No Agenda - 1732 - "Sig Hale"

Starting point is 00:00:00 Snap out of it! Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Thursday, January 23rd, 2025. This is your award-winning Cuba Nation Media assassination episode 1732. This is No Agenda. Opening the Stargate! And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

Starting point is 00:00:23 And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're asking the question, does anybody actually care about Blake Lively? I'm John C. DeBorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. I don't even think I could tell you who Blake Lively is, to be honest. I should know this. I'm sure I should know who Blake Lively is.

Starting point is 00:00:43 Well, they've been promoting her enough. Ah, well I should know who Blake Lively is. Well, they've been promoting her enough. Well, tell me who was Blake Lively? She's an actress who's suing a director who tried to kiss her. Yes, that was the news of the week. That was the news of the week. That was the news. Welcome, John, to the golden age of no agenda. Four more years. Wow.

Starting point is 00:01:13 I think the best thing I've seen in these past few days is refreshing the Whitehouse.gov presidential actions page. I think when you have an executive order that says, putting people over fish, I mean, that kind of says it all, doesn't it? Oh man. It's so disappointing because I got a lot of reports from foreign press because here it just seems like we're obsessed with Bezos' girlfriend's boobs.

Starting point is 00:01:56 You know what I mean? It's like, what are we doing? There seems to be a lot of stories. Yeah, there's so many reprints of the picture of Zuckerberg looking down for one split second. He will never live that down. I said to Tina, I said, what if that happened to me? And that was the two second clip everywhere.

Starting point is 00:02:13 She says, well, he's only human. I'm like, sure. Yeah. I think Miss Chan is going to be lording that over Zuck for a long time. It's just one of those things you don't want to get caught doing. These guys have got cameras. There's a thing called a camera and most people are shooting like in video mode so it's actually not just shooting.

Starting point is 00:02:36 Yeah, no, they've got frame by frame by frame of everything. Frame by frame so you can get to one split second where he looks down and that's the shot. Yeah. Whoops. And that's, you know, now he's stuck with that for the rest of his life. For the rest of his life, yeah. You have to be careful if you're a celebrity of any sort looking at it and somebody's showing off their breasts.

Starting point is 00:02:59 So that's literally, Megyn Kelly, accomplished lawyer, successful podcast host. That's all she could talk about. And it was viral, baby. They're vicious because Jeff Bezos runs the Washington Post, owns it, and owns Amazon, of course. And I will tell you, this is not my first time saying she dresses like a hooker because she does. I mean, she just kept on going about that.

Starting point is 00:03:26 Yes, I heard this bit. She has gotten to, she's discovered kind of the Tim Pool approach to podcasting. Yes, yes, yes, algo chasing. Which is ranting for excessive, that's one thing we don't do on the show, once in a while we maybe make a segment that's too long, but we don't stay on. Okay, it's alright, I got you, the Supreme Court stuff.

Starting point is 00:03:54 Yes, okay. I didn't say, I was just generalizing. I've done it. But we don't, but the style of ranting, and Kelly's gotten really good at, I think I sent you a clip once recently of one of her great rants, and she goes on, and she's well structured, and it's,

Starting point is 00:04:16 it goes on forever, and it's just, and it's basically beating a dead horse. Hey, Joe was there. I called it. Rogan, he was there. I don't remember you calling that. I said, imagine if Joe's there. And you're like, okay, I didn't call it.

Starting point is 00:04:38 I guess I conjured it. And he's sending me pictures of him and Trump and Trump family members. He was having a good time. Did you get a picture of him and Laura Sanchez? No, I wish. Oh man. He dresses like a hooker. So I've been following these executive orders.

Starting point is 00:05:04 By the way, they used to have a lot of hookers in the Bay Area and they don't really dress like that. Maybe maybe a high end, well maybe Megan's thinking of the high end hotel hookers. Well I guess maybe that's a possibility. You know where all the hookers are right now. In DC aren't they? No. That's where they usually are.

Starting point is 00:05:24 No, no they're in Davos. The hookers are in Davos. Yeah, well, that's probably true. And the Daily Mail had an exclusive with one of the high class escorts who spills the beans. And here she says, a high class escort has spilled the beans on what happens behind closed doors in Davos during the World Economic Forum Salome Balthus Don't probably not her real name

Starting point is 00:05:52 think she says She revealed to mail online that she's learned about the global elite and for many is that they are doom and gloom Mongering about the fate of the world so they've decided to just enjoy it while it lasts. Convinced that a climate change apocalypse is upon them, they shamelessly spend their vast wealth on expensive escorts in Switzerland. I wonder what those girls cost. Let me see if they did not have a price tag.

Starting point is 00:06:23 They should have a price tag. Are you doing your reporting? Are you doing your report? Oh, here price tag. They should have a price tag. You're doing your reporting. If you're doing a report, oh here it is. Five thousand pounds. Yep. Five thousand pounds. Five thousand pounds.

Starting point is 00:06:32 But that's a weekend. That's a bargain. I don't know about that being much of a bargain but. A two hour tent a tent. You could marry a Ukrainian woman for less than that. Yeah but then her brother show up and start demanding more. It's not, I've heard this happen to guys. It's not a good thing. A two-hour tete-a-tete starts at about 850 bucks.

Starting point is 00:06:56 I think this says a lot about our economy. I think these prices are down from previous Davos years. Well, for those guys, the girls should be able to charge more for that group. For sure. Yeah, it's not like a bunch of, you know, soccer guys. Should we do a little bit of Davos stuff before we get into the domestic? I don't have any Davos stuff. I do.

Starting point is 00:07:20 I have shorties. I have shorties. I'm interested because I don't have anything. Yeah, I got shorties from Davos and I'll be tracking this as we go along. I understand they wanted Trump. Trump didn't show up. He didn't want to go. He did a video thing. In fact, a lot of the big shots that normally go to Davos didn't go and it kind of freaked out Klaus. Well, the spell is broken. This is the thing. Every spell has been broken.

Starting point is 00:07:46 All the things that these elites would say, that the senators would say in questioning, it's now just become a joke. Some spell has been broken. And I will tease the end of show mix, because it starts with some of the during the spell moments during Trump's first administration freakouts that were going on with the mainstream. It's very interesting to hear

Starting point is 00:08:10 that. Yes. So I think Trump just delivered a speech to Davos. He did it via a zoom. Maybe it was Microsoft Teams. I don't know. Maybe it was Microsoft Teams, I don't know. Teams. Teams. Anyway, long keynote by Queen Ursula. I pulled 54 seconds. The sobering reality is that we are once again competing more intensely across countries than we have in several decades. And this makes the theme of this year's Davos meeting

Starting point is 00:08:48 even more relevant, rebuilding trust. Rebuilding trust. This is not. That's real, there it is, the spell is broken. No one trusts you anymore. It's over. It truly is over. There's something that's happened, Some, some cosmic shift and people

Starting point is 00:09:06 just like whatever Queen Ursula, whatever. Rebuilding trust. Yes. This is not a time for conflicts or polarization. This is a time to build trust. This is a time to drive global collaboration more than ever before. Sure. This requires immediate and structural responses to match the size of the global challenges. I believe it can be done. And I believe that Europe can and must take the lead in shaping that global response. So of course there was the typical whining and moaning about climate change and now of course climate change and AI go hand in hand.

Starting point is 00:09:57 Here's the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres. Now these two issues, climate and AI, are exhaustively discussed by governments, by the media, and by leaders here in Davos. And yet, we have not yet an effective global strategy to deal with either. And the reason is simple. Geopolitical divides are preventing us from coming together around global solutions for global challenges. Nobody wants your globalism. In fact, one of the...

Starting point is 00:10:31 It's interesting to listen to that because what he's actually saying is that all these challenges and the only reason we can't solve these problems is because we don't have one world government with a dictator at the top. Yes. That's what he just said. And Trump, one of his executive, President Trump, we should say, one of his executive orders was no to this global tax. No, we're not participating in it. We won't have any part of it, which I'm sure is a blow to the Davao people. And of course, little Licky boy shows up when it comes to AI. So you'd be paying a global tax. Well, they've been planning that for a while now. That probably would have been the topic of discussion if it was

Starting point is 00:11:15 Kamala Harris was our president. Well, global tax time everybody is a good idea. Oh yeah. To tax everybody for AI and climate change. Nope. So Licky boy shows up when it comes to AI Sam Altman trying to smooth things over. Oh, don't be too We're a little worried about AI. This guy is the vocal fry master humans Really care about what other humans think that seems very deeply

Starting point is 00:11:43 wired into us. So I was one of the first like victims of AI right to chess chess. John, did you know chess was one of the first victims of like AI right? We're the first like victims of AI right to write a big cast bra whenever that was a long time ago. And all of the commentators said, this is the end of chess now that a computer can beat the human there, you know, no one's, that no one's gonna bother to watch chess again ever.

Starting point is 00:12:08 It's over. And I played chess again. Chess has, I think, never been more popular than it is right now. And if you cheat with AI, that's a big deal. And no one, or almost no one, watches two AIs play each other. We're very interested in what humans do. When I read a book that I love,

Starting point is 00:12:22 the first thing I do when I finish is like, I wanna know everything about the author's life. Yeah, that's what I do too. The When I read a book that I love, the first thing I do when I finish is like I want to know everything about the author's life. That's what I do too. The minute I finish a book I want to read everything about the author's life. Do you have time for work Sam Aldman? I mean you must be so busy researching author's lives. Wow. Well what he means by that is he looks him up on Wikipedia. Exactly. It takes five seconds. So what? No, he just says, hello, Chad GPT, tell me about this author's life. And I want to like feel some connection with that person that... Oh yeah, I feel the connection.

Starting point is 00:12:50 Why? I don't know why. Just let the licky boy talk. Feel some connection with that person that made this thing that resonated with me. Humans know what other humans want very well. Humans are also very interested in other people. I think humans are going to... We're going to have better tools. We've had better tools before, but we're still like very focused on each other. Whatever. That was the crux of his speech. Now,

Starting point is 00:13:16 the big one came in the form. That was the crux of his speech that people like people? Yes, people like people. Yes, people, they like people. Yeah, I expected Barbra Streisand to walk out. Hello, Sam. This was the big one at Davos. This is what everyone's focused on. They even made a commercial kind of infotainment, value-tainment piece for it. Misinformation is the biggest short-term risk to the world.

Starting point is 00:13:43 Misinformation and disinformation will be the top risk to countries around the world over the next two years. The world is... Yes, really. Not fires, not earthquakes, not storms, not even climate change. No, the biggest risk is, well, misinformation and disinformation about climate change. It tops everything. The people, the spell has been broken.

Starting point is 00:14:07 They, they realize now that they no longer have the- This is your theme for the show, by the way. I, I caught it. Okay. The spell has been broken. The, the, they no longer, the elite messaging system no longer works and they're realizing it. So the only thing they can do is attack everything else saying

Starting point is 00:14:29 You don't want to risk being missed or disinformed by any other media than the ones we approve of This is the message that you will hear in this Communique around the world over the next two years The World Economic Forum has revealed in its annual global risk report. The WEF surveyed hundreds of experts worldwide and found that false and misleading content is seriously harming the geopolitical environment in a number of ways. It enables foreign entities to affect voter intentions. Foreign entities are affecting their intentions.

Starting point is 00:15:07 People are voting wrong. They're voting wrong because of this. By the way, before this clip even finishes, I'm gonna give a clip of the day. Well, that is just fantastic. I can tell. I can tell. This is so stupid. They just take the public for a bunch of idiots. But please continue this clip. Yes, that is correct. And they are telling them that they're idiots because they're getting the wrong information. In a number of ways.

Starting point is 00:15:34 It enables foreign entities to affect voter intentions. It can sow doubt among the public about what is happening in conflict zones. And it can be used to tarnish the image of products or services from another country. Oh it tarnishes products and services from another country. Wow! You know those Peugeot cars they suck. Oh you're tarnishing its misinformation. High fructose corn syrup. It sucks. A number of countries in Europe ranked misinformation as one of its top five risks according to the WEF. These include the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden. Other European countries such as France, Greece, Italy, Portugal,

Starting point is 00:16:17 Spain and the UK also rank it highly, often in the top ten. It's becoming increasingly hard to know where to turn for true information. Oh,'s becoming increasingly hard to know where to turn for true information. Oh, it's so hard to know where to turn for true information. According to the report... Don't go to podcasts. With political and societal polarisation skewing narratives and distorting facts. Respondents in high-income countries are generally more likely to express concern about the risk of misinformation over the next two years than respondents in lower income countries, according to the report, although there are some exceptions.

Starting point is 00:16:50 People worried about disinformation also often highlight societal polarization as one of the most severe risks in the same time frame. Don't argue with each other about topics, just all agree with what we say. With poor quality content and lack of trust in information sources continuing to present a threat to societies, experts have repeatedly said that the best way to protect yourself from misinformation is to stick to impartial, well-established news outlets, such as news agencies, to keep on top of the most accurate information.

Starting point is 00:17:20 Yeah, keep reading the news agencies. The news agencies, they are the ones you can trust. The news agencies. Wow. And so the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro, Pedro Sanchez, great DJ name by the way, hola, hola, hola, oche, oche, oche, Pedro Sanchez, here in the morning with you.

Starting point is 00:17:38 So Pedro, who's a good looking guy, Pedro's kind of a, you know, looks, he's a hottie. Pedro stands up and he lays it all out and he says we cannot have this and here's the solution I propose putting an end to anonymity on social media in our countries no one can walk the streets with a mask on their face or drive a car without a license plate. No one can send packages without showing an ID or buy a hunting weapon without giving their name. And yet, we are allowing people to roam freely on social networks without linking their profiles

Starting point is 00:18:20 to a real identity. This paving the way for misinformation, hate speech, and cyber harassment. Because it is facilitating the use of bots. And it is allowing people to act without being held accountable for their actions. Such an anomaly cannot continue. In a democracy, citizens have the right to not the not to anonymity or impunity Interesting I didn't know that in a democracy you have the right to privacy but not to anonymity Is that true in a democracy? That's horseshit. By the way, don't you?

Starting point is 00:18:58 When do you have to show an ID to send a package? That's exactly what he said. Well, I don't know about Europe. It's possible. Okay, what do you got here? I'm going to send this package to Adam from here. Okay, let me see your ID. I'll find it. Let me see your ID. When does that ever happen to the post office

Starting point is 00:19:14 or the UPS or any place? But isn't the fundamental part of democracy is voting anonymously? Isn't, I mean, isn't that- That's anonymity, you're right. I would think that's a... Secret ballot. Secret ballot.

Starting point is 00:19:27 Not to anonymity or impunity. Because with those two, social coexistence would be impossible. Okay, social coexistence is out, it's gone, it's all over, but... Pedro has a solution. I can already imagine, I already know what it is. Here we go. Of course you know what it is.

Starting point is 00:19:48 Impossible. That is why I believe we must push forward the principle of pseudonymity as the functioning element of social media and force all these platforms to link every user account to an European digital identity wallet. This way, citizens could use nicknames if they want, but in the case of a crime, public authorities would be able to connect those nicknames to real people and hold them responsible. Because accountability is not an obstacle to freedom of speech. It is an essential compliment to it. It is an obstacle. If you talk about things like hate speech. Yes, it's an obstacle.

Starting point is 00:20:31 So what's the, you're on social media and they want to link you to a crime that you committed on social media, which can only be hate speech on social media, like in the UK, where they're even threatening to, to extradite US citizens for hate speech in this country that has something to do with the UK. This is ridiculous. Yes, but the thing that I found interesting is he said a European Union digital ID wallet. Notice he added wallet, which I think was a mistake.

Starting point is 00:21:06 And he, he's giving it away. It may be just a language problem that wallet to him might be, you know, just, he might just said wallet. I mean, what, what, what, what? Okay. Well, let's break this down. If he, if he meant to wallet, what is that? What's why, why use the word wallet?

Starting point is 00:21:25 Because they're going to roll out a European digital ID slash wallet for your digital euro, which Fifi Lagarde has been talking about for a long time. So you're saying it's not just a digital ID, it's a wallet, the futuristic version of a smart card that's got your bank information, your health information. Every single thing that would normally be in your wallet is now on this card walking around with you so if somebody wants to steal your identity, they're better off stealing the card.

Starting point is 00:21:57 Yes. Is that also given, besides your identity, it gives them some cash. Well, only if they have the biometric keys to get in. I'm sure it will be very safe. Oh, yeah. No one's ever hacked such a thing. It will be very, very safe.

Starting point is 00:22:14 Because hackers are too stupid to be able to crack these things left and right. It's Europe, man. Like, let them stew in their own juice. We've warned them enough on this show. And if people are not going to do anything about it, obviously have not warned anybody enough about anything. That's true There were a couple more things related to Davos The foreign minister. I don't know the high representative of foreign affairs for the European Union call us She had a high The high representative?

Starting point is 00:22:45 Very, she's super high. She's very high. That's her honorific. Amen. She had a great little slogan on how to prevent war, and it rhymes too. The European Union needs to boost its defence spending to prepare for the worst and be able to defend itself alone if needed. According to the bloc's top diplomat, Kaya Callas,

Starting point is 00:23:10 she said EU member states spent a collective average of 1.9% of their GDP on defence, while Russia was spending 9%. There should be no doubt in any of our minds that we need to spend more to prevent war. No, it's a bumper sticker. Spend more to prevent war. That's the best. I want a t-shirt with that. That's good.

Starting point is 00:23:35 I want a t-shirt. I don't even know that she knows that it rhymes. Spend more, prevent war. But we also need to prepare for war. We need to improve our capabilities. Get ready for war. This is unbelievable. Hold on a second. This is the thing about Europe. These assholes want to be in war all the time. And they're just basically drumming up, they're working themselves up. I mean, we've done a pretty good job, I think, the United States of keeping them from doing this.

Starting point is 00:24:05 But we can't do it forever. The dam is going to break. We might as well just get out of NATO, stop giving money to the Ukraine. They can let these assholes go shoot them each other. I think you've told, you've said quite clearly what you think of the... I think she's on the other side of our boy, Mark Rutte. I think she's on the other side of our boy, Mark Rutte. You know, we have to spend much more than 5% on our military. And we must spend that with American defense companies.

