No Agenda - 1733 - "Rat Note"

Starting point is 00:00:00 It would be outrageous! Adam Curry, John C. DeVora. It's Sunday, January 26, 2025. This is your award-winning give-on Asian media, Assassination episode 1733. This is No Agenda. Busting up churches and schools and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas home country

Starting point is 00:00:19 here in FEMA region number six. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. Amford Northern Silicon Valley where it's supposed to rain, it's not raining, I don't know, I got nothing else to say, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. Ha ha ha.

Starting point is 00:00:36 Ah, I caught you unawares and unprepared. Ooh, I made another rhyme, yeah. No, I knocked over a drink. Oh, no. Just before we started, so I'm in the process of cleaning up the mess. What was the drink? The concoction that I make. Oh, that thing. Oh, that was once tip of the day.

Starting point is 00:00:56 Yeah, that was a time tip of the day. Luckily, the glass wasn't full of it because I had drunk most of it, but it's a gooey material that is not easy to get off. No, no and is it in the in the gear? Is it in the gear? No, no it fell over onto the over into the it's a long story it's not in the gear. It's the chia seeds they're everywhere people. It did fall over where this is. I didn't really. Hey I want to congratulate Ashlyn Speed on her first Mazda race at Daytona. Did you see it? Yeah, she posted it.

Starting point is 00:01:30 Yeah, she was cautious and did not get entwined in the massive wreck they had. That was pretty amazing. You saw that big crash? Yeah. So she came 16 out of 34. She was cautious. Her first race though, first race on Daytona. I could not be more proud of her. It's a good start. You watch that young lady has a future. And we have our autographed picture so we're good to go. I did not see no agenda on the car anywhere.

Starting point is 00:02:06 Hmm. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's over. You know what? Those days are over. It's over. We'll be happy we can get a pit pass. Yeah, you got that right.

Starting point is 00:02:18 That's the way it is. So man, I constantly have the White House news page up these days. You know, just walk by the computer. Let me do a little refresh. Oh, wait, I constantly have the White House news page up these days. You know, just walk by the computer. Let me do a little refresh. Oh, wait, there's something new. It's amazing what has been happening in the past week. Give us an update.

Starting point is 00:02:34 I mean, have you seen the… As I continue to clean up this mess. Oh, okay. Well, while you continue to clean up the mess, I'm going to up for your three by three I believe we should definitely start with we should start with replacement migration in the United States let's kick it off with this some 1500 active Marine and Army personnel have begun a new mission to bolster security that girl's voice sounds, hold on a second. Yes? That girl's voice sounds like the voice that we have on our clips that we're gonna die.

Starting point is 00:03:09 What's with the gonna die girl? Does she really? Hold on a second. Let me see if I can match her. Let's see. Here we go. We're all gonna die! We're all going to die! We're all going to die!

Starting point is 00:03:26 So, 1,500 active Marine and Army personnel have begun a new mission to bolster security at the U.S.-Mexico border. Among those deployed near San Diego, Marines from Camp Pendleton. These service members will be providing ground and air support to assist troops already deployed. I should probably point out that the chopper sound you hear is the Osprey landing, which just gave it a perfect visual. Like, oh, there's that thing landing. It's all over now. As well as customs and border protection secure the border. What? By the way, I saw these this this this clip and are you telling me they're hauling people out of the country in Ospreys? No no that's where they land the troops they they couldn't

Starting point is 00:04:14 drive you see we had to make it look cool and spend a little extra so instead of driving to the border they flew them in the Ospreys. No no we're taking people out in C-130s. Yeah, I know, that's what I noticed, but they kept showing these osprey pics. Those things are expensive to operate. Very, very expensive. And they're dangerous. I would say so. They'll also be assisting in the construction of physical barriers. This marks the first batch deployed by the Department of Defense, following President Donald Trump's executive order to shut down all migrant entries at the southern border.

Starting point is 00:04:48 Border security was one of Trump's campaign promises. The American people have been waiting for such a time as this for our department. That's the new girl? What's her name? The new press secretary girl? Yeah, I can't remember her name yet. Do you hear what she does there? Yeah, she sounds like another clip that we have.

