No Agenda - 1718 - "On The Fritz"

Starting point is 00:00:00 It's on to Fritz. It's on to Fritz, man. Jiggle the handles. That's better than Glitch. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, December 5th, 2024. This is your award-winning Cuba Nation Media Assassination episode 17, 18.

Starting point is 00:00:13 This is No Agenda. Defend, depose, deny, and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill country right here in FEMA region number six. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where they're shooting the CEOs in New York, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning.

Starting point is 00:00:35 Man, I gotta tell ya, New York is bonkers. Bonkers. So you know what everyone in New York is posting online? No. This guy's a hero. Oh, gosh. You know, when this happened, one of the first things I thought of was a thing I used to say back in the late 90s about some of these big shots should be careful because they could find their heads on a stick

Starting point is 00:01:06 if the public ever revolted and then they shoot this guy. And here we are. I'm thinking, well, this will be interesting to see how this goes. I mean, they're literally, they're like, hey, and he even went to Starbucks. That guy is awesome. It's like the new Batman. He took down the elite. Well, they have pictures of his face now. It's like the new Batman. He took down the elite.

Starting point is 00:01:25 Well they have pictures of his face now. Mm-hmm. He looks and oh by the way, he's dreamy. Well. I'm just telling you what they're saying man. This is what the kids are saying. Well he's got a nice, I see this one picture, he's got a nice smile. Yeah, but that's what you want.

Starting point is 00:01:42 This is the perfect super villain even though he's a hero. It is bizarre, but in some ways, maybe not unexpected. I mean- To deny defend to foes. The first thing, well, did you hear about this? Yeah, those are the inscriptions on some of the bullets they found. Yeah, here, I got a short clip. Police are calling UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's death brazen and targeted, saying

Starting point is 00:02:06 the killer shot Thompson in the back and the leg before fleeing on a bike and disappearing into Central Park. Thompson's wife now says her husband had been receiving threats before this happened. NewsNation's Alex Capriello is live in New York City for us this morning following the latest. Alex, police may have a clue based on the shell casings left at the scene. What more do we know about that? Yeah, when you take a look at that video, you can see the suspect in this case firing that weapon multiple times. And when that happens, cartridges are automatically ejected

Starting point is 00:02:38 from that weapon itself. And on those actual casings, according to New York Police Department sources, they had words that were actually etched into them, specifically defend, depose and deny. Those are clues potentially onto a possible motive that this shooter might have had. But at this point, New York police are not saying exactly what that motive is. They're still trying to work that out using these as an indication as well as the other evidence that was left behind specifically a cell phone in which these police officers have obtained a search warrant to go through and to try to piece together exactly why this 50 year old CEO was targeted. This is a very all of a sudden I mean first I heard this

Starting point is 00:03:21 yesterday I'm like oh that sucks and this is no good. Then it took this, this is amazing turns of events. This, the etchings on the bullet casings, which I mean, I mean, that's obviously a message. We have a cell phone that has left. The guy jumps on a complete trackable city bike. He's hanging out at Starbucks smiling. He's wearing a very obvious gray backpack. He has some kind of weapon that at least he seemed semi capable. And there's a lot

Starting point is 00:03:57 of things going on here. And, and I immediately like I got it, you know, okay, shooter, whatever. Well, everyone's getting all gaga eyes over the dreaminess of this guy. What is the motive? And I found one clip that gives us, I think, four possible motives for this hit. Well, David, ABC News heard from Brian Thompson's wife a short while ago.

Starting point is 00:04:23 In a statement, Paulette Thompson wrote, "' we are shattered to hear about the senseless killing of our beloved Brian. Brian was an incredibly loving, generous, talented man who truly lived life to the fullest and touched so many lives. Most importantly, Brian was an incredibly loving father to our two sons and will be greatly missed. So, from our folks in Minnesota, producers on the ground, the word up there is, Créme Passionel, especially the statement where she doesn't say he was a great husband. Huh? Sketchy. You never know.

Starting point is 00:05:01 Well, that could be reporting too. You don't know she didn't say that. Well, they had, of course it could, but they had the words on the screen, John, so it must be true. But then there's more. The company's headquarters are based in Minnesota, and right now flags are flying at half staff outside the building in honor of Thompson. In fact, Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota and former vice presidential candidate, addressed Thompson's killing on X, writing, This is horrifying news and a terrible loss for the business and health care community in Minnesota. Minnesota is sending our prayers to Brian's family and the UnitedHealthcare team.

Starting point is 00:05:40 So then you have Walz. And this is where my head went to, OK, so this guy's a CEO, and it's coming up in a minute, there was all kinds of DOJ investigations, and also Medicaid-related issues. Medicaid has been overbilled by like $9 billion a year. Oh yeah, of course, but these guys, their revenue is $450 billion a year. So a little bit that sticks to someone else's pocket could be a lot bigger than most other

Starting point is 00:06:12 companies. And according to reports, as I have here from the AP, a number of Medicaid-related programs have suffered from fraud and waste under waltz. So just interesting that in this report, we get that coming out and then we continue. As for Thompson's career with the company he became CEO of the nation's largest health insurer United Healthcare. Back in 2021 and before that he was CEO of United Healthcare's government programs including Medicare and retirement. But he has been with the company since 2004 when he was hired as a director of corporate development. United Health

Starting point is 00:06:49 Group released a statement saying in part, Brian was a highly respected colleague and friend to all who work with him. We are working closely with the New York Police Department and ask for your patience and understanding during this difficult time. Now the Department of Justice has been investigating UnitedHealthcare for antitrust issues, and SEC filings show Thompson and another UnitedHealthcare executive sold millions of dollars in UnitedHealthcare shares

Starting point is 00:07:19 in the months before that DOJ investigation became known to investors or to the public. Of course, there is still no word from investigators on any possible motive for today's shooting. So there's the maybe this was other board members or other people. The guy was after all in charge of that division before he became CEO and they didn't want you know, dead man can't talk. Maybe that's what's going on. It's always possible. Do you have any thoughts or you just?

Starting point is 00:07:55 Well, I don't think this was a professional hit based on what other people have said. No, not professional. No, no. So it's a. But it was a hit. I mean, I think it's I a hit. I think it's somebody that got screwed by the company. I think- And they blamed him and they went to him and this guy who was salaried, I think it was around 10 million plus a year plus stock. It was better than podcasting.

Starting point is 00:08:17 Better than podcasting. Just saying. And that's Joe Rogan. True. And he seemed callous of a sort. And I can see somebody, and this I think is something that's going to happen. This is nothing, I think the entire medical establishment is up for grabs when it comes to this sort of thing, which is they have not been serving the public, they've been serving themselves. I agree and I think that the words defend, depose, deny relates directly to how they

Starting point is 00:08:51 are accused of often being very difficult to settle, being very difficult to pay out. And I found an interesting video I pulled two short clips from the insurance I pulled two short clips from the insurance watchdog coalition who explain UnitedHealthcare and how it works. This is the intro to all the different pieces because it's not just insurance. You might know UnitedHealth as an insurance company, but it's actually more than that. It's a multinational conglomerate, a vertical monopoly. UnitedHealth is the largest for-profit domestic health insurance company. It's gobbled up doctors' offices. 90,000 physicians now work directly for UnitedHealth,

Starting point is 00:09:32 the largest employer of doctors in the country. UnitedHealth owns a dominant pharmacy benefit manager. They decide which medicine you can get and how much you pay for it. UnitedHealth operates a software and data company, which helps United Insurance decide how to deny your claims. On top of all this, UnitedHealth also owns pharmacies, primary care clinics, surgery centers, urgent care centers, home health agencies, hospice care agencies, and mental health agencies. When you need healthcare,

Starting point is 00:10:01 there's a chance UnitedHealth makes money every step of the way. They even own a bank, which allows them to control when, where, and how their doctors get paid. As one report put it, UnitedHealth is pushing to control every piece of patient care outside of the hospital. It's not by accident. Being a sole source single payer monopoly is United Health's business model. That's the business model and here's how it works, how you make up to $450 billion, almost

Starting point is 00:10:30 half a trillion dollars a year in revenue. United Health set up a company to expand its business from only providing insurance. They even gave it a different name so consumers won't know it's really just United Health. It's called Optum. Optum employs pharmacy benefit managers and doctors and they own surgery care centers and urgent care clinics. Let's start with the pharmacy benefits manager OptumRx, which is the middleman controlled by big insurance that sets drug prices. Across

Starting point is 00:11:00 the country independent pharmacies are closing up shop because Optum is underpaying medication reimbursement rates. Optum doesn't just pressure pharmacies to increase their bottom line. They're gouging customers with high prices on life-saving drugs. Here's how it works. Optum will tell you their job is to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies and work with insurance companies to decide which drugs are covered. But Optum is owned by an insurance company, United Health. It's negotiating with itself.

Starting point is 00:11:35 It sets the price. It sets the profit. Total control. Yeah, that system's no good. You think? We've got a real problem with that that system. This also puts that Optum hack from, was it maybe six months ago? Puts that into a different light. You remember when all these, the whole, a large portion of the medical system was just frozen from some kind of cybersecurity attack, which we really never got the full lowdown on. It never will? No. it might have been ransomware.

Starting point is 00:12:06 I mean, this is a mess. This is a mess. And I'm surprised when his wife, we don't know if she said it, but she said there were other threats against his life. So this guy thinks it's a good idea if there's threats against your life as the CEO of a $450 billion revenue company to go toodling out in New York City at 7 a.m. without any

Starting point is 00:12:27 security? Man, Joe Rogan's smarter than that. Yeah, well, at first, I noticed some of the, I looked at these comments too and said, well, that guy's an idiot, didn't have security. And I, well, you know, not everybody has to walk around. Every CEO in the world doesn't need security, that's for sure. But when you look at it from the perspective of a company

Starting point is 00:12:52 that is probably the basis and part and parcel of the entire medical system's corruption. You might want to protect that guy. You might, yes, you might want to have more than a couple of guys looking around, talking to their lapels. But if this is Occam's razor, if this is someone who's just pissed off about the whole situation, well, this could be the beginning of.

Starting point is 00:13:21 I mean, seriously, if you look on X and you look on Instagram, people are just like, wow, this guy is good. These guys, it's like the, the little guy and you know, he went out there and he killed one of the elites. This could be just the beginning. You know, this is the good side of being a lowly podcaster. This is something you shouldn't have to worry about. Uh, no, and I can see it, but I would say CEO over-pay, especially nowadays where the CEOs are, I would say generally not all of them, but a lot of them are

Starting point is 00:13:57 overpaid to an extreme and they are leveraged and they are part of a corrupt system of gougers. Yeah. And it ruins people's lives. That have ruined people's lives. This is not a... I'm surprised this hasn't happened or isn't happening as we speak for the last five, six years.

Starting point is 00:14:19 And your other prediction that, you know, soon we'll get some of these kids who are transitioned and are going to wake up and go, what? Where'd that go? And they're going to start getting mad too. And they're going to go after doctors and maybe CEOs. The CEO is, that's a pretty big message. And that message is clear. It's clear.

Starting point is 00:14:42 I mean, how much more clear could you make it with your, what is the sequence again? Deny, depose, defy. Defend, depose, deny. Defend, depose. So you defend. Defend the cases. Depose everybody. Deny payment.

Starting point is 00:14:56 No. And then. No, depose. Deposition. Depose. No, depose. It's defend, depose, deny. So defend is like, oh no, no, no.

Starting point is 00:15:04 Well, there was no order. There were just three's defend, depose, deny. So defend is like, no, no, no. There was no order. There were just three random bullets they found on the street. Oh, I thought that the three... No, I thought it was in order on each casing. No, that's not my understanding. I understand that each casing had a word on it. Really? Oh, that's even more crazy. And I was wondering, because a professional hitman doesn't leave casings.

Starting point is 00:15:25 No, no, no. Well professional hitman doesn't do something in public like that either. No. Except in the movies. Yeah, and what's with the suppressor? I mean, it's New York. The whole thing is bizarre. But yeah, it could be the beginning of some citizen revolt of some sort.

Starting point is 00:15:43 And there's also three unspent bullets because the gun jammed. And so he's dicking around, I guess three shells fell on the deck too. That's what I understand. At least with some reports. Yeah, there's all kinds of opinions. So there was a three books spent cartridges and three. Now it's possible then that would explain if it was all three words were on all the cartridges, but that doesn't make sense.

Starting point is 00:16:03 It's too much work. Well, and then what's up with getting on a city bike? I mean that's this will be the city bike assassin. He's just going around just going around killing people on city bikes. I mean it's it's horrible for him it's horrible for his family but it's very interesting from a podcasting perspective. Oh, from a sociological perspective, this could be a big deal. Yeah, it could be. So that was just one of the small things that happened. Yeah, there was another one. I just said, what the hell was it? It was, I don't know, like

Starting point is 00:16:37 Joe Biden pardoned his kid. What? After saying he wouldn't? Oh no. This was great. This would put a whole, everyone just, I mean first of all. First of all, it was on a show day, thank you. Yeah, yeah. Thanks guys. Thanks Jill.

Starting point is 00:16:55 A lot of people immediately say this proves that the real Joe Biden's alive. I say no, it proves nothing. It doesn't prove anything one way or the other. No. And of course, it made for some super cuts. Did you get any? I have some short ones. You've got it.

Starting point is 00:17:14 I don't think I have any super cuts. The super cuts are always, well, there's two or three of them floating around, and they're all pretty similar. And there's two forms, one of them all these left-wing, mostly MSNBC and CNN people, defending Biden because he's gonna uphold justice and never pardon Hunter. And they make fools of themselves. Good guy. Yeah. So and then there's the one of Kareem Jean-Paul, Pierre Abdul-Jabbar.

Starting point is 00:17:41 Let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict no matter what it is? Yes. And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes. Is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son? No. Well, is there a-

Starting point is 00:17:57 I just said no. I just answered- Is that my only question? Will the president pardon or commute his son if he's convicted? So I've answered this question before. It was asked of me not too long ago, a couple of weeks ago, and I was very clear, and I said no. And I am satisfied that I'm not going to do anything. I said I abide by the jury decision, and I will do that, and I will not pardon him. I've said several times that the President would not pardon

Starting point is 00:18:21 or commute the sentence for his son, Hunter. I just want to make sure that that is not going to change over the next six months. The President's statement would not pardon or commute the census for his son Hunter. I just wanna make sure that that is not going to change over the next six months. The president's say he would not. It's still a no. It's still a no. It will always be a no. It's still a no. It will be a no.

Starting point is 00:18:33 It is a no. And I don't have anything else to add. Will he pardon his son? No. His son Hunter is also up for being sentenced next month. Does the president have any intention of pardoning him? We've been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no.

Starting point is 00:18:51 It's no, it's no. That's KJP, and then we have another shorty from, I think, some media people. Let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? Yes. And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes. Is there any possibility? Wait, is this basically the same thing? Hold on a second. I said no.

Starting point is 00:19:11 And I am satisfied that I'm not gonna do anything. I said I'd abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him. I said several times that the president would not. No, I thought this was different. It's not the same clip, it's different. It's the same stuff. Where's the nut jobs? Our answer stands, which is no. I'm not going to get into it.

Starting point is 00:19:34 Yeah, okay. It's all the same, basically. Actually, most of them were either nine minutes, which was no good. The nine minute one is the one I had. No, it's too much. It's too much. It was nine minutes of mostly media people saying, oh yeah, Joe is a great guy because he's going to not pardon his son.

Starting point is 00:19:52 And it was all MSNBC and CNN people and they were all the same usual suspects, the dipshits that work for those stations and just spew Democrat propaganda points and they're promoting, you know, they were doing anything to keep Trump from getting elected, which didn't help. It's got no audience. I think one of the shows the audience has fallen to 38,000 listeners, viewers. Wow. We have more trolls in the troll room. It's pretty pathetic. I'm sorry. I was just saying it's just like they just kept beating it up and they were good. The real issue they I think that they had was they were gloating and how you know fine the president was because nobody was above the law. There's the other theme. They had two

Starting point is 00:20:42 themes of nobody was above the law. Nobody was above the law. But now they're switching their tune and now it's, well, it's clear that the Department of Justice is weaponized. It's weaponized against everybody. Here's CBS on the pardon. Arriving in Angola today, President Biden ignored questions about the pardon of his pardon. Arriving in Angola today, President Biden ignored questions about the pardon of his son.

Starting point is 00:21:07 The decision came after the president and his press secretary had spent more than a year claiming a pardon without the question. I said I'd abide by the jury decision. More supercut. I will do that and I will not pardon him. We've been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no. Notice they don't put the media in their supercuts. The sweeping nature of the pardon. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, stands, which is no. Notice they don't put the media in their super cuts.

Starting point is 00:21:25 The sweeping nature of the party. No, heaven forbid. Can't do that. And clears the president's son of all crimes he's committed or may have committed over 10 years. Well, it's unprecedented. No president has ever pardoned their child before. Pardon expert Jeffrey Crouch says its scope is similar to the clemency Gerald Ford gave

Starting point is 00:21:43 Richard Nixon, who resigned amid the Watergate scandal. It's about as broad as any pardon that I'm aware of. It includes pretty much any potential federal offense in the way that includes really anything that happens within that particular time range. The pardon came just a day after President-elect Trump chose Cash Patel to run the FBI, a right-wing operative who criticized Hunter Biden and vowed to go after Trump's political rivals. The president, in fact, suggested his son would remain a target of the incoming administration,

Starting point is 00:22:12 saying there's no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough. But several Democrats today said Biden had gone too far, calling the pardon improper and unwise. The crimes are very serious, and this isn't singling out one individual. Gary Shapley, an IRS investigator who worked on the Hunter Biden tax evasion case, took issue with the president's statement that his son faced prosecution only because he is my son. And that is wrong.

