No Agenda - 1721 - "Doc Doc Go"

Episode Date: December 15, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Don't cook bacon naked. FEMA region number six. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we've discovered that the drones are looking for dirty bombs, dirty bombs. I'm John C. DeVorek. Oh man, did you see the video of that guy, the nine minute video? Yes, I have standing. I am Yes, I have standing. I am a domain expert. I make drones for the US military. Some guy told me... I have standing, but some guy told me. Yes, and he's very high up, very high up, but he's been trying to get everyone to know that there's a loose nuke, a loose nuke that came from Ukraine.
Starting point is 00:01:04 It's in the US, and loose nuke that came from Ukraine. It's in the US and they're looking for it at night. And I'm like, you know, the network- They're looking for it at night because it glows in the dark. It's exactly what we were talking about on the last episode. This is the law of large numbers at work. It works perfectly. You launch something in there, you just let it go.
Starting point is 00:01:24 Maybe you fly some military drone or two, you know. Let's make sure they all have flashing lights so we know that they're covert and searching for something very secretively. And then all of America suddenly, they never look up to the sky. Now, hey, there's a lot going on in the sky. I didn't know that. Oh my God, we must be under attack.
Starting point is 00:01:49 It must be drones. What's happening? It's like people don't look up. They're always looking down on their phones. For the first time, America, New Jersey, my old state, they're looking in the sky. Oh man, there's a lot going on there. Yeah, including a whole bunch of whack jobs who are flying their drones to get on the local news.
Starting point is 00:02:09 This is great. I love it. And I want to finalize this today. Can we finalize it? Can I get a witness? Can I finalize this? It won't happen. Oh yeah, no, it's happening. It's happening. But first- No, they're going to keep this bull crap up for another week. No, no's happening. It's happening. But first, No, they're going to keep this, this bull crap up for another week. No, no, no. Just using up too many news cycles. They're loving it. Yeah. Another week. I'll give you another week, but let me just, let me just roll through a couple of clips here and then we'll lock it all down. I want to make a point,
Starting point is 00:02:36 except for the one to two second half of show clips I have, but I want you to note, if you look at my rundown, I'm looking at your run down. There's no drone clips whatsoever. And I appreciate that. And I did have the one I was thinking of using, which was Majorca's, a real doofus coming out and saying, no, everyone's imagining it. I didn't, you should have gotten that one. I didn't. I'll tell you what he says. I don't have the Majorca's one.
Starting point is 00:03:08 Majorca's comes out and he talks for 10 minutes and everything he says is, no, there's nothing going on. People are seeing like an airplane and five people report it. And so it's five reports of different drones and it's all imagined. Nobody, there's nothing to see here, period. Is great. This wasn't up and I'm going to explain it.
Starting point is 00:03:27 And I'm just going to bring closure to what we talked about on the last episode and everybody can calm down. And then yeah, we'll give them another week of this nonsense. And we'll be on to something else. You've already forgotten about hot Luigi. I mean, how disappointing is that? Yeah, poor Luigi.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Poor Luigi. All right, first, there's nothing like getting a borough president from Staten Island all angry. I mean, it's just funny. Now, we've reported on these drone concerns in New Jersey. Some experts have said the sightings could very well be lawfully manned aircrafts. Today, we're hearing from officials on Staten Island about the same topic.
Starting point is 00:04:02 Take a listen. You know, there's a saying that we had after at the nine eleven if you see say if you see something say something i think that's become if you see something that worry about it forget about it and people start my own uh... of the answers to the people of this city and state regions are
Starting point is 00:04:22 answers of what the heck is going on. So we've heard from the FBI and the FBI says there's no reason to believe that these recent possible drone sightings pose a national security threat. Now in terms of what we're getting from local officials we're being told we're going to get an update this afternoon at some point Bianca in terms of what they've been looking at here. So the best part of this operation is John Kirby who is you know he's the rear admiral he's the spokes hole for the White House Pentagon he's a spokes hole for everything and this is the best because he just does this with a stone cold face it's impressive I think he should win an Academy Award for this. Upon review of available imagery,
Starting point is 00:05:08 it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully. The United States Coast Guard is providing support to the state of New Jersey and has confirmed that there is no evidence of any foreign based involvement No evidence. from coastal vessels.
Starting point is 00:05:23 Exactly, no evidence. And importantly, there are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace. That's it. Well, wait a minute. Yes? That was a tricky one. He's good, I'm telling you, he's good. He said there was no reported drone sightings in any restricted areas, which is only a very limited number of places In other words, there could be drones all over the place
Starting point is 00:05:48 Yes, but not in restricted places like over the way he does it he passes it over as though there's no drone Oh, this is carefully scripted. He knows oh, he's good. Yeah. No, he knows what he's doing He's careful. You're right And Emmy at least. New Jersey and investigate the reports even though they have uncovered no malicious activity or intent at this particular stage While there is no known malicious activity occurring the reported sightings there do however highlight a gap in authorities To pass important legislation And existing counter drone authorities. Yes. Yes. Yes Almost word-for-word the same message from Mallorca.
Starting point is 00:06:48 Of course, because this is a script. We'll get to it. I have a sequence. We're going to set it up, hammer it home, and then we can let the M5M drone on. Ha ha! Pun intended for the next week or so. But it's ending. And so we urge Congress to pass important legislation that will extend and expand existing
Starting point is 00:07:06 counter drone authorities so that we are better prepared to identify and mitigate any potential threats to airports or other critical infrastructure. And so that state and local authorities are provided all the tools that they need to respond to such threats as well. There you go. Okay. So he said everything perfectly. He hasn't lied about anything. He's done a little bit of a setup, but we really needed legislation for this. I'm going
Starting point is 00:07:32 to give you Inside Edition with their report because it brings in a little bit of the hysteria, which we actually saw back on the radio with War of the Worlds, you know, there's some of that going on here. Hello, and thanks for joining us. There are increasing demands for the government to share what it knows and what it doesn't know about the mysterious drones that have been hovering over New Jersey. This startling photo shows eight in the sky at one time.
Starting point is 00:08:00 Suns are now spreading to other states, including New York and Pennsylvania. Spreading. And politicians are calling for them to be shot out of the sky politicians, note there's a lot of politicians who are coming out and talking more politicians than FBI or law enforcement it's mainly politicians here they are drone hysteria is ratcheting up
Starting point is 00:08:21 drone hysteria extraordinary new images are emerging today like like this time lapse video from New Jersey purportedly showing drone activity. And now they're on the move towards New York City. That's a drone. A drone can't go that high, bro. This video posted on TikTok was apparently taken on Staten Island.
Starting point is 00:08:40 More drone sightings were reported just outside LaGuardia Airport. I've been getting multiple calls for drones. I have about five to ten drones covering LaGuardia. And still no one knows who launched them. People of this city, and state, and region deserve answers of what the heck is going on. Local lawmakers today are demanding answers. One congresswoman says she feels like she's in an alien movie. There you go. Twenty years ago, they filmed War of the Worlds
Starting point is 00:09:08 on Staten Island. And now we feel like we're characters in that movie. Yeah. What is happening is outrageous. New Jersey Senator Andy Kim says he went out with the state police and personally observed five to seven lights in the sky. Lights in the sky. Maryland's former governor Larry Hogan says, I personally witnessed and videoed what appeared and personally observed five to seven lights in the sky. Lights in the sky! Maryland's former governor Larry Hogan says, I personally witnessed and videoed what appeared to be dozens of large drones in the sky above my residence
Starting point is 00:09:33 in Davidsonville, Maryland, 25 miles from our nation's capital. I observed the activity for approximately 45 minutes. Okay, so that's just a little bit of the entertainment angle. Oh No one ever but what they missed was, you know, someone should have done a Rudolph angle They should have done, you know a red blinking light. It's got to be Santa and his sleigh. No one pulled that one in I'm a little disappointed
Starting point is 00:09:58 So here is the true setup and this is where The false prophets start to unveil themselves. New Jersey lawmakers and law enforcement agencies are demanding answers from the federal government as alleged drone sightings continue across the area. The federal government to just shun this away is unreasonable, quite frankly unacceptable. New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith says he's now drafting legislation that would give local and state agencies the power to investigate drone activity and also asks the federal government for technology to do so.
Starting point is 00:10:35 Knowing that drone warfare has radically changed war fighting in Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East and elsewhere, this is not the time to trivialize or dismiss the threat. As the concerned calls of sightings continue, the Ocean County Sheriff's Department has been using its drone to investigate. The sheriff says the drone has captured several concerning encounters, including one allegedly flying at what seems like 60 miles an hour, some traveling in groups of dozens. She reports that she saw 50 drones coming from the ocean to the mainland, transversing the airways over
Starting point is 00:11:11 Island Beach State Park, going down towards Watergate Light and coming to the seaside area. Meantime in New York, Stewart Airport in Orange County was closed for about an hour Friday night due to a drone signing. Governor Kathy Hockel is urging Congress to give power to state and local agencies. She said, quote, until those powers are granted to state and local officials, the Biden administration must step in
Starting point is 00:11:35 in directing additional federal law enforcement to New York and the surrounding region to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and our people. Senior administration officials said Saturday there have been 5,000 tips reported to the FBI regarding drones. Of them, less than 100 required further investigation. And while federal officials maintain there is no obvious threat, they admit that there are unidentified drones overhead in New Jersey.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Okay. So we've almost heard every single bit of what had to happen and what the setup was. And you know the false profits buy their fruits. Here it is. Congress has just eight days until government funding is set to run out. Next Friday, December 20th is the deadline to get a spending measure passed. Meanwhile, progress is being made on the annual defense bill. Mike Gooding has the latest.
Starting point is 00:12:25 The House passed the $895 billion National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday on a bipartisan 281 to 140 vote. The NDAA includes a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and a 4.5% hike for all other members. The most contentious provision was a restriction on the use of TRICARE funds for gender affirming care for the children 18 years and younger of service members. Local Democrats Bobby Scott and Jennifer McClellan opposed that part of the bill, but still voted yes for the overall measure, joining local Republicans Jen Kiggins and Rob Whitman.
Starting point is 00:13:01 So this whole, the whole transgender transgender thing that's what they had really thrown out there to to make this not happen but in this was the very controversial HR 8610 counter UAS authority security safety and reauthorization act. That's what this was about. This gives local law enforcement the power to police drones and most importantly as I read the bill, it just passed, literally passed the bill where they will be able to outlaw drones from China. This was a very controversial bill because the drone lobby is not small small and very vocal it includes police departments it includes Film it's every single aspect of society is using drones commercial drones and now they will have to buy
Starting point is 00:13:58 drones from US Manufacturers kit. Can I read the note from Joel? Yeah, please do In the morning gentlemen, I want to say something regarding the drone topic from Thursday. I work at a video production company in Tulsa. As the only FAA commercially licensed drone pilot at my job, I've been flying drones for my job for some years now. It's important to note that you don't need a license. He goes on about the licensing issues.
Starting point is 00:14:22 But then he brings up this. Regarding the legislation, I've been aware of this bill for a while. I'm no bill diver, but it sounds like they're going to outlaw any and all drones that are manufactured in China specifically DJI products. This is disappointing, as all the best camera drones are manufactured by DJI products. This is disappointing as all the best camera drones are manufactured by DJI. I think a lot of people in this industry would be back to square one with camera drones because it seems like everyone
Starting point is 00:14:54 uses DJI and most don't build their own drones. I for one hope this bill doesn't pass. We're invested a lot of money in our drone fleet. And I would prefer to keep using them. I hope this helps. And it gets even worse because it looks like the FCC will ban these DJI drones from using frequencies because of, well, you know, they're clearly transmitting back all kinds of data. They're sucking up and, you know, back to China
Starting point is 00:15:23 or whatever the nonsense is. We got a note from the Baron anonymous cop quick boots on the ground Just some background as a cop drone pilot. Did you know he was a drone pilot or an anonymous bear? I know I know now I don't him we know that he says I don't spend my time checking out girls like John says I do We know that he says I don't spend my time checking out girls like John says I do The drone is tossed up We're looking for dudes jumping fences from stolen cars are helping the fire department find hot spots at house fires That being said the easiest no hassle and cheapest for public entities to purchase are the Chinese made drones The typical American made consumer drone and he has a link there, costs one third to double the price.
Starting point is 00:16:05 They are attempting to be more competitive, but the price and capability of the Chinese product is not matched yet. Some lawmakers during the discussions about this bill were even going so far as calling it tick-tock with wings. This was a very controversial piece of legislation and what what happened here this complete Psyop with very carefully worded statements from Kirby and Mayorkas was cover cover for the lawmakers so they wouldn't get heat well it's the government's not telling us it's the government it's the military is these
Starting point is 00:16:41 guys we're I mean we've got to pass this stuff now because, you know, who knows? It could be aliens, it could be Chinese that are launching from motherships. Bullcrap. And the guy behind this happens to have a big hand in YouTube, maybe not directly anymore. But we were on this over a year ago. Today on Forbes, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is working on a secret military drone project. Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been quietly plotting a new defense tech effort, a stealth military drone project. This according to four sources with knowledge of the effort. The project's existence has not been previously reported, and it has yet to publicly launch. The clandestine project intends to provide an American alternative to Chinese drones
Starting point is 00:17:33 and will develop unmanned aircraft systems specifically to be used on the battlefield, two of the sources said. Three of the sources familiar with Schmidt's engagements said the work is influenced by his recent visits to Ukraine, where the billionaire has made inroads with government officials and military leaders over the past year. Two of these individuals added that Sebastian Thrun, a co-founder of Google's Moonshot Lab, is involved with the effort. Forbes was unable to determine who other than Thrun is helping with the secretive project. So it all comes back to, you heard it in the previous one, well, you know, drones are really important in warfare.
Starting point is 00:18:06 We saw it in Ukraine with Russia. And here's an interview that Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Google, did. I think it was Stanford talking about his new project. The secret project is called White Stork and it's kind of out in the open now. Let's talk to about a real war that's going on. I know that something you've been very involved in is the Ukraine war and in particular, I don't know if you can talk about White Stork and your goal of having $500,000, $500 drones destroy $5 million tanks.
Starting point is 00:18:38 How's that changing warfare? I worked for the Secretary of Defense for seven years and tried to change the way we run our military. I'm not a particularly big fan of the military, but it's very expensive and I wanted to see if I could be helpful. And I think in my view, I largely failed. They gave me a medal, so they must give medalists to failure or whatever. My self-criticism was nothing has really changed and the system in America is not going to lead to real innovation.
Starting point is 00:19:09 So watching the Russians use tanks to destroy apartment buildings with little old ladies and kids just drove me crazy. So I decided to work on a company with your friend, Sebastian Thrun, as a former faculty member here, and a whole bunch of Stanford people. And the idea basically is to do two things, use AI in complicated, powerful ways for these essentially robotic war. And the second one is to lower the cost of the robot. Now you sit there and you go,
Starting point is 00:19:36 why would a good liberal like me do that? And the answer is that the whole theory of armies is tanks, artilleries and mortar, and we can eliminate all of them. This is a complete shift. He was on it very early. He helped out with Ukraine. All we've heard about continuously Iranian drones,
Starting point is 00:19:57 Russian drones, Ukraine drones, anti-drone technology. It's all drones and we needed to pass this because we've got to get China out of the market and Eric Schmidt is no Small player this guy is a mover and shaker in Washington He and in fact, he's more than that now. He's well here. He'll tell you himself because I've been doing this for the last year I've learned a lot about war that I really did not want to know And one of the things to know about war is that the offense always has the advantage because you can always overwhelm the defensive systems.
Starting point is 00:20:31 And so you're better off as a strategy of national defense to have a very strong offense that you can use if you need to. And the systems that I and others are building will do that. Because of the way the system works, I am now a licensed arms dealer. So computer scientist, businessman, arms dealer. And...
Starting point is 00:20:51 And... I'm sorry to say. I don't know, I do not recommend this in your career path. I stick with AI. This was complete setup and it worked beautifully. Everybody jumped right into it. Cause we don't, we're looking down at our phones, not up in the sky. This is all about Eric Schmidt getting his drones
Starting point is 00:21:10 into the military. He is now a licensed arms dealer and okay, I'll give you one more week because it's kind of funny, but it's going to end. It's all gonna fade away. We may get another huge distraction, but it's done. It's over. It's passed. That's what they
Starting point is 00:21:25 needed. That's what they wanted. And if you have a DJI drone, you're going to find yourself out of luck, I think. I don't think so. You don't modify the drone so there's no way of knowing. You're going to have a licensed drone. It's going to, I don't think, no. You can't, you have to, you need these drones for public safety. I think that the anonymous cop said it, you know, for what it's worth. But this is so disappointing because Eric Schmidt was, you know, he was at Novell and then he was at Google and he was a pretty nice guy. He used to be on Silicon spin quite a few times. He was a very nice liberal. What happened?
Starting point is 00:22:06 Yeah, but he's a liberal gone rogue. Now he's basically a munitions maker. Yeah, exactly. And you think that he... I mean, how do you go from A to B? If you go from being this borderline pacifist liberal to being an arms dealer. I mean, why, what makes you do that? Money? He's already a multi-billionaire.
Starting point is 00:22:31 He's got so many, you know, he's like up there in the top 10. Well, now you might as well say that about everybody, every billionaire. Well, why would the billionaire want more money? That's how it works. What do you mean? I don't know if it's that if it's that there's something,
Starting point is 00:22:45 I think it's more power than, than money. All right. Power then I'll give you power. Um, but, but now you'll have local cops can say, Hey, show me your papers. Is this running on DJI stuff? You watch this. You know, the one thing that was interesting is they, uh, back to Joel's note, he says you're legally required to get a license from the FAA if you want to make money flying drones. That's the reason you need a license.
