Camp Gagnon - USAID: The Rogue CIA Agency Burning Your Tax Dollars
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U.S. aid, regular media is having a field day.
Left-wing politicians, senators, and the media are not happy.
You know, the most benign way to look at is like, hey, we need to keep supporting people
and giving aid from, you know, people around the world.
Another way of looking at is like, we've got to keep, you know, American imperialism live
and strong.
And then on the flip side, you have people on the right that are like, thank goodness
for stopping this.
We need to put America first and put this money back into America.
Let's help our homeless people instead of funding $1.5 million to an LGBT group in Serbia,
$2 million sex change situation in Guatemala.
$32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
Super Maybe Man.
Is American isolationism the way forward for America?
And that's basically what this whole thing is exposing.
And it seems like the parties have flipped.
But there's data that supports that people have not died of malaria because of U.S. AIDS.
And then there's a certain part of it that's like, okay, this is definitely some type of CIA long.
And then there's also definitely part of it that's money longer.
Apparently, U.S. aid was sort of support.
Reporting research in Wuhan.
Uh-oh.
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We have a very interesting story today.
Something that has rocked the world specifically on Twitter.
AKA X.
And it seems like right-wing media is having a feel day.
And as a result, left-wing politicians, senators, and the media alike are not happy.
And that is with a little story concerning the pausing and potential disillusion of USAID.
Have you guys ever heard of USAID?
Yeah.
You're like a, you're very familiar with USAID.
Not super, but I've heard.
You've been looking into it for a couple years.
No, no.
I just, I know I've heard the term.
Okay.
See, this is why.
It's shit like this.
This week is when I started hearing.
Yeah, no one's ever heard of.
We're cutting USA.
And it's something that I assumed was there.
Like we have all sorts of programs.
I know we have initiatives in other countries.
But no, USAID has not been a huge part of my life and knowledge.
No one's ever heard of USA, but apparently now everybody cares about it.
Yeah.
It's pretty interesting.
So basically, after World War II, United States launched the Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe.
And this was like a aid program that was super successful.
And so throughout the, uh,
post-World War II era, they were like, we need more aid around the world, okay?
We need to help people.
So in the 60s, foreign assistance became more complicated.
So you got this guy, JFK, ever heard of them?
I have.
He is like, you know what?
Some of our aid programs right now are not that effective.
So in 1961, he signs a foreign assistance act and creates USAID by executive order in November
1961.
Now, USAID sounds like the U.S. is given aid to everybody.
Yeah.
U.S. AIDS.
Better than U.S.
AIDS.
Yeah, it's the reverse Bill Gates
initiative.
Trying to give AIDS to everybody.
We're pumping AIDS across the world.
Oh, we're pushing this game.
Do you think 20 years later, they were like,
fuck, we should have really thought about this name?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it sounds good on paper.
The program started as U.S. HIV, actually.
And it developed slowly.
But the name doesn't really have anything to do with aid.
It's the U.S. Agency for International Development.
But they knew what they were doing.
Yeah.
It was cheeky.
That's aid.
International development
Yeah
Could be aid
That is aid
Could be aid in America
You know
You're right
Could be aid in us
It sounds like
U.S.AID sounds like
Yeah
Yeah
And then you realize
Kids is an acronym
And you're like
Oh it's like helping
Some people
Da-da-da-da
It's a little more
Korean Institute of
Domazas
Nice
Okay
Nice
Yeah
Yeah
We gotta make it bigger
Exactly
Yeah
Yeah
But it also
Just another side note
A lot of people
Like even people
like in Congress
like professional politicians are calling it USAID.
We're not doing that on this show.
I did look into this.
This has been pissing me the hell off.
Yeah, me too.
But I looked into this because I don't know what to call it.
I've been watching news people explain it and they are calling it like you're saying,
USAID, USAID, and I looked into it and there's a Reddit post from like six years ago
that brought up the same point.
It's like, what do we call this?
And the consensus is USAID.
Yeah, it should be USAID is stupid.
It sounds like a new passport or driver's license.
It's United States
Da-da-da-da-da-da.
Like it's not United States of America
Something else.
Yeah, it's dumb.
So we're calling it US aid.
Yeah.
So it starts in 1961.
And broadly speaking, there are a couple different layers
that now are getting exposed about it.
Okay, it seems like it's been operating
from the 60s all the way up until today,
getting tons of money,
tons of our taxpayer dollars.
And some of the different layers
can kind of be described
in these sort of different ways,
just broadly speaking, okay, from most benign to least benign.
That this foreign aid can be, you know, seen as goodwill, right, so that you can orient
populations around the world more positively towards the U.S., which can sort of help, you know,
America.
Like China's Belt and Road initiative.
Exactly, exactly.
But it's looking at it, you're like, look, we're helping people not die of malaria.
We're helping people get rice, you know what I mean?
and there is actual money going into these initiatives that are ostensibly helping people.
I love rice over there.
That's right?
Yeah.
Keep on rice.
Yeah.
And they just, they need a lot of it.
And so they're just crushing rice nonstop.
Yeah.
So again, that's like one element that is properly doing aid and helping people.
Okay.
The other element is, you know, it's maybe more of just like an influence and that we're just trying to have a presence in these countries and that the aid part and the rice and all this stuff.
stuff is kind of whatever.
There's another element of this that like this is kind of pulling through the Cold War.
So like after World War II, obviously Cold War basically starts and goes all the way up
until like the 90s.
And this is basically a way to kind of like stop communism without having to be, you know,
a hot war like actually have boots on the ground.
It's like if we can just have a presence in all these countries, we can sort of stop the spread
of communism by having them like be down with the boys and not, you know, whatever they're
trying to do.
So there's like,
with kindness.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So this is seen as like soft power is a term that we'll probably be using.
And this plays a large role in the success of the United States in the second half of the 20th century.
Okay.
With the soft power, a lot of trade agreements have been, have been done.
And then there's another element that potentially through some of these foreign aid and humanitarian assistance initiatives,
Some of them either are sort of tied in or just completely are fronts for spy networks for the United States to send agents into these countries operating as humanitarian that are actually, you know, working at the behest of the CIA and are basically long arms.
Just a spy in a fucking rice bag, dude.
Are you listening?
Just three guys in rice bags on a train.
Like, why don't that ice bag just blink?
There's coughs coming from that rice bag.
So that's part of it.
And then there's obviously a money laundering component that is tied in with all of this.
Ooh, this I didn't know about.
Yeah.
So it's like a giant pie of money.
Okay.
Like some people speculate it somewhere between like $30 and $40 billion every year that's going into U.S.Aid.
It's crazy.
It's a speculation.
Is that a lot of money or a little money?
It's, again, it's sort of in the scope of the overall budget.
It's like, oh, it's not, you know, crazy compared to like our defense.
budget. But then if you start looking to the actual initiatives that they're doing, this is
where people specifically on the right are looking at it being like, why are we putting
$30 million into this thing? This makes no sense. And on top of that, where's that money even going?
So from the fiscal year 2003 to 2023, federal agencies reported $2.7 trillion in total improper
payments. And now all of this is coming to light through Elon Musk's Doge initiative, which is
basically put a halt on the agency and exposing all these programs and trying to be.
to figure out where all of the money has gone.
And so you have USAID and then they operate through all these like sort of NGOs,
non-government organizations, like you can think like UNICEF or like Red Cross.
And they go into all these countries funnel money in there.
And then where that money actually goes, it is speculation and fodder for the internet.
So this is the case with so many government initiatives.
Like when you find out how a bunch of our defense money is spent, you end up seeing similar things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's fascinating.
Yeah.
So now the current state of affairs is like all of this is getting exposed.
No one really knows exactly.
Like this is still all pretty early.
So I've reserved the right to be wrong about all of this.
But as it stands now, people are now like uncovering stuff.
Mike Benz is like a great journalist and like a cybersecurity guy, but also like a non-internet censorship dude that's been like covering a ton of this on X and like putting out receipts and like going through all the documents and funding trying to figure out where everything is.
And there's a ton of like interesting things where it's like, wait, this money's going here.
this money's going here, why?
And the most interesting part to me
is that it's basically like flipped
some of the parties on their heads.
So Gabe, if you're able to pull up,
yeah, this image right here,
if you click on this and go to the next image,
you can see sort of like the way people kind of put this.
So you have the Department of Defense
that obviously is working with the State Department
that's obviously working with the CIA
and they all sort of operate together.
And some people are speculating that
if you go to the next slide,
that the U.S.A.
is basically the agency that ties all of it together.
That is a funding arm for the CIA,
for the State Department, for Department of Defense,
all to basically like...
An additional funding arm?
I mean, it is...
Because they have their own funding, right?
Well, they can't directly be like,
hey, we're taking money from the CIA.
You know what I mean?
Like, the CIA can't be out there building, you know,
water, you know, purifying plants and bridges and stuff.
Right.
And so they are able to create some front organizations
is what people are speculating
to basically do the bidding and be a long arm of the CIA.
To basically like,
exert soft power in these regions.
Got it.
So if USAID is funding a bunch of Americans to go, like, and there's probably 95% of them
are actual people that are trying to help like this impoverished place, the CIA is like,
hey, take three of our guys that are going to help and be there and do stuff, but they're
also spying.
And they'll also be in one trench code stack.
Yeah, there's been a big trench coat.
There's going to be a big tall CIA guy there.
And then on top of that, it's like, hey, let's just curry favor with these governments.
And then, you know, when China goes in to try to steal UN votes and, like, East Africa, we'll already have a presence there.
And so, you know, China will have less power.
Obviously, China's Belt Road initiative was something that got a ton of, you know, information or a ton of press in like the last decade that basically, China is using the soft power tactic to like, hey, let's build a deep water port in your, you know, region of East Africa.
And we're going to basically use the port.
And we'll also, in exchange for building you this amazing port that will help you guys, you know,
economically, you're also going to help us vote in the UN and, like, you know, give us some
strategic alliance. So you look at some of these countries, like, for years, we're never really
voting in alignment with China. And then after some of these, you know, governmental infrastructural
policies, all of a sudden are now voting in perfect locks up with China. People are like,
huh, okay, I wonder what exactly is going on. So it's an interesting play of soft power that
basically to win hearts and minds, we're no longer to be using like military strategy, but instead
we're going to be using these sort of soft power initiatives.
So it's fascinating.
And again, the percentages of this stuff that's like, okay, certain amount of it is good, right?
Like there's data that supports that, you know, people have not died of malaria because of
U.S. aid, right?
And then there's a certain part of it that's like, okay, this is definitely some type
of CIA long arm, okay?
And then there's also definitely part of it that's money laundering.
Yeah.
And then there's, and beyond the malaria thing, I know that some of it's also been able to, like,
stamp out like diseases before they get fucking crazy in another nation and come over here.
Isn't there also like the post-war effect, which is basically like after we or like an ally
sort of leaves a place, we sometimes try to go like clean it up through USAID.
Like, hey, we left a bunch of mines in your fields.
USAID's going to come by and like sort of try to clean that up.
So that we're not not only do we decimate your country, but we're going to try to not
decimate it for the next 50 years after we've left.
Yeah, maybe.
I don't know that specifically, but I can imagine.
that's probably a part of it.
There's a good part.
There's a money laundering part.
And then there's like a gray part,
which is like American imperialism.
Is it good or not?
Now, you said something,
I don't know if this is going to happen later
so we don't have to dive into this.
But when you said it flipped the parties on their heads.
This is where it's fascinating.
So, Gabe,
if you can go back to the dock here.
I can see where this is going
because it used to be the right was always like,
we'll back the fucking CIA and the DOD and all this.
And now the left is like, whoa, I mean, we need this.
And the right's like, no, it's the deep state.
It's fascinating.
So literally that.
So if you go to the senator admitting USA as a CIA front, that link right there.
Obviously, Crystal and Sager covered this.
But USAID funds terrorist groups all across this world, making sure that we address the underlying causes for a retreat to terrorism.
USAID chases China all around the world, making sure that China doesn't monopolize contracts for critical minerals and port infrastructure all around the world.
It supports freedom fighters everywhere in this world.
We are witnessing a constitution.