Starting point is 00:05:10 She throws out an Esther Mordecai for such a time as this. The American people have been waiting for such a time as this for our Department of Defense to actually take home insecurity seriously. This is a number one priority of the that people and the president is already delivering. Military airlifts deporting illegal immigrants have also begun. Several flights carrying hundreds of Guatemalan migrants arrived in Guatemala Friday from Arizona and Texas. However, not everyone is welcoming this news. I don't think we need troops in El Paso. I go back to saying we're a very same community.

Starting point is 00:05:46 Ice raids have been taking place in many cities across the country. Ice posted on social media, there have been 593 arrests and 449 detainers lodged. They also posted that targeted enforcement operations are planned arrests of known criminal aliens who threaten national security or public safety. But this will not stand, say the Democrats everywhere. Connecticut has never quit on people. We're never going to surrender and I am never going to back down. We are here to fight.

Starting point is 00:06:20 Fight. You come for my people. Fight. You come through me. You come through me. Our five You come for my people. Fight. You come through me. Come through me. Our five-member delegation is planning to push back, fight back.

Starting point is 00:06:29 Presidents in this country have broad powers, but they are not kings. We will not do ICE's job for them on a whole number of fronts. We're not going to do federal immigration enforcement. If there is any attack on the Garden State or on any of its communities from Washington, I will fight back with every fiber of my being. I have one message for President Trump. I'll see you in court. Alright, alright, alright. Well, most of the country seems...

Starting point is 00:06:55 These guys are big talkers. Oh yeah, most of the country seems pretty happy with the criminals. There's only removing criminals. It was like, well, the ICE can go into schools and churches. These are sanctuaries. There is no evidence of even the word school or church in any of these executive orders. I'm not quite sure where they get that from.

Starting point is 00:07:17 And the numbers are not that massive. No. They talk about mass immigrations. If you do the calculation, a homeowner was on one of the shows. I like homeman because he's so funny. Yeah, we're gonna arrest everybody. Kill everybody.

Starting point is 00:07:30 Tough guy. So they're doing like 300 to 500, let's say a day, and they're gonna do it for every day. Of course, everyone's all upset. Oh, every day, every day. That's 15,000 a month max. Yeah. Which is what, 100, it's less than 200,000 a year.

Starting point is 00:07:47 There's millions we're talking about here and they're going to get out, maybe get 200,000 out maybe? Well, but this is as was campaigned on, these are the criminal elements. There's no evidence of them going after anyone else except for the criminals at the moment, which I think was always the intent. And there's, you know, the people run around, oh, they're going, he's going to deport 11 million. I don't think so.

Starting point is 00:08:11 She can't at the numbers they're going, they, it would take them, well, if it did say 200,000 a year to get to a million, it would take 10 years. Come on. No, but, but at least they got something to yammer about. But at least they got something to yammer about. Yammer. Yammer. Yeah. Yammer about.

Starting point is 00:08:31 There has, well, there's a couple of things. This, you know, this is screwing with some business models out there. You know, so it's a real problem for some people that, uh, President Trump has stopped the amnesty. We got the troops at the border keeping everybody back. And here come the complainers and your no agenda show knows why. The announcement that the Trump administration will allow ICE to arrest immigrants in places like schools and churches.

Starting point is 00:09:00 No, I don't think that's true. We reached out to the Colorado Catholic Conference. Where do you all stand on that issue? We have not seen the 2025 memo or what concerns will be around that. We know there might be First Amendment concerns with enforcement and religious institutions. But right now there's not a lot of clarity. So for the Catholic Church, our bishops continue to maintain that we welcome the stranger as a tenant of our faith.