Starting point is 00:22:38 If the Department of Justice truly is a fair and treats every individual the same, then there's no way they could have not charged Hunter Biden with committing these acts. It was quite striking to see several Democratic governors and lawmakers say today that while they understand a father's concern for his son, the president tarnished his legacy and put the interests of his family ahead of the country.

Starting point is 00:23:00 They're also worried it could embolden Trump to abuse the same clemency powers once he takes office. That's amazing. Oh yeah, somehow they turn it on Trump. Of course. Well, no, they all turn it on Trump. It's Trump's fault. NPR took it to the Nixon Watergate and the Nixon pardon, which I thought was an interesting angle. I've read that the only comparable pardon with language as sweeping as this was President Gerald Ford's pardon of Nixon. Do you agree with that assessment? Boy, y'all.

Starting point is 00:23:33 Yeah, that's correct. And similarly, it's about an instance where we might think about what might be a politically motivated or a politically concerned kind of prosecution and if you want to make it blanket to avoid any possibility that that person can still be prosecuted, that's the kind of language you need to use. But what it means is we arrive at today with a really weak record on clemency on his part.

Starting point is 00:23:57 So very few people have received any kind of relief from him and so it looks like he just singled out his own child, whereas I'm sure there's a lot of parents in America saying, hey, what about my kid? They have a meritorious case and there's been nothing, and followed all the rules, filed the petition, but still no ruling. And that, I think, is the problem when it looks like

Starting point is 00:24:19 you don't have a functioning pardon system for regular people, and it's just people who know somebody. A functioning pardon system. Hey, he pardoned those two turkeys. I mean, he did that. That was nice. No, it was three. Three? Oh, including Hunter. Bing. Here's the second piece of that. Wow.

Starting point is 00:24:38 I think that's important to highlight because we often hear about pardons when they are high profile controversial individuals, but thousands and thousands of other people who may be worthy of a pardon, whose names most of us have never heard, apply every year. And you're saying in most cases under the Biden presidency have been rejected or ignored. Exactly. And he has a very low grant rate, historically speaking. It's really been mostly symbolic gestures on his part, like the big announcement he had for marijuana, people who had possessed marijuana, that didn't release anybody currently incarcerated. He inherited a backlog of 18,000 petitions when he took office and really just hasn't

Starting point is 00:25:16 made a dent. So it's a stark contrast to see the Hunter Biden pardon when you're looking at how the regular process has unfolded during his administration. Wow, that's NPR? Yeah. Well, they won't have her on again. Oh, I mean, they've, they've, remember just a few months ago, Joe had put country over

Starting point is 00:25:37 party by stepping down and now he's put family over country. It's just getting worse with him. He's going to be, he's going to leave in shame. Will they even give him the helicopter? I don't think so. John Stewart, of course, had a funny bit about it. Faith in the rule of law. Finally, Democrats have a moral perch from which they can judge without shame, hypocrisy, or nuance. Breaking news, President Biden has issued a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden. Motherf*****! We were so close!

Starting point is 00:26:20 Yeah. Yeah, I would recommend John Stewart's last two Monday shows, which was this last one, this Monday, just the beginning, because the bits are quite good, well structured, and then he skipped a week, and then the week before that, he also did another show opening that was, I thought, one of the best he's ever done. Yeah, what was it?

Starting point is 00:26:45 It was about loopholes in, this one that you saw, this last one was actually part two of the original, which was about rules, loopholes, and norms. And it's extremely well written. So now there's reports from Politico. That's WAPO, right? Politico? No, no. Who owns Politico? They own themselves.

Starting point is 00:27:14 This is an independent operation as far as I know. Biden White House is weighing preemptive pardons for potential Trump targets such as Fauci, Schiff and Cheney. Yeah, I don't believe this to be true. Well, only because Politico said it, would I mention it when it's in Daily Mail? I'm like, yeah, okay. Um, but everyone's afraid, you know, because of Cash Patel, Cash Patel is going to weaponize the department. Cash Patel.

Starting point is 00:27:39 Cash Patel. Right. I can tell you why they're afraid of Cash Patel. There's a, I have a short clip and he was on, is that Jeremy Ryan's podcast thing? Ryan, what his name is. He's some former military guy as a podcast and Cash is on there.

Starting point is 00:27:56 And this is why Washington is worried. It's pretty much what we said he would be doing. Then we need to decrease what I call government creep with personnel. The FBI's footprint has gotten so freaking big. And the biggest problem the FBI has had has come out of its intel shops. I'd break that component out of it. I'd shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state.

Starting point is 00:28:23 And I take the 7,000 employees that work in that building and send them across America to chase down criminals. Go be cops, your cops, go be cops. Go chase down murderers and rapists and drug dealers and violent offenders. What do you need 7,000 people there for? Same thing with DOJ. What are all these people doing here?

Starting point is 00:28:41 Looking for the next government promotion, looking for the next fancy government title. There you go. The funny thing about that particular clip is that if that the mainstream media, and I think CBS in particular, oh no, NBC, NBC's the worst right now. NBC in particular took that clip and only played, you know, promoting the, I don't have the clip, but promoting the dangers of Cash Patel. And they took that clip and took the part where he says, the first thing I would do

Starting point is 00:29:12 is shut down the J. Edgar Hoover building and then they stop it right there. They stop after, before the punch line? Yeah, no punch lines, no nothing. Just the deep state museum. Which implies that he's shutting down the FBI. Oh, man. How lame is that? NBC has become, you know, they've

Starting point is 00:29:30 freaked out about their problems with them as NBC, and they're going to spin all that stuff off. But it is, it's the master NBC news. The operation at the top is bad. Yeah. Who runs that? Do we know? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:29:49 Offhand, I don't know. Of course, Trump took a handy advantage of the situation and spun everything around. Breaking news this evening. Donald Trump now asking a judge in New York to dismiss the verdict in his hush money case, and he is citing the pardon of Hunter Biden this past weekend. Trump's attorneys formally made the request to Judge Juan Marchand, saying the prosecution disrupts the president-elect's transition and threatens the function of the federal

Starting point is 00:30:18 government. They also wrote, quote, as President Biden put it yesterday, enough is enough. This case, which should never have been brought must now be dismissed. Trump was convicted in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, but judge Marshawn decided last week to indefinitely postpone the sentencing. That's kind of interesting. Hey, you know, because of that pardon, I should, my case should be dismissed. I'm not quite sure exactly how he swears that.

Starting point is 00:30:48 Well, that was based on the fact that within the pardon structure and what Biden said publicly, it was a commentary about all of the justice departments corrupt, which really irked the guy that Biden handpicked to do the case. Oh, I see. Yes, he did do that case. Oh, I see. Yes, to do that case. Ah, okay.

Starting point is 00:31:08 So, regarding... It's just basically falling apart. Yeah. Regarding this Fifth Amendment, I got some requests for the constitutional lawyer to weigh in. You know, does indeed the Fifth Amendment no longer apply? Can they have Hunter come in to testify and he wouldn't need Fifth Amendment protection to which you of course astutely said, well, yeah, he can still lie,

Starting point is 00:31:33 obviously. And so yes, the constitutional lawyer says, of course, that's always been my understanding. Same thing happens when prosecutors grant immunity to a witness. And then he actually, if you're interested in the show notes, he has all of the Supreme Court case numbers and files so you can look it up. But then he says something very interesting for a constitutional lawyer. He says, there's one thing you have not considered, Hunter Biden did not kill himself.

Starting point is 00:31:59 So that's the thing that we need to be looking at next according to our constitutional lawyer. Well, I think that's a long shot. We talked about that before. Overdose. Yeah, we talked about that before. That would have happened already, I think. But the point we had a nasty note that came in was saying our constitutional lawyer was an idiot because he didn't point this out, which is that once you're given this kind of immunity, you are now forced

Starting point is 00:32:29 to testify. No, I don't think that's true. Are you? No, if you're given immunity, you are forced to testify. You can test it. They can subpoena you and make you testify and you cannot say, I have to plead the fifth. That's the point. But you can still lie. That's being forced to testifying and lying is not the same thing. No, exactly. I'm with you. I'm on the same page.

Starting point is 00:32:54 Yeah, no, I'm just saying you can be forced to testify and so what? You can lie. That's my point. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you. And the point is, is you can't prove perjury unless you have enough evidence that you don't need his testimony in the first place, which is the catch-22 of the whole thing. Well, if they really roll out the evidence, a lot of people are going down. So I don't expect that to happen. No, of course not. Because it's just way too many people.

Starting point is 00:33:21 They're not going to shrink government either. Wait, they're not going to close, Cash Patel is not going to close the Hoover Building? I think that may be part of it. That could be part of a bigger plan because there's a lot of people. There's two things going on in Washington DC right now. There's too many people working there. And then of course, everybody's working from home and now they've codified that. So everyone gets to work from home before Trump comes in. So everyone's going to be at home, which I'd do the same thing if I had the time to pull

Starting point is 00:33:50 something like that off, work at home all the time if you're a government worker. Even Amazon has to come back to the office. Everybody's all upset. So let's go over these nominations. I have a couple clips. I have Trump, Trump, I think this is the Trump nomination, appointments, Trump appointments that play that to get a rundown. — President-elect Donald Trump announced several more picks for his administration today. NTD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley joins us live from outside of Trump's Mar-a-Lago

Starting point is 00:34:20 residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Good evening, Jack. President-elect Trump made quite a few picks this morning, but who are some of the more notable nominees? Good evening, Tiffany. Well, they're just rolling in. As far as the most notable ones, Peter Navarro is picked to serve as the senior counselor for trade and manufacturing. Navarro served as the senior trade advisor

Starting point is 00:34:41 during Trump's first term. He's a staunch advocate for tariffs, especially when it comes to tariffs on China. Remember, that was what the Biden administration left in place when Trump left office back in 2021. Trump said on Truth Social that the new role, quote, leverages Peter's broad range of White House experience while harnessing his extensive policy, analytic and media skills. Navarro served a four month prison sentence that ended in July. That's because he was convicted for refusing to appear

Starting point is 00:35:08 before the House Select Committee on January 6th for the Capitol breach. We also have Paul Atkins who is nominated for the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission here. Atkins formerly served as the SEC commissioner and he's expected to take a more crypto-friendly approach here and push fewer regulations under Trump than the previous SEC chair. the SEC commissioner and he's expected to take a more crypto friendly approach here

Starting point is 00:35:25 and push fewer regulations under Trump than the previous SEC chair. Trump wrote quote Atkins believes in the promise of robust innovative capital markets and are responsive to the needs of investors and that provide capital to make our economy the best in the world. Trump also tapped Jared Isaacman for the head of NASA, a $26 billion budget there. Isaacman is a billionaire CEO and astronaut. He's flown to space twice. He's accepted the nomination this morning,

Starting point is 00:35:57 posting on X, quote, "'Americans will walk on the moon and Mars, and in doing so, we will make life better here on earth and just in Former congressman Billy Long of Missouri has just been tapped to head the IRS. Oh, I love those It has got it. Let's get to Mars. It'll make it better here. Why don't we fix here? I Have to play a clip from Billy Long In front of the testimony he gave. He was doing some in Congress. He's a congressman.

Starting point is 00:36:26 But this is the new IRS guy? Yeah. He's an auctioneer. Hey, one of those guys? Billy Long played the clip. So one other thing, being an auctioneer in Congress, the way our debt is running out of control, they find it very handy to have Jeff Duncan and myself here in Washington. We are one of the few people that can actually keep up with the national debt.

Starting point is 00:36:52 I'm going to tell you, two, three, and now three, you're going to buy them, three, and now four, four, three, and now five, five, three, and six, six, six, three, and seven, eight, seven, eight, I love it, I love it. Eight, trillion dollar, now nine, nine, ten, ten, ten, ten, eleven, eleven, eleven, twelve, twelve, twelve, thirteen, you're going to buy them, you're out of dollar, nine, nine, ten, ten, ten, ten, eleven. Eleven trillion out here, twelve, twelve, thirteen. You're out of here. Thirteen trillion, fourteen. Fourteen trillion out, fifteen.

Starting point is 00:37:08 I have sold it. Fourteen trillion. Thankfully, Mr. Speaker, we also can say those numbers backwards so we get the spending under control here. I'll be back. Well that'll be entertaining. That's good. He's apparently gone into this shtick.

Starting point is 00:37:26 I love it. When people were in some hearing, they were protesting and he'd just go into it. You couldn't hear him. That's funny. So he's a funny guy. So that's a plus. Now the other guy they didn't talk about in the new guys, because this is Hegseth, who they're just going after. Well, this to me is purely military industrial complex, doesn't want any outsider in there

Starting point is 00:37:52 and they're doing everything they can pulling out all the stops, every single chit, every card they have. This guy cannot get in and I have no doubt that there will be a lot of Republican senators who won't affirm him because they're all on the take from the military industrial complex. There's no way. You really think so? Holy mackerel. Are you cynical or what? Yeah, I'm very cynical. Let's play this clip. This is attacking Hegseth on NPR. Oh boy.

Starting point is 00:38:27 President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon... Wait a minute. Is that NPR also sponsored by Archer Daniel Midlands and those guys? Is that NPR? President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon is battling accusations of sexual misconduct and heavy drinking. Former colleague at Fox News... Isn't that a requirement for A, for show business, and B, for politics? I mean, heavy drinking... Well, I would think especially in the Pentagon.

Starting point is 00:38:56 Yeah, come on, people. And heavy drinking. Former colleague at Fox News tells NPR that Pete Hegseth made unwelcome physical advances while inebriated on multiple occasions. That's how it works in television. You show up, JJ, JJ at MTV, he would come rolling in around 7.30 in the morning, still hung over, had the company car out all night. They called him the franchise.

Starting point is 00:39:22 And he'd roll in with a couple of chicks and like, eh, let's do some segments. That's entertainment. More from NPR's David Falkenfleck. The former colleague tells NPR that Hegseth once even groped her bottom at a Manhattan bar. Oh no, no, no. At a bar. Not to be identified for fear of retribution.

Starting point is 00:39:38 At the bar. Hegseth came to prominence as the host of Fox and Friends Weekend. Hegseth's attorney, Timothy Pallatori, called the allegation a false claim. Through a spokesperson, Fox tells NPR that it had not received complaints about that accusation. On Tuesday, NBC reported that 10 current and former Fox colleagues alleged Hegseth drank alcohol to excess. Pallatori said that had been debunked by allies at Fox who have stepped forward to defend

Starting point is 00:40:01 his name. In 2018, Hegseth's mother privately denounced her son's behavior. This morning, she appeared on Fox and Friends to try and help him save his nomination. David Folkenflick. That was a rotten thing to do, publishing that mom's letter. That was rotten. That's really low. It was very low.

Starting point is 00:40:20 How did they get the letter? Well, you don't know. This was the, my theory, which I produced in the newsletter, if people would just subscribe, people don't, I don't know why the newsletter shouldn't have twice as many subscribers. It's that good, people. It's that good. Don't you think? Yeah, I love the newsletter. You know, newsletter. Just as a short little, just because. Not only they love you, the newsletter, you, everything. I did the morning show, Wednesday, Matt Long, our guy who loves you, who reads the newsletter,

Starting point is 00:40:59 and he shows up in front of the studio. What does he have? He has a plastic bag with four persimmons. Oh, good man. Two that were completely ripe and ready to go, which are so squishy, and two that I have to keep in the bag for like three weeks or whatever. People love your newsletter, love your tips, they love you, John. Well, I feel loved. Yeah, you should. Well, the point I was making was the newsletter had this point, which is that it had to be, the DOD has access to NSA's computers.

Starting point is 00:41:31 Somebody went in there with, we talked about, this was some years ago, and there was a big scandal because these guys, these FBI guys, just go in there and make these searches of all the databases, which have, everybody's email is in there. There were consultants. They weren't even FBI. They were consultants. And we know, we know from Edward Snowden, all you need is the email address and up pops it up the last five days or

Starting point is 00:41:54 whatever, you know, five weeks of your emails and everything else. Yeah, of course. So they go in there and they dig up this email from mom and then slip it to the New York times and New York times, you know, with, with no qualms publishes this personal email or somebody that was obviously stolen. And then they make a big fuss. The old lady's got to go on one of the Fox shows to a defender cell saying she

Starting point is 00:42:21 was just irked by, you know, just, it was one of those nasty. I mean, if they pull the emails out between you and me they make it look like we're gonna kill each other. Especially yours. There are lots of people who have emails like that from you it's not just me everybody has those but but unfortunately for some reason in politics and in politics media, it's two sides of the same coin. It used to only be America now increasingly it's other countries. It always comes down to the penis. It's a horrible man because he has a penis and he does stuff and he's an adulterer. And it's always, it's never about policy, never about

Starting point is 00:43:03 capability, never about experience. And now they've added drinking to it. It's just and it's always it's never about policy never about capability never about experience and now they've added drinking to it it's just it's heavy drinker I love it it's sick it's so incredible and and it works you know people oh well he's a drinker you don't want to drunk there no no way is there but and of course now we have this this is, who is this report from? This is about Hegseth. This is France 24. They add the latest twists to these nominations. There's widespread speculation here in the US that Donald Trump may be rethinking his

Starting point is 00:43:35 nominee for his Secretary of Defense in his cabinet. Pete Hegseth, best known as the anchor for Fox News Weekends, is the man that Donald Trump has tipped to leave the Department of Defense, but there's been skepticism over his qualifications for the job and now allegations of sexual misconduct as well as excessive drinking and financial troubles are also plaguing his candidacy. But who doesn't have financial troubles? We are told by numerous sources and it's been widely reported in various media outlets in the United States that Donald Trump has been having conversations with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as recently as Tuesday about being in the role and also about the potential

Starting point is 00:44:15 appointment of Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, to the vacant Senate seat vacated by Marco Rubio's nomination. Well, of course, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is a man who ran against Donald Trump in the primaries of this election that is something which has been held against him by some Republicans and Donald Trump has had a bit of a contest with his past with him he's called him Meatball Ron in the past. But apparently the two men are getting on well and there is now belief that he could be in the running for the Secretary of Defense role.

