No Agenda - 1620 - "Yoko Swifto"

Episode Date: December 28, 2023

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Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, December 28, 2023. This is your award-winning Gibbon Nation Media Assassination, episode 1620. This is no agenda. Rolling out the yellow flags and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody agrees that perhaps the dumbest show on TV

and perhaps the worst in the history of television is The Masked Singer. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning. You got to talk to Marty because you already did that opening. I did it again. Why did you do it again? That show is so bad. It needs to have...

People need to be reminded. Well, what are you doing watching it? Why are you even anywhere? Why are you even on those channels? I'm looking for news stories. Oh, man. No, no, no. Just say no.

Stay away from that stuff. It's not healthy for you. Now they have a whole slew of spin-offs hey speaking of i had a vision i had a vision i think i figured it out for something you've been asking for for a long time okay but wait let me ask a question in advance. Was this vision in a vivid dream? No, no, it was not in a vivid dream. It was as I was going to sleep last night. It came over me like a warm blanket.

You sure that was, was it liquid? Yeah, I know. Come on, man. I figured it out. I know how to do it. The No Agenda Podcast Awards. Ah, it's about time you've come around. Also known as the GOATS.

Okay. You know, the funny thing is, it's interesting you say that because GOATS is commonly used in sports a lot and it became a popular phrase about a decade ago. But I don't know that it's been used as an award base. No, no. You may have stumbled onto something here, the GOATS.

I told you, a vision, the GOATS. Because, of course, the award has to have a name. So No Agenda Podcast Awards is one thing. And I don't know if we want to call it the no agenda podcast awards or just the the podcast awards but our our award itself is called a goat yeah not the goatee no no not the goaties no the goats it's just the goats now here's how it works because this is the most important part how do we differentiate ourselves and this is i'm i'm feel so good about planting a seed well like a little mustard seed it grew into an enormous tree john you have done

your business mustard doesn't grow into a tree but go on um so we don't have traditional categories we just have awards and it is the producers of the no agenda show which means you have to at least donate it once doesn't matter what amount and we and we can work on this later but that that's just what in my in my vision the producers send in the awards and it's clips so you have to be able to clip and i'm i'm seeing awards such as best vocal fry in a podcast most use i don't know most word use of the word right in a podcast funniest handoff on hey hey girl hey hi hey hey uh best transition to an ad read. Gold! Best native ad. Gold.

This would be fantastic. This is why people would love our awards. What do you think? I mean, we still choose. I have no immediate complaints. We still choose the awards. Because it becomes, but I don't want it to deteriorate into the raspberries. No, no, no, no, no.

Hey, the best vocal fry, that's not easy to do in a podcast. That takes talent. Especially if you're going to sustain it. Yes. And they probably deserve an award because they're going to ruin their vocal cords. deserve an award because they're going to be they're going to ruin their vocal cords so the so the producers send in their clips their nominees we of course like all good awards we do whatever we want and that's the way awards work we'll still have some consultant come out and say well i've tallied all the votes you know with a little suitcase oh it's in here no one knows the

results but of course we know you know this is how it works of course we know the results and then we do an award show you know i think we can we can do a pretty fun job with that and um maybe we get some i don't know i mean the production of the show itself i'm not there yet but just the basic concept is all of these things that are that make podcasting so unique well the thing concept is all of these things that are, that make podcasting so unique. Well, the thing is, is it would be a,

there's no categories. It would be open ended. Yup. And you can give an award for the longest podcast in the history of podcasting. Well, yeah, I think we already won that one.

We're on deck for winning the goat for that. Then everyone gets a goat. You win the goat, and you can already hear, obviously. It'll be a goat head. Yeah, of course. A plated goat head. You know how that's going to work. It's obvious.

A plastic. It should be plastic. A plastic goat. Yeah. And I think there's plenty of great nominations that people can send in. But all those things that make it the most profane. Oh, the guys who can't stop cussing on their podcast. Yeah, stuff like that.

You know, best nat pops. Well, there's very few podcasts that do that. Right. Well, that's true. That's true. Except us. We do a great job. We do a great job.

Ah, okay. Well, good. I'm glad you kind of like that. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm glad you came up with it. That means you're on board. Hope everybody had a Merry Christmas.

I know that I had a great Christmas. We had one of the human resources and her boyfriend here. That was great. And I made double-dip depression slave stew for the day after Christmas, which everybody loved. If you've never heard of that, it's a No Agenda staple. I've published the link to the recipe in the show notes. Of course, the Dvorak family

celebrates traditionally on the 29th of December. No, actually, traditionally, we actually celebrate on the 1st of January, which was done in the 14th and 15th, 15th and 16th century by the Tudors. They would always

do it on the 1st, and we feel this is more traditional. We believe in a traditional Christmas, so we do our it on the first and we feel this is more traditional we believe in a traditional Christmas so we do our gifts on the first of January and are they doing it all at your place or where does it take place? everyone's going to be here Eric as well, is he coming up from SD?

no, Eric's going to stay he snowed in so he won't be able to come down of course he's in South Dakota he's starting to's in South Dakota. He's starting to talk like South Dakota. Oh, really? He's doing that now?

No, not yet, but it's coming. Well, I thought, I mean, there's a lot of news, obviously. I thought the funniest and the most interesting and entertaining, and I have some clips, is the story that just tickles me. We had some news just coming in this morning. The New York Times suing OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and Microsoft for copyright infringement. The Times says millions of its articles were used to train chatbots that now compete with the Times as a source of information.

The paper says the defendants should be liable for billions of dollars in damages. should be liable for billions of dollars in damages. This is... What damages? Microsoft is an investor in open AI and has incorporated the technology into its Bing search engine. Potential big story. I don't know how they thought they were going to get away with it. But you've seen...

Oh, brother. The New York Times is maybe the biggest name in journalism so far to come out with this. But we've seen the concern from the actors and the writers when they were making sure that AI protection was written for the contracts. My wife found out that her novel was one of 30,000 ingested into a large language model.

Does she get paid for that? Should she be paid for that? I honestly don't know the answer to that. Well, the New York Times is saying yes. Very strong copyright laws in this country. Very strong copyright laws in this country. Very strong copyright laws in this country. Well, what are you hemming and hawing about saying bull crap? What are you talking?

Did you see the lawsuit? I don't care about it. I didn't have to see the lawsuit. What's the damages? Tell me. Oh, no. Specifically. No, there's no damages.

Oh, damages. There's no damages. There are billions of damages. What's the damage? Name a damage. Oh, damages. There's no damages. There's no damages. There's billions of damages. What's the damage? Name a damage. Well, okay. First of all, I've looked at the lawsuit, which is interesting because you can see that not just a couple of lines, but entire paragraphs are literally just from the New York Times reporting. What they're saying is that Silicon Valley companies are paying for news in many countries,

most notably Scandinavia and I believe Australia, and there's your damages. So you're now taking it for free and giving it away for free in the chatbots. I think there's a case there. And you were the one that said that this was going to be the biggest lawsuits of all time would be around this. I can't mock it.

I'm not saying I didn't say that. I'm just saying this is still dubious. And I went on about this before, which is that everybody wants everything digitized. It was going to be the great in the 70s and 80s. That's all they talked about. The giant information at your fingertips kind of trend and everything was going to be digitized. And once the Google in particular started digitizing, and so did Microsoftrosoft then everyone got all up and oh they digitized my old book from 20 years ago that i haven't gotten 10 cents in royalties from for the last decade

but now i'm getting ripped off bull crap right but i think the new york times has a different angle here i know what their angle yeah their their angle is i'm not buying it still. I hate to say that. I'm not going to say it again. No, you really shouldn't because it's just not a great retort. No, I'm not going to say it because I don't like the phrase. But what is interesting is fair use. This is what the AI companies are claiming. And fair use is, it's probably about time this is properly

examined i understand the fair use issue and i think it's an important one but this idea that they found exact whole paragraphs that were ripped off i'm not believing it oh no that's absolutely true what are you talking about it's absolutely true i went and here's the reason. You train the AI yourself. You've done it. And you end up pulling some full graphs out. It's not the normal thing that's going to happen. Hey, why don't you go sit with Microsoft, you heathen? Why are you on the side of these guys all of a sudden?

I'm on the side of what's right. I'm on the side of what's right. No, these large language models are literally taking entire stories and just spouting them back and with no change. Well, if that's the case, then yes, you have an issue. But that's what I'm saying. They have these examples in the lawsuit. They're showing these examples. Yes, I know, but I'm not believing the examples are accurate.

Oh, my God. Look at Grok. If you ask Grok, tell me about John C. Dvorak on Twitter, you will say tweets that you recognize word for word of people saying you're horrible. You'll recognize the exact language. This is what's so interesting, is that it is a direct copy this direct copy well then if if what you say is absolutely true without any fudging or grok for god's sake what a dog that thing is uh then yeah okay yes go go knock yourself out but it's not

going to help things and what about art how are you going to deal with that well that but listen if you go on twitter you sign a uh a perpetual license over to x.com x inc that they can do whatever they want with what you post there so that's that's not a problem that's that you have already given away a license for them to suck that into Grok. But the New York Times has not given anyone a license to suck that into Google co-pilot, Microsoft, and have that spit back when you're writing a PowerPoint presentation. Hey, I wish y'all luck in the world on this lawsuit. Of the four points that are substantial. Yeah, okay. Whose side are you on in this lawsuit? I'm on the side of the New York Times.

I think they're right. I really do. Why would I be on the side of stupid AI? I think it's stupid. It's not interesting. It's not intelligent. That's stupid AI. It's not intelligent.

Artificial stupidity. A-S is A-S. intelligent. That's stupid AI. It's not intelligent. Artificial stupidity. AS is AS. It's a scam to get to fill up compute cycles. It's bad for the environment. It is. So is Bitcoin mining, I might add.

Oh, don't get me started on things you know nothing about, young man. All I know is I read the reports. Don't get me started. It's going to kill us all. all well it'll kill you first it's actually the two are actually related because the bitcoin miners you know there's a six very specific chips that they use for bitcoin mining they are they're all now looking to, they're creating AI chips, which once this AI bubble bursts

and everyone figures out it's a humongous, stupid scam, these AI chips will be turned right around and be super efficient for Bitcoin mining. It's going to be great because there's just going to be all this compute laying around that no one wants to use anymore.

The ducks? Yeah, there's animals that are going to be hurt by this climate change oh my god caused by all this oh my god mine go back to bed and get up again you're on the wrong side of history i'm on the wrong side of history let's listen to cbs they had a they had an interesting conversation maybe we can mock them the new york Times has just filed a potentially important lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming their artificial intelligence chatbots are taking web traffic away from the paper's own website. Senior business and tech correspondent Jolene Kent joins us now. And Jolene, good morning to you. Can you dive in and tell us what this lawsuit is really about? Yeah, Jamie, good morning. This is a real pivotal moment for A.I. The New York Times is the first major media company to sue Microsoft and Open A.I., the maker of chat GPT for copyright infringement,

using millions of Times articles to train its chat bots, which now compete and they can compete directly with the newspaper. which now compete and they can compete directly with the newspaper. Now, this complaint was filed in the Southern District of New York, and it alleges that both companies are taking a, quote, free ride on the Times' massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment. Now, the lawsuit specifically names ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing Chat and says that while they engaged in wide-scale copying from many sources, they gave Times content particular emphasis. Now, Microsoft

declining to comment to CBS News, but OpenAI did send us this statement saying, in part, we respect the rights of content creators and owners and are committed to working with them. Our ongoing conversations with the New York Times have been productive and moving forward constructively. So we are surprised and disappointed with this development. I like that. I always like this. I'm surprised and disappointed.

Well, you know, Apple is now, they've released news that they are exploring AI deals with news publishers. Apple is going to come out ahead on this after being the laggard because they're just going to go and license it. And this, by the way, is not anything intelligent. It's just, oh, it's like a big database. Oh, give me the latest news on this topic. It'll spit it back and we all go, oh, AI. Oh, that's so impressive so they continue this

conversation on cbs about the impact of the lawsuits which is what you'd be interested in jolene help me understand what kind of impact could this lawsuit have yeah vlad depending on what the court finds it could force ai companies to change the way they train their artificial intelligence which are called those large language models. But there are big legal questions whether the facts that make up the New York Times reporting are even eligible for copyright to begin with. Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig told me on the phone yesterday that AI's use of the New York Times reporting may actually fall under the doctrine of fair use. That's a legal defense that argues copyrighted material may be used without permission under certain circumstances. Now, of course, this could undercut the Times' argument against OpenAI

and Microsoft. But by the way, guys, this is not the first lawsuit we've seen from copyright holders. We've seen book authors, comedians, major music companies, they've all sued generative AI companies for similar types of concerns about how they're training their models. And meantime, we've seen other news media companies strike business partnerships with OpenAI to license news stories, but it could be billions of dollars of damages on the line here, you guys. Yeah, you guys. You guys. So that's where the problem comes in.

Fair use, which is interesting. It's interesting to us, too. I mean, us playing this, we consider that to be fair use, which I think we can defend. But what we're playing this is a more traditional, well-established fair use principles. Yes, yes. Let's just play this. The thing that's going on now with the ai is not established as a fair use principle so it has to be determined by a court yeah and i think it's i think uh if lessig

is uh he's kind of um go ahead well he's the guy who started creative commons i know the idea i know he's pretty much let everything be let the Information must be free. That's not true. That's not true. I defended Creative Commons in court and won. Creative Commons is not about let everything be free. No, but that's his mentality. He would like it to be free. No, Creative Commons does have some restrictions,

and you did win a case. The first case. Yeah, you're a groundbreaker. That's why everyone hates you. That's why I'm poor. You stole MTV, and then you got this lawsuit. You're never going to have friends. So the point is that somebody stole a photo of you

when you were I think smoking pot in a plane or something I can't remember something screwy you totally took them to court over there I think it was some European publication a rag

willy nilly stealing stuff and you put a stop to it good for you everyone congratulates you. Yeah. Well, thank you. But Lawrence Lessig backed me up in that. So he wasn't all of that. I mean, the whole...

I know Larry quite well. Okay. Well, I know him. I know him quite well. Have you had lunch with him? He had a sleepover at my house once. Does that count? Okay count okay well then you know really fascinating reporting because the fair use doctrine of media is one that is employed

across all media industries all of them you know where you say hey there's something that was reported by another news organization we're going to show it to you we're going to credit that news organization it's a very legal it yeah it's really though about the investment that these companies buy into well i think we have to have better understanding though of how these all work all right they don't even know themselves the dummies have no idea just no idea that there was just fun stuff out there can i do one more more? By the way, wait, wait. Just stop for a second. We have to mention, we're working today. Yes, we are. And we're working on New Year's Eve.

Yes. And all the show, I was just flipping around to maybe get a last minute clip this morning. I turn on the Outnumbered, the show on Fox where they have. Wow, you went from the masked singer to Outnumbered? No wonder you're cranky. So I'm watching outnumbered. There's not one person on there except Tammy Bruce, who kind of could be on vacation,

but she's kind of on vacation most of the time. Nobody. It's just all leftovers. It's just terrible. Fox won't put anybody on. We don't have a B team. We don't have a B team. That's why we need the podcast award. We don't have a B team. We don't have a B team. That's why we need the podcast award.

We don't have a B team. We can produce the show and take the day off. What is the point of the No Agenda podcast awards so we can take a day off and just roll the tape? Have a pre-produced show. I thought we were going to do a separate and above. Oh, wow. So I just created more work for us

yeah you did which is why i was kind of surprised uh i um let me just see there was a couple before we leave the ai thing there was something else i was going to say about this oh yes the tony blair institute which i'm came out with its 10 policy priorities for global leaders in 2024. What the hell's the Tony Blair Institute? Well, it's clearly for, you know, they give advice to leaders. So Tony Blair is a player. Tony Blair? Oh, yeah.

He's a player. He's a player. Yeah. I mean, hey, look, he's a lot smarter than we are he's making money off of this bullcrap so number five policymakers maintain momentum on ai even if even if public interest dips and he says big changes are coming why the bottom here it is big changes are coming even if they are not evident right now. So policymakers should keep working on the deployment and regulation of AI and in particular, act fast to ensure access to compute capacity. Their country needs to compete. What are these big changes he's talking about? If he says big changes are coming, he must have an inkling of what these changes might be what are

they you know that he doesn't need to say that he's tony blair but he's doing is no so he's clueless he's just throwing out memes no what he does is he sells you a contract to microsoft azure that's what he's doing here hello public services when he's become a middleman for microsoft services yes yes and google what a dude here public service six public services start to serve the people i gotta read this graph countries are experimenting in different ways with applying technology to public services to make them more user-friendly, and efficient. Oh, stop. Okay, so when I was a kid, and I was going to the University of California, Berkeley,

we were already, we were clued in, everybody was, the big deal was, and this was back in the day, and it continues, the United States is going to very slowly evolve from being a manufacturing company to a service company, where everything's going to be service. Service being a manufacturing company to a service company where everything's going to be service. Service, service, service.