Starting point is 00:09:24 That was Brittany Vesely, the executive director of the Colorado Catholic Conference. Vesely went on to say that the bishops are concerned about community safety, including drugs coming across the US-Mexico border and unaccompanied minors facing sexual abuse. Now, earlier this week, I talked to Jeanette Vizgarra, who crossed that same border and lived in a church for three years while seeking asylum. She said as churches and schools figure out what's next, as an advocate, she's creating a safe space plan of her own. I have options for continue have some people

Starting point is 00:09:58 in security spaces. Vizguera says for safety reasons, she can't publicly say what those safe spaces are. So she kind of misnomer them. It is the Colorado Catholic Bishops Conference, part of the Catholic Charities. These guys do hundreds of millions of dollars a year in refugee resettlement programs. Yep. And so these are-

Starting point is 00:10:26 The huge money maker. Massive, it is their entire business model is refugees and asylum seekers. So now they're gonna come out and say, oh, well, she lived in a church for three, by the way, she's still here. She's not gone. She still lives in the church or somewhere else.

Starting point is 00:10:44 So it's, it's like, this is what it's come down to is now we're going to have to listen to all of this nonsense where it's just ruining your business model. There's that billion dollar company in Austin that President Obama himself sanctioned and opened. This is going to change something. And by the way, that's our billion dollars You know taxpayer billion dollars This is where you go yeah, man scam this is can rip off now Have you heard about the ship have you heard about the cute winter boots yet?

Starting point is 00:11:19 I've seen references to the cute winter boots And do you know I have not gotten in into any more details than that? So you're gonna inform me about the cute winter boots. I have not gotten into any more details than that, so you're gonna inform me about the cute winter boots. Yes, and I'm sorry that I'm encroaching on your territory of the TikToks because it is rampant on TikTok. You know, everyone out there that listens to this show knows that eventually you cave.

Starting point is 00:11:40 You always cave. Well, I had to because I kept getting people sending me this, look at these crazies talking about cute, cute winter boots. I'm like, I'm not interested in what they're doing on TikTok until I saw this guy. You know, I'm starting to see this cute winter boots thing going around and I started to pay attention to what this actually was. At first I was like, has to do with the migrants. I can see that, but I really wasn't paying attention. attention By the way the guys in his car, of course, that's that is your everybody's in their car It's your talk studio of choice. Just keep popping up and popping up

Starting point is 00:12:14 Then I started to realize that this is code being spoken by protesters the anti fa Yeah, and thigh fa The anti-FA, yeah, anti-FA is planning something. They are speaking in codes through this cute winter boots thing, how nice the winter boots are to have. They're talking about groups and organizations and organizing. Yeah, something big is about to happen with this cute winter boots thing. Look it up, get on here, go in that search bar, and start paying attention to what these people are talking

Starting point is 00:12:48 with the writing on the papers. Okay, so I did that. I went to the search bar, I checked it out, and then I, oh, I see. What do you wear cute winter boots for? You wear cute winter boots when there's ice outside. See, this is the- Oh, this is good. I'm glad you did this.

Starting point is 00:13:06 Yes, ice as in immigration enforcement ice. And cute winter boots is what you need to protect yourself against ice, which is code by these passive politic practicing nut jobs for guns. I'm seeing a lot of videos on cute winter boots and there's sort of two streams of content on this. There are boots that you can use in the ice and that's not something I know a ton about. The other stream of content in these videos is more about utilitarian boots and boots that maybe you never thought that you would ever buy in your life because that's just

Starting point is 00:13:42 not your thing. And now you're seeing given our environment, you know, all the things you're probably going to need to invest in just a good solid, you know, pair of winter boots. And that I can help you with because I came late to that sort of boot in my life. She's in her car as well, obviously. We acquired those sorts of boots about 10 years ago. A lot of you know that I used to be the head of marketing for the Outdoor Channel, which is a hunting and fishing television network.