Starting point is 00:24:33 Because we want America in here. And she's doing the opposite. Remember he said, if you don't want to do it, you can start your own military defense. Which is what they're going to do anyway. Yes, yes. We can expect to get some sales for a while and then it's going to go to the European defense contractors. Airbus, Airbus.

Starting point is 00:24:55 Well, Airbus and Saab and all these other operations. Yeah. There's a bunch of them. There's more than a few and they can crank it up in Germany if they want to. If Germany wants to. They can really militarize quick. If Germany wants to even stay in NATO, just talk about that. NATO is out the window. Let's face it.

Starting point is 00:25:11 NATO is going to fall apart. Not tomorrow, but it's going to fall apart because it's stupid and it's going to fall apart. The Russians know what's going to happen. They're going to get attacked once again. Like they get attacked every so often for whatever reason. And it's going to be a mess. I continue 20 more seconds.

Starting point is 00:25:35 We need to improve our capabilities. We need our defense industry to produce what we need. We must prepare for the worst. Over the next decade. Gosh, it sounds like a kindergartner, you know, doing a book report. We must prepare for the worst. Over the next decade. Gosh, that sounds like a kindergartener, you know, doing a book report. We must prepare for the worst. We must prepare for the worst. Over the next decade, Calais said the EU will need at least 500 billion euro to remain competitive in defense. But so far only 13 billion euro has been earmarked in the EU's long-term budget from 2021 to 2027.

Starting point is 00:26:08 Pony up citizens, pony up. You gotta get to the trillions. It's no good. 500 billion is nothing. Now we spend more. We do 800 million. In a year. In a year. 800 billion a year.

Starting point is 00:26:23 In a year. Yeah, we do 800 billion a year. They can beat that In a year. 800 billion a year. In a year. Yeah, we do 800 billion a year. They can beat that. Foam finger number one, baby. Most of ours is waste though, and scams and drift. Let's get back. Yes, expensive toilet seats.

Starting point is 00:26:38 Let's get back to climate. Here is the EU High Representative of Climate, the climate chief. Another high person? Oh, he's very high. This guy is a Dutchman. I didn't, I thought it was the climate Pope, Franz Timmermans, but I guess he's no longer the guy, now it's Wupke. Wupke Hextra.

Starting point is 00:26:59 What a great name. Wupke. W-O-E-P-K-E. Wupke. Wupke. Wupke. Hey Wupke, what are you doing? Hey Woopke W-O-E-P-K-E Woopke. Woopke. Woopke. Hey Woopke, what are you doing? Hey Woopke. And he has the Dutch accent but it's better, I mean, well listen, it's short. Well first and foremost we will continue to engage with our American friends and partners across domains,

Starting point is 00:27:19 in the domain of geopolitics, in the domain of trade, but also in the domain of climate action. But also this will require more assertiveness, more diplomacy from Europe across the globe. And of course when there is a vacuum others will fill it and that holds goods for us but I'm sure the Chinese, the Indians and others will play their part as well. So what we will do is a couple of things in the years. We will continue to double down on renewables, on grid capacity, on battery capacity. That is one. Oh yeah, sure.

Starting point is 00:27:51 Secondly, we're going to be very, very clear on making sure we enhance our autonomy and decrease our dependencies. Yeah. Good. Go for it. Go for it. Battery. It's truly insane.

Starting point is 00:28:08 And the European people just sitting by going, oh, okay, whatever. Is TikTok back yet? It's like, oh, yeah, it's all good. In Davos, CNBC has their out... They've been doing this for as long as we've been doing this show. Oh, no, yes. Longer, longer. They sit outside in the snow for the beautiful backdrop of Davos. And, and they, and everyone has their winter coats on and they make the

Starting point is 00:28:39 CEO sit outside in the cold, in the snow and talk and talk about stuff. And the saddest, the saddest guy, I don't even know why he went, was such a Nadella of Microsoft, who clearly is getting screwed on the Stargate deal, you know, because Altman was there saying, oh yeah, I'm a part of this. Yeah, Larry Ellison. Oh, yeah, it's all good. And here's that little short dude,

Starting point is 00:29:06 make him stand on the stool, because he's paying for it. Oh yeah, it's all great. So of course they have to ask him like, well, are you screwed? President Trump announcing a new joint venture yesterday called Stargate to build and grow AI infrastructure in the US.

Starting point is 00:29:21 OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle plan to commit a hundred billion dollars to start, potentially up to $500 billion over four years. Microsoft, listed as one of the partners to the new venture, joining us now for an exclusive interview is Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft. Good morning to you. Thank you so much. And it's so good to talk to you in the midst of all of this because we're all trying to

Starting point is 00:29:40 understand it and what it means, whether it's possible to get to $500 billion and what it means specifically, I think, for your partnership with OpenAI, given that they had been using Azure exclusively, and now obviously are going to be on other platforms as well. Yeah, first of all, anytime a company that you've sponsored and were essentially a seed investor in, raises money from others. It's a good day. A good day for OpenAI and a good day for Microsoft and our investors.

Starting point is 00:30:11 Look, our partnership continues. Our partnership, whenever Silicon Valley guys talk like that, well, our partnership continues. That means you've been cut out of the deal. You're screwed. Pretty much. He's totally screwed. Am I right? Am I right? Valley speak. Valley speak. No, our partnership is much. He's totally screwed. That's valley speak. Valley speak.

Starting point is 00:30:25 No, our partnership is strong. It's good. Our investors, look, our partnership continues. You keep saying look. Well, that's the giveaway. Look. Our investors, look, our partnership continues. We'll be a tech partner to Stargate, but more importantly-

Starting point is 00:30:33 There'll be a tech partner to Stargate. You put that on page 35 of your deck. Yes, where is it? It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck.

Starting point is 00:30:41 It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. It's on page 35 of your deck. We'll be a tech partner to Stargate, but more importantly... Oh, they'll be a tech partner to Stargate. You put that on page 35 of your deck. Yes, we're a tech partner to Stargate. I've written so many of those decks. Well, we have a partnership, which means we had coffee with them.

Starting point is 00:30:58 Our partnership is strategic. Strategic partners is the other one. That's better. Strategic partnership. OpenAI, you talked about exclusivity. Open AI APIs are exclusive to Azure going forward even. So nothing changes there. IP access to Microsoft continues.

Starting point is 00:31:13 And in fact, because of this, there will be more IP. And so therefore we'll benefit. And we have rev share arrangements. Rev share, oh rev share. Rev share. And also Open AI committed in a very significant way to Azure consumption. And so we're very thrilled about that as well. So all up as far as I'm concerned, this accelerates OpenAI's model work, which accelerates Microsoft's

Starting point is 00:31:39 ability to go to market with those models and really grow our business. Yes. We're going to grow the business. Whatever you do, end Yeah, we're going to grow the business. Whatever you do, end with, we're going to grow the business. It's great. Invest now while stocks last. We're going to grow the business. I do have to just stop here by the Stargate stuff,

Starting point is 00:31:55 because this was super interesting, because Trump is doing everything live now. It's like, we'll do it live. Bring them on in. Bring them on in. So here's the Deutsche Welle report of, which is quite funny, of the Stargate announcement. Together, these world leading technology giants

Starting point is 00:32:13 are announcing the formation of Stargate. So put that name down in your books, because I think you're going to hear a lot about it in the future. A new American company that will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States and very, very quickly moving very rapidly, creating over 100,000 American jobs almost immediately. $500 billion of investment.

Starting point is 00:32:41 That's a huge number. What do you think we can expect from these investments? So it's 500 billion total, but 100 billion in the next year. And these three players, really what we know about this is that it's going to be data centers. But let's break down these companies a little bit. OpenAI, that's a company that some folks might have heard of already. They're responsible for chat GPT, this generative artificial intelligence product. Folks might have used this used this in fact to help maybe plan

Starting point is 00:33:07 Vacations or meal plans that kind of a thing. It's very user-friendly. It's very user-friendly. I plan my vacation with it This is a meal plan planner planner really Wow, we really come a long way. That's the extent of open AI. And that's true. The meal plans. It's true.

Starting point is 00:33:28 That's what it's good for. Meal planning. I love it. Artificial intelligence. I don't even see it being good for meal planning. You should try it sometime. I bet it's great for meal planning. What is meal planning?

Starting point is 00:33:41 Let's start with that premise. What is it? Let's ask Chad JPT. What is meal planning. Let's start with that premise. What is it? Let's ask Chad. Meal planning. I got a family of three and I need a meal plan for tonight. Open AI, give me a meal plan. What's it going to tell me? I have a family of three. Give me a meal plan for tonight. Okay. I'm doing it on the fly, baby. Here we go. Open AI chat GBT says, gotcha! Here's a simple balance. No it didn't. It does! Exclamation mark.

Starting point is 00:34:11 Gotcha! Gotcha! Here's a simple balanced and delicious meal plan for your family of three. Main dish. You nailed it! Lemon garlic chicken thighs. Very nice. Side dish one, garlic mashed potatoes. Side dish two, steamed broccoli with olive oil and lemon. And an optional dessert, chocolate mug cakes. And it's really in on the lemon because for a drink it says water with a slice of lemon. They're really into lemon this chat GPT out there. No kidding, and garlic. Yeah, good, lemon and garlic.

Starting point is 00:34:49 All right, we continue. This generative artificial intelligence product, folks might have used this, in fact, to help maybe plan vacations or meal plans, that kind of a thing. It's very user-friendly. Oracle is a massive software maker. In 2020, they were the third largest software company in the world.

Starting point is 00:35:06 And they're also really known for data centers. Wait, wait, stop. Who is this chatterbox? She's the business expert that they bring in. Here's our business correspondent. But wait, wait until you hear how much she knows about Oracle. And they're also really known for data centers. And both of those companies are based out of the United States.

Starting point is 00:35:27 But SoftBank is a Japanese company. But they've got some very deep pockets. And they're known for investing in artificial intelligence companies, software companies, and also automation companies. So those are the players that we have right now. And really, this is about data centers. Joe Ellison, data centers Joe Ellison From now on Larry Ellison will be known to the no agenda

Starting point is 00:35:59 No agenda nation as Joe Ellison. This is the kind of reporting that we get from these people. Joe Ellison. Joe Ellison. It's the best. Come on. This is great. Joe Ellison, man. It's fantastic. Now he's not even running the company anymore as a chairman. But Joe Ellison is the guy. And, uh, and before I get to Joe Ellison, I should, uh, I should play this because, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, trouble

Starting point is 00:36:29 on the home front. President Trump announced yesterday a $500 billion investment in AI. Then last night, Elon Musk publicly criticized it, saying that they didn't have the money. What's that all about? So, when I covered Trump in his first announcement... Hold on a second. I didn't realize. That's that all about? So, when I covered John... Hold on a second. I didn't realize that's Anderson Cooper. Yes.

Starting point is 00:36:51 But I didn't realize how he sounds a lot, except for the fact that he stammers, he sounds almost identical to Jake Tapper. If you listen to him. I think he's pretty distinctive. I don't know. I think there's a Jake Tapper element to his voice It's a milieu, John A milieu, a milieu, a milieu.

Starting point is 00:37:11 President Trump announced yesterday. There he does sound a bit like Jake. I agree. I'll agree with you, but let's not get hung up on it. $500 billion investment in AI. Then last night, Elon Musk publicly criticized it saying that they the you know, they didn't have the money Was that's what's that all about? I cover Trump in his first administration. There was this huge announcement around Foxconn They were gonna build this electrics factory in Wisconsin. It's this Taiwanese maker and there was all this publicity around it It was a big White House push They they encouraged reporters to talk about it. And then it never ended up materializing, certainly not in the way that it was touted.

Starting point is 00:37:49 It did not create anywhere near as many jobs as they said initially. And so, when this came out yesterday, and Trump was in the Roosevelt Room making this announcement, I reminded people that this did happen before. And with these announcements, you kind of have to wait and see what happens before you go too far. Now, on this one one we don't know. This is a data center that they're creating, hoping to kind of expand infrastructure in the United States when it comes to artificial intelligence.

Starting point is 00:38:14 Because people like Sam Altman, who was standing next to Trump in the room yesterday, have warned we're way behind China when it comes to the AI race. But Elon Musk is pouring cold water on this idea that this is a $500 billion investment. Initially, it's supposed to be $100 billion and then get up to $500 billion. Elon Musk is claiming that this company doesn't even have $10 billion behind this to do this. Now, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has disagreed. Shut him up. They are basically in legal warfare.

Starting point is 00:38:42 That's important context here between Elon Musk and Sam Altman. They're suing each other, or Elon Musk is suing them. And so it is important to remember there's tension here. But really the story of this is Elon Musk is undercutting Donald Trump on one of the biggest announcements he made on his first full day in office. And it raises that question we've been talking about, which is, what does this look like when someone who is not afraid to voice his opinion, neither of them are, when those conflict and what this ultimately looks like. But the White House is saying that people should take Trump's word for it, not Elon's.

Starting point is 00:39:13 Yeah. So, you know, Elon, shut up, man. Shut up. This is good for America. 100,000 jobs. But, Elon's. He's probably more right than wrong. No, he's totally right. I'm sure he's completely right. He's probably more right than wrong.

Starting point is 00:39:25 No, he's told. I'm sure he's completely right. He's probably even exaggerating a 10th billion. Yeah. He says there's no money. He says this is bull crap. And I believe that's to be true. But yeah, Trump's trying to do one thing. This is, I think, however this even got to become an issue, I think has something to do with the Bannon thing. Bannon's still upset about...

Starting point is 00:39:43 He hates Elon. Yeah. Because he usurped him in the position of being Trump's buddy. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Good point. We haven't talked about this. He predicted that Elon would be gone. He's gonna be gone before the inauguration. Well, he's not gone. No, but this is a crack in the armor. This is not good. This is not good. And I will say that- Well, I don't know if it's not good or not. Maybe Trump is being led down to Primrose path by these other bullshit.

Starting point is 00:40:12 Oh, totally. He's completely bought into AI and he's been told that we need more energy. So that's something he can understand. What? You need more energy? I'm going to make more energy. That he has down, but will it? I mean going to make more energy. That he has down. But will it?

Starting point is 00:40:26 I mean, you probably did hear about China's DeepSeek. Did you hear about this? No, you got me there. Yeah. So the Chinese DeepSeek have released an open source model, which I love this. This whole open source thing started with Metta when they released the Lama model, which is really ruining the business model for these magicians like Altman. And their model matches or exceeds OpenAI's latest model 01 on various benchmarks, whatever that means.

Starting point is 00:41:01 But their costs- Whatever that means. Yeah, menu planning. But they charge only 3% of the price that it takes to train an open AI model. And that was quite a story on CNBC. I don't know if it's true, but that is something that we need to keep in the back of our mind.

Starting point is 00:41:21 But really, none of this is about menu planning. It's not about planning your vacation. Larry Ellison, I'm sorry, Joe Ellison told us quite clearly what this is going to do. Once we gene sequence, once we gene sequence that cancer tumor, you can then vaccinate the person, design a vaccine for every individual person to vaccinate them against that cancer.

Starting point is 00:41:48 And you can make that vaccine, that mRNA vaccine, you can make that robotically again using AI in about 48 hours. So imagine early cancer detection, the development of a cancer vaccine for your particular cancer aimed at you and have, have that vaccine available in 48 hours. This is the promise of AI and the promise of the future. So I'm listening to this and like, so you're making an MRNA. Are they, do you think that they're planning on creating an MRNA shot

Starting point is 00:42:24 that reverses the previous mRNA damage that has been done? Tailored to each individual? I really don't think so but McCullough this morning sent out a one of his courageous discourse sub-stack column. Sent out a discussion about this particular bullshit and And the thing is that, and he talked about how, why, why it won't work mainly because you doesn't take into account all kinds of stuff. But the thing that disappointed me about McCullis thing and this report and everybody else that talks about this is that we have redefined what a vaccine

Starting point is 00:43:02 is to some malarkey. But this is, when you listen to the description of what this is supposed to do, this is a therapy. A therapy is not a vaccine. A vaccine is to prevent cancer in the first place. This is a therapy. Nobody uses the word therapy. No, because they changed the meaning of the word vaccine during COVID. But the new meaning is bull crap.

Starting point is 00:43:30 The new meaning is just something you get with a needle. Yeah, the boom. A B12 shot. Is a vaccine. Yes. Taken blood. It's a reverse vaccine. Good news though. I think Larry's off his rocker when it comes to or Joe, I'm sorry, Joe. Joe's off his rocker when it comes to this and this whole thing just pie in the sky stuff sounds interesting. It's going to go nowhere. It's going to cost a lot of taxpayer money. Well no, it's supposed to be Massasan's money, not our money. Oh yeah, sure. This guy hasn't put money into anything.

Starting point is 00:44:05 He's really good at talking the big game and doing nothing. He put a lot of money into WeWork. That was a good one. Remember that? Yeah, he did. But he leverages to an extreme. I don't think that they really, he's not a risk taker in the in the sense that he makes himself out makes himself look to be. I'm with you there. There was by any means.

Starting point is 00:44:30 There was some really good news that came out for a number of our producers who will love hearing this effective January 22nd 2025 yesterday UCSIS waves any and all requirements that applicants for adjustment of status, so if you want to come into the United States legally, if you have married an American citizen, to that of a lawful permanent resident, present documentation on the Form I-693 Report of Immigration Medical Examination and Vaccination Record that they received the COVID-19 vaccination. USCIS will not issue any requests for evidence or notice of intent to deny relating to providing a COVID-19 vaccination. USCIS will not issue any requests for evidence or notice of intent to deny relating to providing a COVID-19 vaccination. So that is no longer an issue. That was a big one.

Starting point is 00:45:13 That was a huge one. And that just floated under the wire. We had the number of people that are producers of this show that have this problem. Yes. That's why I'm very happy to report it to them. It's great news because that was a big problem. Everybody can kind of show that you had your polio and your smallpox, most people who want to come in, but they didn't want the COVID shot.