Obviously, you have a lot of Democrat senators that are coming out against this initiative deposit.
And obviously, Chris Murphy there from Connecticut is kind of saying what people are saying is the quiet part are allowed.
U.S. funding freedom fighters is an interesting history.
Freedom fighters is a great euphemism for.
And often, you know, there are people who have to fight for their freedom.
Precisely.
It's interesting.
We and Al-Qaeda just go back and forth, I feel like, I think we're back together, aren't we?
I feel like in Syria, I think the boys are back and down.
It's so complicated with us.
It is, it's complicated.
It is.
It is.
It is, right?
Our relationship status is, it really is.
Yeah.
But, yeah, this is just another, you know, indication where people are like, wait, I thought it was just giving rice.
Right.
You know what I mean?
Like, I thought we were just helping people out.
I thought we were helping, you know, like, Peace Corps kids.
And I don't necessarily know that that's a bad thing.
Like, I know that there are initiatives that need to get done, but they don't cross my desk
very often because I don't have clearance.
But now people are looking at it's being like, wait, we're chasing China around to stop them
from monopolizing?
And that's kind of the Bell and Road thing we're talking about before.
If China's going in to help out, hey, if we help out first and there's not as much of a
need and we can sort of fight this greater thing of communism, but really fighting, you know,
other countries' power and their ability to sort of consolidate that power.
So him saying this is like, oh, interesting.
So you have like sort of Democrats being like, hey, we got to, you know, we got to keep the boys
out there, you know, at, you know, the most benign way to look at is like, hey, we need to
keep supporting people and giving aid from, you know, people around the world. And then another
way of looking at is like, we got to keep, you know, American imperialism still alive and
strong. Yeah. And then on the flip side, you have people on the right that are like, thank
goodness for stopping this. You know, we need to put America first and put this money back into
America. Let's help our homeless people instead of funding, you know, trans operas in
Columbia or whatever. And so now people are like, well, isn't using American imperialism, putting
America first. So this basically goes down to like a foreign policy thing of like, is American
isolationism the way forward for America? And that's basically what this whole thing is exposing.
And it seems like the parties have flipped. I could easily see if Joe Biden for some reason
wanted to do this, not that I could see him doing it, but I could easily see senators from both
sides making the exact opposite point easily. Yeah. Like if the left did this, I could easily see
the right out there being like, they want us to be soft on the world stage. They want us to be
Pussies. I'm sorry. I think America's great. It would be the same people, I feel like. Yeah, yeah. It just is kind of whoever did it first. And now you're just having like this counter reaction. But it almost seems like, again, the parties have kind of flipped on it. So that part is fascinating to me. So I think we should go through some of these initiatives that USAID has funded or has allegedly funded as it's kind of come up on X. And really quick, it's paused, correct? As of now, yeah. Caused. And so I think.
The executive order can pause it, but they can't dissolve it without going to a vote.
So basically the way it kind of works is you can pause any of these agencies and be like, hey, let's just audit them.
Let's look into funding.
Let's go through the backlog.
Let's see what's going on.
And then from there you can decide to, you know, like, you know, basically dissolve it.
Oh, okay.
So right now it's paused is my understanding.
But if you go back to the links here, this I saw literally just like an hour ago that at the very bottom, the building.
of the USAID
main headquarters is like
they're basically wiping it down.
Hilarious.
So the US agency
of international development
is getting changed
in Washington, D.C.
So it doesn't look like
it's going to be bouncing back
anytime soon.
I mean, what a silly choice.
To start here.
Yeah, what art with the sign?
What a crazy choice.
Well, it seems silly.
But there's actually an interesting
political move
that like Trump and Elon
seem like they could be doing.
It's a,
fascinating political strategy.
Okay.
But before we get to all of that, let's just go through some of these, some of these initiatives.
And again, there's a DEI component to this that also is fascinating, that also kind of
has flipped the right on its head.
Oh, nice.
Okay.
So, let's talk.
Women in Waste Management.
Great.
I've been saying they need to tighten up their waists for a long time.
That was a big thing for me when it came to this election.
I was like, you know what?
We don't need more garbage management.
men. We need more garbage people.
Yeah. Garbage people.
Yeah. Exactly. I'm a big,
I'm trying to democratize garbage.
Yeah, shouts to Foley and Kevin Ryan,
they're doing their best to help
find all the garbage people.
Exactly. So in 2023,
USAID allocated funding for
a DEI initiative, both domestically
and internationally, supporting
events aimed at fostering inclusivity.
One such event was recognizing
women in waste management.
This was a
initiative that basically
included senior gender advisors for environmental
climate, social and behavioral change
in a gender director and a gender specialist
that would be basically inserted into the
waste management process both in America
but also in other countries around the world.
Yeah, that doesn't seem necessary.
In other countries, like you don't have enough.
Do women want this?
I don't know any women that are,
Like, why don't you let us pick up trash?
Yeah, yeah.
We can't drive in our country.
We're not going to drive a truck.
It does make sense.
They are better at cleaning.
So if you actually think about what would be most effective, tidy up your nation.
Yeah.
Ooh.
So I think that's what part of the initiative was that they happen to leave out of this.
Yeah, obviously the biased right-wing media.
Yeah.
That they were just given women swifers.
100%.
And they were like, hey, get out there.
Yeah.
All right.
Start dust.
The world is your kitchen.
Get out.
That would be a good.
initiative, honestly.
Yeah, 100%.
Just be like, wait, so you want us, like, doing sanitation and like, you know, cleaning up.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You guys just go dust.
Yeah, just dust.
We got wireless vacuums.
The world is dusty as hell.
There's so much dust everywhere.
It's insane.
Yeah.
Dude, I saw an insane Reddit thread.
It was so funny.
And it was just some guy who was on the, like, uncomfortable questions or something.
And the question was just, yo, do black people have different colored dust in their house?
Oh, that's really funny.
Because what is it?
Like 90% of dust is skin cells?
Skin follicle.
I didn't know that.
I hadn't made that connection.
Oh, really.
Does is just your skin fault.
Yeah.
Really? Yeah.
It's all skin?
Primarily.
Oh, I thought it was just shit that was in the air.
What?
It just settles?
I don't know how the fucking world works.
You're the upside down?
Yeah.
What are dust bunnies?
That's, they're animals made out of my skin.
That's when you have enough.
You don't know how Dr.
Gimar calls white people.
snow bunnies? Yes. A dust bunny is
this, yeah. I don't know where that's going.
No, a dust bunny is just when you get a whole collection of dust
and they kind of just hops around your house. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, that's disgusting. I didn't know that. Also, from the answer
by the way, no. They don't have different. All ethnicities have the same
color dust. That's good to know. Yeah. And that's why
equality is so important. It's important to look at it. I feel like this is what MLK
wanted. Yeah. At the core of everyone, okay, we might look different. We might sound different. We
might even smell different.
Yeah.
But at the end of the day, we're all the same.
Just look at our dust.
Dust equity and inclusion, DEI.
Yeah.
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The world is dusty as hell.
We need more women out there to start cleaning.
Mm-hmm.
How about $1.5 million got allocated to an LGBT group in Serbia?
What were they doing?
Yeah, what?
They were killing gay people.
No, that's not.
So, yeah, they were funding an LGBT group in Syria.
Syria or Serbia?
Yeah, Serbia or Syria?
I said Serbia.
You said Serbia.
Oh, you guys are thinking Syria?
You just said Syria.
Why would I say Syria?
It's obviously Serbia.
Okay, all right.
Well, Syria would be way crazier.
Yeah, yeah.
Syria would be insane.
That's what I'm saying, right?
If you want to really like-
Craziest game of Frogger of all the time, just being gay dodging freedom fighters in Syria.
If you want to really put your fucking balls on line, yo, start funding the LGBT in fucking Syria.
No, but no, it's in Serbia.
It's called the Grupa Izadiji.
Zadji, which in English means group come out.
This is an NGO that received $1.5 million from the Biden administration
to advance DEI in Serbia's workplace and business communities
to promote economic empowerment for LGBTIQI plus people in Serbia.
I could see both sides of this, right?
Let's hear it.
On the one hand, I imagine that Russia doesn't like us.
promoting gay stuff in Eastern Europe.
And so that's a bit of a thorn in their side.
But on our side, we're like, hey, we believe that that's, we accept that and it should be a
lovely thing.
So we should help people in places where it's hard for them to do that.
And also, if you start empowering those communities, they'll be more likely to like the
U.S. than repressive regimes.
Exactly.
So this is where it's all fascinating, okay?
Where it's like, is it possible that they're doing this to like basically provoke Russia by
instilling Western values.
Right.
And that they can like coax Russia into doing something.
So it's like, oh, they're using this as like a front to basically like get Russia riled up.
Yeah.
And then we can use that energy and that like aggravation as, you know, more justification to like prolong the war and basically set up more military units around Russia.
I also feel like as these more like communist regimes have started to accept like McDonald's and shit in their country.
we're kind of getting to gay
because we're like,
well, what do we have
that's different
than what they're allowing?
You're not allowed to be gay.
Be gay then.
Exactly.
I believe in spreading dance,
dude, all over.
The other thing that's interesting
is that people on the right
are looking at this
and they're like,
dude, why are we funding gay stuff
in Serbia?
Yeah.
But if you believe DEI
and like gay agenda is bad
and we want to like
subvert all these other countries,
then do it.
You know what I mean?
Send DEI.
to Iran, send DEI to China.
Yeah. Let people be free.
If you think that that's bad.
Yeah, if you think DEI is upending our government,
upend their government. Exactly.
Use DEI everywhere.
And then gay Trojan horse.
Yes, exactly, dude.
It's like kind of genius, right?
Yeah. So it's interesting that you got people on the right there,
like, stop making everyone else gay.
Gay Trojan horse just has a huge dong.
Mr. Hand.
A bunch of dudes hanging on it.
But yeah, it's an orgy inside of the Trojan horse.
Yeah, that's awesome.
They can tell it's coming, dude.
It's just, you hear Charlie X-E-X.
It's not the horse.
You're like, oh, no, Brad coming.
There's some gays in that horse.
Yeah, we got a couple other ones.
There's some gays in that horse.
They want to hear the club classics, okay?
Is that what happened in Toy Story when you pulled the back of Woody's?
There's a gays in that horse.
There's a dick in my ass.
And apparently there was...
There's a dick in my ass.
Yeah.
Apparently, there was $70,000 allocated for a DEI musical in Ireland.
That's what the headline says.
A DEI musical, which that's just a musical.
Pass me the shalelele.
I'm gay.
Yeah, Ireland's.
Do we need to be funny that?
I feel like Ireland has enough money to put on their own gay musical.
Yeah, that's actually...
Right?
Right.
So this is apparently what the article is suggesting here.
Is that an Irish DEI musical is funded to deliver a, quote,
live musical event to promote U.S. and Irish's,
and the Irish shared values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and accessibility.
The grant was awarded as a part of a cultural exchange initiative
aimed to foster deeper international ties through performing arts.
Organizers of the event outlined plans to integrate performances that highlight the struggles
and triumphs of marginalized communities in both nations.
And I think people see that as more sinister than it is.
Like, it's just like we have some money that we can shuttle to things like promoting theater.
they ch-you know that's what they settled on
a show called the pagato famine
have you ever been to Irish pub
it's just a bunch of dudes singing
yeah yeah yeah it is sort of gay
yeah yeah yeah yeah but it's splitting the G
that's the start of the of the musical
yeah just so potatoes what do we eat
each other's anus
it's the arces
but yeah
$70,000 doesn't seem like that much money
right like if you look at the
the budget of the U.S. government.
But then you have people that are saying,
why are we putting that money over there?
Yeah.
Why don't we just not do that
and spend the money anywhere else?
We also are cool with Ireland.
I don't think we need to really extend
too much soft power over there.
Serbia, I'm like, okay.
You got to keep hands on everybody.
Yeah, thanks.
That's the whole imperial game.
Yeah.
But I think this is like,
maybe that one is one where I go,
yeah, we don't need,
we don't need 70,000
Yeah.
For that.
Like, it's not bad.