Starting point is 00:23:13 But then he says anybody can buy a drone and fly it almost anywhere. And there's no way, he says everyone is legally supposed to register every drone with the FAA, but the enforcement in my experience is nearly non-existent. Right. Which is why non-existent. Right, which is why they- Okay, you can give it to the local cops, they're not gonna do anything. No, but you're missing it.
Starting point is 00:23:30 All the local cops have been, they don't have, it's always been FAA. This bill now gives local law enforcement the power to go out and harass you with your drone. They're not gonna do it. They got other things to do. Oh, please. It's too much work.
Starting point is 00:23:44 I worked in the D. Oh, please. They're not gonna do it. They got other things to do. It's too much work. I worked in the G. Oh please. They love harassing the citizens. Are you kidding me? Oh I don't think so. Let's ask the Baron Anonymous Cop again about how much cops would like the idea of harassing some kids that are flying a drone
Starting point is 00:24:00 around the schoolyard. Well you have a very idealistic view of the world, my friend. No, I don't. I have a very realistic view of the world. People don't like to do extra work. They like to do fun work. They don't want to do actual work. It's not fun to harass a bunch of kids over a drone.
Starting point is 00:24:17 Yeah, when everyone's calling the kids flying a drone over my house, we'll come by, we'll take care of it. Nobody likes that. These cops don't even like domestic violence reports. All right. drone over my house. Yeah, we'll come by. We'll take care of it. Nobody likes that. These cops don't even like domestic violence reports. All right. Well, you know, they'll pull somebody over for speeding. I think that's about as far as they really want to go. Bank robbery. Oh God, what is too much? They got to write reports. Give me a break.
Starting point is 00:24:39 This is no different from shutting down TikTok. It's all for competition of other technology firms. It's the same thing. Well, with that, I'm not arguing that point. I'm arguing the point that you think cops want to do more extra work. No, I didn't say that. I said local law enforcement for a long time has been asking for powers to police drones that are flying around in their jurisdictions.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Where's the evidence of that? It's in their jurisdictions. Where's the evidence of that? It's in the bill. Where's the evidence of that statement? It's in the bill. No, where's the evidence of what you said that local law, like my local cops in Albany, for example, are wanting… I just played the clips where they said, the local law enforcement, the guys were saying it, local law enforcement wants jurisdiction over this.
Starting point is 00:25:24 It was in the clips I just played. It was in, but not from local law enforcement. That was from government. Okay. All right. No. Okay. It wasn't a local. You'd give me a local cop. Give me a clip of a police chief saying he wants that. Okay, John. All right. Fine. All right. Fine. Then it's all going to be fine. No change necessary. This was only for military. Okay, that's fine I didn't say that either. I'm just saying that you have this is Assumption that local police departments want more work local police departments want jurisdiction over drones That is in the bill. It is a request it because it's in the bill doesn't mean it's true Okay, All right. Fine.
Starting point is 00:26:10 Okay. Maybe they were just sniffing for nukes, man. It's in the bill. People want it. They've been calling for this. It just goes back to trying to cut off Chinese competitions. It's got nothing to do with local law enforcement or anything else. It's about DJI and the fact that we have people in this country that don't like Chinese competition. That's true, but I have researched this enough to know that local law enforcement,
Starting point is 00:26:39 it may not be the cop on the beat, but the local law enforcement, the sheriffs, the police chiefs, they want, whether they do something with it or not, they want to have the power, the territorial law enforcement of drones in their jurisdictions. That's very clearly set out and all the arguments have always included this and every single politician was saying it because that's the only way that they could get everybody on board with it. Yeah. Yeah. So they could screw DJI.
Starting point is 00:27:12 Yeah, true. But I think that there's a lot of drone stuff that cops deal with that they would like to just be able to say, knock it off, shut it down. It, there's a lot going on with drones in the country. And so, yeah, maybe not the cop on the beat. I'm sure he doesn't wanna deal with any of this nonsense, but it's going to happen. And these sightings and everything
Starting point is 00:27:40 is going to die down within a week. Well, that I'm not gonna argue with, but I still think this is really just about the Chinese. Yeah, it's about Chinese competition for sure. For sure. And do you think, well, here's the question for the Baron anonymous cop. If he is now forced to, for his department to purchase an inferior product, a US inferior product, inferior product, as he said in his note, over a Chinese drone,
Starting point is 00:28:08 how do you think he's going to feel about the kids having better stuff? It's going to irk him, but he'll let us know because he listens. I don't think it's going to irk him. Man, you know a lot about cops. Well, I've worked with a lot of cops over the year. Yeah, yeah. You have standing. You are a domain expert. No, I have worked with a lot of cops. Yeah. So I'm just saying I believe based upon what I have seen and my research and the reading
Starting point is 00:28:46 that they're going to crack down on any and all people flying Chinese drones. It'll be in essence, like you can set up a pirate radio station, but eventually they'll come and get you. And it's not just FAA, it's FCC. They don't want you transmitting with these very scary DJI drones. So it's going to come down. Hey, you want your funding? Get rid of those drones. Talking about non-drones, let's talk about Syria. Talking about non drones, let's talk about Syria. Wow. Talk about a buzzkill.
Starting point is 00:29:27 All right. Syria. Syria. We got to get to Syria. Syria is the topic is a topic of more importance, it seems to me, than trying to screw the Chinese. I know, but I just want people to calm down. We're not being invaded.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Like, Scott Adams, like, oh, yeah, is it going to be drone warfare over America? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's what he just, he just slashed that on the X. We have to get that flip. It was a post. Drone warfare. Well, yeah. Over America. Could happen. Yeah. It'll be the cop drones against, over America. Could happen. Yeah. It'll be the cop drones against the teenager drones. They're going to be dog fighting. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:30:12 Syria. It has been a historic week in Syria, the first week in a half century that the Assad family did not rule the country. As rebels took hold of Damascus and Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, thousands of political prisoners were released into freedom and Syrian people were dancing in the streets. Morning Edition host, Leila Fadl is in Damascus and she joins us on the line now. Hey, Leila. Hi. What's Damascus like? Let's just start there. Hi. I mean, it's actually really hard to describe. It's this place of extreme happiness, people
Starting point is 00:30:47 for the first time having a taste of freedom, being able to tell their own children what they really think because this was a country where people said the walls had ears. They were afraid even to speak freely at home in case something was said at school, for example, and that would put them in prison. any type of criticism of the Assad regime. And now people can speak freely. They can chant. They can dance in the streets to songs that curse the Assad family. And I want to talk to you about Friday prayers at this historic Umayyad Mosque in the old city where there's the Salahuddin tomb. And people just thronged inside, some who could never pray there because of security reasons, scared that they would
Starting point is 00:31:22 be taken. And it was just thousands of people trying to get into the prayer room. And we got ourselves in, we're sitting among these thousands of people praying, and at the end of their first Friday prayer on what they're calling the Day of Victory, the crowd burst into cheers. It still gives me chills. I've never heard anything like that. But within this happiness there is grief because so many thousands and thousands and thousands of people disappeared during this 14-year civil war that started as peaceful demonstrations, was met with violence and turned into civil war. And so they're searching for their loved ones they're missing that went to prison and they don't know where they are. Some are finding bodies, some are finding nothing and the really lucky
Starting point is 00:32:07 ones are finding their people broken but alive. Oh wait a minute let's just review this for a second because we've been on the Syria beat since the beginning of this show. Yep. What I recall is Syria didn't want to play nice with the West with some pipelines mainly to France. They were, okay, we're just going to be on Russia's side. And then Western influences created a civil war with all kinds of groups, all kinds of military groups. We had our guys in, they were Russian in there. And then the Syrians who were in these in these regions in these areas They flee they fled they fled to Turkey and then Turkey went how this is great I can do all kinds of fun stuff with these people
Starting point is 00:32:52 I'm gonna give them maps on how to get to Sweden how to get to the Netherlands and how to get to France This was all all political and all for resources. It was not a civil war that I can recall all political and all for resources. It was not a civil war that I can recall. If you remember during the, then they said the show's been on for, our show's been on almost 18 years and this started 14 years ago. So we followed the thing from the beginning,
Starting point is 00:33:16 including the era of all the Hollywood celebrities going over there. And Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie driving around. Among others. Yes. And then we had, remember Clooney had the eye in the sky. I keep my eye on these guys. It was all, it was all Hollywood. Do you remember that in the early days when there was some, when the civil war as it were,
Starting point is 00:33:38 there was some, there was some skirmishes outside of the area and they would send reporters into Damascus. Yeah. Do you remember Damascus? They actually invited me to come and do a podcast. Do you remember this? It was, it's way back in the beginning. Oh, I don't remember that. They said, Hey, we'd love for you to come and interview some people and do a podcast from Damascus. They were going to send up tickets and everything.
Starting point is 00:34:01 I decided against it. This was the Arab Spring. Come on. This is, this was a complete Western setup over the pass-through of oil. It was the towns Aleppo and Homs. We talked about them endlessly. It was... Yes, we did. But yes, Homs in particular. But it can, you had the pipeline map and you were doing all this stuff. But I didn't know that you had, maybe you should have done that, but whatever the case. I chickened out. I could have had the podcast myself. You had the control over the feed, man. So if you remembered back in the day, they were sent camera crews into Damascus and it was business
Starting point is 00:34:43 as usual and it looked like any Western city, people roaming around and they were just having, you know, it was normal. It was like normal and people were stunned by the fact that all this other action, barrel bombs and all the rest was going on outside the city. But now according to this report, it wasn't, it was imagined. That never happened because people could now celebrate and dance in the streets, which they never could do before. They could never do that before. Ever. This is bull crap, this report. It's twisting history. It's a complete rewrite. Complete rewrite. And I think that as a service to humanity, we're doing a pretty good job of reminding everybody what really went down. And this woman went, and then the thing that's a kicker here is this, oh,
Starting point is 00:35:28 they were afraid to go to the mosque to pray cause it would have been picked up. What? No, no. I mean, this is not true. So the barrel bombs, which we never saw any evidence. Then it was the chemical weapons, which it wasn't admitted fake. Yeah, that was a fake. And then of course, that was an admitted fake that was still rebuked and still brought to the fore as a real event. And then there, and then there was the actors and the white hats. I don't know if the white hats were that involved there, but there were the
Starting point is 00:35:58 actors and the kids spewing up because they were poisoned if you remember. They were shaken. Yeah. Oh yeah. There was, there was real skirmish and turmoil there because there were all kinds of funded, uh, terrorist groups running around, some of which the U S funded and most of it was to try and thwart Russia and Trump did that too.
Starting point is 00:36:24 We didn't, didn't we drop some- Oh, Trump just sent some bombs in because he was all upset about the poor kids. Yeah, it blew up the airfield. Yeah, yeah. Trump was irked. So he got into it too. So this is like a very,
Starting point is 00:36:41 talking about the drone up, this one is better in terms of, you know. It's much more significant. Yes, I agree. It's more significant and it's just a better job and these guys at NPR are just- Can I give you 21 seconds of Richard Engel just to give you an idea of how Hollywood they've made this. Listen to this. There is one word I'm hearing over and over again. It is paria. Arabic. You did that.
Starting point is 00:37:17 No, no, no. And a lot of celebratory gunfire. That is hit. That's a honest to God report. No. Yes. Yes. No sweetening. You left it on that long, what, 10 seconds of machine gun fire?
Starting point is 00:37:36 Yes. Yes. That is a true report that is not sweetened, not edited. There is one word I'm hearing over and over again. It is Horea. Arabic for freedom. Wow. And a lot of celebratory gunfire. And a lot of celebratory gunfire. And a lot of celebratory gunfire.
Starting point is 00:38:05 Yeah. Emmy award-winning stuff, I tell you. He should get a Pulitzer or something for that incredibly in-depth, important reporting at this hour. Well, let's continue with this. This is a Syria rundown too. And it's also a city that's holding its breath about what may come next because the new authorities are unknown to them.
Starting point is 00:38:27 Right. And let's turn to that because so much emotion is being let out, but there are a lot of questions about the future. With Assad now gone, who's in charge? Yeah. I mean, the opposition, which is now the de facto government, is being led by Hayat al-Hadid al-Sham, an Islamist group that was once linked to Al-Qaeda but broke ties years ago and have sort of rebranded.
Starting point is 00:38:50 Now they've gone from ragtag fighters born in a brutal war against Assad's regime to the de facto government. Now they're working on governing, securing the city. They've got checkpoints looking for weapons among civilians because so many of the military bases just opened up and people took weapons. They've got a transitional government for three months and they say they want to focus on Syria and rebuilding and they want to be welcomed into the global community. Oh yeah, the global energy community.
Starting point is 00:39:20 Sure. All in. You know, there was a story I was reading about Assad and who was the French president at the time? Not Mitterrand? Hollande? I can't remember if it was him. I have to dig the story up. But he was saying to Assad, he was saying, look, we're going to do this pipeline.
Starting point is 00:39:49 We'll take 70%. We'll give you 30%. And he said that to the translator. Assad speaks fluent French. And Assad said to the translator, tell the guy to go F himself. And then the French president said, oh, really? Really, you're going to play that way? And one year later, the Arab Spring started. I have to look and see which president it was. But that's how it went down. That's what it was. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:16 Nonsense. Makes sense. Nonsense. Go to clip three. Have you met and talked to anyone from HDS during your time in Syria? Yeah. I mean, I've talked to a lot of the rebel fighters. I don't even know if we should call them rebels anymore because they're really the de facto authorities and they're at these checkpoints all through the city. I was at the Air Force Intelligence Building in Damascus and I met this young rebel who goes by Abu Mustafa.
Starting point is 00:40:41 He's from Idlib, which is in northwest Syria, and he was a child. He was 11 years old when the uprising began against former President Bashar al-Assad's repressive government. And I just want you to hear what he says. So right there, he's telling me he was 11 when it started and three years later, he took up weapons. Without the permission of his parents, he ran away from home because he says he had to defend his family, his land, that airstrikes were destroying his city, killing his people. He decided he needed to fight. This young man who's only 24 years old was fashioned under this kind of brutality. Today, these young people, many of whom had really never been to Damascus, are now in charge of securing the capital city.
Starting point is 00:41:29 Nat. I mean, Leila, that just gets to the fact that this has been going on for so long now. The initial beginning of the end for the Assad regime began in Arab Spring more than a decade ago. That is something you covered so closely. You look at so many other countries that changed leadership in very different ways during that period of time, you know, Assad dug in and stayed in power, but you saw the different directions that those new governments went. It was a lot of struggle. What do you think that says about what could come next for Syria? John Lennon Struggle. struggle. Well, this story about the kid, you know, defending is whatever, is bull crap.
Starting point is 00:42:09 So we can assume that. And so they ask her about what, you know, Arab Spring was basically a flop. Yeah. Or maybe not. Maybe it wasn't a flop. It did what it was supposed to do, which was be a flop. And her reaction to that question is kind of interesting. did what it was supposed to do, which was be a flop. And her reaction to that question is kind of interesting. This is, I think, one of the last, or the last clip, maybe.
Starting point is 00:42:32 There hasn't been one true success story out of this wave of uprisings at that time, in 2011. Libya, they got freedom, lived with repression, but turned into chaos and now are a divided state with all these militias. You look at Iraq, invaded and occupied by the U.S. and then had its own uprising and again is still struggling. There's been internal fighting among the Syrian opposition. It isn't united and if you look across the country, that continues. There are issues with the security vacuum. Do foreign fighters, do ISIS take advantage of this moment? Are there counter-revolutionary forces?
Starting point is 00:43:05 So a lot could go wrong, but Syrians hope that they are the exception, that a lot could go right. Good luck. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. So that's basically telling us that... Could be fine. Could be fine.
Starting point is 00:43:22 Could be fine. That it's going to become a Sharia country. Yeah. Oh, and the women are going to be wearing the, you know, the full outfits and the whole thing. That's what I was going to end up. They all do that. That's the way they all end up. So why is this going to be any different? No, none. None. And they're shooting a gun in the air. Okay, great.
Starting point is 00:43:41 I have a report about Blinken, because everyone's just, everyone's hanging out now. Let's have a talk. Let's have a meeting. I love that rebels take over. We're just here for a transitional period. Okay. Joyous crowds gather outside a historic mosque in Damascus just under a week since rebel factions ousted President Bashar al-Assad. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Washington is in direct contact with the rebel group that has assumed power. Blinken was at a gathering of Arab leaders to help support Syria's rebuilding process.
Starting point is 00:44:15 Syria has changed more in less than a week than in any week this last half century. No one has any illusions about how challenging this time will be. But there's also something incredibly powerful at work. A Syrian people determined to break with the past and shape a better future. The meeting of top-level diplomats in Jordan is setting out its hopes and goals for the new Syria. It includes foreign ministers from Arab countries, Turkey, and representatives from the European Union and the UN. Notably absent are Russia and Iran, the two main backers of the Assad regime. Notably absent from all reporting is Qatar.
Starting point is 00:44:56 They're part of the bad actors here. It's their gas that they want to send through. But you don't hear much about Qatar. That's a good point. No, that's never mentioned. No, nothing about Qatar. Well, are you done with Syria? I think I'm done with Syria.
Starting point is 00:45:18 I just wanted to...the point of the clips is that this is just a hogwash. Yes. Oh, and the minute Clarissa Ward is walking around, you know, it's hogwash. Richard Engel with Nat Pops. Come on. Did you, uh, Clarissa Ward, somebody put this up on, uh, Twitter, an old clip. She was the one, if you can almost remember this, where they was like at some phony baloneyed up report where she was in a ditch.
Starting point is 00:45:48 Yeah, yeah, oh, she was lying down. Lying down giving a report. Yeah, that wasn't that long ago. No, it wasn't that long ago. And then she gets up and then when she gets up and they survey the scene, there's people wandering around, walking around, there's no reason to be. Riding the bike, you know, grocery shopping.
Starting point is 00:46:07 I mean, this is like the guys that report, you know, they're... The hurricane. The hurricane. The hurricanes are their knee deep. It looks like they're like up to their waist in water. Yeah. And then someone walks by. But they're actually on their knees.