Starting point is 00:44:46 As it stands, Pete Hexeth is still not backing down, saying that he believes he still has a path forward. He said to some reporters on The Hill on Wednesday, I spoke to the President-elect this morning, he said keep going, keep fighting, I'm behind you all the way, why would I back down? But of course, he needs to be confirmed by the Senate in order to get into that cabinet position. Whether Donald Trump is willing to expend the political capsule, get in there,

Starting point is 00:45:10 is the question that everybody is asking. No, oh, I can hear, no, everyone's talking about Pete Hagseth clenching a woman's butt and drinking before showtime. And they're all like, oh, please don't look at me. He can drink after showtime, he wasn't one of look at me. I think he drank after show time. He wasn't even those guys who drank. The show that he did was a morning show.

Starting point is 00:45:29 He was drinking at eight. Well, financial troubles. So I think that Trump has, you know, Hexsett has to get to the hearings because... He's got a lot to say. Well, besides having a lot to say, they have to see who the weak sisters are in the Senate and the Republican side. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah they got to smoke them out. You have to identify them.

Starting point is 00:45:51 Gotta smoke them out. You got to smoke them out and then you can you know go after them politically later or have the public do it or whatever you want to do but these senators had got to be smoked out. Well, it's not going to be too hard. You just look at the APAC donations, which unlike the popular opinion online, comes from the American Israeli education fund, which is where the military industrial complex donates to. You know, it's not the Jews, everybody, simmer down. But yeah, I mean, just look at

Starting point is 00:46:29 the donations, look at the campaign finances. You can see exactly who's going to vote against them. I think we could probably do a pool, be easy to see. But is DeSantis, is he compromised enough to be Secretary of Defense? Do you think that he's a guy that they could muster? I think they got the goods on him because he was at Gitmo during the torture period. Right, right. They got the goods on him. Yeah, Hegseth is too good of an American. That's the problem. A good soldier, you know, brave man, he's too good. He's too good for that corrupt outfit.

Starting point is 00:47:10 Yeah, DeSantis would be a better fit for them. Yeah, well that's ultimately what it's about. He talks a big game. He's a good big game talker. So he can make it look like something's happening, but it's not going to happen. More likely Cash Patel is the guy who can kick some ass if they get him. And he's going to be the tougher one on the system. I was listening to NPR the other day on the media.

Starting point is 00:47:40 I didn't clip it, but his whole rise, Patel's rise is quite interesting. Where they, you know, it started really early and he was like just a lawyer and he was defending some low-level case and, you know, he came into the court and he had to fly from Tajikistan or something and they didn't have a tie for him. and then the judge just reamed him for not having a tie and then he got this whole thing the systems corrupt and then he got in with Nunes and then Nunes promised him that you know when the time came he would be put on the National Security Council so he had this interesting interesting rise in really from nothing. Yeah Nunes is his mentor. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:48:25 Yeah. So I like Cash Patel. I think he's going to be fun, but he's the wild card. People are afraid of him. And where's the dirt? Does he not have a drinking problem? Well, not yet. And then of course, you know, back to consumerism, you know, Trump, he's going to do it, man. It's going to be tariffed.

Starting point is 00:48:49 It's going to be horrible. You know what that means. When tariffs are coming, it's time to buy now for Christmas. Holiday shoppers might be wondering what tech products they should buy in case President-elect Trump's proposed tariffs go into effect. Yeah, a recent analysis from the Consumer Technology Association suggests smartphone prices could... How come you're not a member of the Consumer Technology Association? That seems like... I never heard of it. I know there's the Consumer Electronics Association which is a major major operation. I've

Starting point is 00:49:16 never heard of the Consumer Technology. I think they made a mistake. Oh, I think we should be on it if it I think we should be on it. If it exists, we should be on it. ...suggest smartphone prices could rise by 26%... Oh no, my smartphone! ...due to proposed tariffs on imports from China. The overpriced smartphone is going to go up in price? Yeah. ...manufacturers the majority of our smartphones.

Starting point is 00:49:38 You should also consider replacing your household appliance that may be on the fritz, according to the National Retail Federal... Hey, do you have any household appliances that may be on the fritz. According to the National Retail Federation... Hey, do you have any household appliances that may be on the fritz? On the fritz? Well, there's a phrase that we need to bring back. That's a good one, I agree. It's on the fritz. It's on the fritz, man.

Starting point is 00:49:55 Jiggle the handles. That's better than Glitch. That may be on the fritz. According to the National Retail Federation, the tariffs could cause the price of the average appliance to go up by nearly 20% Products that will cost more include gaming consoles and laptops and already this morning breaking news Just announced minutes ago that it's banning exports of high-tech materials to the US that includes materials like gallium Germanium and antimony materials used in several products like your cell phone battery. So it has begun in a lot of ways.

Starting point is 00:50:27 It has begun. It has begun. Most definitely by the upcoming administration. Most definitely. We're going to see the impact for sure. For sure. For sure. For sure.

Starting point is 00:50:36 For sure. For sure. For sure. For sure. For sure. For sure. For sure. For sure.

Starting point is 00:50:44 For sure. For sure. For sure. For sure. For sure. wasn't this a Biden move that Trump is not going to have to have to pick up? I have no idea what Biden did. Biden did something? Yes, somebody did something, I won't say it's Biden. Yeah, some new chip thing like new tariffs on chips or you can't sell certain chips to China. There was something new and that's why they retaliated with the gallium, which I'd never even heard of. What is gallium? Oh yeah gallium. It's used in semiconductors as specialty ones. I think if I'm not mistaken, I could be wrong on this, but I think it's used in things that require high frequencies.

Starting point is 00:51:19 Gallium's got some characteristics that make it workable. Well, it's all part of the China move. They're real. Now we're really starting to move in on China. And the reason Biden was in Africa, Angola, didn't get, I don't think it got a lot of play. I only got one clip, but I didn't even know that this was taking place, but this is a pure anti-China move. U.S. President Joe Biden on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, the visit this week is meant to solidify economic ties with the African nation, even as the Biden administration prepares for a transition to Trump's presidency.

Starting point is 00:52:01 So this is the president's final trip. And with it, he wants to kind of leave a legacy marker for improving relations with Africa at a time when China and Russia have deep ties across the continent. China especially has been incredibly strategic in terms of developing these relationships, inviting the heads of state to China. And the image of the United States in some of these smaller and lower income countries has also taken a hit because of the close ties between the U.S. and Israel. And so one of the Biden administration's big investments in four years abroad has been pumping millions of dollars into this new rail corridor that they hope by the end of the decade will stretch from one end of the

Starting point is 00:52:53 continent to the other. And that will be a major way that some of the critical minerals that are produced in Africa are brought out to the United States. And so Biden was here to take a look at part of that project and optimism that even in the Trump administration, that that project will continue because it muffles away some of the infrastructure investment that China wants to do in Africa. This is the Trans-Africa corridor connecting Central Africa's copper belt to the Angolan coast. I hadn't heard about this. I haven't either actually.

Starting point is 00:53:35 So it's $600 billion. Oh, that's new financing. That's new money. So I don't know how much was already there. But yeah, this is really, I mean, that's a real, a big middle finger to China. They're the train guys. Hey, what are you doing?

Starting point is 00:53:53 We do trains around here. We're the train guys. We do trains around here. What are you doing, Biden? So I thought that was rather interesting and they're just doing everything they can to. I wonder why that, that information, cause the way it I thought that was rather interesting and they're just doing everything they can to. Um, I wonder why that, that information, cause the way it was presented,

Starting point is 00:54:13 first you had Biden bumbling around and calling Angola a city and they had all these ludicrous clips of him stumbling and mumbling. Even though even the mainstream couldn't play a good clip. And then the background was that, well, he was either went to Angola to avoid talking about Hunter's pardon, or he went there just to give him a billion dollars for no good reason. Cause the climate, it was a climate change. Angle, angle to it. Yeah. And they never mentioned anything about this rail,

Starting point is 00:54:39 which is actually a good story. So what do you think? Why do you think that was suppressed over the climate change angle? Uh, in so far as the mainstream media is because there's no money for people in America, maybe. And who knows the six. I think if you're a resentful American and you go over the, you hear that they're, they're throwing money at Africa because of climate worries, as opposed to throwing money at Africa so they can drive,

Starting point is 00:55:10 make a train that drives a bunch of minerals out of the country over to us. I don't think there's a comparison there. One is good. One is bad. It just depends where your money's coming from. But if it's all coming from us, it doesn't matter if it's good, if the result is good, as opposed to throwing away on throwing, just throwing it away because of climate change. That was the point they made it over and over about this whole, oh, this climate. I probably have a clip too. I wonder, by the way, what do you think an African fomer sounds like when he

Starting point is 00:55:46 sees that train go by? I can't wait. Can't wait. It's got to be, got to be there. Uh, I have, uh, well, so they're just throwing gold bars overboard at this point. It's like wherever we can throw some money, throw some money out, let's throw some money. So of course, Ukraine, we need to get as much out there. Or I think what is Jake Sullivan here called the National Security Advisor, the surge of weapons.

Starting point is 00:56:21 What are you telling your Ukrainian counterparts about American support in 51 days after Biden leaves office? Well, first, what I'm saying is we are going to do everything in our power for these 50 days to get Ukraine all the tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield so that they'll be stronger at the negotiating table. And President Biden directed me to oversee. This is a key talking point. Get them all that we can so they'll be stronger at the negotiating table.

Starting point is 00:56:54 This thing is over. This thing is ending. Everybody knows it. And it's just how do they do it? Who gets left over with the spoils? This is where they're at. And it's just throw that money at it. We need, it doesn't even make sense.

Starting point is 00:57:07 Like, oh, if we send 7 billion more dollars, then he'll be stronger at the negotiating table. I don't see how it makes sense. But this is the talking point. The tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield so that they'll be stronger at the negotiating table. And President Biden directed me to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment

Starting point is 00:57:28 that we are delivering to Ukraine so that we have spent every dollar that Congress has appropriated to us by the time that President Biden leaves office. So that's first and foremost what we're focused on. And then I've encouraged the Ukrainian team to engage the incoming team as well as to engage all of our allies and partners because again, on January 21st, the war in Ukraine doesn't just go away. Obviously, the new team will have its own policy, its own approach, and I can't speak to that.

Starting point is 00:57:56 But what I can do is make sure that we put Ukraine in the best possible position when we hand off the baton. Okay. I mean, is this paying everybody off or, you know, like, okay, listen. You got it. You nailed it. Don't make waves. We're going to pay everybody off.

Starting point is 00:58:11 This is money laundering. And that kind of fits in with our boy Mark Rutte. Mark Rutte going to tell you what we're doing, what we can and cannot do with NATO regarding Ukraine. Ukraine's foreign minister went to Brussels with two asks, more air defences and an invitation for his country to join NATO. The latter, he says, is the only real guarantee of security in the face of Russian aggression. Now is a time, is a true time of geopolitical certainty. And we need this certainty. We need strong decisions to strengthen us, to strengthen our capacities. Believing his first of these

Starting point is 00:58:51 meetings as Secretary General, Mark Rutter was quick to push the question of membership aside. I would argue let's not have all these discussions step by step on what the peace process might look like. Make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to get to a position of strength when those peace talks start. Oh the strength when the peace talks start, so it's starting soon. Meaning it is a request which seems unlikely right now. With the US awaiting a change in leadership come January and Germany facing elections a month later, the pair fear such a request could drag NATO into a war with Russia.

Starting point is 00:59:28 We share the concern that Mark expressed for Ukraine in this ongoing aggression, but that only reinforces our determination to make sure that Ukraine has what it needs to deal with what it's facing on the battlefield. The alliance says anything other than a strong Ukraine risks emboldening others contemplating a similar path of aggression. Aside from Ukraine, meetings in the building behind me will address other threats to NATO members. Cyber attacks, infrastructure sabotage, energy blackmail, as well as threats from pro-Russian

Starting point is 01:00:00 political parties in countries like Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria. Southern California? No, it's supposed to be Humboldt County. Oh, that's some dead Humboldt County is nowhere near here. Okay, because everyone's texting me and I've got... I'd say it's about 200 miles. Oh, no, at least a hundred miles. I'm getting text messages, everyone's concerned, they can't believe you're alive. What's going on in Ferndale? A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Northern California. Tsunami warning has been issued. That's nowhere near here. Grab your floaties. I mean if it was a 7.0, which is a pretty strong quake, and I didn't feel it. Yeah, that's why I didn't find it rather questionable.

Starting point is 01:00:59 It's too far away. Questionable, questionable. Okay, well tsunami Well, tsunami warning. Tsunami warning. I'm not expecting that either. It's breaking news. Breaking news. Breaking news.

Starting point is 01:01:10 I'm just, I'm glad you're safe. Stay safe. Stay safe. So, you know, part of this is, yeah, it's money laundering. It's money to pay off the military industrial complex. Okay, boys, we got a little period here. We're all going to chill out and give some of these, some of our contacts over in Ukraine some money. We're winding it down.

Starting point is 01:01:33 Trump is obviously going to, by the way, did you see that Tucker Carlson is going to Russia again and now he's going to interview Sergey Lavrov? Yep. I think this is a fantastic development. Why? Because Lavrov speaks perfect English. So it'll be a much more comfortable, his English is good, it'll be a much more comfortable interview and you know Tucker's gonna go with that and Lavrov can put out whatever he wants and everybody's gonna watch it. Ferndale's 293 miles away.

Starting point is 01:02:06 Stop waxing your surfboard no tsunami for you. That's a long way. Anyway I think it's going to be very interesting to see what messages Lavrov is going to send to us. Oh yeah well that will be good. Yeah. Because he definitely has things to, he's a good one of those guys who likes to drop little tidbits that you can interpret one way or the other. And he's got the ear, I mean he is Putin. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:02:36 Oh, definitely. And meanwhile, the Palantir CEO, that guy is weird. You ever look for that guy? No, I like the use of your word though. Yeah, well he is. He's actually capital W. Have you not seen this guy with the curly hair, the floppy hair that's flying all over the place?

Starting point is 01:02:57 No, let me look him up. You gotta look him up. He's a very odd duck. Hold on a second. Palantir. What's his name? CEO Palantir. The Alex Carp. Alex Carp. Where does he come from? C-A-R-P-P or C-A-R-P? K-A-R-P. So what is his... Oh, Stanford.

Starting point is 01:03:20 Oh, brother. Right? Isn't this exactly the kind of guy you want? He's got a mop head. He's a goofy looking guy. He never combs his hair. It's grayish, it's CIA-ish, but it's unkempt. Yeah, but this is a very big military contractor. And for all intents and purposes, I don't like Palantir.

Starting point is 01:03:44 They don't seem like a good company. Who knows where they are in? They're in all kinds of systems. And this, by the way, is part of the, what's the name, the PayPal mafia guy who got JD Vance into this senator seat, supposedly. Yeah, this is what's his name's buddy or his major investment is... Peter Thiel. Yeah, Thiel. Yeah. He's like, oh no, oh no, no, this war's not over.

Starting point is 01:04:15 It's very hard to know what's going to happen, but you have an adversary who is zero sum. If Putin goes home and says, hey, we lost, he will lose his life. His friends will lose their life. They'll lose all their money. And he'll go to his grave feeling that he lost, which he does not want to do. We in the West, most of us in the West, correctly believe if we allow these kind of things to happen, if we allow people to violate the sovereignty of a land and rape, pillage, and destroy people who are innocent in that land, that this will set a horrible precedent. So we can't allow that to happen.

Starting point is 01:04:46 Also, we've shown that we develop superior technology and it combined with heroes on the ground, we can actually win. And so this is just still a class of culture. Really? Really mophead guy? I mean, he's, he's like, Oh no, it's still going on. I mean, the heroes on the ground with our technology, they can win. They can beat Russia.

Starting point is 01:05:08 Uh-uh. Is he not read in? This guy co-founded Palantir. But he's the CEO. He's not as spook it looks like, but he looks, he looks, uh, he looks like the data guy. He looks like the data guy. I invented it all.

Starting point is 01:05:23 Uh, I'm the database man. Karp is a critic of short sellers and said he loves burning the short sellers because of his stock. He has compared them to cocaine addicts and says they just love pulling down great American companies. So far his stock is doing just fine. Karp has described himself as a socialist and a progressive and says he voted for Hillary Clinton. Oh, no wonder he's not in the group. Oh no, man. He must have the goods on everybody.

Starting point is 01:05:53 I don't know. It's odd. So did you by any chance see... He's a warmonger if you look at his background. Look at Wiki. People should look him up on Wiki. He's a progressive. Of course, he's a war monger if you look at this, his background. Look at Wiki, people should look him up on Wiki. He's a progressive. Of course, he's a progressive. So I had a thought the other day. I watched the entire two and a half hours of Mike Benz on Joe Rogan.