I don't think it's a bad thing.
But you just look at the money and you're like, maybe we could like, I don't know,
give it to a podcaster or something.
A lot of these like government arts grants and spending are by nature going to go to shit that's kind of dumb because that's where the money comes from is something that if it was going to make money on its own, it would just make money.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it has to be like, oh, we're supporting, you know, good vibes.
But then people are like, dude, we got people dying of fucking fend, all we got homeless people here, you know, let's throw them some money.
We got North Carolina's got a hurricane.
They're giving them $500.
Let's put that money into someplace that matters.
That does seem better.
And you hear it and you're like, oh, maybe.
That does seem better.
But then you're just like, look, those things are sort of apples and oranges.
You can't compare the funding for FEMA and then also the random parts of run out.
What if whenever a natural disaster hits a place, we give them money to put on a play.
So instead of rebuilding your house, why don't you build a set?
Yes.
And then you can dance and put on a gay play after the hurricane.
Katrina, the musical.
Yes.
Now we're talking.
Now we're talking, dude.
The whole city was wet.
George Bush does care about black people, actually.
Turns out.
All right, what about $47,000 for a, quote,
transgender opera in Columbia?
Baritone, I assume.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
It's a very tonal, very tonal opera.
I am a lady.
This was called the As One.
It was a quote, so-called trans opera in Columbia in 2000.
22, and this has come under fire from Donald Trump's administration that they cited this musical as an example of waste of the U.S. aid funds.
The funding was a part of a broader initiative to support arts and promote cultural exchange.
The opera was created to share the experiences of transgender individuals through music and storytelling aimed to foster empathy and understanding.
It sought to provide a voice, a very powerful voice, to the transgender community highlighting both the challenges they may face and their resilience.
I am curious if we have also funded plays that aren't about gay and trans stuff
that people just aren't freaking out about.
That might be true.
You know, like if we're just funding a play about like, you know,
Colombian like farm workers or whatever,
I don't think they would care, right?
Yeah, exactly.
They wouldn't care about that same amount of money.
Also, what if it's good?
That's the other thing.
Amelia Perez would seem to indicate it's not a good play.
Because I heard that movie sucked ass from people that would like it.
But also imagine if they were like, oh, we're funding a bad.
a play about like the historical retelling of like John Byr and Alexander Hamilton.
He'd be like, that's a waste of money.
And then you see it.
Then you watch Hamilton.
And you go, da-nan-nan-nan.
Yeah.
And you go, that is sort of worth it.
We should have paid more.
Yeah.
That is true.
If the government funded that, these same people would be like, they're having black people
play Alexander Hamilton and it sucks.
And it's like, actually there's some bangers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
So I do think this one is like, we got to see it.
Yeah.
And every play is a little gay.
Yeah.
Right.
That's true.
Opera's are sort of sick.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
For anyone they can't.
Oh, drink the, have a drink in there.
You can't drink while you're singing opera.
Yeah.
Why not?
It's not Hamilton so far.
Is my skin really softer?
All right.
Waste of money.
Shut it down.
Shut it down.
Yeah, that one's a little tough.
Again, people are looking at this saying,
Hey, we got people starving in America.
Do we need $47,000 to go do that?
To go do this soft power.
Yeah.
That could become a hard power.
Trying to make their hard power a soft power, I think.
Another one they got rid of that power altogether eventually.
Another one that got people fired up is $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru.
Yes.
So according to recent reports, $32,000.
Super maybe man.
Super that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, spider person.
Super them.
This was allocated $32,000 for this transgender-themed comic book in Peru.
The expenditure was highlighted by the White House Press Secretary Caroline.
Leave it as an example that what she described as, quote, wasteful spending of American tax dollars.
So back in November, USA had announced a new partnership with UNICEF to support inclusive education of Venezuelan migrant refugees in Peru.
And so Peru held the second largest Venezuelan migrant and refugee population of the world to 1.6 million.
and they were able to use this money
to eventually support some artists
that then made this book.
An interesting point with this,
and kind of all of them,
I'm curious, again, the headline is like,
they spent $32,000 to make a transgender comic book.
I'm like, did they put money to help migrants?
Some of that went to like an arts program.
Right.
And then some artist was like,
hey, I'm going to make a comic book.
And then they were like, all right, well,
I guess this is what it is.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, again, if that's how it went
and it wasn't about trans,
it wouldn't be a headline.
Yeah,
exactly.
Right.
Exactly.
So it's just interesting
that this has become the talking point.
Again,
I think with most things,
it's like kind of true.
Yeah.
It's like,
did America fund a transgender comic book?
Yes.
Was that the purpose?
Probably not.
Yeah.
And did they just support
some artists in Peru?
And did they happen
to make a transgender comic book?
I think that's probably the likely case.
Yeah.
But who knows?
But all that is to say
is that people are pissed off
about this and they're like,
Why are we doing this?
Why are we putting the money there?
It's easy, like, first step thinking to just get people, like, who will just see the headlines
and walk around and just be infuriated about this and be like, we're funding trans goddamn
Peruvian fucking comic, what the fuck?
Yeah.
And it is probably more of that.
And it's like, for me, it doesn't really necessarily bother me that it's trans if we're funding
art and artists can do whatever they want.
But to your point, it does feel like we could clean some of this spending up and have it for, you know,
aid for people's house fucking burn.
down in our country.
If it was 1.5 million, I'd be like,
that's a lot of money for a comic book.
It's 32 grand, and it probably didn't all go
to the comic book kid.
So then this is the money laundering thing
where people are like,
you're spending X amount of money.
What percentage of that is just getting pocketed
from this person and this little middleman?
And once we get into the big numbers,
you can easily see how, like, a couple mill
could just get, like, pulled off.
Yeah.
So a big one that people like to point out
is $20 million for Iraqi Sesame Street.
This is interesting.
I like this.
Can we pull up on Twitter to search Iraqi Sesame Street, can you?
In the mid-2000s, the United States agency for...
Big birds, just a drone.
Big metal bird.
Oh, no.
Big metal bird is coming.
I don't think that's good.
It looks good.
This is not the real one.
Oh.
But no, no, no, play this.
This is so funny.
This is what people said, this is what they think it looked like.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh no
Oh no
Wow
Who made this?
I think this is from the time of the war
There's no way that's
There's no chance they actually made them
No that's not the real one obviously
Yeah but I'm saying someone had to make those puppets
I was like this shit's gonna do it
No I bet that was like a sketch on like late night during the war
I'm assuming
Fair fair fair exactly
But it's just such a fun
This is the idea of that that's what do they give to this
20 mil
We are going to need to do some PR in Iraq if we want people back on our side.
I'm not going to lie.
Yeah, yeah.
We might need, there might be some gains that we could have in terms of our public perception over there.
I think so.
And I think Sesame Street, I mean, there's some of our best ambassadors.
Yes.
I mean, Cookie Monster.
Yeah.
Ali the grouch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Honestly, though, like, I find that Arabs and Muslims in general are some of the cleaner people on the planet.
Like, it's part of the religion that they have to wash a ton.
Yeah.
So I feel like they're.
relationship with
what did you say
Ahmed the grouch
Ali the grouch
you know like a trash
dump person
I feel like they would look at that
and be like
don't bring that to our street
that is true
we're not going to be
but you need a foil
for a good show
yeah so he's the evil guy
wasn't he just the Oscar
he was he just the evil or is he just grouch
he did it's just a grouch
but he doesn't murder anyone
Sesame Street is 20 mil
that's crazy so in the mid
2000s they funded
the Iraqi version of Sesame Street
known as Ifta
Yasim Sim Sim the initiative
was intended to provide early childhood education
to promote messages of peace and tolerance
amongst children in post-war Iraq. However,
the project faced significant challenges due to the ongoing
instability of the country, which led to delays
and its limited success.
Critics of the funding argue that 20 million could have been
better utilized for humanitarian a, which is food,
medical supplies, etc., rather than producing
a kids' TV show. The failure of the program
to achieve widespread reach and tangible results
reinforced skepticism over the allocation
of foreign aid. Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, because that 20 mil should have gone to helping
Iraq that might not have been the best way to do it.
What a brutal set to work on.
Fucking bombs are going off.
You're at the craft services table.
You're not at the craft service table.
You're under a table with your hand above.
But what better job for an amputee?
That's dark, guys.
That's fucked up.
That's really bad.
But if you think about it, right?
We have to employ all these one-handed people.
100%.
Do the puppets wear
his job?
Like,
They all look the same.
Are there women puppets?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Elmo's got that little pink.
I think Elmo's a girl.
Not a lady, dude.
We wouldn't have a,
we wouldn't have a trans Elmo.
We wouldn't have a doll
that you're supposed to tickle
that's a woman.
That's true, that's true.
I think there's a pink one that hangs out with Alma.
Oh, maybe.
I mean, here, we got.
Elmo's bottom bitch.
Oh, they have the cookie monster.
Oh, so this is, see,
they got Elmo cookie monster.
I would have put that girl
on a hijab dome.
Yeah.
Who's the big one?
I've never seen that one.
Yeah, that's, uh, no, no man.
It's like Ali Sheikh Mohammed.
It's like an actual.
That's awesome.
I get, yeah, I, also, misguided, misguided.
20 meals crazy.
20 grand to dub all of our Sesame Street and give it to them seems like the appropriate response.
You would think.
Yeah.
Or let's not do Sesame Street.
Just give them a Band-Aids or whatever they need.
But yeah, but you don't remember Band-Aid.
days when you grow up.
That's what I'm saying.
I actually don't think it's a crazy idea to like try it.
Yeah, it's good IP.
But just give them hours and dub it.
Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair.
There's another one that I text to you, Gabe, that I would love for you to pull up.
This one I have not been able to confirm, and this is actually from a long time ago.
This is the textbooks that were apparently sponsored.
So there is an element of this that I find fascinating.
Okay.
So people have claimed that specifically, like, for example, with like Palestinians and Israelis,
that Israelis are claiming, like, oh, these.
these Palestinians are taught from a young age to hate us, okay?
And they're like, how is that possible?
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Sometimes by our actions.
Maybe, right?
At times.
At times.
Yeah.
But now people are, it's a bit of a few.
I feel like it's been back and forth.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A 2000-year saga.
Yeah.
That's now in a ceasefire, so, there you go.
So maybe we solved it.
I think so.
You heard it here first, folks.
Never again.
Trump's going to build a, what, is he going to put like a golf course?
Yeah, golf course or something near the water.
Trump Tower.
Sounds great.
But this is apparently a USAID sponsored school textbook to teach Afghan children to count one machine
gun, two knives, three pistols to fight Russian infidels.
Four umbrellas.
They didn't get that far.
Five pencils.
They didn't do a good job.
They really cut it early.
Well, you can't go over the top.
So this is what some people are claiming again.
I have not been able to confirm this, okay, but this is just a Twitter thread that I thought
was so funny.
That apparently they're like, okay, Russia's.
trying to exert power in Afghanistan, okay?
They're invading us, right?
So let's raise the Afghan children to have a sort of a fluency with weaponry
and understanding that Russia is the aggressor and that they need to be taken out at any cost.
So when you're seven years old, you go to school and you learn about one machine gun, two knives, three pistols.
Imagine your child coming home.
Like you're just a parent and you're like, how was school today?
And they're like, one machine gun, two knives, three pistols.
And you're like, good.
That's crazy, dude
I mean, like, if you're pissed about, like,
I don't know, like a drag queen
reading to your kids, you gotta be
equally mad about, you're like, both of these
are bad, right? Like, if you're mad
about one of those, are like, oh, they're teaching my kid
to be trans. Yeah. You got to also be like,
they're teaching my kid about knives. Well, the thing
is we wouldn't, like,
we wouldn't care at the time, because
we did this. We're like, I mean, the Russian
infidels do need three machine
guns. Well, we teach them that. Yeah.
You know what I mean? But then we teach our kids, you know,
Just regular number.
What if this was taught by a drag queen?
We actually don't know if there's just a drag queen in an Afghan school.
Let's split the diff.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And being an Afghan drag queen is one of the easiest things in the world because you just put on a burqa.
100%.