Starting point is 00:46:22 And somebody walks by, you know, behind them. I mean, we make light of it, obviously. It's not fun when you're there. You talk to Israelis like, you don't know what you're talking about. You're making light of it. He killed millions of people. I'm sure millions of people were killed.
Starting point is 00:46:36 Millions of people get killed all over the place. But I don't know if it was just the evil dictator Assad with his swanky bathroom that we heard about from Richard Engels. But we have something new. You know, the Israelis that are, there's people that are mainstream media has propagandized the world as a mechanism. And you had the same, you'll get, you'll get Israelis will be bitching at us for, you know, kind of deconstructing this stuff.
Starting point is 00:47:06 The same as we will a lot of left-wingers who occasionally listen to the show and then they complain that we're biased. It's not just, it's right-wingers who are like, you guys are working for the Jews, you Zionists. Right. How many times they got to hear that? Oh, here you go. Very coincidental, you don't bring up Israel in these things. Mm-hmm, I'm noticing. That's what you have to say.
Starting point is 00:47:33 Everyone is noticing. The noticing. Yeah, it's all the edge. The noticing is expanding. Yes, the noticing, the noticing. Well, here's what I'm noticing is it's coming to an end in Ukraine and everyone knows this has to end. Everyone knows that there's going to be peace talks and the Europeans are positioning
Starting point is 00:47:54 themselves immediately. It's a prospect that seems to have gained traction in some circles. European countries sending a peacekeeping force to Ukraine if a ceasefire is agreed with Russia. But after meeting with Emmanuel Macron in Warsaw, the Polish prime minister insisted that his country was not planning such a move for the moment. Their meeting came as several European foreign ministers gathered in Berlin, also discussing backing for Kiev. In a joint declaration, the officials underlined their support for Ukraine on what they described
Starting point is 00:48:23 as its irreversible path to joining NATO So the best part of the announcements coming out of Europe Now that Europe isn't complete shambles. They've depleted themselves of energy. They've depleted themselves of wreck manufacturing base France is literally broke they can can't, individual member states, what used to be countries, can't print their way out of any kind of situation because it also go through the European Central Bank, which is run by the convicted felon, I think. She was, it was a felony. What's her face?
Starting point is 00:49:04 Fifi Lagarde. Now she's in charge of the European Central Bank. It's a mess over there. So when you need to kickstart the economy, what do you do? It's what we always do. Every nation throughout history, we need to kickstart the economy. Let's turn to war. The way you can manufacture stuff that gets blowed up. It cuts the population down. Who better to sell it than our friend, our friend from the lowlands, Remarque Ritte is here to tell you what we must do Europe, because it is not safe.
Starting point is 00:49:42 It is not safe. We must be very careful our deterrence is good it's good for now for now but it's tomorrow I'm worried about I'm very worried about tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow the Sun will not come out tomorrow we are not ready for what is coming our way in four to five years what could be coming in four to five years. What could be coming in four to five years? I don't know. Danger is moving towards us at full speed. Danger, danger is moving towards us. If full speed what takes so long then? Full speed five years is coming from a very far place away. We must not look the other way. No. We must face it. Face it. What is
Starting point is 00:50:23 happening in your brain could happen here happening in Ukraine could happen here, too It could happen here, too Don't you understand and regardless of the outcome of this war? Yeah, huh? We will not be safe in the future unless we are prepared to deal with danger. You must be prepared for danger We will not be safe. What can we do about it? How must we be sinking? We can do that We can prevent the next big war on NATO territory. Okay, and preserve our way of life. How do we do it?
Starting point is 00:50:53 This requires us all to be faster and fiercer. Yes. It is time to shift to a wartime mindset war time mindset Wait, wait, wait did the payoff what a fanatic you by the way, give yourself clip of the day for pulling this one out Oops, hold on what happened there? Oh a million things went wrong at the same time. I'm sorry clip of the day I'll take that. Yeah. No, I'm taking it. I'm taking it All right, listen to the kicker. Listen to the kicker. It is time to shift to a wartime mindset and turbocharge our defense production
Starting point is 00:51:34 and defense spending. Remember when they said, we won't even have a European army. Now we have a defense production, a defense military industrial complex, and collectively we have a war mindset. I want everybody to have a war mindset. I have people in the Netherlands sending me article after article after article about
Starting point is 00:51:58 how to prepare preppers, literal prepper articles in mainstream magazines and newspapers in the Netherlands. How you need to have water, what kind of canned goods you need, because you know with the war mindset it could happen. It is coming our way. They are psi-opping Europe. Wow. Big time. It's pathetic. big time. It's, it's, it's, it's pathetic. So, so I was watching this morning, the, uh, France 24 reporting on what's going on in Germany,
Starting point is 00:52:35 cause their government's falling apart too. Of course it's, yeah. Just like France. And there was one mention that hasn't gotten too far yet that Germany of all countries is thinking, at least they're discussing, dropping out of NATO. Oh I hadn't heard this. Oh yeah. When I heard that I said holy mackerel. Wow. Because Germany, if you think about it, they are Europe. They are Europe. Let's be honest. Well beside, they were Europe. Yeah, yeah good point. They were the industrial powerhouse, and they were really in the catbird seat when they were getting free energy,
Starting point is 00:53:11 or free cheap energy from Russia with the drink. When Merkel and Putin were buddies, and they both spoke German, and they both spoke Russian, and they were getting, the Germans were getting pumped up with the energy, with the cheap gas, with the pipelines, and then they cut all that off,
Starting point is 00:53:28 and they shut down their nukes, and they did all this stuff out of the blue, and Germany just went into the tank the way I see it, and now they're thinking of getting out of NATO, which may be the smartest thing they could do. It was a total destruction, and it was completely avoidable. It was on purpose, I'm not quite sure why,
Starting point is 00:53:47 other than let Cargill and Monsanto, I guess that's Cargill and what's the other big ag company I'm thinking of? Yeah, Archer Midlands. Yeah, these guys. Let them buy up all the farmland, which is clearly happening all over. The Netherlands is just the accountant's office and mailboxes. They don't do anything. And of course, they have chemicals. They have the taste and texture products of all the fake food. Right.
Starting point is 00:54:21 Just what nobody wants. The fake food you're all going to be eating. It's despicable. It makes the bugs out of you. And what happened to Geert Wilders? It was the big revolt. Oh, yes, Geert Wilders, his party wins. He brings in the ex-spook guy, the ex-CIA Dutch AIF-A day, the spy agency, and what?
Starting point is 00:54:42 Now we hear nothing. Shh, shh, shh. Quiet everybody. Get, just collect your water bottles for when the Russians come. It's true. You know, you have to wonder who's really, you know, is it us that is behind the really destroying,
Starting point is 00:55:02 I mean, we're never, I don't think we've ever been fans of the EU, at least as a culture and as an economy. We don't like the EU. Well, we did blow up the Nord Stream too. I mean, you can say, people can talk about sailboats, whatever you want. We had to be the ones. So it's possible that the Europeans are so stupid that they have been suckered into all this stuff. And the German example is the best. And what are you gonna do?
Starting point is 00:55:31 That was a worldwide phenomenon with climate change and the green economy. Well that's still going on, it hasn't stopped. No, but they've they tried to make that the new economy in Europe and that was the previous plan. Now we're just screw it. Let's just make it a war economy and good idea. It's easier. We know how to do it. Well, you know, the Europeans have been historically, it's just a fluke that
Starting point is 00:55:55 since World War II, there hasn't been like a conflagration within the boundaries of what's now the EU between countries. the boundaries of what's now the EU between countries. Because they've for a thousand years, they've been having these wars and fights and battles. The 100 years war, the Prussian war, the Napoleonic wars, there's just one after the other, just never ends as what they is their specialty. So let it happen. There's all kinds of scandals now coming out about carbon credits. People are starting to figure that out. I think there was a German company who was doing climate projects in China, and they basically just made nice PowerPoints and took all the money for the credits.
Starting point is 00:56:43 The boondoggles fall. Oh, by the way, I got a note from the oil baron. North Dakota is declining. Capital efficiency falling, meaning the wells are underperforming due to lower production when drilling and fracking. Depletion of the geologic zones is substantial enough to cause us to pause drilling.
Starting point is 00:57:03 We drilled a couple months ago, we just fracked them last week, so far zero results. substantial enough to cause us to pause drilling. We drilled a couple months ago. We just fracked them last week. So far, zero results. Well, that's not the way we were in. We were told that North Dakota's got more reserves than the entire world. Well, the oil baron says different. We may have been misled.
Starting point is 00:57:28 Drill baby drill, it's gonna be great. Where, yeah, well, we'll see. It has to, we have to go to Alaska, I guess. Where else can we go? Hmm. Yeah. I was surprised. I was surprised by that. Thanks for that. I was surprised by that report as well. Huh. And I said, can I credit this to you? He says, yes. He says, absolutely. It's the truth.
Starting point is 00:57:56 Now, I mean, I can't think of any other reason than that is just true. Is that the back end field of North Dakota? I think maybe, yeah. It's like half the state is supposedly rich with fracable reserves. Well the thing that's really improved throughout the years is the actual, the fracking technology is improved, the sensors and the camera, or not cameras, but the way they can drill straight through in horizontal fashion. And we've had more technology to get the compacted stuff out of the sand, basically.
Starting point is 00:58:38 There may be something else going on too. There was a report I was watching. I was here at the house with Brennan, Jay's husband, and Brennan works for Chevron. Oh, I didn't notice. That's interesting. Okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:53 And so we have this camaraderie because he's a chemist and I was a chemist at Union Oil. And there was a report on the Chevron, especially in Texas, Chevron has wells all over Texas that were never properly capped. Dead wells. And when a well goes dead, they have to do certain things to the well to make sure it just doesn't leak leftover oil all over the place and make a huge mess. It's really a problem. And they did the calculation of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of wells that are not properly capped for permanent reasons or for permanent purposes. And to go back and do it right, well, according to the calculations, eventually bankrupt Chevron. Well, that's why they said that.
Starting point is 00:59:46 It's that bad. Yeah, they're cutting back by 10%. Remember, what we heard is that the investors, they don't want expansion, they want cash flow. They just want, throw money at us. We don't, you know, buy back stock. We want dividends. We don't want any more expansion.
Starting point is 01:00:03 And so there's all kinds of problems going on, and maybe what's going on in North Dakota has something to do with the problem with doing, when the well is over, you have to close it properly and it's not being done right, and this is a scandal. I don't know, I have to look into it more. Well, in the meantime, let's say that we have some issues with the, with our oil, with the drill baby drill, not just with the quantities
Starting point is 01:00:34 available or fracable or whatever. Uh, but also with the, the lack of interest of drilling new wells, then there's this from Doug Ford up there in Scandinavia. Let's make no mistake about it, as I mentioned to the Prime Minister, the rest of the Premiers, we need to be ready. We need to be ready to fight. This fight is coming 100% on January 20th or January 21st. We don't know what extent this fight is going to go to, but we need to line up everything that we're going to tariff. We will go to the full extent, depending on how far this goes. We will go to the extent of cutting off their energy,
Starting point is 01:01:19 going down to Michigan, going down to New York State, over to Wisconsin. I don't want this to happen, but my number one job is to protect Ontarians and Canadians as a whole since we're the largest province. If he comes out and he mentions that he's going to tear for everything, that's a big problem. It's a big problem for Canadians. It's going to be a big problem for Canadians. It's gonna be a big problem for Americans as well. But we will use every tool in our toolbox to fight back. Like we can't sit back and roll over. We just we just won't as a country. It sounds like the pre-Covid these terrorists are coming. You don't think this is closer?
Starting point is 01:01:58 No. He's 100% these terrorists are coming. We're gonna have to go to war with Canada. Have to nuke Ottawa. We're gonna have to go to war with Canada. That's a nuke Ottawa. We've done it before. Hey, that's our oil. We're gonna bring you some democracy Canada. You got a problem up there.
Starting point is 01:02:18 They haven't even cranked up. I mean they've been, they've cut back on what they can do up there in Alberta, which is the oil producing oven. It's just spitting out of the ground. There's some issues that are going to have to be resolved in the next couple of years and Trump's going to be in the middle of it. Probably the best guy to be in the middle of it compared to Biden. So maybe all this windmills and solar panels is because they knew that the oil is wait. We've hit peak oil. It's finally here peak oil
Starting point is 01:02:49 We finally hit it peak oil Yes Hmm All right. Well after that bad news. Yeah, sorry. Sorry to be the bear of but you know We have to keep an eye on this stuff. They're investors or we do have people that invest. We might as well go to something. Well, no, I'm not going to do that. Well, let me do some.
Starting point is 01:03:12 Let's go to buy. I got Biden pardons. Oh yes. This is good. Okay. Biden. This is I, I, I get the best Biden pardon clips. I went to Jesse waters because he's a,
Starting point is 01:03:26 I brought a waters clip today as well. Oh no, you're kidding. Yes I did. I'm sorry. We should ban these. He's, he's, you know, I have to say that over watching the Jesse Waters prime time show that he, they gave him that spot. That was the prime creme de la creme spot on Fox. Yes. And I have to say that he definitely has the best writers he puts together a dynamite show it
Starting point is 01:03:52 really works and he's pretty good at it and he's got this Johnny character is one of his producers who goes out on the street and does what he used to do stuttering John and it's entertaining it's really a pretty good show, I have to say. But Waters is, he is not, as a presenter, he kind of over dramatizes and does one too many asides. He's a little too snide. But at the same time, the writers are doing their job. And so it does good work. So he's going to go on about, I have two clips, and this is the list of the best of the best of the best pardons that Biden gave out. Biden got so much flack for pardoning his felon son and lying about it that he said, screw it, I'm pardoning everyone. The president dished out 1500 pardons and commutations. He just broke the single day record, attaboy.
Starting point is 01:04:39 And Biden didn't just pardon Dan to Lyons, who should have never been locked up in the first place. He's letting out crack slingers, drug traffickers, some of the most notorious fraudsters in U.S. history. One guy smuggled cocaine, heroin, and ecstasy into our country. Another guy recruited drug dealers so he could pump cocaine through American cities. Not a great look, but a lot of presence of pardoned nonviolent drug offenders, if you can call that nonviolent.
Starting point is 01:05:05 Where Biden really went off the rails was with white collar criminals who took bribes and robbed taxpayers. Now, that sounds familiar. Biden commuted the sentence of Jimmy DeMora, a Democrat politician in Ohio, who was just locked up for taking half a million dollars in bribes. And Jimmy didn't just take cash. You could bribe him with trips to Vegas, bribe him with prostitutes. You could even bribe him with stone-fired pizza ovens. Jimmy was running pay-to-play schemes. If you lined his pockets, he'd give
Starting point is 01:05:34 you a nice government contract or jobs or raises. He'd even interfere with court cases. Biden let the guy walk. I know what it is. I know what it is. He's a podcaster in a suit. That's what he is. He has a podcaster cadence. He has the bit of the snide-ness of, uh, of Megan Kelly. Uh, he just wears a suit. It's a funny analogy. Yeah. Yeah. There's a podcasting element to it. Yeah. A podcaster in a suit, a suited podcaster.
Starting point is 01:06:05 Well, he goes to the second part with some other guys, and there's a couple that you might remember, especially the one that judge who sent poor juvenile delinquents to this private prison. Yeah. That guy. That guy was great. Biden also let off Paul Dogardas, a sleazy lawyer who cooked up a tax scam that cost our government $1.6 billion. Prosecutors called Paul the most prolific, pernicious, and utterly unrepentant tax cheat
Starting point is 01:06:36 in U.S. history. And a judge said this was the biggest tax fraud prosecution ever. And Biden heard that and said, let him free. Biden also let out Elaine Lovett, who used an army of doctors to scam Medicare at millions of dollars. And then there's Rita Crundwell. She embezzled more than 50 million from a small town in Illinois. Biden's okay with that.
Starting point is 01:06:59 And he let out Michael Conahan. He's a Pennsylvania judge that was involved in the Kids for Cash scandal. You ever heard of this? This dirty judge gave thousands of kids harsher sentences so they would be sent to for-profit detention centers, which would then send kickbacks to the judge. Why would Biden help this guy out? Here's the governor of PA. I do feel strongly that President Biden got it absolutely wrong and created a lot of pain here in northeastern Pennsylvania. It also
Starting point is 01:07:35 affected families in really deep and profound and sad ways. Some children took their lives because of this. Families were torn apart. Look, everybody makes mistakes and some people deserve second chance, but these people took advantage of the public's trust. Why would we bail them out? I missed the most important pardons of all. That's bizarre. Which one? President Biden has granted clemency to three Chinese nationals, including two convicted spies and a man found guilty of possessing tens of thousands of child pornography images as part of a prisoner swap with China.
Starting point is 01:08:12 The clemencies, dated November 22, secured the release of Americans Mark Swiden, Kai Lee, and John Leung, who were imprisoned in China on charges ranging from espionage to drug-related offenses. Among those pardoned were Yang Zheng-chchu, a career Chinese intelligence officer, and Ji Chaokun, a Chicago-based spy linked to China's Ministry of State Security. Chu, extradited to the U.S. in 2018, was convicted of targeting American aviation firms, including GE Aviation, to steal trade secrets. Ji was sentenced last year for espionage and recruiting spies to obtain US aerospace technology.
Starting point is 01:08:48 The third individual, Shan Lin Jin, a former doctoral student in Dallas, was convicted in 2021 for possessing over 47,000 child pornography images. This exchange follows heightened tensions over Chinese espionage. In October, a congressional report criticized the Department of Justice for insufficiently enforcing laws against Chinese spying. I mean, they just killed our spies. Never heard from him again. He just lets them go. Yeah, he's got a lot of spies. He just lets them go? That's underplayed.