Starting point is 00:14:10 I grew up in a family that didn't do a lot of that outdoor stuff. When I say a lot, not at all, right? So I go and work at the Outdoor Channel for eight years, and lo and behold, I get exposure to some of the biggest experts on cute winter boots in the country. And I opened my ears, closed my mouth and listened to them. And they taught me a lot, especially about, you know, what kind of a pair of cute winter boots would you buy

Starting point is 00:14:35 if you were a newcomer to, you know, to boots like that, right? Never thought you were going to buy boots like that. So got to learn a lot from them. So everyone's, oh oh yeah I got my cute winter boots like okay you're all you're all arming yourselves to protect people from ice. I love this fact that the Democrat you know that the whole argument for arming for the Second Amendment is exactly what they're doing

Starting point is 00:14:57 but they've always been in denial and of course you know these same people if they ever shot a gun they'd probably probably yell, eek, and drop it. Eek! And would fire again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So we do your three by three, we might as well get into it. Yeah, let's get these out of the way. Now it's time for a three by four. Hold on, we gotta jingo. Experiment by Jesse Dean.

Starting point is 00:15:22 Oh yeah. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC. The Neverending 3x3. There we go, it's not a 3x3, it's a 4x4 with 3x3 in the title. Oh my goodness, what are we gonna do? This is how we're gonna start with the 4x4 at the bonus clip, which is the CBC,

Starting point is 00:15:40 Canadian Broadcasting Company. And this is a, these are all clips on the immigration crackdown. Security video shown to a US news outlet shows what appears to be the tail end of the raid. US immigration and customs enforcement or ICE agents with a man apparently handcuffed after being apprehended at a seafood depot in Newark, New Jersey yesterday. The latest signal President Donald Trump's long-promised deportations of undocumented migrants in this country are underway.

Starting point is 00:16:09 People were fingerprinted. Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, a city that has pledged to protect migrants, says there was no warrant. None of these people were rapists or murderers or criminals. We believe that there were three people who they say were undocumented, that they detained, but they also detained folks that were in fact citizens of this country. One person showed their military veteran identification and was still questioned anyway. People are scared. Amy Torres is executive director of the Alliance for Immigrant Justice.

Starting point is 00:16:45 And what we learned from folks that stayed behind was that ICE walked in like it was their empire's own conquered land. They were heavily armed. There was no prior announcement. They were blocking off entrances and exits. They were scrambling up delivery ramps. They were banging down bathroom doors to make sure no one was hiding inside. Trump maintains the first raids will go after criminals, repeating that message today in North

Starting point is 00:17:11 Carolina. The murderers, these are people that have been as bad as you get, as bad as anybody you've seen. Now I have a question. This is interesting. As far back as I can recall as a young lad watching movies, even in my teens watching Cheech and Chong, but it was always kind of like INS. It was like, oh no, it's INS and the whole kitchen would desert, you know, everyone would be running away. Hasn't this been a thing in America? Like immigration going after? There's been, there's been a, not only a thing, even though it's not, you're right. INS, immigration naturalization services. The, uh, it was kind of a running gag.

Starting point is 00:17:54 Yeah. And I say way before even Cheech and Chong, where you'd, where they'd be, somebody would say, uh, you know, I'm talking about in the 60s and 70s, some say, hey, there's some immigration guys here. And then the whole crew would scatter. Scatter. Exactly. Exactly. I mean, it was always been a running gag and that gag disappeared from the, and I think everyone was shocked by it because that gag,

Starting point is 00:18:20 which was always part of the public domain, disappeared, I think, I guess, during the Obama administration. And all his youngins have been brought up never knowing this joke. The youngins. Yeah, the youngins. The youngins don't know their comedic history. We're full of it.

Starting point is 00:18:36 We're full of comedic history about rounding people up. Yeah. But I'm not so sure about the validity of that report because it's criminals. I've only seen criminals being taken in. Oh, these guys are, these local yokels think that they're still on the right side of history and they're showboating and they're making a big fuss and they're gonna get themselves in their titan a ringer after this is over with. Okay. Onward with the three by three. Well, let's see, we should probably go to CBS next.