Starting point is 00:45:36 You get the counterfeit documents and make it work. OK, yeah, it's easy. But then at the end of this briefing, the president takes questions as he's known to do. And this was fantastic. He's negotiating a deal on live TV. Are you open to Elon buying TikTok? I would be if he wanted to buy it.

Starting point is 00:45:58 And on your inauguration, on your inauguration? I'd like Larry to buy it too. I have the right to make a deal. I'd like Larry to, Joe, his name is Joe. So make a deal. I'd like Larry to buy it too. Joe, his name is Joe. So the deal I'm thinking about... You're talking about Larry Ellison? Yeah, who's standing right there. You sure he's talking about Larry Ellison? Not Larry Page or Larry...

Starting point is 00:46:13 No, no, he's standing right there. ...Moe and Curly, none of these guys? No, he looks right at Joe Ellison and says, Larry, I'm sure Larry will like... Oh, Ellison is there? Yeah, this is at the end of this announcement. This was the... Oh, okay....which has taken questions off the cuff. Oh, I'd like Larry to buy it. He points at... Oh, Alison is there? Yeah, this is at the end of this announcement. This was the, Oh, okay. Which has taken questions off the cuff.

Starting point is 00:46:26 I'd like Larry to buy the points at, oh, that's interesting. Oh, wait, wait. I have the right to make a deal. So the deal I'm thinking about, Larry, let's negotiate in front of the media. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Not putting you on the spot or anything, Larry.

Starting point is 00:46:40 The deal I think is this, and I've met with owners of tic-tac the big owners It's worthless if it doesn't get a permit. It's not like oh you can take the US the whole thing is worthless With a permit it's worth like a trillion dollars. Okay, that may be that may be is this is a Mar-a-Lago type Valuation of tic-tac. Do you think it's worth a trillion dollars? Got him in the trouble in New York already. A trillion dollars? That seems like a lot, but we'll stick with the president and his thinking. So what I'm thinking about saying to somebody is buy it and give half to the United States

Starting point is 00:47:18 of America, half, and we'll give you the permit. Yeah. And have a great partner in the United States. Exactly. This is, I love it. President Trump is negotiating on our behalf. He wants to get $500 billion. I think that it's interesting the numbers all match up here. But $500 billion from whoever buys TikTok. This is a good deal.

Starting point is 00:47:35 And they'll have something that's actually more valuable because they have the ultimate partner. And the United States will make it very worthwhile for them in terms of the permits and everything else. so we think of it you have an asset that has no value or has a trillion dollar value it all depends on whether or not the united states gives the permit so what i'm saying is let the united states give the permit and the united states should get half now wait for it

Starting point is 00:48:01 sounds reasonable what do you think? Sounds like a good deal to me, Mr. President. Yeah, he can afford it too. So Larry Ellison says, sounds like a good deal to me, Mr. President. Let me get my checkbook. Sounds like a banger of a deal, Mr. President. Wow. This, four more years, John,

Starting point is 00:48:23 nothing can outstrip what we're about to witness in the next four years. It's just phenomenal. I'm excited. I'm fired up. I can tell. I'm fired up by all of this. This is great. Um,

Starting point is 00:48:36 Well, it's definitely funny. Oh, well, that's what I mean. It's like we got the news is so flustered. They're calling Larry Joe. I mean, this is like we got the news is so flustered. They're calling Larry Joe. I mean, this is this is good stuff. He got Satya Nadella going hummina hummina in the snow. This is this you can't write this. You just can't write this. This next executive order, I thought was fascinating from a legal

Starting point is 00:49:00 standpoint. And I read into the documents and I'm of course going to get counsel or no agenda counsel, a constitutional lawyer robbed to weigh in. I think Trump has an interesting angle here. This next order relates to the definition of birthright citizenship. And with one signature, President Donald Trump sought to take away a key part of the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship. But before the ink even dried, the American Civil Liberties Union had filed a lawsuit. People that are born here in the United States are entitled to U.S. citizenship, and so President Trump cannot unilaterally end birthright citizenship.

Starting point is 00:49:37 More than 20 states have also filed suit against the executive order, including New Jersey. Our broad coalition of states is standing up for the president and defending the rule of law. Birthright citizenship guarantees any person born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen. It's part of the 14th Amendment added to the Constitution after the Civil War. That was meant to extend and did extend citizenship to formerly enslaved people. Swarthmore College political science professor Emerita Carol Nackanoff wrote American by Birth, a book about the Supreme Court case that established

Starting point is 00:50:12 automatic citizenship for people born in the US. Trump's executive order though is new territory. I don't believe any president has tried to alter birthright citizenship through an executive order. Since Trump's election, immigration advocacy groups in Pennsylvania have protested, anticipating the new administration's actions. It's really important that state and local officials project any state agency action that would restrict the issuance of birth certificates. As the issue now heads to the courts, Nakhonov is already analyzing the type of impact that could go down in history. It certainly makes the U.S. look far less welcoming.

Starting point is 00:50:54 So first of note is that this will not affect previous persons who were born in the United States? No, it can't because that'd be ex post facto. You can't do that by the Constitution. Exactly. So it's 30 days from the signing of the executive order. But I think he has a point, as you look at section 1 of the 14th Amendment, all persons born or naturalized in the United States

Starting point is 00:51:18 and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. And so what the executive Order, it's not changing anything. It's an interpretation, which is incorrect from this report. So I'll just read this one paragraph from the Executive Order, but the 14th Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The 14th Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States. The 14th Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not, quote, subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

Starting point is 00:51:52 Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that, quote, a person born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, generally mirroring the 14th Amendment's text. So what he's saying is, if your parents were here and they were here illegally, they were technically not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

Starting point is 00:52:19 That is the point of contention because what's happened so far, what's happened so far is, for example, diplomats come over, they have a baby, but they're not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Well, there's a carve out for diplomats. They get to park anywhere they want to. They're not subject to parking laws. That's because they're not subject to our laws, period. I'm not arguing with you.

Starting point is 00:52:42 So the diplomats are right. The illegal aliens, I'm taking this side of that argument. I have another look at this. The illegal aliens are subject to the jurisdiction because they get arrested, they get thrown in jail, they get treated like Americans. I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary of that. So they can make that argument. That's the argument they're going to make. But the problem is what they're hoping for is this goes to the Supreme Court and they're hoping to God that the originalists that are on the Supreme Court, and there's a couple of them, not quite to the level that they used to have, but there's a couple of them, and they look back at the arguments that created this law and the guys who put the law together

Starting point is 00:53:24 specifically said it was only for the slaves. Yeah, so then you just that they should use that argument. They will that's what's gonna happen they're gonna go back and forth on this and they won't do it. They haven't got the Supreme Court, the current Supreme Court with all the conservatives nonetheless, including Amy Coney Barrett, they don't have the guts to do it. They won't do it. This is not going to work and it's going to get thrown back and it's going to, we're

Starting point is 00:53:52 going to be stuck with this. We're the only country in the Western hemisphere that does this, by the way. If you're born in any other country, this doesn't happen, but it happens here. That apparently is not true. I thought that too, but it turns out I have name one country Well, I'm good. I had a report and I did you don't have to just go to chat GPT and ask okay, which countries Allow is worth the new show by the way citizenship. I think there's about 30 countries that allow it also known as Jews solely

Starting point is 00:54:32 Jews solely the 30 countries that allow it. Also known as Jus soli, the right of soil, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Well then somebody is misleading us. Yes. France also, if at least one parent is a resident or the child resides in France for a certain period, well, that's just one parent. That makes sense.

Starting point is 00:54:53 That's different. Pakistan, children of diplomats are allowed, as we discussed earlier. The ones who have abolished it are the United Kingdom and India. So I only know this because I heard a report which I didn't clip because I didn't think it would come up. So we may not be the only ones to do it, but we are the only ones who wrote this specifically

Starting point is 00:55:18 for slavery. I'm sorry, formerly enslaved persons. I thought that usage quite odd too. Oh, it thought on that usage quite a lot too. It's so annoying. It's so annoying. Formerly enslaved. Yeah. There were slaves.

Starting point is 00:55:31 Yeah. But I think probably the most interesting set of executive orders, which have just caused a tidal wave of emotions everywhere. I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have, I have a separate executive order. Well, let's do that first then. You play some clips. I want to hear. Well, I was just going to say that one of the executive orders is that, and I think this was a setup, I think it's a honey trap. I have this thesis that the Republicans are going to try to keep this issue in the public eye.

Starting point is 00:56:21 Ah, to keep the Democrats talking about it. To keep the Democrats all jacked up about transsexual, the trans Maoist stuff that we've been talking about on this show forever, because it hurts them in the elections. This is the Achilles heel of the Democrat party, much the same way as it used to be abortion for the Republican party. And it still is to some extent. Uh, and by the way, Mike Pence has put together an organization to stop the, uh, the con confirmation of Kennedy.

Starting point is 00:56:58 Yeah. Because of his liberal policies, regard his liberal attitude is just his attitude about abortion and and right to life compared to the putting it to his balances not not in keeping with what Pence once so hence was a terrible person terrible vice president I don't like the guy never did was there was there a specific what is the executive I think the executive order you're referring to is that the federal government will only recognize two genders.

Starting point is 00:57:31 Yeah. I don't think it's specifically said LGBTQ or trans issues. No, no, of course not. It doesn't have to. Okay. All right. We have, I have some clips. I'm trying to, actually when I'm going to go through these TikTok clips, I have way

Starting point is 00:57:52 too many today. Because here's what I heard. I heard that, well, it really won't affect anybody too much, except the big issue seems to be that you cannot identify as your gender of choice on your government documents, i.e. passport. I think it may still be allowed. You're not listening to the right sources because the thing that's going on is... I'm not listening to the... I'm wrong, I'm no good, I'm listening to the wrong sources. You're not hearing the people that go, that make this argument. Oh, I'm non-binary.

Starting point is 00:58:30 It's all the non-binaries, by the way, making the biggest fuss. Yeah. I'm non-binary. So if I leave the country and I have it, I don't have the, my passport checked properly, they won't let me back in the country. Okay. So I am hearing the right argument, but I didn't hear the lower level of what it means supposedly to people because you look like a girl and it says,

Starting point is 00:58:53 boy, in your passport, they're not going to let you in. Is that the idea? That and among other things. Let's listen to this. We got a clip or two here. Let's try this one. This is talk anti Trump trans lament. Okay. Please excuse my hair. I just woke up. Uh, Donald Trump was inaugurated at 12 and just a few minutes ago, he, he is now claimed that they're. Stopped the clip and started over. She just woke up at noon.

Starting point is 00:59:30 So it's Monday or Tuesday? Does she even know what day it is? So you start the clip over. That's funny. Please excuse my hair. I just woke up. Donald Trump was inaugurated at 12 and just a few minutes ago, he is now claimed that there will only be the male and female gender that will be recognized in America.

Starting point is 00:59:52 This sets back everything that the trans community has been working for. And we have already not been recognized in this country for centuries. If we remember gay marriage became legal 10 years ago, we had just earned the right to change our gender on our passports and IDs. Just because I want to identify as a man does not mean I am trying to hurt you. In these next four years, you are going to hear the most intense anti-trans propaganda you have ever heard in your entire life. And they're going to screw it in a way that sounds extremely convincing, because it will fear monger. It will fear monger everyone's insecurities.

Starting point is 01:00:26 Please talk to your neighbors, protect your trans community, stay involved, and do not forget us because history will try to erase us. It's so sad that, that, that they don't understand that you can actually, you can identify as a banana if you want to. No one in America cares about that. And they spelled it out quite clearly in the executive order. That is, it'll be based upon sex.

Starting point is 01:00:58 Women or women or girls or girls should meet an adult and juvenile human female, respectively, men or or man boys or boy female means a person belonging at conception to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell male means a person belonging at conception to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell man katanji jackson brown should have been able to say that when she was questioned about it but she didn't okay so now she's too busy working on her Broadway play. Yeah. Here's another one. There's another... This is a non-binary person. This one I have to

Starting point is 01:01:34 describe because it's so good. This is the stateness clip. This is a, I believe, a genetic woman who is now a man and she has, she, he, it, they, them, I don't know, she never said her pronouns, so what am I supposed to do? She, he, it, them, they, has gauged ears, piercings, big buck teeth, which makes it even somewhat weird, huge horned rim glasses, a lousy beard that you see on a 12 year old kid who's trying to grow a beard, and bald shaved bald head and just looks strange and this is the pitch. Well it's been rough. It was not what I was expecting at all considering some of the rhetoric he has said. I thought we as a nation were smarter but I guess not. To my transgender friends and you know the people who it affects, as long as you stay alive they cannot say we don't exist. Being a Satanist means rebelling against them because they're wrong. And as long as

Starting point is 01:02:46 you draw breath, every breath you take is a rebellion. Keep on fighting because you just have to. Hail Satan, hail reason always. That's the offensive part at the end. I don't care what your buck teeth look like. Hail Satan. Give me a break. I'll return to that in a moment when you're done with these things. I don't really, I mean the other one I have is kind of a pathetic clip that I have from last year.

Starting point is 01:03:17 They're all pathetic. And not even funny. There's levels of pathos that come and go. Yeah, it's sad. It's's levels of pathos that come and go. Yeah, it's sad. It's a spectrum of pathos. This is just a little shorty 17-second clip on the trans kids age where somebody's being interviewed. Some moms.

Starting point is 01:03:38 It's interesting to me that women seem to be the promoters mostly of the trans movement in their children, not the men. The men usually defend the born as sexuality and the women are the ones like Megan Fox with her three transgender kids. Three boys turn girls and she makes public commentaries. What are the chances? She makes public commentary about she hates men. And I think there might be some connection between what's going on and hating men. But listen to this little clip.

Starting point is 01:04:14 What age do you think most trans kids determine that they're trans? Violet told us when she was one and a half. She's been telling us since she could speak So she knew since birth God help these people That's just sad that's sad All right, since we did Satan I'm going to do this.

Starting point is 01:04:45 You're going to balance the coverage. I'm going to balance the coverage. Over the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250 year history. And I've learned a lot along the way. The journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one that I can tell you. Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life. Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. but I felt then and believe even more so now

Starting point is 01:05:26 that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again. Yeah, baby. Everybody in the Hill Country was texting. We all loved it. It was fantastic. But now I will balance the balance with what happened at the prayer breakfast, which was very odd. A national prayer service is routine after an American president is inaugurated.

Starting point is 01:05:55 Less routine though is for a bishop to address the new leader directly and make an appeal. Was this the prayer? I thought this was actually the church service. No, this was after... the church service was before the inauguration. We're talking about the crazy bishop with the purple outfit. Yes, that's the one. Yes, so this was... Oh, I thought this was at the church service per se. No, no, no, this was the day after. And by the way, Joe Rogan was at the church service too. No, this was the day after. And by the way, Joe Rogan was at the church service too. Who was he now? What did he think of this performance by this woman?

Starting point is 01:06:29 I will, I will. And by the way, he wasn't at this one, he was at the service before the inauguration. This came after the inauguration. This is the next day. This is the next day with this. I thought it was at church. Because they're all seated next to each other.

Starting point is 01:06:45 It doesn't look like a breakfast. There's no tables. Can you take my word for it? Well, no. I mean, I could take... The woman said it was a prayer breakfast too. Prayer... yes. Prayer service.

Starting point is 01:06:58 Yeah. Look, you get a little wafer. That's breakfast. Enjoy. Whatever the case, I will say this. Look, you get a little wafer. That's breakfast. Enjoy. Whatever the case, I will say this. This woman who gave this lecture, and this is not even a sermon by any means, went on the circuit. She was on CNN and Rachel and The View and everything afterwards.

Starting point is 01:07:20 This was a setup. Okay, Sherlock. Yes, it was a setup. Okay Sherlock, yes it was a setup. ...is for a bishop to address the new leader directly and make an appeal. On Tuesday, Marianne Budd urged Donald Trump to show mercy, specifically mentioning gay, lesbian and transgender children who fear for their lives, as well as immigrants who are not criminals but pay taxes and are good neighbours. I didn't actually hear any of those TikTok clips of the kids saying that they feared for their lives, so that may be a bit specious.

Starting point is 01:07:53 I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country. We're scared now. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger for we will all want strangers in this land." The president did not appear happy during the remarks and when asked for a reaction later he was dismissal of the service. I really think it was a good service. Thank you very much. Thank you, press. Thank you, press. They can do much better. Later on his Truth Social platform, the president called Bud a radical left hardline Trump hater

Starting point is 01:08:32 and said she and the church owed the public an apology. The bishop's comments came after Trump on Monday decreed that only two sexes, male and female, but not transgender, would be recognized. He also issued measures to suspend the arrival of asylum seekers and expel migrants in the country illegally. Bud has criticized Trump in the past, including in 2020 when police officers forcibly removed peaceful racial justice protesters so that Trump could take a photo outside a church holding a Bible. Bud said she was horrified by his use of the Holy Book for political purposes."

Starting point is 01:09:07 And meanwhile, what? So she goes on for political purposes and gives a speech, but it's not okay for him. I encourage anyone who's interested to go look at the Jamestown Compact, the Mayflower Compact. We came to this country based upon the Bible, the whole Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, God is mentioned four times. It's all been forgotten, but for this lady to come out and do that, that was quite disgraceful. It was just lame. And then Trump doubles down later, which this was kind of funny, I thought. I always say tariffs is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary

Starting point is 01:09:48 Then I was reprimanded by the fake news. They said what about love? Religion and God I said I agree Let's put God number one. Let's put religion number two Love I don't know we got to put that number three, I guess, right? And then it's tariff. The tariff. I mean, this is such religious command.