Starting point is 01:09:20 Well, we did it. I have Joy Reid. Let's see what 12 people who are watching her have heard this week. With just five weeks left in office, President Biden took an historic step today, commuting the federal sentences of roughly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes. It's the largest single-day act of clemency by a president. It comes a little over a week after the president pardoned his son Hunter and drew criticism for not doing enough for other Americans.
Starting point is 01:09:54 The nearly 1,500 people are nonviolent offenders who were placed in home confinement under COVID. Today's act of clemency also puts President Biden a little closer to the standard set by his former boss, President Barack Obama. On his last day in office in 2017, President Obama set the previous single-day record. He commuted the sentences of 330 nonviolent drug offenders. President Biden said he will be taking more steps in the weeks ahead and will continue
Starting point is 01:10:23 to review petitions. Wow, there's more to come. More ahead and will continue to review petitions. Wow. There's more to come. More to come. More to come. It was pretty funny to hear my hate listen, the Uber liberals, Swisher and Galloway talking about this. Like, you know, it's all kind of good and you know, it was right to pardon his son and it's better, you know, it's just the prison industrial complex
Starting point is 01:10:47 It's just a way for rich prison owners to make well I I was gonna get a clip but then I got distracted because of this This article that came from bloomberg. You're ready for this Yeah, caris swisher and scott Galloway seek eight figure deal for Pivot. Eight figure? Yeah. So yeah, so that's at least 10 million. Their contract with Vox is up this year.
Starting point is 01:11:20 And Scott Galloway is out there saying that they do $10 million a year in revenue, but they want to sell the podcast. And I'm thinking if you really make 10 million a year in revenue, who needs Vox? Sell it yourself. Just take the money. Something smells bad. So they're making, they claim. They claim. To be making $10 million off that podcast?
Starting point is 01:11:50 Yep, twice a week. Oh, please. Yeah. Well, I think that's probably trying to promote the, you know, if someone will, some, I think they want Amazon to buy it, you know, like $50 million, they take 25 each. And then when Amazon finds out,
Starting point is 01:12:06 if anybody, okay, I wish them is no, it's like the old saying goes, there's no sweat off our balls, but it's like if they can soak some suckers, yeah, okay. Good for them. But do you think they really do 10 million on that show? No. Seems like a lot. No. And he says that... I don't know anybody except you that listens to that show. The Prof G show,
Starting point is 01:12:32 he says, makes 6 million and is growing at 40% annually. No, it's not. And then he has a show with... Do you know anybody personally? We know a lot of people. I know one person who makes a lot of money with this podcast. One, Joe Rogan. That's the only one I know. Joe Rogan, yes, but Joe Rogan has big, is known to have big numbers. He does, works his ass off. He works every day of the week doing the show basically.
Starting point is 01:13:04 I guess he takes a day off once in a while, but it's different and he's been doing it for a long time and he's got a personality that can handle a show like that. He's got, he has entertainment chops. You know, he's got, you know, he's been on TV, hosting and acting. These two people, one of them's a, there's just two stooges. It makes no sense.
Starting point is 01:13:30 I know, but you know, it's Bloomberg, you know, I'm sure they check their sources. Obviously. And here's, and here's a complicating factor. Vox media owns the pivot feed and brand. So they think that together, they can walk. They can walk. So they were, wait, wait. Are you telling me that to begin with,
Starting point is 01:13:52 they gave away sold or did some deal where they lost the rights to their own brand? That's what it says. That shows you how dumb you are. Nobody does that. This is like the dummy contract in publishing. Yeah. The podcast... Hey, I'll sign it. The podcasters are still waiting on specific offers to come through. Okay. You think this is
Starting point is 01:14:19 maybe a negotiating tactic with Vox? Probably. We're gonna walk our $10 million revenue. We're gonna walk it. It's us. It's not you, Vox. It's us. Well, if Vox is bringing in $10 million from that podcast, which let's say Vox thinks they are, what are they paying those two?
Starting point is 01:14:43 I don't know. They seem to have nice lifestyles. They do? Yeah. He has homes in England. They have private jets? Is that what you're saying? Galloway claims to fly private all the time.
Starting point is 01:14:59 I don't think he owns a jet, but he flies private. He has a home in Florida, two homes in England. Yes, two homes in England. Yes, two homes in England. Yes, one in London and one outside of London, I think near where, what's her face moved? The Cotswold. The Cotswold? Ellen? Yeah, near Ellen. Ellen and her wife.
Starting point is 01:15:20 Yeah, and he's always flying off. He made a lot of money with some of his deals. I'm sure he's wealthy outside of podcasting. I don't know about Swisher, but she got a lot of that Google money from her first divorce, didn't she? She must have gotten something. Yeah. Anyway, now we could probably get a five-figure deal for this podcast. We get a five-figure deal. Hey, man, we're looking for offers. Five figures, not a penny less. And you get the feed with it.
Starting point is 01:15:56 We'll throw in the feed. Although I have an exit strategy. Our fee is worth more than 10 million. Oh, wow. What's the exit strategy? Oh, well, it's something that you're kind of already good at. Yeah? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:13 What could that be? AI influencers. Yeah, there's something called, it's just 39 seconds is really bad, but at least you get an idea. It's the Lush Exchange and they help you put, I mean, you got to see the video. They help you put together with the AI tools, your own influencer, which you can then use on Instagram. Oh, I see what you're referring to, Becky. Welcome to the Lush Exchange, the coin base for AI influencers, Instagram models, Only
Starting point is 01:16:50 Fans creators, and even Hollywood actors will all be disrupted by the exponential rise of AI influencers ever wanted to own a social media star or better yet a portfolio of them? Well now you can. The Lush Exchange will create capital markets for this emerging trillion dollar asset class, trade and invest in this new class of cash generating real world assets, including me. So you can build your influencers, you can then list them like a, like a, like a token. So people can buy pieces of your, it's a great idea. I think, and I love it because this is going to fill everything with this slop.
Starting point is 01:17:39 What happened to the art tokens that were, what was that about? Remember that? What would that short-lived? The art tokens? Yeah. Well, you draw art. NFTs? NFTs? NFTs. Yeah, that.
Starting point is 01:17:48 Yeah, kind of. Yeah. This is the same kind of thing that keeps reinventing it in different forms. This is the newest. Yes. But I think that Scaramanga, that he will be a billionaire within the next five years. Well, Scaramanga could be the one because he definitely has the chops for it. I mean, and just, oh, just,
Starting point is 01:18:08 did you ever see that movie he did, the video? No, I haven't yet. Yeah, no, you didn't send me the link. Okay, you've gotta see it because it's so good. Just imagine that with the influencer, you know, and on OnlyFans, are you kidding me? That can be his agent. No, you've gotta, listen,
Starting point is 01:18:24 I already set you up before that. You write the scripts. Dame Jennifer reads them because that'll be the differentiator. You've got a real... Yeah, well, she's got the voice for it. You've got a real person to do the voice and Scaramanga does the... Hey, wait a minute. Why am I giving you the exit strategy?
Starting point is 01:18:39 I need to be in on this deal. We'll cut you in. Okay. Just for the idea. You can be the manager. I can be created by. You and Brunetti. Created by. Hey, Brunetti, he should be in on this too.
Starting point is 01:18:53 He knows smut. It'd be great. I'm telling you, this is going to be a huge business. Yeah, we could put a team together. It's probably already, half of the influencers probably are already fake that are out there. I Mean it's it's and it's going to it's going to ruin social networks. It's gonna be awesome Well, that would be a plus. Yes. That's why I'm trying to promote these influencers that are out there
Starting point is 01:19:17 And there's so many of them. Yes, they're all bogus Yeah, you don't want you want ones you can control and they can dance, they can walk around show their clothes, they can do the makeup videos. It's great. This is guaranteed moneymaker and someone's going to be... We're in. We're all in. We're in.
Starting point is 01:19:37 We'll use the podcast to promote it. Yes, we will. We'll promote Becky. I don't think that Becky is a good name though for our influencer. We have to have a different name. We'll come up. I don't think that Becky is a good name though for our influencer. We have to have a different name We'll come up with better names Raven Wait a minute, where is my Raven we got since since you brought her up. Let's let's play a Raven. Here we go Raven
Starting point is 01:20:04 Wait, that's not the best one. Here we go. Straight from Recita, here she is, Raven! Give it up! We should resurrect Club 33. It's a member only subscription and then you can take the girls into the private room for a dance it's like an influencer slash only fans yeah it's I got a mile a minute baby I got ideas yeah you're on a roll how much can I make cups of coffee
Starting point is 01:20:38 how many how much coffee do you have this morning well you know what it beats the gig that Chris Hayes has because man, it must be rough to have to shill so hard so hard for your big pharma overlords. There is growing unease even among conservatives over Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Just yesterday an op-ed published in Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal urged Republican senators to step up. Hold on, it's not Rupert Murdoch's. I mean he's retired. How could the guy is retired? He's not running News Corp anymore. Well that's the same as everyone's saying
Starting point is 01:21:20 Soros is buying radio stations. Soros is dead. He's in the grave. It's, you know, the old George Soros, George Soros, George Soros owns a winery out here. He probably does. So what, it's not George, he's not there. Exactly, it's not George. He's not picking grapes or supervising anything.
Starting point is 01:21:41 Exactly. Just yesterday an op-ed published in Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal urged Republican senators to step up and save Trump from his own Kennedy pick. Basically, it was a bad political deal, just get him out of it by dinging him. Now, there are a lot of reasons to oppose Kennedy's nomination. Maybe the most obvious is that for years he has been one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the country, and his activism has left people sicker and worse off. When COVID-19 vaccines became available in 2021, Kennedy was a leading
Starting point is 01:22:10 voice spreading misinformation and urging people not to vaccinate. This is such, such a rehash and rewrite of history. It's amazing. Making ridiculous statements like that the coronavirus vaccine was the quote deadliest vaccine ever made Multiple studies have found that he blew that line. Yeah, hundreds of thousands of Americans. You hear what he said Let me listen people not to vaccinate making ridiculous statements like that. The coronavirus vaccine was the quote deadliest vaccine ever made The coronavirus was not a deadly vaccine. Making ridiculous statements like that the coronavirus vaccine was the quote, deadliest
Starting point is 01:22:53 vaccine ever made. Oh, vaccine. He said vaccine. He said vaccine. Yeah, I didn't hear it. The way he talks is he leaves, he downplays certain words that it just didn't, I missed it. Okay, Sorry. Well, I have to say upfront the, the targeting they're doing now because,
Starting point is 01:23:09 and I know you have, I follow you now on blue cry. I'm just going to say blue cry. Everyone understands as blue sky. I follow you there. Did you see that? I follow you now. I don't, I have, I don't think I've posted one thing on blue cry, blue sky. I searched for you and I followed you just in case you don't post anything
Starting point is 01:23:27 but I wonder if you've been looking lately because I go on occasionally and The you know what they're doing now to target RFK jr. They have a new nickname for him. No polio Bob. Oh, this is thanks. This is thanks to a Warren No. Polio Bob. Oh, this is thanks to Warren. Do you have Warren's clip? I don't have it. No, but let me finish this one. Elizabeth Warren comes out and says he wants Polio back. Well, no, this is the thing.
Starting point is 01:23:59 But they're calling him, so law of large numbers, they launched the polio Bob nickname. It's all over Blue Cry and the polio thing is what they're targeting him for. Multiple studies have found that hundreds of thousands of Americans could have lived had they been vaccinated against the virus. Could have lived, but didn't. Prove a negative. Really? Prove a negative.
Starting point is 01:24:22 Prove a negative. It is clear that Kennedy's confirmation to HHS would be dangerous to public health, wildly so. Dangerous. But I will admit, I learn something new every day. I hadn't realized just how bad it could get. Today in the New York Times, we learned that Kennedy is interested
Starting point is 01:24:35 in giving the top legal job at HHS to this guy, Aaron Ciri. Ciri's an attorney who has done millions of dollars in legal work for anti-vaccine organizations. He has also, according to both Times and Politico, been helping Kennedy pick top federal health officials for the new administration. That's the guy getting the resumes. Oh.
Starting point is 01:24:54 Oh. And in 2022, he petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. Oh no. Yes. The polio vaccine. The vaccine that for decades has protected millions and has virtually limited in this country a virus that can cause paralysis and death. The outrage over the news has been both widespread and bipartisan.
Starting point is 01:25:16 Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, issued a statement tonight reading in part, the polio vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease. Efforts to undermine public confidence and proven cures are not just uninformed, they're dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate's consent to serve in the incoming administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts. It's unbelievable how these guys have to show for the pharma companies when the when if you look at the real evil, the real evil is in this report with the steel mckinsey and company will pay 650 million dollars to settle a federal investigation into their work tied to the opioid epidemic mckinsey is an international
Starting point is 01:25:56 consulting firm they were being investigated for their role in helping purdue pharma cell oxycontin and other painkillers fueling the drug crisis. The CDC has linked opioids to the deaths of more than 80,000 people just last year. Federal investigator St. McKinsey worked with Purdue Pharma to turbocharge their sales. At the time there was concern among doctors, OxyContin was being abused, so Purdue's sales went down. Prosecutor St. McKinsey advised Purdue to target sales to high-volume prescribers, including those who are prescribing the drugs for reasons that were unsafe and medically unnecessary. That often led to drug abuse and addiction.
Starting point is 01:26:32 The FBI says McKinsey would even do ride-alongs with Purdue so they could get even more scripts written. With this financial agreement, the $650 million, McKinsey avoids prosecution in the criminal and civil investigations, and McKinsey is accepting responsibility for their conduct. In a statement, the company says they are deeply sorry as a part of the agreement. They will not do any work related to marketing or selling controlled substances. They should close that business down. And then this just popped up today.
Starting point is 01:27:00 That's a good clip to get by the way. Yeah, it's not, you're not going to be many of them. Yeah, you're not going to hear that on Chris Hayes' show. So we were talking about RSV for quite a bit about, what was that? Was it the beginning of this year when they really started rolling that out or was it last year around this time? It was last year. Last year, RSV. And you said you never heard of RSV. That's the first thing when I started cropping up this, the first thing I said. I never heard of thisV. That's what I'm the first thing. When I started cropping up, this is the first thing I said.
Starting point is 01:27:25 I never heard of this. I'm old. So Moderna has halted its RSV clinical trial. In September, 2024, Moderna announced that the clinical trial, I thought this was all, maybe they weren't the ones selling it, but, it's clinical trial of its mRNA vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, RSV, in children aged 5 to 24 months was halted abruptly. The clinical trial conducted in the UK and other countries ended after alarming
Starting point is 01:27:56 data suggested that vaccine might not just fail to prevent severe RSV disease but could potentially worsen it. This week, the Food and Drug Administration disclosed that vaccinated children in the trial experience higher rates of severe RSV compared to those in the placebo group, up to three times as many. Yeah, oops is right. Oops, oops. Well, that brings us to the McCullough clip I have.
Starting point is 01:28:26 Okay. You got a McCullough clip. How do you like McCullough? I'm looking for it. The clip is called Vax and Autism. It's a longer clip than usual, but it's damn good. It's McCullough and he's on some TV show. Wait a minute.
Starting point is 01:28:44 Wait a minute. This has been debunked. Vaccination doesn't cause autism. That's been debunked, Dvorak. Play the clip. What we've learned is this childhood vaccine schedule is not what we thought. And now, critically looking at it, we have a situation that we just learned
Starting point is 01:29:04 that the World Council for Health now, international body is calling for a complete moratorium on childhood vaccines. First international organization to call for that. Why? Because the vaccines are piling up one after another. They're being given in multiple salvos. There are safety events now that we learned in 1986, the US passed legislation that indemnified the manufacturers of vaccines. In that legislation, it says the vaccines have unavoidable harm.
Starting point is 01:29:32 It says it. So what are the harms that we're seeing? It's clear when the vaccines are given in multiple rounds. It's probably not no single vaccine and no single additive, but it's the sum total of vaccines given at once. We're seeing a strong signal towards neuropsychiatric disorders. So attention deficit disorder, Asperger's, autism,
Starting point is 01:29:55 seizures, Tourette's. Allergic diseases, asthma, atopic dermatitis. And even death. Need for termination, sudden infant death syndrome. And then the converse, now this is the converse, which is papers by Mawson, Hooker, Miller, Thomas, and an older Amish study, all five studies show
Starting point is 01:30:14 if children go natural, no vaccines whatsoever, they have the best outcomes. Freedom from these things. And you know, when I was a kid, the rate of autism was one in 10,000. Where was this before we continue? Where was this on, uh, on Bitshoot? It was no, this was on some TV show that was a local TV show that was a bunch of women. Wow. Uh,
Starting point is 01:30:40 it was played someplace or other and it got picked up and got passed around. It wasn't a podcast, I don't think. And it was very, it was slick. It was like one of those morning shows in like Cleveland or something. Who do we get? We got some anti-vax dude. Bring him on. It's funny.
Starting point is 01:30:57 Whoa, what? What? Salvos of vaccinations? Now it's one in 36. And there's about 200 published manuscripts showing it's a immune system dysregulation. One in 36? One in 36. One in 36. The immune system dysregulation that you know in a reactogenic phase of the vaccine sometimes with a febrile seizure these the inflammatory factors go into
Starting point is 01:31:23 the brain probably permanently change it and the inflammatory factors go into the brain, probably permanently change it. And the vignettes the mothers tell us that the child was fine up until the time they took multiple rounds of vaccines and then they developed autism. Those vignettes are almost certainly correct. We can't pin it down to any single vaccine, but I'm telling you in total, it doesn't look good. This epidemic of autism is a tsunami and you know how many many mothers
Starting point is 01:31:47 now recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey shows you know about a third of mothers and young fathers going natural. I was telling a friend of mine who was he he says uh we're texting and a taxi driver quote or something came up and he said, you know, I'm so sad about Bobby De Niro that they got him that he turned into such an idiot. And I said, you know, I have hoped for Robert De Niro because he did that vaccine autism documentary that he got pressured into pulling from his own Tribeca Film Festival. It was about his own kid. You remember that? Yeah, vaguely. I have a feeling he will redeem himself and come back and say, you know, I got screwed
Starting point is 01:32:33 on this deal. My kid got screwed on this deal. And that documentary will come back. In fact, with Hot Luigi and everything people are starting to understand now about how the system works. I think we can make a couple of predictions. First of all, as you rightly pointed out, they want Big Pharma wants to just run everything. They want their own telemedicine, which will all be driven by AI.