Like restaurant service. Well, no, any kind of service. I think the peak of service ended, I think peak service ended with a product called WordPerfect, which was a word processor that came out out of Utah and they had a service department.

You could call them, get anything answered really quick. Wow, WordPerfect 4.2, that was the standard. It was actually probably the biggest word processor. The legal standard for when I took my company public in 96. It was a big deal. Yep. And, of course, they get bought out and folded into something and folded into something else.

Next thing you know, the Microsoft products run and everything. But there is no service. So the garbage, this is garbage week. And I thought, I think they were going to move the garbage up and they're starting to pick up garbage this morning. And I'm saying, wait a minute, they're supposed to move it up a week. I call them. I'm on hold forever to a recording. And don't forget that you put your bags in the bags in the bags. And it goes on and on and on. Nobody ever picks up. I have to finally hang up.

It's like you can't even get to a receptionist anymore because there are no receptionists. It's all these machines and press to if you if you speak Spanish is unbelievable. We suck at service. The country's going down the tubes because of this well i disagree respectfully which i love saying because that means f you basically yes it means great f you f you um so we are live in the unincorporated fredericksburg we're right outside city services so we don't get any service from the city. However, for $92 a quarter, which is $30 a month,

we have Gillespie Waste Services, and they call me. They say, hey, we're going to come on Tuesday, the day after Christmas. I forgot to put up my trash one day. I text the guy. He's like, hey, no problem. we'll swing back on the way home, we'll pick it up then for you.

Service, perfect service. One example out of thousands. Genuinely transformative progress relies on connecting the many silos of information to deliver proactive support to the people who need it. Reducing waste, there you go, while maximizing service value. to deliver proactive support to the people who need it, reducing waste, there you go, while maximizing service value.

This requires a common infrastructure and identity system. Yeah, Tony, you tell them. That's what they want, identity system. Yes, yes. Hello, citizen Dvorak, what's your ID number? Hey, remember Lotus Jazz? Oh, yes. Hello, Citizen Dvorak. What's your ID number? Hey, remember Lotus Jazz? Oh, yeah. Lotus Jazz, man. That was the suite.

That was the suite you needed to have. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. It wasn't Lotus Jazz, the incorporating. There was one version of their spreadsheet that was open-ended they just throw numbers on the screen and it would put it there was no cells remember that that product there was people that were falling in love with that thing and they couldn't sustain it i don't know what why it died but it died completely well what i remember is you had to insert your original disc every single time to run it and eventually those flies, the three and a half inch floppies,

just didn't work anymore. And so, you know, you lose your access to the program. That's what I remember Lotus Jazz being, a problem. You know, because people might copy it, you know, steal it. Oh, please. Steal it. Yeah, that's no good. It was like the keys.

Remember the USB keys? Oh, how many keys you had to stick in a key for everything yeah for a while it was no good none of that was good none of that was good anyway we have a new freak out happening online which is of course something that i love to research this was truly truly amazing The text messages were flying. People are posting about this everywhere. I have two examples. Guys, this, you know, whenever a cute blonde starts off with, oh, guys, guys, guys, something's going on, guys. Guys, this is truly insane. T-Mobile has just updated their terms of service. And now if you post any content

they don't agree with, they will fine you. And they have an acronym called SHAFT. This stands for sex, hate, alcohol, firearms, and tobacco. This is going to be implemented on January 1st. And the fines that they will fine you is in the thousands. I had no idea that we lived in China. Since when does a company get to determine what you are allowed to talk about in a private text message to a friend? This should not only disturb you, but this should make you want to take action. If you have T-Mobile, switch now. And if they are doing this, how long do you think it's going to be before they start fact-checking our text messages? So this is an outrage. They're going to fact-check our messages. They're reading our text messages.

You got to drop T-Mobile right now. And of course, we all know this is really Joe Biden. And of course, we all know this is really Joe Biden. Breaking news right here in Joe Biden's America. I love people who think that they're breaking news when they're on TikTok. Breaking news. Breaking news right here in Joe Biden's America. He's allowing major cell phone provider T-Mobile to read your private text messages and fine you up to $3,500 if you say mean things they don't like. It's called SHAFT. It's the system they're using.

They're giving somebody the SHAFT. It's an acronym that stands for sex, hate, alcohol, firearms, and tobacco. It outlines the categories of text messages specifically regulated due to moral and legal issues and is monitored and enforced by the Sailor Telephone Industries Association. This will all begin on January 1, 2024. You know, like I know, they're going to target conservatives. They're going to target anybody that wasn't about getting that forced medical procedure. They're going to target anybody that questions anything. If you question anything government, they're going to target you. They're

going to fine you up to $3,500. Now, they're saying that it's to prevent porn, guns, illegal drugs, all of that. But they snuck in that one word the Democrats love, hate speech. And you know, like I know, hate speech is nothing more than pro-Trump, anti-Joe Biden. There it is. Or anti-Democrat, pro-conservative. That's hate speech as far as these major corporations go. And this guy just goes on and on. So just hearing this, John, from your breaking news source on TikTok, what is your takeaway that you think is happening here with this shaft?

Well, obviously, the I mean, this is unfamiliar to me, but it's obvious by the name shaft that it's done is somebody did this as a joke but i i think it might have actually been directed by verizon or some dirty tricks operation one of the other companies interestingly enough this has already been in play since 2022 and it is a part of the u.s telecom carriers association agreement. So this is across the board. So it's not new. It's just, you know,

uh, someone saw T-Mobile update their terms of service and they went on freak out mode. Shaft is, it is a real, it is called shaft. It is. Yes.

Sex, hate, alcohol, firearms, tobacco, but it's not between users. It is for the A2P application application so if you pay t-mobile to text people you know such as governor greg abbott does to me that's what an a2p application

is and so they've set rules in place for what you can basically spam people. Oh, for the automated systems? Yes. Yeah, for advertisers. Yes, exactly. This is nothing new. I mean, I love the SHAFT acronym. That's funny. Yeah, it's pretty dubious. This is in Canada. No, I have all the documents. No, I'm just saying,

why would you come up with an acronym like that? Well, that's somebody having a drink at the meeting and having some fun obviously but it has nothing to do with your text messages to your friends or anything like that but everyone flies off yeah but hey hey hey hey it could happen though but but here's the joke of it focus on that you numb nuts the government has everything you send anyway who are you kidding it's it's it's published it's known the NSA has every single text message a recording every phone call down in Utah where's no it's a Denver all they have to do is just type in your number and

up comes all your information people are so your text stupid and just everyone's freaking out about it about this of course isn't that beautiful and of course i'm sure at&t and verizon are loving it oh yeah yeah cancel t-mobile we're the good guys don't tell anybody it's hilarious hilarious how the just everyone freaks out over this and to propagate no one took three seconds to read what it was about and this is from no agenda people too yeah well on that in that vein save the world in that vein um the missouri versus biden lawsuit this has gone to the supreme court this is about uh the government um telling social media companies to censor posts to take accounts down particularly during covid

and of course during trump and uh we expected that there would be some amicus briefs over this well there were 19 amicus briefs and two actually in support of the government explain what that is to people who don't know don't know so an amicus brief in this case the supreme court is eventually probably a couple years down the road is going to make a decision and say you know know what, the Biden administration specifically, but also parts of the Trump administration, violated your First Amendment right as the government by telling commercial companies, threatening them, you better take that down, or we just might have to do something about Section 203, and that might ruin your business.

So that, of of course is a blatant violation of the first amendment so an amicus brief is interested parties who for whatever reason have an interest in this process either never happening again or continuing to happen so they send in a friend of the court letter amicus brief so we have two that are that are all for it they think it's really good including the lawyers committee for civil rights under law common cause and leadership the conference on civil and human rights they they said they suggest the first amendment exists to allow the government to protect its own people from harassment and to prevent private citizens from making false statements. They actually put that into an amicus brief and sent it to the Supreme Court.

Wow. this group the american academy of pediatrics american medical association american academy of family physicians american college of physicians and american geriatric society they uh say well they according to our uh constitutional lawyer rob this brief takes no position on whether the government improperly coerced the platforms it addresses only whether that coercion actually violated the first amendment that is whether biden and co had a compelling interest to squash private citizen speech it argues that a compelling interest indeed existed because approved vaccines are safe and effective can you believe it yeah i can't believe it. Of course I can believe it. The audacity. Yeah, they just never let up. They see the lawsuits looming and this, no, no, no, we're going to keep this going.

I just find it amazing, amazing that they say these things. Anyway. There are people, I think the majority of the public as a matter of fact that will believe to the death which could be any minute for them that the vaccines are safe and effective yeah yeah that psyop worked very well oh beautiful in fact um i have a uh i think i have a report here yeah this is a short one. Just to prove your point, short one. From the flu to COVID, it's that time of year when more people get sick, but a new study reveals the biggest risk for children, RSV. Researchers

found kids are far more likely to be hospitalized for RSV than for the flu or COVID. The study looked at nearly 2,600 children and found kids with RSV were 11 times more likely to be hospitalized than kids with COVID. The CDC says the study confirms the importance of vaccines. So the study is not about vaccines. It just confirms vaccines are important. You're CDC.

The people who are supposed to protect you. No, they're not supposed to protect you no they're not going to protect you that clip put a smile on my face I'm glad it did hey just to wrap this up

well it's kind of back and forth here but as of January 1st Mickey Mouse the original Steamboat Willie Mickey Mouse I think will finally enter the public domain. Then people are thinking, this is great. We're going to do all kinds of stuff with Mickey Mouse.

And I'm thinking, you better not. Don't send in art with Mickey Mouse. We're not going to do it. We're not going to use it, that's for sure. No, because Disney will come after you. This is the way it works. Disney got a 20 year extension which was 20 years ago

on Mickey Mouse and they did that through all kinds of lobby in fact wasn't it Sonny Bono who helped Disney extend that copyright it could be wouldn't surprise me and then they killed him that's probably the reason that Sonny Bono's not in the Rock and Roll

Hall of Fame how does that work that's a good point that's probably the reason that sonny bono's not in the rock and roll hall of fame how does that work oh that's a good point that's waller i think isn't there's all these rappers that are in rock and roll quote unquote abba abba's in the rock are you kidding me no i'm not kidding sonny bono's not and share is not are you sure about that oh yeah because i the reason i say i'm sure about it because share was just on the kelly clarkson show moaning and groaning about and now she says they give her a million bucks she won't she won't accept it wow she's quite pissed off about it i can't believe what you're watching yes share slams rock and roll hall of fame for snub. Snub. Trying to keep up with the culture

unlike you. Oh, okay. Well, I'm glad you're doing that. Yes, that's why I'm complaining about things the way I am. It's safe and effective. I'm not happy. Cher snubbed and then, of course, there's the guitar player, what's his name,

the right-wing guy who's never gotten it for some unknown reason. Ted Nugent. Ted Nugent. If anybody's a rock and roll guy, it's Ted Nugent. It's correct. He won't even accept it anymore. He won't accept it.

Well, why would you? You've already been snubbed. You know, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, back in the day when I was a kid, back in the MTV days, late a kid back in the mtv days late 80s and the very early 90s it was a it was a real thing it was at the waldorf astoria new york it was private there were no television cameras allowed inside it was not videotaped we didn't have cell phone cameras you know you could bring in your youramatic. Remember those with a little flash cube on top? And it was great.

Everybody was dressed up. Flash cube. Everybody was dressed up in tuxedos. Phil Spector, before he was arrested and died. Mick Jagger would all be eating rubber chicken and pretending, oh, rubber chicken is good. And it was really nice. And Paul Schaefer from Letterman's Band, he would organize an actual jam, which was a jam. It was unrehearsed.

And all these guys just jumped on stage and played along and had a good time. Those days are over. Yeah. Oh, definitely. Now it's a show. It's on HBO. It's highly produced no republicans there's no no nugent no sunny bono no share and it's and it's it's it has it's a shadow of what

it used to be you and you had to pay two thousand dollars a seat it was the old days yeah yeah yeah yeah so guys would buy a table you you know, 20 grand for 10 people. But I got invited, though. I got invited. That was pretty cool. Yeah, I'm sure you did. You didn't have $2,000 to throw away. Nope.

Nope. No, I got in a fight with Ray Davies once. You were too busy suing everybody. No, that was before those times. They sued me first. Okay, well. They sued me first. Well, that was unfair.

You had, I know other people that have done the same thing what well john markoff for example got nyt.com yeah before the new york times knew what the hell was going on and then then they let it slide forever and then they all of a sudden they kind of wanted it of course he caved caved. He wasn't like you. No, they didn't ask. If they had asked me, I would have said, okay, can I just have Adam at MTV.com? Can I just keep the email alias? But they didn't ask me. They served me papers on a Saturday morning.

And I said, you know what? Screw you. I'm going to countersue you. Then I did. then we said then we said what they did and i hate to use the word because i'm condemned for for cussing too much that sounds like they're a bunch of chicken shits yeah no that's how you can use that word that's fine that's fine they were and the whole thing it was dumb it was just dumb but there was this lawyers lawyers we got too many lawyers sorry lawyers

but we got too many of you well not the ones who listen to our show no we have those are good lawyers obviously they're all good lawyers or dynamite lawyer we have some tremendous high you know what else we have we have a bunch of navy guys yeah and including and i have some we want to talk about fat leonard for a second oh you got the note be careful to to protect no i've got three notes okay protect all their identities because i got three notes well this one is he's only so much protection because he's actually a he's the knight of the deep blue sea and i think that's all we need to say yeah um he says uh hi john i'm a navy supply corps officer the fat leonard

scandal took down several high-ranking supply corps officers about a decade ago by the way i started looking into this and people should go look at the fat leonard entry in the wikipedia and you can see the whole timeline and it starts with paul wolfowitz oh really and the and the bush administration and it goes right into about halfway through the first uh obama administration and it's disgusting 60 admirals were involved were somehow involved 60 admirals where are the this is this is an untold scandal how come that didn't i don't remember any news about that of course not it was suppressed my favorite story was a lieutenant who was the supply officer on a submarine well when a ship pulls into a foreign port the ship sends a

logistics request called a log wreck to to shore to ask for all the things it needs. Things like the brow to the walk across, the shoreline, power lines, mooring lines, etc. This one particular supply officer would ask for certain flavors of cheesecake, which was code for hookers. Oh, cheesecake and pizza? Lemon cheesecake meant Asian girls, Chocolate meant black girls, etc. No way. You get the idea. No way.

This guy would sign the invoices for trash removal, water delivery, sanitary. This was, by the way, this is one of three or four notes we've gotten from these different Navy guys. And they all say the same thing. They all knew this was going on. Sewer remover, etc. For amounts that were in excess of what was actually removed or delivered to pay for his hookers, hotel room, et cetera, et cetera. He even had fat Leonard fly his family out to some ports as a vacation.

Nice. There was a ton of malfeasance going on back then. Yeah. I got, I got a note here about women in booze for coats, Rolex watches, concert tickets. It's like a media buyer. And here's what's weird about to me is these Navy guys,

officers, many of them, a lot of officers, they can't get their own damn hookers? I mean, they're sailors and they can't find a whore? Give me a break. They didn't want to pay for them. Well, okay, well, there's that.

That's pretty. Okay, well, since we've gone lewd. I don't know what's lewd about it. I think this scandal is so enormous, and it's been so covered up in the media, although the Washington Post did a really good job on it, and they just named names, and they named some of the admirals that are still they're still looking at. You could probably bring him in. Most of the admirals have retired.

But how does this happen? This is like the biggest breach. Well, and you read about it in that wiki page. It's disgusting. I think the question is, how come this is the only one we've uncovered? Well, I'm sure there's others yeah and this and this is why the pentagon needs to be audited good luck with that yeah they can't audit the pentagon they can't audit the navy this is a the taxpayers are getting ripped off on a

daily basis in fact i had a a clip on a couple of shows ago. I didn't play it. It's the, what's it called? Festivus Report. In fact, look up Festivus so you can find it. This is the report that Rand Paul likes to bring out every year, and it's about government waste, and he cites a bunch of government waste. I have three clips from Festivus, and I can't be can't see if you can figure out which one is about to report this one i think festivus is back no not that one no no that's the iso

would it be it would be called festivus because i'm looking at festivus and i don't uh i thought it was called festivus no No, it doesn't seem... Or look for Rand Paul, maybe it's in that. Yeah. Anyway, he would... I'll figure it out. I'll bring it back to the Sunday show. Okay.

If I can find it. But this goes on forever, and nobody seems to care. No. And then, you know, your taxes go up. Yeah. And you're just throwing money at hookers. As I said, as we're being lewd, let's listen to a caller from C-SPAN, Democrat line. Ryan is also from California, Democrat's line.

