venezuelans, of course.
The drug smuggling and trafficking allegation has been broadly covered by private investigations, by international and independent media.
But since I am a journalist and I haven't seen the proof in my hands that, in fact, Maduro was smuggling drugs, I will be very conservative to say that, to assert that this is a fact.
I mean, even the Americans are asking or demanding Trump to present the proof because this operation was not a minor thing.
This was a very expensive and a very dangerous operation, even for military, for U.S. military personnel.
So there's no proof.
There's no drugs.
There's not no drugs.
The indictment carried.
You know, the one thing that's not being discussed, which is the indictment, which allows by using the Article 2 of the Constitution allows Trump to do all this, no matter what anyone likes to think about it being unconstitutional, is the indictment very clearly points out all they have been capturing audio tapes, tapping his phone.
It's been going on for years.
Everyone who's looked at the indictment against Maduro says it's ironclad.
And I put a copy of said indictment into the show notes.
Everybody can read it for themselves.
So this woman is a stooge, whoever she is.
Well, France 24.
That's the nexus is out there.
Like, oh, we don't even know if there are drugs.
But we can go back to 1989.
I love it when these clips pop up.
When Joe Biden himself spoke on behalf of the Democrat Party about the necessity, the necessity to go in and stop the scourge of drug networks.
Every president for the past two decades, Democrat and Republican alike, has declared war on drugs.
And each of them has lost that war and lost it miserably.
They lost because they attempted to deal with only part of the drug problem.
They lost because their initiatives were pulled apart by bureaucratic squabbling among their advisors.
They lost because they always did too little and they did it too late.
We don't oppose the president's plan.
All we want to do is strengthen it.
That's President Bush at the time.
We don't doubt his resolve.
All we want to do is stiffen it.
The trouble is that the president's proposals are not big enough to deal with the problem.
We think we should do more to stem the flow of drugs across our borders.
And we think we should go one step further.
Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force.
There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists.
And they must know it.
We have to lock up the dealers for a long, long time.
And we have to attack the source from which the drugs come.
And we have to do that, not a piece at a time, but all at once.
And we have to do it now.
And there's not any reason why we can't do that.
We have the power, we have the money, and we have the knowledge.
My how things change.
Where was the outrage?
I love using the Joe Biden's old clip because back in the day when he was erudite, he could actually speak.
He never stuttered, by the way.
Where would that ever come from?
He was a stutterer.
He was a stutterer.
His whole life.
He never stuttered.
He was straightforward and very clear.
And so you don't want a president like that.
Let's wait till he's into total dementia and can barely talk or move or figure out where he is.
Then let's make him president.
That's what we do.
How big it is that?
Go back to Face the Nation.
This is CBS with Margaret Brennan.
And this is Senator Chris Van Holland with a little extra detail on the details.
Yeah, Van Hollen's the guy, as you recall, is the guy who went down and met with the Maryland dad of Bregg and Garcia and had margaritas at the cafe.
So Chevron, an American oil company, has been operating in Venezuela throughout.
And they told CBS yesterday that they continue to work there.
My understanding is there are hundreds of Americans working and living in Venezuela still.
This is true.
Chevron is the only company that continued to hobble along.
Reportedly, there are at least four who had been detained by the regime, the regime that remains in power here.
You are on Senate Foreign Relations.
What do you know about the detained Americans?
What can you find out about how they're doing?
I've not gotten an update from the administration on those detained Americans.
Months ago, I did work to secure the release of an American, a Marylander, who we now have back in Baltimore, Maryland.
I think the administration is looking at those detentions currently ongoing in Venezuela and determining how many of them are wrongful detentions, how many that they don't think are wrongful detentions.
But certainly my view is we should work to bring back every American who is wrongfully detained overseas.
I think this is going to complicate that effort, what the Trump administration just did.
Oh, oh, it's going to complicate it.
Okay.
How's it going to complicate it?
So now let's go to Rubio with Stephanopoulos.
Just a couple clips here.
It's all about the oil.
We're joined now by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Mr. Secretary, thank you for joining us this morning.
President Trump was pretty clear yesterday.
He said the United States is going to run Venezuela.
Under what legal authority?
Well, first of all, what's going to happen here is that we have a quarantine on their oil.
That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interest of the Venezuelan people are met.
And that's what we intend to do.
So that leverage remains.
That leverage is ongoing.
And we expect that it's going to lead to results here.
We're hopeful that it does.
Positive results for the people of Venezuela, but ultimately, most importantly for us, in the national interest of the United States, we will no longer have, hopefully, as we move forward here, we'll set the conditions so that we no longer have in our hemisphere a Venezuela that's the crossroads for many of our adversaries around the world, including Iran and Hezbollah, is no longer sending us drug gangs, is no longer sending us drug boats, is no longer a narco-trafficking paradise for all those drugs coming out of Colombia to go in through the Caribbean and towards the United States.
And obviously, we want a better future for the people of Venezuela.
We want them to have an oil industry where the wealth goes to the people, not to a handful of corrupt individuals and stolen by pirates all over the world.
That's what we're working towards, and we intend to use the leverage we have to help achieve that.
George, ask him again.
Ask him who's running the place, man.
Let me ask the question again.
What is the legal authority for the United States to be running Venezuela?
Well, I explained to you what our goals are and how we're going to use the leverage to make it happen.
As far as what our legal authority is on the quarantine, I'm very simple.
We have court orders.
These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders from courts to go after and seize these sanctions.
So that's, I don't know, is a court not a legal authority?
So is the United States running Venezuela right now?
Well, I've explained once again.
I'll do it one more time.
What we are running is the direction that this is going to move moving forward, and that is we have leverage.
This leverage we are using and we intend to use.
We started using already.
You can see where they are running out of storage capacity.
In a few weeks, they're going to have to start pumping oil unless they make changes.
And that leverage that we have with the armada of boats that are currently positioned allow us to seize any sanctioned boats coming into or out of Venezuela, loaded with oil or on its way in to pick up oil.
And we can pick and choose which ones we go after.
We have court orders for each one.
That will continue to be in place until the people who have control over the levers of power in that country make changes that are not just in the interest of the people of Venezuela, but are in the interest of the United States and the things that we care about.
George, George.
George, George.
Sorry, George.
I hit the wrong button.
You've got him on the ledge, man.
Ask him again.
Let me ask the question again.
What is the legal authority for the United States to be running Venezuela?
Well done.
Well, I explained to you what our goals are and how we're going to use the leverage to make it happen.
As far as what our legal authority is on the quarantine, I'm very simple.
We have court orders.
These are sanctioned boats, and we get orders from courts to go after and seize these sanctions.
So that's, I don't know, is a court not a legal authority?
So is the United States running Venezuela right now?
Can't stand it.
Well, I've explained once again, I'll do it one more time.
What we are running is the direction that this is going to move moving forward, and that is we have leverage.
This leverage we are using and we intend to use.
We started using already.
You can see where they are running out of storage capacity.
In a few weeks, they're going to have to start pumping oil unless they make changes.
The leverage that we have with the armada of boats that are currently positioning allow us to seize any sanctioned boats coming into or out of Venezuela, loaded with oil or on its way in to pick up oil.
And we can pick and choose which ones we go after.
We have court orders for each one.
That will continue to be in place until the people who have control over the levers of power in that country make changes that are not just in the interest of the people of Venezuela, but are in the interest of the United States and the things that we care about.
This is going to be the number one thing for the next two weeks.
Who's running it?
I see it right now on the quad box.
I see, oh, there's General Wesley Clark.
He says U.S. is running it, running the policy.
Who's running it?
What are we running?
Who's running it?
Who's got the ball?
Who's on first?
Who's running it?
Well, I think it's interesting that Rubio could say the same exact thing almost word for word three times in a row.
Yeah, thinking that Stephanopoulos will come up with a better question.
And Stephanopoulos could not push it.
Well, you know, it's not just coming up with the better questions.
It's the way he, I don't know, it was very poorly done.
Stephanopoulos is not that forceful an interviewer.
I mean, he can ask the same question over and over and over, but he's just lax about it.
You know, you have to do it.
You have to twist it a little bit differently.
You got to find some angle because he's going to get that same rote answer.
Very rote, by the way.
In fact, he walked off the set.
They went, you sure asked him, didn't you?
You know, the funny thing is it's interesting how Rubio is more the politician by a long shot than Trump is.
Trump in that situation would have said, that's a nasty question.
You're a nasty person.
You're fake.
You're fake news.
You're a horrible journalist.
You're a horrible.
How did you even get this job?
All right, let's have done the last question.
Chevron is the only American company working in Venezuela right now, only American oil company working in Venezuela right now.
Have you gotten commitments from any other U.S. oil companies to go in?
Well, good question, George.
I haven't spoken to U.S. oil companies in the last few days, but we're pretty certain that there will be dramatic interest from Western companies, non-Russian, non-Chinese companies will be very interested.
Our refineries in the Gulf Coast of the United States are the best in terms of refining this heavy crude.
And there's actually been a shortage of heavy crude around the world.
So I think there will be tremendous demand and interest from private industry if given the space to do it, if given the opportunity to do it.
And that will spin off tremendous royalties for the people of Venezuela to benefit the people of that country, not the handful of people at the top, but the people.
And, you know, that can happen.
There will be interest.
I haven't spoken to the companies since all this has happened.
I'm certainly aware of who they are.
And I have spoken to Secretary Wright and Secretary Bergham and others.
And I know they'll soon be sort of taking an assessment and speaking to some of these companies.
But I don't have any concerns that there won't be interest.
There'll be tremendous interest if it can be done the right way.
These stupid Democrats.
Now I see on Ms. Now, Debbie, Washam and Schultz, yes, we have an emergency call with the leaders of the Democrat Party.
Whereas emergency call, they're doing an emergency pod.
Right now, as we speak, people are saying, Hey, yeah, no agenda needs to do an emergency pod, man.
No.
That'll be the day.
Wow.
An emergency pod.
Yeah.
And then the final clip is the president was asked about Colombia, and that was kind of a similar answer to Cuba.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, you know, a couple weeks ago, he said he's got to watch his ass.
And today he said he's not concerned about anything happening to him in the aftermath of this operation.
So just what your message is.
Well, he has cocaine mills.
He has factories where he makes cocaine.
And yeah, I think I stick by my first statement.
He's making cocaine.
They're sending it into the United States.
So he does have to watch his ass.
Tough guy.
He's got to watch his ass, man.
But it's fascinating to see the media just, you know, this is going to be their next thing.
Oh, unconstitutional.
Oh, we didn't notify Congress.
All of this stuff.
And everything else falls by the wayside.
The Jews are no longer talked about.
Israel is no longer talked about.
Epsy no longer talked about.
It's just completely just like a tidal wave over everything.
And again, I think by Thursday, we'll have to have a pretty good idea of what their plan is in order to quell any issues in the region.
I don't think so.
You don't think so?
I don't think so.
I don't think they're going to get to the to clarify.