Starting point is 01:33:00 And it will be all ozempic. GLP-1, it solves everything. You got a broken leg? Here, have all ozempic. GLP-1, it solves everything. You got a broken leg? Here, have some ozempic. I mean, this- I have a, I think I have a couple of clips on this later. This thing is like GLP-1, oh no, it's like, it's better for your blood pressure, it's better for your heart rate,
Starting point is 01:33:17 it's better for your kidneys, it solves diabetes, everything's gonna be solved solved with Ozempic. And a producer reminded me that it's not going to be Medicare for all. The term that you used to use a lot, single payer health care. That's the target. Because that can be a United Health Care pivot. They could become single payer healthcare.
Starting point is 01:33:46 But I think we will see that we will say at one point, where were you during the healthcare riots of 2025? This has BLM stuff written all over it. If they can, now the drone stuff kind of interrupted it, but we may have some more interesting developments where people start to talk about how bankruptcies are mainly caused in medical debt. I mean, there's all this stuff that people are, it's now okay to talk about it,
Starting point is 01:34:13 even in the hallowed halls of Congress. And in fact, here's another drug. Not on the Chris Hayes show. Well, no one's watching. They lost all their viewers. No one, this is, this is, this is a topic for watching. They lost all their viewers. No one. This is, this is, this is a topic for podcasts. Podcasts is where it's at
Starting point is 01:34:28 now. We'll wrap up this clip. Well, this clip is from another sketchy vaccine that we just identified as sketchy because it made no sense what they were selling to us. And that is the HPV. The HPV vaccine, which launched
Starting point is 01:34:44 during the show, we saw the marketing, they were going through freshman dormitories. I'm sorry, is my clip done? Your clip was done, yeah. Oh, I thought there was a little kicker at the end. No, we played the whole thing. Huh, okay, sorry. I'm sorry, no, no, we played the whole thing.
Starting point is 01:35:00 It was two minutes and 38 seconds. What did you think the kicker was? Well, the kicker was he said that there was some studies that showed that about the kids that didn't get any vaccines turns out. No, that was in there, the Amish. Yeah, well, I know, but I thought he said it twice with a second with some studies that didn't back it up.
Starting point is 01:35:20 It's my fault. That's okay. So we remember- Yeah, the HPV thing was a joke. They were hanging bags, goody bags on doorknobs of freshman girls in colleges. I mean, it was so... I don't want... People were very skeptical of it. But now we have finally, after 10 years-
Starting point is 01:35:42 Wasn't it some politician or wasn't it Rumsfeld or somebody? No, Rick Perry, Rick Perry, Rick Perry. He was all for it. He was the one that was pushing it. No, but wasn't one of them big investor? I don't remember that. Oh well, yeah. But here we go. Finally, after 10 years, we have the results.
Starting point is 01:36:01 The results are in of the HPV vaccine. So researchers at MUSC have been studying cervical cancer for nearly 10 years looking at cervical cancer cases and what can be done to improve The HPV vaccination rates in the community now the study like you mentioned is groundbreaking for the public health community because it's the first time Researchers are seeing a decline in cervical cancer deaths now. What do you think the decline is in these cervical cancer deaths? I have no idea. They'll give you absolute numbers, not just percentages. Oh, good. Absolute real numbers coming.
Starting point is 01:36:32 Now, it's focused on women younger than 25 years old and is the first group to likely have benefited from the HPV vaccination. I was able to speak with one of the co-leaders on the study. He says each year in the US,S. they identify nearly 12,500 cases of cervical cancer and 4,000 cervical cancer deaths. He also shared the benefits, the direct benefits of the vaccination. The most important benefit is whether the vaccine has led to prevention of cancer and whether the vaccine has ultimately led to prevention of deaths caused by cancer, cervical cancer deaths.
Starting point is 01:37:05 So we estimated cervical cancer death rate in the US among the first birth cohort who is likely to have benefited from HV vaccination. And what was amazing is that in last six years, there was 62% drop in cervical cancer mortality. That's 15% per year decline. 15 people? What a success. I'm so glad. Remember the girls who were walking backwards and had ticks and all kinds of odd stuff happening to them?
Starting point is 01:37:41 By the way, we save 15 girls from cervical cancer. Scam. How come these... Well not only that but that's probably statistically not even important. No! But how could this even be put in the marketplace without knowing its success rate? Isn't that what's... Well the answer is there's no downside. The answer is getting Kennedy in. Yeah. Polio Bob is getting Kennedy in. Yeah. Polio Bob, bring him in.
Starting point is 01:38:08 Polio Bob's got to go in. Polio Bob, Polio Bob. I can't believe that they're, well, good luck. Because I still think that Trump can always hold over, because he wants to get these guys in, because he got screwed the first time around by having his, but Washington elites tell him who to put in and get people like John Bolton working for you, who's just there to stab you in the back.
Starting point is 01:38:33 So he's going to go out of his way to get these guys in, it seems, including Hegseth, and he's going to hang up with, I know he can hang it over the heads of these drug companies and just say, look, Kennedy goes in or I'm going to do an executive order and I'm going to pull the plug on advertising of prescription drugs, which is the only country that does it. And he can do, he can do that with an executive order. And that is a huge threat. There is an interesting little twist to all of this
Starting point is 01:39:05 and it came up in a strange way on The View because Whoopi Goldberg was trying to say, Elon Musk is a horrible person, but yet Elon Musk is all for Ozempic. There could be a White House drug war brewing over anti-obesity meds like Ozempic. Health Secretary nominee RFK Jr. has railed against them claiming Oh yeah, yeah, because...
Starting point is 01:39:32 Oh she's so funny. Health secretary nominee RFK Jr. has railed against them claiming America's addicted to drugs and weight loss should come from diet and exercise. Oh no, exercise! But Elon Musk, nominee for the just made up Department of Government Efficiency and the actual real VP, wants to expand access, saying nothing would do more to improve the health, lifespan, and quality of life for Americans than making the drugs affordable for everyone.
Starting point is 01:40:12 Oh, this could be a White House showdown. But wait, whoopee, give us a native ad. Now most, yeah, most Americans agree with Elon Musk. But you know, the question is, who's the boss gonna side with? But I just wanna throw this out. I'm gonna say you don't know, you don't realize what you do to people when you say stuff like that cuz it doesn't work for everybody.
Starting point is 01:40:35 And I'm gonna show you, sir, because I weighed close to 300 less than two years ago. And without the Majaro, this would not have happened. Thank you, Gwennel. Take it off. What happens, she weighs 290? Whatever. And I'm, there you go.
Starting point is 01:40:57 And I try to tell everybody, listen, this worked for me. This may work for y'all. You cannot take it out of people's hands if it can help. Because if we can keep people healthy, if we can get rid of diabetes, if we can get rid of all of the things cardiovascular. What's wrong with trying to do that? Cardiovascular. Wow. Wow.
Starting point is 01:41:23 So they don't have to fire Whoopi. She'll drop dead from some horrible kidney disease if she keeps this up. Well, she's definitely toeing the line now with that promotion. I have a clip, a dozentic, it's from NPR called the Doc Doc Clip. Oh, okay. The popularity of obesity drugs is on the rise. A new report from Zoc Doc. They're really pushing to get this into Medicare, aren't they?
Starting point is 01:41:47 They're really pushing. Oh, they're going all out. Oh, there's a lot riding on this. NPR. The popularity of obesity drugs is on the rise. A new report from ZocDoc, the online platform for booking appointments, shows patients are asking their doctors about them more and more. NPR's Sydney Lepkin has more. ZocDoc, an online scheduling platform, says a lot more patients are booking consultation
Starting point is 01:42:09 appointments with their doctors to ask about semaglutide. That's the active ingredient in blockbuster obesity drug, Wigovia, and type 2 diabetes drug, Ozempic. ZocDoc says there were 53% more of these appointments in 2024 than in 2023. The company's data showed some insights. For instance, ZocDoc says the day Oprah did a special about Ozempic, it saw a bump in appointments. More weight loss consultations were also virtual compared with most other ZocDoc appointments, which are in-person. The report has its limitations, however. ZocDoc doesn't show whether patients were able to get and fill their prescriptions for these drugs. I tried to register docdocgo.com, but it was already taken. What a great name.
Starting point is 01:42:49 That would have been great. Docdocgo. What a great name. Yeah, but this is the final solution. Everybody gets their... Go to docdocgo and you get your GLP-1, you get your Ozempic or Mojaro, whatever. There'll be a whole, you know, you can choose from which one you want. Death is bound. Death is bound. And it'll solve everything. It cures all.
Starting point is 01:43:12 It cures a single payer healthcare, no doctors. By the way, so we, because Tina helps at the organization, we went to the annual Tannin Bound Ball here in Fredericksburg. This is the elites of the Hill Country. Hill Country has its elites. Oh, it has its, oh, there are more. And why is it called Tannenbaum? Is that from the song?
Starting point is 01:43:36 Yes, because it's a German town. Oh, Tannenbaum, oh, Tannenbaum, is that one? Yes, it's a German town. Tannenbaum is the pine needles, the pine tree. Yes, the Tannenbaum ball, which is for the Fredericksburg Historical Society. So we were invited to go. Tina helped out with some of the committees, some of the women. She's very good at helping these organizations.
Starting point is 01:44:06 And so the big talk, now I would say most of these people are a little bit older than we are. Some a lot older. Okay. I mean, the kind of people like oil people, patent attorneys, people who... Hot shots. Hot shots, yes, who have run away from Houston, Dallas, and have all come to live- Austin. Oh, Austin for sure.
Starting point is 01:44:32 They all live here in the Hill Country. The big talk, and I was baffled. The big talk, everyone said, yes, President Trump is going to put one of these in every single hospital. It's the cure-all. Have you heard of the med bed? What? Have you heard of the med bed? Med bed?
Starting point is 01:44:55 Med bed. Oh, med bed? Mike Echo Delta, Bravo Echo Delta. No. The med, oh, it's, everyone's talking about the med bed. You lie down on the med bed, it heals your DNA, your limbs grow back, your cancer goes away, it's all done with frequencies. Oh brother. Yes, John, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I'm like, are you serious? Do you really believe in this? Now of course if you look at the med bed online, apparently John F. Kennedy is still alive. He's being kept alive on a med bed. But this is...
Starting point is 01:45:35 Why does he need to be kept alive on one of these things? It's bull crap. The whole thing is bull crap. Obviously it's bull crap. But I was just so surprised. Everyone's like, oh yeah, the med bed. Yeah, President Trump is going to put one in every single hospital. It's going to cure everything. And like these are, again, patent attorneys, hot shots. Yeah, they're all the elites.
Starting point is 01:45:57 The elites. I didn't know what to say. I'm like... Well, this is the same, you know, you're in a crowd of people that they're gullible, obviously, or credulous, and it's the same group that said that there was, what was it, the power's going to go off on the day of the election. No, no, yeah, that was a different group. That, you know, that was... Oh, it was a different group. There's many groups you got there. We got lots of groups here.
Starting point is 01:46:22 How many groups you got there? We got lots of groups here. So this group. I'm telling you, I'm having the best years of my life. You don't get old enough. Yes, correct. You need to come visit. We have a guest bedroom. It is the best place to be in the world.
Starting point is 01:46:37 It's amazing. And I can sit there and say, you're crazy. And they'll go, maybe. They don't care. I know the type. They don't care. They love me. And we love them for the same reason. You're crazy." And they'll go, maybe. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care. They love me.
Starting point is 01:46:46 And we love them for the same reason. Now, yes, some of the grids going down, that group is here too, but this was an expanded group. And I was just blown away by that. I'm like, Polio Bob better bring in the med bed. Whoopie, whoopie.'s what's going to who whoopee whoopee. We can sell one to whoopee lay on this every single night. You'll lose weight. Well, this is based on the thesis that certain sound waves can have harmonics
Starting point is 01:47:15 that will destroy certain cells, which is, which is, you know, this is known. Yeah. But there's no generalized anything like that. You go online. Oh, Yeah. But there's no generalized anything like that. You go online, oh, there's all kinds of clinics now that have med beds and you get frequencies. Well, I'm sure there are. You lay down. Another. Here you go.
Starting point is 01:47:34 Now, give me, here, lay down. Don't do anything and give me money. And once again, we miss a fine exit strategy. We are the biggest losers in the world. Yeah, that's because we're not scammers. With that, I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the sea and the kids for cash. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeVore! John C. DeVore!
Starting point is 01:47:58 Well, in the morning to you Mr. Adam and Kerry. In the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water and all the dames and all the nights out there. In the morning to the tolls out there. Hello, Joles, how are you doing? All right, we have 2366 at the peak. I say we're above average. No. We're below it? Sunday. Oh, that's right, it's a Sunday.
Starting point is 01:48:23 This is down a hundred. Oh, no. Oh, no, we is down a hundred. Oh, no. Oh no We're down a hundred Yeah minimum. Yeah. Well, I think still everyone wanted to tune in to make sure that they knew all about the drones drones No one cares about hot Luigi poor guy. He's over. He's done by the way I did have I do have the bonus clip right now. We can play it now. You demanded, oh, you're the gay clip. Where's the gay clips? Well, about Luigi. It's the talk clip.
Starting point is 01:48:52 This is the guy. This clip. Wait a minute. I demanded the gay clips. Is that how you're positioning this now? Yeah. I've demanded TikTok clips. Well, I think you're right. I did. But the right kind. Let's see. So this is about- This is, I have to set this up though. Okay.
Starting point is 01:49:10 This is a guy who's, it's better to view this clip. You can, it's around. As always. But it's a guy dressed up in a McDonald's outfit with a microphone thing. And he's like, he's taking orders from the, from the- He's got the headset on and he's like, and he's, and he, he's very flamboyant gay and he is, uh, taking these orders and he looks up and
Starting point is 01:49:35 he sees it's Luigi at the counter, which is by the way, it's not the way this works, but he's Luigi is in front of him. So he starts to make a pass at Luigi and and it goes from there. Welcome to McDonald's, what can I get for you? Excuse me one second man. Yeah one second. Luigi? Oh my god you've created quite the stir online. Yeah you have, everybody's looking for you. Including me.
Starting point is 01:50:01 Wow you are gorgeous. Is it true you're 6'2"? I love that. Wow, you are gorgeous. Is it true you're 6'2"? Love that. Okay, well, if you need a place to stay, here's my address, phone number, and social security, and of course my keys. Wow. Okay, well, be safe out there, and I will be showing you my happy meal later. I will. I will. So get ready. Wow. Ma'am, calm down. No, you calm down. I just found my future husband.
Starting point is 01:50:30 Yeah, I know. I know. Oh man. It's, it's kind of interesting how, um, mainstream and with that, I don't just mean Frau Ingram, but also Megan Kelly and others. They're incents that people are making hot Luigi into a hero. They're beside themselves.
Starting point is 01:51:00 Because I think somehow they want to put- I wonder what the sincerity level is because they have to understand it. Now, this is the point. They don't. I don't think they understand. I think they are... These people have health plans. We're on like some crowdsourcing thing.
Starting point is 01:51:17 You are. Yeah, I'm on Medicare, sincerely, y'all. Yeah. Tina is sad actually because in a couple of years she gets kicked out of the crowd health and then she has to go on Medicare and so that you can't be on the crowd health anymore. She's sad because she loves it. They're even giving her $300 for preventative for everybody. And it only pays $200 a month or something.
Starting point is 01:51:41 It's amazing. Back to Megan and the frowl. Yes, I watched this too and they all, it's almost like, I don't believe that they are as sincere as, or maybe they're in denial. I'm not sure what it is, but it does make a lot of sense to anyone who has a clue that this guy would be perceived as a hero. I find it very interesting, somewhat bizarre that a lot of these big podcasters are, oh, I think their default is like, you know, they only think in left and right and liberal and conservative. That's their whole schtick.
Starting point is 01:52:25 And they can't place this into a universal issue amongst people. And that's just their default. It's just to go for, yeah, liberal, they don't care. They want to kill people. There's something off about it. But you've noticed it too, good. It's not just me. Yeah, I've noticed it. and I find it kind of distressing because of their inability to
Starting point is 01:52:48 understand the mechanisms. I mean, I'm not on the side of the people that extol this guy as some sort of great hero, but I can objectively understand where they're coming from. I'm sure not shocked by it. I'm not shocked by Taylor Lorenz or anybody else saying, oh yeah, this guy's great. Exactly. Pierce Morgan, another one. Yeah, another one. Exactly. Yeah. He's another one. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Really? You can't believe it? I mean, you don't understand that? You pay $1,500 a month and you
Starting point is 01:53:26 have an $8,000 deductible. You don't understand that? That's a problem? And then you have to call and follow up and fax. Well, he was a married man with kids and a wife. Well, yeah. I mean, I don't kill him. Okay. Well, yeah, that's true. But how many murders take place with it just new random murders every year and like Oakland for example And these are family men that nobody that's the main you know, it's that's no one's complaining about that Nobody complains about the poor black guy was shot dead in the street by some random drive-by No, no, no, but this is like a big deal Okay, by the way, I want to remind everybody that this Thursday we will have a special Best Of No Agenda put together by Strokey Bill, I believe is his nickname.