Hi, Pedro. Yeah, this is Ryan from California. Democrats line. Hi, Pedro. Yeah, this is Ryan from California. I want I want to be bipartisan. And you guys did gave some grades a couple of weeks back and I never got in. But I'd like to give an A to to my brothers in the Republican Party. I'd like to give an A to my brothers in the Republican Party. And I think the Democratic Party has gotten a little crazy. And I think in some ways they're trying to destroy this country.

So I'm glad for their checks and balances. And I'd like to give them an A for doing that, even though they haven't been very productive. It's checks and balances. That's how this country works. This Constitution works. But I also want to give my Democrats credit, too. And I want to give them an A in the Senate for doing anal. Doing the butt. Hey, that's a viewer there in California.

Shaggy dog. He held on a long time. You should have seen the guy's face on C-SPAN. C-SPAN guys have to put up with this. I thought that was a banger. That was great. A banger, yeah. You know he wasn't a Democrat from California.

No, of course not. He's some joker. Now, this is something quite serious um because this may affect a lot of things a question came up during a town hall on cnn for nikki haley and now this is the cnn report about it um and it's of course it's edited to make her look even worse than it was but not only did she blow it on this i think this is a question that we will see coming back time and time and time again for every republican candidate for any office this will be the question abby an awkward moment at this rally here in Berlin when Nikki Haley was asked about the cause, the origins of the Civil War. She seemed tripped up by the question and suggested that it

was about the government and personal freedoms. The questioner then called her out for neglecting to raise the issue of slavery. Take a listen to the exchange. What was the cause of the United States Civil War? Well, don't come with an easy question or anything. I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run. The freedoms and what people could and couldn't do. What do you think the cause of the Civil War was? Oh, bad move.

I'm sorry? Basically saying slavery. I mean, I think it always comes down to the role of government. Dope, here it comes. What do you want me to say about slavery next question she's done she's toast toast toast not you bring this up once in a while on the show i want to refer people to a book called the causes of the civil war i think is i think that's the title yes by kenneth stamp s-t-a-m-p-p uh kenneth stamp was

professor cal and he was an expert on the topic and he wrote a book which discusses this in great detail based on what was what people were saying at the time and since then and it's quite enlightening because there's a more than one reason this the slavery is definitely in there but it's not the key reason at least in this book and i would and it's it'll educate you somewhat but you have to in today's world if you're running for president, you have to say slavery. Yes. Period. Whether true or not.

And so go to the Kenneth Stamp book and you'll get a good education. I have an abbreviation of the Kenneth Stamp book, which might be helpful. The Civil War grew out of longstanding tensions and disagreements about American life and politics. By the way, we have to understand that at the time, slavery was normal. It's very difficult for people to transport their head into that today. For more than 80 years, people in the northern and southern states have been debating the issues that ultimately led to war, economic policies and practices, cultural values, the extent and reach of the federal government, and most importantly, the role of slavery within American society. Against the backdrop of these larger issues, individual soldiers had their own reasons for fighting. Their motivations often

included a complex mix of personal, social, economic, and political values that didn't necessarily match the aims expressed by the respective governments. And, you know, there was a succession. There's a lot of stuff that went on. But if you don't, and I think we should, as the Currie-DeVore Consulting Group, I think we should have an answer that Republicans can use because they're going to fail on this every single time. Well, if they take her approach, of course they are. Shouldn't they just say, well, Democrats at the time, that's how it would start off well democrats like slavery that's how it would start yeah well that's beautiful going in consulting mode that is absolutely the way to

start it yeah yes you got to stay oh is the democrat dominated south which we're all in on slaves as the democrats are to this day well Well, maybe you can't go that far. Easy, boy. You can get close. You can get close. Yes. They like to keep the black population underfoot. Yes, this is the answer. I mean, any

version of that is how you want to answer the question. And you can say, but you should just start off by saying, well, we all know the time the democrats love slavery and they wanted to keep it going there were other things at play and then you just go on then it doesn't matter what you say from that point on it would be perfect but there's no there's no refuting that you know and and lincoln was our president our republican president had to bring in a republican which was a new party at the time, to fight, to fight, to fix the racist Democrats, racist Democrats.

And, you know, yeah, there's what. Yeah, you could definitely create a dialogue that would be dynamite. But no, I mean, Vic Ramaswamy would probably go in that direction. But she's flat footed. She's no good. Toast, man. I think she's toast over that one. I think so, too.

That's just she can't get anything done now. She just and then when she says, what would you like me to say about slave? That's why don't you give me an easy question? Oh, my God. Who is running her campaign? Well, that's fired. Mr. Fired. I got a odds clip here this is off the top off topic but it brings in two it brings in two clips okay this is the sewage test around schools

clip okay new mexico is one of the very first states in the u.s to have started drug testing its public schools' wastewater for a range of opioids and stimulants. A Wall Street Journal report looks into some of the data released earlier this month. Out of more than three dozen high schools, cocaine was found in nearly 82 percent of campus communities. And many schools also detected opioids like fentanyl, And many schools also detected opioids like fentanyl, oxycodone and codeine. The author of that article, Sarah Randazzo, joins us now. Great to have you here, Sarah. And this is pretty shocking stuff. Talk to us about this wastewater testing technique and how does it work? How common is this?

In the U.S., we really started hearing about it most since the pandemic. It was used to detect upticks in COVID. I don't know if you remember seeing, you know, oh, wastewater showing there could be a surge here. And so it was used for diseases like that. And then now the U.S. is starting to realize, oh, we can do the same wastewater technique to look for drug use. And New Mexico is one of the first places I've found doing this in public schools. And so they literally are testing anything that's flushed down the toilet, you know, to be just frank about it. And so it could be from students. It could be from adults in the building. But over the course of an eight hour period, they take multiple measures at each campus and then look for a whole range of drugs from it.

I have a feeling that we discussed this very thing happening. Yeah, I think we might have. It started with nothing but sense. It started with, oh, we're just testing the wastewater to see if you have covid and now they're drug testing and then eventually it can go house by house and interestingly a report just came out in the eu an eu report i should say it's a worldwide report about, and this is also from, I believe it's from wastewater testing, actually. The worst cocaine habits by country. So who do you think is the number one country

that uses the most cocaine according to this report? It should be us, and I'm disappointed if it's not. Oh, no, bro, we're number five. We'm disappointed if it's not oh no we're no bro we're number five we're slipping five oh man we're falling on everything you will not believe who by a wide margin by 40 and this is the last 12 months amongst people age 15 to 64 give me the top five number i'll give you i'll do it in reverse order actually i'll give you um two three four five six i'll give you the top do a countdown let me give you at number 10 we have coming in with their frog pants france at number nine croatia number eight canada

sniffing and snorted up north and then no surprise the drug capital of the European Union, the Netherlands. And then, of course, where all our money goes instead of to taxes, Ireland. And then, number one, two, three, number five, the United States, followed very closely, beaten by just a hair, a nose hair, by Spain. And now comes the interesting top three. Can you give me one of the top three of the most cocaine users in the world? How about Denmark? No, man. Denmark's got the legal stuff.

They're all on SSRIs. They don't need coke. Okay. I'm just going to take... They're not... UK. UK. Number two.

UK. Number two. Number three is Austria. Number one. Number one. Can you guess, by a margin of 40% more drug users than the United Kingdom, what country? No one is guessing it in the troll room. No one has it.

I was blown away. Okay, hit it. Australia. Wow. A bunch of coked out. I wouldn't have guessed that either. Coked out. Coked out.

Just coked out. Coked up is the actual out. Coked out. Just coked out. Coked up. Coked up kangaroos, man. Wow. By 40% margin. Ever since they took away the guns. Oh, man. Well, we're screwed.

All right. Let's have another toot. Yeah, but I feel good. So I have one more sewage store since that obviously came from that. And this one is something I think we should be aware of. It's the fake meat story. Ooh, okay. It just made meat from your number two.

Japanese scientists have developed a method to create edible steaks from human feces. Unbelievable? Well, it's happening. create edible steaks from human feces. Unbelievable? Well, it's happening. Mitsuyuki Aikida, a researcher at the Okayama Laboratory, collaborated with Tokyo Sewage to address sewage mud excess.

They discovered the content in the mud contains high protein due to bacteria. So, the team isolated and combined these proteins with a reaction enhancer. Result? Synthetic steak. The meat comprises of 63% protein, 25% protein 25 carbs 3 lipids and 9 minerals and it's visually enhanced with food coloring for a red hue and improved flavor using

soy protein where'd that come from that's a great report kick talk's just a TikTok. Okay. All right. Well, there is a lot of talk about California now approving wastewater recycling. Yes, it's a big story. I've had some clips. I don't think I have any today, but they're approving the use of- Toilet water. Wastewater. In other words, sewage, the liquid in the sewage to refine it to make drinking water yeah uh they're gonna they've started already in some areas where they're using it for for lawns and outdoor use

uh although you can't really tell how you separate the pipes as a um as a resident of california what is your feeling about this development i drink bottled water i'll bet you do i i was always under the impression that they were already doing that that's what i thought too in some areas for but mostly for agriculture uh use i didn't know that they were uh gonna try to make people drink it well you're hard up man not really it's raining quite a bit around here. Yeah. But I'd say this, that they want us to drink our own pee and basically eat poop yet. It's like to hello, California. Uber Alice. Uber Alice.

Hey, and the way California goes, hello. Yeah, the way the rest of the country goes? I don't think so. Oh, yeah. Although in that new Civil War movie, it is Texas and California joining forces, oddly. Which makes no sense. Somehow, somehow that happens. Let's just get the obligatory Orange Man bad story out of the way.

Orange! MSNBC, Lawrence o'donnell on christmas day a 77 year old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges that's that's it's gone from what is it the president with uh twice impeached twice impeached 90 times nine nine times indicted. Now it's just gone down to this. On Christmas Day. Aegis, by the way. A 77-year-old criminal defendant facing racketeering charges and other felonies in four jurisdictions said that his prosecutors should rot in hell.

And unlike every other criminal defendant who has said that, he didn't mumble it to himself bitterly alone in his jail cell. Lawrence O'Donnell deserves a goat for this. Awaiting trial. He didn't say it angrily to a cellmate. He said it through the reach of social media to the world. And while he was at it to the world, he said the President of the United States should rot in hell. The 77-year-old criminal defendant is also the leading Republican candidate for President of the United States. Thanks to the inexplicable political perversion of most Republican Party voters who have chosen to support a man who has described himself as being perverse.

That was his word. Donald Trump is now the first former president in history to say that any other American president, including the slave owners, should rot in hell. There is no evidence that Donald Trump believes that there is a hell. Oh, he did the there is no evidence bit. Hold on. That was kind of good. He did that. Putting the slave owners should rot in hell. There is no evidence that Donald Trump believes that there is a hell or that there is a God. He obviously has not lived a single day of his life based on a belief in hell or God. And there is no decision he ever made in his life that can be traced to a belief in hell or God. That is blatantly false.

Not only that, but it's scandalous. Yes, well, it's almost done. But that does not render Donald Trump's condemnation of President Biden to hell harmless. Because the only way Donald Trump's most fervent Christian followers believe Joe Biden can burn in hell is if he is dead. Wow. I think consider that a threat. Of course it is. That's what he's trying to make Trump into, but he's the one that said it. Well, from that same operation,

let's listen to the supercut of what people think is going to happen with Trump's second term. Ooh, hold on a second. Here we go. What would a second Donald Trump term look like? You can't imagine the things that he's going to do. You know, we played this like three episodes ago. I don't care. I hate to be a douchebag about it.

I don't remember the one part in this that if that's true. What would a second Donald Trump term look like? You can't imagine the things that he's going to do and shoot visitors to the White House. Yeah, that means he can shoot the first lady. We're going to see violence the likes of which we didn't even see on January 6th. Make it illegal to run against him to throw his opponents in jail to shut down the media he will make himself into the furor using martial law against the american people create mass internment camps throw everyone into gitmo

assassinate generals ordering troops uh to attack american citizens Trump's very well-armed and extremist base will try to kill people. He's going to basically burn the house down. The absolute destruction of the Justice Department as we know it. A vote for Donald Trump may mean the last election that you ever get to vote in. Now, I don't remember anyone saying he's going to shoot the first lady. Yeah, that was in the original. It's all right. Well, maybe we didn't play it.

Yeah, we did play it. Okay, we played it. I just, for some reason, I can't imagine me not remembering that he's going to shoot the first lady. So we have the updates on Trump here. This is Trump, Ballot, Smith, etc. on NTD. Special Counsel Jack Smith is trying to limit evidence and arguments that Trump can make before the jury in his federal trial related to the January 6th related case. Prosecutors claim that Trump has tried to spread irrelevant disinformation and will try to politicize the

trial. Specifically, Smith is concerned that Trump will distract the jury by making claims of political prosecution, such as raising the question as to whether or not this legal case against Trump was launched in coordination with the Biden administration, or the question of whether or not there were undercover agents present at the Capitol on January 6th, or questions of alleged foreign interference in the 2020 presidential election. All of these topics, Jack Smith wants to be off limits at that trial, which is what he's asking of the D.C. judge. Meanwhile, proceedings in this case are currently on hold because of an appeal over the question of whether or not presidential immunity applies

in this case. Meanwhile, Michigan's Supreme Court today did rule that Trump can stay on the ballot in that state, rejecting an appeal to try to disqualify him. Michigan's court stated that they would not review the question as to whether or not Trump should be disqualified based on accusations that he incited an insurrection. This is the exact opposite from that Colorado ruling, which will likely go to the Supreme Court. We can expect to see several other rulings on this issue coming out over the coming weeks and months as there are challenges to Trump's candidacy in several other states. I'm glad everyone has something to argue about.

That's all. And that's all. This is all publicity the way i see it yeah of course trump of course it is this is different than the last time only this time it's like it's it just makes everything look unfair uh part two of this clip talks about what california is up to california governor gavin newsom reacted to efforts from a top state official trying to bar former President Donald Trump from the state's ballot. This comes after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump should be dismissed from the Colorado ballot for the 2024 election. They say he violated Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment. A majority of justices on the state court ruled that he engaged

in an insurrection or rebellion against the United States under their reading of the provision. The decision has triggered more efforts across the United States, including in California, to disqualify Trump from appearing on ballots in 2024. But in a statement issued on December 22nd, Newsom told his fellow Democrats that he believes that in California, we defeat candidates at the polls, referring to lawsuits against President Trump and that everything else is a political distraction. Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, who was running for governor as a Democrat in 2026, sent a letter to Secretary of State Shirley Weber, urging her to find legal ways to remove Trump's name from the state's ballot. The letter reads, based on the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling, I urge you to explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California's 2024 presidential primary ballot.

Meanwhile, Senator Dave Min, also a Democrat, announced that he would introduce a measure to allow residents of the state to file lawsuits to block candidates who are deemed ineligible. Oh, man. Not that California matters. I mean, we know what they're going to vote. Yeah, and the election's rigged here anyway, which is the reason I think, because I heard that Newsom was all in on the idea of knocking him off the ballot.

Now, all of a sudden, he's not, Because I think somebody went up to him and said, hey, what difference does it make? Yeah, right. Makes no difference. And he can play the high ground. But again, it's like, you know, I don't care who's going to be. No one's going to come in and save the world. That's the bad part of this.

Oh, if Trump gets elected, then we're all saved. No. We're definitely not going to be saved by anything except more 40 more years of agony. And I always like to say, hey, if you let Trump win the second term, he'd be out for good. I mean, I'm thinking now that the the how about this for a scenario? that the the how about this for a scenario we want trump to win because we're the economy the financial system is going to blow up eventually why not pull the plug pull it pull it just before trump is elected let him deal with it well i think that may be exactly what's going on with the migration crisis oh you're so right that's a good point because it is

it is just out of control and everyone sees it everyone yeah even the democrats are irked oh the democrats are here i have um this is a i'm sure you have clips this is a the the democrat mayors of the sanctuary cities had a zoom call and they all got they had a zoom call yeah they had a zoom call everybody got on the call and they're all bitching and moaning we need the federal government to invest but we also need to make sure that the governor of texas does not take his animosity on the rest of the country mayor johnson joined new york mayor eric adams and denver mayor mike johnston on a joint call with members of the country. Mayor Johnson joined New York Mayor Eric Adams and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston on a joint call with members of the media this afternoon. We at this point now have had

more migrant arrivals to our city than any city in America per capita and that is not because there is a thoughtful or coordinated strategy to entry. It is because we are the first big city north of El Paso and the cheapest bus ticket and the shortest trip. The mayor of Denver says the city has received 35,000 migrants since the crisis began in 2022, compared to more than 26,000 in Chicago and more than 150,000 in New York. Just a few weeks ago, Governor Abbott promised to send an additional 25,000 migrants to New York City alone. We learned New York City is adopting a similar ordinance Chicago passed last month requiring migrant buses give advance notice before arriving and only do drop-offs Monday through Friday at a designated location.