I don't think it's going to be clarified by Thursday.
I just don't.
I just see it as being a slow-moving process.
And I base that on Rubio mostly because of his repetitious answers.
He's not giving us any insight whatsoever.
No.
The misdirection of Cuba is bullcrap.
We're not doing anything with Cuba, let's face it.
Why not?
Because what's our rationale?
The rationale with Maduro is that he was under indictment and they're shipping drugs out of there left and right on these boats, and we could do, we could take action.
What is Cuba doing?
So it's just a misdirection?
It has to be.
I mean, and you got Rubio, who is Cuban, so he makes it sound like he's a tough guy.
I think the next target is either going to be Mexico.
Mexico is the real target.
Want to misdirect from that because they have issues.
They have more issues than Cuba.
They're right on our border.
Yeah.
They're not doing jack with Cuba.
And Alberta.
Alberta is one of the people.
Alberta.
And Alberta.
Alberta is going to be, it's going to be a ramp up to October when they have the voting.
And it'll be whether the Canadians, you know, the Canadians can be talked out of this because they're wishy-washy, generally speaking.
No offense to our Canadian listeners, but you know, you're kind of wishy-washy and you complain a lot.
You know, I got a note about Canada.
Hold on a second.
But the Canadians are, you know, they tend to be up on current events.
And it's possible that they could vote to be an independent country in Alberta.
It would be a shocker.
And the Canadians kind of like to be or slight troublemakers.
And this would be like a perfect example of doing it right.
Canadian Tim, I think he's Canadian, checked in.
He said on the last episode, John had an aside where you're talking about open AI hiring in a role that admits liability, just like how you should never apologize when you're in a car accident, which was a valid point.
And he says, well, this will sound like a joke, but it's not.
In Canada, because everyone is so apologetic, we actually have laws on the books that state explicitly that an apology is not an admission of liability.
And he links to the statute S09003, effect of apology on liability.
An apology made by or on behalf of a person in connection with any matter does not in law constitute an express or implied admission of fault or liability by the person in connection with the matter and does not, despite any wording to the contrary,
in any contract of insurance or indemnity, and despite any other act or law, void, impair, or otherwise affect any insurance or indemnity coverage for any person in connection with the matter and shall not be taken into account in any determination of fault or liability in connection with that matter.
Well, how about those Canadians?
That's very Canadian.
Yes, I thought so too.
Like, well, that's interesting.
Yeah, it wouldn't be a bad law to have here because people do like to apologize for getting into wrecks.
But if you do it, you're asking for trouble in the United States.
It's an admission of guilt.
Why'd you apologize, sir?
You knew you did wrong.
That's why you apologize, right?
You just don't apologize for everything.
You don't apologize for somebody punching you in the mouth.
When they punch you in the mouth, do you say, I'm sorry?
Yeah, well, the Canadians, they're on it.
I got a distressing note from Bill, Strokey Bill Walsh's longtime friend Stephen.
He said, well, he sent me a note out of the blue.
He said, I'm pretty sure it was your show that Bill was always raving about, if I'm not mistaken.
Do you remember Strokey Bill?
You do not remember Strokey Bill.
Well, you do.
He did several best of shows, and he would always send long emails about how we were stupid and XRP is great and all this stuff.
Oh, he's the XRP guy.
Yeah, he was.
He passed away December 19th.
Yeah.
And he said, your show really had an impact on Bill, and he loved listening to you.
And this for me, because I had a very kind of, I'll say, hate-love relationship with Strokey Bill because I thought he was a douche most of the time.
But it reminded me that the people who are the douchiest are actually the ones that love us the most.
Yes.
And I'm taking that into account.
Yeah, I think there's some truth to that.
Yeah, so we're sorry.
And I prayed for him, and I hope he's in Jesus' arms and he's in a better place.
So and Noah had a wife and I don't know if he had kids, but I feel sad that we that we lost strokey bill.
So I have a clip that I moved from the last show.
This is a New Year celebration.
This is a kind of a roundup of different parts of the world and what they were up to and this and that.
And there was a little tidbit in this thing and I thought it would be worth playing because I would like an explanation for it when it's finished.
Light shows, fireworks, and cultural traditions.
From the South Pacific to the East Asia, celebrations are lighting up the night.
NTD's Christina Corona brings us some highlights.
The new year began in the South Pacific, the first to say goodbye to 2025.
Sydney, Australia kicked off 2026 with fireworks sparkling over the city's landmarks.
An hour before midnight, the celebration paused for a moment of silence honoring the victims of the recent Bandai beach attack.
In Taiwan, thousands gathered at Taipei 101 for a six-minute fireworks display synchronized with music and a light show.
Over in Hong Kong, fireworks over Victoria Harbor were replaced with a light show in the Central District.
Officials replaced fireworks after a deadly November fire, turning eight buildings into countdown clocks for a three-minute show themed, New Hopes, New Beginnings.
In South Korea, more than 10,000 people gathered at Seoul's Bozing Gog Pavilion for the annual bell-tolling ceremony, with civic representatives striking the bronze bell 33 times.
Whoa!
Whoa!
What?
Whoa.
What's that about?
Yeah, and that's in Korea.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Well, I'd like to know what that's about.
I would like a Korean to explain to me what the significance of 33 in Korea is.
And please don't send us emails telling us your discovered theory about 33.
We've heard them all.
They're all different.
Yeah, they're all different.
Yeah.
Every single one of them is different.
Yeah.
Wow, that is interesting.
I have no idea what that's about.
Of course, end of the year.
So lots of lists are coming out.
This one popped up on the radar.
Words and phrases we should no longer use.
Yeah, you'll like some of these.
Every year, Lake Superior State University in Michigan puts together a tongue-in-cheek roundup of overused slang.
This one really hits a nail on the head.
The viral 6-7 tops the list.
The term demure came in second, followed by cooked, massive, incentivize, full stop, perfect, and gift or gifted.
Rounding out the top 10 are my bad and reach out, which also made the list in the 90s.
I'm going to tell you what.
If you say my bad instead of I apologize or I'm sorry, it doesn't count.
Yeah.
Agreed.
You've always had a problem with my bad.
Yeah, it's grammatically stupid.
Yeah.
I like full stop, which is also Tucker's period.
I don't think that can be done anytime.
Period.
Period.
We just can't do that.
Yeah, I've always been annoyed by full stop.
Yeah.
Why would you throw you talking to somebody?
Full stop.
What?
Full stop.
Yes, full stop.
I pointed this out on the last episode.
France is now doing something about it.
It's horrible.
When she posted her holiday outfit on X, this young woman did not think that she would end up naked on the internet for the past few days.
You just have been asking Grok.
I sent you, did you get any of that in your time?
Yeah, you sent me a couple of these.
You know, the funny thing is, the number of fat JD things I've been getting is up to like 10 a day.
Yeah.
And I still have yet to get into the groove to get any of the bikini things except the ones you sent me.
Oh, well, that's interesting because, of course, you got to click on them to see all the other things.
No, I clicked on it, but I didn't click.
I yet to click a lot.
But once you get on the groove and the fat JD stuff, he's dancing and he's playing the guitar, he's doing solos, he's sending people on tampon rockets.
Hey, we can do a combo.
Can't we say, put fat JD in a bikini?
Grok?
Wow, that's a good idea.
Yeah, I think that's that's the combo that should be next.
X's generative AI chatbot to undress women and sometimes even minors without their consent.
For Marion, this was a violation of privacy.
It's really upsetting to see this.
You wonder, why would anyone do that?
When do you decide to do that to people you don't even know on social media?
I think there have been about 30 cases.
By the way, she posts a very seductive picture of herself on social media.
By itself, a dumb idea.
Why are you doing that?
Why?
What is the point?
I'm sounding like you now.
What is the point?
Why are you putting these pictures on social media?
Look at me.
Look at me.
I'm looking at me.
I'm looking over my shoulder.
Here's a picture of me.
Look at my shoulder.
Don't look hot.
I mean, yes, here's a picture of me with my new hair.
Here's a picture of me with some lipstick on it.
Here's a picture of me standing there.
Yes.
Here's a picture of me and my dog.
Here's a picture of me and my cat.
Here's a picture of me, Look at me and my boyfriend.
Don't we look beautiful?
Wow, not your life.
Wow, look at this.
Look at the fireworks in the background.
Oh, we're eating caviar.
Oh, we're so awesome.
It's fabulous.
Our life is great.
This is what you get.
It hurts to see yourself like that.
It's not my body, but it looks similar.
And then people can reuse the image anywhere.
She reported it to the platform, but some images of her naked are still online.
Instances of free and accessible AI that are stripping women and men of their clothing are on the rise.
Here, a user asks the chatbot to put this young woman in a bikini.
Victims have been advised to report illegal content on the platform as well as to authorities.
This is interesting because Elon Musk is now posting: anyone who puts up illegal content will be banned and the authorities will be contacted.
And everyone's like, well, what is illegal content?
What exactly is illegal content?
Could you please codify that for us?
Which he, as far as I know, has not done.
And he can't.
Of course not.
Ministers and members of parliament have also reacted.
Outraged by requests made to Grok AI to strip girls and women.
While the image is artificial, the harm is very real.
The courts must examine X's criminal liability.
This is something new because there is no jurisprudence in France on this issue yet.
So it's excellent that the courts are taking up the case.
Another victim has launched an online petition calling for greater regulation of generative AI.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission did not immediately respond for comment, while the Federal Trade Commission declined to comment.
For its part, an ex-AI representative responded, legacy media lies.
Okay.
Legacy media lies, man.
This is modern media.
She should say, we never lie.
She should say, this thing sucks.
I'm much hotter than that in a bikini.
But no.
No.
It is so rampant.
I'm surprised it hasn't really shown up your timeline.
No, it does not show up in my feeds at all yet.
Hmm.
But I'm getting a lot more, besides the JD Vance doing all kinds of moves, I'm getting a lot of pretty obscure AI movies that show all kinds of just poorly done, some of them.
Yeah.
You know, of Trump shooting up the place or whoever's.
Well worth the $1.3 trillion investment.
I see more and more now that local municipalities and city councils are blocking data centers left and right.
It's become quite a thing that even Microsoft is now kind of saying, well, you know, yeah, the rollout's a little harder.
We have about 20 cases.
People don't want it.
They don't want these data centers near them anymore.
No, in fact, the one that they're building, the fusion reactor they're building in Washington State, Microsoft, which is not going to work, which is going to actually be a negative number when they're done getting it, if they even start it, has got to be a fiasco.
I got a note from Jay, confusion on fusion.
Then I will read it and then you can respond since I don't know anything about this other than the videos that I've seen that show it's all going to work.
Oh, yeah.
Videos are great.
I've been working on promoting fusion energy for years now and have tried to help your confusion in the past.
Yes, tritium and deuterium fused.
The deuterium is easy.
The tritium requires refinement or processing, like pulling it out of the heavy water at Hanford, for example, or processing lithium to get tritium.
The main thing you are missing is the two different types of fusion reactors.