Starting point is 01:54:17 And we debated about this because he put this together a while back, I want to say six or eight months ago. And I wasn't sure that I liked it as a concept because he put together, and he's pretty good at editing. He put together a, it's two parts, I think it's total probably about three hours. And it's sequential, it is all of the lies and the gaslighting of COVID. And I didn't think I would like it.
Starting point is 01:54:46 I'm like, I'm kind of bored of it. Yeah, you didn't want to run it. You wanted us to do something else. Yeah, I didn't want to run it. And then I listened to it. And with no agenda hindsight, it's amazing. You just sit there and go, oh my god. Listen to what they did.
Starting point is 01:55:01 Yeah, I can, yeah. Listen to all the things, right? I mean, when you hear the free fries and a hamburger again and all that stuff. Oh yeah, especially with de Blasio eating a burger and munching on fries in front of a camera. It evoked emotion. Yeah, have one of these and get a shot.
Starting point is 01:55:17 Have one of these. It evoked emotion in me. Like, I cannot believe, I mean, I know it because we lived through it and we we I mean I want so we fought but we mocked it and we said this we mocked it we mocked it this is nuts but now just hearing that all over again it's like it is truly pathetic what they put us through truly pathetic so anyway so we'll have a best of that's because I'm traveling going to the old country.
Starting point is 01:55:47 In your wedding or something? No, it's my brother-in-law's 60th birthday and we're staying in Italy and so we're staying through Christmas. I will be doing the show the day after Christmas, I think. What is it? Christmas is on the 26th? Christmas is on a Wednesday. Wednesday, yeah, the day after Christmas. Yes, and I'll be doing the show on Sunday.
Starting point is 01:56:12 So Thursday will be a best of, that's the best I could do. Yeah, you're traveling. I'm traveling, it just, there's no other way to do it because you'll lose a day and all that. And we never miss a show. We have never in almost 18 years, skipped or run a rerun or anything. We always produce a show. We have never in almost 18 years skipped or run a rerun or anything. We always produce something new. Yes. Somebody or we or somebody else produces
Starting point is 01:56:31 something that is valuable. Yeah. And this is what we this has been our policy. And I believe this to be a valuable. We haven't run into any situation where we've lost power that day or you know any screwy thing has ever happened. Well we did have one situation where we've lost power that day or, you know, any screwy thing has ever happened. Well, we did have one time where you actually lost power and I played songs for about three hours and then you came on. I think we still did the show, didn't we? That wasn't that long. A couple hours. It was for, it was a bit. Well, whatever the case, we did the show. We still did a show.
Starting point is 01:57:01 We're still done on that day. Yeah, still did a show. So it'll be good. It'll be good to listen to. You might get a little worked up over it. It's horrible, horrible people. And there's people that you've forgotten about who you need to remember. You know, passport, vaccine passport people,
Starting point is 01:57:22 a lot of bad actors. And also weak people who buckled right away for whatever. That's everybody. Yeah. Well, I mean, but leaders and elected representatives who buckled. Trump. Buckled. Anyway, those trolls who are here with us, they're in trollroom.io and they are on the modern podcast apps, which you definitely want to get because you're going to see podcasts going away.
Starting point is 01:57:52 They are on the podcast index, which does not deplatform anybody and it has a whole bunch of extra features including immediate, almost immediate notification within 90 seconds when we publish and of course the live stuff, which is new. We're working on a new thing where you can have with a live podcast, you can have a playback of the troll room. I thought that was kind of a cute idea. So if you're listening to the podcast after it's already been done, you can read along with what the trolls are saying in the troll room in synchronized fashion. You can read along with what the trolls are saying in the troll room in synchronized fashion. Okay.
Starting point is 01:58:27 Okay. You're underwhelmed. I can tell. Yeah. It's kind of, it's, it's like a studio audience that talks back. I mean, you can see what I see. It'll be fun. We run everything here though on value for value, which means we put this out as we've been doing for over 17 years as a public service to you.
Starting point is 01:58:47 We don't put any restrictions on how you access it, why you access it. There's no Apple Store tax, no Google Play tax, none of that. No, we just let you have it and all we ask for in return is that you support us with your time, your talent or your treasure. And one of the many ways that people support us is, well, boots on the ground. I mean, wow, we have some of the best producers in the business hands down,
Starting point is 01:59:12 who tell us exactly what's going on in their field of expertise. They are true domain experts, unlike a lot of what you'll get on mainstream media or even on social media. You never know where those people are coming from. These people are pre-approved by us. And then we have the artists and the artists come in many fashions. We have people who hand draw art. We have people who still use old school tablets, Wacom tablets maybe even. You think there are a few who use a Wacom tablet. Others use modern pad tablet
Starting point is 01:59:47 like things with electric pencils. And then there's the prompt jockeys. And it was an interesting conversation we had about the previous episode as we were looking through the art at noagendaartgenerator.com because there was a lot wrong with this art. But it proved to us that it's still about the concept. It doesn't have to be perfect. It's the concept that matters. Yeah, that piece had so many AI flaws. It had a lot wrong with it.
Starting point is 02:00:20 It was a mess. But it was attractive. It had good composition. But it was attractive. It was well, it had good composition. The idea was funny and it was a winner. This was Darren O'Neill's flying school bus drone. I mean, he literally had some of the propellers weren't even attached to the school bus. They were just there. They were just floating in midair.
Starting point is 02:00:44 He must have, I think he should have felt guilty about even submitting it, but. to the school bus. They were just there. They were just floating in mid-air. I think he should have felt guilty about even submitting it. Well, let's look at what we had to choose from. Well, you like the one I used for the newsletter. PsiOp Season? PsiOp Season. I thought was a good piece of good newsletter piece. Now, why didn't we choose PsiOp? Well, first of all, I wanted to call the show PsiOp Season. That was one reason. That was the reason, that was the main reason. And the problem with Psy-Op Season was the details,
Starting point is 02:01:10 which were amazing, were way too small. Because if you blow it up, you see drones flying around, you see McDonald's bags, of course, referring to Hot Luigi, the escape tunnel for Assad, had the Syrian flag. I didn't see that. Yeah, little sign, escape tunnel for Assad, had the Syrian flag. Yeah, little sign escape tunnel this way. It had the Syrian flag. Oh, I see it, yeah.
Starting point is 02:01:31 I mean, it had all kinds of groovy stuff, but it was way too small. You just couldn't see it. And remember, you only get, I mean, you get max 256 by 256 on most platforms. It is correct, the records piece. It's a very good piece though. Very good piece. So I use it for the newsletter because it tends to be all blowed up when you do that. Yeah, I actually used it for the bat signal this morning.
Starting point is 02:01:52 I liked it that much. Double use. A double use, indeed. And of course it showed up in the chapters as a lot of the art does in the modern podcast apps. Get one at podcastapps.com. Hot Luigi, no. There were some blue books. People put some blue books in there. Darren with a blue book. And that was kind of it. Not quite sure what, what comic strip
Starting point is 02:02:19 blogger was doing. Scare Manga. That, you know, that was, this is a perfect example of the right idea, but the concept was wrong. It wasn't funny. Yes. And it was too cartoonish AIE, AIE if that's a word. So he had a school bus that looked more like the Beatles' yellow submarine flying in the sky with no drone stuff on it. So, it was the stupidity of the flying school bus that really made it. So thank you very much, Darren O'Neill. Thank you for your contribution. Thank you to all the artists.
Starting point is 02:02:55 We appreciate all the work that you do. And I'm pretty sure Corrector Record did a lot of hand work here. So you did get double dibs on other stuff though. So at least your work got out there, man. And I can tell you already, there's nothing we wanna choose for today's episode. I'm just looking at it.
Starting point is 02:03:16 Yeah, somebody needs to come up with something good. Yeah, there's pretty much nothing good here. Noah from Artgenerator.com, thank you all very much. Now we want to thank our producers who support us financially. We do this for everyone who sends us over $50 for each individual episode. We'd like to thank two groups of people right here in the program, our executive and associate executive producers. The way it works is if you send us $200 or more, we read your note and you get an associate executive producers. The way it works is if you send us $200 or more, we read your note and you
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Starting point is 02:04:57 You two- Can you stop a second? Just reminding us for the next show coming up about all those COVID things, there was nothing more deplorable than Arnold Schwarzenegger during that era saying, screw your freedoms. That was one of the worst things he ever said. Yes. Hold on a second.
Starting point is 02:05:17 And then, of course, then he came out for Harris. So he was never a Republican. No, he was horrible. He was horrible. Yeah, he was horrible. He was horrible. Yeah, he was horrible. He was a horrible governor too. He lost huge, huge respect.
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Starting point is 02:13:48 Uh, we have a Diddystein update. Diddy? Yeah, new Diddy update. Tonight, Jay-Z fighting back against a rape accusation. His attorney filing a letter to the judge to dismiss the rape lawsuit against his client, citing an NBC News exclusive that found inconsistencies with the accuser's story. You should always advocate for yourself.
Starting point is 02:14:10 It comes after our interview with a 38-year-old mother from Alabama who accuses Sean Diddy Combs and Sean Jay-Z Carter of raping her when she was 13 years old. She asked us not to reveal her identity. What made you want to come forward? Because I think that I've been quiet long enough. She says that she went to the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000. The woman says she spoke to Combs' limo driver, who offered her a ride to an after party.
Starting point is 02:14:38 She says at the party she spoke to musician Benji Madden and his brother. I'm talking to Benji Madden about his tattoo. It's the last supper. In a statement to NBC News, a representative for the Maddens confirmed that they did not attend the 2000 VMAs and that they were on tour in the Midwest at that time. At the after party, she says she had a drink that made her feel woozy. Then she says Combs and Carter both raped her. She says she ran to a gas station where she called her father who picked her up. We wrote home in silence. She didn't ask me what happened.
Starting point is 02:15:10 In an interview with NBC News, her father said he could not verify the claims. I feel like I would remember that and I don't, he said. When we asked the woman about the contradictions in a phone interview on Friday, she said she stands by her statements. I have made some mistakes, she said said in remembering what happened 24 years ago. Honestly, what is the clearest is what happened to me. In a statement to NBC News, Sean Carter said, this incident didn't happen. True justice is coming.
Starting point is 02:15:36 We fight from victory, not for victory. A representative for Combs called the suit a shameless money grab. Is any part of you scared coming out against such powerful people? I'm scared of what could happen, but I'm more afraid of letting it eat me alive from the inside out. You know, this story, I don't hear any buzz be
Starting point is 02:15:59 in this story, this sounds like something that's been thrown in there to make it look like all accusations are false. Something is up with this story. This is possible. The whole, that is a smoke screen or misleading or a misdirection. Misdirection. Yeah.
Starting point is 02:16:21 It feels a bit like it. Yeah. It feels a bit like it. Could be. Yeah, feels a bit like it. It all turns up, of course, right after the accusation against Jay-Z. Well. Which seems to have set off alarms. This is an accusation against Jay-Z. And Divi.
Starting point is 02:16:40 Both of them. Oh, I thought she was... Okay. No, it's both. No. It's a mess. They should be... It's a big mess.
Starting point is 02:16:48 Go in there and just release the tapes. Release the Kraken. Here is the Waters clip that I brought, which I found to be... The what? The Waters clip. Jesse Waters clip. I have a Jesse Waters clip, too. Oh, the Waters. Jesse Waters clip. waters clip Jesse waters clip. I have a Jesse water Oh the water is Jesse waters. Just just just water is good for second half two new revelations from the Trump assassination task force
Starting point is 02:17:11 According to their report the Secret Service agent who spotted Ryan Ruth in the bushes outside Trump's golf course was only five feet away When he opened fire and missed him not once not twice Six times he missed him six times from five feet. How does a trained agent who passed the firearms test miss a target away, five feet away? That's not all. The report says the Secret Service found out at 2.30 in the morning that Trump would be golfing later that day, but they didn't secure the course, allowing Ruth to camp out for 12 hours before anyone saw him.
Starting point is 02:17:44 Meanwhile, Ruth appeared in federal court this morning and his legal team signalling they're going to go with the insanity defense. How convenient. Ruth's public defender said he has had multiple meetings with a mental health expert while in jail and the witnesses who saw him before the arrest say he was hallucinating and delusional. Of course. Prosecutors also revealed that Ruth has been doing a lot more writing behind bars than initially reported. Ruth has
Starting point is 02:18:09 written nearly 40 letters to news outlets in an attempt to persuade them that he's an honorable guy, but they were intercepted before they reached their targets. We also know that only 17 of the 18 cell phones found in Ruth's possession belong to him. Why does he have 18 cell phones? And wait, he has 17, so who owns the last phone? And why did Ruth have it? I love the vapid, you know, the vapidness of what he does. Yeah, and the thing is, I saw that one,
Starting point is 02:18:42 that report, I didn't clip it, but the interesting part was the cell phones though. What, what's this guy doing with so many cell phones? I mean, I have a bunch of cell phones that are just laying around cause they're just, I mean, old cell phones. I mean, is that what they're talking about? Cause like you could, very few people throw their cell phone out after they go to the next phone.
Starting point is 02:19:01 If they ever get me is like, like, and Curry had 100 laptops and 27 cell phones, even a flip phone. And one of them is a mystery, well, who's that owned by and why's he got it? Yes, yes, yes. We couldn't bring it. Well, I have a second half of show clip here. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
Starting point is 02:19:17 Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Attending all human resources. Now entering second half of the show.
Starting point is 02:19:28 Second half of show everybody. Stand by. John C. Dvorak brings the heat. So this is a guy named Cliff High and I recommend people go out and listen to his various reports. I've been on his show. You've been on Cliff High? He doesn't have a show. Cliff High? Yeah.
Starting point is 02:19:46 The funny guy, funny looking guy, he has all these theories? Yeah. I've been on, he's a, yes, I'm pretty sure I've been on his podcast. Well, he has a, people should look for the Melee, the 39 days to Melee show, which is special, but this is, he's discussing it with some other guy who's who's he's on his show and they're talking about you know the aliens and a lot of the stuff going on has all been predicted because Cliff High does mathematics on word usage and he can predict the future in some oddball way and he's part of the probably one of, he talks about the Elohim a lot, which is some alien race that's in contact with the humans.
Starting point is 02:20:31 No, that, yes, that's the biblical giants. They come from the, yes, it's all very, very fun stuff. And so... Yeah, yeah, it's all, it's a fact. Here we go. And it starts really with your 39 days to melee video. Can you just quickly maybe take the first four or five minutes there, explain what you had way back when and the data in 2009, how that led to Trump- 2009.
Starting point is 02:21:00 ... going into you and where we are today. Take that first five minutes, Cliff. Okay. So in 2009, we had a forecast of a podcast. Podcasts weren't really well known at that point of an unknown president with a podcaster that was going to be a temporal marker for our entering into sci-fi world. It's a temporal marker. It just marks things. It's not a precursor. It doesn't mean that it had to happen in order that this other stuff would happen.
Starting point is 02:21:25 It was just shown in the data as highlighting it as sort of like a signpost on the way, right? But anyway, so the temporal marker is the signpost on the Trump interview. And in there, in that data in 2009, was this thing about 39 days later, we would have conditions for melee. Melee is when an organized contention breaks down into everybody fighting, everybody else with whatever is at hand, last man standing wins, that kind of thing. It's not a good outcome, not a good situation.
Starting point is 02:22:01 We now, in that 39 days, was after the temporal marker, and so that would have been December 3rd, and sure enough, pretty much on schedule, all of the organized contention around these drones and the UFOs and all of that kind of stuff started rising up, as well as the other organized contention within the humanity with, you know, the Elohim worship cult doing all of the color revolution in Georgia and getting the everything head up in Korea and all of this kind of stuff, right? They're doing everything they can to create chaos in order to hopefully get enough chaos that Trump can't come in. That's my supposition. Okay, that's why I think they're doing it. There may be deeper issues there though.
Starting point is 02:22:46 Wait, wait, wait. I missed the grid going down and does he bring up project Blue Bean? No, he doesn't. Well, maybe later in this, but I don't have the clip of it, but he, yeah, this is all about Trump somehow. That's his theory. And they, so he can't get in because that we've heard, you know, this goes right in there with the grid going down yeah, and all the rest of it and Jamie Raskin who's got rules that they know they can yeah, we can get it we can impede me
Starting point is 02:23:15 Stop it. We'll stop it. We'll stop from we're not gonna ratify him. Yes Part two that's who Yeah clip to Part two. So that's what, yeah, clip two. It would also be as above, so below as we're having contention in space, maybe that it's somehow translated. Contention in space? What? It's a contention in space. I guess talk about this on some other podcast.
Starting point is 02:23:37 This guy, there's wars going on in space. And so, you know, as above, as below. It's somehow translated into anything on earth. I don't see it that way. I could see it as as above, so below, only in the sense that the Elohim worship cult believe themselves to be chosen by the Elohim, their space gods, to rule humanity. This cult believes that they have the right to farm humanity. This cult also knows that they have to report
Starting point is 02:24:08 to these space aliens. And if the space aliens come back, the cult in my opinion, is afraid that if the space aliens come back and see their herd, which is humanity, in such disarray that they would take it out on the herd management guys, the Elohim worship cult. Okay?
Starting point is 02:24:25 So it may be that at that level, but it's sort of a cover your ass kind of a thing. Yeah. You know, bring back the gay TikTok clips. That's better. Okay. Do you have any analysis of this? Of this?
Starting point is 02:24:43 So you were on this guy's show? I'm pretty sure yeah cliff high. Yeah Talking about what the Elohim? No about no agenda since it's you know same thing. No, I didn't talk about the Elohim. I'm pretty sure let me see It's a isn't the higher higher chats. I think this is podcast Let's say that don't keep track of these things. Yeah, I do. A higher side chat. There you go. The higher side chats.
Starting point is 02:25:08 I think that, I think that's higher side chat. I think so. Maybe it, maybe, maybe it sounds like some chat where you were, they smoked a lot of marijuana during the. Yeah. I think that was the context of my appearance on the show. It's been a while. It's been at least a couple of years.