New York limiting those hours between 8 a.m. to noon. Chicago's ordinance extends that drop-off time until 5 p.m. Buses that don't comply here are cited and a couple of them have been impounded. Migrants from Texas also arriving at Chicago's airports. Sending planes to Chicago or anywhere else that are funded by the government, the government of Texas, these private planes without a manifest, without knowing who's on the plane, without knowing what's on the plane is not just reckless, it's dangerous. The mayors all described shelter spaces at capacity and a strain on city budgets, pushing

for a list of demands from the feds, including authorized work permits. It will crush city budgets around the country. As we know, we're looking at about $160 million of potential costs going into next year's budget. That's almost 10% of our entire city budget. Asking for federal financial help and better coordination to manage the flow of migrants from the southern border. We have spoken to FEMA and other federal officials who have expressed concern about the border's surge, but not offered additional help. We need action, and we need it now. Yeah, there you go.

We're the baddies, of course. We're the bad guys. We're the bad guys. We're sending it over to you. Even though, supposedly, you're the bad guys of Texas we're referring to, it's only like 10% of what's happening in New York. The rest of the U.S. government is sending them up there. Yes, yes.

Getting blamed for nothing, really. But people are seeing it. They're at the airports. They're seeing the chaperones. What's the name of that company again? IED. They're contracted to help these people through TSA. They got paperwork.

Everything's all set. It's all good to go. And it's crazy. And everyone sees it now. And they just keep letting it go. They could stop it today. But why don't they? I think this is part of the reason.

Two Pizza Hut franchises are laying off more than 1,200 in-house delivery drivers in California, and they are actually eliminating the service. They're preparing for the new law that will raise employee wages to $20 an hour starting in April. The layoffs will affect hundreds of stores in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino and Ventura counties. stores in Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino and Ventura counties. To get orders, customers will need to use third-party delivery apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub.

We need cheap people to deliver our food. We need cheap people to clean the homes. Toilets. We need slaves. That's what it is. These people are cynical. Well, I don't know how many cheap people we need let's go to

migration report uh about i got two of them here i got let's do the ntd one first okay this is ntd secretary of state anthony blinken wow same cadence did you hear that i love that guy. N-T-D. This is N-T-D. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas are in Mexico City on Wednesday. They're seeking the support of Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in tackling the immigration crisis. to bring up a number of requests, including moving migrants south, controlling the railways that are used by migrants to move north, and providing visas and other incentives for migrants to stay in Mexico. This comes as new footage this week shows migrants making fires and sleeping between train cars in Mexico. They often travel on top of the train to not get caught by Mexican authorities. Mexican migration authorities get caught by Mexican authorities.

Mexican migration authorities get us off the buses. If we're about to reach the border, we're returned to southern Mexico for no apparent reason. How are we supposed to move forward? We have to get on the train. However, sometimes Mexican authorities don't stop the migrants, an issue the American delegation might address at Wednesday's meeting. Shortly before the meeting, President Obrador said the U.S. should be investing in poor people in Latin America and the Caribbean instead of putting up barriers, barbered wire fences in the river or thinking about building walls. Meanwhile in the U.S., the Democratic mayor of Eagle Pass, Texas, says the U.S. should start deporting people,

adding that the problem starts with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris not taking a stand on the issue. It's very disappointing that they haven't made that message themselves, that you can't come into this country illegally, one. And second, yes, of course, there has to be a consequence to somebody breaking the law. People know that they're processing them quick. That's why they keep coming. So until we start deporting people in large amounts, this will continue to keep going. He adds that the influx of immigrants is causing crime in his city to rise.

Now, contrast that report and you can play the amy goodman warning amy goodman clip inbound u.s secretary of state tony blinken homeland security chief alejandro mayorkas and white house homeland security advisor liz sherwood randall are meeting today with mexican president amlo that's andres manuel Obrador, in Mexico City. Blinken is preparing to discuss what his office has described as border security challenges and, quote, unprecedented irregular migration in the Western Hemisphere, unquote. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is expected to call again for the Biden administration to lift sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela, which AMLO says has driven an increase in migration. This comes as a caravan with over 6,000 migrants are heading towards the U.S.-Mexico border. Some participants in the caravan are

holding banners that read, quote, exodus from poverty, unquote. Other caravan participants said they're fleeing violence at home. This is Jose Santos from Honduras. I came here escaping from the MS-13 criminal gang. I worked as a security guard. MS-13 asked us for money, but we didn't have any. They wanted our ammunition, but as guards, we only received a limited amount of ammunition. They threatened to kill me, not once, but three times. I was scared, so I decided to come to In related news, CNN's reporting more than 11,000 people seeking refuge in the United States are waiting in shelters and camps on the Mexican side of the border. I had a conversation with mo about this yesterday he had

an interesting take on uh the large amount of what they call men of military age yeah which you know in here in texas the the meme is they're gonna they're gonna kill us from inside they got they're gonna have a whole army here and they're going to kill us here. Moe's take was interesting. He said, no, no, no, no. He said, we want these men because that will be your path to citizenship. We can't get anyone to fight. We can't get people in our own army. No one will join.

Exactly. So bring a man, you get a citizenship. This is a deal that was started some time back. Under Obama, I think, wasn't it? I think maybe before that, there was a lot of these guys as you, I think during the Iraq war, this may go back further, and I think it was like, you

come over here, you're here, you go in the army for two years and fight in Iraq, and you'll get a citizenship, and there's a bunch of people that did that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it's possible that we're loading up could bring them in and then suit them up and send them off this is what russia does

if you note in ukraine they were always talking about how they were bringing all these guys in from all over the place to put on a russian uniform and go into ukraine yeah well the same same for ukraine ukraine brought there's a lot of american mercenaries getting killed over there they're oh yeah fight fight fight it's a mess i have a couple of clips here this is abc tonight u.s secretary of state anthony blinken arriving in mexico city pressing mexico's president for help with the migrant surge at the border, joined by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Sources telling ABC News that the Biden administration planned to push Mexico to step up immigration enforcement within their country,

help reopen key ports of entry, and encourage migrants to stay in Mexico. The urgent meeting coming as border officials brace for this caravan of migrants. An estimated 6,000 people pushing through southern Mexico towards an overwhelmed U.S. border. December, now on track to have the highest number of Border Patrol apprehensions ever, according to CBP data. Several days this month, seeing more than 10,000 apprehensions ever, according to CBP data. Several days this month, seeing more than 10,000 apprehensions. Overnight, a plane carrying over 180 migrants from Texas diverted to Philadelphia due to weather issues. The group later packed on buses and transported to New York City. Tonight, Mayor Eric Adams now requiring those buses to provide 32-hour notice before arriving in the city and urging the federal government to step up.

This is a national problem that has only been exacerbated by Governor Abbott's cruel, inhumane politics. The federal government must take responsibility. I think, yeah. inhumane cruel politics federal government responsibility i think i think yeah biden can do it it's not cruel he put people on planes and ship them wherever he wants but if abbott does it it's cruel yeah it's cruel because you know we're red state we're horrible people i think trt had a good report uh i think this is the one let me see the latest surge of thousands of central and south american migrants is on the move now heading heading toward the U.S. border. They don't care about the enormous humanitarian, political, and logistical nightmare they've touched off. They just want to get in.

America's top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, was among U.S. officials who met with Mexican President Andres Obrador on Wednesday. There are some ideas the U.S. is pressing Mexico on, keeping or moving migrants farther south in Mexico, away from the U.S. border, providing migrants with visas to give them an incentive to stay in Mexico. But Mexico doesn't have the resources or the infrastructure that the U.S. has to handle the influx. This month alone, the number of migrants crossing the border has sometimes exceeded 10,000 in one day. The U.S. is occasionally closing international bridges between the two nations as a way to pressure Mexico to do more, but both nations get hurt economically when those bridges close. New York City, where thousands of migrants arrive each week, is so overwhelmed, the mayor is now putting limits on how long migrants can stay in shelters, creating panic.

They told me that this country was different, but no. I tell my son, enjoy the hotel, that we have a roof right now. They're going to send us away, and we are going to be sleeping in the train or on the hotel. We have a roof right now. They're going to send us away and we are going to be sleeping in the train or on the streets. And my son started to cry. And I said, let's have faith. Mexican President Obrador says he wants to help, but he also wants to see the U.S. make diplomatic progress with Cuba and Venezuela, where most migrants are now coming from, along with more development aid for the region.

Proof that this is no longer a border crisis, but a hemisphere one. A hemisphere crisis. Well, I don't know, but all I see is you got a problem with a war. America will pay for it. Be it Israel, I will pay for it. Europe, Ukraine, we will pay for it. You got crap going on your economy come on over here we'll take care of it how did that happen how did how do we and it's

not just from south american countries no no there's entire we talked about this there's tour travel agencies popping up online and for some africa for som. Hey, we'll get you to the American, we'll get you to the border, no worries. And this was a perfect example of it. Grounded at the Vatari Airport tarmac for 24 hours, an Airbus A340 was transporting over 300 Indian passengers. All of them held in the airport, suspected to be part of a human trafficking network, with investigations

ongoing two men possessing cash and several passports are currently in custody the plane left the uae yesterday for a technical stop in france and was supposed to take off to the capital of nicaragua yeah so they're going to nicaragua and then uh bus get on the bus, go up to the border, come on in. Everybody gets paid. Everybody's great. And it's the United Nations Office of Immigration and International Office of Migration

who are just supporting this. Yeah, and with our money. Yes, with our money. The United States gives our money to the UN to make these things happen. We need some auditing. We're getting ripped off. Yes.

But this is coming to a head. I mean, this just has to end. People are not going to take it anymore. New Yorkers are getting fed up. Chicagoans are getting fed up. You know, you can only say Texas no good for so long.

It's all Texas' fault. That's all the mayor says. Oh, it's Texas' inhumane, horrible Greg Abbott. If he wasn't in a wheelchair, he'd kick his ass. It's just, it's, I mean, and so you think that this is part of the let's do this and leave it all to Trump? with the beginning to think so, because the Democrats seem to sense that they can't get Biden off the ticket. Because he's just not going to go off the ticket and he has to, you know, they have to defer so they're going to have to leave him on the ticket.

So he's going to be on there with Kamala. And that means he's going to die in office probably in two or three years. And then she's going to be president. It's a nightmare. So they don't want that. They're not nuts. And so they're going to let Trump and the Republicans kind of win. They'll probably keep the House.

I don't know how the Senate's going to go. But whatever the case is, Trump had the House and Senate last time. It didn't do him any good. Because he's a bonehead. how the Senate is going to go, but whatever the case is, Trump had the house and Senate last time. It didn't do him any good. And cause he's a bonehead. He's not a good president in terms of his ability to run things. He hires the wrong people. The council on foreign relations folk are running the place anyway. The media is all over him.

He can't do anything. He's in, he's no good, but they're going to gonna but at least it'll put the republicans in and they can take take it up up the shorts for oh now they gotta deal with this and they gotta deal with that and they gotta deal with like you said and there will be an economic downturn uh you call it a financial event is what i'm calling it well you can call it whatever you want but that should take place in 2025 not next year but the year after there you go according to the cycles well and it could

be triggered a little earlier that would be fun well whatever well for the show maybe yes except for the donation donation but the whole thing is leading to let them let the republicans take it in the shorts for all this that we're doing and let's just pour in more migrants don't do anything about it and you know see what happens yeah meanwhile there's an entire generation of young people certainly in the united states who are being taught to hate America, hate it for being colonialist. Colonialist, that's a good one. No good.

This is, have you ever heard of Turtle Island? For some reason I have. I can't tell you what I've heard, but I have heard of Turtle Island. Turtle Island, let me see, I have it here. reason i have i can't tell you what i what i've heard but i have heard of turtle island turtle island let me see i have it here turtle island is i'll read it from the wikipedia turtle island is the name for earth or north america used by some indigenous peoples as well as indigenous you're right i had i have heard it but i've only heard it recently, like in the last couple of weeks. Right. So I only heard it today. I heard this University of Minnesota professor.

Right. The one that went off the rails. Yeah. Yes, exactly. So there's indigenous peoples on the stage. They're talking about Israel and, of course, how horrible America is for funding them and genociding the Palestinians. And so we get a couple terms here. One is the Turtle Island, and the other one is, I think, an interesting land back. Land back. But land back is going to happen. That's going to happen, the indigenous perspective in Turtle Island,

and how we understand what is also happening in palestine and what we really want you to take away tonight is as anthony said we're in the belly of the beast right we're all indigenous people who come from nations that are under occupation by the united states government and of course the u.s bank rules on the israeli occupation of palestinian land they're one in, really. And so it's our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place, because that will reverberate all across the world, because the US is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed, right? And so we want US out of everywhere. We want US out of Palestine. We want US.s out of turtle island right and that the goal

is to dismantle the settler project that is the united states yeah so just dismantle dismantle the united states because that'll work out great that'll improve things so then now this woman is at the university of minnesota i believe yes Professor. And we'll see how long she lasts. I have a couple other of these. Well, there's actually a new chant, which I wanted to share with the group. I've heard a couple new chants. I have a new one. The new chant is for the Houthis, although in this case it's for Yemen,

because they're doing a great job of blocking the shipping through the Red Sea. Yemen, Yemen, make us proud. Yemen, Yemen, make us proud. Turn another ship around. Turn another ship around. If you couldn't hear it, Yemen, Yemen, make us proud. Turn another ship around. Very good.

Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it is. I think, let me see, I have, of course, we have protesters in Los Angeles at the airport. About 35 people were arrested for rioting amid a pro-Palestinian protest in Los Angeles. They blocked a street leading into LA International Airport this morning. Several were seen scaling walls and running into neighborhoods before being taken down by officers in riot gear. One person was arrested for battery on a police officer. Traffic slowed, but police said no flights were impacted.

And here's what's crazy. This anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-Jew hate really started over a year ago with Kanye. And he was the first to say, oh, no, they're debanking me. They're taking my business away. I'm no longer rich. They took my money away. You remember that? Oh, yeah, of course. Well, he spun on a dime.

Kanye West is apologizing to the Jewish community, posting a statement on Instagram in Hebrew after a series of anti-Semitic remarks. The rapper, who calls himself Ye, is asking for forgiveness. His apology comes just before the release of his new album. Timing. I love that. I don't know exactly what Ye is trying to do but it is time to break out new flags i think we can expect this i'm just going to put it in the red book yellow flags are on deck yellow flags are on deck hundreds of hezbollah supporters turned out wednesday for the

funeral of a fighter killed in an israeli airstrike since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October, Hezbollah and Israeli forces have engaged in near-daily clashes. Israel bombarded southern Lebanon to force Hezbollah to evacuate 30 kilometers north and create a buffer zone. Instead, Hezbollah fired about 30 rockets into northern Israel. Israel warned that the situation in the region may escalate further. The situation on Israel's northern border demands a change. The timer for a diplomatic solution is running out. If the world and the Lebanese government will not stop the firing on northern settlements and move Hezbollah away from the border, the Israeli army will. Israel faces tensions with more than just Hezbollah in its

north, especially after the death of a high-ranking Iranian officer near Damascus on Monday. His funeral was attended by thousands in Tehran Thursday. Iran accused Israel of being responsible for the attack in Syria and promised revenge. It's certain that these acts of retaliation will continue at different times and in different places. The Zionists will never be safe from vengeance. Iran said these actions

will be carried out by the Axis of Resistance, a term for Iran-allied groups in the region. These include the Syrian government, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iraqi militant groups, and Yemeni rebels. Yeah, so Israel now basically claims

they have, I think, seven different people, countries attacking them, including Syria, Damascus, I mean, Syria, Lebanon. Hold on, it might be in this clip. Yeah, we start our journey into Gaza at Erez Crossing. I think this is it.

The border checkpoint ransacked by Hamas on October 7th. Now in shambles. Entering northern Gaza on foot, the sounds of gunfire ricochet across the desert. As we pass a vast wasteland of mangled steel and concrete blocks. Tanks rolling by and the hum of Israeli drones overhead. I don't think that's the one. Hold on a second. What was...

Oh, this is it. This is... I think this is the clip. Here we go. Broadcast on Iranian state television, this footage purports to show the strike that killed Syed Razieh Mousavi, the esteemed senior advisor in Iran's Revolutionary Guard,

died on the outskirts of the Syrian capital on Monday. Tehran has blamed an Israeli airstrike. Our reaction to the assassination will be smart, strong and with the necessary effectiveness. On Tuesday, the Israeli defense minister hinted the country had retaliated in Syria but stopped short of confirming the strike. We are having a multi-front war. We are under attack from seven different fronts. Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran. We have already responded on six of these fronts.

So there you have it, seven. Seven. And who's paying for all this? And it's not going to stop. This is going to go on forever. It's beautiful. The military industrial complex loves it. Loves it.