The Tokamak design is most popular in Europe and the U.S.
It uses magnets in a theoretical containment system, is much smaller in scale.
Think one tokamak reactor for one data center.
The fusion reactor technology proven out by Lawrence Livermore Labs and now merged with Trump's TAE through TAE uses giant laser systems.
The containment system for an industrial size scale reactor is the last leap required.
Think of these fusion reactors for an entire region of the country.
I have met with the head of Princeton Fusion Labs, Professor Cowley, to prove out the Berner B-O-E-R, N-E-R, Burner Fusion Future Plan for the Nation.
That's the guy who ran for president.
The inside word is I have not been able to verify is that the MIT plasma scientist was working on a containment solution.
I was pissed when I heard about the Trump merger because it privatizes the effort instead of using the U.S. Department of Energy so that the American citizens own it.
This technology can take the U.S. from a superpower to a hyper nation and eat the horrendous inflation we've had.
The Burner Plane plan was amazing.
You were contacted early in the effort, which was several years ago.
Well, before you react, the good news is my buddy works now at the Department of Energy in Colorado, and I'm going to ask him and he will give me as much as he can.
Now, your take on these different systems.
I don't have a take on the different systems.
They're different systems.
They all claim to work, and I've seen no evidence of it.
Well, that's all I can say is that this is like a great idea.
I mean, I would be terrific if they get fusion to work.
In other words, take less energy to make it start up as opposed to how much right now the problem is it takes more energy to it.
It takes twice, well, not twice as much, but it just takes even a fraction more energy to produce less energy.
So you spend a bunch of energy to get less energy.
But you keep saying the system.
You can do that.
But you keep saying the startup.
So once it's started, once it's running?
No, no, it's continuous.
Well, that makes no sense.
So you have to use, let's say, 1.1x to get 1.0 out.
And yeah, you can take that 1.0 out and recycle it and put it back into the making the containments feel work or whatever energy you need.
But you're still now you're down 0.1.
No, there's no evidence.
Unless somebody shows me some documents, I've never seen one that shows that it takes less energy.
If you can put in just like a half amount of energy, then you get twice as much out.
You know, fine.
This is, you know, for me, this is the flying car thing.
People keep sending me videos.
Look, it's a flying car.
It's here.
And I'm like, no, it's not.
No, it's not.
You go to the website.
It will fly for 35 minutes at 25 miles per hour.
What good is that?
And you won't be able to fly it without a pilot's license.
Well, in America, would you have a light sport, but you're not going to be able to fly it from Fredericksburg to Austin.
A, you won't make it.
B, you've got to recharge forever.
And you can go by yourself, no baggage.
Tina, what's Tina going to drive with the backup car with a battery in the back?
No.
All of these things are toys.
The only one that's kind of there is that French guy.
What's the French guy?
What French guy?
Let me find the French guy.
Well, anyway, just back to Fusion so I can finish it off.
That's my concern.
And yeah, there's different technologies that the tokamak is the big deal.
And there's this other thing, this Helium-3 device that Microsoft's going to build.
They're not, unless I've not seen any evidence.
If these things could work at all, they would be built by now.
Well, we'll have to see.
Four more years, we'll figure it out.
It's the air scooter by Zapata, the French guy Zapata.
Oh, that air scooter?
Yeah.
Oh, the demos are dynamite.
Well, what's different about that is he has a little engine on board, which powers the supplies continuous electricity with basically a hybrid to the little rotors.
But that thing is like an egg.
One person, and he flew it across the English channel a couple of months ago, crashed into the channel.
We're not quite sure what happened.
That thing is cool, but not for $300,000.
Everyone's drone crazy.
It's like, oh, well, I could fly the drone and I could sit in the drone.
No, none of it's going to work.
You just look at the specs of these things.
Yeah, well, you can fly for literally 25 minutes.
Some go 40 miles an hour.
What is that?
Are we going to toodle around town?
Look at me.
I'm reminded of these things are faddish.
And I'd put fusion into the same category as faddish, although it's a long-term fad.
But the faddishness, do you remember the faddishness where everyone had the ultra lights?
Yeah.
And they'd get these little, it didn't weigh anything.
And they had a little motor in the back.
And I don't even know if it had a lot.
Neither lights.
They're actually better than any of this stuff.
They still have to be.
Yeah, well, they are, but they were all still crashed.
And you used to have a bunch of them in the Bay Area.
I haven't seen one for 10 years.
When they were very faddish, I used to see two or three.
We have a guy at church.
What's his name?
A kit, K-I-T-T.
And he still has metal plates throughout his body because he crashed one of them in Fredericksburg a couple of years ago.
Yeah, and then the fad before that were these autogyros.
Those are cool.
I would love an autogyro.
And those were very popular in the 70s, I think.
They are one of the safest ways to fly, but it's not an EV tall.
You still need a runway to take.
So, a couple of companies have tried to make roadable gyrocopters.
I have flown a gyrocopter.
I'm very interested in it.
No one has quite gotten there except for the VPAL, which is the Dutch guys.
But it's like this big thing.
It folds everything in.
It's this huge thing.
Maybe it fits in your garage.
You're driving with a three-wheeler.
Oh, I'm going to drive to the airport like an idiot.
And it's two people with a little overnight bag.
Those were one-seaters.
And they don't go very fast.
They go about 90 miles an hour.
Yeah, but it looks when you see one flying around.
I haven't seen one for years.
Broomstick.
You're talking about the broomstick.
Yeah, they look like a going like a bat out of hell to me.
No, they top 90, 90.
Well, they're usually only about 10 feet off the ground, these guys who fly them.
Well, now they have there's a few new ones out that have seven-hour endurance and three people, closed cockpit, side-by-side in the back, air conditioning.
An autogyro?
Yeah, really.
I mean, but you know, $400,000.
Well, you might as well buy a second-hand airplane at that point.
Because what is the real benefit other than safety?
Because they are very safe.
Engine quits, you just float down to the ground.
You know?
So, yeah.
What happens if a rotor breaks?
Then you float faster to the ground.
That's with all these drone things, too.
Well, it can fly with one rotor out.
What if two are out?
Well, you're dead.
No, sorry.
That's no good.
Well, then we have the parachute.
We have the ballistic parachute, which is an extra $20,000.
I look into all of these things and none of them.
The ones that get the most traction is that which, you know, they say, oh, we're the first ones to get a certified flying car.
I think it's Mueller, Mueller, Mueller.
Moeller, that guy, the first time, this guy has been doing this on a cycle of about a six, seven-year cycle since I was a kid.
Oh, wow.
Really?
The first time I reported this when I was actually editor of InfoWorld, he came, it was one of the cycles in 1980.
He brought it out again.
Paul Moeller.
Yeah, the same guy, Moeller.
He used to be in Sacramento.
He's around here somewhere.
And he'd bring out the flying car, the Moeller car.
Yeah.
And he'd bring it out and he brought out, oh, look at this.
There's the flying car.
We're finally there.
And I remember when I was in like the fifth grade or something, the same thing came out.
It's the same recycled car over and over and over again.
He gets a lot of publicity.
He's a good person.
He knows how to get publicity.
Yeah, he's had all kinds of securities exchange issues for investor frauds, unregistered stock sales.
40 years, $100 million spent, according to Wikipedia.
Yeah.
And if you can go ahead and go look at all these great things that you see, and China's like, oh, yeah, oh, no, it's working here in China.
Okay.
It's just not there.
It's not, I'd love it.
Believe me, if there's a real flying car, I'll sell my regular car to buy one.
But I don't see it.
So it goes right, it goes right up there.
It's in the fusion category as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, well, when we see, yeah, the fusion thing is going to collapse.
I would like to say blow up, but I don't want to use that.
It would be great.
I mean, obviously, it would be fantastic if it worked.
Yes, we would be a hyper nation.
Of course.
Yeah, it would be fantastic, but that's the thing.
It's just one of these pitches.
It's all pitch, you know, and no product.
Well, I'll talk to my guy at DOE.
Yeah, he'll tell you the same thing.
I hope so.
I hope so.
All right, what else you got, Johnny Boy?
I have a little presentation here from San Francisco.
Okay.
This is the big, we talked about it before.
They're suing the big food.
They're suing big food.
And this is the thing that got me into trouble with you because I had said one thing one day, 10 years ago.
Oh, it was two years ago.
And then five years later, I said the opposite.
Then I said I flipped.
They can flip back and forth and back and forth.
And so I'm playing these clips and I'm thinking to myself as I play these.
This is the latest.
This came out yesterday.
As I'm playing these clips, I'm thinking, wait a minute, what is my position?
I don't even know anymore.
It's okay.
I'm not holding you to any position.
We can flip-flop all we want.
It's a podcast.
I'm beginning to think it's bull crap, but here we go.
San Francisco is the kind of heavily democratic city that the Trump administration often targets.
But there's one issue they agree on.
They're both taking aim at ultra-processed food.
In the first lawsuit of its kind, San Francisco is suing 11 of the nation's top food companies, saying they sell ultra-processed food knowing that they are harmful to health.
By some estimates, more than 60% of the food consumed in the United States is ultra-processed.
A growing body of scientific research says diets high in ultra-processed food lead to chronic diseases like obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and depression.
Earlier, John Yang spoke with Ashley Gearhart, a University of Michigan psychology professor who studies addiction.
Ashley, we just heard the San Francisco city attorneys say that ultra-processed foods are designed to be addictive.
Do you agree?
Yes, in my lab that we see that these products can really trigger all the core signs of addiction, that loss of control, those intense cravings that continued use, even though you know it may be killing or harming you.
So I'll just, and this is not for any other reasons other than it was Callie Means when RFK Jr. was running and he was on Tucker.
And the story was that tobacco companies, RGR, bought the food companies and then they told their scientists, do exactly what you did to make tobacco addictive and do it for food.
That was the claim at the time.
Yeah, and I thought it was bull crap because it's like, what did you put nicotine in the food?
I mean, there's literally, there are literally addictive substances in cigarettes, nicotine, that's addictive.
Well, dude, they don't put nicotine in the Oreos.
No, but I think it was sugar and other substances.
Oh, no, because before the tobacco companies even got involved, there were tons of sugary.
I mean, I remember when I was a kid, they had all these crackers and wafers and vanilla wafers and these sugary and they had sugary cereals before tobacco got involved.
Twinkies and ho-hoes.
Twinkies.
Twinkies and ho-hos and hostess cookie to cupcakes.
Delicious.
Little Debbie.
Next.
How do they do that?
What are in the foods that make people addicted to it?
Yeah, there's a certain addiction playbook that's been used from tobacco to opiates to sports betting.
You take something that exists, typically exists in nature, like a plant or a fruit, and you alter it.
So it gives just this just right dose of reward.
It stimulates you, but doesn't fully satisfy you.
So you want to keep coming back for more.
Oreos are just as addictive as cocaine.
You can titrate the smell, the flavor, the taste, and then you flood the environment with it.