Starting point is 01:06:18 Did you happen to see any of that? No, I did not. Thank you. But I knew and I'm now I'm waiting to hear your analysis Well, so and I did ask Tina I said could you just please listen to this episode and and she had because she was driving to San Antonio and she texted me within 10 minutes says I can't listen to this and she can listen to almost anything So this guy I he's he's just like he has diarrhea of the mouth. I don't know what he's talking about. He's jumping around. I have no clue. This was, I think Joe said,

Starting point is 01:06:50 if he said 50 words in this entire episode, it was a lot. And it was just like the mic, it was so convoluted. I'll give you, I have a minute and a half. Just a needle drop, just a needle drop, just so you kind of get the idea of how he jumps around. This is something we know a little bit about, but just listen to a needle drop of what this entire two and a half hours was like. This is basically the month before the Bob Mueller investigation and they wanted to pre-censor

Starting point is 01:07:19 and throttle Trump's ability to be able to fight off charges that he was a Russian asset because at the time the Pentagon and the intelligence community want him out. If you remember the Ukraine impeachment in 2019 came from Sia Morella the CIA agent came from the Vindman brothers who were the military. Basically Trump had a big beef with the existing brass of the Pentagon and the intelligence community over Russia policy, over Eurasia policy, which is a whole thing that we can maybe talk about if you're interested.

Starting point is 01:07:53 So the Atlantic Council was one of the very, very, very first movers in the censorship industry space. I mentioned how this really started in 2014 with 25 years of free speech diplomacy sort of ended with the twenty fourteen ukraine fiasco because of this drosimov doctrine hybrid warfare thing and i mentioned that that's when they don't be in setting down infrastructure just to censor the internet and that's what snowballed into what we now have and so

Starting point is 01:08:20 the alanda council effectively bills itself as nato's think tank That's what it's known as in Washington. There's places like the Council on Foreign Relations are sort of more known for Chamber of Commerce and big business sort of working on government policy. The Atlantic Council is one of these that's for NATO. And it's basically NATO's clandestine civilian sort of civil military arm. You can understand that most mere mortals listen to this and go what is he talking about? You know they probably got left behind at Trump's impeachment okay I'm there and then it's the

Starting point is 01:08:55 2014 Atlantic Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. So he's all over the map and to most people just boring. I found it very interesting because he knows a lot and he's very well He called this is my North Star But he's all he talks about is censorship censorship censorship It's only about censorship and then how you know the all these different groups USAID and the State Department's Global Engagement Center and how they were making the tech company censor censor and the State Department's Global Engagement Center, and how they were making the tech company censor, censor. And that's all he talks about, is censorship. And I realized at the end of this, and Joe Rogan literally said,

Starting point is 01:09:36 I have to go back and list this episode two more times, understand what you just said. So I don't think many people got it. But what he didn't talk about is propaganda. And he never mentions, and this was telling to me, never mentioned Smith-Munt, the Smith-Munt Modernization Act, which was 2012. But he... Well, I think, well, I would suggest, I would suggest that perhaps he assumes that everyone knows about this and he just overlooked

Starting point is 01:10:10 it because it sounds like he was jamming everything he could into this. There's no reason for him to say, oops, I assumed you knew about this. No. And by the way, most of these ex-military, and he's not military, but he was state department, whatever. I don't care. He has a foundation for defending freedom online. There's no Form 990.

Starting point is 01:10:30 You can't donate to it. I don't know how the guy makes money. I don't care. But his job is to tell Joe Rogan about all the censorship. As I started to think about it, because all of his stories kind of start in 2012. This is exactly when the Smith Modernization Act of 2012 came into play as part of the National Defense Authorization Act.

Starting point is 01:10:51 And maybe we just need to just remind people what this was. And it was specifically that, well, here it is, amends the United States Information Educational Exchange Act of 1984, which means you can't propagandize Americans, to authorize the Secretary of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, that is Tucker Carlson's dad, to provide for the preparation and dissemination of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States,

Starting point is 01:11:23 including about its people, its history, the federal government policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the internet, and other information media, including social media. And then through information centers and instructors. And it says, basically, you can now do this in America. And as I was thinking about it,

Starting point is 01:11:43 and so I'm already off Mike Benz, right? So Mike Benz, he's trying to focus everybody on censorship. Do you remember one of the big social media experiments that took place in 2012 that we were shaking our head at? Like, where is this coming from? Well, not offhand. Cony 2012. Oh, yeah. Kony 2012 was the first one. 100 billion views. Overnight, overnight. And everybody, oh, Kony 2012.

Starting point is 01:12:14 It was about some African warlord who was using children. And the guy who was running it later went nuts and was running around naked on top of parked cars at a motel. I mean, the whole-

Starting point is 01:12:27 Right, from that, whatever that was, what was that stuff, bath salts or whatever that was at the time, the other trend? Or whatever they did to him, because I'm just realizing this was an experiment. This was one of the first, let's see if we can get a video to go viral. We didn't have TikTok, you know, but this is well-

Starting point is 01:12:45 It was YouTube. Yeah, exactly. And it was YouTube, but this was another fine Google outfit. This was well after social networks had already kind of come alive. And so what, and I'm just kind of associating free association. In my head, I got, oh, I remember John used to say

Starting point is 01:13:06 that the internet just made their job easier to propagandize everybody, which is true. I mean, they were doing it through magazines and newspapers and television. And so now they, these military guys, now that Smith-Munt is out of the way, it was in the National Defense Authorization Act for a reason. Now we can just do all kinds of propaganda.

Starting point is 01:13:29 So the same day that I'm looking at this, Jonathan Haidt comes out with an article. And Jonathan Haidt is the guy who wrote The Coddling of the American Mind about how we've turned out all these wussies. I'm paraphrasing his book. And he has this article and he says, and they did all this research, they got this Pew Research, they got all this data. And the title of this article is

Starting point is 01:13:54 Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest. I thought that was kind of interesting. Oh, so because that's your TikToks right there. They're all liberal girls and women and they're going nuts and they're out of control. They're out of control. So I'm reading this and their conclusion is,

Starting point is 01:14:16 well, so there's three great untruths that these women have come to believe and here they are. They are fragile and can be harmed by books, speakers, words, which are forms of violence. They came to believe that their emotions, especially their anxieties, were reliable guides to reality, and they came to see society as comprised of victims and oppressors, good people and bad people. But their conclusion is that every single one of these girls, and it was much less prevalent on conservative boys and girls probably because they're doing Bible

Starting point is 01:14:55 study, whatever else, but it still went up for them as well, was that every single one of them, when asked the question in the survey has a doctor or other health care provider ever told you that you may have a mental condition a mental health condition all of them said yes so I'm thinking there's two things that may have been going on since 2012 one that we may be under some big DARPA experiment and they've been noodling in our minds with a sewer pipe into our One, that we may be under some big DARPA experiment and they've been noodling in our minds with a sewer pipe into our brains for years,

Starting point is 01:15:31 for over a decade, just seeing what would happen. Well, what if we tweak this? And you don't need the collaboration of the social media for that. You can just get the data from ad buys information so you can target exactly who you want. All of these what I call number nicks, the people on X who are telling you you're no good and you're a Zionist, they all have a name with a long number. This to me is not a real person or it's someone maybe in the global engagement center. And then the second thought I had is, the second thought I had is if you are.

Starting point is 01:16:10 If you are the pharmaceutical industry, and this really started on a Tumblr, the, this is what you do. You go in there and you make all these girls all, all worried that they have mental health issues and you confirm that these girls all worried that they have mental health issues and you confirm that continuously on Reddit and everywhere else they go and you just continuously confirm, affirm. And I think that we've been under several massive, not forget the censorship, we have been under attack by multiple organizations. And that this is what has led to people like Leslie Jones talking like this on a podcast

Starting point is 01:16:55 with Gavin Newsom of all people. To me, I just feel like all this shit is being revealed now. Trump brought out all those people who really are racist because most white people are they just don't understand that they have that microaggression y'all mostly are you don't even understand some of the racist shit you do and by accident just from being a white entitled motherfucker seriously and that shit's starting to show now. And it's getting so bad, like, oh, we don't want you to see your history and all of that. I think people are just waking up to the shit that's been going on,

Starting point is 01:17:32 and now we're waking up. So this is Leslie Jones of Saturday Night Live, of Ghostbusters' failed movie, and Gavin Newsom helps her self-diagnose where this came from. Do you, what do you think of him? Do you think there's this current sort of, more the extreme of what you're just saying

Starting point is 01:17:49 and sort of distillation in the last few years, I sense in particular, was a reaction to George Floyd? It was sort of a reaction. Right. In that sort of COVID framework. I mean, this is sort of the boomerang that really exposes it at a whole nother level. Yeah, I think that COVID fucked us up.

Starting point is 01:18:07 I think that when we had that pandemic and was inside for a little while, I think that some of us lost our fucking mind. And I think, I think, again, Gavin, I just think it's sadness. We're sad. We don't understand what's going on with our government. Our government is supposed to be boring. You know what I'm saying? We're not supposed to turn on the TV every day and see child molesters and felons and

Starting point is 01:18:32 shit in our government. We're supposed to be like, those are the most boring motherfuckers and we don't give a fuck. Like no one, everyone's frustrated because now this is happening and we never understood the system. So this is a very, very troubled, very broken and sad person. And I think this is what happened. This is, you know, during COVID, everybody's online, they struck, they went out and they, and they just collected souls, man. And you know what, blue cry. I would say people have to be very, very careful on that blue cry outfit. Because that's going to be the next target. They're going to make them nuts. All of them.

Starting point is 01:19:13 And then what's going to happen on X? That's just going to be, it's going to be the same. It's going to be Tumblr will be blue cry and 4chan will be X. And there's propaganda going on on both sides. And the end result is Oxford's Word of the Year. Chan will be X. And there's propaganda going on on both sides. And the end result is Oxford's Word of the Year. Brain rot. You have it, I have it. It's the Oxford Word of the Year for 2024. Allow me to define it, quote,

Starting point is 01:19:36 supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material, now particularly online content, considered to be trivial or un-challenging. You can use it in two ways. You could say, as you may say about this very video you're watching on your phone, that's brain rot.

Starting point is 01:19:54 Or you can say, that video gave me brain rot. Two ways. It's all very relatable. I get it. You all have it, yeah. So it's the word of the year. It's the word of the year, first used by Waldo Emerson. Yeah. So it's the word of the year. It's the word of the year first used by Waldo by

Starting point is 01:20:11 Emerson no, no throw the brain rot is getting me Killing me the guy who wrote Walden's pond or Walden He first used it in reference. It would be through. Yeah, of course. It would be through as I recall He first used it in the 1800s. It's back. It's the word of the year. I clearly suffer from it. And it makes sense. It does make a lot of sense.

Starting point is 01:20:30 So everyone's got brain rot. And the only people who are semi-normal are the ones that just stay off of it. Or at least don't use it in an app formation like you do, although you could easily be susceptible to it. I think we've been under attack for over a decade and we didn't even realize it and we all focused on no censorship. But meanwhile, they're just pushing messages all day long from the military, from pharma and maybe from others.

Starting point is 01:21:02 Well, I think your analysis is good until you get to the brain we're on. I had to wrap it up. I didn't have anything else. I tried to make it funny. I don't think you have a conclusion to this. I don't have proof. I'm throwing it out. I'm throwing it out.

Starting point is 01:21:18 So what I want to… It's a thesis. It's a thesis. Yes, it's a thesis. It's a thesis. It's a thesis. Yes, it's a thesis. It's a classic thesis. In other words, you suggest something is going on. It could be, and the methodologies, which would include Benz and these people, these group of people that are all part of the experiment.

Starting point is 01:21:38 And the reason you emphasize censorship because you don't want them to stop doing it. Yeah, exactly. You don't want people to think about what's really going on. No, you don't want them to stop. I mean, if you have censorship, then somebody could put a stop to the experiment. Oh, that's another good point. That's very good. I didn't even consider that one. And I look at this blue sky outfit where it's where everyone's rushed over there and they have all these things like Well, you have to assume that the fact that they rushed over the way they did

Starting point is 01:22:14 Especially after the CNN report that showed that what happened to Twitter was it got balanced It's not a bunch of right-wingers. Yes. There was a very It's not a bunch of right wingers. Yes. There was a very carefully done report showing it used to be like 56% Democrats 40 something percent Republicans now It's like 48 Democrats 47 Republicans still more Democrats than Republicans But balanced and this seems to have people upset especially when it's brought up even on CNN Yeah But this is also where I just can't help thinking about how the military has been feeding certain women, who we know,

Starting point is 01:22:52 all this nonsense about the grid's going down, there won't be an election. That propagates out through their social media accounts. It just seems like one big experiment to me. It could be. And the Kony 2012 is the giveaway. The Kony 2012 is definitely part of it. Cause that did trigger, it did show that something could,

Starting point is 01:23:13 that you could make people, but then again, it had no fundamental, it made no fundamental change. All it did was it got, it got attention. And people would propagate the nonsense that this guy was some sort of a screwball African guy that was using kids to shoot people and it was a big deal. You had to stop him. But there was no, it didn't change anybody's vote. It didn't make you want to do something. It didn't make you want to buy something. The whole thing was just that it was almost like a wheel spinning experiment to see if you could get people

Starting point is 01:23:49 to screech their tires. It didn't really accomplish anything that I can think of. I think it was just to see how a video going viral would get news. I just pulled this just out of the hat. Coney 2012, CBS. Head of the US Africa command says the five-year hunt for warlord Joseph Kony is ending

Starting point is 01:24:11 Kony and his militia have terrorized Central Africa for now I'm looking for the for like the the big Oh Clooney was involved in that you remember that Clooney got involved I want I'd like indicted war criminals to enjoy the same level of celebrity as me. Yeah, and then we had Rihanna. And for, to get the youth involved with something like that. Angelina Jolie. I don't think I know anybody that doesn't hate Joseph Kony.

Starting point is 01:24:42 And anybody who works in the international field has been aware. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, That was a whole group of them. But it was, the whole point was to get attention for something that didn't matter. So anyway, be on the lookout people. Wonder what... But Clooney's an interesting case. You know, Clooney is the executive producer of this new show, The Agency. Oh, oh, I haven't seen that yet. Have you seen it? Oh, you'll want to see it. I don't think that everyone's gonna like this show. It's a spook show and it reveals some, maybe it reveals some trade craft that's interesting. But Clooney is the guy behind it. It's actually a stolen show. The show was taken from a It's actually a stolen show. The show was taken from a show in France

Starting point is 01:25:26 that went for five seasons called Le Bureau de la Jean. And that show, I ended up watching the agency, and then I watched the French show, one episode. It's almost a scene by scene lift. Every single scene, except a couple of changes were made to the American show. For example, the spy who's played by Michael Fassbender was quite good. That was the French version of it.

Starting point is 01:25:57 The guy was in Syria and he was, he had to break off with this relationship so he could be moved back to Langley. The French one, of course course is for the French intelligence. Yes. And the girl was a pretty Syrian girl, white, the American version, the woman is a black girl, has to be African. Of course, of course. So you had to make, you had to do that.

Starting point is 01:26:23 Those kinds of changes are throughout. I'm surprised Leslie Jones wasn't up for the role. She would have been perfect. So there's nomenclature changes and some other things, but the script is almost word for word and scene by scene. I called Brunetti about this thing. This is like plagiarism as far as I'm concerned. And he said in Hollywood,

Starting point is 01:26:46 he says you you, you, you bring in the same team that did the original show as a, as part of the, so they get paid, so they get paid. So they get their money and they also, they can't sue for plagiarism cause they're suing themselves. And he says, and I said, then I said to him, I said, well, you know, uh, this, like this, the, the dialogue is like the writers just took the French and, you know, made it English. It was the same. Everything's the same. See it's shot by shot.

Starting point is 01:27:16 And he says, yeah. He says writers are lazy. If you can do that. Yeah. That's what you do. He says, why fix something that's not broken? You know, he's just a Hollywood guy. He also has some comments about our show.

Starting point is 01:27:29 He wants to make a change, which we'll discuss it somewhat. It would discuss after the show. Oh really, we're gonna take advice from Hollywood now? Well, we took advice and one of the things that he wants, we'll talk about it. I can't wait to hear this. Oh yeah, it'll be good. I'm surprised he already hasn't called you because he likes the back channel.

Starting point is 01:27:50 Oh yeah, that's the Hollywood way, man. We know how those guys operate. He's good. Hey, man, how you doing? How you doing? So the show is, if you want to watch The Bureau, you can get that. I think it was on Netflix and I think it's around here and there. You can pick it up and see what the show is about but the American version is only released two and it's really I think it's a good spook show. It's creepy and it's got all the elements you want It's a little I think for the general public a little slow-moving but

Starting point is 01:28:19 No, anyway when it comes to Clooney No. Anyway, when it comes to Clooney, George Clooney is a spy. And I'm not implementing any of Brunetti's ideas until he gives you a bit part in something. He says he's never going to do another film. Oh, okay. All right. Can we write that down? Can we write that down December 5th, 2024? Happy Sinterklaas, by the way, to our Dutch audience. Is today the day? Yeah, today is the day. He comes

Starting point is 01:28:53 and puts something in the little kid's wooden shoes with his black peat. I didn't hear much controversy this year about the black peat. They probably have rainbow peets now, so there's no more Black Peets. Well, you should look into that. Every year, for the last decade, we've been bitching and moaning about this Black Pete character. But they achieved the objective. The objective was for the Dutch to admit that they're a bunch of racist slave holders and slave transporters. They gave all this money to Suriname in Indonesia and opened up a museum. They buckled. They buckled.