We'll figure something out with the border. We'll do some little bull crap thing. And then we'll get more money for Ukraine. More money for Israel. They love this stuff yeah because it's soaking the american public and you and and we're at peak now it finally i was waiting for the report it came from pbs thank god the un's nuclear watchdog reports that iran has increased its production of near weapons gradeapons-grade uranium. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Tehran has been producing more highly enriched uranium since late November,

reversing a months-long slowdown. UN inspectors observe the increase in facilities in Natanz and Fordow. They're just weeks away from the bomb. Just weeks. It's coming. It's always been weeks. Just weeks always been weeks just forever be weeks away why i have some gaza reporting uh let's go with gaza update gaza update gaza's health ministry says at least 241 palestinians have been killed over the past 24 hours that That's 10 an hour, as Israel intensifies its assault on Gaza, where the overall death toll has topped 21,000, including 8,000 children. Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli drone strike has killed six Palestinians in the Nersham's refugee camp near Tolkarm during an Israeli raid. Al Jazeera reports Israeli forces

blocked ambulances from reaching the victims of the strike. The youngest victim was 16 years old. Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 300 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th. So she, of course, is supported almost secretly by Qatar. And so the reports are going to go kind of off the rails. Why do you say that? Because we discussed this some time ago this show is supported by cutter it is yeah democracy no yeah they give grants to democracy no i i forget this is so long ago than we first unveiled or uh kind of released this information yeah they're getting they're they're you can tell by you by the reporting that they're very pro-palestinian

anti-israel but it gets ridiculous i got these these are democracy now ridiculous it's just the way it's done here listen to this. Egypt's proposed a plan for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, but on Tuesday, Israel's army chief said Israel's military operation in Gaza will continue for, quote, many more months. Hamas has also rejected elements of the Egyptian proposal. On Tuesday, the bodies of about 80 unidentified Palestinians were buried in a mass grave in Rafah in southern Gaza. Israel had seized the bodies in northern Gaza in order to determine if any of them were dead Israeli hostages. Israel then returned the bodies to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly endorsed expelling all Palestinians from Gaza. Israeli news outlets report Netanyahu has reportedly endorsed expelling all Palestinians from Gaza.

Israeli news outlets report Netanyahu told a group of Israeli lawmakers Monday, quote, regarding voluntary immigration, this is the direction we're going in, he said. Palestinian leaders denounced Netanyahu for embracing what they describe as ethnic cleansing. The 11-week Israeli assault has already forced more than 85 percent of Palestinians in Gaza to leave their homes, and many have no homes to return to. Displaced Palestinians say there are no safe places remaining in Gaza. We were displaced. We were bombed by aircraft and the school was not safe. So we went out and while we were leaving, there were snipers and people were martyred.

We have been out for two days and the situation has not improved. The plane is bombing from above and the snipers as well. So this is like a, I don't know if I can call it slanted or whatever, like a i don't know if it's can call it slanted or whatever but the way she emphasizes that the israelis refused the egyptian idea and then of course the palestinians did too but let's don't say that um no and then there's the story about the 80 corpses that were shipped to israel so they could show in a mass grave or something and then they shipped them back i mean this is very strange well that isn't that just all propaganda i mean we've run out of babies and incubators so we need to do something else always good okay let's go into shipping corpses

around in mass graves always a winner at the news desk here's a part two of this report. Israel's bombardment of Gaza has also led to a growing public health catastrophe as disease spreads due to contaminated water supplies, the buildup of untreated sewage, and the lack of medical care. Some Israeli officials have openly praised the spread of diseases in Gaza. In November, retired Major General Jura Eilen, who still advises Israel's defense minister, wrote, quote, severe epidemics in the south of the Gaza Strip will bring victory closer, unquote. The public health crisis in Gaza is also impacting Israeli soldiers.

The Times of Israel reports one soldier died after being infected by a harmful fungus in Gaza. At least 10 other Israeli troops were infected after being exposed to soil contaminated with sewage waste. Meanwhile, three more Israeli soldiers have died in Gaza. 154 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its ground invasion. Oh yeah, this is a part of another meme about the ill disease in Gaza.

This is from NPR. Fighting continues in Gaza between the Israeli military and Hamas militants. Israel is still bombing the enclave. Relief groups say there's nowhere safe for Palestinian civilians to go. The World Health Organization says the death toll is going to climb because of disease. NPR's Ari Daniel says the WHO has assessed infectious disease conditions in Gaza. It's bad and it may well get worse. The WHO says rates are, quote, soaring. Here's one example, a more than 100,000 cases of diarrhea with rates among children that are 25 times higher than before the war. The WHO says there are also numerous cases of meningitis rashes scabies lice and chicken pox

well cholera is next yeah yeah and we haven't had that one yet it's kind of this is kind of depressing i mean nothing's going nothing's going to change israel is not going to stop i mean lebanon is next that's why we're going to have yellow flags for Lebanon. We'll have to change our profiles again. They are not going to stop. I mean, people think that standing in front of LAX is going to stop this. It's not going to stop. The only thing that's going to stop is if we, I guess, stop funding it.

Well, that's not going to happen. We, I guess, stop funding it. Well, that's not going to happen. Today, the White House announced plans to provide up to $250 million in additional military aid to Ukraine. It includes air defense munitions and artillery and what will be the last aid package unless, of course, Congress approves additional funding. Republicans have insisted a compromise on immigration along with U.S. security border, border security rather, is crucial to negotiate any foreign aid package. Right. Well, I have my Ukraine clip, which is a little different is the short Ukraine short report. Ukrainian forces struck a large Russian warship at a port in occupied Crimea on Tuesday.

And what's been described as one of the most significant attacks against Moscow's Black Sea fleet in months. But the attack comes as Ukrainian officials have acknowledged Russia has seized the frontline town of Maryinka in eastern Ukraine after a month-long battle in the latest setback to Ukraine's failed counteroffensive. I'm reading here that, what was this uh uk papers zelensky knows too much and will be killed off by his own men we've been hearing that for like a year i know what poroshenko is supposedly in the wings still you know we know the portion and he's a military industrial complex guy so that would be going back to Israel.

I do want to play this contrasting clip, which shows the democracy now has got kind of one. You know, they're very. They've taken a side. This U.N. bumped D.N. Israel's announced it will stop automatically granting visas to employees of the United Nations after it accused the U.N. of being, quote, complicit partners with Hamas. Top United Nations officials have repeatedly called for a ceasefire in Gaza while demanding more humanitarian aid into the besieged territory. Now, that's the extent of her report on this, which is very lopsided because I want to play NTD's version. And this is the AIDS, aid UN scandal in depth NTD. Israeli forces released a recorded phone call that

alleges that Hamas controls United Nations relief efforts in Gaza. Meanwhile, Hamas released a video that secretly recorded Israeli troops before an unexpected term of events. NTV's Jason Perry has the latest on the Israel-Hamas war. On Wednesday, Hamas terrorists released a video of what appears to be Israeli troops recovering the body of a deceased soldier while other troops were standing guard. A terrorist inside a residence then throws a grenade at them and opens fire. Hamas also released footage of another terrorist inside a residence then throws a grenade at them and opens fire. Hamas also released footage of another terrorist inside a residence, firing an explosive at an apparent Israeli tank.

Hamas terrorists not only control the Gaza Strip, but according to a recorded phone call released by the IDF on Wednesday, Hamas also controls the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA. In the phone call, a Gazan resident explains that from the day Hamas rose to power, they took control of everything. After such a significant statement, the IDF officer asked him to clarify what he meant. And when it comes to humanitarian aid, he said Hamas provides it to their own people first. We reached out to UNRWA for comment, but we didn't get a response before airtime. Meanwhile, Hamas security escorted this convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid,

including fuel, as it made its entry into the Gaza Strip from Egypt on Wednesday. Israel's government spokesperson, Elon Levy, said this on Wednesday. UN agencies are currently struggling to distribute aid at the pace that Israel is inspecting it. Unfortunately, to date, the UN aid mechanism in Gaza has been woefully unsuccessful because it goes through UNRWA. Aid simply isn't reaching the people who need it because Hamas hijacks it and UNRWA covers up for it. I just love this whole system. So we pay, we American taxpayers, and we're taxed by inflation, by money printing. So we pay for the bombs that create the mess. I'm not saying that, forget who, side doesn't matter. But then we also pay the United Nations for them to go in and give them aid. the United Nations for them to go in and give them aid.

Why are we so crazy? Why are we so crazy, bro? We're paying for everything. We're paying for all of it. Break it, rubilize it, build it back up, rubilize it, take away the food, give them some food. This is what we need to see. This is what we need to understand.

Back to the UN scandal part two. He also gave this warning about Hezbollah's continued attacks across Israel's northern border. We are now at a fork in the road. Either Hezbollah backs off from the Israeli border in line with UN resolution 1701 from 2006, or we will push it away ourselves. Levy's comments come just a day after Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon fired an anti-tank missile at a church in northern Israel. The attack injured two Israeli Christians, according to the IDF. Then, when Israeli troops responded to the injured, Hezbollah fired another missile at the church, injuring nine Israeli soldiers. Just after the attack on tuesday the idf spokesperson accused hezbollah of trying to drag lebanon into the war hamas had started he said that if the attacks

continue hezbollah will bear the consequences and responsibility of an unnecessary war and it could bring unwanted destruction to the people of Lebanon. Yeah. Well, Lebanon doesn't need much more rubbleizing. The whole area is a mess. And of course, now we have to always put it out there. Fears of a widening war. In a video released by Israel's Air Force, a fighter jet shoots down what Israeli officials say was a drone fired from Yemen near its territory over the Red Sea, a sign of continued escalation with Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. It comes a day after Saeed Razimousavi, one of Iran's top advisors to its Revolutionary Guard in Syria,

was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday, a killing Tehran vowed to avenge. Further inflaming fears that the Israel-Hamas war could engulf the region. But over the past 24 hours in Gaza, six Israeli soldiers have been pronounced dead by the military, and over 240 Palestinians were killed in multiple Israeli airstrikes, according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health. Some victims so little and so stunned, they don't cry out in pain. Sean Casey speaks for the World Health Organization. We're seeing almost only trauma cases come through the door. And at a scale that's quite difficult to believe.

It's a bloodbath, as we said before. It's carnage. Across Gaza, there's no shortage of pain as this little boy cries out. A final kiss goodbye. While in the southern city of Rafah tonight, Palestinian medical workers buried roughly 80 bodies released by Israel in a mass grave. The smell of decomposing remains was so strong, they said, they couldn't accurately count how many. Oh, good job, CBS. And by the way, that report and another one where they had the guy saying it was a blood bath. He's standing in a fairly empty hall in a hospital.

There's no blood anywhere. There are people going in and out. No blood to be seen anywhere, including on him. And it looked pretty calm to me. It reminded me of some of the early COVID vids that we saw where there was nothing going on. We're getting bad information generally. Well, remember what General Smedley Butler said. War is a racket. War is a racket.

And that's what it is. War is a racket. Just making money. People be dead. Why can't we get into the war business in Congo? There's some good stuff. I mean, is there no money for these guys? Protests erupted in Congo today, demanding a redo of last week's presidential election. Demonstrators took to the streets of Kinshasa denouncing what they say was a flawed vote. Police fired tear gas and threw rocks to

break up the crowds. One of the main opposition candidates also accused police of firing live bullets. Protesters refused to give up. The people are resisting. Marching is our constitutional right, and it is not over because they need to take responsibility for this chaotic election. We won't back down. International observers and rights groups have also questioned the election's integrity. They cited polls that never opened or opened late,

and many illegible voter cards. Final election results are expected in the coming days. Oh, just wait for it. Congolese coming. We'll have people from the Congo coming now. Bring them in. Well, that could be, yeah,

from the southern border. But why don in well that could be that could be uh yeah from the southern border but why don't we i don't know that it's like we don't want to get involved with black africa yeah why not are they not human we just don't want to get involved we got involved with enough stuff but you can never have too much stuff going on. Well, we can only do so much. Okay. I don't know. I think they could add a third war.

I think Janet Yellen would say, we can easily have a third war. We can pay for that. No, and that's not a problem. Is that your Yellen? I know. That's pretty bad. It's not bad at all. Should we do a three by three?

Yes, I do have a three by three that is about, let's start with ABC. No, you can't start at all until we roll out the... Now it's time for three by three. Experiment by JCB. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC. The never ending three by three without a g4 yes before we play the first one i want to mention now it looks like when they show the map of all the crap going on out there we have five five bases in syria Bases? Actual bases? Let's take a look. Let's ask ourselves, what

right, and I'm pro-American, but what right do we have to violate a sovereign state and just set up shop all over the place? Because we're from Turtle Island. Back off.

It's weird. We're from Turtle Island. We're here to fix your country. Tonight, new images from U.S. airstrikes on an Iran-affiliated militia after a Christmas Day attack on U.S. forces in Iraq that left three service members injured, one of them critically. Those retaliatory strikes coming just hours after the U.S. Erbil Air Base was hit with a self-detonating drone in northern Iraq. President Biden briefed on the attack immediately afterward, ordering the reprisal. Tonight, U.S. officials say those precision airstrikes likely killed a number of militants affiliated with the group Khatib Hezbollah, part of a network of Iran-backed groups in the region that have been targeting U.S. forces over Washington's support for Israel. This is very prevalent amongst the Iranians. It's how they conduct business. And it's very

messy because they're using forces that sometimes don't actually take direct orders, but ultimately it's to push back against the influence of the United States. In a statement, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin saying he and President Biden will not hesitate to take necessary action to defend the United States, our troops and our interests. There is no higher priority. About 3,500 U.S. troops remain in Iraq and Syria to prevent the resurgence of ISIS. to prevent the resurgence of ISIS. And since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the Pentagon estimates there have been roughly 100 attacks against U.S. personnel in the region.

And in Tehran, protests this weekend after state media claimed an Israeli airstrike in Syria killed a top Iranian general directly responsible for arming proxy groups in the region. Tonight, Iranian officials vowing revenge. Tonight, U.S. officials reporting what is at least the 16th attack in the Red Sea since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. In the last 24 hours, a U.S. warship, along with fighter jets, shooting down a dozen attack drones, as well as several missiles,

launched by Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen. No ships were damaged, and there are no reported injuries tonight. You know, I went back and looked at that footage of the Houthis landing the helicopter on that ship, which supposedly now is a tourist attraction. Yeah, I know. I love it. Man, some of that footage just is unreal. It looks so much like video game footage. It's not even funny.

I'm a helicopter pilot. The way he landed, I didn't even land. He hovers. I mean, there's a lot of stuff on the deck. There's a winch only landing zone. So not a landing zone for the helicopter. And the way he takes off is like, it seemed almost unreal. And then you look at the Houthi rebels in crisp, brand-new uniforms,

not a spot on them, all identical, boots completely clean. Something is, that is off. Something's amiss. Very, and then the footage inside, it actually, you know, you see a guy in front of you. It actually looks like video game footage. Well, they shoot it, yeah, it's first person shooter style. Yeah, this Red Sea stuff is a scam. And there's a reason why France pulled out and no one wants to be a part of it.

Because somebody, somewhere people know this is a scam. France and everybody else pretty much. Yeah, but why aren't they just saying, hey, it's a scam? You can't do that. Because it is. And what if we know it's a scam

but it doesn't mean you can go off and say it. We're shooting down drones. Really? Left and right. What is this and and let's let's define drone okay it's not a reaper drone you know these are little these little drones yeah with a bomb on them no there's something there's very off skammish is very very off with this and these reports are probably part of it. Let's go to NBC. Tensions flaring in Iraq as the U.S. conducted precision airstrikes against three facilities

used by Iranian backed militias. The U.S. military saying they killed multiple fighters. Defense officials sending a clear message to militia groups and to Iran. The U.S. strikes in retaliation for an attack on Erbil airbase in Iraq on Christmas Day. U.S. officials say militants launched an attack drone that struck the base, injuring three U.S. troops, one in critical but now stable condition and being transferred to Landstuhl. In a statement, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said these precision strikes are a response to a series of attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria. There have been at least 105 attacks against bases with Americans in Iraq and

Syria over the past two months, causing minor injuries. These incidents have dramatically increased since the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel, rousing Iranian-backed militia groups throughout the region, including the Houthi rebels in Yemen who have assaulted commercial ships. Just today, U.S. forces shot down a dozen one-way attack drones as well as ballistic... Oh, that's new. That's new. New term. One-way attack drones. I've heard it before. I haven't heard this before. Who have assaulted commercial ships.

commercial ships. Just today, U.S. forces shot down a dozen one-way attack drones as well as ballistic and land attack cruise missiles fired by the Houthis in the Red Sea region, according to U.S. Central Command. While traveling in Israel last week, Secretary Austin warned of an expanding regional conflict. Iran is raising tensions by continuing to support terrorist groups and militias. Attacks by these Iranian proxies threaten the region's citizens and risk a broader conflict. Courtney joins us tonight live from the Pentagon, and there's a new warning from an international watchdog group about Iran's nuclear program. Yeah, that's right, Tom. The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has sped up production of highly enriched uranium.