So your consumers, even if they have a slight moment of temptation, the product is right at arm's reach.
And the next thing they know, they're using again.
This is what's happened to our big tobacco really took over in the 70s and 80s.
And those same levers have been used to create ultra-processed foods that are now killing 1,400 Americans every day.
Wow.
I would say the marketing and the packaging and the coloring, walk through the food, through the quote unquote food aisle at the supermarket.
It's just like, it's like a circus.
You know, it's like, oh, eat me, eat me, eat me, all this stuff.
Oh, yeah, it looks so good and attractive and kids love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like using, though, as a term.
I'm using.
It's called eating, not using.
I'm using ho-hos, man.
I'm using some potato chips.
Hey, Dvorak, are you holding?
Are you holding anything, man?
Are you holding any twinkies?
I'm only a dime bag of potato chips.
All right, clip three.
You say when big tobacco took over food, what do you mean by that?
In the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds started buying up the big food companies like Kraft and General Foods.
They created some of your favorite products and marketed them like Hawaiian Punch and Lunchables.
And there's evidence even from researchers like Laura Schmidt, who has found that they have applied technologies, flavorants, marketing strategies that were honed to sell tobacco products and have applied them to the ultra-processed food holdings.
They divested some of these food companies in the mid-2000s, but the stamp of big tobacco on our food supply has never changed.
It's actually just amplified over time and fundamentally changed the food that we eat.
Should it be regulated the way tobacco is now?
Yeah, when I read things that the food industry is saying, you know, they're talking a lot about how to turn cravings into corporate profits.
Or they'll say, you know, indulgence has really been a main profit margin for us.
That's a big driver of how we're making money.
And so we've needed time and time again for the government to step in and put some guardrails on those sorts of companies so we and our children can live happy, sustainable, nourished lives rather than being in these cycles of just craving and crashing that doesn't benefit us, but does benefit those corporations.
Okay.
I'm calling it, this is a marketing ploy.
This is a marketing ploy for these companies now to start selling healthy, non-addictive, which is bullcrap.
I don't know how a lawsuit can become a marketing ploy.
They're not behind the lawsuit.
Yeah, lawsuit lawsuit.
In her commentary, Nestle, which is one of the biggest monster companies, what have they got to do with tobacco?
No one ever mentions that.
Well, when I was a kid, the evil big food and tobacco companies were already working together.
And in Christmas time, in our stocking, we would get a pack of chocolate cigarettes.
Remember that?
That was a setup, man.
I remember candy cigarettes, but I don't remember chocolate cigarettes.
You had the candy cigarettes were white, some sort of chalky, crunchy.
You had that.
Some were chewing gum.
I've never, no, not here.
When I was a kid, we didn't have e-bikes.
We put playing cards in our spokes.
Remember that?
We didn't remember that.
We didn't have Uber.
We had feet.
We walked.
We had feet.
We didn't have lattes.
We had Folgers with flavor crystals.
We didn't have avocado toast with nine-grain bread.
We had Wonderbread with butter.
You know, we didn't have Instagram.
We went to the Photo Mat.
You had to wait a week.
We didn't have TikTok.
We had eight millimeter film with sound.
We didn't have 100 friends.
We went to the mall and hung out.
Where there was no World of Warcraft, we had Pong and Mrs. Pac-Man.
These kids don't know how good they have it.
I think it was Ms. Pac-Man.
Ms. Pac-Man.
Yes, Ms. Pac-Man.
That was good.
And the days were good.
And we loved it.
Call me an Uber Dad.
Walk.
Well, I mean, there may be some marketing aspect to it.
And, you know, like Coca-Cola's name.
I don't know what's Coca-Cola got to do with tobacco.
This tobacco angle is what bothers me.
It's bullcrap.
Tobacco companies, you're a big tobacco company.
You're looking to diversify.
So you get into the food business because, yeah, it's not so you can make the food more addictive.
It's because you know how to sell.
You know how to sell things and you like, and you're, you're losing your ability to advertise, but you have the skill sets to do it.
So you advertise.
You're good at advertising.
That's what you do.
You're basically a sales company.
Yeah, I think you're right.
You know, boom, you're selling something else.
So what difference does it make?
Yeah, you're right.
You're blaming tobacco.
Yeah, those evil tobacco guys.
I supported them for 58.
No, I never supported him, but I didn't see it as a tobacco.
I smoked for 40, 40 plus years.
A lot of smoking.
You used to roll your own, too, which cracked me up.
Well, for most, most of my life, I rolled my own.
When I was young, when I was smoking at 13, 14, we'd go hang out at the phone booth.
You tug on the string that had the little pack of tobacco.
No, no, no.
You tug on the string to close it up and shove it back in your mouth.
No, we bought drum.
Drum tobacco was in a pouch.
You had your papers.
And that mechanism, I can still roll my own cigarette with one hand.
Because you, you know, or you hold the steering wheel with your knees.
That's what a Tesla would be good for.
I rolled up my tobacco here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You don't even have to hold the steering wheel with your knees.
Yeah, drum.
Drum was my favorite.
Drum.
And then you had some of those, some of the tough guys.
They had the vanilla, and that was black tobacco.
Ooh, man.
And then later I was on a Galawaz kick for a while.
There were Galawaz.
Oh, yeah.
The French.
Cigarettes.
It's like smoking a turd, but it was cool.
These are the people who smoke clove.
Kretek was the brand from Indonesia.
Hey, you got to smoke.
Yeah, I got some Kretex.
Oh, that's too bad.
Because it's horrible.
It was nasty.
And it would pop and sparkle.
And then you got a burn hole in your clothes.
And your mom would be like, how did this happen?
Oh, no, no, no.
No.
Of course, later, you just.
Ah, the good old days.
They were good old days.
Not like those kids in New York.
They've got Mamdani.
Few of these eight and a half million will fit into neat and easy boxes.
Some will be voters from Hillside Avenue or Fordham Road who supported President Trump a year before they voted for me.
Tired of being failed by their party's establishment, the majority will not use the language that we often expect from those who wield influence.
I welcome the change.
For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.
Many of these people have been betrayed by the established order.
And you know, before I finish, he has a little bit of a little bit of an Obama cadence, but it's all his own.
And as an orator, I'm impressed.
The words, you know, it's blah, blah, blah, but it's good.
And of course, the classic is coming up here.
But in our administration, their needs will be met.
Their hopes and dreams and interests will be reflected transparently in government.
They will shape our future.
And if for too long these communities have existed as distinct from one another, we will draw this city closer together.
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
If our campaign demonstrates the people of New York yearn for solidarity, then let this government foster it.
He's not going to do any of it.
I don't think he's going to do a single thing.
I mean, no, he's just a big talker.
Yeah.
He's good at it, though.
Yes, but it's probably just going to get more corrupt.
He did some anti-Jew stuff.
Everyone's all up in arms.
Listen to this.
Pro-Israel groups are slamming their money for revoking two executive orders by former Mayor Adams meant to support Israel.
One of them barred city agencies from boycotting or divesting from Israel.
The other adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.
It equates some forms of anti-Israel criticism with anti-Semitism.
Now, these executives' orders are two of nine that Mamdani revoked because they came after Adams was indicted on federal corruption charges.
Mayor Mamdani said he wanted a fresh start for his administration.
He did not revoke the creation of the city's office to combat anti-Semitism, which Adams created in May.
Oh, week.
Weak.
Should have done that.
I was reading a salon article about the block party.
You know, Marissa Tourmey is out there with their red hats, their socialist hats, their DSA hats, and everyone's passing out coffee.
And isn't it great?
Yes, it's a great moment.
25 degrees in New York.
We can just call it, the guy's not going to do anything.
It'll just be sad if some New Yorkers get hurt because he's putting income poops in charge of police, fire.
We'll have to see.
I hope it's not.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
I think he's not going to do anything, but he's going to, by putting idiots in charge of various departments, it's going to be a problem at some point.
And who will get blamed?
Black women.
Yeah.
Well, the head of the fire department, the lesbian, is not black.
Yeah, but listen, this is just, this is the socialist playbook.
Like, we make big talk, big promises.
And of course, you know, he said, oh, we're going to tax the rich.
Well, how did that work for Rokana?
Isn't that his name?
Rokana?
Yeah, he's out here.
Yeah.
He said, oh, 5% wealth tax on all billionaires.
And everyone went, okay, we're primaring you, bitch.
They say, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to say that.
Yeah.
You have 2,000 billionaires in California, apparently.
No, this is about 200, maybe.
Oh, I thought it was more than that.
Well, still.
I don't think it's even 200.
I could be wrong.
It's not a lot of money these days anymore.
But, you know, a lot of people are worth a lot of money, but a billion is an extreme amount.
Yeah.
Well, In 1990, a house was 20 grand.
Well, that's the thing that needs to be fixed.
Definitely need.
I haven't really figured it out yet, but I keep hearing Tom Luongo talking about what Trump's going to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and that's somehow going to fix it.
I don't think you, how you fix it is you build more houses and get rid of the migrants.
Yeah, well, one check mark on that.
It's starting.
Getting rid of the money.
Since we're in the mood, don't want to miss this report about, you know, about super flu.
I have it.
Yeah, you had it.
And of course, you know, it's all.
You already determined that, and they've determined, and they like to say that, you know, the vaccine doesn't work at all for it.
But they're going to still beat us up.
You know, it might not work, but you know, it kind of works.
And so now the technique they're using in this report is let's first scare people about measles.
Yes.
And then we can tell them to get the flu shot.
Isn't this the special K, the sub sublocade K or sublocate?
Something super special.
Super special.
I call it special K. Measles cases in the U.S. have skyrocketed in over three decades.
How many is that?
Skyrockets.
Is it to the moon?
Is it to Mars?
How high is it?
It's less than 3,000.
So we have the entire population of 300 million people.
Skyrockets.
And we have less than a percent in the OK.
CDC, the number of recorded measles cases this year has topped 2,000 for the first time in more than 30 years.
The measles cases were confirmed across 44 states.
Here in Washington, there were 12 confirmed measles cases in 2025.
Earlier this month, the contagious virus was detected at two major airports during peak holiday travel.
Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and at Boston Logan Airport.
The measles spike is being attributed to a drop in national vaccination rates.
Not just measles on the rise.
New data from the CDC shows flu cases continuing to spike across the country, driven by a new variant called super flu.
Super flu.
Super flu.
As Steve Harrigan shows us, the uptick in infections comes as vaccination rates remain low.
Health officials across the country are scrambling to contain a new surge of respiratory illnesses.
And while COVID and RSV are on the radar, this year, a new variant, nicknamed super flu, is causing the most infections.
It just so happens that this subclade K variant that we're seeing really does seem to spread very efficiently.
It's just part of its genetic makeup.
You can see here on the CDC's latest flu tracker, most of the country is experiencing high activity.
So far this season, we've seen at least 7.5 million cases, 81,000 hospitalizations, and more than 3,000 deaths.
Experts say the virus is affecting children more severely.