Starting point is 01:29:32 So they got paid. And then all of a sudden, oh, it stops. That was the whole point. Remember there was that United Nations lady who was leading that every year? I don't know if you remember that. No, I don't. Yeah. It was a pressure campaign and they buckled, of course.

Starting point is 01:29:46 Yeah, it was for money. Yeah. Here's my bike. Whatever. Take my bike. Here's my bike. Take my bike. There's still a huge collection of them, I guess, somewhere. I do have one other thing if you want to hear something about Trump and, well, first of all, I'm sure you heard about Trump's threat to BRICS, which I have a short clip here. Donald Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on so-called

Starting point is 01:30:11 BRICS nations. What's he actually said there? Yeah, over the weekend, he said that those nations would face 100% tariffs if they pushed ahead with plans that have been floated. Floated? If they pushed ahead with plans that have been floated, that perhaps those nations should become less reliant in global trade on the US dollar. Now those nations include very strong trading partners with the US. It's Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. And Donald Trump's saying he wants a commitment from the BRICS nations that they have no intention

Starting point is 01:30:46 of launching their own currency or of becoming less reliant on the US dollar. So Trump is obviously on the war path and he wants everybody to use dollars. And I've been trying to figure out when he said, you know, Bitcoin is like the new oil and he said that at Bitcoin 2024 and he's all in on crypto and he's going to make the Bitcoin strategic reserve and of course he was out there going, hey, you like your Bitcoin now? Has it broke $100,000 of Bitcoin? I found this interview from this guy, Luke Gromen. He's been on CNBC and he's around, he's one of these financial guys, he has FFTT or whatever his outfit is called. And he had a really quite an interesting take on why Trump said that, because I've been

Starting point is 01:31:37 trying to figure out the stable coins, how that works with the T bills and everything. Because Trump is not just going to say, oh, Bitcoin is great because arguably it would be bad for the dollar and it didn't make a lot of sense. But he's a macro guy and I think he might be onto something. Listen to this. I got this from Jupiter Broadcasting, my buddy Chris over there who found this interview. What I laid out for clients three weeks ago was a sort of a thought process is how I started to think about it. It changed the way I was thinking about this Bitcoin is the new oil comment from Trump's,

Starting point is 01:32:10 which is if we go back in time to late 73, early 74, oil rose in price by 400% from October 73 to April 74. And there is an interview that was given on CNN International by the former Saudi oil minister, Sheikh Yamani, in 2010, in which he said there was a meeting, a Bilderberg group at the Swedish island in late 73, October 73. Henry Kissinger attended and said, look, the price of oil is going up 400%. Get on board. And it happened.

Starting point is 01:32:50 And again, these are not my words. These are the words of the former Saudi oil minister on CNN 14 years ago. He highlighted that. And the point of the US doing that was essentially to make the oil market big enough to back US deficits, to basically recycle the flows back into US debt, to basically fix the US fiscal problem post-Vietnam War and after we left the gold standard. It basically put us on an oil standard of sorts. Does that sound right to you?

Starting point is 01:33:22 Because I don't know the history of that. Does that jive with what you know? I to you? Because I don't know the history of that. Does that jive with what you know? I can't say. I don't know for sure, but there's nothing you said that doesn't make sense. So here's how he connects it to Bitcoin being the new oil with the stablecoins. Remember, Trump said, I love your Bitcoin and your stablecoins and all the Bitcoin people like, what are you talking about? You know, stable coins?

Starting point is 01:33:47 And when I thought back to that interview by Sheikh Yamani in light of the Treasury report, which was a really the catalyst for the rethink and then the Paul Ryan point and then Trump's point, you know, in August where he said, hey, maybe we'll just, you know, maybe we'll just, you know, pay off our debt with a little little Bitcoin, which was a really odd comment. I started to wonder if Bitcoin is the new oil, that it is Bitcoin is going to be inflated like oil was so that it will inflate stable coins, so that stable coins will buy a lot more treasury. Basically, Bitcoin going much, much higher. This treasury report showed that stable coin demand for T-bills would soar.

Starting point is 01:34:36 Because all those stable coins are backed by some Bitcoin, but mainly by treasuries. We need a way to weaken the dollar while strengthening the dollar system. And you look at this and you go, gosh, this checks all the boxes. If we inflate the heck out of Bitcoin, you're going to increase stablecoins, you're going to increase stablecoin demand for T-bills. What that will do because Bitcoin is a global asset, it will draw in dollars from around the world into T-bills, into stablecoins. But at the same time, the dollar will be collapsing against Bitcoin.

Starting point is 01:35:16 That's what I think Trump may have meant by Bitcoin is the new oil. I just thought it was, hey, someone hears my stable coin argument. I don't know if this sounds right. It sounds like a huge bubble, but it does sound like a bubble, but it doesn't mean it's not possible. Something that would happen. Yeah. I just thought it was really interesting.

Starting point is 01:35:36 Well, you know, Trump is, you know, he's got a bunch of screwy financial guys around. Like remember, what was his name? Munchkin? Munchkin? Mnuchin? is you know he's got the he's got a bunch of screwy financial guys around like remember what was his name munchkin munchin oh yeah minutia minutia minutia that guy he's like my fellow Tourette sufferer minutia yeah that guy and uh it's possible they've dreamed some scheme up to because our our debt is ridiculous yeah that's why we have the auctioneering office. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey 21st, January 21st, Jan 21st. Everything's going down. We both had the clip, but I didn't even clip it because I saw it was in your list. Where is it? Hotepp?

Starting point is 01:36:33 Yeah, Hotepp comes on the Nicole Wallace show. And before we play that clip, well, actually I have a couple of clips to play if you're going to bring him in. All right. But first of all, before I play, there's a clip from the last show. I don't have it on this list, but you can look it up real quick. It's called Get Boosted, an NPR message. Here we go. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says few people have been vaccinated against

Starting point is 01:37:03 flu or COVID-19 as the holiday season approaches. It appears Rob Stein has more. The CDC says only about one third of adults have gotten this year's flu shot and less than 18 percent have gotten one of the new COVID boosters. As for the new RSV vaccine, only 40 percent of adults ages 75 and older have gotten that recommended shot. There isn't a lot of flu or RSV right now and the COVID numbers are still falling from this summer's big surge. But all those viruses

Starting point is 01:37:33 could pick up quickly as people start to travel and gather for Thanksgiving in the winter holidays. So it can pick up, can pick up an uptick. Get your shot! Get your shot, get your shot! So if you didn't like that, then you could listen to Peter Hotez here on Nicole Wallace. Hold on a second. What's it? I'm looking for it now. That's the one you just… I know, I know, but I can't find it in your list. I'm looking for Hotez and I don't see him for some reason.

Starting point is 01:37:59 Yeah? Hold on a second. It's all caps? It says Hotez. Yeah, I know. It's in the pile one, bottom of pile one. Yeah, almost second all caps as Hotez. Yeah, I know It's saying it's into pile one bottom of pile one. Oh, this is very interesting. I don't think I how did I not get this? Hold on a second John something something went very wrong here

Starting point is 01:38:20 Did I miss some of your clip somehow Hold on a second We'll have to cut this part out because this is very unprofessional. I set you up and then I screwed it over. Where's Hotez? I'm looking in pile one. No, oh, huh. It says Hotez in all caps but it didn't download for some reason. I'm very sorry about this. Okay. All right. Just when you thought it wouldn't happen, here is Hotez. Here's the reason why we need to care about this stuff. Nicole, is that we have some big picture stuff coming down the pike starting on January 21st. Mr. Bloomberg mentioned H5N1.

Starting point is 01:39:08 I want you to listen to everyone should listen to this carefully because there's no problem with any diseases whatsoever until Trump gets in office. No, January 21st specifically. He's pinpointing it. January 21st. Yeah, that's when this, that's when the shit hits the fan. Here we go. Nicole, is that we have some big picture stuff coming down the pike starting on January 21st. Mr. Bloomberg mentioned H5N1. What does he mean by big picture stuff? What does that even mean? Disease, famine, pestilence.

Starting point is 01:39:40 On the pike starting on January 21st. Mr. Bloomberg mentioned H5N1, that I'm really worried about. It's all over wild birds on the western part of the United States and going up in the north, it's getting into the poultry. We're seeing sporadic human cases, no human-to-human transmission yet, but that could happen. It's in the cattle, it's in the milk, and that's just the beginning. We have another major coronavirus likely brewing in Asia. We've had SARS in 2002, SARS-2, COVID-19 in 2019, and we know these viruses are jumping

Starting point is 01:40:14 from bats to people thousands of times a year, but that's, they're still- What? Hold on a second. I've not heard that this is jumping from bats to people thousands of times a year. Yeah. Yeah. This is new. 2019 and we know these viruses are jumping from bats to people thousands of times a year,

Starting point is 01:40:36 but there's still more. We know that we have a big problem with mosquito transmitted viruses all along the Gulf coast where I am here in Texas. So we're expecting dengue and possibly Zika virus coming back or a Poochay virus, maybe even yellow fever. And there's more than we have all these sharp rise in vaccine preventable diseases going up because of in part the anti-vaccine activism that's so prominent right now. We have a five-fold rise in pertussis cases, whooping cough over the last year, 15 measles outbreaks this year, we've got polio that's been in the wastewater in New York State. All that's going to come crashing down on January 21st

Starting point is 01:41:16 on the Trump administration. We need a really, really good team to be able to handle this. And a partridge in a pear tree. It all starts on January 21st. Not on the 20th. No, no, on the 21st is when it all goes down. What a lunatic this guy is. Yeah. Now I have to play, that brings me to the clips.

Starting point is 01:41:35 Okay. Dr. Christina Park. Oh, where's she from? Now these clips were dug up. These clips were dug up by one of our producers and it was during a hearing in the Michigan Houser Center. Oh yes, this is very good. This is very good, yes.

Starting point is 01:41:52 And she outlines, she's a PhD in virology, she's got all these, I don't know if she's a virologist, but she's- This is classic C-SPAN material. This is good stuff. And she, and the reason this was sent to me, and it's from 2021, it's during the lockdown thing and all this that was going on and she was fighting against a lot of this stuff. And one of it, it was sent to me because of this constant commentary about pertussis. And we brought it up. What's pertussis, Brian? Why are they making a fuss?

Starting point is 01:42:22 The whooping cough, you know, that's what pertussis is, right? Yes, whooping cough. And so she has an explanation on pertussis and she goes on with other stuff, but the pertussis thing starts us off and this is like, oh, okay. Well, now after hearing Hotez going on about pertussis, listen to this. So let's look at DTAP, which the scientists and the CDC have known since 2014 that the Acellular Pertussis Vaccine does not prevent people from getting infected with the pertussis bacteria and passing it to others.

Starting point is 01:42:57 In fact, it was never designed to do that. The vaccine was designed to neutralize the pertussis toxin. Pertussis, we know it as whooping cough. It can be fatal for children under six months. So neutralizing this toxin saves lives. All right? I'm not going to debate that. But what it doesn't do is neutralize the bacteria.

Starting point is 01:43:17 So what happens is fully vaccinated children go to daycare, they pick up that bacteria, and they come home and they give it to their newborn brother or sister. They get deathly ill, and they go to the hospital. Hopefully our medical professionals are able to save them. But who do they blame? Now the CDC is blaming anti-vaxxers for the limitations of this vaccine design. I suggest that they be transparent and tell parents that although it is preventing severe disease

Starting point is 01:43:47 in their children, it is not preventing transmission because we have created a whole class of asymptomatic pertussis carriers who are increasing the disease. Now the old DTP vaccine that many of you who are my age or older got did prevent transmission. When we switched to the safer, acellular version, they knew that it was never designed to prevent transmission.

Starting point is 01:44:11 It was safer, it had less adverse events, but pertussis cases have gone through the roof. There's a resurgence in pertussis because of the design of the vaccine, and the vaccinologists know this. They're trying to address it, and so we cannot mandate that something that does not prevent transmission. Oh, give her the hook, take her out, burn that witch. I found this to be the most interesting thing that, so they're, so basically guys like Hotez, they know this,

Starting point is 01:44:42 they all know this, that they changed the vaccine. Cause the one I had when I was a kid was the old one, which I guess was more dangerous, but it prevented us spread and catching it and spreading it. They know, know that this is going on and they lie to the public and then they blame the anti-vaxxers. He is in fact a childhood vaccine expert with, this is a childhood vaccine, children under seven.

Starting point is 01:45:06 I think some kids, don't they get it like right away? D-tap, they stick it in your heel or something? I don't know. Yeah, but Hotez, he would know. She goes on with some other little tidbits that are interesting and I'm going to, might as well play a couple of them, at least play this one. This is FluVax. All All right what about the flu vaccine? Well they have shown that basically it there's no difference there's no statistical difference if you're vaccinated or unvaccinated

Starting point is 01:45:36 whether you get the flu or not but it's even worse because although that first year it is somewhat effective it's about 65 effective at preventing symptoms in you, after that it actually has negative efficacy. And I want to address this because it's very important. Vaccines are made to a specific variant, and when that variant mutates, the vaccine no longer recognizes it. And so it's like you're seeing a completely new virus. And because that's so, you actually get more severe symptoms when you're vaccinated against one variant and then it mutates and then your body sees the other variant. So there's a potential and the science shows that in fact with the flu, if you get vaccinated

Starting point is 01:46:19 in multiple years, you are more likely to get severe disease, you are more likely to have more viral replication, and you are more likely to be hospitalized both in adults and in children. Oh, it's money in the bank. This is a great idea. Bring me to the hospital. Perfect. Perfect. Wow. Where is Dr. Christina Park? Is she still with us? She's dead. They shot her. Wow. Wow. I hope not. I don't know where she is. I hope not. I hope not. We should track her down because she probably has more things to say. She also had some negative

Starting point is 01:46:51 commentary. Gee, I can't imagine why. Negative commentary about the COVID vaccine back in 2021 first came out. We are seeing the same thing in COVID with the Delta variant. And so we are mandating that people get a vaccine that could actually make them more sick when they're exposed to the virus. In fact, this week a paper came out and what it showed is that with this Delta variant, when you're vaccinated, your body makes antibodies that are supposed to neutralize the virus. But they were supposed to neutralize the old variant. When they see this new variant, what they're doing is they're actually,

Starting point is 01:47:25 the antibodies are taking the virus and helping it infect the cells. All right, that science was just published this week. We need to be looking at the science and we need our policy to reflect the science and we also need it to reflect our rights. Yeah, but she has a Rumble channel. Oh, good, that should be worth watching. She's still with

Starting point is 01:47:48 us on Rumble. This is good news. Yeah, Rumble. Nobody listens to her. Okay, so her last commentary I thought was pretty, a little, I thought this was interesting too, and this was just the end notes. And so as a PhD who knows the science, I'm in the category of the most vaccine-hesitant group. Yes, PhDs are the most vaccine-hesitant, followed by people who have less than a high school degree because they know what they don't know and they don't trust their government. And many people, the other group that is very vaccine hesitant are African Americans. 70% of African Americans have not taken this vaccine. Why?

Starting point is 01:48:32 Because they don't trust their government. Do they have reason not to trust their government? Well, between the years of 1930 and 1970, the CDC conducted the Tuskegee experiment where they took untreated males with syphilis and they refused to treat them. Even after antibiotics became available, they still did not treat them and they did not tell them that they had syphilis. They told those people that they were there to secure their health and they did not secure

Starting point is 01:49:00 their health. They abused them. You say, well, that was in the past, although I don't think 1970 was that long ago. Well, in 2012, whistleblower William Thompson came forward and said, we published a study that said MMR does not cause autism, but we lied. In fact, we shredded data that showed that when black boys are vaccinated on time, they have increased rates of autism diagnosis and we shredded it and we left it out of the paper. Wow, I didn't know that Tuskegee experiment I knew, I didn't know about that. Of course not, who's going to tell you?

Starting point is 01:49:37 Well, you know, we've changed though, we've changed, we've gotten smart in the vaccine industry. We've wised up, we're like, we're not going to do that on black Americans anymore. Let's find some brown people to work on. This is the Reed Hoffman podcast. I'm sorry, the Bill Gates podcast with Reed Hoffman as his discussion partner. Well, when India is an example of a country where there's plenty of things that are difficult there. The health, nutrition, education is improving and they're stable enough and generating their own government revenue enough that it's very likely that

Starting point is 01:50:27 20 years from now, people will be dramatically better off. And it's kind of a laboratory to try things that then when you prove them out in India, you can take to other places. Our biggest non-U.S. office for the foundation is in India. And then most number of pilot rollout things we're doing anywhere in the world are with partners in India. If you go there and you've never been, you might think, whoa, this is a chaotic place. And you're not used to so many levels of income

Starting point is 01:50:59 all being on the street at the same time, but you will get a sense of the vibrancy. It's a lab. He just says it. Yeah, this our lab. That's where we got all our people working there. It's great. Huh.