Starting point is 01:10:14 So, tariff. It was hilarious. So I do have one more gay related thing. This is an angry lesbian. Oh, goodness. But it's, it's, we played these clips before about the lesbians who hate the, there's TERFs. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:10:31 Which is a term that we've seemed to have lost, which is the TERF. What does it stand for again? TERF? See we both read the trans exclusionary radical feminist. There you go. TERF. Yes. Yes. And so these are women that are lesbians, specifically that hate these trans women, which is ironic in some funny way

Starting point is 01:10:53 because some of the, it's just screwy. But listen to this, I guess yesterday or the day before was Coming Out Day, one of these, you know. Oh, oh, I missed it. Yeah, you did, you could've come out, but you didn't. No, no one asked me to help them come out. So here we go with Coming Out Day and the irked lesbian. Where did I... I don't see Coming Out Day. It should be Talk Coming Out. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Talk, yes. Apparently it's National Coming Out Day, so I wanted to take this opportunity to

Starting point is 01:11:21 encourage some of you to go back into the closet. Not everyone, not everyone, just you weird ones who are ruining it for the rest of us. If you think Drag Queen story hour is a good idea, back in the closet. If you think transitioning minors is okay, back in the closet. If you think the teachers should have pride flags in their classrooms, back in the closet. And especially you guys who act out all your weird stuff in public, get back in the closet. Just go, just get back in there. Wow. Yeah, I saw pictures. There were two women standing outside the Capitol at a sign.

Starting point is 01:11:59 It's like, we're Trump voters, we're lesbians, not stupid. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Calm down, everybody. But I think your point is well made that this is a honeypot. It's important. I think it's important that this definition was at least put on paper. I mean, it's an executive order, so it's the policy of the US government. It can be reversed eventually, but to make it a honeypot, which worked, I have to find clips of the bishop going on all the shows and talking about it. I'm surprised you didn't get anything for me. That would have been good. I missed that. I actually thought you'd get that. Oh, no, I completely missed it. You did get the one bishop could be.

Starting point is 01:12:42 I completely missed it. She was on The View. You can get that. That was, I think, probably the day after. Hmm, I missed it. And she was to one Bishop Clippy. I completely missed it. Yeah, she was on The View. That was, I think, probably the day after. I missed it. And she was on CNN on a couple of different shows. Oh, she was on The View? Oh, man. Oh.

Starting point is 01:12:53 Yeah. By remote, by the way, which is really lame. So let me run these couple DEI clips here, because this is what really has... I mean, I'm getting texts from all over, people saying, oh my God, look at this, look at this thing that I've got. We have to immediately remove any DEI programs, which oddly are called DEIA. I'm not sure what DEI is.

Starting point is 01:13:15 I thought it was DEI, yes, DEIA for affirming or something. And there was a joke that somebody made, it should be DEIAA,I-A-A-A. And that way you lose your job, but you get roadside service. US President Donald Trump has ordered federal employees hired under so-called diversity, equity and inclusion programs to be placed on paid leave,

Starting point is 01:13:40 while the agencies that employ them draw up plans for their firing. This order meant to be fulfilled by 5 p.m. local time on Wednesday evening and after that deadline has passed people were encouraged to snitch on colleagues who had defied orders and tried to disguise programs in government agencies that were related to so-called DEI. Well, this then is a dramatic escalation. It was designed, these programs, the DEI programs, to reverse years of systemic inequities and to make the US government look more like the US population. But a US government message sent to the US agencies

Starting point is 01:14:19 says that the programs have, quote, divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. Well, Donald Trump says that he wants to scrap these programs to create a so-called colorblind and merit-based society. But some people have criticized Donald Trump's movement, calling it just a smokescreen to fire civil servants.

Starting point is 01:14:42 Well, not entirely true because he specifically wrote an executive order to the FAA, which is a huge deal for all the flyboys I know, especially the Navy guys, because they could not get an airline job coming out of the Navy with tremendous experience. Now, if you're not gay or black or preferably both or a woman, then you just could not get a job. They're all flying DHL and FedEx. They just can't get any other job and President Trump specifically had an order for the FAA and he said, you know, you're making you're making our air travel dangerous Here I agree with this. Oh, Of course. Here's the CBS version. President Trump's order to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs or DEI across

Starting point is 01:15:32 government are now having real-world consequences for federal workers. ideologies the hell out of our military and out of our government. In a memo first obtained by CBS News, the administration directed federal agencies to place all employees working in DEI roles on administrative leave by 5 p.m. today. Several federal workers in those programs told CBS News Today they were reluctant to share their views publicly. I spoke to some outstanding career public servants this morning who are all terrified. Jonathan Lovitz, DEI programs for the Commerce Department in the Biden administration. How might the average person at home, the taxpayer be impacted by these cuts? By your plane falling out of the sky.

Starting point is 01:16:25 Programs like this are designed to make sure every American is represented when we are making policy in the federal government. And now I'm so worried for so many communities who are now going to lose a voice at the table. Just 34% of Americans in our CBS News poll said Trump should end DEI programs, but 64% of his supporters back the move.

Starting point is 01:16:51 Trump is also encouraging the private sector to eliminate diversity initiatives following McDonald's, Metta and other big companies that have already rolled them back. Well, this is good because it's been so annoying for so long. Well, here's the NPR version. Oh, okay. Hold on a second. Trump, DEI, and hilarity. As of right now, the White House Office of Personnel Management has put all federal government

Starting point is 01:17:19 employees who work in diversity, equity, and inclusion on administrative leave as President Trump moves to get rid of DEI initiatives in the federal government. The OPM directed all DEI offices to be shut down. Pennsylvania Congressman Chris D'Aluzio called out House Republicans for focusing more on canceling DEI programs and increasing corporate profits over the needs of Americans. We're in the third week of the Republican majority in the House and the Senate, this Congress, they've done nothing. They've done nothing. They cut him off there.

Starting point is 01:17:51 He was going to say something else. Oh yeah, I can't have that. I'll play one clip, which may come across as very racist, but that's not the intent. It is just to show what you get with DEI hires, the city of Philadelphia. I'm sure you've heard the city of Philadelphia. You know, this was in my mind, this was like the eclipse of the Bishop. I'm thinking, well, I wonder if Adam will clip this. Yeah, Adam will clip this. I'm going to clip this.

Starting point is 01:18:20 This is the mayor of Philadelphia. E-L-G-S-E-S-Eagles! Let's go, birds! Yes, everybody, this was on every Fox News show. It was everywhere, yes. Everywhere. This woman can't spell eagle. She spells it E-S-L-E something or other. It was very unfortunate for her. Very, very unfortunate. Very unfortunate. F for racist. Yes.

Starting point is 01:18:51 I don't want to. But this was already building up with the Moe prophecy, where all of the black women who were supposed to take Trump down failed, all of them. And I haven't really seen the blame yet go that way, but I feel it's coming. Yeah, I heard this from him too. And it's like, I think it's a very interesting theory because there was a lot of black women that was put in positions all over the place. And most of

Starting point is 01:19:15 them are incompetent, corrupt, screw-ups and everything in between. They just couldn't do it. And then you had the Letitia James and the Fanny would do couldn't you know It's this guy out of the sack and it's just one thing after another it was almost like it was set up to fail Yeah, they haven't blamed it on them yet, but I'm feeling an undercurrent Now to This was in a way a bad take here Let's listen to this clip Just one day into his new administration, President Trump and his family are already cashing in on the crypto craze.

Starting point is 01:19:51 Are you going to be investing in Trump's Trump coin? Trump launched his own cryptocurrency Friday night. Now it's worth an estimated $8 billion on paper. First Lady Melania Trump's new crypto coin debuted Sunday, briefly topping $1 billion too. They're called meme coins, a type of cryptocurrency where you bet on a popular trend or personality. You buy the coin online. Its value can dramatically go up or down.

Starting point is 01:20:19 Trump's own website cautioning it's not intended to be an investment opportunity. Cryptocurrency is a type of digital money that's not backed or regulated by any government or banks. Ethics experts warn Trump's direct ownership of crypto is unprecedented for a president. We should not be willing to accept financial conflicts of interest from our president, whether it's in cryptocurrency, social media platforms or anything else. The president in 2021 denounced cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam.

Starting point is 01:20:52 Trump since accepted a flood of donations from crypto companies to help fund his re-election campaign. Trump also profits from a crypto venture called World Liberty Financial. He helped launch days before the election. It bought nearly $300 million in Bitcoin and other coins Monday, just as Trump was getting sworn in. Bitcoin and crypto will skyrocket like never before. Trump appointed a first ever crypto czar to the White House,

Starting point is 01:21:21 who now vows to take a friendly approach toward regulation. So Bitcoin has not skyrocketed to the moon yet. And I should point out that this meme coin has $8 billion on paper. I mean, this is, it's really like, Well, it's not $8 billion in his pocket. No. Once it's on the open market, it's just traded freely between people and somebody. It makes sense.

Starting point is 01:21:43 Somebody doesn't. That presumes that there's $8 billion worth of buyers so they could say, it's like putting Trump on Trump's stakes. It's not an ICO, it's a meme coin. It's no better or worse than Doge. It's nonsense, but a very bad take and I think it certainly hurt Bitcoin. But the new guy he's putting in, this is what the Bitcoin community is looking at.

Starting point is 01:22:09 It's SAB21. The blockchain technology. Oh, I'm sorry. This is the Bank of America CEO. The blockchain technology, we've got a lot of patents on them. Then there's the stablecoin type of currency, digital currency. And then there's the investment management type of currency.

Starting point is 01:22:24 And I think the first one and the second one yes it's hard because what why is the guy hyperventilating it's just how he sounds and I think the first one in the second one yes the third one's hard because it's really investment question and how it works the issue has been for the last 10 years as this has been talked about is the enabling legislation was never there for the main people that participate. So not only do we have issues with supporting clients in the business, but we couldn't really transact it because the AML and BSA issues and all that stuff, and also sort of where the money is and who's holding it.

Starting point is 01:22:59 So I think if you see enabling legislation, I think you're going to see our industry come at this hard. It's just another form of payment backed by dollars and treasuries and things like that. So what he's talking about is staff accounting bulletin, actually 121, not 21, 121, which would allow banks to put crypto assets, mainly Bitcoin on their balance sheets and not as a liability. I think that's going to happen because then they can get in the business of, and they, you heard it, stable coins.

Starting point is 01:23:30 It's all, it's all the same thing we've talked about. They want stable coins. That's going to be the new American digital dollar. You can just count on it happening. And Trump has not done anything yet in that regard, but he did toss the Bitcoin community a little bone. Vote for me on day one.

Starting point is 01:23:47 I will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht. He's already served 11 years. We're going to get him home. That was then candidate Donald Trump making a campaign promised at the Libertarian Party National Convention to pardon Silk Road founder Russ Ulbricht. In 2011 Ulbricht set up his website on the dark web it was called Silk Road it became a hub for people to sell lots of things among them drugs weapons and believe it or not murder for hire services. Now Ulbricht didn't do any of those things he just

Starting point is 01:24:24 provided the place on the web in which those transactions often or almost exclusively paid for in cryptocurrency could be transacted. In 2015 he received two life sentences which many in that Libertarian Party convention you just saw thought was excessive. The FBI once referred to Silk Road as quote, the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet. So and it was more than righteous that Ross Ulbricht got out because I mean, they had they were corrupt DEA agents, FBI agents. Oh no, the whole thing if you look into it.

Starting point is 01:25:03 It's really bad. But it was funny because as I'm thinking back, and I went back and looked at it, do you remember that this first came out and we're like, what is this Silk Road? And then I started to look into it. You bought stuff from them. I did. Can you believe it? I think you put a couple of hits out on some other podcasters and what else we should get. It's worse than that.

Starting point is 01:25:21 I forgot. It's worse than that. I went back and I looked and this is cringe, cringe worthy. I bought a dime bag of drugs on Silk Road for six Bitcoin. Exactly. That's how I felt. Wow. Yeah, wow was right.

Starting point is 01:25:46 What did we know? It was the new money. It was the dark web. I didn't... It was the dark web. We didn't know. You just forgot the six bitcoins. You could be fine.

Starting point is 01:25:55 You've been nice, but okay. I have a couple of pardon clips from Trump. This is from NPR. And this is Trump. By the way, I want people to know I did that for the show. OK, for the show. Six hundred thousand dollars I lost for the show. For a dime bag.

Starting point is 01:26:13 For a ten dollar bag of weed or whatever you bought. I remember it came through the mail, too. It was the funniest thing. And there was no, you didn't get delivered by a hooker or anything. Even a lap dance. I mean, come on. I didn't get anything. Nothing good out of it.

Starting point is 01:26:29 And it wasn't even all that good. It was stems and seeds. Horrible. Stems and seeds. You got jipped. I got jipped. For the show, man. It's a service we provide to the show.

Starting point is 01:26:37 Well, we'll never make that one up. No, no, I don't think so. No. Trump pardons one guy. Yes. Is that the right word? Is that the right word? Is that the right word? Well, we'll never make that one up. No, no, I don't think so. No. Trump pardons one guy.

Starting point is 01:26:48 Yes. What? Is this a clip? Yeah. Trump, where is it? Oh, sorry. I got it here. On Monday, President Trump gave full, complete and unconditional pardons to all

Starting point is 01:27:02 of the people charged in connection with the deadly January 6th 2021 attack on the Capitol. As in Pierce, Tom Driesbach reports, one of the men, Trump freed has already been re-arrested on gun charges. Oh no. During the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Daniel Ball allegedly threw an explosive device which ricocheted off a police officer's helmet and exploded, causing multiple injuries. Later, he allegedly threw a piece of wood at police officers protecting the Capitol. Vice, which ricocheted off a police officer's helmet and exploded, causing multiple injuries. Later, he allegedly threw a piece of wood at police officers protecting the Capitol.

Starting point is 01:27:30 His case was pending when Trump ordered Ball freed as part of his blanket clemency for January 6th defendants. But then Ball was re-arrested on unrelated charges. Federal prosecutors in Florida say he illegally possessed a gun, even though he had a criminal record for multiple felonies, including domestic violence battery by strangulation and resisting law enforcement by violence. Well, this guy's got other issues. So he throws a cherry bomb,

Starting point is 01:27:59 and it bounces off somebody's helmet, but it's an explosive device. I'll tell you, J6 or Jenny was happy. She got her pardon. Good. Yeah. Trump promised to do this and now everybody's bent out of shape that he did it. It was part of his campaign.

Starting point is 01:28:16 Hello. They need something to talk about. This is what's so disappointing. Our media is obsessing over this stuff. Here's Trump pardon two. Okay. And those pardons have police organizations criticizing President Trump saying they set a dangerous precedent. That includes the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the

Starting point is 01:28:39 Fraternal Order of Police, which is the biggest police union in the US. Order of Police, which is the biggest police union in the US. Meanwhile, House Democrats are scheduled to hold a meeting this hour with former Capitol Police officers over Trump's pardons. I thought the cops all endorsed Trump. They did. This is something phony about this report. I mean, I like to hear from, we have police that listen to this show. Let's hear from them. I mean, these guys were in jail long enough. And you know, I've heard from people that, oh, you know, as they heard a police, they were in jail longer than the guys in New York who punch out and kick cops. Well, that's for sure.

Starting point is 01:29:12 Give me a break. I'm sure you saw the CNN appearance of one of these cops. Oh, and by the way, where are the police department? Where are these associations with Biden pardoning his family and Fauci? Where are they? And Schiff, who President Trump called a scumbag from the Oval Office, that was pretty interesting. That a scumbag Schiff. Listen to this.

Starting point is 01:29:37 This is not safe for work. I believe we have sound from the Oath Keepers leader, Stuart Rhodes, who spoke after he was released from prison. I want to listen to that and then get your reaction to that on the other side, Michael. So let's listen. This is Michael Fanon who will be speaking. I think he was one of the cops. Any regrets?

Starting point is 01:29:56 No, I don't because we did the right thing. We were there to protect Trump supporters from Antifa. We were there to protect and secure two committed events on Capitol grounds where a members of Congress were going to speak. The guys that went inside, they're not committing the crimes. In fact, they helped the police and helped the people out. He says he has no regrets. What do you say, Michael? Yeah, I mean, this is what I would say to Stuart Rhodes. Go fuck yourself. Hey now. Okay.

Starting point is 01:30:22 You're a liar. I love the CNN news model. You're live. You can obviously get to beep that word out, but obviously you, this is personal to you, Michael. This is very personal to you. Do you, have you been getting any, any threats? You talked about safety.

Starting point is 01:30:41 You worried for your safety and for your family. Have you been getting any direct threats? So back in the day, they would have kicked someone off the air right away but she just keeps him going and expects him not to do anything. I never stopped getting threats. I mean my family, the threats have never stopped. I didn't even make it through my congressional testimony during the select committee hearing before I received my first threat. And they just continue.

Starting point is 01:31:07 In recent months. And they continue. In recent months. It's kind of interesting how CNN were all over the all cops are bastards and, you know, defund the police and this is no good. And now it's like, oh no oh this is horrible and they just continue in recent months and they continue in recent months you know my mother has had her home swatted she's a 76 year old woman who lives alone she has

Starting point is 01:31:37 had bricks thrown at her house in the middle of the night and just a few months ago she was out rakingaking the leaves in her front yard when an individual pulled up in a truck and threw a bag of shit on her. CNN has become quite raucous. I don't know that they're out of control. They're going to have a big bloodbath. Bloodbath was the word used in some of the reports coming up. Oh yeah, the fire. A thousand people. I heard 200. I don't know about that. No, that's the first report. Oh. The second report is a thousand. It's gonna be mostly in the back.

Starting point is 01:32:17 They have a thousand people working at CNN? Oh, probably more. Oh man. Obviously more. We need some staff. We have no staff. working at CNN? Oh, probably more. Oh man. Well, obviously more. We need some staff. We have no staff. I need some staff here. We can't afford it. I need staff.

Starting point is 01:32:31 I need staff. It's crazy. Before we leave the pardon discussion, we do have to play a couple super clips from 2000 about... Ah, you got it. See, I stayed away from it because I thought it was too long, but I guess it's funny enough It's well, it's too long by 13 seconds because I have a limit on my clips. What is two two minutes and 44 seconds. Oh That's it's worth it

Starting point is 01:32:57 This is it. This is the this is a this refers to Biden's blanket pardons future pardons pardons for crimes that weren't committed. Pardon, just pardon that. And what, what happened in 2020 when it was, This is when Trump was near the end. Because they said, Oh, you know, Trump's gonna, he's going to pardon his family and this is terrible. This would be the worst thing for democracy ever if he ever did that. He never did by the way, he didn't pardon anybody.