Yeah.
So feminine and glorious.
Exactly.
Yeah.
But yeah, that's a, it's a fascinating thing where it's like this is what people are saying
is apparently being taught there.
I can't confirm this.
But again, this contributes to the idea the USAID is being taught as a CIA soft power weapon to
infiltrate the hearts and minds in order to.
do our bidding.
Why is four umbrellas?
It just doesn't make sense.
They're like, we have guns, we have not.
All of them are weapons except for two of them.
And they're pencil.
Yeah, you know, and for some of the bombs and stuff.
It's just hilarious.
Yeah.
So you don't want to be overhanded, you know?
So you got to be like, yeah, some guns, but there's a bunch of there.
Yeah, it's also umbrellas.
Yeah.
You know, just, you know, toss it in.
Do we know how much money they paid for this?
Or is this just a, like, something that's coming out of.
This is, like, just, okay, okay.
This actually came out of wild.
This came out in April.
And I just found.
I found it randomly, like doing research on Twitter.
Again, I can't confirm whether or not this is an actual thing.
But I found it very funny.
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Would it be fun to work in that part of the CIA, or CIA, rather, where you just get to come up with fun, new plans like this.
It's fun.
And like pitching that in a meeting and people are like, that's good.
Yeah, yeah.
That's good.
Draw the book.
Yeah.
The Shell Silverstein of training freedom fighters.
Well, this is where it gets crazy is that apparently China created a vaccine, the Sinovaks, that they administered to a lot of countries.
And again, they saw this as like a soft power technique that if we can inoculate people to COVID, then, you know, we can obviously, you know, gain some influence in the region.
On both sides of it.
They're doing the old Philip Morris.
Like, we may have started it.
Great the disease.
Sell them the cure.
Yeah.
But now when they went to the Philippines, they started administering the vaccine.
And then it came out later that the United States was funding misinformation campaigns for anti-vaxxers in the Philippines.
Do you remember this?
Yeah.
If you can Google, just like...
There's something about RFK that gets dragged into this.
If you can search anti-vax Philippines, basically the U.S. is now pushing this.
And for a long time...
One of those three words, right?
A neat Vax, Philippines
But they Google Niva will you.
Got it.
So, yeah, it's an interesting thing.
If you scroll up a little bit, you can see the headlines.
Don't take the Vax.
It'll make you Chinese.
That's really good.
You didn't even have to move your...
I didn't even know.
I could do that.
Most people that do it actually move their actual neck to do it.
Yeah.
It was great.
No, I didn't know I had that.
That was the first time.
How did you fun?
How did you do that?
Just kind of channeled it.
Yeah, I've been doing it.
push-ups all morning. It came out of me.
Is it a vaccine injury?
Yeah.
But yeah, according to Reuters, the U.S. tells Philippines, yeah, we made a misstep with our
anti-vax propaganda effort. So when this came out originally in 2024, everyone was like,
wait, why is this happening? It's come out more recently that apparently some of this
media effort came through a USAID initiative to basically get people to not take the Sinovax.
So we don't want people taking the Chinese vaccine, but we can't just tell them, don't take
that one. Let's just tell them.
to not take any vaccine to basically thwart China's influence in the region.
And the same group that's like, if you're against it, the U.S., fuck you.
It's also funny, they were like, but we can get them on our, like, they were never
getting on any vacs.
Exactly.
There's no way around it.
But China got there first.
Yeah.
So it's better to have them not have, get favor with China.
Yeah.
Or vice versa, rather.
And let's just leave them not vaccinated, but still, you know, closer with us.
We just worked out our issues with China.
Yeah.
And we didn't have to do such crazy shit all the time.
It's a good idea.
Did you just think of that?
It's just a thought, dude.
It's a good fucking idea.
He was fucking eating fried rice the other day, and I was like, why can't we all just get along?
What did you guys do to?
I love it, man.
Yeah.
In Chinatown the other night, I was like, dirty but fun.
Yeah.
So the media component is pretty interesting that apparently there's like a lot of, you know,
backdoor media stuff that's happening.
One of the things that people pointed out is that there's $8 million from...
I love backdoor media.
Yeah.
That's my favorite time of the media.
So there's mainstream media?
MSNBC.
And then there's the BBC, the Pactdoor broadcast.
But apparently $8 million went to Politico from USAID, which again, this raised a lot of
suspicions.
Everyone's like, wait, are they just buying off like American media?
Like what's happening?
Like who's controlling this money?
Yada, yada, yada.
And the funding in question is actually quite interesting.
Again, people are looking at this saying like this is messed up.
Actually, it seems like the truth of this is that a lot of.
of the payments came from Politico Pro accounts.
So basically, Political Pro has like a second tier that gives like a super, super in-depth analysis.
And sometimes those subscriptions are like $40,000 to $50,000.
So basically in order to get all of your federal employees, Politico Pro accounts,
you might have to spend $8 million.
So that one is like, doesn't seem as crazy to me.
It's like, yeah, you kind of want your...
Yeah, how much is the government spending on like Adobe?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, probably a decent amount.
Yeah.
But this was one that initially sounded crazy where it's like, wait, eight mills going to Politico?
Yeah.
And then you're like, oh, it's in the form of subscription.
So it's not actually as crazy as people originally thought.
This does, I'd mention this earlier, but this is just really is one of those stories where you need to read
more than a headline and half of an article about it because all this shit sounds insane.
And some of it is.
Yeah.
But some of it is like it's not quite as nefarious as it sounds.
Now, there are some that are more nefarious than they sound.
Good.
So there's a ton that these are older ones that apparently are not really like being discussed at length right now.
But there's such things as like the Guatemala syphilis experiments.
Okay.
So these are apparently experiments that were carried out.
One crazy bachelor party.
Yeah.
Like you said we're going to Colombia.
You're like, I miss.
We're going to Guatemala.
Have you ever seen the pyramids?
Yeah.
But this happened in 46 to 48.
So this is prior to the USAID's creation.
But this came from a group that was basically like the precursor to USAID.
So this basically was this National Institute.
It was basically a funding support from National Institute of Health and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau and the Institution of Inter-American Affairs.
And basically, they funded research that used various unethical methods such as injecting 1,300 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea.
That's insane.
And only about 700 individuals received treatment.
So not great.
Now this wasn't USA.
Wait, why did we do that?
So the nature of the experiments are sort of undisclosed.
Let's see if the Browns get sick.
That is fucked up.
We could have gave them Sesame Street.
What the fuck, dude.
Cephalis Street.
Yeah.
Yeah, so many of them, yeah, it's like a whole thing.
It's crazy.
It's basically similar to the Tuskegee Sulfield.
experiments.
Yeah.
Where, yeah, they were basically trying to see, like, hey, is there a treatment for syphilis that we can, you know, test on an actual population?
Right.
Don't worry, guys.
In 2010, the U.S., the president, secretary of state, and secretary of health and human services, formally apologized.
So, I think it's water under the bridge.
All right.
We're fine.
Yeah, drop it, Guatemalans.
My bad way.
He said, sorry.
Yeah, that's, I shouldn't have even said it.
Again, this is not USA specifically.
This is a precursor, too.
I think that's worth noting.
Multiple unsuccessful lawsuits have since been filed in the U.S.
We also didn't find out about this until 05.
Holy shit.
What else have we done?
Oh, buddy.
Yeah.
So there's four sterilizations in Peru apparently that happened.
So in the 90s, USA provided funding and technical support for reproductive health initiatives on the services.
This was seen as a way to support Peru as a voluntary effort to reduce poverty through birth control.
But later testimonies and investigations revealed that allegedly 300,000,
thousand indigenous women were misled coerced or even subjected to sterilization without their
consent.
USA did provide funding for reproductive health in Peru at the time.
It is still debated and contested whether or not the U.S. aid knowingly funded or supported
the forced sterilizations.
So again, another one of those things were...
Got it.
So this is the Peruvian government doing this to a native population.
Or an NGO, rather, operating in Peru.
Got it, got it, got it.
So we don't know if the money was actually like...
fully earmarked for like a bad CIA operation or if it was earmarked as like this will help people
and then someone down the ladder was actually very nefarious right but then the question goes
it's like well should we be allocating money to NGOs that have the ability to be doing evil stuff
this evil shit got it like is the benefit of you know uh birth control and like reproductive
health worth sterilizing 300,000 indigenous women sort of a gray area you know I'm not going to
Steppenowen.
Yeah.
Look,
there's two sides to this one.
I think we go back to...
Imagine being a, like,
kind of not liking your job
and getting assigned this project,
and you're like,
oh, God,
how's work?
Oh, God, pain in the ass.
I had the sterilized
300,000
indigenous Peruvian women.
That's horrible.
I know.
Yeah.
I don't like my boss either.
Yeah, who likes their job?
He doesn't even let me leave early on Friday.
Yeah.
And honestly, though,
if you look at what we're talking about Peru or
the trans comic books,
Yeah.
That seems like a walk in the park.
Yes, that's the street for 20 mil.
I'm like, sure, run it up.
Yeah.
Apparently, USAID also had a role in the Haitian agricultural collapse in the 90s.
So, basically there was this...
We've fucked with Haiti quite a bit, haven't we?
Well, France did way worse.
Certainly.
Well, France also gave them their independence, so...
Gave is a big...
You know.
Yeah.
After that war and the rebellion that they had.
But they also saddled them with that.
Haiti got so screwed by it.
There's a great video on, like, how it's...
France is still collecting on Haiti.
I had no idea.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Sorry.
But also in the 90s, we came in and kicked them all there down.
They basically had this.
Let's get back to how we're awesome.
Yeah, no, we're going to get that.
Please, please.
This is good information.
They basically promoted this trade liberalization and subsidization effort of U.S.
rice exports.
So USA facilitated sort of cheaper American rice known as Miami rice into Haiti.
This move effectively undercut and wiped out Haitian rice farmers because
they were unable to compete with the artificially cheap import.
And then this caused Haitians to abandon rice cultivation leading to the collapse of domestic
food production.
Haiti now is heavily dependent on imported foods, making the nation vulnerable to price
fluctuations and shortages.
So again, another one of those things where it's like, we're trying to help.
Yeah.
We're trying to figure it out.
And then maybe some bad stuff happens.
Didn't Tom's run into this issue?
I remember the shoe company, Tom's?
Oh, yeah.
Where they would...
The pair that you bought, then they would donate to a...
donate to like people that needed shoes.
That's why I never bought them.
Putting local like cobblers out.
Basically.
Yeah.
So the local cobblers,
there's like a huge vacuum now for people that make shoes with like the local
things and then people that want like to buy the rubber for the local shoes aren't
making the rubber.
Like it's basically a huge downser effect for the economy there.
But they have shoes.
So often it's like it's like introducing an invasive species to an environment.
We do this with business.
We do it with the government.
We fuck with even well intention sometimes.
Yeah.
You fuck with shit.
It has unintended.
consequences and we're like, you give them rice for a decade and then 10 years of people not
cultivating rice and using the fields and everything and then 10 years of information is gone.
A few kind-hearted millennials simply want to get rid of Joseph Coney and then you end up naked
masturbating in the middle of the street in San Diego.
That's very true.
You don't know where things are going to lead.
You got to give them in a fish sometimes.
When you're trying to be a white savior.
Yeah, exactly.
It's so hard to be a good white savior.
Yeah.
Because you don't know what's going to happen after.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no, it just goes into this sort of like greater political feeling that a lot of like MAGA Republicans feel now where they're just like staunchly isolationist.
Where they're like, hey, let's just stop meddling.
And I think this is sort of what they're reading and where they're getting that idea from.
Well, you know, you don't meddle a little bit.
Other people start meddling.
If you're not meddling, someone else is going to meddling.
And then you just let them meddle.
You know what if we put all this money back into America?
We don't know what we're going to be fucking up.
Exactly.
We already own it.
What are we going to do over here?
The Tom's thing is interesting because the whole marketing came in,
it was everything that you bought.
If you bought a pair, they would donate a pair to a kid in Africa.
And I bought my sister a pink glittery pair of Thoms.
And then they donated a pink glittery pair to a kid in Africa.