And that trend is expected to continue as people return from holiday travel.
If you go to the urgent care clinics or doctor's offices or even emergency rooms, they're flooded now with a lot of flu patients.
Another big driver, vaccine hesitancy.
Only 42% of adults have gotten the flu shot this year.
Doctors say, well, the new variant is not a perfect match for the vaccine.
Recent analysis from the UK finds the shot offers at least partial protection.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
What does that mean?
Partial.
You won't die.
You know, this is interesting.
So, super flu.
I typed that into my handy dandy clip search machine.
And I come up with a clip from September 2019, which would be just before COVID.
Am I right in the timeline here?
I think so.
I mean, COVID, I think, came out in 2019.
No, no, no.
But it was before COVID became flattened the curve and all the rest.
No, I mean, because I think that person died already.
That person in Washington State may have died by September.
But I know, because I think I went to Rogan in October.
And it was two weeks after that, because that's when Dr. Doom was on.
What's that guy's name again?
Yeah, that guy.
Who has long COVID now, ironically?
Whatever that is.
Gee, I wonder how that happened.
So now this could be a dud, but I'd just like to listen because this was titled Super Flu with Dr. Mark Siegel.
You remember that guy?
Yeah, he's still around.
He's on Fox.
Yeah, and he was on Tucker.
A new report by the World Health Organization says it's just a matter of time, maybe not that much time, before a major flu pandemic.
In today's hyper-globalized world, the report says a super flu could spread worldwide in just 36 hours and potentially kill 80 million people.
Are we prepared for that?
Couldn't we prepare for that?
Isn't that interesting that the CDC, did they say CDC or World Health Organization?
Let me listen again.
A new report by the World Health Organization.
World Health Organization.
So they were talking about a super flu September 19th, 2019, that could fly around the world in 36 hours and kill 80 million people.
Yeah, which was the numbers we were given for COVID hit.
So think about that setup.
Isn't that interesting?
Yeah, gee.
So when they come up with the super flu again, be careful what they're doing.
With that, I want to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the dime bag of chips.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John C. Neborne.
Hold on, are you okay?
Are you all right?
Day in the morning to you, Senator Curry.
I'm going to ship the sea with some graphene, the air subs, and the water.
The dames and knights out there.
Day in the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Let me count you first.
There we go.
2,162.
I love a good invasion of distraction.
I love it when Trump does something.
I love it.
I'll be honest.
He needs to do more.
He needs to do more of this stuff.
Yeah, because everyone's like, oh, let's see what the boys got to say.
Let's listen to them.
Let's see what those how many what they're doing for the Israel shekels.
Hasborough.
Remember, Netanyahu just left the White House when all this kicked off.
I'm just saying.
Yeah, it must have been Yahoo.
Because he calls this shot.
I'm just asking questions.
Those trolls are in the troll room, trollroom.io, and they are probably listening on a modern podcast app.
By the way, if you go to alpha.podverse.com, you can check out the new web version of Podverse.
I just had Mitch and Archie on the show.
They're doing good stuff.
It's all every single podcasting 2.0 feature is they've jammed in there.
But you can find them all at podcastapps.com.
And that means that when we go live, you'll be alerted with a live notification.
It's pretty cool.
You listen to the live stream right there in your podcast app.
It's the new form of radio, people, I'm telling you.
I tell you now, and in 10 years, it'll be so.
And I will have made no money.
That's how I roll.
I've seen it time and time again.
So get in on the train early.
So those trolls are in the troll room.
And of course, you can participate at that any time that you want to.
And you can participate in many ways on this podcast by helping us with your time, your talent, or your treasure.
Now, normally we will thank the artists for episode 1831.
However, bad news.
We got Sir Paul Couture emailed us and said, Well, we had a disastrous crash.
And of course, Paul Couture has been running the art generator for a long time, and it's usually stable.
He's not running it because he invented it.
He certainly did invent it.
And, you know, sometimes things go wrong, and sometimes things break.
And so he lost all of the submissions that were put in since the previous show, I guess, except for what he saved was everything that was chosen.
So we're sorry we can't nag and rag on all the previous AI-generated art because it's all gone.
But we can thank Jeffrey Rhea for bringing us the artwork for episode 1830, which was titled Bulbheads.
Got a lot of comments on that.
Which I didn't get any comments.
Oh, no.
Well, I mean, people are like, put a bikini on it.
I saw it in my timeline.
Bikini.
And I just wanted to say that this incredibly racist comment did not come from you or from me, but came from Mimi.
Mimi's the one who first told me, used the term bulbhead.
It's so horrible.
It's got to be the worst.
But there it is.
That was her description of the guy who ran for mayor.
Which mayor?
Minneapolis.
That Somali that ran for Minneapolis mayor had a curious shape, cranium.
Cranium.
And she called him a bulbhead.
How about, have you seen, what's the girl who was just on Saturday Night Live?
The great singer.
Ariana Grande.
Yes, I've noticed that her look has changed.
She has an alien head.
Tishi went through, she got some, I think she had some work done, and I don't think it came out well.
But it's like the back of her head extends half a head longer than it should.
You got to take a look at it.
Yeah, she also doesn't look that fair face is also skewed.
But she may be a different person.
That's possible, but she can sing.
I'll tell you that.
Oh, yeah, she's always had a good voice.
Girl can sing.
So thank you, Jeffrey Rhea.
And again, we can't nag and rag on anything else because it's all gone.
But noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload your homemade art or your slop as you so.
Yeah, it's working now.
Yeah, it is working now.
Well, at least accepting art.
It is accepting art.
I see some interesting things already that I'm liking.
Remember, it's not about the tool.
It's about the thought behind it.
It's about the humor.
Can you get our attention with something funny?
Usually simple is better.
Keep it simple.
That's usually better.
Don't try to fill it up with all kinds of little gags and things in the background.
Just keep it simple.
And often, and this is a big mistake people make, is they will put a title underneath the art, which makes it very funny.
But if you don't read that title, you don't understand the art.
How do I explain that?
That doesn't work as standalone humor.
It doesn't.
It doesn't.
Yeah, you can't do two-part humor.
You can't have a connective title name that makes it funny.
Yeah.
I'm already telling you, Darren O'Neal is ahead.
He's already got some zingers here.
Well, he's got to do something to make up for a show today.
Yeah, that's true.
Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload your art.
We love it.
It's a lot of fun.
At this point, it's open to everybody with a keyboard.
You can just go to your favorite generator and say, maybe some podcast art for this podcast.
And usually it turns out okay.
So thank you very much, Jeffrey Rhea.
Well done, sir.
You thwarted Darren's hat-trick, which he was very bummed about.
Good job.
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So we start with Archduchess Kim, keeper of the nutty fluffers, who sent in a handwritten note.
No, I'm sorry, a typed note, along with whoa, $2,625.
Am I reading that right?
Apparently.
Wow.
That's amazing, Kim.
Okay.
She says, ITM, Adam and John, jingles.
Oh, she goes with the jingles right ahead, right up right up front.
Beautiful.
She's a pro.
See, she is a pro.
Screw your freedom, little girl Yay, and R2D2 Karma.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to both and all of Gitmo Nation.
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She's a scholar.
This donation is 26 for the new year and hopes it will bring.
And the 25 is on the end to signify what's done is done.
Wow, she's like a theologian.
Also, I want to say a very Merry Christmas Christmas to the best high school math teacher in the world, my dear friend Angel, and to the best parents a lady could ask for, Night John the Grumpy Miner, and Melody.
Sounds like Melody needs a dame title.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Archduchess Kim, keeper of the nutty fluffers, fluffers from Hubbard, Oregon.
Thank you very much, Kim.
That is really appreciated.
Screw your freedom.
You've got karma.
Let me move on to another check that came in as a check, which is good.
And then another check came in from Samuel Barrett from Vernon Rockwell, Connecticut, $800.85, which also had a note.
Giant memo page, which looks like a template.
Yeah.
ITM Jen says, a listener of the show since Adam's first Rogan appearance in March 4th, 2020.
Now, Adam just told us that his first appearance was in October of 2019.
Well, there it is.
I guess I was wrong.
So it came before because right after Rogan, that's when the shutdown came, two weeks later.
So World Health.
It was the first person who dropped dead, the guy who dropped dead in Washington State, which we covered.
First dead guy from COVID, I think was predating the super flu clip.
Well, I think.
But the fact that WHO was calling it that way is sus.
Very sus.
Hey, did you see, by the way, what Samuel did in the CC?
Adam Corolla Curry.
No, he has Corolla crossed out, Curry.
Oh, I did.
Joker.
Joker.
Oh, yes, slightly crossed out.
Adam Corolla.
Thanks.
That is funny.
I'll continue.
As a listener to the show since Adam's first Rogan appearance on March 4th, 2020, I'm ashamed to admit this is my first donation and I require a dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
That's a long time to wait.
But thank you.
Hopefully these great big boobs.
885, yes, makes sense.
With the five as the S, boobs, and they're big.
We'll make up for it for now.
I'm wishing Adam, John, and Gitmo Nation a happy new year from Fiji, Fiji.
It's not FEMA region anymore.
It's Fijian.
Fijian.
FEMA Region 1 and would like to request an F cancer for my mom, who's currently recovering also a Trump mac and cheese because I just love that one so much.
What?
There is.
There's the mac and cheese.
There is no Trump mac and cheese.
There's no Trump mac and cheese.
But I'll make one.
I'll make one for you.
And then he says, and I want to clarify this.
Note to Adam, don't let John keep Tom Sawyering you into calling out the 50s and above.
No, this was a decision we made after I had been doing it for 17 years and clearly getting burned out from it.
And could barely read the names, let alone the cities and the notes.
Yeah, it was an executive decision we made.
And it was now, were you the one that suggested it?
Or I say strongly suggested it.
And I was glad to go along with it because you let Adam do this work for a while.
That's not Tom Sawyering at all.
No, if I had tricked him into it, yes, but I didn't.
I would go on my merry ways just reading like people even understand the term Tom Sawyering.
Do you think that people have read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn at this point in our life?
No.
The number of people that know what Tom Sawyering is is probably.
Hey, man, wasn't that a cool track?
20% of the audience, maybe 20% if we're lucky.
It was a great, great track by Rush, man.
Those guys did Tom Sawyer like nobody else.
You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
Mac and cheese.
Mac and cheese.
Macaroni and cheap shed are melted together.
Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese.
Mac and cheese.
Everybody, they're eating the dogs.
You've got karma.
Kind of a partial Trump there.
I think eating the dogs works.
Yes.
We move on to James Scott from Parlin, New Jersey, 222, which is a row of ducks.
No note that I found from James, so we will give him a double up karma.
You've got karma.
Well, then we go to Matthew Dunage in St. Clair, Michigan, who came in with 202 and has just a single word, Godspeed.
Godspeed indeed.
And there's Eli the Coffee Guy from Bensonville, Illinois with 201.04.
He says, he's from Gigawa Coffee Roaster.
See, happy new year, gentlemen.