Starting point is 01:33:24 Very few pardons from Trump's administration. But we get this. Have you ever heard of somebody getting a preemptive pardon who was innocent of all crime? Who's just an innocent person? Have you ever heard of that, just somebody getting a blanket pardon and they're an innocent person? But no, it's the president's own family. It's people that have been covering up for the president in addition to his own family. Is there an innocent explanation for someone to seek preemptive pardons for family members? Would you do that if you knew you were innocent and just worried about outside forces? The answer to that is going to be no. If you haven't done anything wrong, you sit there and go, what do you need a

Starting point is 01:34:12 preemptive pardon for? If he pardons people preemptively, he's essentially telling the public that these people have committed crimes. And we may not be aware of what they are. But the pardon is clear evidence that crimes have been committed. I imagine if he decides to issue these preemptive pardons, it will be cast in a way that he's protecting his family and protecting their reputations from, you know, villainous exterior forces that are against him.

Starting point is 01:34:40 First off, we should just take a deep breath and acknowledge the audacity of a president who's so clearly concerned about his own criminal culpability and that of his family members that pardons are a major obsession with him. The idea of a kind of prospective pardon, this sort of permanent federal get out of jail free card, that seems to be what we're talking about in the case of this, right, with Giuliani and his three eldest children who, as far as we know, have not been convicted of a crime. Maybe they've committed a lot and they don't want to face action. I don't know. It's weird. I wouldn't ask for a pardon. I don't think I deserve one because I don't think I've done anything criminal.

Starting point is 01:35:20 But like, where does that come from? That concept that you can just kind of wave your magic pardon wand. We have Tish James, we have Xavier Pizarra, Mimi Roca is literally my TA in my town. There will be opportunities to prosecute these people regardless if they abuse the pardon power as they are thinking. Hopefully Ellie, there will be a skyfall on this entire crime family and there will be another day for them to die. The president does indeed pardon, let's say, Rudy Giuliani or any members of his family. Would you see that, and I asked Preet Bharara this question, as essentially an admission

Starting point is 01:35:56 of guilt? I certainly would view it that way. I think millions of Americans would view it that way. If there was no belief in criminality, why would he think a pardon was necessary? Seeing as his Lauren President Biden will pardon his son Hunter Biden. Yes, now I remember why I didn't clip it. I despise that music. I despise it. I despise it. Why? Just do the super clip. The super clip is good.

Starting point is 01:36:22 I don't get it either. You don't need the music. You know, it's like these guys, everyone thinks they're a Hollywood producer. So Tina just texted me. So during that long clip, I went out and said, because she texted me, what? Question mark, question mark, question mark. Like, what did I do now? She says, you spent six Bitcoin on drugs. She's looking at her dowry going, dude, this guy's no good. I didn't know. It was like 50 bucks at the time.

Starting point is 01:36:55 What did we know? Now here we go with, no music, but this is Biden talking about preemptive bardons himself in 2020. Oh, goodness gracious. Lovely. President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons. Does this concern you?

Starting point is 01:37:14 All these preemptive pardons? Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and injustice. You're not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons. Nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets. You know, it's just going to be a totally different way in which we approach the justice system. Yeah, which brings me back to the theme of the show.

Starting point is 01:37:49 The spell is broken. No one is buying the crap from the mainstream media anymore. And that includes Fox. We're bored of it. Well, we're not bored of it. Clearly we still like some of that Fox stuff. But it's just, no, it's just bleh, who cares? You know, and the Algo

Starting point is 01:38:06 Chasers, it's all, it's all gonna go by the wayside because people don't care. And this is another one, another spell that was broken, but oh, we'll still report on it. Was it just a graceless movement that was then repeated? Or was it a sign to the far right that I'm one of you? Or was it just enough controversy to make his speech go viral? Or was it none of the above? When Elon Musk spoke to the far right that I'm one of you? Or was it just enough controversy to make his speech go viral? Or was it none of the above? When Elon Musk spoke to the crowd in Washington at Donald Trump's inauguration, he thanked them.

Starting point is 01:38:33 And then he tapped the left side of his chest before raising. I love that Nat Pop of Musk. That's great. He thanked them. And then he tapped the left side of his chest before raising his right arm and extending it palm down. Thank you. My heart goes out to you.

Starting point is 01:38:56 The gesture goes by many names. The Roman salute, sig heil, the Nazi salute. A criminal offense in many nations, but not in the United States. It's a criminal offense? It's been a fascist gesture for over a century. Moments after Musk repeated his movement to the crowd behind him, the debate online went viral, with many not believing their eyes over what they'd just seen. Historians of fascism wrote that there's no doubt about it, it was a belligerent salute. Others said it was a self-proclaimed autistic man awkwardly traipsing around.

Starting point is 01:39:26 The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, which was founded to combat anti-Semitism, said it was an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm. That all sides should give one another a bit of grace. That should tell you something if the ADL didn't jump on us. I agree with that, but the other thing is there's a lot of clips showing everybody else doing this, by the way. But the one that was the closest to Musk is actually Tim Walz, who actually did the exact same move, pounded his chest and sent his arm out. But the topper I still think is AOC. I have a clip. AOC and just listen to...

Starting point is 01:40:06 Listen to her... The way she... You thought the Eagles woman was bad? ESG, LES, listen to this. I like... You're gonna do a Sig-Hail? You're gonna do a Hail Hitler? Sig-Hail?

Starting point is 01:40:20 Hold on a second. Sig-Hail! Sig. No, Sig. You know, it's the guy, the Jewish butcher. Sig, hey, Sig. Hey, hold on a second Sigh hell Sig no sig you know the guy the Jewish the butcher Hail is it with a Z or an S? SIG These people are dumb Again spell broken. I like you're going to do a Sig hail.

Starting point is 01:40:46 You're going to do a hail Hitler. A hail Hitler. Or they'll rebrand a Roman salute from behind the presidential seal of the United States of America. It's on. It's on. And what is so important for us to understand is that as long as we don't give up, it's not over. It's not over. It is not over.

Starting point is 01:41:16 Libs of TikTok started crying because I said over the weekend that Donald Trump is a rapist and they went on Twitter and they went, oh, boo hoo hoo. And I said basically the weekend that Donald Trump is a rapist. And they went on Twitter and they went, boo hoo hoo. And I said basically, F you, cry more. I don't give a shit. You want to support a rapist, that's on you. That's on you. But I don't. And they wanted to call in all of these threats into my office and all this other stuff.

Starting point is 01:41:42 I don't give a damn. I don't give a damn. I don't give a damn. I don't give a damn. This is what is so interesting. I've noticed this more and more is that, um, uh, the people who clearly do not like president Trump and therefore also dislike a majority of the country, they're resorting to cussing. To an extreme. The cussing is out of control.

Starting point is 01:42:08 They really are. It's just like, is that all you got? I mean, that's. I mean, I have, I have clips that I was, a number of these, you know, Tik Tok clips, even though a lot of them are on reels, but I call them the same thing. But I have these clips and it's like, they're so profane and women mostly. Yes. Yes. I've noticed it. It's like, it's like, I can't use the clip. I mean, I could bleep it. I could, but you know, you already gave me grief for a clip I played once. It was a little too much cussing,

Starting point is 01:42:37 but this is out of control. Only grief because you didn't set it up. I mean, I don't mind it as long because it's just we, we get women are, they're just profane and they, they obviously, you know, talking about acting and sounding stupid besides sig, sig hail is a, is this uses, you know, the f worded bombs are just, they can't come up with an adjective. I have one quick 27 second clip of Lulu, Lulu Garcia on CNN. Everyone keeps on overshadowing Donald Trump. I mean, you had in the inauguration that it was the hand gesture, quote unquote, that

Starting point is 01:43:17 is the subject of great mystery and debate. Yeah, the subject of great mystery and debate. Are you talking about, you're not one of these salute truthers, are you? No, what I'm, oh, is that what we're calling it now? All I'm saying is, no, but what I'm saying is it engendered a great, a great debate. It took away from a night that was supposed to be about the president. And instead, what everyone talks about is Elon Musk.

Starting point is 01:43:37 Yeah, Elon Musk, Sig Hale, and Sanchez's boobs. That is what our media is obsessed with. But it's not just the media. Oh no, oh no, in the Senate, Senator Murphy. Oh, Murphy's the dumbest guy. He's just one notch above that woman from Hawaii. What's her name again? Yeah, what is it? Hiromi? Hironi, Yeah. Barona, Joe. So, Joe. So, he is going to question Elise Stefanik from New York

Starting point is 01:44:12 as she is going through her confirmation process to be ambassador to the United Nations. The Honorable Ms. Elise Stefanik. And he just goes all in on it. What do you think of Elon Musk, perhaps the president's most visible advisor, doing two Heil Hitler salutes last night at the president's televised rally?

Starting point is 01:44:36 No, Elon Musk did not do those salutes. I was not at the rally, but I can tell you I've been at many rallies with Elon Musk, who loves to cheer when President Trump says we need to send You know our US space program to Mars Elon Musk is a visionary. I'm looking forward to his work in Doge The Department of Government Efficiency and look forward to looking how we can be more efficient and effective But that is simply not the case and to say so is the American people are smart. They see through it. They support Elon Musk.

Starting point is 01:45:07 We are proud to be the country of such successful entrepreneurs. That is one of our greatest strengths as Americans. One of our producers put together an entire list of reports of people being accused of doing a sig hail salute. And it's, it's astounding how often this comes up. Yeah, including AOC did it. Oh yeah. And so here's the follow-up to her answer, which was just fine.

Starting point is 01:45:35 But now we've got to obsess over it. Let me share with you what a few Americans have said about it. Evan Kilgore, a right-wing political commentator wrote on X, holy crap, did he almost just heil Hitler at the Trump inauguration rally? This is incredible. We are so back. Andrew Torba, who's the founder of the right-wing Christian nationalist social platform, Gabs, said incredible things are happening as he amplified the visual. The Proud Boys chapter in Ohio posted the clip on a Telegram channel with the text, Heil Trump, a chapter of the white nationalist group, White Lives Matter, posted it on Telegram.

Starting point is 01:46:16 Thanks for hearing us, Elon. The white flame will rise again. I could keep going over and over last night. White supremacist groups and neo-Nazi groups in this country rallied around that visual. Does it concern you that those elements of the neo-Nazi and white supremacist element in the United States believe that what they saw last night was a neo-Nazi salute. What concerns me is this is what you these are the questions you believe are most important to ask to the UN ambassador. I have a very strong record when it comes to combating anti-Semitism. We just had a historic election where President Trump earned historic support from American voters

Starting point is 01:47:02 because of his strong leadership combating anti-Semitism, which has been a scourge across the country, skyrocketing since October 7th. So I intend to bring moral clarity to this position and continue to speak out as a voice, as a beacon of light, condemning anti-Semitism at the United Nations, which is representative of President Trump's record and President Trump's promises that he made on the campaign trail. It's all so pathetic. It really is. Does that Murphy guy really think that

Starting point is 01:47:37 we're all in a tizzy and think that that's what Elon Musk was doing? He must be sincere about it. Uh, yeah, I think most of these people are pretty sincere. Um, it's pathetic. Now he isn't, uh, well, she's a Czech Italian. What? I'm looking at her. I, you know, you think she's, I think she's a Jew from a background. I'm not mistaken, Stefanik.

Starting point is 01:48:09 I like how you say that. Well, the way I'm just looking at it, because I'm saying this because she could throw it at him, saying, you know, don't you think? She's Greek, apparently. According to the troll, she's Greek. Okay, well, she's Greek. Okay, well she's Greek, here. I'm reading from her wiki page.

Starting point is 01:48:28 She was born in Albany to Melanie and Kenneth Stefanik. Her father's ethnically Czech, her mother's Italian. Genealogy shows her father's Polish. She comes from Western Galatia at the time of the Kingdom of Galatia. There's no Greek in her. It's just trolls. So much for the chat room being accurate. It's just trolls.

Starting point is 01:48:51 What do I know about the trolls? Oh, man, man, man. All right. I'm going to just play one more little one. Actually, I should mention this first because Sir Mark checked in with me about Panama, about the Panama Canal. He talked to a couple of his friends down there, lawyer friends I should point out. They see Trump's remarks as a head scratcher.

Starting point is 01:49:19 In spite of that, plenty of Panamanians like Trump. There are even some who think he could clean up corruption in the board running the canal, which is run by a few rich families, which brings me to a very interesting possibility. Now, this was Mark who was very angry about Trump saying, you know, we're going to take it back. Yeah, he was all bent out of shape. Yes. Two days ago.

Starting point is 01:49:40 He's giving you grief. No, it's okay. Hey, this is Sir Mark. He has standing. Two days ago, the comptroller of the government announced investigation into the two port facilities operated by Hutchinson-Wampoa at either end of the canal. They are the ports under concession from the national government that Trump has said are quote illegally operated by soldiers from China. It appears from some announcements today that the comptroller has found that the Hong Kong-based

Starting point is 01:50:05 multinational has not been paying all of its payments to Panama. I'm guessing that the concession has been breached and will be possibly cancelled, allowing Panama to expel China from the canal, allowing Trump to claim a victory. And then he has a link to a financial time. But you know, people have to understand whatever comes out of president Trump's mouth is a negotiation. Everything when he says a trillion dollars for Tik Tok, we all know it's not worth a trillion dollars.

Starting point is 01:50:34 Now he throws out the 500 billion, which is also way too much, but it's a negotiation. That's what he does. And I might add that there's a lot of MAGA hats on Greenland right now. I see video after video of these kids running around like, yeah, I want to be American. That sounds like it sounds good. Sounds like a good deal. But in the European Parliament, well, here's the representative from Denmark. Dear President Trump, listen very carefully.

Starting point is 01:51:07 Greenland has been part of the Danish kingdom for 800 years. It's an integrated part of our country. It is not for sale. Let me put it in words you might understand. Mr. Trump, fuck off. Again with the cussing. What is with these people? They have nothing left.

Starting point is 01:51:30 You cuss when you don't have any more argument. And they're always complaining and moaning and groaning about civility. These damn Republicans are not civil. We want civility. Civility is civility. And then they're cussing left and right like a truck driver. Every, every, I think universally agreed that when you cuss, and I've been very susceptible to this, is when you have no argument left. You have nothing, you have nothing intelligent to say,

Starting point is 01:51:58 so you say something like that. Oh, oh, shocking. So they're, they're just out of arguments. Oh, shocking. So they're just out of arguments. Don't you think? I think they're afraid that they're going to lose Greenland. Oh, they are. It's a done deal. 50 first days. I mean, they've made it.

Starting point is 01:52:15 Somebody in Denmark said, well, it's up to the Greenlanders. That's a mistake. Whoops. That was a dumb thing to say because the Greenlanders are going to vote for the USA in a minute compared to what they've been getting. Because they know what happens when we move into something like this. We throw money at it. We waste money.

Starting point is 01:52:33 Give every Greenlander a Bitcoin. Perfect. There's only 56,000 of them. We got enough Bitcoin in the strategic reserve. And with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the seas in back in the closet. Say hello to my friend on the other end who just opened a polar spring or something like that. John C. DeMora! I did not open a polar spring. That was a big... I was grabbing the thunderbox. Hit the morning to you and in the morning all ships, sea boosts to the ground, feet in the air,. In the morning to you and in the morning to all ships seaboosted to the ground.

Starting point is 01:53:06 Feet in the air, subs in the water, dames the nights out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Let's kill them. There we go. A lot of noise going on here. We're low. Low, low, low. 21.91. Low. Low. Isn't that low? No, it's up 300. Oh, it's high. It's great everybody.

Starting point is 01:53:25 I get confused. The problem is believable. I don't know what day it is. That's my problem. I just know. Oh, yeah. Well, that could be. It's either a Thursday or a Sunday.

Starting point is 01:53:34 I can't remember which day it is. I'm so engrossed in doing this show. I'm just following everything. You know, the problem is I have the same issue. I don't know what day date is, generally speaking. But only since I started doing this show because the show is offset. It's Thursday and Sunday, which is irrational. It's like, you know, it's not Wednesday.

Starting point is 01:53:57 I mean, it's not like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. It's bad days. It's bad days. It's not a good day. You know, it's not like Tuesday, Thursday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, something like that. Yeah. No, it's Thursdays and Sundays, which is the dumbest two days that you could possibly pick, but we're stuck with it.

Starting point is 01:54:14 We're stuck. It's what it is. And so you can't, so it does, people don't understand. I have the same issue. I'll wake up in the morning thinking, wait a minute, do I have to do a show, a newsletter, or is this my day off? Or do I have to do clips? You'd think after 17 years we'd have it together, but no. Because of the offset nature of it. It's impossible.

Starting point is 01:54:39 I hope people realize the severe sacrifice we make. To our mental health. Yes, we are out of sync with all time and dimension. That's what it creates. It creates an out of sync nature. Yes. But we do it because it's a public service and it's clearly needed. It's clearly needed because the news is just...

Starting point is 01:54:59 It sucks. It stinks. It's either gaslighting you. They're doing a lousy job. They can't do their job. They're getting paid more than we are. Yeah. Especially the talking heads who don't even know anything.

Starting point is 01:55:10 They just read from a script. They get paid millions in many cases. Yes. And they're terrible at it. Well it's ending. Look at CNN. It's ending. It is ending. Well it's backing off, not ending. Well yeah, they're backing off. But it's, again, CNN, by the way, CNN says it's strategy now. I was reading the trade yesterday. What's the strategy? What trade? Vanity? No, I mean variety.

Starting point is 01:55:38 It was in the Hollywood Reporter. Oh, Hollywood Reporter. There you go. It's a trade. And so going on and on about how, well, you know, we're rethinking, we're going to go digital, we're going to do, we're pushing toward digital, a subscription model. Oh, will they have a... Firewall. A firewall. What's the other term?