Starting point is 02:25:23 Okay. Anyway, um, you sent me an interesting article which I've put into the show notes. I think it's important, particularly for people who are interested in doing local podcasts, which I mentioned that and people have been… Hundreds, hundreds of people have requested my primer on how to do that. Hyperlocal.nodgendanotes.com send me an email I'll send it to you if you probably forget and is the Forbes advisor on libel versus slander And I thought that was really good that that you
Starting point is 02:25:58 Sent that to me and also I think it's good that people understand The difference and how they actually need to be careful themselves. I think even on social media, you probably have to be careful. Yes, yes, absolutely. It hasn't happened much yet, but at some point, as people get, you know, more people enter social media, the likelihood of slandering somebody is higher. Now explain the difference. You get sued, you get sued. Explain the difference between libel and slander.
Starting point is 02:26:28 Well, one is just, it's the same thing. The real problem here is not libel or slander. One is, one is a print and one is in verbal. Right. Libel, I believe is print and slander is verbal. Yes. print and slander is verbal. But the overall problem is called defamation and that's where the lawsuits come in. So whether you libel somebody or slander them, it doesn't make any difference what you do. You can be sued for defamation and there's the rationale
Starting point is 02:27:02 for all that. It was in the show notes. You should, people should read this. People who are doing a lot of social media or who have big mouths and like to talk, talk, you know, they like to slander people literally. They should read this and know that you're, you're putting yourself up for, uh, the big, I think the big, uh, the big important piece here is public versus private figures. That's really a key thing here. It's an element. Yes. Yeah. I mean, it's a lot,
Starting point is 02:27:34 I mean, Trump, okay. So we can play this clip. I have, since you brought it up, I already had it lined up, but okay. You have your own version of it. I have Trump versus ABC. Yes, it's probably the same. Probably the same. Oh, you have a very short clip. Okay. Well, we'll play your clip. Let's see. Here we go. ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos settled a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump for $15 million that will be paid to Trump's future presidential foundation and museum, plus a million dollars to his lawyer along with an apology. Trump sued, claiming Stephanopoulos and the network defamed him when the anchor said a
Starting point is 02:28:11 jury found Trump civilly liable for raping E. Jean Carroll. The writer, whose case is against Trump, led to him being found liable for sexual assault and defamation, but neither verdict involved a finding of rape, as defined under New York law. Trump is appealing both Carroll verdicts. Yeah, my clip is with, I want to play it because it's a little bit longer, but it's reported by Brian Seltzerwater, which I think is funny. Oh, yes, play it.
Starting point is 02:28:35 And it has some clips of the actual slander. Yeah, I was saying- Break news and- Sorry. Sorry. Go ahead. But before you play that, I had, didn't clip it, but I have the clip. I posted it on Twitter, anyone who follows me, the entire interview with Nancy Mace,
Starting point is 02:28:52 which I thought she did a great job of pushing back. I actually have the clip in the show notes if anyone wants to. Yes, it's a good clip. And I would say that, Stepanophilus said that Trump was a rapist. They said 10 times, but I counted about 14. And he kept doing it over and over and over and over again. Then later, Stepanophilus found out they were being sued, and he went on the Cold Bear show and said it again.
Starting point is 02:29:21 Yes. I mean, Disney's, I mean, I don't understand how this guy has a job. I'm thinking, didn't Joy Behard also say something about he's a rapist, convicted rapist? There was something there, also an ABC show. Well, actually, well, first let's play this. ABC is out of control. Breaking news into CNN, ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos has reached a settlement with president-elect Donald Trump in his defamation suit, the lawsuit stemming from an interview
Starting point is 02:29:54 that Stephanopoulos did with Congresswoman Nancy Mace, where he asserted Trump was found liable for rape in a civil case. The network will pay out $16 million as part of that settlement and have to issue an apology. CNN Chief Media Analyst Brian Stelter joining me. And Brian, this is actually a lawsuit with ABC News, the network, and Stephanopoulos. What else can you tell us about this? That's right. It's not every day that you hear about a major network, a TV network, paying millions of
Starting point is 02:30:24 dollars and apologizing to the president-elect. So this is a headline with real ramifications. And as you said, it stems from an episode of George Stephanopoulos' Sunday morning news program where he was talking with a lawmaker, I think it was Nancy Mace, and they were talking about the Eugene Carroll case. And George Stephanopoulos repeatedly used the word rape saying Trump was found guilty of rape, liable of rape. Well, in fact, the accurate phrase to use is sexual abuse. That is what the New York court found. But because Stephanopoulos kept using that R word, rape, Trump filed a lawsuit.
Starting point is 02:30:59 He filed a defamation suit. Well, why don't we count them? I have the clip here. Let's count them because it was really egregious. It wasn't just once or why don't we count them? I have the clip here. Let's count them because it was really egregious. It wasn't just once or twice. Let's, let's, shall we count them? You want to ring the bell? We can try.
Starting point is 02:31:11 I'm asking you a question about why you endorse someone who's been found liable for rape. It was not a criminal court. This was, this was a civil court. And by the way, she joked about the judgment and what she was going to do with all that money and I find that offensive. I'm asking you about the management. But as a rape victim who's been shamed for years now because of her rape, you're trying to shame me again by asking me this political question.
Starting point is 02:31:33 You've repeated that again and again and again. I think it's offensive. As a woman, I find it offensive. I'm asking you. My political choices, I've endorsed the man that I believe is best for our country. It's not Joe Biden. And you looked at the dueling rallies yesterday in Georgia. Laken Riley's family was with Donald Trump.
Starting point is 02:31:49 They weren't with Joe Biden. The same guy yesterday that apologized for calling her killer an illegal. Who wasn't illegal? And here you are trying to shame a rape victim. I find it disgusting. I mean, you keep saying I'm shaming you. You are, the question, it is, it is.
Starting point is 02:32:02 How is the question asking you about a presidential candidate who's been- You're asking a rape victim. And There's nothing I can do. You are. The question, it is. It is. How is the question asking you about a presidential candidate who's been hot-fired? You're asking a rape victim. And there's no question about that. And you courageously talked about that. You're questioning my political choices because I've been raped. I think that's disgusting.
Starting point is 02:32:14 No, I'm questioning your political choices because you're supporting someone who's been found liable for rape. You're shaming me. You're trying to shame me. Actually, I'm not trying to. You are. That's exactly what you're doing. You're not answering the question.
Starting point is 02:32:24 I think it's disgusting. Well, you're welcome to say that, but you also have to answer the question. Why are you supporting someone who's been found liable for rape? I just answered your question. What is the answer? He was not found guilty in a criminal court of law. It was a civil, it was sexual abuse. It wasn't actually rape, by the way. Wow, she's set it right.
Starting point is 02:32:40 And E. Jean Carroll joked about all the money she's going to get and made a mockery out of this case. I didn't hear that many. I don't have, maybe it was more of the clip when he kept going on, but I just remember that. No, they kept going, I got five so far, but at the end, he kept saying it, and then at the end, when they changed the topic, at the, if you played the extended clip,
Starting point is 02:33:02 he brought it up two more times. Yeah. And then he brought it up on Colbert. I mean, the lawsuit was now, this is the reason we want to talk about this is because as you mentioned, there's a different difference between private and public figures only to a point. Yeah. You can't accuse people that the funny thing, the kind of a kicker in there is you can't, it's also a defamation to say someone has a disease.
Starting point is 02:33:32 Yes. Which is very, people just don't get that. But to say somebody has a disease. But now can the TikTok guy at McDonald's, because you said he was gay, if he's not gay, can he sue you for that? He's pretending to be gay. And he would take it as a compliment. There's nothing defamatory about it.
Starting point is 02:33:56 And I don't use gay as a defamatory epithet. Descriptive. Yeah, it's just descriptive in this regard. He's flamboyant. He was just being gay. He didn't have his husband to hook him in the whole thing. But there are moments where there are certain kinds of things you have to be careful about. And you, when you're, and podcasters especially should be aware, wary.
Starting point is 02:34:22 And, and, but social media people that doing these short clips they can get in trouble yeah so it's a good thing to read over at least so you have some familiarity with the problem well Megan Megyn Kelly this is kind of adjacent she the stuff she finds important she's all upset about Caitlin Clark do you follow WM MBA at all? Yeah. Yeah. You like it? Well, no, I think I follow it only because I watch sports shows and they bring it up. I don't like, not that I'm a bigot about it, but I find women's basketball to be boring. I don't think it's anything,
Starting point is 02:35:03 you know, but people like to watch it, but it's a women's basketball. I don't know. I don't like currently the NBA. I don't even like basketball as much anymore because of the anti-Trumpian nature of it. Right. And China owns it. Yes, China owns it.
Starting point is 02:35:20 People kowtow to China. But this isn't an example of what Megyn Kelly is doing. And I just find it bizarre. Are people really... What is she doing? What is she talking about? Well, listen, here you go. We need to talk about Caitlin Clark. No, we don't.
Starting point is 02:35:33 Let's like move on. We don't talk about that. In fact, you mentioning her is the first time it's ever been mentioned on the show in 18 years. Exactly. So, Caitlin Clark of Iowa, but now playing for Indiana in the WNBA, gets honored in time as the athlete of the year. I don't know. I guess they need a lot of covers or something.
Starting point is 02:35:56 I mean, whatever. They just want people who are going to sell their shitty magazine. So she gets selected as athlete of the year. And what does Caitlin Clark do? Like this woman who's a superstar, she's the Michael Jordan of the WNBA. And she's become a phenom in part because the players of the WNBA can't fucking stand her. Why?
Starting point is 02:36:21 Because she's white. She drops a lot of F-bombs too, Megan does. Yeah, this is recent. She's gone just the opposite direction of most podcasters. Podcasters, generally speaking, they get, especially ones that came out of broadcasting, they first go into podcasts and they cuss a lot. People notice this. Cuss, cuss, cuss, cuss. And then they start to back off because they get people that, hey, my kids are listening to the show, come on.
Starting point is 02:36:45 Yeah, exactly. And so they start to cuss less, which is the normal process. She goes in the other direction. She has never cussed before, and now she's cussing all the time? Like a trucker? I mean, what is the point?
Starting point is 02:37:01 It's abject, absolute racism. It's total racism. And one of the things that's been admirable about Caitlin is she just continues to play her game and put points on the board. And she does very well and she wins games and games and she puts butts in the seats and she sells tickets and she gets people tuning in on television. And all really we want to hear from anybody about this is thank you. Thank you to Caitlin Clark for making our league relevant and so on. But instead she's been bullied repeatedly by the players in this league. She's been assaulted physically. She's been scratched in the eye. And I mean, we've all this on camera. We've covered it
Starting point is 02:37:39 repeatedly on the show. So she gets this honor and all she has to do is continue staying above it. Thank you. I'm grateful. Love being in the WNBA and I love my colleagues who I play with my teammates. That's it. Instead, she decides to go racial. And what she says is she feels the need to acknowledge her white privilege. Basically, she's sorry she's white. That's what Megyn Kelly is doing. It is kind of funny. Now, there was a funny meme that I put into the last newsletter. I hope people saw it. It was a Caitlin Clark meme.
Starting point is 02:38:22 Babylon Bee phony headline. It was very humorous and I would hope people would subscribe to the newsletter so they can see some of these memes that I put up and Yeah, that's the Caitlin Clark story the whole thing is dumb. Yeah, it is. I'm sorry. I brought it up actually Did you read the the time person of the Year article about Trump? I did not read the article. Well, let's ask Joy Reid about it. We begin tonight with the dream of a boy from Queens, New York. This boy wanted so desperately to impress those on the other side of the East River
Starting point is 02:38:57 in Manhattan to be accepted by its elites. One way to achieve that was to be featured on the covers of major magazines, most especially to be Time magazine's person of the year. Well, today, Donald Trump celebrated securing that distinction for a second time. As Time magazine describes it, for 97 years, the editors of Time have been picking the person of the year, the individual who, for better or for worse, did the most to shape the world and the headlines over the past 12 months. In many years, that choice is a difficult one.
Starting point is 02:39:29 In 2024, it was not. The key line, for better or for worse, is not much of a ringing endorsement, and we all know which one Trump falls under. And let's remember who else has been given this title in years past in the same category, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Vladimir Putin. In fact, Stalin won the distinction twice, just like Trump. But it seems Time magazine must have a real special place in Trump's heart because he once not only made a fake time cover with his face on it,
Starting point is 02:39:59 he hung it at a number of his golf clubs. Oh, man. So this Time magazine, it was really interesting. Now Reid Hoffman owns Time. He and his wife own Time magazine. They bought Time magazine. And I actually heard a pretty interesting interview. He's kind of, strangely enough, somewhat agnostic about Trump. He's like, you know, I'll work with Trump.
Starting point is 02:40:27 I work with the president. Of course, he's got a lot of AI stuff going on, so he can't go really too hard against it. But this article was pretty much a bunch of journalists got together or writers and just wrote all the stuff that they said about Trump and then kept saying, you know, you watch, you watch, it's going to happen. And he's a narcissist and he's going to, and they interviewed him, but there's maybe three lines from Trump in the entire, you know, it took 25 minutes to read.
Starting point is 02:40:59 It was bizarre. You should really read it. No, I probably won't. It was bizarre. You should really read it. No, I probably won't. It was bizarre. You know, and Reid Hoffman, you know, he's now leading the AI revolution, John, with a new term, which I think this will be the only thing that AI will do for the business community. You ready for it?
Starting point is 02:41:21 I didn't know he was leading anything, but okay. Oh, with Salesforce? Oh yes Salesforce. Oh they're all about AI. Salesforce isn't Reed Hoffman. He... what am I thinking? Reed Hoffman is Netflix. Wrong guy. I'm sorry not Reed Hoffman. The other guy. The other... what's his name? Yeah the guy who runs Salesforce. Yeah. That's who you were talking about all along. And he owns Time. Yes, I forgot what's his name. I think he sold Time, by the way. No, no, no. He and his wife still own it.
Starting point is 02:41:48 Now that you brought Reid Hoffman, you got him in my brain. I can't get the other guy's name. I just had to, in fact, I just sent an email to him recently. Ah. Mark Benioff. Oh, it's Chad room again. Benioff.
Starting point is 02:42:00 Mark Benioff. Benioff. Yeah, OK, sorry, Reid Hoffman. What am I thinking? Mark Benioff. But yes, he. Mark Benioff is Benioff. Benioff. Okay. Sorry, Reid Hoffman. What am I thinking? Mark Benioff. But yes, he-
Starting point is 02:42:08 Mark Benioff is not completely agnostic. He's a Democrat. He supports the Democrat Party. I heard an interview with him and he was very positive about Trump. Well, he could be because the Valley is becoming positive. That's exactly what I said because of his AI. And he even says Salesforce invented most of AI. I got to pull some clips from that interview.
Starting point is 02:42:30 That's a good one. Oh yeah, no, 18. We've been doing AI for 18 years. He said, I got to pull some clips from that interview. But the term, here's what Salesforce is selling, which is hilarious. Ready? Agentic AI.
Starting point is 02:42:49 What does that mean? It's smart agents. Agentic. Oh, agentic as in agents. Yes, so agents will chat with you, agents will call you, agents will email you, and they're doing away with all the previous AI, the anonymous Indians. Now it's agentic AI. So we've downgraded now from general intelligence to generative intelligence to now agentic because it's not working. And I see more and more articles about quantum. Google has stuck a wrench into the works. You know, there... The chip that doesn't work, but there's interdimensional, that chip? Yes.
Starting point is 02:43:34 The chip that goes into outer space somehow and finds another dimension, does the calculation there and brings it back? Yes. It's dynamite. It's dynamite. Right. The bubble is going to pop. The bubble for quantum is going to pop. The bubble for quantum is going to pop for sure.
Starting point is 02:43:49 But the first, the BBC was all upset with Apple. This is great. They said, we don't like what your Apple intelligence has done. It has been- What, the emojis? No. has done. It has the emojis. No, the so Apple intelligence will pop up alerts, news alerts from different organizations, such as the BBC, but then their Apple intelligence, for your benefit,
Starting point is 02:44:19 will make a little summary of the headlines. So here's the BBC news headlines that pops up. Luigi Mangione shoots himself. And the BBC is like, we stand by our journalistic integrity. We do not think it's very good that Apple's artificial intelligence is doing this. Yeah. Apple is, they've made a mistake with this. I don't think anybody wants their Apple intelligence Shoots shoots anyway, let's get out of here with the Pelosi clip. You had the Pelosi clip I see so I want to Poor old Nancy Oh poor Nancy Yeah
Starting point is 02:45:00 We're house speaker Nancy Pelosi underwent successful hip surgery in Germany after falling during a congressional delegation trip. If here's Claudia Grisales reports, she was part of a group commemorating a World War II site. Former Speaker Pelosi was part of a congressional visit to Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. At the time, House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul was leading the bipartisan delegation of more than a dozen members ahead of the anniversary on December 16th. During an official
Starting point is 02:45:35 engagement on Friday, Pelosi fell and was admitted to a nearby hospital for evaluation. She was transferred about two hours away to the medical center at Lanzstuhl Army Base to undergo hip replacement surgery Saturday morning. A Pelosi spokesman said she was well on the mend and she thanked the U.S. military staff for their care. And where was that report from? That report was from NPR. Oh man, they didn't have any audio of Nancy no they just gave no there's audio there's all I my report has audio of man well play your report then I'm falling and I fell right into it like an image of the
Starting point is 02:46:24 people who could do that Alright, I fell right into it like an idiot. Man, I had to wait for two hours and 45 minutes to do that gag. The big gag. It was good. I would say I'll give you ten points for you set it up well, you had me play the clip and then you'd suckered me into pushing your clip because you got me mad. I got you mad. Because you had a better clip and then you pull out the old switcheroo with a stupid
Starting point is 02:46:58 clip leading right into the donation segment. It's beautiful. Best you've ever done. Thank you very much. Yes, John will now thank everybody who supported this episode, $50 and above. Not a very long list, but here we go. It's a very short, pathetically short list. We hope that people start to get the Christmas spirit and donate to the show.