That's the material used to produce a nuclear bomb. Production slowed earlier this year while the U.S. and Iran negotiated the release of hostages. In fact, I would say bomb them, bomb them, and then bomb them again. Come on, bomb them, bomb them. We can't risk it. Come on, Lloyd Austin. Come on. Come on, man. Call for the bombs. Bomb them. Bomb them. We can't risk it. Come on, Lloyd Austin. Come on. Come on, man. Call for the bombs.

Bomb them. So just to remind everybody as to my position on some of this. So they're killing Iraqis, basically. And the Iraqi government wants us out. And if you listen to any Al Jazeera report, they're sick of it. And we're killing them. And they don't, why are we there? We're supposed to be out of Iraq.

But no, no, no, we have a bunch of bases there. We have a bunch of bases in Syria. And the Iraqis in particular want us out. I'm sure the Syrians do too. And so we're bombing them, doing what we have to fight back. But we don't do jack about the drones in Yemen. We have, we know where they're coming from exactly.

What we pinpoint where the rockets and drones are coming from, why don't we bomb them? We don't. So that adds credence to your thesis that that whole Yemen thing is bull crap. And don't we still have the base in Djibouti, which is right across the water? I think we probably do. Whatever the case is, something's fishy about these reports so let's go to cbs which is basically the same report with a variation or two the american bomb struck three locations in iraq in the pre-dawn hours leaving at least one

dead and more than a dozen injured a u.s official official told CBS News one target was a warehouse believed to hold drones used by Iranian-backed militias to attack American troops. An explosive drone fired at an air base in northern Iraq on Christmas Day injured three American service members, one of them critically. It's a continuation of Iran and Iranian-supported groups, or Iranian-aligned militias on the ground in Iraq, continuing to push the boundaries and trying to identify where the red lines are for the Americans. And in this particular case, I think they found it. Do you think the militias deliberately crossed that red line? They're always pushing to try to see just how far they can go.

It was only the fourth time the Biden administration has retaliated for the more than 100 attacks conducted by Iranian-backed militias against American troop locations in Iraq and Syria since Israel invaded Gaza. Iraq and Syria since Israel invaded Gaza. The Biden administration is treading a thin line between retaliating and triggering a wider war with Iran. The U.S. has been trying to avoid escalating the conflict. Too much damage and there's a risk of a massive and potentially catastrophic response that results in uncontrolled escalation. The war is also threatening to escalate in the Red Sea. Today, in one 10-hour period, an American destroyer and jet fighters from the aircraft carrier Eisenhower downed a total of 17 drones and missiles fired at commercial vessels by the Iranian-backed Houthis. the iranian-backed houthis camp lemoyne lemoyne a united states naval base situated next to djibouti international airport we've had it since 2002

uh centerpiece of lemoyne isn't lemoyne or something like that the base supports operation enduring freedom horn of africa and is the centerpiece of a network of around six u.s drone and surveillance bases stretching across the continent it is strategically located by the barb el mandeb straight which we've heard that name it's right there and yet we can't figure it out no we can figure it out but we don't want to we don't want to no i think it's worse than that is something going on this red sea thing is is jacks up the price of oil does some benefit to the economy though is that, though? What's the oil doing? Well, it's going up. It's going up, you know, like $8. But it's like, it jacks up the price of oil.

There's something, like you said, scammish about the whole thing and that Yemeni's takeover of that ship, which is now a tourist attraction, which people think we might have been joking about, but no, they're actually shipping people out there and letting them float around the ship as a tourist attraction, which is

I can go do it. What is there to see? It's just a big ship. You could probably honk the horn, and who knows what they let you do. Honk, honk, honk, honk. It's just the scammishness that just surrounds all of this that is just besides soaking the taxpayer and continuing the i have no idea what what the end game is

everybody denies that is to create a larger conflict because nobody wants that, supposedly. I don't know. It's disappointing. You can't quite put your finger on this. Something is up, and the Europeans that all bailed out with helping us, they know something's up, but they're not saying.

Maybe they like that we're blowing our money on this nonsense and you go well that could be that's always a possibility but you know your money being the reserve currency it screws everybody so i don't know if that's true well this is also good for for um military style stuff back here at home and in the hinterland in the homeland because of course we need more security for New Year's Eve. It's going to be dangerous. Red lights are blinking. This morning, New York City is getting ready for the biggest party of the year. Three, two, one. Happy New Year.

More than a million people are expected to cram into Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve. The mayor says police will be prepared. Times Square to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve. The mayor says police will be prepared. There's always a serious concern around safety in New Year's Eve because there's a large number of people. The police department is on top of it. ABC News has obtained a threat assessment by the FBI, NYPD and other agencies that says the ball drop could draw interest from malicious actors looking for targets of opportunity or from lone offenders inspired by or reacting to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

The security plan includes thousands of officers, miles of metal barricades, plus drones, dogs, and hundreds of surveillance cameras, all to keep the crowd safe. I think it's a pretty safe bet that someone is going to try to do something to distract or disrupt the events in Times Square. In recent years, though, extremists have almost exclusively targeted law enforcement or military personnel. Just a year ago at this very celebration, a young man from Maine attacked police officers with a knife as they worked a security checkpoint. It's a real Herculean task to manage that number of people without being heavy handed, but being protective. Okay. All right. New York will be fine, I'm sure. Yeah. Yes. I'm sure it will. You want to do a little bit of climate change for a moment?

Because there is some kind of hopeful news, although quite funny, that PBS brought us. And Beijing has recorded the most hours of below freezing temperatures in december in more than seven decades a bitter cold wave and heavy snow frozen northern and central parts of china i was i've been watching these uh 70 years i've been watching these reports and documentaries about glaciation and how that actually works. Yeah. And it appears to be inverse to the logic. When it's really cold, that's when the glaciers actually recede in their normal cycle.

And when it gets warm, the glaciers grow. Have you heard of this? No. Not the way you're describing it describing i'm sure i'm not describing it correctly but it i mean and all we're seeing is the glaciers actually growing they're not melting that i know of yeah they're they're they're over you know like over like a 40 year period they've grown yeah they of course with in the in the summer they melt a little bit and that compacts and they come back strong as glaciers, just packed snow or whatever.

Definitely moving back and forth. No doubt about that. Anyway, with all of this. I had an Al Gore clip. I don't have it on here. I forgot to get it. Oh, no. Oh, no.

That's horrible. What the what? What the what? I don't know. Because I remember clipping that's horrible. What the what? What the what? I don't know. Because I remember clipping that clip. I don't know. Well, while you're looking for it. No, it's not on here.

There's no way I can. I'm not going to find it. I would say Bill Gates knew it all along. We've always said this is the way out. And it looks like countries who are afraid they're going to get dinged for not being net neutral, carbon net neutral by 2030. They're wising up. Nuclear power is on a roll. In its latest success, Poland has authorized the construction of 24 small nuclear reactors at six sites across the country. And a good thing too, because electricity production in Poland is one of the most carbon-intensive in the world, with still almost 70% of the electricity coming from coal.

Nuclear power is back in fashion in many countries because of its potential to decarbonize even energy-intensive industries quickly. The Japanese, who shut down their nuclear power plants after the Fukushima accident in 2011, are using them again, and they are planning to build new ones too. In California, environmentalists have stopped complaining about nuclear power and are now fighting to get the plants back online. In Sweden, teenagers demand that Greenpeace drops their resistance to nuclear power, and even the Germans are rethinking their decision to phase out nuclear power. Well, I think that's an optimistic report.

I'm not buying it because she's wrong about Fukushima. Play my Fukushima clip. Oh, you have a Fukushima clip. I don't know if they're restarting Fukushima. Where's your Fukushima clip? Yeah, they're trying to, but it's not restarted. She kind of implies that it's been restarted. But here's the story.

Japan is moving closer to reopening the world's largest nuclear power plant, which was shut down following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Earlier today, Japan's nuclear regulator lifted its safety ban on the plant, which is run by TEPCO. That's Tokyo Electric Power. Local government bodies still need to sign off on the plant which is run by tepco that's tokyo electric power local government bodies still need to sign off on the plant's reopening okay i mean but in general it seems like nuclear is back in fashion that's that's kind of correct people are thinking about it well let's hope so i'm not completely buying into it but yeah if they're gonna how many they say

poland wants to open six six but smrs yeah the little ones yeah the the teeny ones that make so much sense yes those yeah well we haven't opened one of those in this country that i know of no no um do you remember when 15 minute cities and everyone's like oh 15 minute cities and they'll be back everyone is saying oh this is conspiracy theory right conspiracy theory people are doing this yeah okay no we had clips of it no i know about the 50 minute cities but i don't know we had clips of people saying that they're here this is the bbc this is from um april the 15 minute city for years it's been a buzzword in urban planning but now the concept has gone mainstream and become a magnet for protests around the world from canada

to the uk with conspiracy groups claiming they're designed to imprison us in our neighborhoods it's all conspiracy theory but but this cop 28 ma'am they're all over the the 15 minute cities 15 minutes yes yes with rap here this is from their uh well you're in a 15 minute city when do you go in the car more than 15 miles i don't even get in the car with rapid population growth and urbanization cities around the world are battlegrounds for our fight against climate change the latest ipcc report highlights integrated urban planning can reduce emissions by 23 to 26 percent by 2050 sprawling congestion must be transformed into density and connectivity pollution must be restored to clean air and car dominated roads and highways must give way to people-centric streets who people-centric streets no please nature friendly neighborhoods

yeah mulch granny emerging models like the 15-minute city focus on urban proximity and quality of life and representing a turning point and so there's this c40 network have you heard of this no okay a network of 100 mayors of the world's leading cities is increasing actions to accelerate the adoption of the 15 minute city highly livable walkable people oriented cities the green brother the green the green and thriving neighborhood program created in collaboration with Urban Partners provides deep support to more than 40 cities to help them turn the 15-minute cities into reality. Oh, C40, that's those mayors, also launched a tool to measure the impacts of 15-minute city with Novo Nordisk. What are those guys doing in it? Money.

So I looked for this on their website, what Nigel Farage is about to tell us, so take that with a grain of salt. It came in late, so I'm not sure if he's full of crap, but typically he's able to back up what he says. not sure if he's full of crap, but typically he's able to back up what he says. Here's his lament about the C40 project in the 15-minute cities. We all love jetting off, don't we, to the Mediterranean, somewhere warm. It could be a golf weekend, family holiday, boys stag do to Ibiza, who knows, you name it. We love doing it. You've never heard of C40 cities, no reason why you

should. 96 cities involved, including London, international organisation, chaired by one Sadiq Khan, given government funding. Their latest report is, in order to save the world from climate change, you should only be allowed one return airfare every three years. I suggest you join me in telling Sadiq Khan where to go. Or is he right? One return airfare every three years. I hope we get to witness that. If we're still doing the show,

it'll be a great day. I don't know. I'm not convinced. What? Not convinced. What else have we got? I'm pretty much running out of stuff here. I do have...

What's the gas stove thing? We've heard this before, but I want to play the supercut. The gas stove supercut. You may have heard it. It's a classic. You might think that the U.S. government is coming for your gas stove. That is a new and absolutely ridiculous one.

Turns out Fox News and Republicans are up in arms because they say the government is coming to take your stoves. What Republicans are saying is, damn it, they're going to take your gas stove. GOP have been stoking a ridiculous new freak out about gas stoves. No one is taking your gas stove. The right wing freak out over the use of gas stoves is merely the latest in a long series of made up culture war battles designed to enrage and rile up their right wing and paranoid base. conspiracy theories whether it's you know the kooky like jfk jr's coming back from the dead to run with trump or um the sort of duplicitous like this administration's coming to take away your gas stoves stop for a second yeah we did play this but it's okay well i'll play i'll play it again but it goes on and on you don't have to play it anymore just play the one the gas stove

story i wanted to say something about that report so remind me to come back to that because there's something okay uh was it gas stove where am i i'm looking for it i can't oh uh where is it well where is the gas gas let me look he said gas stove story i have guests go oh yeah i got it i Yeah, I got it, I got it. New York City is moving to snuff out gas stoves. New York becoming the first state to ban natural gas

and other fossil fuels in most new buildings, including gas stoves. The new law requires all electric heating and cooking in new buildings shorter than seven stories by 2026. Governor Kathy Hochul

and the Democratic-controlled state legislature approved a bill on Tuesday prohibiting the use of fossil fuels for heating and cooking. The law is the first statewide ban in the nation and goes into effect in 2026. Beautiful. Beautiful. Excellent. So all these guys, all of them on MSNBC in particular, and also CNN going on and on and on, showing off about gas stoves. And we're in the Republicans are all nuts. And then this happens.

And this is just the beginning. I know California is going to go for this. It started with fireplaces. They stopped in all new housing developments. You couldn't put a fireplace in. And it's going to be gas stoves next. And Washington state's easy to do that because half the state's already all electric you know what we need to invest in bunsen burners or sterno

was storno what's bunsen what are those were those cans storno sterno what are you talking about yeah propane yeah yeah oh yeah oh propane that'll be propane. What I wanted to say is there's something in that report, that supercut, about JFK Jr. coming back to run with Trump. Yes. People keep talking about this. And serious people. They brought it back up because one of the QAnon guys died within the last year. I think he died in June or something. died within the last,

I think he died in June or something. And he was the guy who promoted this and had the big meeting in Dallas to say hello to JFK Jr. when he showed up. Of course, he never showed up, of course. Oh, what a bummer. He didn't show up. Oh, no. And so, but this guy just died recently.

And I think that, and I think he may have been QAnon because QAnon has just fallen off the map completely. So I think that's why you heard it. There's that, and there's one more that is somewhat troubling that people really, really are going for this. All the Victoria's Secret models are men. Taylor Swift is a man.

Jennifer Aniston is now Jennifer Manifer maniston it's it's really odd i don't and and it's i wonder why i don't know it's catching fire though it's like oh that's all men and there are people very serious about this there's entire telegram groups that you know oh yeah oh no they're all men those they're dudes well this is like the birds aren't real well that's true we all know that and with that i'd like to thank you for your courage in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the pentacon ladies and gentlemen say hello to my friend on the other end the one and only mr john well in the morning new mr adam curry in the morning all ships and sea and boots on the ground and feet in the air and subs in the water and dames and knights out there.

In the morning to our trolls who are hanging out in the troll room at trollroom.io. Or you might be listening on a modern podcast app. Let me count you all. Stop. Stop. I got him. 1658. 1658. It's only 100 down. No, 200. It's 200 down.

Same as last week. I checked him about 20 minutes ago. It was 1733. We're kind of equal. Thanks, Trolls. By the way, I think the Swift op is over. Oh, what happened? Headline.

Yoko Swifto. Fans mock video of Taylor Swift comforting Brittany Mahomes amid Chiefs downfall. So she is now being seen as the reason the Chiefs failed. So. being seen as the reason the Chiefs failed. So it's not the fact that the receivers can't catch the ball and they drop it and drop it. They're the number one team for drop passes. It's nothing to do with that. The name Yoko Swifto says enough.

I like Yoko Swifto. Yoko Swifto. She broke up the band, man. Yoko Swifto. Well, these the band, man. Yoko Zwifto. Well, these trolls are hanging out in the troll room, and you can join them by going to trollroom.io, which is a good place. You can get the live stream.

There's live... We've started a revolution, really, this live podcasting where people just record instead of being like Phil Spector with a wall of sound and recording and going back and removing every uh and ah and cutting out silences, making it completely inhumane, which is part of the reason for the podcast Winter. Blame it all on that and all these NPR people try well we're gonna do it and do podcasts like we do npr it's great it's gonna be fantastic no no you just want to do it live do it live do it live oh here's a the hollywood reporter i have a i have a go podcasting report ready for this yeah going into 2024 podcasting executives. That would be you, by the way.

No, it's not me. Podcasting executives remain incredibly bullish on growth in the sector. In the sector. With an eye towards creating multiple revenue streams for creators and using artificial intelligence and video to expand the audience. Oh, so the audience is going to be AI? Yeah. Wow. Exactly. We'll soak the advertisers with AI audience.

Exactly. I think you nailed it. Sounds right. I think you nailed it. So you can go to trollroom.io and that's where you can, of course, listen live and you can troll along. It's very healthy. It's a good place for you to do it. Don't do's where you can of course listen live and you can troll along it's very healthy it's a good place for you to do it don't do this on social media that's very bad you are literally not loving your neighbors as yourself when you do that you're you're bitching and moaning

and saying horrible things and that's okay in a troll room because that's just like Tourette's just get it out there it's ephemeral rolls away no one can call you on it later and it's a good place to let it all hang out it's like a like a wailing wall you know just a place to go yell go yell at the clouds do it in the troll room please that is the appropriate but people yell at me all day and i feel good about it because i know yeah oh yeah oh in the troll room oh they say horrible things like what um give me an example trolls Trolls can be something horrible that you say. Give him something, trolls. Let him have it. Let's see.