And then they murdered him.
For being a witch.
They said he was a witch and they killed him.
And there were two sides to that story.
We still have to look into the facts.
Yeah, yeah.
He might have been a witch.
I'm not going to say he's not a witch.
Yeah.
There's also an interesting thing that people have pointed out in regards to COVID, that apparently USAID was sort of supporting research in Wuhan.
So allegedly, Fauci's NAID and the USAID organization spent $40 million in taxpayer money to fund research in Wuhan, China that was for a project on, quote, understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence.
the lead researcher on this project, his name was Ben Hu.
Many people say that he could allegedly, again, this is sort of conspiratorial, that he's, quote, patient zero, the first person to contract COVID.
And the completion of this payment and the research estate is being in 2019.
But some people are looking at the timeline and they're suggesting that this is going all the way back to 2014 and that we're actually doing research in Wuhan at the virology lab.
that some people speculate is where COVID leaked from.
Yes.
So this one is, again, sort of debated in some capacity,
but according to Wall Street Journal here,
U.S. funded scientists among three of the early researchers
who felt ill among COVID-19.
Now, you could say, yeah, these guys are research of COVID-19,
and they're around it because they're researching it
and then they happen to get it.
Yes.
Is it proof that they invented it?
Is it proof that they created it in a lab?
You can't necessarily say that.
And also, it's not like they were trying.
to do it, but it does seem like it came from the lab.
The CIA even said it's the most likely conclusion
is that it leaked from that lab.
And then people point to like the Wuhan military games
that happened in 2019, I believe.
I didn't have a ticket to that.
You should have gone.
What were they doing?
Can you look at the Wuhan military games?
This is basically what, like a early stage conspiracy theory.
It's a bunch of Chinese used riding bats around like Kaleisi.
They do these military world games where like they invite basically like
active military from all different militaries
from around the world and they all compete
in different sporting events. It's almost like an Olympics of
like, you know, fit military personnel as a way to like sort of raise morale.
Motto, military glory, world peace.
Yeah, they create peace. Toots. Yeah. Different militaries. And so
there was, you know, people from all different countries, all at these
different events. And this was in 2019, in Wuhan. And people
are claiming that this is when it was effectively spread.
that they had these games
and then they infected
different military personnel
from around the world.
Again, this has not been confirmed
but this is, you know,
where the conspiracy sort of stems from.
I mean, if you're going to do it,
that would be how you do it.
Sounds awesome to watch.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that should definitely be televised.
What is Wuhan so fucking pop?
I've never heard of it before COVID.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, my parents did some are there,
but they never, yeah, they didn't talk about it that much.
The fact that they had this crazy lab there
and the games.
We get a picture up of Wuhan.
I'd love to see the skyline.
Also, is that where that crazy cool city is?
Chong King, Chongqing?
No, I've never heard.
The one that's like multi, it's like basically like,
Ah.
Looks nice, right?
Yeah.
The Han.
Yeah, it seems like a beautiful little area.
Oh, speaking of awesome military events,
have you seen the armored MMA?
No.
The medieval MMA?
No.
That's awesome.
Can you search this up?
I've been saying this on TikTok,
and then it was on randomly at a bar we were at.
And I was like, oh, Mark, have you seen this before?
Pull this.
That's a great bar viewing.
It's an all-time amazing sports.
Like, I can't believe
that this is not more popular.
Oh, my God.
They're blunted swords.
They wear a ton of armor.
It's all blunted swords.
They wear, like, crazy armor.
And they're in a literal octagon
or sometimes, like, a square ring.
And then they just beat the hell out of each other.
Yeah.
I mean, how sick is this?
It's like battlebots, but way cooler.
And so this is one of the hardest knockouts.
So these guys are teeing off.
Event like this.
No sex, lots of sex.
Yeah, I think there's a tipping point.
Yeah.
Also, this is one of the competitors.
This is M1 medieval.
There's also A MMA.
Yeah, there's a sick.
I mean, oh, oh.
And then he just beat the brakes off a guy.
Take me to your lord.
Yeah, I mean, look at him.
Oh, I mean, just beat with the, he's out.
He's got to be out.
Yeah, he's out.
And, oh, this is funny.
ref isn't wearing
armor. In the
AMMA, the ref also wears the armor.
It's awesome.
The ref should be on a horse.
Where is this? This is awesome.
It's like in England somewhere.
Like most of these crazy sports, I'm going to assume
Eastern Europe.
Yeah, awesome. I would watch that.
Absolutely. U.S. A.S. A. should put money
into the fast. Right? This is
what we need. This is the cultural export that America
needs. It's a mystery. What do we talk?
Yeah, it's like, doesn't even make sense.
This is awesome.
So, yeah, this is just something that people should check out.
All your most feudal feuds.
Don't you hate your feudal feuds?
Yeah.
So then there are some other things people point out of, you know, wasteful spending.
Six million dollars went to Egypt for tourism.
So?
It's doing fine.
You would think.
Pyramids.
I got some sick pyramids.
Yeah, wait, why are we promoting Egyptian tourism?
I guess, I guess the thought is like we want to be close with Egypt because
you know, just they're a key ally, so just throw some money there.
Why?
The thought was all of this.
Are they an ally?
I don't even know.
It's just creating a presence.
You just want to be out.
We want to be facie.
You want to be with the world, just having just vibes with everyone, you know?
Because if you're not doing it, China's doing it.
So according to this, the funding supported projects like improving transportation so the
people in rural areas could access tourism jobs or markets more easily.
They're also including programs to help families earn a living, create small businesses,
getting job training and benefiting from the economic boost of
tourism and the goal was to make sure that the tourism industry growth directly benefited everyday
people, not just big business. See, that's nice. That seems great. And we, we, a lot of Americans go
to Egypt. We want to make sure that the tourism is smooth and on the up. Exactly. So again,
this is one of those things that seems like a perfect like threefold thing. It's like, okay,
we're going to send some people over there to help transportation and we're going to help the everyday
Egyptian get access to tourism. Yep. We're going to help the everyday Egyptian get access to
tourism, right? That sounds great. We're also going to send some people. We're also going to send,
some, you know, cover guys that are going to go over there and maybe spy a little, you know,
and just, you know, check out what's going on.
Who's better to talk to the tourist than a CIA guy, you know?
And so he's able to get in touch with the tour guides.
He knows what the vibe is.
We've got boots on the ground over there.
On top of that, we're now kicking it with the Egyptian government.
They're like, these United States guys, they're great.
They're giving us money.
They're helping us out.
They're supporting us.
So that way, when China comes knocking on their door, all of a sudden, America will be like,
hey, we're boys.
We're helping you guys get tourism.
And then on top of that, there's a $6 million deal.
Maybe $300,000 of that goes to a local politician in Cairo.
Maybe another $400,000 goes to a local politician in D.C.
That's helped working out the deal.
Yeah.
So they're happy.
Yeah, they're getting a little bit, a little on the take.
So it does everything.
Yeah.
It's a CIA arm to put spies in.
It helps the people.
It gets money into individuals' pockets to, like, you know, privately and personally get very rich.
And it seems like something like this, I don't know.
it hasn't been confirmed, but would just tick all the boxes of what all the speculation is.
Yeah.
Some good idea, some money laundering, which is why it's so hard to cut government spending,
because there's always some rationale and there's people who are making money that are willing to defend it.
But at some point, we can't just be in debt forever, maybe, or can we?
I don't know.
This is the question.
So now people say, we're dropping six mill in Egypt.
Why don't we put six mill in here in America?
Right.
And you're like, that's also a good point.
But this is where it's interesting that things get flipped because now you've got people on the right being like, put that money into America.
And you got people on left being like, no, let's keep spying on Egypt.
And you're like, I don't know which one is the better one.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Like the isolationist in me, you know, and like the people that wants, you know, sovereignty for all people and sort of self-determinism is like, hey, let's get the fuck out of there.
You know, almost like on some Ron Paul vibes.
Like, let's just let everyone be free and do whatever they want.
But then like the imperialist of me, you know what I mean?
The Kissinger inside all of us is like, let's stay over there.
Yeah.
Let's put some spies in the tournament.
And it's also like, hey, if we're isolationist, who's doing shit?
Exactly.
Is it going to be trying to plus everybody versus us, just trying to hang out?
The second England is like, let's be isolationist.
We just murked them.
You know what I mean?
They lost all their power.
Yeah.
So it's like, what do you do?
Yeah.
But it's just an interesting sort of.
People don't like when you fuck with their shit either.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Which creates more danger at home because you might be creating freedom fighters, you know,
who don't like what you're doing.
Exactly.
So it's just another one of those interesting things where it's,
Like, hey, we're just now creating, this one specific moment is creating everyone to really evaluate, like, what their geopolitical and, like, you know, foreign policy position to be.
This one thing Trump has been good at is forcing people to rethink things.
Yeah, yeah, moving the Overton window or whatever, the fuck it's called to, like, some really wild places.
Yeah.
How much would they get?
Six million?
That was six mil.
Whoever broker the deal for 20 for Sesame Street, really.
Yeah, who's the 80?
Wall Street.
Yeah, who worked on that?
Who's CIA?
Gotta be, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I feel like in Iraq he was not the one that was doing the deal.
You know what I mean?
That seems more like a West Hollywood situation.
Yeah.
You know, that seems like a Glendale guy.
Maybe.
Just on his phone.
No, no, picture this.
It is Sesame Street, but we're doing Iraq, baby.
Elmo's not reading a script for less than two mill.
Yeah.
Think explosions, think sand.
You're going to love it.
different, it's imaginative.
I'm smoking hookah
right now to celebrate. Sign the deal.
Aladdin was a hit. Why can't
this be a hit? Right? Think about it.
It's wild. And
again, the list goes on and on and
on. Two million dollars sex change
situation in Guatemala.
So again, this is what the headline said.
The truth is unfortunately
a little bit less exciting.
But the headline says that the U.S. aid and also
according to the U.S.A. website
allocated $2 million to support
transgender-led organization in the Guatemala.
This funding aimed to enhance the delivery of gender-affirming health care and advocate
the improved access to these kinds of services.
The grant was awarded to the Assoncion Lambda, a Guatemalan organization dedicated to
removing equality and participation for LGBTIQI individuals.
And it strengthened the capacity of trans-led groups to provide health care services
and advocate for the transgender community.
That's more or less what the article in the headlines on X have been saying,
why are we funding sex changes in Guatemala?
Now, the truth of it is that $2 million was allocated to these groups that are doing like LGBT health care, some of which is sex changes.
Certainly a smaller portion of that budget was actually used for sex change therapy where it seems like most people are speculating, but it hasn't been confirmed that the majority of that budget went to, you know, like just general care and like, you know, housing people that are gay that maybe got kicked out of their houses, yada, yada, yada.
So it's a little bit less exciting.
but certainly there has been money
from the U.S. government
to fund sex changes in Guatemala
and people were like, again,
why are we down it?
Yeah.
And it's like, well, you got to put money somewhere
and you got to help the Guatemalans.
I'm sure there's a rationalization
from people on the left.
Like, hey, let's, you know,
let's put some money
and try to help uplift human rights
around the world.
Yes.
Should we be the leaders in American
or in global health
and is, you know,
gender-specific health a part of that?
So again, it just goes back
to your position on foreign policy.
Like, should we be out here being the leaders
or should we just focus on America?
Yeah.
It's really whatever you think it is.
And that's why everyone's so split on.
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Yeah.
Yeah, it does seem one word.
It's like I understand.
the less
you know
conspiratorial angle on it
but it does seem like a place
we might not be needing to spend money
but I do think that the Guatemalan women's soccer team
If we're going to spend money in Guatemala
we need to sterilize
300,000
No no no no
Okay we already tried
And people were pissed off
I mean this kind of works
This is actually a way to
Oh
You know what I mean
Rebrand
Yeah
Warren never changes
It just shifts names
That's right you know
That's fascinating
Yeah it does change names
Yeah
Yeah, exactly.
Now it's Juanita.
Yeah.
We're not going to go and sterilize them anymore.
Let's just chop their dicks off.
Yeah, dude.