Starting point is 01:55:58 The plus, the package. Now, what is it? What do we call it? The plus. No, it's plus. CNN plus. But there was some other term that NPR is using. What was that?

Starting point is 01:56:09 Yeah, they were using a, oh yeah, there was a term. No, there's some term. There's some term like a plus package. Well, it'll come back up in the conversation. But you have a bonus clip to play right away. Oh, bonus clip, bonus clip, bonus clip. What's the bonus clip? This is the wild. The bundle, it clip, bonus clip, bonus clip. What's the bonus clip? This is the wild...

Starting point is 01:56:25 The bundle, it's the plus bundle. The bundle, it'd be a CNN bundle. CNN bundle. Thank you, John M. Adams. Appreciate it. What's the bonus clip? This is the plug for one of their podcasts because they've been doing that as part of the bundle on NPR.

Starting point is 01:56:43 And this is disgusting. Why would anybody, why do they encourage what we've got about to hear? On NPR's Wild Card podcast, comedian Michelle Butoh says she's glad she ignored the people who told her to lose weight. I'm just going to show you what it looks like to love my body, my double chin, my extra rolls, okay? My buckets of thighs. Sauce on the side, you can't afford it. I'm Rachel Martin.

Starting point is 01:57:08 Michelle Buto is on the Wild Card Podcast. Woo, it's in the bundle. Is that in the bundle or is it out in the wild? Well, I think it's in the bundle, but the point is, is that how does this work with their Ozempic sponsors? They shouldn't even have that message and not be on there. You know what? It's because they are oblivious. The people who make this stuff, this is why they have to fire a thousand people. even have that message should not be on there. You know what? It's because they are oblivious.

Starting point is 01:57:25 The people who make this stuff, this is why they have to fire a thousand people. The people who are making the CNN content, they actually believe they're that good. What they don't realize, their only reason for existence is advertisers from big food, junk, crap, followed by advertising. Yeah, this is NPR, which is the same.

Starting point is 01:57:46 You're talking to CNN, but I say NPR is the same. Same thing, same thing. Because they're doing host-read ads now. Have you noticed that on NPR and the podcasts? Yeah. Yeah. You have some low-T guy that reads most of these ads. Hi!

Starting point is 01:58:04 Yes, Brooke Gladstone, the low T guy. Exactly. I hear Brooke doing them on the media and she has to literally sit there and say, you can get a free iPhone with your AT&T subscription. And I know she's hating it. She's like, I can't believe I have to read this. And the disclaimer is, it's one of these deals where you get an upgrade for your iPhone whenever a new one comes out.

Starting point is 01:58:29 And then the disclaimer is, may not actually be available in the future, may not include a new iPhone. You think this could be completely bunk, but sign up for AT&T. And you just know she's sitting there hating it, which kind of gives me great joy in a sad, sick way because they're so pompous with your bundle that they really that's so anyway that's the problem that's the problem with all these outfits they don't realize that just because you're on cable there's carriage fees it's diminishing every single day and course

Starting point is 01:59:04 that is what will make our last four years on the air so enjoyable. We will be kicking them all the way down. Beating the dead horse. Beating them all the way down. Those exorbitant numbers of trolls are hanging out at trollroom.io. We also have noagenda.stream. Takes you to the same place. And you can listen live.

Starting point is 01:59:30 They all, they've been reloaded up today because of the Supreme Court coverage. I'm sure of it now. Oh, I mean, I was telling people, why are you emailing me that you liked my coverage? Email John. And only one person that I know of did it. I didn't get it. Yeah, even worse. It was sent to you, I know, because I got a BCC.

Starting point is 01:59:55 I don't listen to John, it was great. It was riveting. I was on the edge of my seat. I loved it. You're riveting. And I'm like, you need to tell John this, not me. I know it was great. You got to tell John. By the way, for those of you who are listening at this moment, this is the secret bonus donation segment. People have no idea when they skip over it. This

Starting point is 02:00:17 is where the good stuff comes out. But we'll just leave that for those who don't know about it. So you can also listen and be alerted when we go live. And there's a lot of shows that go live on the No Agenda stream, but you can subscribe to the No Agenda show in a modern podcast app, like Fountain, Podverse, Podcast Attic, Podcast Guru, all the podcasters at podcastapps.com. And not only will you get the bat signal when we go live, so you can listen live in the

Starting point is 02:00:47 same app. You can't do that on Spotify. You can't do that on Apple. You can't do it on any other podcast app. Let's see these modern podcast apps. And as a bonus, the minute that we release the podcast, within 90 seconds, you're notified about it. So that is just some of the top line benefits besides the fact that none of your podcasts

Starting point is 02:01:05 will be deleted because they all talk to the podcast index, which is run and managed by yours truly with Dave Jones. So we are protecting free speech in that manner. We also will never get in trouble with advertisers because guess what? We don't have any advertisers. People think it's because we, I think it's for ideological reasons, but it's not really. We just never wanted to have a meeting with advertisers. That was the main reason.

Starting point is 02:01:30 That's always been the main reason. That's ideological, it seems to me. Okay, that's ideological. Instead, we do it value for value. We created this whole concept, which has now been bastardized into Patreon and behind the firewall and premium and bundles that is not value for value. Value for value is it's out here it's free it's full glory all of its nakedness it's here for you to consume and enjoy however whenever you want share it plug it anywhere do

Starting point is 02:01:59 whatever you want all we ask is that whenever you feel you got value from the show send it back to us with time, talent, or treasure. And we always... Right. And the thing is if you are a value for value promoter, in other words, if you're like a podcast that does this sort of thing, and all of a sudden everything dries up and you feel obliged to get advertising, then you should change your model. Yes, exactly. By the way, for all those people who were so interested in local podcasts, because I only mentioned it once or maybe twice,

Starting point is 02:02:30 and I had to write up a page, it's hyperlocalpodcast.com, just so people could get started, there is a new opportunity that I think is overlooked. And you could actually, it wouldn't even matter what you said in your podcast. You could have a very successful local podcast that I truly believe people will support with Value for Value. Byron Allen, who I respect as a media guy. I think Byron Allen is a genius.

Starting point is 02:03:00 Yes. I followed his career since he began with his lousy little productions that he used to do like 30 years ago that were just these little, you know, he did talk shows and he was, he's a comedian actually, a standup that was not that successful. He wasn't great at standup. He's much better at the media stuff. But he was, and he just kept building and building and honing his skills. And now he's like a really important billionaire in media.

Starting point is 02:03:29 And I like him even more because he has left a gaping hole in the landscape that anybody can walk into. He just finalized his purchase of the Weather Channel for $300 million. First thing he does, fired all the local weather people. I guarantee you, I run a little local stream here for Fredericksburg, it's called hellofred.fm. Hello Fred. Hello Fred.fm.

Starting point is 02:03:52 And there's all kinds of stuff on it, mainly music, but all kinds of stuff. And without fail, the number one thing people like is I have a segment which I recorded all of these individual drops and the software picks up based upon the right temperature. I say, it's 45 degrees on Main Street in Fred. Everybody loves that. They think that's the best thing, which is kind of sad, but they think that's the best. I'm doing so much work, but they love that part. If you did a local weather report based on your, you can go to the airport website that's near you. There's tons of little regional smaller

Starting point is 02:04:31 airports. They give you a very accurate, they'll translate the weather information into English for you. If you just recorded that, you would have a successful local podcast and you can build from there. People love the local weather. They love it and as much as I think Byron Allen's a genius, he just left a gaping hole. So that is your tip of the day for me, an early tip of the day. Byron Allen is not a podcaster.

Starting point is 02:04:56 No he's not, no he's a big media mogul. He's a broadcasting guy. Yeah, he is. Now, one of the ways people support us is by creating album art and the album art that we chose for episode 1731, title of the show was Cyber Time Bombs, was by far the most polarizing choice we have made in a long time, years and years and years. And it came from several directions. Most people thought this was the best art we ever had.

Starting point is 02:05:29 They're getting t-shirts made, they're getting mugs made, they think it's outstanding. Artists who do not use artificial intelligence are heartbroken, downtrodden, and outright sad. I mean I got just heart-wrenching emails. Oh please. Yes, yes. These poor sensitive artists. Well you know artists are sensitive, that's why they're artists. But, but I, and so of course. I got no notes on this by the way. No one emailed. Not, not a one. They can't spell Dvorak. They spell it E-G-L-E-E-L-G-S. Yes. That's how you spell Dvorak. But the exception proved the rule where we typically say do not use our faces. Now this was not our faces. But we realized that we were breaking our own quote unquote unwritten rule by choosing Walter and Stettler, the Muppets. This was whatever AI

Starting point is 02:06:30 did this from correct to record who will credit with with the art really use the tool correctly. And I just want to hearken back. I think you will remember we had the same conversation of, it's not fair, this is not right. When people started using Photoshop, when people started using clip art, which they licensed. And I mean, you don't hear anyone talking about that anymore.

Starting point is 02:06:57 And it's the same conversation I've heard in media throughout my entire life, when samples came along. Oh, it's not fair. It's not even music. This is just the natural progression. I personally- But you're caving. No, this is where I'm about to retract here. So I give a little and I come back.

Starting point is 02:07:15 I personally find it sad that artists are giving up that they don't want to create art anymore. Please note that we still use art for many different things besides just the album art, including the chapters that Dreb Scott puts together, which you can see in the modern podcast apps. Harking back to the picture of the bird that is done by the five-year-old for the mom sent it in, if you remember that art. Yeah, it was the right piece at the right time.

Starting point is 02:07:45 Crayon art. Yeah, but what happens is they feel that they've put all this time into it. And for some, John, some of these notes are like, this was my moment for myself working on the art for the show. I tell my kids and my wife to leave me alone for two hours so I can really work on it.

Starting point is 02:08:04 And they feel ripped off And I understand it But this is the best for the show it hurts me too it I feel you artists I feel I can't draw a straight line. I Feel your pain But I I think that if you have the right concepts Which is very hard to... 95% of all this AI art sucks because it's not the right concept. That is something that no tool can take away. Your God-given talent and insight towards what you want to create. Why are you

Starting point is 02:08:42 laughing at me? Why are you laughing? Because you're now catering to the whining artists. I love the whining artists. I love the starving... We're starving artists. What are you talking about? I have mixed feelings about what you're doing. Well, then why... You're encouraging... Artists need to be...

Starting point is 02:09:02 They need the harsh, harsh reality. They have to, they got to, they got to snap out of it. That's what I'd say. Snap out of it. Get back to work. Well, I'm kind of saying the same thing. I'm saying that no matter what you do, if you have the insight, if you have that creative thing in you, use the tools.

Starting point is 02:09:30 I'm sad. I am. Well, this actually may be good. In this case, you might actually be encouraging them to at least feel around with the tools. I mean, Darren O'Neill is the best example of this. And he has zero actual talent for anything. But, but, but wait, but wait. See, now you do, you know, that's not that you don't feel that way.

Starting point is 02:09:54 But the point is, is that Darren is not like a fine artist, not a guy with a, he's not doing oil paintings on the weekends. I mean, maybe he is, but not that I know of. What do you know? It's possible, but I doubt it. And what he's done is he's gone into these systems and he said, what can these systems do for me? And so far as the show's concerned, and he started creating with them and it's remarkable. It is remarkable. And the Statler and Waldorf thing is just, is just amazing.

Starting point is 02:10:25 And so it's like, if you can get this kind of production, which doesn't take, And the Statler and Waldorf thing is just amazing. And so it's like, if you can get this kind of production, which doesn't take, I mean, it probably takes as much time because you got to do this and that. I've only used these things a few times. I haven't gotten to the point where I can do a good piece of art like that thing. That's, I don't know how that was done. But artists need, this is like when the artists first went to Photoshop.

Starting point is 02:10:47 They were reluctant at first. A good friend of mine, Ned Shaw is a very famous airbrush artist in the Midwest who did, he's got tons of material that was used by Businessweek, all the big publications. And he was doing some work for PC Magazine, I got to be friends with him. And I got him turned on to Photoshop. And he founded early. So he was like an early Photoshop guy,

Starting point is 02:11:16 and he was doing twice the business he used to do. And then of course- I would have to say that Correct the Record, who has done art for a long time, he is one of the few who has said, all right, I'm going to take my phenomenal insight and I'm going to apply it with these tools. Because I just, let's just go take a look at what correct the record has done. I mean, I think he has done many non-AI images. Oh yeah, In the past. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:11:45 But he, I'm just looking at it now. I'm there's tons of stuff he's done that was Photoshop. It was the shady bunch. Um, no agenda. The point is that these tools have to be used, used the tools or die. That's all there is to it. Use the tools or die. Tools or die there is to it. Use the tools or die. You said tools or die. You can't get around it.

Starting point is 02:12:08 Yeah. It's like that would be me like using a reel to reel and a razor blade to edit anything like the beginning of the show. And yeah, there you go. That's perfect example. Those days are over. Yes. And it was, it took me a bit to get used to using digital nonlinear editing. Took me a bit. I'm like, well, this is odd. Couldn't quite get the vibe, but I have the insight as to what I want to create. So anyway, and yes, of course it's all theft.

Starting point is 02:12:38 What can you do? What can you do? But art is basically theft anyway. Well, now you're going down a whole nother rabbit hole. Let's take a look at other AI generated slop that was out there which I'm of course fine with because eventually oh and I should point this out eventually the AI will no longer produce such spectacular results because it is now eating its own output. Yeah, not if you lock it down. You can lock it down.

Starting point is 02:13:06 Entropy is entering and it's going to be slop and everything will be horrible and then we'll need real artists again. Don't worry. Don't listen to him. Don't listen to me. All right, was there anything else that we liked? Let me see. That piece was so interesting that it was really hard to find anything else that was close. I kind of like the single line Trump by Matt Boivere. We didn't really talk about it because we saw the, I mean, I advocated for the Waldorf

Starting point is 02:13:39 and Statler. I was like, this is so good. Tantanil did a fire aid, which was the right idea, but execution, it was flat. It was too flat. Does that make sense? Is that the correct? Non-dimensional is what I'd say. Non-dimensional. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:13:57 Right idea though. Right idea. Let me see. Was there anything else? No, there's nothing. No. I thought Comishare bloggers, Dana Brunetti, produced by Dana Brunetti, was funny but very poorly executed.

Starting point is 02:14:10 Well not usable. Yeah, unusable. We're not putting Dana Brunetti on the art. That guy already gets way too much props from us. I'll take that piece of art and put it on a mug and send it to him. I'll do that. It's the ugliest piece of art ever. Oh, that's funny.

Starting point is 02:14:29 All right, now we wanna thank the producers who supported us with Treasure. We thank everybody, $50 and above, and here's the deal, if you donate $200 or above, we do a couple of things for you. One, $200 above, you're an associate executive producer of this episode, and you get that credit, which is good for your lifetime,

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Starting point is 02:15:06 1732 and we will read your note So we start with Amber McGrath from Austin, Texas right down the road and she says for a thousand dollars Thank you very much Amber She says I just met mutual friend Nick Pizzolato. Oh That's right. I saw your name on the guest list of his wife's birthday party and got so excited to meet you. Unfortunately, you weren't there. My husband and I live in Lake Way and are big fans. So Nick Pizzolatto is my... Wait a minute. You are on the RSVP that you're gonna show up. Let me get this straight.

Starting point is 02:15:41 No, we did not. Amber McGrath saw your name on the RSVP list and you you stiffed her. No, this is not what happened. It was an email that went out, a text message that went out and I think everybody's name who was invited was on the text message but it was last Thursday. So I can't do anything on Thursday. I can't make it after the show to get from here to Austin for a to Austin. No that's ridiculous. For a birthday party. And Nick Pizzolato, he's like a big Hollywood dude. He's the the guy behind True Detective. Oh really? Yeah. I should have gone. All right I should have just canceled the show and gone to the birthday party instead. No you could have just gone showed

Starting point is 02:16:22 up. Hey do what I do, show up at the end. Show up with screeching tires and walk in and say, hey, you got a tv, the game's on. Yeah, yeah, I could have done that. Yeah, okay, well I could have done that too, but beside the point. Well, thank you very much, Amber. I'm sure there will be future birthday parties and gatherings with Pizzolato and his lovely wife, and gatherings with Pizzolatto and his lovely wife, Suzanne. And I look forward to seeing you there. So thank you very much. And thank you for, and she didn't ask for a daming or a nighting or anything, as far as I can tell.

Starting point is 02:16:54 Was there anything? No, she can do that later. If you want to, we're happy to take care of you. You're gonna have to read the next one because it's so long. And by the way, Jay sent the original. She cut this down to about a third of what it was. It was charts and everything. It was some good stock tips. Yes. It's Sir Angel of Smyrna with a thousand dollars. And he says, I am writing as an instantite and I'm looking forward to my introduction to the

Starting point is 02:17:23 Noah Jenner Roundtable of Sir Angel Smyrna. So he will be Sir Angel. Sir Bartholomew of Smyrna, if the first is taken, no, you're going to be Sir Angel. I've been listening off and on mostly since 2009. I've never donated. I'm sorry for that, but I hope this makes up for it. Well, of course it does. I have a very long message to share, so I'm sure it won't be able to be shared in full

Starting point is 02:17:42 on your show, but if there's any group of skeptics who might appreciate what I have to say I would think it would be your audience you might need to run this one by your Wall Street banker friend as well if you have any ideas how I could best share the story in full with your audience I would appreciate the guidance yes write it up on a sub stack and we'll we'll tell people to go check it out but in summary I spent the last three years developing a theory based on the stock market that I think helps explain so much of what you two discuss on the show. This is crazy. The guy's making money based upon what we talk about on the show. He calls

Starting point is 02:18:15 it the Theory 666, and it details how the Federal Reserve appears to be overtly influencing market direction, specifically the S&P 500, in conjunction with broader consortium of actors that are orchestrating events in the world around us. Theramin. Sounds like there was Shobh Rubicon. Yes. I hope you can give it an open-minded read through and I would appreciate any feedback you have.