And to all those in Gitmo.
Thanks to Edward Shaja Saja for the plug last episode.
It made John touch on the difference in my roasting technique.
And John is right.
I do use an unconventional roast profile, but I can't take all the credit.
Starting with really great green coffee helps a lot.
The farmers who work hard to grow the coffee are the real heroes.
I just help the beans sing.
He's such a humble man.
Visit gigawattcoffee roasters.com.
Use code ITM20 for 20% off your order.
He says, I'd like a karma for all those out there around the globe who grow our food, except for the bastards who try to feed us bugs.
I guess that happens in the coffee business.
Stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy.
And here's a Go Karma.
You've got karma.
Which brings us to Jeff Gross, a groll in Jeff Groll in Sandy, Utah.
He came up with 200 bucks.
I can't find a note from him, so he gets to double up karma.
Yes, indeed.
You've got karma.
Okay, next from Gainesville, Florida, $200.
We have Lupita Eyd Tucker, I believe.
And she says, Adam and John, please deduce it.
You've been deduced.
My name is Lupita, and I live in Gainesville, Florida.
My big bro Neil hit me in the mouth back in 2021.
I'm a homeschooling mom who has been helping families homeschool in Florida for over 20 years.
Wow, that's what I call a patriot.
And I would like to plug my substack, path to graduation.substack.com.
Path to graduation.substack.com.
And my transcripts, evaluations, consulting, and college application services for homeschooled students through my company, Florida Homeschool Advisor LLC.
Well, hereby plugged.
Thank you for all you do.
Nice work.
Yeah, incredible work.
Thank you for all you do for our sanity, sending blessings and lights to you both.
Kindest regards, Lupita Eyd Tucker.
That is path to graduation.substack.com.
We need more, more women like this, more moms, more homeschooling moms.
Beautiful.
Carla Reinhardt comes in from Sioux Rapids, Iowa.
Sioux Rapids?
Yes, yeah.
I never heard of that, but okay.
Sioux Rapids, Iowa.
200 bucks, no jingle, no note, no jingles, no nothing.
Double up a karma.
Karma.
Boom.
Which leaves us with the final.
She's always at the bottom of the list, but she's always there.
$200, associate executive producer for Linda Lupatkin from Castle Rock, Colorado.
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Our formula is this.
We hit people in the mouth.
The dogs.
So I didn't want to get this out of the way.
This is the, we don't have anything on the Minnesota fraud.
At least I don't.
I do have a comment from Walls that I think is worth playing.
It's about the Learing Center.
I guess there is no way to put this delicately.
So basically, we're fucked.
They caught us.
The FBI is looking at all of us right now.
So please tell your brothers, your husbands.
Well, you're from Somalia.
So your brothers are probably your husbands, whatever.
Just tell all your family members to shut it all down right friggin' now.
If you have kids, put them in a truck and take them to the nearest quality learing center.
I know it's supposed to say learning, but you're all so fucking stupid you couldn't even get the sign right.
Anyway, take them to the learing center and tell them to pretend like they're learning shit, okay?
It just doesn't work in audio.
If you don't see it, it has to have the video.
I think these AI things, they lose it in audio.
What?
Yeah, I think they lose it in audio.
You think that was AI?
Please.
No, please.
Yeah, I disagree.
I'm not sure if you can see it.
You're telling me that's no, no, that was a okay.
I'm just going to disagree in general.
I'm not disagreeing about that particular thing.
That wasn't a very good voice.
The voice was not trained properly.
It didn't sound enough like Walls.
It should be exaggerated a little bit.
It should be.
I think this is closer.
This is Liz Warren complaining.
Oh, sorry.
I wasn't prepared for that.
Liz Warren.
Trans community is not a violent community.
We are a peaceful people.
I myself am trans.
I'm trans race.
I identify as a Native American from the tribe of retard Ho, descendants of the Navajo and the stupid host.
And we are a peaceful people.
Okay.
You know, the problem is you don't see what's going on in the background.
You don't see that.
It's like, and for some reason, people can't write something funny enough.
They have to put cuss words in there.
And I'm a retard.
You know, it's like, it's, it's old, I guess.
Put a bikini on her.
That would be funnier.
Just, it's, you know, no.
I just thought it was worth it.
I'm underwhelmed.
I'm just underwhelmed.
Yeah, you're picky.
You have better ears than most people, too.
But that, I thought the Warren voice sounded very close.
I got a big report out of Germany.
This is right out of a movie, people.
It's being described as one of the biggest heists in German history.
Investigators are now trying to work out how thieves managed to steal valuables worth tens of millions of euros from a bank in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.
Police believe a large drill was used to break through a thick basement wall to reach their loot.
Hundreds of furious customers descend on their bank, terrified that everything they own has vanished.
I have entrusted and invested all my savings here.
I didn't sleep last night.
They're not giving us any information.
Emergency services discovered the break-in on Monday morning after the fire alarm went off.
Firefighters and police officers searched the bank for a possible fire.
But instead of flames, they found a hole in the basement wall and a ransacked vault containing cash, gold, and jewelry worth tens of millions of euros.
If someone had a safety deposit box, there's a high probability that it was broken into because 90% of them have some victims fear their losses may exceed the insured value of their boxes.
Here my mother's gold coin is gone.
She passed away in 1988.
My grandmother's gold bracelets, which I hoped would secure my daughter's future.
Investigators are still piecing together how it all happened, but they believe the burglars used a nearby parking garage to gain access to the bank.
Police say the evidence points to a highly organized operation.
I would definitely say this is quite spectacular.
It is really unique compared to anything I've ever seen, heard, or read.
I have never heard of any similar case, except perhaps on TV.
This was like an Ocean's 11.
They drilled this huge hole through, you know, like a two-foot wall.
How old school is that?
Yeah, it's pretty good.
You have to have that takes a lot of planning.
Yeah.
And who puts their gold coin in a vault in the bank anymore?
That doesn't sound like she said one gold coin.
I have my one, you know, I have a very small tract of land, this little parcel.
My parcel of land is in the and then cash.
Why would you put cash in a safe deposit box?
Yeah, put it in your mattress like normal people.
That's what you do.
Or you maybe put it in the bank where it's insured.
Yeah, the big thing now is people, you know, come and rouse you at home and say, give me a Bitcoin key.
That's a big one now.
They're kidnapping people everywhere for it.
At first, you have to know that somebody has a Bitcoin key.
Well, if you're...
How would they know?
Well, if you're the CEO of an exchange or some, or if you're boastful.
Now, of course, the way to go is two of three multi-sig.
So I can give you my key, but without the other two, you can't, or at least one of the other two, you can't get to it.
You've just given it away.
Well, no, I'm not giving nothing away.
Yeah, you just told people, everybody out there, every criminal listens to this show, and there's probably more than one.
You've just told them that there's a three-key system that you use, and now they're going to have to beat it out of you.
No, but I don't have the other two.
The other two are not in my possession.
That's the beauty of it.
Oh, where are they?
With a trust company.
No.
No.
Oh.
Yeah.
That is the only way to get it.
Only way to recover them so that you can't be beaten into submission.
So you can beat me.
They can beat me, but they're not going to get my Bitcoin.
But come and take it, Suggas.
We're ready here in Fredericksburg.
I have two tick clock talk clips.
Okay.
I'll go.
Oh, whoa.
I'll go.
I'll go with you.
That's fine.
I'll go with you.
Okay.
I'm just deluded women.
I just, I'm sorry.
No.
I'm going to try to.
I'm weaning myself.
Here's a question.
Thank you.
Here's a question.
Have you already posted these on Twitter?
Because I see some, I mean, you're in my timeline now all the time.
And it's like it ruins it because then I see these clips on X. I'm like, oh, then you play them on the show.
You need to segregate that stuff.
I'm going to do that.
Why are you giving valuable show material to Elon Musk?
I'm not going to argue with your point.
Okay.
Let's start with the box checker.
I always get asked if I want children, and the short answer is maybe.
The long answer is I will not be having kids with a man unless he can check off these boxes for me.
For starters, the man will absolutely have to be my husband.
I would never give a man a baby without the biggest rock on my finger.
The second box would be a push present is a non-negotiable for me.
I want either a car or house.
It's a non-negotiable.
Also, assuming the man I will be with would be tatted, so he would have to get a tattoo of my face on his stomach because it's a body for a body.
My body's going to change forever.
So should his.
The third box would be that I need a house cleaner.
And then the fourth box would be that I need a full-time nanny.
I already know who the nanny would be.
It would be a family member, but I want that family member to be very well compensated for their time and energy.
So yeah, remember before you type some nasty ass shit that these are my requirements, right?
You don't have to have any requirements.
If you just want to have a baby for the free, or if you just want to be a man that wants to give a woman a baby and you want to do nothing else but spread your seed and have nothing else to offer, the woman, then, you know, live your life.
This is my life and I will not be changing and sacrificing my whole entire life without these boxes being checked off.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, first of all, I think the correct term for a woman like this is not a box checker, but a box fox.
Second, although this is somewhat exaggerated, this is in fact the problem with many women, as I've heard from many young men, that they do have these boxes.
And it's the sixes, typically six feet tall, six pack abs, six six figure salary, et cetera, et cetera.
And I think that the woke Democrat liberal culture that we are weaseling our way out of has ruined them.
Yeah, I think so too.
They're ruined.
So it's a ruined person.
Yeah, that's actually very sad.
I'm very sad for her.
But I believe that to be reasonably authentic.
Oh, thank you.
That's one of the few clips that you thought were real.
I think it was authentic and I'm not sorry for her.
I'm just, I think she's a sickening person.
Yeah, but I have love for everybody, John.
Yeah.
Yeah, I do.
Even my enemies.
Here is another one.
This is a now this one is interesting because this is another delusional woman and she and this has got a twist in it, which really took me aback.
And the only reason I'm playing it is for the little twist at the end.
What I find really fucking comical.
Me and all my liberal friends want to be traditional housewives.
Well, not all of us, but most of us.
But the problem is we don't like Republican men because they don't have the same sense of justice and morality that we do because we care for every human being.
And the liberal men don't believe in exploiting themselves for labor.
So like we have to have an equal household because the only one ones that bust their ass and make enough money to support a stay-at-home mom, wife, whatever, are the Republican men because they will exploit the shit out of themselves for money.
Then they're miserable and burn out and take it out on everyone around them and refuse to take meds.
So it's like, I'd rather be alone.
Well, your wish is granted, young lady.
Yeah, she'll be alone, but what is this thing that they get all, you know, they have issues because they're working too hard and they have to they will and they refuse to take meds was the kicker.
What is wrong with these people?
Oh, they refuse.
I'm not going to run off with a Republican men.
They refuse to take meds.
Everybody's on meds, man.
Everybody's obviously on meds.
I would say nine out of ten of the TikTok women you play are on meds.
You have no idea.
And it's all SSRIs, all of them.
You know what I'm kind of worried about, or a quick conversation.