Starting point is 01:51:14 Of course, the Indians didn't like it so much. Billionaire Bill Gates recent admission in a podcast hasn't gone down well with Indians. The tech mogul called India a kind of laboratory to try things as he talked about health and nutrition on the podcast. Now his remark has left many fuming with people calling him out for his comment. People took to social media to slam Bill Gates for referring to Indians as guinea pigs. Some even went to the extent of asking him to stay out of India. Now this backlash also revived the 2009 controversy, which involved an NGO funded by the Gates

Starting point is 01:51:49 Foundation. The clinical trials of the human papilloma virus or the HPV virus vaccine by NGO PUTH on thousands of tribal girls in India had led to seven deaths. That time the cause of the deaths was attributed to unknown reasons. Months later, investigations revealed that there was misrepresentation of facts, lack of informed consent and exploitation. If I were Bill Gates, I'd stay away from any Starbucks, anybody with a hoodie and a backpack. This is... Yeah, Bill has always been, you know, ever since Bill, well, ever since he got pied,

Starting point is 01:52:25 which was some years ago, he was pretty lax about his security. He was floating around, he'd take buses. Yeah, he'd never fly coach, he'd fly coach. Well, the coach thing is interesting. That's what he always said. I caught him once on a plane. In first class? Yes, because he buys coach tickets.

Starting point is 01:52:45 And he says, don't you know who I am? He doesn't even have to do that. They put him in first class. I grilled him about this. He knows me. So I said, what are you doing here? I thought you always fly for, I thought you'd always be back in coach with me.

Starting point is 01:53:00 He says, well, you know, they make me come up here. They put me in first class because of, you know, they, they make me come up here. They put me in first class because of Vinny had some, but he always fights for, he's always in first class. They did this. Soon as we all Bill Gates buys a coat. So what does he manages to do is get a coach ticket and end up in first class every time the question on everybody flies in his G four, whatever he's got because when he got married to Melissa Melinda, she insisted that he get a jet and so he relented.

Starting point is 01:53:34 And now he doesn't fly on commercial at all. The question on everyone's mind is what were you doing in first class? I was in coach. I was walking down the aisle and there he was. And you stopped and he said, Hey, hey, come back with me. What are you doing? And you were holding up the line? Were you talking to Bill? Billy, I don't hold up lines. I'm a very good flyer about that.

Starting point is 01:54:02 Did you have a backpack and turn it right into his face? Yeah, you bang people around with a backpack. Yeah, I love that. With that I'd like to thank you for your courage Especially that courage of questioning Bill Gates on his first-class seat and say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the censorship Industry say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and the only Mr. John C. DeMore! In the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry, in the morning to all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air. Subs in the water and all the names and nights out there. In the morning to the trolls. I know that we should be at 1800.

Starting point is 01:54:45 That's our regular trollage for Thursday, correct? Yeah. 2041, baby. That's because of the pardon. No, I think it's because of the CEO. Everyone was emailing me about the CEO. Oh, it could be that. One of the two, but you get news, you always pick up up hundreds more people to see what we have to say about it.

Starting point is 01:55:06 More assassinations, please. It's good for business. By the way, that's good, it's just the truth. Just the truth. It is true, it's true. It's absolutely true. And those trolls are all checking us out at trollroom.io. They could of course be using a modern podcast app,

Starting point is 01:55:20 unlike the nonsense that people supposedly get all their podcasts from YouTube. That's what they're trying. They want to push every all you know, this is such a big push. Oh, you got a podcast, you have to do video, you have to do if you don't do video, no one's gonna see your podcast. They want you on there so they can heat you they can heat you up heat you down. They want to control you get your own RSS feed and use a modern podcast app, which is completely independent of any Silicon Valley company because they use Podcast Index, PodcastApps.com.

Starting point is 01:55:54 Do yourself a favor. I saw that one of Joe Rogan's episodes didn't even appear on Apple. They just skipped an episode or they took it down. I don't know. What was it? Mike Rowe. I don't know why. Mike Rowe? Mike Rowe, yeah. The Dirty Jobs guy. I have no idea. And let me just check him. Let me see. It's still that way. Let me see. Rogan Apple podcasts. People are complaining about it. it. So I'm getting a modern podcast app. I don't want that nonsense.

Starting point is 01:56:28 Let's see. Here we go. Uh, 34, 35, 33. It's not there. Oh, no. Ah, they heard it. It's there now. Oh man.

Starting point is 01:56:43 There goes that whole gambit I guess Apple didn't take it down But Spotify and Apple have been known to take down episodes that happens on a daily basis So your favorite podcast you want it you want to keep listening to it. Make sure that you protect yourself it's really for yourself and most of these apps are free you can donate to to the, uh, to the developer and they deserve it. Quite honestly, podcastapps.com. There's a, man, we got a lot of different, uh, things to talk about for our donation segment. Uh, because, you know, of course we have a value for value and I got a lot of, did you get a PO box stuff? I'm sorry.

Starting point is 01:57:24 Did you get any cool stuff in the PO box? Yeah, I got a couple of things. I got an AeroPress, which is a single cup coffee. Yeah, I got one of those. Have you tried it out yet? No, well, you know, no. I have it though. No, you know.

Starting point is 01:57:42 Well, I have a Breville cappuccino mate, which makes single cups. It's like, and I have used that device before because it's, other people have them and I've used this. It makes a terrific cup of coffee, far better than the cafe Filtra and the stuff that you like. What? I don't use Filtra.

Starting point is 01:58:02 I use, I use the French press. The French press is much better. French press to me, I don't use filter. I use the French press. The French press is much better. French press to me, I don't mind it with the right exact right beans, but French press can produce a very bitter cup of coffee. Ah, well. This won't. This doesn't do that. My gigawatt tastes just perfect.

Starting point is 01:58:19 That was from Trent Serscovi. Serscovi, the Piedmont. He sent a very nice long. What kind of paper is that? That's interesting paper that he typed that on. I was like, I've never seen this paper. Yes, it is a silver paper and it was like, I think it's some sort of old, and it's thick.

Starting point is 01:58:37 Yeah, very thick, very thick. Yeah, it was very peculiar. I think it was some sort of old, it's a paper that goes way back for some sort of special printer Hmm. That was kind of interesting and I also wanted to say hello to Daniel Walker Parker who is in McLennan County Gulag in Waco Then he sent in a whole bunch of forever stamps. He hopes that that will be value for value. So I will keep them for us

Starting point is 01:59:02 Seems like he might be there for a bit He sends an interesting note. It's always interesting to get something from the penitentiary. And then we need to send out prayers and karma to Dame Astrid. I don't know if you saw that note this morning. Oh yeah, I heard about last night when I was talking to Jay, she's in Japan. They were going to meet. They can't meet now because Astrid broke her leg. Yes, she fell and managed to break the ball off the top of her femur, which just sounds horrible. Don't even discuss it. But she's in good hands. I know she had to have an operation and I immediately thought it was a compound fracture.

Starting point is 01:59:39 That's the kind of fracture where I think it's compound, that where the bone goes through the skin and sticks out. Ah, no, I hope not. Anyway, she's already had a new joint fitted. Gotta love Japanese efficiency. All right, so. Prayers with her. She's in Hong Kong, has a Chinese efficiency in this case. No, no, no, Dame Mark, Sir Mark is in Hong Kong.

Starting point is 02:00:00 Oh, I thought she was in Hong Kong with him, that's where she broke her leg. I don't think so. I think, no, I think he went to Hong Kong. Oh, I thought she was in Hong Kong. No, no. That's where she broke her leg. I don't think so. I think, no, I think he went to Hong Kong to receive another award. You know, I gotta pick up another award in Hong Kong. So sorry. Can't be with you Astrid.

Starting point is 02:00:15 I'm picking up an award. Picking up an award. Yeah, so we're all thinking of her. And thank you to Jeremy and his daughter Taylor who came through Fredericksburg. He's the guy that's sending you a computer and some community coffee. Yes. Yes, I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, so he came. So it was very nice. So it's always nice. If you're in Fredericksburg,

Starting point is 02:00:36 you know, let me know if I can work it out. I'd love to say hi, at least have a cup of coffee or maybe a lunch. Anyway, value for value, that's how it works. All of these things are valuable to us. We love receiving things like that in the post office. We also very much enjoy the work that many of our producers do to support us, time, talent, or treasure. One of the premier ways that people can help us is by creating artwork for the show. We like to have a new piece of art for every single episode.

Starting point is 02:01:08 We've been doing that for a very long time. We want to thank the artists for episode 1717. We titled that one Mr. Peepers. It was Capitalist Agenda who brought us the artwork, which was a skibbity toilet. And even though neither of us understand the skibbity lingo that well, it kind of had it all there, didn't it? I mean, was there anything else that we saw that was worthy that we looked at on the list? Were there other things you discussed?

Starting point is 02:01:37 That was such a professional looking piece. And it had a and stylized. It was hard to be. I mean, I was even going to use the face bank social credit one for the newsletter, but what did I use for the newsletter? The face bank social credit, I'm looking for that one. Yeah, it's right underneath the skibbity one. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, social credit, yes, yeah, that was so shook.

Starting point is 02:02:04 I like that piece. Capigeno did a great job on this Yes, that was so shook. Capagena did a great job on this one. It was just fun. It was fun to see. I liked it. Probably not AI, not that it matters all that much. It may or may not be, but it's beside the point he's a pro and he knows what he's doing.

Starting point is 02:02:21 Well, remember art is God's soulful expression of his love. So that can't come from a computer. Sorry. So that's what capital, that's what capital agenda did. Thank you. Oh boy. Oh, so, oh, I'm self righteous. No, no, I'm not. I'm just telling you how I feel. how I think. Can't change that. So the phone called you, a phone message just came in. I didn't know this was even on. We have a voicemail for the show?

Starting point is 02:02:54 No, I don't have. No, I'm just telling you what, the phone rang during one of your clips and I picked it up to see what the hell is going on. Noah or somebody, they canceled the tsunami alert. Oh, that's wussy. So I guess that went out to the whole state of California or something. I don't know what it was. Do you remember the phone ringing when the tsunami alert was on? Or did they not call you? No, well, I was probably in bed.

Starting point is 02:03:22 I don't want to keep a phone by my bed. Yeah. Like other people do. Because they use it, a lot of people, which always surprises me, they use their phone as their alarm clock. That seems to be most of the population these days. Yeah. I know you don't. What kind of alarm clock do you have? I got an alarm clock that's got a big bell on it. So it's a wind up still No, no, I have an electric but it's it's it's from China and it's got there's all kinds of features and it does school Stuff. Well, like what? You know, it's an actual clock Hold on sound effects and it does you know, it has two or three different moments where it could wake you and this sounds like It's a potential tip of the day. Products.

Starting point is 02:04:05 No, it's no, because the problem is, is that the shoddy, what would you call it? Manufacturing. Worksmanship. Worksmanship, yes. The shoddy worksmanship of some Chinese goods, including this clock, even though it's got a lot of cool features, is not going to get a tip of the day from me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, okay. Well, there you go.

Starting point is 02:04:30 Tip of the day is wide open. We're all excited, by the way, for the tip of the day. People need to know that there's a lot more shows still coming. Tip of the day, we've got, I know we have some more stories to talk about. And again, thanks to Capitalist Agenda for bringing that artwork. We loved it. It was good to see. It was good to see an original. We appreciate it so much. NoAgendaArtGenerator.com is where you can see all of these pieces of artwork in the modern podcast apps. Dreb Scott puts

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Starting point is 02:06:12 And he comes in with a cool instant night donation, $1,000 and says, Happy Holidays. I look forward to joining the ranks. Oh no, this is a knighthood and a climate change studies. Whoa, two in one go. This is a knighthood and a climate change studies. Whoa, two in one go. Please change my title to Sir Double Dr. Derek. And please send travel karma and estate closure karma. I narrowly escaped Hurricane Milton while traveling

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Starting point is 02:07:08 Bitcoin just passed 100k, and I'm sharing with you too I'd like to call out rile like Kyle who shared your show with me in 2018 as a mega douche Who's never donated? Mega mega douche. Could I get a John Fisting nuts jingle, whichever short, long and house buying karma please? Just go for it John. Tell us your, um, it's a clave about the fisting method of eating snacks on an airplane. I see this on the airplane and it's very annoying and I think it will result in fights breaking out because it's just so annoying to watch.

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Starting point is 02:16:31 Again, we'll be thanking everybody $50 and above and thank you for those sustaining donations. Even if you came in as an executive or associate executive producers today, they help a lot. We appreciate them. Go to NoAgendaDonations.com. That's NoAgendaDonations.com. support the show and thank you for supporting this episode our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth We've got a few things. I think we should at least talk about the French government failing. Yes, a massive fail. I'm sure you have clips.

Starting point is 02:17:22 I think I had a BBC clip that was pretty decent. What do you have? These are from, I think, well, these are either NPR or NTD. The French government fails one. France's parliament today voted on a no-confidence motion against the government. I'm guessing NTD. It's just a guess. According to the French constitution, President Emmanuel Macron will need to appoint a new prime minister and form a new government.

Starting point is 02:17:50 This is a situation not seen in 62 years in the country, and it marks the first time in history. The national rally has joined the leftist coalition in a no-confidence vote against the government. For many members of parliament, this is a historic day. The prime minister has overdramatized, hoping to extend his mandate. I think that, as the president of the National Assembly said, we must also respect our institutions. Alternative ways exist. It's not written in the constitution for nothing. The program of the left-wing coalition I support should be the basis for discussion. As there is no majority in parliament, we'll have to make concessions so that the different political groups move towards each other. Prime Minister Michel Barnier, a member of Macron's group in parliament, warned that

Starting point is 02:18:37 France could face a significant instability. The government, which began its mandate in September after snap elections in June, has become the shortest serving administration in French history. There won't be a shutdown or any chaos. French President Emmanuel Macron said it. And even if I'm not from his groups, I agree with him. The no-confidence vote follows tensions over the 2025 budget. With no compromise reached in parliament, the prime minister

Starting point is 02:19:05 invoked a constitutional article to bypass the legislative body. According to National Rally member Philippe Ballard, the sharp rise in planned taxes made the no-confidence vote unavoidable. The budget was 40 billion in sub-commentary taxes, so it's unacceptable. And since the budget will be abandoned, retirement pensions won't be decreased, electricity taxes won't go up, and some medicines will continue to be reimbursed. That's why we voted to dismiss the government.

Starting point is 02:19:32 It was both sides. Everybody hated this guy. Yeah. Everybody's like, you're no good, you're no good. There's a second part to this? Yeah. Let's see what that is. The French parliament must vote on the 2025 budget law, a particularly challenging one as France's public deficit is skyrocketing. French President Emmanuel Macron urgently needed to find a solution to reassure the French, but also the financial market and the EU institutions.

Starting point is 02:19:59 Here in parliament, some members of political group, casual conversations expresses concerns about a political crisis that could potentially escalate into a financial one. Yeah, I think the BBC report is better because they get more into the weeds and it's a little clearer than NTD who've taken to putting a sock over their microphone for some reason. Now what happened there? Here's BBC. French politicians have ousted the government in a no confidence vote, leaving the prospect of months of turmoil in France.

Starting point is 02:20:30 Michel Barnier is the first French prime minister to be dismissed in this way since 1962. Opposition parties called the vote after Ms de Barnier used special powers to force through controversial social security reforms. In the no confidence debate, the far right leader Marine Le Pen said the minority government had refused to make sufficient budget concessions to avoid a crisis. She said Mr Barnier's budget would impose suffering on the French people. This budget takes French people hostage and and most especially the most vulnerable.

Starting point is 02:21:09 The poorer pensioners, people with illness, impoverished workers. French people considered too rich to receive aid, but not poor enough to escape a hammering from the taxman. The French budget minister, Laurent Saint-Martin, challenged those MPs who'd oppose the budget. Do you want to deprive New Caledonia of a billion euros of credit? Do you want to prevent the financing of OPEC? Do you want to prevent support for Ukraine? Do you really want to prevent the payment of the disabled adult allowance?

Starting point is 02:21:42 Say it frankly and thank you to all the people who are here who take their responsibilities seriously. The French president Emmanuel Macron is likely to keep Mr. Barnier as a caretaker Prime Minister while he seeks a replacement acceptable to a deeply divided Parliament. They're broke. That's basically it. They're broke. They got no money. They want to... austerity. I'm sure it was IMF related. You gotta like screw the old people.

Starting point is 02:22:14 That's what you typically do. That's what you do. South Korea. We got a Boots on the Ground from South Korea. Did you see that come in? Yeah, I did. I don't... I have it here. Timeline of events. This is very succinct and it's very specific about what this was really about because... Well, you want to play the clips first and then we can play the boots on the ground? You have clips? Oh boy. How many do you have? Two.

Starting point is 02:22:41 Okay. Are they of that same… is it NTD? The court? Well, South Korea's gotta be. South Korea is reeling after its president declared martial law. Although the order was later lifted amid widespread condemnation, the move plunged the country's political landscape into chaos. South Korean defense minister, as well as Yoon's senior policy advisors, offered to resign following the unrest.

Starting point is 02:23:05 Six South Korean opposition parties submitted bills of impeachment for President Yoon Suk-yul on Wednesday that came after Yoon's sudden move imposing martial law the night before. In an address, he had claimed there were anti-state forces among his opponents. But after Parliament unanimously rejected his decree, hours later, Yun backed down. A vote on his impeachment is expected within the coming days. It would pass in South Korea's National Assembly if two-thirds of lawmakers support the bill. And that would then lead to a trial held by South Korea's Constitutional Court. On Wednesday morning, the country's National Assembly building bore scars of violence

Starting point is 02:23:43 the night before, boxes, chairs piled up as barricades. Security camera footage released Wednesday gave a better view of events the night before. Soldiers tasked with imposing martial law landing on the sports pitch near Parliament before smashing the building's windows and clashing with parliamentary aides. It all marks South Korea's biggest political crisis in decades and the first time martial law has been declared since 1980 before it became a democracy. Yoon, a career prosecutor, had been very unpopular with the South Korean public. He's faced discontent over his economic policy,

Starting point is 02:24:20 scandals and other controversies. Should Yoon resign or be removed from office, Prime Minister Han Deok-su would fill in as leader until a new election is held. Now I want to read this, boots on the ground before we do the second clip. Well actually you can read it now because I don't think the second clip adds anything. No probably won't. So the timeline of events on December 3rd, President Yun, now he's just the president, but the parliament is opposition, his opposition is the majority. So he does, he's kind of a lame duck president, I guess.