Rap sucks. Okay. Rap sucks. Well, I don't know if that's the same to you. Adam sucks. We hate you. See, this is good. Adam sucks?

Yeah. With an X. It's highly creative. With an X. With an X. With an X. Yeah, of course. It's always with an X.

Yes. Adam is gay. There you an x yes adam is gay there we go your mom is gay jcd is ugly all the chiefs are banging swift i mean this is great even jesus thinks adam's conversion is annoying oh no that's a good one i like that one oh boy the rest of them are lame. It's creative. Let's go, Brandon. Yes, okay. Who cut your hair, Curry?

All right. All right. See? So, usually it's a little worse than that, but you put them on the spot, they kind of fall down. Yeah, they choke. They're chokers. That's why they're there. Trolls are chokers.

That's right. Choking trolls. Choking trolls. No good, y'all. Anyway, that's the place to go and you can also do that in a modern podcast app don't fall for what the podcasting executives say you whatever they are yeah well it's the spotify people who throw your favorite podcast off it's google podcasts which are closing and now you have to import your subscriptions into YouTube Music. Oh yeah, that sounds right.

That's a winner. No. Get a modern podcast app at podcastapps.com. When we update the show, when we publish it in 90 seconds, your app is telling you that. None of this two-hour wait from Apple. Although Apple could be part of our system, they just like climate change. They like to

ruin the world by polling feeds all day long and uh that is that's that's just like yeah that's that is a uh an issue climate issue it is a huge climate issue it's i hear it's worse than bitcoin which is i heard the same thing. I'm sure you have. Value for value, since we don't count on AI or video to grow the audience, whatever that means, and so we can monetize you. We don't like doing that. All we want to do is just do the show. We want you to like the show.

And if you do, send us some value back. We call it the value for value model. We pioneered it. We're very proud of it. People are now using it in many different arenas. And that's, that's a good thing. It's a very good thing. And you can do that through time, talent, or treasure. Now we love it when people promote the show, hit people in the mouth. There's all kinds of nice things you can do. None of that ever shows up on No Agenda Social. There's rarely anything nice there. But you could create websites.

Without a doubt, Sir Paul Couture has done such a beautiful job in bringing back the No Agenda art generator. I really appreciate the work that he's done on that to make it not just work again, but he upgraded the whole thing. And it has some spiffy little new additions. We got the leaderboard there. You can see which artists have been picked the most. And we always get this Scala, an entire smorgasbord of art to choose from, which is beautiful. Even if we don't choose your art, we really appreciate that you did that for the show because new art

is what makes the show great. It makes it noticeable. It gets people interested. And we want to thank Dirty Jersey Whore for bringing us the artwork for episode 1619 that was titled Flash to Bang.

Oh, I got an explanation of Flash to Bang. Flash to Bang from Ogfomk, O-G-F-O-M-K. Flash to Bang is an artillery term for visually seeing a flash and then as the sound travels, you can assess how far away the explosion is by the speed of sound. Oh, yeah, it's like doing lightning. You can can assess how far away the explosion is by the speed of sound. Oh yeah, it's like doing lightning.

You can figure out how far away the lightning is when you're a kid. Flash the bang. Flash the bang. I guess it's probably one second for every kilometer I think or every mile. A mile per second. Oh, before I forget, the No Agenda

logo, which is classic with the I think, one of our, you know, the No Agenda logo, which is, you know, classic with the, I think, what is our classic? Is that with the microphone, the M5A? Yeah, I think with the microphone, the cross through it. That is on a race car. That race car is driven by Ashland Speed. Ashland Speed. I put a link to the video that her dad posted. Very good video of Ashlyn.

Yes. Yeah, they got our sticker on there. She's a killer driver. She's going to be very famous. She's going to be incredibly famous. We are very proud to be on her car. And her dream is Indy, and I think she can make that. They're looking for sponsors for 2024.

She's only like 17 or something. Yes, yes. And she does lap records and everything. And she just, I think we can say badass. And that's the kind of, anyway, I think people should, if you're into sponsoring cars, that's a driver you want to look out for. And we're very, very proud to have

that free publicity on her car. And it's prominently displayed in that documentary, I might add. Like, oh, look at that. There's our No Agenda logo. So back to Dirty Jersey Whore. He brought us the Santa Claus with the nice list, and we were both on it check marked it was interesting because it it was not the actual format that we typically like or typically the the the template it was it was yes it was different yes no agenda at the top and then you have uh curry dvorak down below this was the no it was the no agenda nice list i like liked that Santa had the mic and he had the headphones. That was kind of cute because there was a lot of Santa art, a lot of Christmas art. We always do that when it comes Christmas time.

And let's see, some of the things we've looked at, other pieces of art. Well, I got a kick out of like next to that two over is the black swan inspired. And instead of a black swan, it's a black duck. Yes. I just thought that was right and the next is santa here this nice list one is the picture of uh taylor swift yeah done by ai generator yeah and this is going to be the future of a lot of this stuff yeah well and so we're just everything's ai i mean the number of original pieces on here is minor. Yeah, it is true. It's going away.

There was a Merry Christmas goat. It's kind of cute, but we're traditionalists. So we did talk for a while about Martin JJ's Santa with a big candy cane. If you recall that one. Yeah. But why didn't we pick that? Where is it? It's down near the bottom there on the right oh yeah well i thought we didn't yeah you're right because martin jj decided to come back from the dead and uh produce some more he was dominating the whole thing for a long time. I think it was because it didn't

have the kind of flair that the Naughty Nice List did, which is something original. This was very, I would say, unoriginal. It was just a kind of a throwaway. Yeah, just a nice Santa pic. Yeah, it was a nice pic. It was dynamite.

And it could be used, but it didn't have any oomph. That's what I think. I would say the close second discussed for sure was the Jewish Christmas. Yes, if it wasn't for the fact that it was Chinese-style lettering with a Merry Christmas and a Jewish star on a Chinese takeout container. Absolutely the funniest piece, if I correct the record, of all the pieces. But it was a little more than we could probably know. It wasn't going to happen, but we appreciated the humor.

We did. I even sent it to Horowitz. He thought it was pretty funny. Because I said, where are you going to Chinese? Bless you. You got the koof. You got the koof. I got the sneeze.

You got the koof. No, Horowitz. I was going to send him a copy of it, but I'm glad you did. Yeah. Definitely funny. Thank you, Dirty Jersey Whore. We appreciate what you do there. Thank you so much for putting that together for us.

Thank you, of course, to all of the artists for all of the artwork that you do. And for all producers, anyone who's delivering time, talent, treasure, we appreciate you so much. That is what has kept us on the air. And we continue to do so as long as the value flow goes both ways, as we're providing you value, send it back. The show continues. It's that easy. It's just like a whorehouse. I don't know. Did I say that? I'm not sure why I said that. Disgusting. Let's thank our executive producers and associate executive producers kicking it off with Sir Otaku from flower mound texas who comes in

with a cool oh this is this was for the one two three one two three promotion yeah tell us about this promotion what is it because he's early on this no no well i mean yeah i put in the newsletter you put it in the news yeah i put in the the newsletter. Yeah, I put it in the newsletter, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, because at the end of the year, as we wrap up the year, on Sunday, it's going to be 1-2-3, that's 12-3-1, which is 12-31-23, and you put it up, and it's 1-2-3, 1-2-3, and everybody. According to, I was talking to Mimi about this, she says that Vegas is loaded to the gills with people getting married on 1-2-3-1-2-3. Oh, I can imagine that. And I didn't think about it, but yeah, because you want to get married,

I have my recommendation, so you never miss an anniversary. You want to get married on something that's memorable. Yeah, like 8-8-8-8-8. Yeah, that's me. I 8-8-8-8-8- 888888 can't can't go wrong so sir otaku actually did not come in with the with the precise amount and he has a reason for it he says john and adam here's my donation of one two three oh two three so i misread it there to celebrate my upcoming

60th birthday on 12 3030-20-23. Do you have such a thing as the birthday club? Well, no, we read your, we celebrate, we congratulate people on birthdays. You're on the list. If not, oh, then here's to a great year of media deconstruction from two of the best in the universe. Can I get a JCD, mac and cheese,

karma with a little Girl, yeah, Sir Otaku, Duke of North Texas and the Red River Valley, Kilo 5, Victor Zulu, 73s. You slaves can get used to Mac and Cheese. Mac and Cheese. Mac and Cheese. Macaroni and cheap cheddar melted together.

Mac and Cheese. Mac and Cheese. Mac and Cheese. Mac and Cheese mac and cheese everybody you've got karma so we have uh this is one of the few times we do this jay did this she she said she could do it she's really going above and beyond with this stuff. Yeah, and we do not want people doing this. Because it's very risky.

Yeah, because we forget or it gets lost or whatever. But we did get the certificate off and everything, and I'll read this from, I guess it's Molly Rebish. And it has something to do with Casey Pakula. Please do not read this information until after Christmas, as it is a gift to Ross Rebisch from his son, Tynan, who has been hit in the mouth and made his father proud by being a dedicated No Agenda listener.

We would like Ross to receive the PhD certificate in media deconstruction to proudly display in his office. But if this is no longer available, knighthood would be very appropriate. No, you got your knighthood. You got your certificate. Knight name is Ross, the boss of Broken Ladder Ranch. I assume he's on today's list. Yes, he is.

And it was a surprise. Aw. So I think that they got the certificate and put it under the tree. So I think it they got the certificate and put it under the tree. So I think it all worked out. And you know that for Christmas, one of my gifts, Tina, framed my PhD. Oh, that's sweet. It's good. And we haven't done this ever either, but since they sent it, Jeff Larson, who was a D donation came in from his wife.

I think I was on the last show. I mean, I think it was the last show. Here's here's his response when he found out. You did. I looked at you of your douchebag. Oh, my God. Did I miss it? Have they read?

I just did it yesterday on purpose. So then it wouldn't be like already happened. Oh, my God. Did you miss it? Have they read it? I just did it yesterday on purpose so that it wouldn't be like already happened. Oh my God. Let me think about it on the show. Did you send a message or something? Yeah. Oh my God. I'm not understanding.

You're not understanding. Yes. This is the joy that the No Agenda Show brings. And I think he should be one of the judges on the Masked Singer. Fit right in. He'd be perfect. We have a switcheroo from Luca Maria Asberto from

Switzerland. Is this Switzerland? Oh, no. Yeah, Switzerland. Switzerland. Savosa. It must be Tirol, I guess. I thought it was Austria. Yeah, Tirol. Well, I think it's wherever it is. It's got Switzerland as the... And he says Switzerland.

333.33 switcheroo donation on behalf of Marty from Olten, Switzerland, who is too OTG to do it himself. His message? Belated Merry Christmas back from a filthy pervert. No jingles, no karma. All right, Marty. All right, we got you. We got you.

Switch your route out, ma'am. We go right to Michael Kellner in Ripon, California, 333.33. And he says, thank you. No jingles, no karma. And we think that's a winner. That is a big winner. Compared to the next one. Warranties, Essex, Maryland, 333.33,

also a switcheroo for James Franklin of Midland, Texas. We'll do that. In the morning, gentlemen, and Happy New Year. I've been a listener for a decade. Wow. And have a battered coffee mug with a missing handle to prove it. Thanks for keeping our... Can't be decades.

Why not? He says a decade, doesn't he? A decade. I've been a listener for a decade. A decade it can be. Thanks for keeping our amygdala small. I hit my best friend, Sir Darius Unity, Darius Dickerson in the mouth in 2018 with this donation. He's de-douched me by proxy.

You've been de-douched. Adam, I've suggested to the appropriate parties that when Texas becomes independent again, you should become our foreign minister. So be sure to pencil that in. I got it. And John, as an aging dude named Ben, I salute you. To the Alexandria Meetup Group, I hope to meet the rest of y'all next time

and hope that y'all will come up for more meetups in Baltimore. Please mention Nefarious Darius on www.vocal.media warranties.com the book wartime snapshots available on amazon i really need a jobs karma and health karma and can get a can i get a hitler rosie o'donnell 999 uh and a little girl yay and y'all know how the rest goes. Keep up the good work, mates. And thank you for all you do. James Franklin, Mailbox Uno on Twitter. Ooh, I got a failure there. Why did that thing fail?

Oh, man. I got these things out for a reason. What is happening? Sorry about that. For some reason, this clip is failing. So I will try it this way jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. Next, we have Dennis Barnes of Sacramento, California, 333.33. And no note, no anything.

So he gets a double up karma. You've got karma. We, you know, before we continue, I want to do a special health karma for Dreb Scott. He has got something going on. You've got karma. We love you, Dreb. How about Darren? Is he sick? Yes.

He think he got the koof. All right. We got one for Darren. Here we go. You've got karma. Praying for your healing, boys. Alex Vander Hengst, Springfield, Tennessee. 321.24 annual countdown donation. Happy New Year to you both.

No jingles, no karma. Jim Batzold in Davenport, Iowa. Thank you for the sanity over the years. I fully appreciate the work you two do. My mother was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and I'm requesting healing prayers for Katie Battshold from the amazing No Agenda. Excuse me, I'm going to sneeze again. Audience, and then F Cancer, please.

I hit her and my dad in the mouth a few years ago, and they are now avid listeners. She listens at night and ends up falling asleep by the donation segment you know so i hope she makes it to this one her birthday was on the 29th november so please give her a belated biscuit and my dad loves the pelosi jobs karma regards jim okay so we have to have a biscuit katie kat Katie Batzold, wake up! Wake up! They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. Fucking hell! Fucking hell!

Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. And jobs. Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma. Alright, I think I did everything there. We have Christy J Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. All right. I think I did everything there. We have Christy J. from Huntington Beach, California.

246.33. There's an explanation. 123 times 2 and 33 for good measure. Happy year end, Christy J. Thank you. John Kelber in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 233.33. Switcheroo for Anna Eby jingles boogity boogity

Asian dog karma greetings gents, my lady's birthday is on 1230 it's always hard to think of more gifts so close to Christmas so I was hoping birthday on 1230, yes it's a life of misery so I was hoping to get her a biscuit

oh, hold on another biscuit, we're running out 30, yes. It's a life of misery. So I was hoping to get her a biscuit. Oh, hold on. Another biscuit. We're running out. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. And a de-douching. You've been de-douched. I hit her in the mouth. I rode on a road trip two years ago, and it's the first thing we listen to in the morning after show day.

Cheers to many more years. Love ya, baby. John Kelber. We're into those associate executive producers matthew babula panama city beach florida 231.12 from florida lawn solutions oh he wish you would read that from florida lawn solutions in panama city beach florida i'll send a note from Matt at Florida Lawn Solutions. Missing note, check emails. I didn't get it. I think you got your plug.

Yeah, I think so. I'll do the next one then. Sir Shelfwood, I'm out in the Netherlands. Row of ducks, 222.22. You might think this is a row of ducks, but actually it's two satchel of Richards. One for each of you. Ah, 2111.11.

Wishing you both a very Merry Christmas. Also to all the NA producers, can I have some Joe Jobs karma? Yeah, we actually do have a special Biden karma. For all in need, it has helped me a lot in the past. I'd like to pay it forward. Please add a twist of stereo goat. You got it. Jobs.

Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. You thought. Come on. Dragonslayer, St. George, 210. Unlike others who frown upon being associate executive producer, I embrace, he's referring to Dana Brunetti, I embrace my AEP status and am proud to have a small role in today's show.

I request one jingle, India Tango Mike, Rub-A-Lizer out, a coded jingle for a coded producer name. Thanks and have a wonderful and merry Christmas. India, Tango, Mike, standby, 33, 33, 33. Rob Eliza out. Yeah, all right. Then we have a donation here of 202 from EB in Carlsbad, California. I'm going to truncate.

It is way too long. And he wants Jobs Karma, Go Karma, Jobs and Go Karma and JCD donate. Let's throw some money at this to make it stick. Had I done it correctly, I would have had an executive producer credit. I spent the better part of a week priming my little bro for being called out as a douchebag.

I guess we'll do that for jamis only to be called out myself for under donating he laughed his ass off and told me that's what you get uh let's be clear i'm not a cop 28 elite and i can't really afford this but whatever i love this show and it's long overdue i'm no no longer a douchebag, but man, when I heard JCD call out their donation before me on show 1619, only to have Adam say, no, it's the next one, EB. My heart sank. Oh, did we do something wrong here? I don't know. I had my earbuds in, was dropping my shih tzu off for grooming at PetSmart.

PetSmart because I didn't want to miss my call out and a little bro being called out. Wow, something went wrong there. Anyway, he says, Too Many Eggs is a great book. TooManyEggs.com. Tried out some recipes this week and my boys tried deviled eggs for the first time. They're picky. They're picky.

Shout out to JCD and Mimi. It's a very cool book with great recipes and stories to go along with them. EB, thank you very much, much man here is what you requested you've got karma and jobs jobs jobs and. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. And up is Linda Lopatkin in Lakewood, Colorado. $200.