Starting point is 02:18:38 Yes. The feedback I have, future Sir Angel Smirna, is write this stuff on the sub stack. People will subscribe to you. You'll make money by people subscribing to your theories I agree because it's good. It's very when you get the really good ones send them to us first first so we have it so we Please All right, and thank you. We will be knighting you in short order Next dame k, our buddy in Thailand. Yes, the Bitcoin billionaire.

Starting point is 02:19:10 Yeah, she's the Catherine the crypto granny of Bangkok, she likes to call herself. Because you're the best and I appreciate all that you do. I sent you $1,000 through Swipe, which is Stripe, but she renamed it because it wasn't PayPal. I just checked my bank account. You only received $974 and 19 cents or something. Okay. I'm pissed. No more dollars.

Starting point is 02:19:38 Bitcoin only. There's other ways. There's Weiss. Oh, you can do that. There's no, you know, we can get a strike account, a strike account. This is new. We're working. Dame Catherine sends us once a year. Yeah, but there's lots of people who want to send, they want to,

Starting point is 02:19:55 the six Bitcoin I spent on Silk Road, they want to send it to us. They can't. Well, I would hope so. That would be good. Okay. Well, you tell, get, send me the details. I'm not a reconstructed, No, she says I'm not a reconstituted hippie. Now the word I use constantly is reconstructed. Reconstructed hippie, but she's, she makes it sound like I'm talking about milk. Reconstituted hippie or maybe orange juice. I don't know what she's thinking. I'm a full blown home grown. This is who I am hippie.

Starting point is 02:20:29 Flower child to you. Nice. She says $10,000. Thank you. I love the crypto granny of Bangkok. Thank you very much. Papa Matteo is in Sunset, South Carolina and sends us $400.15 and attached a note. Dear John and Adam, holy shit! Only 28 donations over $50 for Show 1729.

Starting point is 02:20:55 That number got me off my ass to write a check. The extra 15 cents is for check cashing fees. I think I appreciate that. Yes, the checks, when you get to X number of checks, they charge you 15 cents. It's a big difference between 15 cents if you took the Granny Cent. Anything else. And 30 dollars, whatever it is. My son hit me in the mouth about a year and a half ago and I haven't missed a show since. I've given once before, so please make this a switcheroo to dedouche my son Andy

Starting point is 02:21:28 You've been deduced And oh I see an extra note here He says climate change is a power grab. Okay, and then he says Papa Matteo Sunset, South Carolina for Andy, please plug the Bitcoin bit. I think he means this. That's saying that all hell is gonna break loose and you're gonna need a Bitcoin. So, I'm making this Andy Mateo now because he said it was a switcheroo.

Starting point is 02:21:56 So, right? You have to read the next note too. Oh, goodness gracious. What is this? You don't have a monitor big enough? What's the problem? I don't have the 40 inch monitor that you have to read these notes. I wish these people, you know, come on people. Write shorter notes. Big Boss Rob Jordan McLean, Virginia. Spooks? No. 350. Well, you know, what did you get? 350.93? He says, this donation is 333.33 plus the fees in honor of my

Starting point is 02:22:26 smoking hot wife's birthday on January 23rd. It's a show day. To Rebecca Ann Skeel Jordan, I say, you are the best thing that has ever happened to me. I feel so lucky to have such a wonderful and caring woman in my life and our boys are incredibly blessed with you as their mother. Now Becky has donated to the show in my birthday honor twice first in 2020 during the Kuf Madness and again in October to attain the moniker Commodore Big Boss Rob Jordan so please deduce me for finally getting off my butt to donate in her honor. You've been deduced. And he says, oh, I didn't have this one ready. I think I have it here. There we go.

Starting point is 02:23:10 And please send some baby girl birthing karma our way as Becky is now eight months pregnant with a third human resource. Another boy would be great, but we're hoping for a girl. Well, you know, when we hand out the karma, you have to name the kid after us. One way or the other. It's John Charles or Adam Clark. You can make it John Clark or Adam Charles. Either way is fine. This show provides incalculable value to us by providing clarity and sanity via your excellent deconstruction of the M5M's lies and misdirection. A quick shout out to the Grimerica Boys and to the Snake Brothers Podcast where I first heard about No Agenda in 2018.

Starting point is 02:23:46 Everybody should check out these shows. And he ends with a P.S. there and a love is lit. So here is the karma you requested. You've got... Karma Oh, we need a jingle for this one. We need a jingle for this one. You have a Grand Duke Nussbaum. There you go. Yes. Grand Duke Nussbaum comes in from Virginia Beach, Virginia, 350.93, which is three 33 plus fees. On December 21st, 2024, I entered rehab in Atlanta.

Starting point is 02:24:31 Well, 33 days later is today. That's a show day coincidence. I think not. Thank you, John and Adam and the whole no agenda family. Congratulations, brother. That's good. No backstory, but we'll take him. Okay. Well, he was a drinker. Was he? Yes, I've always noticed that. He was always posting him with a drink on Twitter. I didn't know that it was a problem, but he did and he took action and I'm proud of you,

Starting point is 02:24:56 brother. Congratulations. We should have a No Agenda 33-day chip. You deserve it. And keep at it, brother. Keep at it. Dominique Dumas is in Quebec, Canada, by Como. It's the French part. Corneau, it looks like. Well, it says. No, it's Como. You're right. Thank you for your time. From Chinada. Sorry. Djingo requests, due to climate change, they're eating the dogs and you're going to need a request, due to climate change, they're eating the dogs and you're gonna need a Bitcoin.

Starting point is 02:25:26 Due to climate change. They're eating the dogs. They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose and you're gonna need a Bitcoin. Onward with the the sur-pursuit, sur-pursuit of peace and Tranquility 33333 and he sent in a note handwritten. ITM boys, please find and enclose my January donation of 33333.

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Starting point is 02:26:30 Well, so is Gary Macy, 233.99 when his note says, this is the kind of note we like. Short and sweet. Gary can't be topped. Good work. We topped, good work. Laurens de Koester from Heist op den Berg in België, Belgium, 233.99. Hi John and Adam, love the show, love you guys, no jingles, no karma. Greetings from Ittegem, Belgium, met vriendelijke groeten, Laurens de Koester. Perfect, thank you.

Starting point is 02:27:01 Dame Jessica in Havre, Hovra, Montana of all places. 22345. Please credit my donation, Dizze Switcheroo. Doesn't say it, but it is. Please credit my donation to my amazing husband, Sir Bad Potato. He's a bad potato. 1-2345 in celebration of his 45th trip around the sun on January, he's on the list. The rest is to just make you read the note. Please give him a biscuit on my birthday jingle and a goat karma.

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Starting point is 02:28:18 Oh, I missed these jingles he requested. Thank you for your courage. He wants chemtrails. Okay. Sorry, I messed that one up. I think it's a layman. I'm sorry? Is it layman? What did I say? Well, it was Lehman Brothers. Oh, you're probably right. Okay. I mean, not to be horrible about it, but okay, it could be layman. Chemtrails, Space Force, and R2-D2. Chemtrails.

Starting point is 02:28:46 Space Force. You've got karma. Here comes Eli the coffee guy. He's in Bensonville, Illinois, 20123 and he says, The pardons are flying. My question is, why did Biden give Fauci and Hunter blanket pardons going back to 2014? What happened then?

Starting point is 02:29:13 G. Oh, I see. Oh, he answers the question. Why? Yes, the offshoring of gain of function research. Maybe Hunter going, doing some hinky things in Ukraine when Joe is VP. Well, don't look over there. Trump pardoned the goofball in the Viking helmet and the rest of those who sparked an erection on the Capitol. Well, no J6 riot this year,

Starting point is 02:29:40 but for those still in need of stimulation, visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com. Use the code ITM for 20% off your first order. Stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy. And 201 comes from Binghamton, New York from Paul Kroshulik. And he gave me pronunciation Kroshulik. Got it. Thanks, Paul. Kroshulik. Kroshulik. Linda it. Thanks Paul. Pro-shulick. Pro-shulick. Ah, Linda Lu-Packins up. She's

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Starting point is 02:30:50 pronunciation apparently a new executive order just dropped with it we got to say dropped it dropped pick it up to release the JFK RFK and MLK files. That should be fun. Alex Jones is back in business, baby. He is. Gotta love him for it. Yeah, finally, it took him this long, that you have to give him credit, took it, or not credit, it took the CIA this long to fix those files

Starting point is 02:31:21 and make the new files look like the old files so that everyone thinks. So it satisfies everybody's desire to see these phony files that are becoming out. Come on, they're going to be phony. I got some, I got some insider news about, about that guy with the video. As you, um, posited, as you posited indeed a sketchy character, the timing was very suspicious.

Starting point is 02:31:50 And that's all I can say without exposing my source. So it sounds like that was kind of off. But here it is, declassification of records considering the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert R. F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. And here it is. When is it coming out? Should be, is he doing it immediately? Wow, there's a lot here. This is within 45 days of the date, they get another 45 days to Photoshop.

Starting point is 02:32:21 To make sure that the ink is carbon dated correctly. Hey, promises made, promises kept. There you go. Thank you very much to our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1732. We appreciate you very much. These are the credits that you get to keep forever as a token of our appreciation. Of course, we'll be thanking everybody. $50 and above in our second segment.

Starting point is 02:32:44 Thank you for supporting the best podcast in the universe. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. They're eating the dogs. I like these drops. I like these up, Steve. I like these drops. I like these presidential order drops. I like it. These drops.

Starting point is 02:33:10 These great drops, man. This is great. I have my last of the series, I think, I could be wrong, of the Delulu clips. Oh, goodness. It hasn't ended. Wait a minute. They're still trying to prove that Trump will not be president?

Starting point is 02:33:26 This one is I misspelled talk and made it T-O-L. This is the post-Dululu winner. Oh goodness. What if, and stick with me here, what if they needed him to think that he was president for like a second and they needed him to think that he was president for a second so that he would think that he got away with it. And if he thinks that he got away with it, he would show who he really is because the way I see it is we didn't elect DJT.

Starting point is 02:34:00 We elected Mr. Pew Pew and the our country. And I think based on how they've been talking and acting and just behaving lately, I think our leaders know that and they understand what's gonna happen or what would happen. And I don't think that they are going to willingly hand us over on a silver platter. You have to stop now with these. This is done. Come on. These guys are great.

Starting point is 02:34:37 I get that. I have the psychotic beat. I get to find the nut balls, the screw balls, the head cases that are just out there. Look no further than CNN, please. By the way, here it is just dropped. Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology. I will read this. Is this new? I mean, I thought it already did its 200.

Starting point is 02:35:01 No, no, no, this is dropping now baby, drop. Protecting the promoting the ability of individual citizens and private sector entities alike to access and use for lawful purposes open public blockchain networks without persecution, including the ability to develop and deploy software to participate in mining and validating to transact with other persons without unlawful censorship and to maintain self-custody digital assets. That's a big deal. And here's my favorite, promoting and protecting the sovereignty of the United States dollar, including through actions to promote the development and growth of lawful and legitimate dollar-backed stablecoins worldwide. Told you, it's happening. coins worldwide.

Starting point is 02:35:43 Told you it's happening. Stable, the stable coins. And of course Bitcoin immediately dropped. Okay, there we go. It did. It went from 105,000 to 103. Maybe they're still processing the, I, there's a lot in here.

Starting point is 02:36:00 Stable coins, baby. That's what it's going to be. I'm telling you, he has something figured out. We just don't understand it yet. Yeah. Or not. Or not. But maybe I have great trust in our president. Well, while you go on with these, these drops, which are, I guess they're going to go out throughout the show. I have one more. This is not a talk clip, but a real clip. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 02:36:20 An insane clip from a real people, not on TikTok. It's through from reels, whatever, you know, which is the worst. Now this is the golf cart girl. It's the same. The golf cart girl. Have you heard this one? I saw the video. Okay everybody.

Starting point is 02:36:38 If it wasn't bad enough, here we go. Monday was a super tough day to be a woman and not for the reasons you think, like not for the obvious reason, not because of Melania's hat, not because Laura Sanchez showed everyone in the Greater Washington area her nipples. No, it was the woman driving the golf cart at the National Championship. If you didn't see it, there's a video of a woman driving a golf cart with the quarterback and the head coach of the Ohio State football team. They'd just won the national championship and she drove that golf cart straight into a wall. I saw that video and I was like, we're worried about our right to choose. They're going to take away our driver's license. They're going

Starting point is 02:37:19 to take away our right to drive. That video really put into context why people won't vote for women for president and why they won't let us be in charge. Women, we're down bad. We're down real bad right now and we need to get our bag up. We need to know how to drive a golf car. Tough. Get your bag up. Okay. Get your bag up. We got to start using that phrase. That clip doesn't work without the video. On his first full day. Sorry. That clip doesn't work without the video. On his first full day at... Sorry, that clip doesn't work without the video. It really doesn't. You've got to see the woman banging the cart into the wall, not once, not twice, but three times. It's baffling. All right. It works fine without the video. Let's go back to some serious stuff, kind of serious as we have always said that we

Starting point is 02:38:06 know who the new enemy is, it's not going to be Russia, it of course is China, and there's Marco. On his first full day as US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio met with his counterparts from Japan, India and Australia, a group known as the Quad. The grouping of the four countries has been seen by many as an initiative to counter or at least slow China's increasing assertiveness in the region. Rubio is known for his hardline stance against China and the timing of the meeting suggests combating China's influence will remain a top priority for Trump and his chief diplomat. After his confirmation, Rubio stressed that he will execute President Trump's America

Starting point is 02:38:46 First mantra and his foreign policy. In our republic, the voters decide the course of our nation, both domestically and abroad. And they have elected Donald J. Trump as our president when it comes to foreign policy on a very clear mission. And that mission is to ensure that our foreign policy is centered on one thing, and that is the advancement of our national interest, which they have clearly defined through his campaign as anything that makes us stronger or safer or more prosperous. But just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach against China back to the White House,

Starting point is 02:39:17 China is also seeking to improve relations with U.S. allies. From China's point of view, improving relations with countries like Japan and India and increasing economic cooperation will offset the shocks of China-US economic relations. What I haven't seen in, and I'm expecting an executive order or some kind of policy document, he talked about, the president talked about the Iron Dome again in one of his speeches. I'm waiting for that because that's the boondoggle right there. Oh yeah, that's the money sink. The Iron Dome all over America?

Starting point is 02:39:58 Oh yeah, that's great. That'll be the day. You can put a silo here on my land, that's fine. That's good. Everyone's going to make money off of that one. It's going to be the day. You can put a silo here on my land. That's fine. That's good. Everyone's going to make money off of that one. It's going to be dynamite. No, there hasn't been a lot of talk about that. No, no, but he mentioned it in one of the men...

Starting point is 02:40:13 God, that guy is amazing. You just got to give him some props at his age. You know, that brings to mind a... I don't have a clip, but I wish I had it. I should have gotten it when I saw it. Anne Coulter made just a strange comment. She was on a podcast. She's kind of, if you haven't noticed, she's been pushed aside.

Starting point is 02:40:38 Yeah. She's not in the, whatever. She's done. Well, she still writes books and she still shows up But this was like a comedy podcast a bunch of these goofballs and she's talking about this and that and about how she got into a big beef with and she hated Trump for a while because she liked them in 2015 2016 she got into an argument a shouting match with him I guess in 2017 about him not finishing the wall

Starting point is 02:41:02 And then she was she was expunged and it was the end of her and we haven't really heard much of her since. She was expunged. I like that. My email client still has an expunge button. Expunge. I like expunge. Yes, expunge. And so she's made this comment about, she just said casually, she says, you know, I've been following this guy and she's back on board. Because they were grilling her about the fact that she hated him. She didn't like Trump anymore. And now she likes him again. After he got reelected, she thought it was great for the country, but she made this comment. She said, when I, and she explained this argument she got into and she said, he wasn't going to do this and she, he wasn't going to do that. And then she says,

Starting point is 02:41:42 you know, I think basically he's lazy. Oh, oh, now that'll I think basically he's lazy. No, no, that'll get you on podcasts real quick. And so I'm, I was thinking about it because he does get, he talks a lot, he's jacking around, he's, he's goes from ball to ball to ball. And he's, you're right. He's got energy that seems like it's, you know, unburdened by what has been, goes nuts with his showing up everywhere

Starting point is 02:42:06 and doesn't get a lot of sleep, I guess. But is it possible that she nails this, that he might actually be lazy? I mean, why would you let John Bolton into your administration late in the game, for example? Ah, wait. Stop. Stop. I have a clip. He explains why he had John Bolton in the game and why

Starting point is 02:42:30 he has revoked John Bolton's security team. Why did he remove John Bolton's security clearance, sir? I think there was enough time. We take a job. Security clearance, I'm sorry. You take a job, you want to do a job. We're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives. Why should we?

Starting point is 02:42:48 No, no, it was the security team. It was Bolton and Pompeo both had their security team. Right. But the question is about security clearance. He and no, I think he said team. Why did you remove John Bolton's security clearance?

Starting point is 02:43:02 Clearance. OK, you're right. He asked about it. But he answers about the team. Yesance. Okay, you're right. He asked about clearance and he talked about team. But he answers about the team, yes. Because I think that was enough time. We take a job. Oh, you misunderstood. You take a job, you want to do a job.

Starting point is 02:43:13 We're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives. Why should we? I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he'd attacked them because he was a warmonger. He's the one that got us involved along with Cheney and a couple of others, convinced Bush, which was a terrible decision to blow up the Middle East. We blew up the Middle East and we left. We got nothing out of it except a lot of death.

Starting point is 02:43:45 We killed a lot of people. And John Bolton was, you know, one of those guys, a stupid guy. But no, you can't have that for life. You shouldn't expect it for life. Whether true or not, great answer. I use them because people were afraid when they saw I'm all Bolton's here. We're going to get blowed up. I don't think he's lazy. I don't. I mean just I just put it out there. I don't know if he's lazy or not.