So if President Trump pulls off what he's trying to pull off, and there will be a lot of jobs, but these will be trade jobs.
Do you think that there will be enough young people who actually want to do this, who want to retool, reschool, learn how to do these things?
Can we actually go back to a productive, a production-type economy with the type of people we have now?
Do you think the Zeds will do it?
Or have they been completely ruined?
I think they can be brainwashed into doing it.
Well, really.
I mean, it just seems that at some point, you've just got to be sick of the boring life of sitting behind a PlayStation or not having a girlfriend or not having anything going on.
And you're getting old.
And by old, I mean 30.
And maybe you can learn how to be a plumber.
I mean, I think people that are already 30, it may be too late for them, but people are coming up.
They look at what's ahead and they see the opportunity for them not to go that way.
I hope so.
Be the 40-year-old guy living in the house, still living at home.
Yeah, I hope so.
40-year-old virgin, basically.
Yeah.
I hope so.
We'll find out soon enough.
I hope that people take advantage of the opportunity because it's going to be good money.
I really, there's going to be good paying Eugene jobs.
It's going to be good money.
You can already see it happening.
I think it's, what is it?
Apprenticeships.gov.
They're doing a million apprenticeships, but no one talks about it.
No one ever says, hey, there's some opportunities out there.
You should probably jump in on that.
Get your hands dirty.
Oh, I don't know.
I've been looking at this Fuentes on Owen's AJ clip for three hours.
I'd love to know what that is before we go into our last segment.
This is just a clip, a snippet from Fuentes.
Tell me it's not AI.
Tell me it's not AI, John.
It's not AI.
It's not AI.
This was a snippet of Fuentes was on Alex Jones.
Recently?
Oh, I missed it.
Yeah, you did.
And Alex Jones, just a love fest between these two.
I mean, they're genuinely like each other, it seems.
Unlike Tucker.
I like him.
I like him.
He's got gusto.
He is.
Yeah.
He's got gusto.
And Globalist, he's all against them.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's good.
You got it.
You nailed it.
Yeah, I nailed it.
Come on, DeVora.
So they get along.
But Fuentes drops this little bomb about Candace.
He does understand that she comes, that she married a character who's part of the British royalty nexus and all the rest.
But he throws in another character I never knew anything about specifically.
And he puts it in there as a quizzical situation that he doesn't understand why people are talking about one thing or another about Candace, but they never bring this guy up and this is the guy.
This guy who's been supporting her, John Mappin.
I don't know why nobody's talking about John Mappin, the Scientologist, the heir to the jeweler that creates the crown jewels for the British royal family.
He allegedly introduced her and her husband.
He's been so supportive.
She retweets him.
He's writing letters to her.
He was best friends with Charlie Kirk.
His wife is from Russia.
I don't know why nobody's talking about that guy.
No one's talking about George Farmer.
They all met through Turning Point UK.
So you have Turning Point USA.
She met her husband through Turning Point UK.
She made a bag off of Turning Point USA and Turning Point UK.
So there's definitely something suspicious going on there.
Maybe a foreign intelligence play of its own.
Oh, he's finally catching on to the North Sea Nexus.
Oh, that's good.
We need him to be talking about that.
That's good.
Yeah, I know about this John Mappin guy.
John Mappin?
M-A-P-P-I-N.
John Mappin.
Globalist.
You know, it's interesting.
Tina and I have been watching the series Victoria on Netflix, which is about Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne when she was, I think, 18 years old.
And I'm Virgin Queen.
She was the Virgin Queen, yes.
And of course, Albert, and they're all Germans, which is great because she came from Coburg.
Albert came from, they're all Germans.
The whole, they just changed their name later.
Winza.
We're from Winza.
But it's, and I think it's a very accurate portrayal of those times.
This is 1800s.
And you just see the rich, the riches that they got from the entire British Empire and how the British people suffered under them.
Even though it's a love story and it's all beautiful and the costumes are phenomenal.
But the British royalty do not give a hoot about the people.
Not for one.
They never have, ever.
They're just living in squalor among rats and eating stale bread.
And they got cholera, Indian cholera, and just they don't care at all about them.
It's amazing that people still want to live there at all because you know it's still the same with the House of Lords.
They're just no good.
Can I just state that?
They're just no good.
The Brits, you know, I lived there for a couple, for five years.
I like their humor, but they don't care about plebs.
They really, really don't.
Don't give a rat's ass about them.
Your thoughts.
I'm not going to disagree.
I mean, I worked there I went twice a year to London and the rest of the UK for about a decade.
So I've been there enough to find my way around and drive, which is always amusing.
Especially on the roundabouts when you do it for the first time.
The roundabouts, they're very, the roundabouts are a little frightening, but the rest of it's pretty easy.
But I like that.
You find them going against traffic on the roundabout.
I've done that.
The roundabouts are a rough go, and there's lots of them.
But I found that there are royalists that really are just crazy about the royals, and I think it's very important to have them.
And there's people that hate the royals and are always considered like communists when they're not.
I really can't put my finger on whether I, I mean, I enjoy going there.
I can blend in as best I can anywhere.
And as a pale white guy.
You just eat some fish and chips or a curry and you're good to go.
But the more that we do research, the more it's obvious that the British monarchy is stronger than we think it is.
They try to, they've sucked soldiers suckered everybody into believing.
They suckered everybody, but if you start looking at their total net worth, which is who knows, it's outrageous.
You think Elon Musk is rich?
No, no.
You look at the net worth of these guys and the buildings and things that they own all over the place where this, where what's his name?
Andrew is kicked out of the lodge, which was a huge mansion behind Windsor Castle.
He had to go to another mansion someplace else.
He has to use his old name on, was it Mountbatten or whatever?
He's not less used with it.
Whatever it is.
Who cares?
And so he's, yeah, he's down one maid.
Victoria.
Victoria, they call her the grandmother of Europe because all of her kids, they're all royalty in Spain and all these different countries, all throughout Europe.
I mean, the Nexus really does come from them.
And of course, the Orange family, who Queen Victoria said as they were looking for her to get married.
Oh, I don't want to marry that pumpkin head Dutchman from Orange, which pretty much describes the Dutch royal family, pumpkinheads.
Yeah, it's just, yeah, and they hate us.
They hate us.
They can't stand that we did so well.
So I think that's that concludes our North Sea Next analysis.
The Brits hate us and they hate and they hate poor people.
I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do this.
Well, we have a few people who think they gave us $50 and more.
And Adam is going to read the list one by one.
It's a very short list today.
It's only total, very few.
We didn't get good responses except for the Kim of the Nutty Fluffer.
She helped us out quite a bit.
Pulled us out.
Yeah, she sure did.
Pulled us out.
And I want to thank Luce from Halo, first of all.
She sent me a box to my P.O. box.
By the way, I got my liquid smoke as well from our muscle car dame who we damed on the previous.
He was one of the first dames of 2026.
My liquid smoke was not breached, so it was good.
And I thank her very much.
And Luce, she sent me a box with seven bags of Dutch licorice.
I cannot.
Seven bags?
Yes.
All different kinds, all because Dutch licorice is just, it's something to behold.
I mean, the different kinds.
And I'm pre-diabetic at this point because I'm addicted to this stuff.
You can't just eat the bag.
Oh, we have a little licorice.
Should own by a tobacco company.
It definitely.
They've made that stuff into crack.
So thank you very much, Luce.
It's appreciated.
On the list, we have one of our Bitcoin donors who guest did not send us a note.
It came in through Strike, $137.16.
Lucas Zvitziva from Bayerbrun in Deutschland, 101.26.
Thank you.
Baron Ladikin from Houston, Texas, $100.
And there's Kevin McLaughlin, our Archduke of Luna, Lover of America.
And Boobs from Concord, North Carolina, with a boob donation, 8008.
Stephen Hutto, Petersburg, Florida, 75.
Then we have the NICU dad.
Yeah, he is a knight.
We know the NICU dad from Kyle, Texas, $67.
And he says, gents, this $67 donation is being made in honor of the 67 days our daughter Emerson spent in the NICU.
We've known him for a long time.
To kick off the NICU Dad donation challenge for 2026, he says he challenges NICU parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others to donate in honor of their NICU warrior for each day they spend in the NICU.
I appreciate your support of one of the first and only 5013 organizations in North America dedicated exclusively to NICU dads.
So his request is: if there's anyone in Git One Nation who could help us produce some challenge coins to start giving to these NICU dads, please let me know.
Contact me at thenickyudad.com and uh i'll give you some karma at the end there for blessed 2026.
Lester Kowski, Kingman, Arizona, small boob 6006.
Dame Nancy, Sam Bruno, California.
Happy New Year, she says.
Thanks for keeping us sane.
She's known as Dame Nancy of the Confused, 5721.
Double nickels and a dime from Brian Furley.
We have Enos Zeznelov, Zezhanov, Zezhnelov from Uzwil, and that is the Czech Republic, I believe.
Switzerland.
Oh, CH is Switzerland.
You're right.
Hmm.
Doesn't sound like a Swiss name.
Enos.
$55.
Thank you.
Sean Murray, Warrenville, Illinois, 5432.
We see what you did there.
We love that.
John Balsano, Madison, Alabama, 5272.
Matt Frezi, St. John's, Florida.
These are the 50s.
He's got 50 for us.
Thank you.
Foster Birch from New York, New York.
Daniel LaBoy from Bath, Michigan.
Henk Ringelberg in Dronton.
James Sharimeta in Napanach, New York.
Chris Connacher from Anchorage, Alaska.
Leslie Walker, Roseburg, Oregon.
She says, No Agenda's the best.
Thanks, Obama.
Walker Phillips, San Rafael, California.
Jason DeLuzio, Miami Beach, Florida.
And we wind up with a frequent visitor to the 50s.
Aichi Kitagawa from San Francisco.
Thank you all very much for these $50 donations.
These are the ones that we mentioned.
Below 50, we do not mention for reasons of anonymity, but we see it all.
We see your notes.
And we see you $49.99s.
And we thank you very much.
It's value for value.
If you want the show to keep going, this is the only way we support ourselves and our families and the work that we do for you.
And we are happy to do it.
We love doing it for you.
Go to noagendadonations.com and support the show.
Once again, that's noagendadonations.com.
Well, if we have a short donation list, how about the birthdays?
We only have one.
Jose Luna wishes his smoking hot wife Allie in San Antonio, Texas, a very happy birthday.
And we join in.
Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
Now we have a couple of knights with some make goods.
First of all, Jeffrey Rhea.
We didn't get a note from him on the last show.
So he said this donation should make me a knight.
Let's go with Sir Prompt Jockey of Madeira.
Yes, he is from Spain, Portugal.
I'm sorry.
Four more years of sifting through my artwork.
Thank you, Jeffrey Rhea.
Darius Gandhi, also a make-good note.
He sent in $333.33.
He says, congratulations on 18 big, beautiful years.
Madeira in Portugal?
I thought it was in Spain.
But I think he is in Portugal.