And Colin Tran.
Dude, imagine the forced trans surgery guy.
That's not, it's a tough, yeah.
Waking up being like, what?
What the hell?
Where's my dick?
Who stole my dick?
But yeah, there's a ton of other things.
This one is interesting.
It's not specifically USAID, but I had to put it in.
because it's just hilarious.
In 2009, so this is just what the headline says.
Almost a million dollars used to subsidize a pancake house in Washington, D.C.
That's the headline.
Yeah, I'm on this one.
That's America first, baby.
Yeah, right?
It's the international house of pancakes.
Like, what's better for foreign policy than the international house?
Right.
So apparently in 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded
$765,000 in community economic development to the Anacosta Economic Development Corporation
and this organization used $500,000 of this grant to acquire a 30% stake in the Jackson
Investment Company facilitating the establishment of an IHOP in Washington, D.C.
I mean, what a convoluted way to get to the IHOP.
Yeah, I don't even get this.
This is where people are like, oh, this is money laundering.
Yeah.
Or this is people stealing money just outright, where it's like, okay, we're awarding a million
dollars to a grant.
And then that grant is going into a development corporation.
And then that development corporation is acquiring a stake in an investment company.
And then that investment company is facilitating the funds in order to open an IHOP.
Yeah.
And everyone's like, are they just stealing money?
Where is the rest of this money going?
The reason.
IHOP's great.
We really need to talk more about that.
Yeah, it is an all-time great spot.
One of the.
Yeah.
If you're going to be 3 a.m.
awake somewhere, an IHOP is not a bad thing.
And you want a Rudy-to-Tudy fresh and fruity, dude?
This is just not what I think about when I think about money going to help like food deserts, for example.
Usually it's like, hey, we should get a better grocery store chain or places for people to buy natural food.
Because if you leave companies up to themselves, they won't always develop in poor areas.
And you do need to put money into development groups so that you can give people decent options so they can be healthier.
It won't have an immediate payoff, which is why the government needs to do it, but you're investing in the own hell of your people.
But none of that works if it's an eye hop.
Damn it.
Well, what if they have just all natural, great organic food at a low price?
That's I-house promise.
Is it?
I think so.
Food is not organic.
It's full of red dye.
Damn it.
I remember there was like a pancake house in town.
And one year, like literally, we were excited.
We had an all-star game.
And so the whole team, the dads were like, let's take everyone out to pancakes before.
and we ate a bunch of pancakes before our game
and we got our shit pushed in
because we were so tired.
Everyone was like sleeping
on the fucking bench
because we had pancakes before an athletic event.
Yeah, that's tough.
I did that one time.
It wasn't even for an athletic event.
It was for a dumb race.
Yeah.
And we were like, hey, what's there doing in Pittsburgh?
They were like, nothing.
And we were like, come on.
And they were like, all right, fine.
There's a pancake, like waffle spot.
And we're like, are there anything else to do?
And they were like, we have one of the steepest hills in the country.
Stevest street, like paved street.
One of the steepest paved streets.
And we were like, really?
And they're like, yeah, it's over here.
And it's not like there's a monument or anything.
It's just a guy's driveway, basically.
Yeah.
And it's like a quarter mile long and it's just a steep.
It's just a steep thing.
Yeah.
And so we were like, oh, this is perfect.
So we went there.
We ate maybe a half dozen pancakes.
I think there were waffles, regardless.
And then we finished up and we were like,
oh, let's go check out this hill.
So we drive over full of these waffles, see the hill,
and then someone's like, hey, let's race up the hill.
And so then me, Schultz, and Alex, race up the hill, foot race.
Yeah.
We sprint.
I win.
I don't want to brag.
It doesn't matter for the door.
It doesn't matter.
Who even care?
And then I get to the top and they go, let's run it back.
Let's do one more race.
And at this point, I'm winded.
Yeah.
This is like maybe a two and a half minute race uphill.
Yeah.
So I was like, oh, fuck, all right.
Race again.
Make it to the very top.
I win again.
The guys are pissed.
Immediately I start going, I don't feel that good.
Puk everywhere.
Project Alvon.
Oh, nice.
And the whole time, they went from being pissed that they lost and now being so happy.
Like we got contact.
Dying laughing.
Just filming me throwing up in the woods.
And then I'm sure you did a very uninspired show that night.
I feel great, actually.
I love throwing out.
You purged.
Yeah, yeah.
It is good for you.
It's one of my favorites.
You heard it here first.
A hundred million dollars went to Afghanistan for what they believe to be poppy production.
Oh, that's in line with a lot of conspiracies.
From 2002 to 2019, the Agricultural Development Fund received $100 million to provide loans to Afghan farmers to cultivate lawful crops.
And people have looked at the poppy production in the window that they were sort of getting funding.
and it basically spikes the second that they get funding
and then sort of goes down after the funding is taken away from them.
One of the other reasons I believe that poppy production spiked
is because they weren't allowed to do it under the Taliban.
And when we took over, we were like, let it fly.
Taliban is only flowers.
I don't think they like to opiates.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're not big on bagels.
It's kind of a Jewish food.
Yeah.
They're not going to make poppy seed bagels for the news.
crazy.
But yeah, so people again point at this and they're like, wait, are we funding like heroin
development?
Yeah.
And so again, none of this has necessarily been confirmed, but it just sort of leads into a larger
web where people have kind of speculated that there's been a heroin situation play in
Afghanistan that now there's a little bit more credence to the theory as some of the books
are getting opened.
Yeah.
Apparently there's a big effort from USA to provide trade assistance to, you, you know, you.
Ukrainian models and designers, allowing them to participate in international events,
such as Fashion Week in New York, Paris, and London.
Yeah, fund this.
You're in on that one.
Yeah, I have no real complications with this.
Yes, U.S. lawmakers raised concern about the USAID funding practices, but on the other hand,
proponents of the initiative argue that supporting Ukrainian businesses through international
exposure can not only help but sustain the country's economy and also, excuse me,
and also spread a message of peace and Ukrainian support during wartime.
Yeah, great.
More Ukrainian models.
I'm in on that one.
Miles is actually cranking his hog under the table right now.
It's hard to tell, but...
It's a little like honeypot situation to reference a future episode.
It's fascinating that they're like, hey, let's get some of these Ukrainian models.
Yeah.
Send them around the world.
Yeah.
And every time people look at them, they're like, free Ukraine.
Free Ukraine.
Yeah.
We need to free them.
pay for that, but for you, right?
Shit.
Yeah, right?
It's like, it's kind of genius.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, if you want to get people on board with like the Ukraine vibe, just show
me these bad.
Ukraine's obviously, you know, everyone talks about the war now.
I feel like it was a hot spot for catfishing back in the day.
It was like a big 90-day fiancee spot.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
But now it's actually a way better rebrand because you fly a girl out from Ukraine, you're like,
hey, come spend a couple weeks with me.
It's actually humanitarian work.
That's right.
Yeah, that's a good point.
You flew a girl in?
You're like, bro, she's a refugee?
Braining.
Yeah.
I'm trying to save her.
Yeah.
But this does just seem like foreign policy
created by like some guy in a frat.
Yeah.
He's like, dude, let's take their like,
let's like take some of like the babes.
And if we just put them on the world stage,
people will be like, bro, like we, these guys are sick.
Picture this.
More hot bitches everywhere.
You know what I mean?
Dude.
Dude.
Like, broiler.
Dude.
Send, there are not enough sluts from Ukraine everywhere.
Yeah.
Look, if you want people to care about your country, they got to care about the beach.
Yeah, I think about the babes.
Yeah, right?
What's the ratio at this party are going to be?
Yeah, exactly.
We've got to fly a couple more.
And that's how they think about the world.
What's the ratio like on this planet?
Yeah.
Not good enough.
Yeah, exactly.
So apparently that's what they did.
And USAID and your tax dollars.
Yeah.
What you guys have cumulatively contributed, probably went directly.
to flying Ukrainian models around the world.
Well, that's true.
Fine.
It's fine.
Also the pre-tax dollars.
Yeah.
All right, let's go through a couple more of these, shall we?
Oh, this is an interesting one.
Apparently, we allocated $50 million for condoms in Gaza.
Mm.
So, press secretary Caroline, leave it.
I actually don't know how to pronounce her name.
Leave it.
Leave it.
Leave it in.
That's why I need the condoms.
Yep.
I don't know if it's leave it or levit.
it's you would think Levitt but it's got an L-E-A everyone's saying pull out of Gaza but we're dropping condoms
you don't even have to yeah no it's you can just go in there start blowing it up if you need yeah
but yeah so apparently we got 50 million dollars worth of condoms in Gaza and they
labeled it again according to the the White House describing the Biden administration's
policy on this a preposterous waste of taxpayer money USAID reported that in 2023 a
Exximately $60.8 million was allocated for contraceptives globally, with only about $7 million specifically for condoms.
Notably, none of these funds were directed to Gaza or any part of the Middle East.
The only regional recipient was Jordan, which received a small shipment of oral and injectable contraceptives valued at $45,000.
That comes from the Guardian.
It does seem like their least prevalent safety concern.
Like, if you're like in Gaza and there's bombs going off, you're not like, whoa, whoa, let's practice.
safe sex.
Nothing here is safe.
That being said, it's like giving more
condoms to people cuts down on
unwanted pregnancy. It cuts down on
unwanted disease because if condoms are just around,
you might be more likely to use it.
Cuts down on some unwanted freedom fighters.
That's right.
Yeah, actually, yeah, they're nipping terrorists.
Yeah, truly.
Like, I wonder if, like, that's the crazy thing
is I bet you some people are thinking that.
Yeah.
But they're like, dude, no, no, no, we're going to help
with, you know, contraceptives and safe sex.
like, let's just make him stop.
Yeah, it's hard to radicalize like a 40-year-old.
He's like, I'm not going to radicalize, but it's really easy to radicalize a future
person.
That's when they get radicalized.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
So, yeah, there's an organization called the International Medical Corps, the IMC.
It's a U.S.-based organization operating in Gaza.
They received $1.2 million from USAID intended for medical and trauma services, including
family planning.
The IMC also recently clarified that no U.S. government funds were used to, you
procure or distribute condoms in Gaza.
So while it may be fun to joke about it,
sounds like the money was given to the organization,
the organization chose to purchase
these contraceptives themselves.
So.
So people at the organization are wrapping it up.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
Again, it's so many of these are like,
it's a good headline, so it's interesting,
but it's like probably not a lot of corner stores open.
Yeah, probably not.
People still need to have sex.
Barely any corners.
Some of them don't want to have kids
because they're in a bit of a tough scenario right now.
And you can't pull out.
You're not going to pull out.
It's a whole mess.
Come on.
Yeah.
That's not,
no fun.
Come on.
What are we doing?
Life is short.
Yes, yeah.
The evidence is all around us.
I'm fucking spraying inside you.
Yeah.
With respect.
With all due respect.
Yeah, yeah.
You're my wife.
Yeah, 100%.
I will look you in the eyes while I release my seed into your belly.
Which is why we need a condom.
Correct.
Yeah.
And so from that perspective, you kind of get it, you know?
Yeah.
How many condoms could you buy for 50?
I'm ill, dude.
It's a lot of ghanes.
Yeah.
Are they ribbed for her pleasure?
Because that's...
Sort of doubt it.
Yeah, maybe not.
I sort of doubt.
I bet you there's a numbing agent on the outside.
Yes.
A Mossad numbing agent.
Yeah.
We're going to get them from the inside.
Yeah.
You know, I think the people of Gaza should get whatever for free right now.
It's been a tough year and they should get whatever.
More rice, less kind of honest.
More rice.
More rice.
More condoms.
I think, I think gives us some babes.
Get them some Ukrainians.
Mm-hmm.
Get those Ukrainian models, be like, hey, we have.
Send them to, say, this will feel kind of like home, actually.
But on the water, but on the water.
Yeah, yeah.
You're going to be on the water, warm water.
It's going to be nice.
Yeah.
And you're going to help the effort, you know?
Yeah.
You're going to help the boys down there.
It could be nice.
It's a beautiful place.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I'm like, we should also just be giving out condoms in America, too.