Starting point is 02:24:54 On December 3rd, Yun, no? Well, lame duck specifically refers to somebody who's just been voted out and he hasn't been voted out. Okay. He's ineffective. He got no power, he got no juice except for this. So December 3rd, Yun gave a State of the Union speech on TV. He discussed the threats to democracy and accused the left of destroying the nation. 10 28 p.m. he declares martial law at the end of his speech. 1030 the 707th Special Mission Group about 300 in number raided the National Election Commission

Starting point is 02:25:30 building. They confiscated servers and phones and left after three hours. 12 a.m. some soldiers go to the National Assembly building and they loiter around but don't even block any politicians from going into the assembly building. The opposition party voted to lift the martial law President you lifted the martial law after only six hours It seems like the whole thing was just to raid the National Election Commission Because there is talk of election fraud So the whole thing was a smokesc, according to our boots on the ground, just to break in and get all the get all

Starting point is 02:26:08 the details and get the information. Everything else is window dressing. It's like Watergate. Yes, only not secret. So I would say the 707th Special Mission Group in Korea is elite special forces unit specializing in black ops, counterterrorism, special ops, reconnaissance, high risk intelligence gathering, etc. The left has been accused of using fake, here it comes, mail-in ballots and hacking voting

Starting point is 02:26:36 machines to win elections similar to what happened in the US. Earlier this year in 2024, the left-wing party surprised everybody with a huge victory and won the majority of seats. Okay. Well, I wonder if it's Dominions. We appreciate that. Good report. That's a lot better than anyone else gave us. Well, at least it's something interesting as opposed to... Well no, it's at least something interesting as opposed to, well this doesn't make any sense. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Which is the reports. Well, let's talk about the NDAA, which has got, I got these down as WTF clips, so there's something fishy in these clips. This is about the reauthorization of the National Defense Authorization Act, the money. It's

Starting point is 02:27:26 the trillion dollar boom-buggle we do every single year. Sometimes we slip something in like the Smith Modernization Act. Sometimes it's just money. The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025 is the bill that sets the spending priorities for the national defense programs of the Department of Defense and the nuclear weapons programs within the Department of Energy. Now, the House of Representatives passed its version of the NDAA back in June with only Republican support, and the Senate Armed Services Committee also passed its version with broad bipartisan support back in June. Our colleagues on the Armed Services Committee completed their work on the NDAA back in June,

Starting point is 02:28:05 and they did it with bipartisan support. Is this guy still alive, Mitch McConnell? Isn't he on the fritz? Isn't he fritzing? Well, he's on the fritz. I saw him freeze up again the other day. He froze up, I think, three times in the last couple of weeks. But yet here he is. He's doing important work of helping us pass the trillion dollar budget, so nice. They added the legislation off to the Democratic leader

Starting point is 02:28:31 with months to spare. The number one highlight of the product is what the chairman mentioned, is the focus on quality of life for our service members and their families. Oh, I'm sure that's the number one priority in that thousand pages of bill. And certainly one of the biggest issues was pay for junior enlisted. We upped that pay by 19.5%.

Starting point is 02:28:57 It is expected that later this week, congressional leaders will unveil their agreement for the NDA for fiscal year 2025. And it's also expected that a slew of nearly 70 bills that have already passed on the House floor and that are meant to counter the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party worldwide will be attached to the NDAA for fiscal year 2025. This cannot continue. We can't continue to do business with the Communist Chinese Party and not knowing, not realizing that there's concentration camps in China where they forcibly harvest, they take, they cut out the organs of the people that they're incarcerating. Yes, we want to

Starting point is 02:29:30 say something. This is unacceptable. You must stop it. You must be held accountable for these atrocities. That was Republican Congressman Scott Perry from Pennsylvania discussing the Falun Gong Protection Act, a bill that is expected to be attached to this year's National Defense Authorization Act alongside the Bio Secure Act and other bills designed to counter China in the realms of AI, military capabilities, and critical infrastructure. Ramping it up, baby. Getting it ready. What is, WTF comes from the Falong Gong Protection Act?

Starting point is 02:30:01 Yeah, we have to protect them because they're the good guys. They're against our mortal enemies, our new enemy China. Yeah. Where does Falun Gong hang out besides New York? Are they in Taiwan by any chance? I don't know them to be in Taiwan. This mostly I don't know what you will. It's just a strange operation.

Starting point is 02:30:25 I will say this. So I'm watching this show, The Agency. And there was a show a few years ago called Berlin Station, which was about a CIA operation in the middle of Berlin. And The Agency is about a CIA station in the middle of London. And they go in, there's a million people working in there. It's like, geez, what are they all doing? And so I'm thinking when I'm watching this, wait a minute,

Starting point is 02:30:57 don't we make a huge fuss about the quote unquote Chinese police stations that are in New York and elsewhere, which are probably not police. I mean, they're, they're the same thing. What's the difference between us having a, a CIA station in the middle of Berlin or, and all around the world and the Chinese doing the same thing? I would like to know. I don't know.

Starting point is 02:31:27 Uh, that's a good question. You should do some research. I'm not going to do any research. I want somebody out there listening to the show to, to do, who knows, you know, that's the thing about this show. You can do that. You listen to this, the Falun Gong protection act. This bill requires the president to impose visa and property blocking sanctions on foreign persons that are knowingly responsible for, are complicit in, or have engaged

Starting point is 02:31:53 in the involuntary harvesting of organs in China. The sanction shall not apply to certain activities such as authorized U.S. intelligence or law enforcement activities. So we can harvest no problem. I didn't read it that way, but yeah, I guess so. That's what I'm reading. Yeah. All right. Part two.

Starting point is 02:32:16 Wow. Well, that sounds like some marketing. July of this year, the Bipartisan Commission on the National Defense Strategy published its final report. Commission finds that in many ways China is outpacing the United States and has largely negated the U.S. military advantage in the Western Pacific through two decades of focused military investment. We're behind. The National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2025 will authorize the spending of nearly one trillion

Starting point is 02:32:42 dollars in government spending. Reporting from Washington D.C., Luis Eduardo Martinez, NTD News. Okay, I'm going to spend a couple of days looking through all the Chinese parts of that because this is going to come into play during Trump's first year. This money is already set. It's big, beautiful ships. It's going to be space stuff. We're behind. You just heard it.

Starting point is 02:33:03 We're behind, people. That's why we had to pass this quick because we're behind we're behind the Chinese and if that wasn't bad enough The Chinese are everywhere now New details tonight on what's being called one of the worst cyber hacks in history with federal officials revealing They've been investigating China for months after hackers compromise the networks of multiple US communications companies and may still be lurking in the systems of at least some of them. FBI and federal cybersecurity officials say these Chinese government affiliated hackers managed to steal records, intercept some voice calls, even penetrate the wiretap system used by the Justice Department to

Starting point is 02:33:42 investigate people suspected of crimes or spying. Officials say most of the private communication intercepted by the hackers involved people affiliated with the government or politics, but the access to companies like Verizon and AT&T means the communications of nearly every American are vulnerable. And now a new warning. Be careful what you communicate and use encrypted communication when you can. Think signal, WhatsApp or iMessage. Use the stuff that we have access to. Those blue text bubbles assign what you're saying is protected. Oh, oh, oh, you need a blue bubble, green bubbles, no good.

Starting point is 02:34:18 Is a warning like that overkill in your view? I think it's a good standard hygiene practice for operating in today's modern technology environment. You have to be really mindful again about the technology you're using, how it's secured. The culprits, officials say, a group called Salt Typhoon. Salt Typhoon. This collective allegedly behind the hacks of the Trump and Harris campaigns before the election. Officials even now still trying to understand the scale,

Starting point is 02:34:45 scope and timeline of this hack. We have to understand that the digital connectivity that we all rely on that we benefit from economically can also be used against us. The coincidence of this in this next clip is not lost on me where I we talked about this on the last show that I was having trouble with the new iPhones with my Android based phone with text messaging text messages wouldn't show up and you know I and I had no and it was reproducible sometimes Which it doesn't really kind of not the definition of reproducible but it would happen frequently only with people

Starting point is 02:35:25 who use iMessage and the brand new iPhones with my S22 Cat Android Go based bubble flip phone, green bubble flip phone. So then there's this warning, which is a follow on to that. The FBI is warning about texting between iPhones and Androids because those messages aren't fully secure. Unlike iPhone to iPhone or Android to Android chats, which are encrypted, cross platform text can be intercepted by hackers. Apple's version of RCS, rich communication services, a messaging upgrade, doesn't have

Starting point is 02:36:03 end to end encryption for these texts yet. To keep your chat safe, use encrypted apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. These apps encrypt your messages, making them unreadable to hackers, even if intercepted. WhatsApp uses end to end encryption by default, ensuring only you and the recipient can read the messages. Telegram offers secret chats with added privacy features like self-destructing messages. Both apps prioritize security, making them harder for hackers to access compared to standard text messages between iOS and Android devices. And if your friend refuses to switch, just say,

Starting point is 02:36:43 do it for our safety or I'll stop texting you sometimes security means tough love Sometimes security means tough love. Okay fed what kind of tough love. Well, let me stop for it Give it one piece of thought here So I'm texting you about We're gonna start the show at 11-05 because I have to go get, just something like that. But I should, you should say to me, no. No. Don't be texting me stuff like that. That's kind of important information like I'll meet you at three because of the tough love thing here.

Starting point is 02:37:27 What are they talking about? Is everybody like a bunch of spooks out there that they have to protect every stupid message and say, oh, hi honey. How you doing? Oh, I have missed you. I miss you. Miss you. Miss you. Oh, you better secure that. Okay. Here's what I think is going on. Oh, you better secure that. Okay, here's what I think is going on. So if you text between an Android phone and an iMessage, it goes through the short messaging system, cell phone based network. That requires warrant, it's a pain in the butt,

Starting point is 02:37:58 you gotta get into the system, you gotta go call the guy, you gotta go file some forms. If it's Telegram or WhatsApp, that's much easier. I'm pretty, you know, or Signal. I'm pretty sure they're in those systems. You know, that's why they're recommending it. Now, you heard RCS. RCS is the new standard that Europe forced Apple to comply to so that we both have all the awesome features of iMessage, which is like, oh, I can see when someone's typing. I can see if someone read the message.

Starting point is 02:38:37 Typing. Yeah, I heard that. That's not new. No, but to do it between Android phones and iPhones, the European Union forced Apple to move to this RCS standard. The RCS standard is something that is registered and goes through, again, your cell phone network. They don't want you using it. Oh, that's insecure.

Starting point is 02:39:00 By the way, you can totally encrypt that on both sides. Oh, that's not good. The Chinese might read about your 3 p.m. appointment. They want you to continue to use WhatsApp and all these other systems that don't use the SMS text messaging system. It screams that to me. These are the feds.

Starting point is 02:39:18 I don't use any of these things. I mean, I use very simple stuff. And it's what it sounds like to me too. They, and why is it they just promote from, why are they promoting WhatsApp to such an extreme unless it's compromised? It's Facebook. It has to be compromised. Yes. And S and telegram or if we know about that, Pavel said, Oh, all right.

Starting point is 02:39:41 Well, you know, we'll, I'll be on the lookout for people who are up to no good. We'll help you out there. They arrested the guy. They did. And Signal, well, the lady now at NPR used to run Signal. So I'm sorry, I don't trust any of these systems. Not for anything secure. I use PGP encryption on my email. Works with ProtonM mail, by the way, out of the box. But yeah, yeah, I don't know, man, I don't know. I have one more thing here. Yeah, actually two things. So this story about the stowaway

Starting point is 02:40:23 who wanted to go to France, you heard about this? The lady who snuck on to a Delta flight, I think it was Delta flight. I have no knowledge of this. Oh, and then she was, and then, you know, they were going to ship her back and she's screaming like, I don't want to go back to America. I'm like, what is this story just kept coming back, kept coming back, kept coming back. And of course, what's interesting is why does this Russian lady who has a US visa not want to be in America, she snuck onto a flight to, I guess she has no money because she wanted to request asylum in France.

Starting point is 02:41:01 And France went, no, we have enough problems here. And they sent her back. So finally the story starts on foam. Like, Oh, maybe this is what it's about. Listen to this report. New video of a suspected stowaway on her way to France from New York's JFK international airport. The footage showing a Delta crew member questioning the woman after she allegedly snuck onto the plane last week without a ticket. She took 10 minutes to just come under her bags to find the boarding pass, which she did not have at all.

Starting point is 02:41:37 She allegedly went through security at JFK, but never showed ID and boarded without a ticket. Passengers say she tried to avoid detection on the full flight by going from one bathroom to another without ever taking a seat. Authorities say the woman is a Russian national and a legal resident of the US. According to French authorities, she was not admitted into French territory due to a lack of a valid travel document or visa and was placed in a waiting area for her rerouting to the United States since she had a valid U.S. residence permit.

Starting point is 02:42:09 Days later, officials struggled as they tried to send her back to the U.S. on another Delta flight. She got belligerent. So then more stewardess came in to try to restrain her. And that's when everything started to escalate. The woman was removed from the flight and remained in France Here comes the big question is how did she allegedly go through security at JFK without showing ID and boarded without a ticket? TSA is preparing a civil case against the woman and Delta Airlines is investigating

Starting point is 02:42:40 It is unclear if she will face any charges So it was that end bit where they say the big question, the big question is how does she get onto the airplane? No. My question is what is this woman about? Why didn't she just buy a ticket? Why does she want to request asylum? But no, the big question is how did she get on?

Starting point is 02:43:01 And then I remembered I had a report from November 22nd, a bipartisan group of 12 senators has urged the TSA Inspector General to investigate the agency's use of facial recognition, which has been rampant. Every single airport in America that I've been to, and I've been to a few, but everyone I've spoken to, it's all facial recognition and it says, oh you don't have to do this, this is just a test, but meanwhile everyone's like, you know, whatever, I'm good, I'm doing the facial recognition, so there's this bipartisan group of 12 senators, some heavy hitters in there, Cruz of course, but you know, some Elizabeth Warren, and they don't want it, they want this to

Starting point is 02:43:41 stop, and I think that this is a setup for them to say well, you know This lady snuck onto the plane. It could have done anything. We need facial recognition. I Think that's what you see come out of that's an interesting thesis. That's what I think is coming out of this Then I'd and it really is such an invasion that they just throw this stuff up and you know They say oh you can opt out if you want to stand over here. That's how it goes now. Oh, you don't want to do facial recognition, stand over here. And they make you wait.

Starting point is 02:44:12 It's just like the naked body scanner. Same thing. And then my final clip is from a compatriot from a, from a colleague of mine who is against the artificial intelligence hype. And he is, he does the prime time podcast. And he made such a good point on his podcast about artificial intelligence that I wanted to share it with the group. Here, hear me out here. If these AIs were really that great, they're so great that they actually were AGI. They're able to learn, they're able to grow better.

Starting point is 02:44:46 As Sam Allman once said, we're only a couple thousand days away from it. Bitch, that's like 10 years. Anyways, also that's a crazy way to say that. Who describes time windows in days? Like, oh yeah, it's just like 3,600 days away. 10 years. You can just say 10 years and no one's upset at you, Samuel.

Starting point is 02:45:07 It's strange. But anyways, but even if these companies do produce something that actually can really produce good code, you just got to understand something. Why would a company sell a product that can build anything? Why wouldn't they just harbor those trade secrets and build everything? Right? Like why would you sell the infinite intelligence tool? Think about it for a couple, it makes no sense. Like you would be able to compete with every product and start company after company after company after company over and over again.

Starting point is 02:45:40 Having super AI would be the most valuable thing in the universe. So why ever would they just simply sell it? They wouldn't because they'd be able to make everything. I love that. I do too. Yeah. Why wouldn't just keep it if it's so good at coding and you can create every single

Starting point is 02:45:57 product, just, just put in some stuff there. Give me a new, uh, give me a new spreadsheet program. It would be great. Yeah, yeah. And you can tell it not to copy any of the other code that's already been used so they can't get sued. What do you mean? It's all copied. That's all they have. Well, I mean, there are certain algorithms. What are you eating? I'm sorry, I'm having a lodging. You want me to cough? Well, you do. Just asking. I didn't know what I said what are you eating? I have to snap you made me snap Okay, boom. I was looking for that one. Good. No, I think you're completely correct here. This is who or that guy is

Starting point is 02:46:37 Yeah, new business theory. Yes. That's you know, I don't want to use I Don't want to use Facebook. I'd make me a Facebook. I Love that guy. He's make me a you know, yeah, you know it does art. Yeah Really well to not God's art like you say. Oh, oh, there it is. No, I didn't say Waited for a I didn't say God. I'm going to show my soul to a donor to know what you're doing. I'm matching all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah, I'll know what you're doing in the morning.