You know, her note comes in right, this is one of the first that comes in right after the newsletter goes out. And she wants jobs, karma, and wants to make this clear. For a remarkable resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs. That's ImageMakersInc with a K. Not a C, but a K.com. Or just find Linda Lopatkin under the show's producer list. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs jobs let's vote for jobs and uh we have surfer let me see sir is this what you just surfer surfer yes oh switcheroo to mr dana bretti, governor of El Dorado. Yak karma for all the producers. Love is lit.

Surfer in Orlando. Black Baron of the I-4 Corridor. All right. Which one is it? Yak karma? Where's my yak? Here's my yak. I got the yak out of the barn for you.

You thought. Karma. Okay. Dana Brunetti will hate that. Okay. Of course. Dana Brunetti, associate executive producer. Mm-mm-mm-mm.

Oh, he doesn't like that. And that is it for our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1620. Right in between Christmas and New Year's, we have one more show to go on New Year's Eve. We'll be working then as well. Yes. Your donations always encourage us, and so we're encouraged to show up for you on the New Year's Eve. We'll be working then as well. Your donations always encourage us. And so we're encouraged to show up for you on the next, on the New Year's Eve. It'll be fun to do. We love you all. We love what the executive and associate execs do. And of course, these are real credits. You can use

them anywhere credits are recognized. LinkedIn, your resume, imdb.com. They always look snazzy just to throw around and say hey you know i'm in show business and unlike the douchebags in hollywood if anyone questions that we will vouch for you just let us know thank you for supporting us here at the best podcast in the universe john will take us through to the 50s ever meet an executive producer yeah you have steve mann to 127 17 uh which is i don't know what that refers to but edward jennings comes in with the same amount of 127 17 and so does sir foam finger number one 127 17 so i'm not sure coming over there oh i see this is the uh this is the 123 promotion with the paid forward by PayPal. And we have two more.

So we have a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 total donations, including Maria Hong and John Foley, all in on the 123 donation. So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 total. Great promotion. I'm glad everybody pointed out 1, 2, three, one, two, three. Sir Lucas in Federal Way, Washington, 101. Valerie Ray in Plano, Texas, $100. Anonymous, I'm sorry, Ian Sloan in Attadale, Washington, 100. Anonymous in Mount Airy, 8008.

Along with Kevin McLaughlin of Concord, North Carolina. 8008 was just the straight up 8008. He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of American boobs. He is. Edward Owens in Alameda, California, 8008. A New Hampshire meetup, 80. Next donation will be a raffle. Ooh, nice.

Jason Cabe in Freeland, Pennsylvania. 75. Tim Harwood in Corvallis, Oregon. 75. Jake Warburton in St. George, Utah with a birthday. 69. 42. Robert Saren in Nunhem, Netherlands.

Nunhem, is that right? No, it's Nunhem. Nunhem. Nunhem. Nunhem. Nunhem. Nunhem. Nunhem.

Yeah, nailed it. Oh. 65. This next one, go. Gigawatt Coffee Roasters. He's got it right. Yeah. In Bensonville, Florida.

Okay. I got mine it right. Yeah. In Bensonville, Florida. Okay. I got mine. I got mine. ITM20 for the 20% off of all orders at gigawattcoffeeroasters.com. So the Cameroon is quite good. Mm-hmm. And I also think that what I've had, Kite and Key, which refers to Ben Franklin, I think, is also noteworthy. so those are two you might want

to look for i have not i haven't gone through all i haven't tried any of them but uh our guests loved them they love this coffee so i gave them itm 20 for 20 off no good yeah go buy your own that's what i said david groff in wyoming ohio 6180 fibonacci number by the way kevin mclaughlin's back 6006 uh small boobs with no comment zoe carlson stadler in austin texas 60 uh it's a merry Christmas to Eric from his rock star sisters. How sweet. Is it Zoe or Zoe? It's Zoe. I think Zoe. I think it's Zoe.

I'm saying Zoe. I think Zoe's got a Y on it. No, it has an umlaut. HunterStabler.com I don't know what that is, but it's in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5555. Sir Tigger Max in Veradale, Washington, 5432. Cameron Knapp, 51. John Walter in Wenatchee, Washington, 50.

Oh, we did the 50s. There's a lot of 50s today, and we're going to read them, name and location, starting with John. Then Fall Lion Farm in Columbus, Georgia, and Amy Grohl in Burien. It's right by the airport. Angel Valario in San Diego. Got a bunch of call-outs here. It's a Christmas gift, a switcheroo for Jeff Larson. here.

It's a Christmas gives a switcheroo for Jeff Larson. He's no longer a douchebag, so he needs a de-douching. You've been de-douched. Scott McCarty in Lodi, California, 50.

Jack Schofield in Yankee Town, Florida. Forrest Scott Brinkley in Christianburg, Virginia. Brian Emenheiser in Lancaster, California. Shauna Norberg in Seattle. Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon. John Taylor in Florissant, Colorado. Michael Elmore in Glastonia, North Carolina.

Richard Gardner, who I believe is in new york sir richard uh david hall in bessemer alabama zev green in teaneck new jersey and last on our list is page holland in san anton texas i want to thank all these people for making shows 16 20 a decent show good show yes and we love doing these shows. And we love everybody who comes in under $50 just as much because that's how Value for Value works. No matter what you have to give, as long as it's the value you got from the show and we can't determine what's in your pocketbook, then we're happy with that. So thank you for everyone under $50. We never mention those for reasons of anonymity. $49.99.

We see you. We also see the $3, the $5, the $11.11, the $33.33. You can learn more about it by going here. borac.org or noagendadonations.com and thank you again for supporting us here for episode 1620.

Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Order! Order! Shut up, slave! Shut up, slave! It's your birthday, birthday!

On no more challenges! Jim Batsold wishes his mom Katie a belated happy birthday. She celebrated I don't know what you're talking about today and Sirotaku turned 60 on the 30th and John Kelber wishes Anna EBA happy birthday her birthday is on the 30th of December happy birthday from everybody here the best podcast in the universe so we congratulate Rosh Rebich is that how we

pronounce his name Rebich Rebich yeah Rebich I want to make a comment about the birthdays first so I got a note during this show from Ryan Ribbage. Yeah, ribbage. I want to make a comment about the birthdays first. So I got a note during the show from Ryan who wanted to wish Carolyn Hafner a birthday, but we called him in the last show. We called her Mrs. Powell, and he's not married, even though he thinks she's the greatest thing since sliced bread, he says. So I'm saying marry her.

Do yourself a favor. Yeah. Get it over with. Just do it. Just do it, bro. So Ross got that beautiful surprise, the PhD, along with a knighthood. So that doesn't just come with something in the mail, brother. No, no, no. We bring out the swords for our knights.

He's our knight for the day. Here we go. Where's your sword? Oh, it's right here. So, Ross Revich, get your butt up on stage. Right here on the podium, you're about to join all of the other No Agenda Knights and Dames here at the round table, and I'm very proud to pronounce the K-D as Sir Ross the Boss of Broken Ladder Ranch.

That's right. For you, we have a very nice assortment of accoutrements. We have hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, cookies and vodka, warm beer and cold women, diet soda and video games, fish pie and fellatio. Of course, redheads and ryes, organic macaroni and plasticizers, bong heads and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, pressed milk and pablum, and of course, mutton and meat.

Everybody loves a little bit of mutton and meat. Head over to noagendarings.com and there you will find a way to size your ring and you can send it off to us. We'll get you a ring post-haste along with the wax to seal your important correspondence because it is a signet ring and of course, the certificate of authenticity signed by adam and by john thank you and welcome

to the round table the no agenda nights and dames well as we did did i hear you open up a can? Uh, not really. Oh, but you did hear the phone. Oh, maybe it was the phone ringing. I thought you were opening a show beer. I'm sorry. No show beer today. Why don't you go answer the phone?

And I'm going to go answer the phone. Talk about the meetups. So as part of the people are trying to make you feel lonely and trying to get you hooked on your phone. So you don't want to be dying of loneliness, which has, of course, been propagated by the entire pharmaceutical industry. Everyone's trying to get you to feel lonely and feel bad. So you can do a couple of things. You can go to church, synagogue, the mosque, or you could go to a no agenda meetup. If that's what you i think

you might enjoy that even if you do all those other things this is where you will meet your people part of your clan people who listen to this show part people who feel like you know they're kind of different from the rest and believe me you are but you will meet fellow travelers at a no agenda meetup they are held all over the world on almost every single day of the week. It is completely producer organized. No agenda meetups.com. Sir Daniel put that together again, completely producer organized.

You can register your meetups there. You can search for meetups there. And we love it when you send you, when you send a report to us, even if you had a very small meetup, Knoxville post boxing day meetup is an example. Hello, this is Nobber Ray. And prepare yourself for the big Post Boxing Day meetup report.

Everybody is here. In the morning, this is Billy Bones. I brought my boxing gloves to hit people in the mouth, and no one showed up. Okie dokie. All right. At least he got Billy Bones out there. We're happy that happened.

We have a meetup taking place today, the end of year start of the trip. That is in Indonesia, so it's probably already over. That would have been at SVH Svaha Ma in Lombok, Indonesia. Man, it's right near Bali. I sure hope we get a meetup report from those guys.

We have Ireland. Yes, I told you it's all over the place. The Railway Social Club had a meetup at Ross Lair Harbor County, Wexford, Ireland. Hopefully get a meetup report from them. Tomorrow, the Frozen Hellscape meetup, 6.30 at Angler's Bar and Grill in Hayward, Wisconsin. We have another Ireland. Oh, my gosh. The Kestrel.

Tomorrow at, it doesn't have a a time but it will be in Dublin Ireland Muppet Head is organizing that and on Saturday the KC meetup the supple wrist edition 333 at 403 club Kansas City Kansas just a few of the meetups taking place between now and New Year's uh part of your no agenda show and of course we'll be back to give some of those reports, hopefully to you, on New Year's Eve. Noagendameetups.com. Connection is protection. You owe it to yourself.

You owe it to your family. You owe it to Gitmo Nation. Go to noagendameetups.com if you can't find one there. Start one yourself. It's easy and always a party. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days you want to be where you want me it's like a party it's so like a party it really is it's always a party it's a good party. It's so like a party. It really is. It's always a party.

It's a good party. It's a good time. Ask around. People will tell you. What are you? You have another noisemaker? Oh, boy. I got two ISOs.

I'll play them for you right now. No, I'm playing mine first because you're going to win. I don't know if I'm going to win. You only have one? You only have one. Okay, here we go. You know, it's probably something really horrible in Arabic.

I'm thinking it is. I'm afraid to play that one. I do have this. Good luck with podcasting. I don't like the end of it, but good luck with that. It flips a little bit. Good luck with podcasting. I don't like the end of it, but good luck with that. Yeah, it flips a little bit. Good luck with podcasting. I don't think so.

How about this one? Ka-ching. What? Well, you heard it. Ka-ching. Ka-ching? Ka-ching. No, no, no.

The podcasting one is decent. Good luck with podcasting? Okay. Good luck with podcasting it is. And now it's time for... Google. Google. Google.

Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. Google. for... Google with JC. Now, we looked at the... We have some actual player data we're able to see.

And what we noticed is that people... There's a little drop-off during the donation segment. But people come back to listen to the good news segment. I think... Is that coming back to listen to the ISO challenge? Well, they're staying for the good news segment. I think this is... You're not coming back to listen to the ISO challenge? Well, they're staying for the good news segment, so I'll take it. What do you have today, John, for your good news? We have a story from Midwest.

I have to put my glasses on. You can put your glasses on and look at the mic. It's the Christmas miracle. Now, wait a minute before you play it. We've had animal stories. Yes. We've had people stories. Babies in tornadoes. We have everything so far, but we haven't had this kind of Christmas miracle. The holidays had a rocky start for the Hansons, but getting their car back just in time for Christmas, they say, is the best gift they could ask for. We got the news that it was stolen right after Thanksgiving.

The only thing worse than having your car stolen is having it happen around the holidays. So it was gut-wrenching. Matt and Christy Hansen loved their 1995 Acura Integra so much, they invested $18,000 in restoring it for their son. But their plans vanished when it was stolen from a body shop on November 29th. It would be the best Christmas miracle. And that was one of the things that she had said, that it would really be a Christmas miracle and make their Christmas if they were able to find their car. Travis Christensen saw the story on KSL, but no one could imagine what happened next.

It was like a needle in a haystack. On a work drive, Travis spotted the car tucked behind a building in Taylorsville. I got a closer look at the car and thought, man, this really looks like the car. And so I was able to go and dig up the KSL article. He messaged me, I think I found your car. He sent some pictures. I couldn't believe it. He didn't want any of our reward money.

He was just happy to get our car back. It felt really good to be a part of that and help get that car back to them so they could drive it and enjoy it and continue to make memories with it. Travis knows firsthand what it's like to have a car stolen, making this experience that much better. It's a really fun story to be a part of. This is another chapter in this car's story. As for the Hansons, they plan to pay it forward.

I think it's a reminder that we can help other people more than we know. Now, as you heard, Travis isn't interested in that monetary reward, but he says he really wants to take a picture with the family and, of course, the red Acura. I'm Garner Mejia, KSL 5 News. Oh, isn't that nice? You could have cut it down by 30 seconds. As long as it's under two minutes, I'm good with it. Well, it was a nice miracle.

A Christmas miracle. It's a Christmas miracle. The red Acura is back. Oh, I'm so happy. A good news story from JCD. Happy vibes for you and me. And we all feel better now he's done his bit. So back to reality, that's turning to shit.

Yay! Good news, everybody. You know, it's a good shit. Yay! Good news, everybody. You know, it's a good balance. I like doing these good news segments. It makes everybody feel good. It does. People feel good. Don't you feel good by playing the good news segment? I think it's a dynamized segment if it's getting people to listen.

So now they have to listen to the show mixes, which are usually better than the good news mix. No, they're always better than the good news story. They're better than half the show, actually. We got Professor JJ checking in from China. He's got an end of show mix. We got Leo Laporte. I'm sorry, Leo Lepuke.

Wow, that would have been amazing. I don't know how that came up all of a sudden. Must be on my mind. And we got Sir Chris Wilson bringing you end of show mixes right here. And coming up next on noagentastream.com or trollroom.io if you're listening there or in that modern podcast app. Bowl after bowl with Sir Spencer and Dame DeLorean. After Bowl with Sir Spencer and Dame DeLorean. And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country.

It's here in FEMA Region No. 6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak. Go back to your masked singer. Masked singer. Go back to your masked singer. Masked singer. And remember us at devorah.org slash NA or noagendthedonations.com. We'll see you on New Year's Eve, everybody.

Meet us here live. We're looking forward to it. Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey, hooey, and such. I took my troubles down tonight. Ursula von der Leyen. There's misinformation out there. Ursula von der Leyen. There's misinformation out there. Ursula von der Leyen. There's still people to live in.

Defenders of democracy like that. Nein danke. Nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein. Nein, nein, nein, nein, nein, nein. No thanks for our genocide. Screw your freedom. The gloves come off in Brussels and that government was crushed.

There is a virus. It kills people. Elevated to power without a single vote from the citizens. Why would you not believe someone like that? Nine Danka. No thanks for our genocide. Ursula von der Leyen. All she needs is a brutal apartheid regime that she calls a vibrant democracy as it pulverizes a city of children. There is misinformation out there. There's no people that don't believe in that. Nine, danke.

When citizens vote the wrong way in a referendum in Ireland, they're made to vote again. With defenders of democracy like that, no thanks for our genocide. If you get vaccinated, screw your dream. The gloves come off in Brussels and that government is crushed. Ursula von der Leyen. Why would you not believe someone like that?

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To become Our dames and knights, no agenda, knights and dames, douchebaggery left behind. Donate and cover Comes the way Of all good days and nights Deconstruction Twice a week All free For all mankind

Donate and then you'll be deduced Then hold your head up high No agenda, knights and dames Good friendship you will find. Donate and karma comes the way of all good days and nights. Donate and karma comes the way of all good days and nights. We have 12 years or this planet is going to suffer irreversible damage. I was considered crazy.

The world is going to end in 12 years. As far as private jets are concerned, would you want to ban those as well? No. No? It was close to 12 years without a major hurricane, right after Al Gore told us we were going to have Katrina's every year, and we were all going to die. They told us back then that we had about 10 years,

and that was 14 years ago now. And now they have started a new timeline. They start the clock over again. It's like turning the hourglass upside down, that, you know, Margaret Hamilton with a flying monkey next to her. This is for real. It is not made up. Hello, it is window.

Four weeks ago, it was, what, three degrees outside. It's a heat wave out here now. We have 12 years to turn this around. Don't they know it's the end of the world. We need

some global warming. It's freezing. We're getting to dawn. At the end of the day freezing. We're going to die. At the end of the day, you're all going to die. It's going to cut off. Use your time wisely. Watch Spaceballs. Great movie. Great movie.

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