I think we are.
I think we do.
How hard is it to get a free condom?
I think that free condoms are everywhere,
but I think if you pull up to smash a chick with a free condom,
she'll look at you sideways and be like,
you can't even go name brand.
Yeah, they do the circular ones, which is so funny.
But they got to do better with that even.
What about a stuffed condom?
So it adds to your length and girth.
This is the best one kind of...
This is a good idea, dude.
Yeah.
A padded condom.
So you just get a little extra push.
You get a little extra girth.
Yeah.
It lasts longer.
Yeah.
And it's safe.
Yeah.
That's genius.
That's an idea.
That's honestly one of the better.
Is that exist?
Can you search like padded content?
Yeah.
That's a good idea.
Yeah.
They're going to steal this one like they stole the fucking.
The hands-free flashlight from the last episode.
See, okay, they got some of these.
Oh, this is a reusable one.
Well, it would have to be because you'd probably need a mold of your dinger.
You know, you can even get one that vibrates if you're, but, I mean, you don't want to laugh.
You don't want to go too quick.
Yeah, right?
seem insane.
I mean, this is kind of a genius idea.
Yeah.
Dude.
You want to props you up if you got a whiskey dick or something?
This is fun.
I'm talking to two men who have never really had to bike on.
Yeah, I haven't, I haven't, I haven't, I mean, yeah, a decade ago.
It hasn't ever.
Yeah, I haven't been, yeah, I've been hitting it raw for a while.
There's not enough humanitarian aid in my home.
We've been missing out of our USA to shit.
Unfortunately.
Yeah.
I mean, dude, yeah.
I mean, it is better raw, obviously, but, you know, theoretically, you need a little extra fucking push.
You know, like, what if you have a micro penis?
You should still be able to please a lady.
Yeah, that's actually, see, these are the initiatives.
These is what the people in Washington do you see need to be talking about.
This is $100 million for prosthetic condom penises to Gaza only for men with micro penises.
If the three of us were in theta, it would be so much more.
And if they made the micro penis guys happier, there'd be a lot less war.
Think about that.
There'd be a lot less world.
Yeah, world peace.
No.
Give everyone a little.
Yeah, world peace.
Yeah, give everyone a little additional to their peace.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
I'm kind of with you on this.
I think this is where should we should be allocated.
I think USA should hire us because we have good ideas.
Yeah.
We're not trying to sterilize the people of Peru.
We're trying to help them fuck.
We're the opposite, dude.
Be fruitful, but don't multiply.
I mean, so what would you do?
Let's say someone's like, hey, we have to put $40,000 into a
comic book, you know, should we do it in America? Should we try to revitalize D.C.'s reputation?
Like, where do we allocate this $40 trillion from the USAID?
Where does it go to a comic book? I mean, could. No, I would say it should, yeah, it should go
to just really shit. You should give it to people to walk around big cities and give out one or two
dollars to each homeless person so that the average person doesn't need to feel guilt when they're
walking around. Oh.
You know what I mean? So now when a homeless
person's like, hey, I need five bucks, I go,
buddy, they're coming. Yeah.
It's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, and I don't
feel like shit because I'm not carrying cats. I got
a handful of coins. Yeah. And, uh, wait, are you saying that they just give it out to
homeless people or we give it? Distribute people.
I think it'd be better if we get to. Yeah.
You have to interact.
That's true. But you get the goodwill.
You get the goodwill. You're right. They should give you walking around money
to give the homeless people. That's a good idea.
And you have to give it.
It would encourage more asking, though, I think.
That's true.
But you know.
I would probably just be around and be like,
I've marked in a shave today, he could be asking.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was close.
That is true.
It would just be a bunch of people.
Yeah, this is the problem with it.
You come up with one good idea, but it has external consequences.
Yeah, the state building is hard.
It is hard.
Right.
We've got to give these CIA guys a break.
Be like, look, you tried your best.
You're doing a tough gig?
The USAID guys.
You tried to give Rice to Haiti.
Yeah.
Did you kill thousands of Haitians in the property?
Did you destroy their agriculture?
Did you mean to?
Also, what a title.
Miami rice sounds like cocaine.
The boy's gone to some Miami rice last weekend.
Yeah, yeah, right?
That'd be a sick show.
We should make that show.
Miami rice.
Yes.
Just barbecue down in Haiti?
Yeah.
It's just an Asian cop and Waterdale.
He's driving in his Ferrari or whatever.
No, no, it'd be a riced out fucking hot.
Yeah, dude, yeah, it's...
That's fire.
But yeah, it's a tricky thing.
Another interesting one that I read about was that USA'd apparently...
This is one of the more, like, covert operations,
that they were trying to fund an initiative to help people communicate
through the internet, basically creating a social media site in Cuba.
And that they wanted to create, like, a competitor to, like, Twitter in Cuba for the Cuban citizens.
And it didn't really work.
It's sort of failed.
It cost a ton of money.
And instead of being effective and being useful for us to sort of send,
because basically the goal was that we're going to create our own Cuban Twitter.
Well, the Buena Vista Social Club.
Yeah, U.S. secretly creates Cuban Twitter to stir unrest and undermine the government.
And when people do this to us, we get so bad, then we just do it to them.
Yeah.
I mean, where do you think they learned it?
Yeah, this is like, we're the originator.
TikTok.
Yeah.
So basically, we're going to create.
Our Cuban Twitter, and then slowly we're going to infiltrate, you know, like anti-Russian propaganda on there, some anti-China stuff, and maybe some anti-Cuban government stuff and cause some unrest.
People point it's like Arab Spring being like an example of the United States using our social media influence as a way to upend a democratically elected government.
So if we're able to do this, then Elon has now done.
Perhaps, right?
It would be great.
It didn't really work.
And then instead, it seems like the Cuban government officials were actually just a.
able to harvest that data and the information to gain political understanding about
like some like 150,000 Cuban citizens.
Well, backfire there.
Slight backfire.
But I think we need to talk more about USA's achievements.
Yeah, what have they done well?
I don't know.
That's not far as my research.
Yeah.
Well, we talked about the anti-malaria.
Yeah.
Let's find out.
We have a friend that works for USAID.
Actually, we have a friend who works for a.
a nonprofit that is funded by USAID.
And he's been calling me a lot.
They're not really doing much lately.
He's been pretty free.
He's had a lot of free time.
It's actually crazy.
He literally called me.
He's like, I was like, what are you doing?
Are you supposed to be in the office?
He's like, no.
Nope.
And he seems to do good stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, so we got a couple things here.
Let's check it out.
It seems like in the education sector, USAID, help improve the reading skills of 286,000 students
and over 3080 schools developed 645,000 pieces of reading materials and teacher guides that targeted boosting literacy skills.
And, yeah, trained 2,000 teachers on the best practices for effective teaching.
That's a good headline.
That's not nearly interesting compared to what we talked about.
Yeah, that sounds great.
A lot of the good stuff that I think governments can do, just it's not, you can't sink your teeth into it.
It's downstream.
Like all these people who know how to read, it's like, okay, cool.
What are they up to?
It could be great things.
I've got an idea.
They're writing trans musicals.
Go ahead.
We take hot Ukrainian women.
Yes.
Make them teachers in parts of the world that is low on teaching and literacy.
The students want to come to class.
Yes.
They're hot teachers.
That's right.
We give them slutty outfits.
Teach you how to make that dick go up.
Yeah.
Now you've got kids coming to class and teachers teaching.
And now everyone in the world just has a Ukrainian accent.
That's fine.
Dah.
That's fine to me.
But yeah, they did a bunch of stuff with, like, malaria.
They did feed people, you know?
I don't know the exact details.
I'm sure something could look at it up.
You know, so some good things.
Well, I get bogged down.
Is there with what is happening, I don't know if you know the answer to this,
but with what is happening with Elon and Trump hoping to shut it down?
Is it like, well, maybe we can keep some of the reading things?
It's not what it looks like.
So this is where people are like, okay, what happens now, right?
Like, now all of this is coming out.
More of it, I'm sure, will come out by the time even this episode comes out.
And people are looking at this and they're saying, all right, so what do we do?
It seems kind of like what the dude in El Salvador did with the crime there.
He was like, hey, we have one of the highest murder rates in the entire world.
We have cartels that are basically upending our government and our citizens are dying in crazy, crazy numbers.
So what are we going to do?
Arrest everyone.
Have you seen this?
No.
They look at El Salvador prison.
It's crazy.
They have a lot of dudes in prison.
They have the highest capacity of prisoners in the world now.
United States used to have it for a long time.
I think he offered Trump to put migrants there.
Exactly.
That is exactly what he did.
Which is insane.
If you got arrested here.
And then they send you.
Oh, my.
Top left.
Top left.
So they literally just...
That's a lot of dudes.
And it's not even that you had to be like a criminal.
It's that you had to like be roughly a criminal.
Like it was a very like big overcorrection of arresting.
Yeah.
So there's no like civil liberties basically.
It was like, ah, dude, you sold weed once.
Or like you were a drug dealer roughly.
And that person's like, I was just trying to make money.
Like, I'm not like...
Just selling some nug to the boys and you end up with a fucking chicken coop.
Can you imagine the smell?
Yeah.
Got to smell horrible, dude.
You have two dudes in a bunk bed.
It smells like shit.
These guys are...
Yeah, it's a tough vibe.
But there are...
That does create...
I mean, you know, this isn't making people better.
The president of El Salvador claims that they have the lowest murder rate in the Western
hemisphere.
That is true.
Well, that is true.
That information directly comes from the government that put all the...
people away so no but i've actually was looking into this and there are like other reports that like
certainly their homicide rate has gone down yeah yeah of course and uh people are suggesting that
it's even possible that al salvador's homicide rate is lower the united states in 2024 yes but how
many lives were ruined by this is the is the ultimate question it dropped 98% in nine years holy
shit. So problem
solved. I guess the question is
at what cost and
is this a long term
thing where he's just like we're going to be a
fucking you know I don't know what you would call that a
police state
sure. Jail state? Or is it like hey we've
made a shift in the culture and now we can not
jail everybody all the time and then slowly let people
out based off their offenses and go through everyone's
paperwork one way. What's the country that canes people
still, Singapore.
Oh, time in Singapore.
Singapore, like, canes the fuck out of people
if they, like, throw their gum on the ground.
Like, they have, like, a very, like,
I'm making an exaggeration,
but they do literally do, like,
some crazy punishment to people that do,
like, sort of minor infractions.
And on one hand, apparently Singapore
is, like, the cleanest country ever.
Like, people go there, and they're like,
holy shit, it's the cleanest place in the world.
On the other hand, they can't,
they literally, like, brutally beat people.
And the crazy part about the caning
in Singapore. It's not like, oh, they hit you once. If you get 20 lashes, you get hit really hard.
And if you, if you say stop, stop, you then get to recover and then go back for the rest of them.
It's not, it's never a number. It's like you have to me. Space them out. There's a hilarious story.
By hilarious, I mean, it's like kind of wild, but also sort of funny. This guy named Michael Faye,
who was a lash six times with a cane in 1994 in Singapore for vandalism. He's an American teenager.
and in 1993,
67 cars were vandalized in various
neighborhoods of Singapore,
including spray painting and eggs.
Sounds sort of American, right?
They arrested two teenagers
who were driving a car similar to the one witnessed.
Fay was one of the students.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of vandalism
and said that he spray painted two of the cars
in mid-September.
And then due to the 1966 vandalism act
trying to curb political graffiti,
he eventually lost his appeal
and then was caned six times.
the Clinton administration tried to express objection to this
and tried to get him not caned.
But unfortunately, Singapore was like, yeah,
is cane just getting hit with a cane?
Yeah, I mean, it looks like.
Oh, don't, it's gross.
Their asses look like ham.
It's like bad.
It's like brutal as fuck.
Oh.
Yeah, so Faye told Reuters that he did not know
that the time had come for his punishment
when he was taken from a cell.
They bent him over a trestool.
Oh, yeah, they don't tell you when it's going to happen.
They bent him.
Sat in a cell and then one day if they come in and they go,
hey, your food's here.