I thought he was from, if I recall, he was from Morgan.
Oh, I remember he was in.
I thought he was in Madeira.
He could be.
By the way, a lot of Madeira drinking at the at Windsor Castle in the Victoria show.
I didn't know that Madeira was such a big, big deal for the Brits.
I think it was a bigger deal back then.
I mean, it's still the same product, and you can still get it.
Coming up in one of the tips of the day, I'll give a little Madeira lecture and you know what to do.
Yes, I love you.
I give you Madeira Madeira.
Back to Darius.
Congratulations.
Where else can John's file naming system drive Adam mad and still produce hours of perfect podcasting only on the No Agenda Show?
You both somehow turn hours of LA traffic into minutes of pure joy.
I believe I've now met the requirements for knighthood.
I would like to be known as Sir Darius of Venice, California.
Would love a bean and oh, I didn't roundtable.
Write this one down.
A bean and cheese burrito and a cold bottle of Mexican Coca-Cola, which, of course, is the best.
We drink it here in Texas.
And by the way, all Coca-Cola will be Mexican Coca-Cola.
Is that true?
Even Robert Kennedy has his way.
Well, that's right.
That's right.
He says much respect and love to both you and your family.
So we'll give him and the earlier requested Niku Dad Karma a karma.
Here we go.
You've got karma.
And let's knight those two gents right now.
If you can give me your blade, too.
Yeah, they got a blade right here.
Ah, that's a British blade, I can see.
Jeffrey Rhea, Darius Gandhi, both of you hop up here on the table.
I mean, the podium.
Well, you can hop on the podium via the table if you want to.
Both of you have supported the best podcast in the universe in the amount of $1,000 or more.
And therefore, I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as Sir Prom Jockey of Madeira and Sir Darius of Venice.
And at the roundtable, as requested, bean and cheese burrito and a cold bottle of Mexican Coca-Cola.
Along with that, Hookers and Blow, Ren Boys, and Chardonnay.
Of course, we also have diet soda and video games if you want.
We got beer and blunts.
We got Ruben S. Rubin and Rose, geisha, the sake, vacuum, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling side art and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk, and pablum.
And as always, the mutton and the mead.
And welcome to the roundtable.
Both of you head over to noagendarings.com.
Take a look at those very handsome night rings.
All you got to do is send us your ring size.
There's a ring sizing guide on the website.
Let us know where to send it to.
And it comes accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
And just like Queen Victoria, you get some wax to seal your very important correspondence with your night ring, which is a signet ring.
Welcome, gentlemen, to the roundtable.
Still in full force.
And in 2026, we start off Thursday, the new year, New Scam Northwake Meetup.
You know that's Raleigh, North Carolina.
The Saints and Scholars meetup at 6 o'clock.
And we look forward to a meetup report from you in January.
We have Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Charlotte, North Carolina, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Bergendahl in the Netherlands, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Oh, I want a meetup report from Brazil.
Alpharetta, Georgia, and Oakland, California.
You go to the Oakland meetup?
You don't go to the Oakland meetup, do you?
Oakland.
I haven't talked to Steve about what this was, if that's a Steve meetup.
It doesn't seem to be a good thing.
I think so.
We have Violetos.
You should have Steve send someone to pick you up.
I think you deserve a car service at this point.
I don't want a car service.
Send a limo.
I hate car services.
I'd rather drive.
And there it is.
Stop and pick up a kitten.
Yes.
Somehow I get a very fuzzy picture of you picking up a kitten.
Noagendameetups.com, where you can find all the information about the meetups I just mentioned and many more as they go off into the future.
And you can always submit your own meetups if you want to.
That's the beauty of it, is that you can set up your own meetup.
It's not like a TEDx where you have to have permission or anything.
We do recommend you bring two heads of ours on sticks.
That's always a good idea.
We always recommend something like a raffle or a lottery.
Just send in a donation, give somebody an executive or associate executive producership.
But above all, just go to meet other people who all are part of Gitmo Nation.
Meet the children from other lands.
You will always get some kind of connection that will bring you protection.
These are your first responders in an emergency.
Noagendameetups.com.
It's always fun and easy.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You to be where you want me.
Triggered on hell aim.
You to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Yeah, that's what I meant.
It's like a party.
All right, everybody.
Wow, I have good news.
This nasal spray, that really works.
Naspro.
Nasso Pro for allergy relief.
That has worked very well throughout the show.
Yes, you didn't mention this on the show.
I think you did before the show, that you have a cedar flever.
Well, I have the super flu, which kind of crossed over into the cedar fever because I was getting better from the super flu.
It was like three days, maybe.
Didn't feel too bad, you know, sneezing, but then it just didn't stop.
You know, my wife, she won't even come near me.
She won't snuggle up to me in bed.
She's like, I don't want whatever you have.
I don't want it.
Which I understand, but it's lonely.
It's lonely.
All I have is you, John, on the other side of the microphone.
This is where you could say something nice, but not.
I could have said something nice.
I could add a one-liner.
I don't know.
I've been missing a lot of.
I must have some virus.
You got the super.
Because I have missed more than one or two softballs.
You got that.
And I keep lobbying them.
You keep lobbing them.
You just miss it.
Yeah.
Keep it up.
All right.
We got John Sip of the Day coming up and some AI slop and some not in our end of show mixes.
But first, we check out what we want to choose for an ISO at the end of the show.
Do you have AI or they have some real ones in here?
I have a combo as usual.
Okay.
Well, you want me to go first?
I only have two.
Yeah, of course you go first.
That way I can relent.
All their work is fantastic.
Sounds like AI to me.
No, no, it's not AI.
That's Dr. Richard White.
That's a real person.
Did you like it, though, or did you think, man?
It was okay.
That's my second one.
I mean, wow.
Come on.
You can't beat AJ.
You can't beat AJ.
No.
Okay.
What you got?
Okay, I got ISO Genius.
Financial geniuses.
Oh, that's a good one.
That sounded real.
That was kind of good.
It was real.
Yeah.
Okay, let's go with soccer.
This beats soccer any day.
No, no, no, no.
You don't think it beats soccer?
No, soccer's cool.
Okay, now here's the one that's because of today's show.
I thought this was a thematic one.
This is the money shot.
Wow, good work.
Send these guys some money.
There you go, everybody.
Send us some money or wait for John Sip of the Day.
Green bass for you and me.
Just the champ with JCD and sometimes Adam.
I'm in the rotation.
So we're going back to websites.
And with the breaking news of the raid and capture and kidnapping and extraction or whatever you want to call it of Maduro, it might be a good time to put this on your list of websites to check out.
This is the website is onlinenewspapers.com.
Oh, that sounds good.
Online newspapers.com.
Every newspaper in the entire world is linked on this site.
But are they all behind a paywall?
No.
What?
Well, I mean, if the individual newspapers behind it, like the Wall Street Journal, yeah, there's not much, but most of them aren't.
And they're worldwide, and it tells you if they're in English or what language it is.
So you get these English-speaking newspapers in different parts of the world, and you get all kinds of this is a very valuable site for you researchers out there, especially you kids in college that want to have a couple of some references that are a little seem obscure, but you nail them from going onto this site.
Online newspapers.com.
I'm looking at the Dutch newspapers.
This is good.
This is, wow, this is.
Now, a lot of these are syndicated, so they're owned by one entity, but still, This is quite interesting.
Huh.
Yeah, who maintains this site?
Do they make any money off of it?
They got any ads?
I can't see it making any money.
It must be a front for some Intel agency that issues it themselves.
They also use it.
But hey, since we got it, you might as well just let the public use it.
Oh, that's I don't know.
That's pretty good.
By the way, one of our producers sent me a note that OpenAI is testing ads.
I know.
Of course, they are.
Yeah, and if you like the ad, you're supposed to shake your phone to send them feedback.
I can't wait.
It's going to be a hoot and annihilate.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
John's tip of the day.
Find them all at noagendafun.com or tipoftheday.net.
Great advice for you and me.
Just the tip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
That's right.
Thank you, Dana Brunetti, for producing once again.
Where would we be without Dana Brunetti?
Let's see.
Oh, coming up next, I talked about them earlier.
Mitch and Archie from Podverse.
They'll be podcasting 2.0.
That's queued up next for your live streaming pleasure at NoAgendastream.com.
End of show mixes from MVP.
Martin JJ slipped something in there and Deez laughs to round it out.
Yeah, actually, this kind of made me happy, this end of show mix sequence.
So keep the slop coming, everybody.
Listen to them all on GetModejams.com.
And we will return on Thursday with more of your media deconstruction.
Who knows which country will fall next?
We can't wait.
We'll be here to unpack it all for you.
And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right in the middle of Cedar Fever.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's raining again.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Don't you worry.
Rain or shine, we'll be here.
Remember us at NoAgendadonations.com until Thursday.
Adios Mofos.
Hoo-e-Hooey and such.
Nikki Maduro.
Welcome to the USA.
The sea is shining down.
Nicky Maduro's on a holiday spree.
Sailing up the coast on the grand blue sea.
He's straight at the sash for a tropical shore.
Kicking off his boots in the Florida dirt.
He's checking out the buffet.
He's seizing the sights.
Underneath the glow of the Mara logo lights.
With the camera in his hand and a smile on his face.
He's the newest tourist in the good old place.
Welcome to the USA.
The Atlantic Shore.
Nicky Maduro won't get anymore.
He is here to stay.
Enjoy the view.
The vacation of a lifetime.
A welcome from the Bureau.
Welcome, Nicky Madrow.
Boomer, the badass generation, before all you sissies were born.
We're training in the fake news for the weight of gold.
No corporate masters pulling on the strings.
Just the joy that the producers and the nights all bring.
JCD is laughing at the brand new lies with a smile on his face and his open eyes.
It's a beautiful day.
Beautiful day to watch the grey rebranding all the way.
Yeah.
Keep the value going blowing through.
Because the best part of the show is the end of you just stop with the end of show mix.
How about that?
We stop the end of show mix.
This doesn't hurt your feelings.
She knows.
It's your you, you do it.
You're controlling it.
You're the producer.
I'm the one complaining about it.
They used to say, drink away that tooth decay.
Propaganda slogans bring it back with these noise raps guaranteed to slap.
It's a vibe, it's a vibe.
Tell me why are you online?
You're online all the time.
Talking points like Project 2025.
We going back, do something this time.
Nah, let's go back.
I said it's a vibe.
Tell me why are you online?
You're online all the time.
Bottom paid, never been signed.
A podcast, Bitcoin rapper.
I'm dodging many lying minds.
Podcast, Bitcoin rapper.
I'm dodging so many language new landmines.
Talking points like Project 2025.
Do something, we going back.
We winning this time.
Get in front of the AI, moving to the cloud.
Doing work up in the sky.
It's allowed.
Put it in a Venn diagram.
Another unlikable pantsuit.
Politician with no delegates.
What a sham.
Yeah, what a sham.
Not to mention a scam.
This show is ending.
We're not going to make it another year, let alone or more.