Starting point is 02:44:13 Now you go to you go take the side of Ann Coulter. Go ahead. That's great. That's a winning team. Ann Coulter can't even get on Bill Maher's show anymore. You're right, she has been expunged. She's been expunged and Bill Maher had a crush on her. So he'd bring her on all the time. Yeah, what was that about? I don't know.

Starting point is 02:44:36 There was another, I don't know if this made any big headlines, but besides Masa San standing, that was so funny. Did you see Masa San standing, that was so funny, did you see Massa San standing on the stool at that press conference? I didn't know, I didn't see him standing on the stool, he's short. It was a hilarious moment. He's about five, I met him so it's like he is... Five feet, five feet if an inch.

Starting point is 02:44:57 No, no, no, he's taller than that, he's about five,, I'm guessing. Well, next to Joe Ellison and Trump and even Altman isn't all, he's not super tall. So they had the lectern set up. Or is it about Applecrate? No, they brought it and Trump got an actual stool and then Massasan stood on the stool. It was a funny moment. It was good. So besides the 500 billion dollars from him, oh, we've got these guys.

Starting point is 02:45:32 Saudi Arabia's crown prince said that the kingdom wants to invest 600 billion dollars in the United States over the next four years. And potentially beyond that, the remarks from Crown Prince Mohammed Bill Salman came after a phone call with recently inaugurated US President Donald Trump, and after Trump mused about returning to Saudi Arabia as his first foreign trip back in office. There was no immediate response from the White House regarding the call. It also wasn't clear whether Trump's call with the Crown Prince was his first with a foreign leader since returning to the Oval Office.

Starting point is 02:46:11 The billion dollar pledge which dwarfs the gross domestic product of many nations comes as the Kingdom faces budgetary pressures of its own. Global oil prices remain depressed years after the height of the coronavirus pandemic, affecting the kingdom's revenues. In recent years, the US has increasingly pulled away from relying on Saudi oil exports, which was once the bedrock of their relationship for decades. Well, there you go. MBS, the killer.

Starting point is 02:46:42 We're taking money from the murderer. You will see. This is, they're getting carried away with this bull crap. This all that amounts to it's Sauna and this guy's have over a trillion dollars. I don't think, oh yeah, we're going to invest. Hey, all I know is we're going to get half a half a trillion from the sale of TikTok. These numbers are ludicrous. I can't wait for that.

Starting point is 02:47:07 Meanwhile, real problems back at home. This affects you as it affects me, as it affects many who have listened to this program and have taken our shopping advice. Breaking overnight, Costco employees are now threatening to go on strike. They could hit the picket lines at the end of the month. The Teamsters Union that represents more than 18,000 Costco workers nationwide says its members voted to authorize a strike over pay and benefits. The wholesale giant has not yet responded to the vote. The current contract is set to expire January 31st, a week from this Friday.

Starting point is 02:47:40 Wow, I thought Costco people were generally happy. I thought so too. I'm not sure what's going on here. I followed this a little bit. I would be very sad if they wouldn't. I would support them because I like the Costco people. They're always very friendly. Always give you free snacks. Do you ever eat the free snacks? Oh yeah. Snacks are good. Friday is the day to do that by the way.

Starting point is 02:48:02 Friday is snack day? Friday is like they have snacks all the time. Yeah, but on Friday if you're hungry go to Costco. They are loaded. Every aisle's got somebody giving something away. It's Costco happy hour. You can actually be picky. No, I don't think so. Too much starch. I love how people do they're like mmm. This is great. Then you have to kind of make that, but I'm not going to buy it move. You're like, this is good. Oh, this is fantastic. Okay. Right over here, sir.

Starting point is 02:48:34 Megan, will you just keep going? You know, there's some like Jay, for example. I feel guilty. It's like, oh, I've just ate the free food and I don't want to buy it. Please. Give you two cents where the food, you're supposed to buy something. Forget it. So Jay won't even touch the food. Why not? She thinks it's, I don't know, she's got all kinds of little idiosyncrasies.

Starting point is 02:48:55 One of them is, I don't know, if they're giving it away, it must be toxic or something. I don't know what she's thinking. She just won't touch it. That's a good one. I mean, I'm trying all this stuff. Oh, that's interesting. Actually, every once in a while you run into something, you go, wow, pretty good. Yeah. We had that with the, although it was horrible product. What is it called? The egg, egg bites? Oh, egg bites. Oh, you like those?

Starting point is 02:49:25 Well, yeah, I like them. I never try. I honestly haven't tried them. How can you go, egg bites, if you've never tried them? Because it's disgusting, the idea of a, of a, it's all, isn't it just a hard, somebody else hard boiling an egg for you? No, no. Do you even know what an egg bite is? No, you don't. Obviously, I'm completely clueless. Yes, it's more like a very light souffle of egg that has been put into a cupcake form.

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Starting point is 02:50:51 Well, you might want to. Listen to this. Why? What? They're going to take it off the market? No, just listen to this from Natalie. A while ago, you recommended Ching Wan Hung burn gel. I bought a tube and stuck it in the kitchen cabinet a few months ago.

Starting point is 02:51:03 I heard a scream in the hallway this evening and ran out to find that my three-year-old had used the chair to get on the counter and grab my scalding cup of tea and spilled it all over her arms. I quickly put her arms under cold water and ran downstairs to get the burn gel. I slathered it all over the affected areas and she immediately stopped crying. Her arms are still red but she shows no signs of discomfort. Thank you for your wonderful tip of the day. I hope I never have to use the burn gel again but I feel better knowing it's at hand should another emergency arise." From Mother Natalie. There you go. How about that? Isn't that beautiful?

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Starting point is 02:52:21 This is a note from one of our producers that's done a volunteer in the fire area. They call him Anonymous AJ. And this, by the way, if anybody out there is a reporter or works for one of the newspapers, this is a story you can do. I'm probably going to pass it on to a local news outlet because it needs to be looked into. Hey, John, I thought I'd sent over sent over boots on the ground report from yesterday when I volunteered to help with fire relief with an organization called LA Family Housing.

Starting point is 02:52:52 The experience started out fine. We started donate, we sorted donated packages from Amazon into different piles for donations including medical supplies, first aid kits, clothing, etc. All seemed great until we ended this task and began packing what was billed as a harm reduction kit. This meant creating bagged kits, which included, among other things, this is our California taxpayer money at work, this is scandalous by the way, among other things, a clean meth pipe, turnip kit, fentanyl testing kit, tin foil, alcohol prep pads, and other necessary supplies needed

Starting point is 02:53:37 to get your fix. Caseworkers were apparently giving these kits out to those in need. An incredible use of donation dollars, don't you think? Wow. Needless to say, this was beautifully done switcheroo which ended with me packing 143 harm reduction kits and quote unquote proud of it. I even questioned what was going on but was given a stern response by the N95 mask-wearing female volunteer next to me. Yeah, I'll bet.

Starting point is 02:54:11 Rather than cause trouble, I kept my mouth shut and just left early. Perhaps a good explanation of why we do this, but I'm at a loss. There might be a good explanation, but I'm at a loss and certainly feel like there's a big failure going on here. He sent a video showing the pipe and it was very short video. Was it a glass one from Texas hot glass? It was a, it was a glass one. I don't know where it was from. I did look, it looked more commercial than a, than a hand blown.

Starting point is 02:54:40 And so this is our, uh, boots on the ground. This is what's going on in democratic controlled California. Lovely, lovely. But stay there, keep living there. It's all good. Oh, it's great. Yeah. It's 65 today. What's your temperature there? Our current temperature is 50 degrees on Main Street in Fred. No, that's not bad. No, it's not bad considering Louisiana got record breaking snowfall for the climate change. But don't worry, 2025. Climate change.

Starting point is 02:55:13 I guarantee you 2025 will be once again the hottest year on record. Oh, the hottest year ever. Yep, it'll happen. We're going to thank the rest of our producers who supported us with Treasure of our time, talent and treasure of Value for Value system, $50 and above.

Starting point is 02:55:25 John will take us through it. Yeah, we got a few people here. Starting with the Brand family in Placerville, $150. Sean Homan in Noblesville, Indiana, $148.48. It's a switcheroo for my wife. We love our Too Many Eggs cookbook. Visit toomanyeggs.com and pick yours up today. While you're in the

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Starting point is 02:56:19 Can I hold it? I'd love to shoot it. Yeah, it was quite interesting. The Platypus Stealth Arms. I'd never to shoot it. Yeah, it was quite interesting. The platypus, stealth arms. I'd never heard of this company before. Well, they listen to us. They do. And they're in Noblesville, Indiana. And I'm reliably informed John wants a platypus now. I've heard that. Yes. Keith Hubbard in Plymouth, Minnesota, one, two, four, three, three. Christie in Vistavia Hills, Alabama, one, two, four, three, three. Joshua Stanfield in Marino Valley.

Starting point is 02:56:55 These are all the inauguration donations. Yes. Joshua, I'm just going to name a name and location until I'm done with him. Joshua Stanfield in Marino Valley, California. Anonymous Cop in Redwood City, California. Good for him. Well done. And let us know what you think about the pardons.

Starting point is 02:57:17 Eric Hulse in Katy, Texas. William Durkin in Greenville, South Carolina Taylor Rivera in Rockford, Illinois and that's it crapped out. That's the end of it By the end and William Durkin wants some Lexus Karma For his 2006 GS 300 it suddenly started to have a hard downshift from second to first. Yeah. Good. Take it to the dealer. Yeah. And it is a baby at 130 K they go to 300,000 miles. So some, something is a mess.

Starting point is 02:57:56 Soder your joints. Take it to the dealer is going to cause you a grand. Yes. Taylor Rivera was the last on the list. Whitney, 1692. And she has a long note. Take a quick look at she's a professional copywriter in the tech field. And aware of the AI revolution I wrote a ebook about how as much as I love Claude and chat GPT the fancy talking thesauruses are not going to take our jobs. I agree. I agree too. Yet. Yet. P.S. I hate it when you two fight. We never fight. You know the funny thing is people bitch and moan about us fighting but technically it's good bra it's good radio. It's great radio. Yeah you're're yacking at the other guy's asshole.

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Starting point is 02:59:03 Also Brian Lillard in Prosper, Texas, 8888. Kevin McLaughlin, the Archduke of Luna, lover of American boobs, 8008. Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, 6996. And this is a switcheroo for Dame Becky. Nice. Dame Becky. Christopher Witzel in Spirit Lake, Idaho, 6331. And he needs a deducing? You've been deduced. Thanks for the audible download tip. Yes. Oh yeah, Mimi went right to that and immediately she herself. Yes, lots of people are doing this now. Move their books over. We're lots of people are doing this now.

Starting point is 02:59:45 Move their books over to something. We're responsible for theft. It's good. I don't know, is it theft? I agree, the EULA would say it's theft. I don't think it's theft. I don't either. You bought that book to listen to it,

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Starting point is 03:00:44 $1.50 is a refund for my disappointing hot dog combo. Nice. Well, I found that work. Take it from here while I hang up the phone. I guess I left it on the hook. Yes. He also says shout out to my niece Charlotte and tell her, I'll see you at Topgolf. All right. So Mitra Saravana, Fredericksburg, Virginia with $52.72.

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Starting point is 03:03:56 douchebag as he's listening to your show. I de-douche-ed him last year for his 30th birthday, but he's still not, he's still emitting signs of douchebaggery. Therefore, I am making it a tradition to donate on his behalf each year for his birthday until he's no longer a douchebag. Okay. Well, what are you going to do? Sir Greg in Newport, North Carolina wraps us up with the fifties. And that's the end of our group of producers and well-wishers that made show. I don't know. it was 1732 reality. That's right and thank you again to our executive and associate executive producers who supported us bigly today we appreciate

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Starting point is 03:09:32 If you can't find one on the calendar start one yourself. It's easy and always a party You wanna be where you want me, drink it or hell or lame. You wanna be where everybody feels the same. Ba-da-da-da-da-da-ba-ba-dum. It's like a party. It's like a party, baby, it's like a party. Alright, I had so much to do today looking through the executive orders. I only have one ISO. I don't think it's probably gonna win, but I will roll it out anyway for you.

Starting point is 03:10:10 Here's my ISO. And all the fact-checkers died. That's all I got. Did I lose you? Hello? Hello? Yeah. What happened? I got kicked off of Clean Feed and then it said this link is being used by someone else.

Starting point is 03:10:39 Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Is anyone else there? Anyone else on? And then it said, take over. And you took over. Yeah. Is anyone else there? Anyone else on? And then it said, take over. And you took over? Yeah. You've got power.

Starting point is 03:10:51 Did you hear my ISO? I did not hear the ISO. And all the fact checkers died. That's all I have for today. Okay, well I got a bunch. Okay. I like that one, but it's not. It's not the best?

Starting point is 03:11:04 Okay. I think I can a bunch. I like that one, but it's not... It's not the best? Okay. I think I can beat it. Let's start with Two Guys. Two Guys? No, wait, wait, no, that's the wrong show. That's okay. What are we starting with then? I'm looking for my list.

Starting point is 03:11:20 No, it says Two Guys is here. I've got Two Guys. Oh, okay, then I got the right list. Okay, Two Guys. These two guys are so cute. Okay I'm liking that one I'm liking it. Uh sums up. And that sums up this week. Two guys is cuter yeah. Hard. Podcasting is hard real hard. It's true people have no idea what we do for the show. They have no idea. All right. What's your last one? Cinderella.

Starting point is 03:11:49 If the shoe fits, wear it, Cinderella. I think it's between Podcasting is hard, real hard. And These two guys are so cute. Oh, man. I don't know which one to choose, John. I kind of like both of them. No, we cannot do a combo. No, we can't. I would say, I would say why don't we use one this show

Starting point is 03:12:12 and one on Sunday? Well, I'll use this one now. Podcasting is hard, real hard. I think we'll use that one because it is. It's real hard. You have no idea how hard it is, especially when it comes to John's tip of the day. ["Greeting Fires"] how hard it is, especially when it comes to John's tip of the day.

Starting point is 03:12:34 And sometimes created by Dana Bernetti. Yeah. Okay. So the tip of the day is a website. Oh, a real, an interesting one. I have to say, because it could come in quite handy for anyone who's cheap on it or on a budget computing on a budget Linux even no It's called the website is the following alternate to

Starting point is 03:12:57 number I'm sorry all Alternative to alternative to net I'm gonna take a look at this alternative to dotnet. And for example, in this case, you're going to open it up, type in, and it gives you all the alternatives to have softwares available out there that to whatever you want. For example, type in Microsoft word, alternative, what alternative to give me the URL again. Alternative two, all one word. T-W-O or T-O-O?

Starting point is 03:13:28 T-O. Oh, to.net. Oh! Oh. So type in Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word, yep. And it'll give you a list of all the alternatives to Microsoft Word that are out there

Starting point is 03:13:44 with a little reviews and some discussion, including a bunch of them I never heard of. Yeah like like language tool and Quiga. Quiga. Quiga. It's a bunch of weird ones. But you can do this. You put Photoshop in there. You can put anything that you want but you don't want to buy. So it's for cheap people. people Yeah, that should be everybody. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting Yeah, it's actually quite an interesting site one of our producers Zach sent it to me and Reminded me that I got to fix my personal Porter portal. So it's got more stuff like this on it You have a personal portal. Yeah, Dvorak org slash and a home home slash home dot htm stuff like this on it. You have a personal portal? Yeah, dvorak.org.

Starting point is 03:14:25 Slash NA. Home, home, slash home dot htm. There it is everybody. Two tips in one today. Green fires for you and me. HTM. Just a trip with JCB. And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Bernetti.

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Starting point is 03:15:46 right here in Fredericksburg. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're gonna bring back the term Fiddlesticks. I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda. Remember us at NoAgendaDonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, a hooey, hooey, and such. He's a dog He's a pig He's a con

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Starting point is 03:16:55 He talks out, he wants to punch people in the face. Well, I like to punch him in the face. All right, first, deep breath. This was a big day. You have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president that I've ever seen. It was probably the low point of the presidency. Wow, disgusting.

Starting point is 03:17:16 President Trump is not on America's team. It was nothing short of treasonous. Donald Trump betrayed America. We have a president who is betraying us. He was like a scared child. The way he cowered. Trump was pretty nervous. Most people are nervous when meeting their boss. He embraced him. He validated him. While trashing his own country. And gave the middle finger to America. Embarrassing the country. The single most embarrassing performance that I've ever seen. The

Starting point is 03:17:43 United States was attacked and President Trump today sided with the enemy. It is disgraceful refusing to side with his own country, his own country. You should call this the surrender summit. This is evidence of collusion. What we saw yesterday was collusion. And he's basically saying I'm with Brad. Why he did so? I can't really get into that. I'm not a doctor. Trump was so impotent it's no wonder he leaves the Russian summit with one ball.

Starting point is 03:18:07 It's a nice gift, although I think Putin still has a set of Trump's balls. It was time for Trump to put his foot down. And he did. Right on America's dick. Sorry, it's not funny. This is the Chinese. The Chinese! Why did you say that? You didn't have to say that. What's your point of saying that? Are you insinuating something? Are you suggesting something? Just watch this here, go for it Rob. He can't say it. He can't say it. We're all gonna die! Meanwhile the world, our meteorology... If you can get a hold of any sort of public works or DWP, our folks have started to reports that they're running out of water and hydro systems.

Starting point is 03:18:46 That's made by Gloco. With us moving our water up here, we can get a bunch of water tanners through the city. And we can hang them up on the entrance of the ferry up in the Palisades. And we can set up a portable hydro system. So our folks are going to have a shorter turnaround time. Music stars will hold a benefit concert for L.A. Fire Aid. The event is called Fire Aid.

Starting point is 03:19:13 It was staged on January 30th in two venues. Some of the performers will include Lady Gaga, Jelly Roll, Billie Eilish, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Nothing like some Red Hot Chili Peppers in your fire eight, huh? Yeah, perfect. Bless you. That's it, uh, so we got the internet and crying about it now. The best podcast in the universe. Adios, mofo.

Starting point is 03:19:40 Dvorak.org slash N.A. Podcasting is hard, real hard.

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