The next day it might be,
hey, you're coming with us.
Oh, so you just sit there and think all that.
They put him there with his butt.
Hey, we're all good.
I want to say it.
I'm going to show them.
It's good.
No, Gabe, please pull that back up.
Thank you.
They stick his butt out,
and then they put his hands in his feet
buckled to the structure.
He's naked except a rubber pad fixed to his back.
The flogger, a doctor in prison,
officials were also present.
Faye said that the canter then walked sharply
toward three steps, and they said,
count one.
They yell really loud.
and then they basically track him,
just like stroke him in the back with this cane.
That when the fourth stroke was delivered,
he was immediately unbuckled from the trestle
and taken to the cell to recover.
And then it left streaks of blood
running down his buttocks.
Damn.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, I brought this up.
No, I mean, well, it's good to know.
Some places...
Singapore's nice.
I'm like, well, I'd love to go,
but I won't do any vandalism.
It's too nice.
Why is it so nice?
What if you were into that?
Then you better bandolids.
Go, yeah.
Bring the spray.
But yeah, it's one of those things where it's like, okay, you've overcorrected.
Now there's no more murder in El Salvador.
Now there's no more graffiti in Singapore.
But at what cost?
I feel like this is a similar situation where it's like, hey, we're gutting the whole thing.
Yeah.
Which is, you know, a part of Trump's, you know, politics, it seems like.
It's like, hey, we're getting rid of all these departments.
We're cleaning up all the inefficiency.
And certainly doing this will clean up money laundering.
It will clean up government inefficiency.
It will clean up, you know, some of the soft power tactics that we've done.
done to exert power probably at the detriment of many innocent sovereign people around the world.
And also, people might, you know, not have access to medication, might not have access to food,
etc.
Certainly people that have now become dependent on foreign influence and aid.
And is it possible in that power vacuum that other countries, Allah, China, Russia, etc.,
will fill in and then gain some type of, you know, favor with the nations that they now enter into.
Yeah.
It's possible.
So it's fascinating. We'll see eventually what happens.
So on January 24th, Trump ordered a total freeze on foreign aid.
The website is like basically scrubbed.
You came and really access a lot of like the NGOs that were a part of it.
A lot of them have like pulled off their board of directors because they're like,
oh, we're all going to get like investigated.
Like no one really even knows what's going on.
And other people are seeing this as a political strategy that like, hey, we're going
to find like the departments in the United States government that are the most
bloated that have like the most visible corruption and by being able to get wins early on politically
and sort of dissolving these departments we can then go down the list and dissolve more
departments right um and this seems like it's following almost like a milton freedman-esque economic
policy of like hey let's get rid of all this bureaucratic bloat and even Elon actually tweeted a
and this is the USAID website you can see it's basically just has a message with nothing on it well
they're a great logo by the way is that's actually a good one is that's a good one is that
Hands shaking in the middle.
That's a great one.
Nine billion for that.
Worth every penny.
But actually, it's interesting.
Elon tweeted an interview that Milton Friedman did
where he talked about, you know,
which government agencies should be slashed.
And they basically went through all of them
top to bottom.
And Milton Friedman was like,
get rid of everything basically other than like,
you know, the IRS and like the justice system.
Like everything else is bloated, get rid of it all.
So it seems like that's more or less where the political, you know, sort of vibe is going.
So it's one of those things where the concept of it sounds good, but you don't know what you're missing out on.
So I think it's good that we're revisiting it.
Right.
And it's also interesting because it's now become a political mirage for everyone, right?
Yeah.
Like if you're working for like the Peace Corps and you're giving rice to people and now of a sudden you can't, you're like, this guy's racist.
Yeah.
And hates people.
He's anti-human.
And then if you're, you know, like I have friends actually.
We have a mutual friend that was in the military that had to work with U.S.Aid people and was like, yeah, they're the worst.
They were late.
They were slow.
They didn't seem like they cared.
Like the whole thing seemed like a complete fugazi.
Yeah.
And those people are like, yeah, get rid of them.
They're in the way of our operations.
And then, you know, if you look at these rich people that are stealing money from it, you're like, fuck them.
Why are they getting rich off it?
So like literally wherever you line politically and whatever your foreign policy position is, this thing is just,
like becomes a completely different thing for you.
Yeah.
It's interesting to see what will happen.
This is also a fun,
a little interesting thing.
While USAID and Department State
are preparing a plan under which USAID personnel,
so if you're right now in like a different country
and the USAID has been shuttered for 30 days,
if you,
it seems like if you buy your own travel back to America
to sort of like get away from that place,
they'll reimburse you.
And I'm like, lay flat through Hawaii.
Yeah.
PJ.
P.J.
You're charging for Hawaii, stay for four days, and then get back to wherever the hell you live.
Yeah.
And then go, you said you to reimburse me.
Another symptom of the Democrat bloat.
Isn't it just crazy how these guys do it?
They just try to milk the American taxpayer.
It's been both parties.
But yeah, no, I mean, that's honestly a good plan.
That would do the same thing to be honest with you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I don't know.
We'll see what happens.
Is this going to happen to every other department in the United States?
Does this happen?
Does this happen with the, you know, Department of Education?
We'll see.
The Department of Fluffed Condoms?
You got to start that, dude.
Yeah.
We got to start that.
So, I don't know.
What did you learn?
What do you think?
Did you know anything about this beforehand?
What do you feel like you feel about this now?
I think, yeah, it was very helpful to go through it, the specifics because I see the
top line stuff where it's basically some people being like, thank God, we're finally
cutting this, this needed to go.
and other people being like you want African children to die.
And I think that it makes me want to read more about the specific projects
because some of them seem like bullshit, but other ones seem like they have a good purpose.
So I guess if we do get rid of it, would we be establishing any sort of smaller group to continue, you know,
helping people in poor nations that don't have the ability to fight diseases at least?
Yeah.
Continue doing that.
Another element, I think, is that like Rubio,
is now in charge of like overseeing it, I think, or something like that.
Yeah.
So now you got like Marco Rubio in there.
And so then the question is like, will the cure be better than, you know, the disease that was there before?
Yeah.
Like, do we trust that Rubio and Elon will be able to come through and clean it all up?
I guess we'll say.
Yeah.
It's one of those where it's like, look, if people stop dying of fentanyl, maybe these tariff things were genius, you know?
Like I think Malaney has that bit where he calls Trump like the horse in a hospital.
horse in a hospital?
Yeah.
It's like, is this bad?
Like, is it good?
Like, who knows?
Another thing that's interesting with this is, like,
does it indicate that Trump is still like an outsider?
Like, everyone's been like, oh, he's like a part of the machine.
Like, he's not here to, like, get rid of anything, da-da-da-da.
But, like, doing this is just like what an outsider would do?
It's a wrench in the machine, for sure.
Like, his machine is halting.
Or at least this small part of whatever the major machine is, is halting.
Have you heard of this idea of accelerationism?
This is fast.
Yes.
This is like a political idea where basically, like,
You promote and encourage anything to happen so long as it accelerates the destruction of the current system that you think is oppressive and wrong.
It's like left-wing people supporting Trump because they're like he's going to do so many things, like cutting back on so many things.
It will lead to increased oligarchy, increased insane late stage capitalism, increased inequality that people will actually finally be like, oh.
Yeah, it'll inspire the left to actually like.
do something.
It's interesting.
There's a sort of similar theory, like, not in...
I don't want my shit to get fucked up, so I'm not in acceleration.
I just want to be able to do my own thing.
Yeah.
There's a similar...
I don't want to say, like, infrastructure.
There's something similar.
But there is something similar in the historical, like, we think of Japan and Germany and all
these, like, European countries having, like, great infrastructure, basically.
And part of that that people are now saying is that it's a post-World War II, like,
benefit of your whole country getting bombed to shit.
which is like you have the time to rebuild, you have the time to think forward.
And America has never been attacked on foreign land.
And also you're welcome, Germany and Japan.
Yeah.
Except for 9-11.
Fair.
Except for 9-11, we haven't been attacked on American land.
And it's interesting that like the nicest part of the New York City MTA subway system is the lower Manhattan 9-11 subway stations.
So what are you proposing, Miles?
I'm not proposing
Devious.
I'm not proposing anything.
I'm just saying that it is interesting.
You might not make any more fans
with this line of thinking.
So evil.
Just might more.
Evil.
That would be sort of accelerationist
in a way.
Yeah, yeah.
And as someone that wants to just go back
to hunting and gathering,
and the sooner we can just get back
to just chilling with the boys
and just honestly,
just doing this shit right here.
Just on horseback,
going through Utah,
just chilling.
Man with podcast,
yearns for simpler times.
Run the headline.
Run the headline immediately.
I wish we didn't have to be recording.
I wish we just be a man who makes every time he ever makes online.
Hates the internet.
You want to know something if we were all around a fire hunting and gathering, we wouldn't need money.
It's true.
We just need fucking meat.
Just meat and just babes.
Yeah.
Meet and babes.
What's more bro than just being a native, just running around?
Meet and babes, dude.
Just grounding.
Yeah.
Sounding.
Yeah.
Have you heard of sound?
Oh, I know about sounding.
It's one of my favorite ings to do.
Yeah.
Grounding.
It's nice, something shoved up the old ureth.
You ever heard of sounding?
No.
Can we get a picture of sounding?
No, no.
Go back to caning.
You never watched kids in the sandbox growing up?
Go back to caning.
Well, I think that was a USAID initiative in Afghanistan.
You know, two girls one cup was actually a USAID project.
That's actually what they called the Sesame Street project over there, kids in the sandbox.
Sounding is, yeah, it shoves, as you can see.
item there into your pee hole.
Right into your urethra Franklin.
I hate this.
This feels like the end of the episode.
Yeah, you can sign us off.
Anyway, thank you guys so much.
You know what, before we do that, Mark?
We don't have any shows coming up.
That's not true.
Really?
We can plug our show in Portland, Maine.
Wow.
Yes.
Speaking of sounding.
It is, yeah.
Come and get your penis plugged.
Mark and I are co-headlining in Portland, Maine, April 27th.
So come on out and see both of us,
JoeyAvery.com slash live for all my shows,
Joey Show podcast.
Probably the best place to buy tickets
because I don't have a website yet.
Is that serious?
Yeah.
Where do people buy tickets to your shows?
Joeyvery.com slash live.
Mark will be at all the shows.
Come on out, buy tickets.
Great stand-up.
Yeah, I'm a little behind,
so I got a fear of that.
Get a website.
It's just so hard to do.
He just wants to hunt and gather.
Oh, my goodness.
If only he gets,
I'm trying to really just get sponsored,
by like Wix or Squarespace.
It's just a long play.
Sparespace might be the easiest sponsor
in the history of sponsorships on podcast.
Only I knew how to build a website.
If only, if only you had AI tools
that could help you build a website.
Exactly.
And I'm open.
I'm open for any bids.
But yeah, I just need to get a website.
But anyway, come see us.
That'll be a great show.
Yeah.
I can guarantee it'll be fun.
Yeah.
That there'll be laughter.
I think we're to college the night before in Maine.
I don't even know if you can buy tickets to that.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't know.
We're doing, what is it, like an adjunct?
Yeah, we're teaching.
We're teaching about sounding at the University of Urethra Main.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bangor.
It is actually.
The show I think isn't Bangor.
I can't wait.
I can't wait to see everybody there.
Miles is also going to do some time on that show.
Did I would love that.
You would do great.
You would do awesome.
I would really enjoy it.
It would be awesome.
Well, we got a lineup.
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you guys so much.
tuning in to this episode of Camp.
Let me know what you think.
What do you think?
Are we spending too much money,
giving it way to people, brown people?
You know, sometimes whites, well, you know, Ukrainians or whatever.
Are we giving away too much money for frivolous needs and do we need to put America first?
Or is it a more complicated geopolitical issue than, you know, a simple headline would lead you to believe?
I'm curious to know your thoughts.
Put them in the comments.
I will be reading probably like the first 50 of them, to be honest.
And after that, it gets a little tiring.
But let me know what you think.
As always, it's fuck Miles.
We'll see you next time.
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