Starting point is 02:47:19 Yes. Brandon Maroney starts us off in Brown Hills, New Jersey, $101.01 followed by Sir Dodd. He's in Friendswood, Texas. Where is that by the way? $100? I don't know where Friendswood is. Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico. There we go. $100. Sir Loudpipes comes up from Charlotte, North Carolina with $84.38. This is the, which turns out to be the 80.80 boobs donation. It is. With the fees, including a math, Matthew Gill did the same thing from
Starting point is 02:47:55 Raleigh and he's in Raleigh, North Carolina. It's interesting. Both of them did this and they're both in North Carolina. 83.38 exactly the same but Butson boobs he calls it. Kevin McLaughlin doesn't do that. He came in with 8008. Dodge Duke of Luna lover of America and lover of boobs. And then Ryan Gordon from Dobson, North Carolina 8008. The ladies should be so happy. Christopher Myers in Dallas, Texas 75.
Starting point is 02:48:23 Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, 6006, which used to be the small boobs donation. Christopher Dechter, 56, 78. Sir Economic Hitman in Tombl, Texas, 50, 01. And now we're already the $50 donors. I'll just read them off name and location. There's a few of these, but it's still the total number of donors today is under 32 Yeah, 20. I'm sorry number 20 on the list is Brandon Savoy and Port Orchard, Washington
Starting point is 02:48:55 Jared Yaw in Nashville, Tennessee, Patricia Dane, Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida Diane Schwannenbach in Johnsburg, Illinois. Christian Freeman in San Marcos, Texas. Kevin Dills in Huntersville, North Carolina. Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta. In Canada. Easy landscapes.
Starting point is 02:49:18 Easy landscapes. They're in North Stonington, Connecticut. Philip Blue in Louisville, Kentucky. Michael Perrot in Salem, Oregon. William McCutcheon in Briar Clift, Texas. He has a note. My question is, with all their worry about vaccines, have they made sure the newcomer of the kind of an old material? Sorry I mentioned it. Yeah. Jerry Winginroth rounds us out. He's in Saugus, California. And last on the list, Dame Knight in Edmonds, Washington. She's also I think a Baroness. Yes. Well thank you very much to these donors and thank you to everyone who came in under
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Starting point is 02:50:27 the Thursday show and the Sunday show on Sunday. So go to NoAgendaDonations.com and support this valuable service, NoAgendaDonations.com. It's your birthday, birthday. Oh, no, I'm not. Melissa Lassner wishes Sir Lassner Black Knight of the Ninjas a very happy birthday. He will be celebrating on the 18th of December.
Starting point is 02:50:49 We say happy birthday to him from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. Only one birthday. That is surprising. I would have thought there would be more birthdays. That's odd. No nights, no titles. We go straight to the meetups. Noagenda Meetups! It's not your party!
Starting point is 02:51:10 Yeah, baby, the Noagenda Meetups is where people love to hang out together. Connection is protection. Do not accept the little blips of dopamine that you get from liking someone or being liked on social media. You need to get the real deal. Go to a Noagenda meetup. You can find those listed at NoagendaMeetups.com. We love playing the reports. Here's the Denver Ramadan Maquandah whatever meetup report.
Starting point is 02:51:35 Hey y'all, Denver Chris Maquansma Ramadan holiday meetup. There was a lot of drinking involved even as a child. This is Colin. Dana Bernetti sponsored this meetup, so he's picking up the tab. Thank you. Salam alaikum, this is Sir Scott. I might be overboard,
Starting point is 02:51:51 but I'm treading water behind the boat. Myla Heigal here, reminding you. Train's good, plane's bad. Barka on whatever holiday you're celebrating and greetings from Denver. ITM everyone, Nate. Fifth or sixth meetup. Still not a spook.
Starting point is 02:52:09 Sir Soothsayer here. I skipped the game awards for this. You're welcome. Josh Simson checking in from North Aurora where I still have yet to see any trend to Aragwa out on the streets. Tea dog here in the morning. Finally off the road to be able to make one of these. Colorado Care Bear.
Starting point is 02:52:24 Denver out. Alright Denver, thank you very much and yes always good to meet each other there. It's a nice little group you have. The Netherlands, Leiden had their, what did they call their meetup? It was the fourth Amygdala checkup report. El Durochi and Leiden, peace, peace, peace, peace y'all. Mornings in the morning. Super awesome meetup! Joep here, thank you for your courage. My name is Anita and I love NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN Doesn't it sound like they all work for NATO? Twice a week, never too much.
Starting point is 02:53:05 So Bob the Redoer, thank you for your courage. This is Roland again, for more years. In the morning John and Adam, this is Irma. I'm not a douchebag. And this is Sebastian, there's no unity without community, or the other way around. Those Dutch guys and gals, love them. And finally we have Leo Bravo, the Flight of the No Agenda meetup number 59 already. Hi everybody, it's Leo Bravo at meetup number 58.
Starting point is 02:53:32 Oh 58, sorry. I'm passing a phone around. Our attendees have things to say. Sir Robertson of Two Sticks here and I traveled approximately four, maybe five hours via train. Train's good, plane's bad. Woo hoo! That's Sir Lea Kim Faux Pop. And they used to have hairy legs, but I shaved them.
Starting point is 02:53:51 Hello gentlemen. I just was thinking about you guys and how much I love this show and how much I wish that I had found you much earlier in my life, because my whole life would have been way better. In the morning. Oh, this is Greta.
Starting point is 02:54:04 Bye. Oh, hey is Greta. Bye. Oh, hey. Yo! Kwanzaa was invented by an FBI informant. Sucine Halloween! At the Full Moon in downtown LA. Woo! So a couple of meetups taking place today.
Starting point is 02:54:18 I hope that we get reports from the brunch on the river near RVA from Hopewell, Virginia, from West Palm Beach. That's where the Reiki Princess was doing the tequila and axe throwing. Hopefully, someone will be alive after that to send a report. The Black Hills of No Agenda meetup in South Dakota, well underway now. And also the Indianapolis Indianate Christmas Pitch-in meetup. That's at the home of Mark and Maria. Dame Maria, Sir Mark. And let me see, says next.
Starting point is 02:54:50 Oh, okay. That's, sorry, this is a production notes I have. Thursday, our next show date. Well, it'll be the best of show. Doesn't mean that you don't want to send in a Meetup report. We want to hear how it went. Home for the holidays, four o'clock at Canyon's Crown in Tucson, Arizona. And the North Georgia monthly at six o'clock
Starting point is 02:55:09 at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Noagenda Connections Protection for North Kentucky, seven o'clock at Long Neck Sports Grill in Hebron, Kentucky. Charlotte's Thursday, Thursday, seven o'clock at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina. That is the meetups coming up this week. Of course, we'll play the Meetup reports on Sunday as we have our best of show.
Starting point is 02:55:29 The most horrible Psy-Op ever that is COVID, that will be our best of show. Strokey Bill produced that for us. These are just a couple of the No Agenda Meetups. Go find every single one listed. Go to noagendameetups.com. Connection is protection. The people you meet at the Meetups will be your first responders in an emergency.
Starting point is 02:55:47 It's good. It's healthy. And you need to go on. If you can't find one, start with yourself. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. You want to be where you want to be, triggered or held alame. You want to be where everybody feels the same It's like a party Alright, like a party, party, party, party, party, party I have two ISOs, do you have any ISOs? I have three of course
Starting point is 02:56:21 Three? You want me to go first? Yeah, go first Okay I do believe we did our best Hmm Dad and here's the next one, please send money We understand it you couldn't understand it. No, it was a mud Well, hold on me. It was a little low and the hold on me. Let me crank it up a bit
Starting point is 02:56:43 I thought it was appropriate for this episode Please send the money Yeah, if you if you can I couldn't understand that's fine. Don't worry, but then it's a loser. It's a loser You're up. What do you say? Please send the money. Oh Okay, so he's doing a voice. Mm-hmm. All right, so I got three. We'll start with Santa? Santa? Ho, ho, ho.
Starting point is 02:57:11 Santa here. It's just a dumb thing I picked up. I try stuff. That's pretty good stuff. I like that. Is that from the Notebook LLM? No. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 02:57:25 I like that one. And then I have Thank You. Thank you. I like, uh... That's pretty good stuff. Although, I think... I do believe we did our best. I kind of like that one. Okay, you win.
Starting point is 02:57:38 I win? Oh, I wasn't expecting it. Thank you so much. Your No Agenda Tip of the Day. Created by Dana Brunetti. That's right, everybody. He created it. Thank you so much. You're no agenda tip of the day. Created by Dana Brunetti. That's right, everybody. He created it. It's time for everyone's favorite moment of the show. Still haven't heard from the creator. Haven't heard from the creator of the tip of the day. Yeah, I hate your guts. Clearly. So this is a note from Claudia Hernandez.
Starting point is 02:58:11 I want to read it. From Claudia Hernandez, I made the donation on show 1716 and mentioned the Libby app. Yes, oh. It's a digital library service that allows users to enjoy e-books and audiobooks from their local library. Just needs your local library card and download the app. I have to give credit to my boyfriend for making me get a library card and,
Starting point is 02:58:33 and it's a library by the way, uh, and download the app. It's a good product. This is a, uh, this, it doesn't work at every library. I might mention it only works at libraries that will, and they loan out e-books and audio books. And the thing about this is that I think audio books are a jip. You buy the audio book from Amazon and then you listen to it.
Starting point is 02:58:57 You know how many people listen to it over, it's not like a book where you can reference it and you'll thumb through it and you might wanna keep it. Audio books you listen to, it's like entertainment. Libraries have these things and the Libby app allows you to find these libraries that have them and pass them around, which brings me to, and that's the kind of the tip of the day, but it brings me to another thing that's called Link Plus, and this is available in California and Nevada. And this is an astonishing operation.
Starting point is 02:59:28 And you can achieve, you can get to, this is a library system in these two states. And I think other states may have these, but I can't seem to find any of them. But California, every library and every university library, which is a big deal. The universities are have the biggest libraries in the state. They're all linked together in one giant card catalog called Link Plus. And this is, I've used this, my son, who likes to read obscure material, used it for years
Starting point is 03:00:00 and he turned me onto it. And I used it during a period of time when I was kind of interested in female screenwriters as a genre because they would, I was noticing that if you like movies, old movies from the 30s and 40s in particular, the female characters were, don't exist in today's movies. So some of them are just dynamite characters, the Margaret Dumonsom. All characters in today's movies have blue hair. And so they have, they're characters in today's movies, but it's largely due to the fact there's
Starting point is 03:00:32 two screenwriters, Anita Loos, L-O-O-S, who I was, I read her biography just because I had it and I read it. It's a fascinating story. But that led me to Francis Marion, who wrote over 320 screenplays, novels, and did a bunch of stuff on Broadway. And Francis Marion and Luce both had books. And Marion had a book on screenwriting, and I wanted to read it. So I looked it up.
Starting point is 03:01:01 Yeah, the book was written in the 30s. You want a copy? 500 bucks. 1, the book was written in the 30s. You want a copy? 500 bucks, thousand bucks. Go to Link Plus, type it in. I'll give you the web address for people out there. Type it in. There's the book. I got it from UCLA. They ship it to my local library. I go to the library, pick it up. I have it for a month. These loans are for a long time. And then I give it back and the boot goes back into the library. Otherwise, couldn't ever get to read this book. And the website is screwy. It's csul.iii.com. That's dot I I I dot com that see SUL dot this is so obscure it's ridiculous really see SUL dot I I I dot what about doc doc go I mean come on people get it together
Starting point is 03:01:54 with your marketing so for people in California Nevada in particular but other states should look to see if there's anything like this is a like a virtual lending library. This every book imaginable is available through the link plus. And you can read this no matter how rare. And that's the tip of the day. I feel obligated to read this because we care a lot about our producers and we have, we have just amazing talent everywhere in every field. And I have a note from the anonymous No Agenda librarian about the Libby app.
Starting point is 03:02:31 So this is not to detract from your tip of the day, but when you mentioned it, I remember she had sent a note in a couple weeks back. I guess the Libby app came up on the show, not as a tip of the day. And I'd like to share what she said. on the show, not as a tip of the day. And I'd like to share what she said. The Libby app is a great way to shovel residents' tax dollars into corporations' coffers. The Libby app is paid for by your local library whose budget is paid for by taxes. Libraries pay at least three times the consumer price for e-books and audiobooks. Popular titles are metered access, meaning libraries have to pay that inflated price every two years to provide continued access
Starting point is 03:03:11 to those books. From the library patron side, Libby's parent company, Overdrive, used to be good, but then it was bought by a couple of VC firms, including Rakuten and now KKR. Overdrive has been buying up and gutting competitors in the digital library market. So. Okay. Well there's that. But the tip of the day was actually the Linked Plus program that just led me to. Yes. So we can take the Libby app and throw it away. that just led me to. Yes. So we can take the Libya app and throw it away.
Starting point is 03:03:48 Yeah. KKR also bought, they bought, they're, they're, they're, they're, they bought Canvas, LMS and which is a very interesting product. I talked about it in the newsletter. Canvas LMS. The blue book guys. No, no, no, they're the anti Blue Book guys. The anti Blue Book guys, yes, sorry, yes. Canvas LMS, which is a learning management system, turns out to be, according to our contact at University of Pennsylvania, it's used in all the universities, it is an online learning system and it's a system that they take, it's like it really encompasses a lot of stuff that,
Starting point is 03:04:27 when I was a kid, it was never even something you could dream about, but it's fascinating what's going on and I sent you a link to the award-winning educational software. There are a million companies in this business. There's, we're completely missing the companies in this business. There's, it's, we're, we're completely missing the, missing the boat on this information. Huge exit strategy we've missed once.
Starting point is 03:04:52 Well, I don't know what exit strategy we can do with this. It's like two guys, I think late to the game would be the theme. No kidding. That'd be the name of the company. Yeah. But yes, there's a lot going on that, going on that we need to make everyone aware of. I'm just amazed how digital books were supposed to be great, the whole world at your fingertips, and now a library who used to just lend out a book and then you bring the book back and they could lend it out. Now they have to keep paying for the same book over and over again on a subscription basis.
Starting point is 03:05:26 The internet has not improved things, in my opinion. Well, a lot has to do the show. Well that's, there's that. Although we could have done it on ISDN. Yeah, we could have done it on ISDN and we could be pivoting. We could be pulling the big bucks, $10 million easily. You're No Agenda Tip of the Day the day created by Dana Brunetti. That's it.
Starting point is 03:05:47 Everybody go to tip of the day.net or no agenda fun.com. I need your jingles, John. I need that. Maybe Dana will contact me when, when you do one of the jingles for his I Have a gem for his creation. I'm sure you do you hear it next Sunday We have end of show mixes some classics and some for the yule season We have sir Michael Anthony and sir Chris Wilson. These are classics that have held over from for for many years actually.
Starting point is 03:06:27 Chris Wilson is seven years old now. It's unbelievable. So those are coming up and we have. Let me see. Who are these broadcasters? With the episode numbers of the guys number 70 Who are these podcast? I guess so, I don't know, I'm not familiar with this but it is up next on the No Agenda Stream
Starting point is 03:06:50 TrollRoom.io, you can stick around and troll along and you can always stay logged in because there's some connection and protection to be had there as well Best of Show on Thursday, we'll be back live on Sunday you definitely want to check out that Best of Show, coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill country in
Starting point is 03:07:07 the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley there's no drones around here I'm John C. Dvorak and no drones around here ever because we shoot them out of the sky remember us at know agenda donations dot com we'll talk to you on Sunday until then adiosios, mo fosa, hoo wee hoo wee and such. Shhh. Gather round children. I have a tale to tell. Of the cute little green frog.
Starting point is 03:07:48 Who wasn't the least bit gay. Peppy the green-faced fascist was a very harmless meme hanging around on MySpace and in other online zines. All of the trolls on 4chan knew that he was public domain. They would appropriate him for their evil shitpost game. Pre-election 2015, 4chan came to say, Peppy with your face so green, won't you be our all-bright meme? Bet how the Nazis loved him,
Starting point is 03:08:37 and they tweeted out with glee. Donald Trump was elected, the rest we know is history Debbie the green faced fascist, was a very harmless thing Hanging around on my space, and another online zine All of the trolls on 4chan knew that he was public domain Labelled appropriating all their evil shit must go Pre-Eulation 2015 4chan came to say
Starting point is 03:09:21 Debbie with your face so green, won't you be our alt-right mean? Then how the Nazis loved him, and they tweeted out with glee. And Donald Trump was elected, the rest we know is history. Donald J. Trump is now President of the United States AHHHHHHHHH BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP I am checking my list to see who is being naughty or nice according to ESG.
Starting point is 03:10:06 The worst punishment will be for the climate change deniers. If you are naughty, do not worry. We will not put a lump of coal in your stocking. Coal is made of carbon and carbon is forbidden by ESG. So we will just take your stocking and your other gifts. You will get nothing and be happy. Another tradition is the living of cookies and milk for Santa. These cookies must be 100% vegan and the milk must be soy milk.
Starting point is 03:10:38 Under ESG there will be no more cow milk. And of course no more meat. You may also leave for Santa cookies made with the cricket flour and a glass of cockroach milk. But even I will not eat this. You will eat this. Maybe not this year. Maybe not next year. But we still have plenty of time to implement Agenda 2030. So now is the opportunity for giving the hugs, exchanging the gifts and eating the ham. Make the most of your unsustainable freedom,
Starting point is 03:11:13 while you still got it. We at the World Economic Forum wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New World Order. So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good luck!

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