Starting point is 02:47:15 That's all right, John. You will reap what you sow. Or I'm going to reap half of what I sow in so far as these donations are concerned, which are low today again. Well, Thursday, we only have total 34 donors for the segment. I don't know what to say, man. I don't know what to say. Beth Elliott starts us off.

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Starting point is 02:53:03 It's your birthday, birthday On Noah's channel Shortlist, Ryan Newman Happy birthday to Kyle Tapp Celebrate yesterday, Ranger Becky Which is her best buddy and brother Sergeant John McKeon Happy birthday, turns 43 tomorrow

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Starting point is 02:53:37 Don't want to be a douchebag. Two title changes today. We have Sir Eric now becoming a Baron. Sir Eric, Baron of the fat point who doesn't know it and sir Derek protector of star Lake now becomes Baron at sir double dr. Derek and that is correct that he is a double doctor because he also gets a doctor of science today so sir Derek please step right up. Remember to go to NoAgendaRings.com to give us the exact name you want on your Doctor of Science

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Starting point is 02:54:49 Yeah, we're into the holiday session of the Meetups. It means a lot of Meetups. Christmas parties where you drink too much. That's right. I got a note here from Sir Brian with a Y. He said, money's super tight for me lately, but I organize a Meetup on Saturday, the 7th of December in Aurora, Illinois.

Starting point is 02:55:07 I normally promote my meetups with a donation. Adam is normally fantastic with promotions, but hasn't mentioned this one yet. Hopefully he mentions it on tomorrow's show. Well, here I am. It's your fault, Trump. Could he get a note to make sure he mentions it? Well, the back office functions perfectly. Our meetup is this Saturday on the 7th of December in Aurora, Illinois at Two Brothers right outside of Chicago.

Starting point is 02:55:28 I only have like one RSVP. We normally get 10 to 15. It's on the meetup site. Thank you for your courage, Sir Brian with a Y. Well, you've got your promotion there. And before we move on here is a report from the South Dakota meetup. Hey, this is John of the Dale coming to you from Crow Peak brewing here in Spearford, South Dakota. Beautiful sunset. If you didn't find us, maybe we were out on the balcony watching the sunset over Crow Peak here in northwest South Dakota. In the morning. In the morning, John and Adam, this is Kaitlyn and Casey's the Spook. In the morning, John and Adam, I am not the Spook. Thank you very much.

Starting point is 02:56:04 In the morning, happy Thanksgiving and hope am not the spook. Thank you very much. In the morning, happy Thanksgiving and hope to see you in December. Crow peak. In the morning. A lot of girls there. Let's see, today we have the 805 rooftop meetup. It's underway at Goleta HGI rooftop in Goleta, California. No, not yet.

Starting point is 02:56:20 Two more hours before it kicks off. The outer swamp meetup at six o'clock at Java Nation, Rockville Maryland, so you want to go check that one out you can get there in time no problem. We have the Northern Wake Publical Slave Gathering at six o'clock at Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Gitmo Bratz and Festive Hats 630 at Jackson's Cozy Lounge in Gladewater, Texas. The Noagental Lowlands Wageningen Economic Food Hub, that's W-E-F, meetup, Bitter Balls and Croquettes Galore, ah, as Tina would say, that's brain matter that's fried.

Starting point is 02:56:54 7 o'clock Amsterdam time, that's tomorrow, Stats Brauerei in Wageningen, Guus Kadaver, who donated earlier for our Broken Brain Night. We'll be hosting that. On Saturday, the meetup at Mimsy's, 1130 in the morning, Mimsy's Coffee and Curiosities in Rogersville, Alabama. The boners and donors meet up at one o'clock on Saturday at McDaniels Island on Daniel Island. That's not downtown. That's Daniel Island, South Carolina. Saturday as well, the west coast of Florida, 5 p.m. Eastern. Three brewing in st. Pete, Florida the North Carolina triad no agenda meetup 2 o'clock Eastern little brother brewing formerly Kernersville Brewing Company in Kernersville, North Carolina the ITM from New Mexico

Starting point is 02:57:37 This is a brand new one for Jeff to Higg Please go check him out in Albuquerque, New Mexico at saw mill market 2 o'clock on Check them out in Albuquerque, New Mexico at Saw Mill Market 2 o'clock on Saturday The local 406 chicken beer and vinyl 330 on Saturday at Hop Lounge in Bozeman, Montana This is some good parties real Fox Valley meetup number 5 3 30 at 2 Brothers roundhouse in downtown Aurora, Illinois that's across from the Haitians and Ottawa Ontario Canada meetup 433 at Johnny's Canuck Bar and Grill Crown Point Center in Orléans Ontario Canada and we have a promo from the folks there at West Palm Beach Florida they produce

Starting point is 02:58:18 they produce a lot come on in by order of his grace the king and the first men lord of the seven kingdoms and protector of the realm, you are courtly invited to a game of axes and knives if you dare. On Sunday the 15th of December a king's feast will be served all across the land of West Palm Beach Florida. But knights and dames, please beware, winter is coming, so you must RSVP to be there. We'll drink and we'll throw things. Those guys really get into it. Shades of the Renaissance Fair.

Starting point is 02:58:58 There you go. Have a good time there and check out all of the No Agenda Meetups. They're at noagendameetups.com. This is the perfect time to go and join in some festivities and merriment right around the holidays. NoAgendaMeetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. You can to be where you won't be. Triggered or held to blame. You want to be where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. Yeah, baby. Like a big party.

Starting point is 02:59:39 Alright, John Sip of the Day is coming up. Hey, by the way, I mentioned something else Brunetti had to say. He said that you left out Hookers and Blow and Rent Boys and Chardonnay on the last nighting and he... ... thinks that you're going to change it for good. No? I... Did I really miss that? Well, he claims. He says what good is being a knight? I certainly wouldn't have left it out on purpose. I think I've been adding cigars and prostitutes, in fact, as an addition since that came up.

Starting point is 03:00:18 I've been doing that for the past couple of shows. I will double check on this. Any other notes? Any other notes? From the suits. Can't eat, right? I mean, we do a podcast, so we don't have to do that. Now we get Brunetti, donates twice in his life and now he thinks he can say

Starting point is 03:00:39 something just cause he let you drive the fire engine? Yeah, well, you know, I signed off on it. Screw this Hollywood douche. What's he trying to do to us? He's trying to rip us apart. He's turned into a suit. He is a suit. He's a suit. He's got a cyber truck and a suit.

Starting point is 03:01:02 Enough said. All right, Brunetti, email me. How about a bonus clip? Oh, you got a bonus clip. Okay. Yeah. That's always fun. It's under TPK, but I should say talk. This is, this was a talk. Yes, I talk. Oh boy. This is lesbian Joe Pesci. And the reason it's called this is because this woman is wearing a white shirt.

Starting point is 03:01:23 Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Did talking about Brunetti make you come up with this? No, I'm going over the list here. I saw it and I said, well, I should get this out of the way because people love these talk clips. Yes, they encourage you. Yes, they do. Yes, they do.

Starting point is 03:01:38 They encourage you. They encourage me. That's exactly what they do. Yeah, that's happening. And you hate it. I know that. I can tell. So this is a woman who looks like Joe Pesci is the reason it was called that.

Starting point is 03:01:54 And she's on arrest. She's ranting against you. You maggot nuts. This is a message for any MAGA cultist that knows me, that is in my family, that used to be, and I mean used to be my friend. If you are a MAGA cultist, if you follow and or support the orange shit turd, I want no part of you. I don't care if you are my niece, my nephew, my cousin, my siblings, my parents, my kids. I don't care who you are.

Starting point is 03:02:35 If you support this clown, we are not friends. We are not family any longer because you just supported someone against my rights and the rights of people that I love. If I work with you, I have to be professional and I have to speak with you professionally at work so that I don't lose my job. However, make no mistake. If you support him, I will never be your friend. We would never be friends out of work and I will never respect you. That's all I have to say. Now is you play this because you think this is funny?

Starting point is 03:03:25 I think it's pathetic. I think it's pathetic. It makes me very sad. But I'd like to know, it's always about me, me, me. It's like you voted for him against me and my rights. Where are they getting this? You had this earlier in the show, you had this, this rundown of, of these complaints. And I don't think it was emphasized enough about these people taking this personally as somehow their rights are being attacked.

Starting point is 03:03:56 And you, if you voted for Trump, you voted against them personally. Our university system, our entire education system and whoever has been met our pharmaceutical system, our entire education system, and whoever has been meddling inside the brains of people through social media have created a massive group of people with narcissistic personality disorder because that's what this is. And to add to that, when you accuse someone of being a narcissist, which these people have accused Trump of being, then there's a pretty good chance

Starting point is 03:04:31 that you're accusing someone of that of what you are yourself. These are narcissists. It is now a mental disease. And these people need a hug. They need to be loved and not excoriated. Well, I think that's very, very magnanimous of you. Magnanimous?

Starting point is 03:04:55 Yeah, magnanimous. What does that mean in this context? It means you're a good guy. Yeah, I don't want... Personally, yeah. Well, maybe... I'm not hugging these people. Maybe if I'd seen the Joe Pesci look, I would have thought differently about it. But this is why I don't like these clips because you can't see these people.

Starting point is 03:05:16 You admit it. You don't like the clips. You heard that people. Send him a note. Adam McCurry.com. We want more clips. I don't have Brunetti send a note to you. Yeah, John, I really don't think that these TikTok clips

Starting point is 03:05:30 are any good, because we can't see them, so we don't get all the context after you've seen them. Anyway. I explain the context, I can explain. I know how to do that. So what time did Brunetti send out the Zoom call invites, so we all get on the call at the same time for us to berate us about how we're doing the show. For the meeting? For the meeting. I'm not doing any. Postmortem meeting? All right. What are your ISOs? Okay, I got it. What do you got? I'll play mine. I have two. These old guys who say something stupid.

Starting point is 03:06:00 That's us. And here. They're like, well, I was in a podcast. Uh-huh. That's us. And here. They're like, well, I was in a podcast. Uh-huh. I can't even understand that. Okay, all right.

Starting point is 03:06:08 So I have two that are pretty clear, I think. Okay, all right. Start with free. And it's free. Oh, that's kind of nice, because it is free. That's good, I like that, I like that. Yeah, I like it too, it's free. And the other one.

Starting point is 03:06:21 And then the end. And that is the end of the podcast. No, no, that one wins hands down. And the other one? And then the end. And that is the end of the podcast. No, no, that one wins hands down. Or we could do a double. I'm actually thinking, I think. And that is the end of the podcast. And it's free.

Starting point is 03:06:35 How about that? I like the double. I like, we're going for the double. You just got a double. Everybody, it's time once again for John's tip of the day. Green advice for you and me. Just a tip with JCP. And sometimes, Adam. I have a, this is a sometimes moment.

Starting point is 03:06:55 I have a tip that if you don't mind, I'd like to give a little tip. This comes from our producer, Fielding E. Fowler, and this is a tip for parents. And I'm going to read it. My wife and I have a tip for you. We have two very active human resources and often can't wait to see the school bus drop the other kids on the block home from school. We home school and when they leave the house to go play they take a small walkie talkie with them instead of a phone. It works great.

Starting point is 03:07:27 We can call them home when dinner is done and they can call if they need help. No screen and no internet. One of the other families gave their eight-year-old a cell phone and what do you know? It's never charged and the screen is busted. All the other families are jealous because we are smarter than them. We are using our no agenda intelligence. I think that's a great idea. And you know what? It's cool. I think if you give your kid one of those GPRS, is it GPRS?

Starting point is 03:07:53 GRPS? One of those walkie talkies that has a decent range. They have a pretty good, some of them have a big range for, yeah, they run on C band or something, CB band or one of these things. No, it's not CB, no, no, it's like 145 megahertz or something. Well, they go about a mile. Yeah, at least, and then the kid can hook it on their belt,

Starting point is 03:08:15 they're rugged. And the kid's got it on his belt, he looks like a mold cop. Fantastic. And can just say, hey mom, hey mom, you know, like yes Can you have some chocolate milk ready for me? And of course moms say sure no problem The kids will be like that's so awesome. I like this tip. I think it's a great tip You can buy them on Amazon for about 20 bucks for a pair They're pretty cheap made in China. Yeah now before the price goes up. That's right

Starting point is 03:08:49 All right, so we got a guy in the medical industry or he's in the billing thing, he knows his... The long story, the background is good on... This is another tip from a fan. A fan? What are we, the Tim Pool Show now? What is this? What is this fan business? I hate to burst your bubble.

Starting point is 03:09:11 So, uh, he was just, it's basically a bitch letter about, uh, recent, but, but at the end he has the tip of the day. Oh, this is the one about, uh, how we lost $7,000. No. Oh my gosh. Oh, you didn't get that note. Well, I do recall something about $7,000, but that's not this note. Do you want me to just mention this guy's note real quick? Just to…

Starting point is 03:09:32 What's his name? His name is… Let me see. His name is… I think I omitted his name probably. Sean. Oh, yeah. This is David.

Starting point is 03:09:40 It's not the same guy. Anyway, Sean said that he lost $7,000 due to Synapse Technologies declared bankruptcy, which was the very FinTech that Mark Andreessen funded. And those guys said, oh, we don't have any money to make everybody whole. He has a whole long story about it. I'll put it in these. Oh, geez. I don't remember. Now, I know. It's terrible. Yeah.

Starting point is 03:10:07 Okay. This is the tip of the day for medicine, people without insurance or with insurance. Tip of the day, if you don't have insurance, call up the medical facility and ask for the cash rate. Ah, yes. They may push back, but most will provide you with a charge that is reasonable. And in many cases, lower than you would have to pay with your insurance plan. We've talked about this in great detail in the show, about how they jack it up, jack

Starting point is 03:10:37 it up, and they get all these phony numbers, and what you pay is actually more than anybody pays. But if you go for the cash rate, it might actually be cheaper. The real tip is you must say that you do not have insurance coverage or else they will be obligated to charge you the insurance rates. There you go. I found that to be a tip. Well that's a long, a, a tip plus, this is exactly what crowd health does. That's what Tina has.

Starting point is 03:11:07 I think she pays $200 a month. And if something comes up and I think she, anything under $500, she pays for herself, anything over that, she submits it to them. It's not an insurance plan. It's more like a layaway plan. And then they go to the doctor, hospital, et cetera. They say, hey, no insurance. And they negotiate the cash price. And then they crowdfund it from the money they already have. That's why it's called Crowd Health. It's very good. She's had a lot of success with it, loves it. And email Tina at curry.com and she'll send you a coupon, a code.

Starting point is 03:11:43 Wow. and email Tina at curry.com and she'll send you a coupon, a code. Wow. That's your tip of the day, everybody. Yeah, there're just over tip these days. People get so much benefit. And you can go to tipoftheday.net or noagendafund.com to revisit these. They're good tips people. It's worth hanging out to the end of the show to get them. And with that, we will be returning on Sunday. It's a lot going on. The oil baron's coming to stay for a day with us.

Starting point is 03:12:30 So I'm sure I'll have lots of oil barony type news. Excited. And we'll be back on Sunday with more media deconstruction for your pleasure. End of show mixes, Leo Le Pu Puke who's still hanging in there we're happy to hear that. Sir Aaron Yoho and Judd Haley all with end of show mixes and up next on NoAgendaStream.com, TrollRoom.io, Random Thoughts the Democrat Discount that is from the show that just aired yesterday so stay tuned for that. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Starting point is 03:13:06 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak. Please remember us at noagendadonations.com. Help the show out, keep us rolling, time, talent, treasure, until Sunday. Adios, mofos, a hooey, hooey, and such. ...and such.

Starting point is 03:13:33 I said I'd abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him. I could speak for the president and he said he would not pardon his son. Is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son? No. I just said no. When would the president pardon or commute his son if he's convicted? So I've answered this question before. It was asked of me not too long ago, a couple of weeks ago, and I was very clear and I said no. No, I'm not term security neighborhood. What's going on in your neighborhood?

Starting point is 03:14:24 Security neighborhood. Ukraine's not in in your neighborhood? Security neighborhood. Ukraine's not in the EU. They're not in NATO. No. They're just in around the corner. They're over there. In the neighborhood. Yeah, in the security neighborhood. Yes. And they... What's going on in your neighborhood? In the neighborhood. In the security neighborhood. These guys, they see Trump coming in to stop this war. And they're now, what are we going to stop it for? We can come up with $200 billion of our money, or of our stupid taxpayer money that we have at our disposal. They don't want peace.

Starting point is 03:15:03 That lady was right. Is this like Hughes' net? They don't want peace! That lady was right! It's just like you, Znet! We're two old boomers! It's just like you, Znet! It's the thing where we all text each other in a little message group. We're two old boomers! You talked about earlier, the groups, these little groups that you write notes to each other in a little message group. Yeah, we're two old boomers. You talked about earlier, the groups, these little groups that you write notes to each other. Oh, the text group.

Starting point is 03:15:29 The text group. Just like, just like, just like, just like yousnet. The text group. The text message group. This guy can't believe it. That lady was right. You don't even know what a text message group is. That lady was right.

Starting point is 03:15:47 Is this like, is this like, is this like, usin' it? We're two old boomers. Text group, yes, it's called the text group. The New York Times now calls women non-transgender women. I think these women are weak-minded. I think these women are weak minded. It's just like, it's just like, it's just like, it's just like you's net. The best podcast in the universe. Audio, mofo.

Starting point is 03:16:18 Dvorak.org slash NA. And that is the end of the podcast.

No Agenda - 1718 - "On The Fritz"

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