Starting point is 00:19:10 At a U.S. Army airfield in El Paso, exclusive video obtained by CBS News shows shackled detainees boarding a military cargo plane, one of two C-17s to depart the southern border carrying migrants and landing in Guatemala Friday morning. Deportations going very well. We're getting the bad, hard criminals out. The White House calls it the official start of their long-promised mass deportation campaign, posting video of Marines operating at the southern border. This week, the Pentagon announced the deployment of 1,500 service members to assist U.S. Border Patrol. Across the country, immigration agents arrested 538 undocumented migrants

Starting point is 00:19:53 yesterday. They always leave out the criminal part, John. Have you noticed that? They don't say criminal, undocumented, illegal alien immigrants. That's always just undocumented. No, of course not. No, of course not. That tops the average of 312 arrests per day during the Biden administration. What? We're only doing 200 plus? That makes it even worse.

Starting point is 00:20:16 Wow. And it includes 373 alleged criminal detainees. In Newark, ICE agents raided a business without a warrant. We can't just let this happen and not say anything. Newark's mayor slammed the operation. We believe that there were three people who they say were undocumented that they detained, but they also detained folks that were in fact citizens of this country. And we've just learned there was another deportation flight, a military aircraft bound to Mexico

Starting point is 00:20:48 planned this week, but it was denied access to land. A US official tells CBS News that flight never took off. I don't know about that. I like the way they say they were detained. There were some guys, they weren't shipped out, but they were, you know, but they make it sound like these guys, the American citizens were shipped out when they were just detained by, by detained him as you rated the whole place.

Starting point is 00:21:12 Everybody had to stop and show their ID. You're, you're being detained, right? So you get, you get detained when you get pulled over by a cop for speeding. You're being detained. The funny thing is I love that report because it says you know well We're doing 300 a day. No one was complaining about that No, of course not that was because it was Democrats, okay I just want to make sure it's really lost it lost the plot well this is lost

Starting point is 00:21:37 They've never had it so here we go with ABC and now we're gonna get to the good ones Martha Radnitz for starters Now we're going to get to the good ones. Martha Radnitz for starters. Tonight for the first time, US military aircraft flying undocumented migrants out of the country as President Donald Trump launches his deportation campaign. They really, they all shared the script, didn't they? Undocumented migrants. Okay. And I think it was NPR who shared with the world that that was now their new style guide, right? We had the clip. Yeah, I think I'm talking you can't say anything, but yeah The White House releasing these pictures dozens of migrants in chains boarding C-17 aircraft

Starting point is 00:22:21 the flights landing in Guatemala carrying roughly 160 people, men and women. The deportation is going very well. Today, the Trump administration's new borders are Tom Homan telling me it's only the beginning, and he has a stark warning to anyone who's in the country illegally. So is this what we will see every single day ending in what the president has promised is millions and millions being deported? Yes. But you're going to see the numbers steadily increase, the number of arrests nationwide

Starting point is 00:22:53 as we open up the aperture. Right now it's considering public safety threats, national security threats. That's a smaller population. If you're in a country legally, you've got a problem. And that's why I'm hoping those who are in the country illegally who have not been ordered removed by the federal judge should leave. Hellman, it was very clear that those committing violent crimes will be deported first and acknowledges that the show of force, these strong warnings to all undocumented immigrants

Starting point is 00:23:19 are meant to send a message that they should self-deport since it would take a very long time and massive amounts of manpower and money to deport an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. Okay, okay. Yeah, this is the good stuff. 11 million. Yeah, 11 million. Now they're admitting there's that many. Yeah, all of a sudden.

Starting point is 00:23:45 11 million, we know the number. All right, so we go to the final one. This is Brian Roberts, the Comcast CEO's fabulous NBC Trump-Haitin network. Tonight, a dramatic escalation of President Trump's illegal immigration crackdown. The first of 1,500 extra troops touching down in El Paso, Texas, to support border security. And for the first time, migrants being deported, not on chartered flights like before, but on military aircraft.

Starting point is 00:24:15 Two flights landing this morning in Guatemala. We're getting the bad, hard criminals out. These are murderers. These are people that have been as bad as you get. After a record 10 million illegal border crossings over the past four years, ICE now ramping up roundups of undocumented immigrants, making 538 arrests yesterday across the country, doubling its daily average in September. Cities including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Atlanta.

Starting point is 00:24:42 In Newark, New Jersey, this surveillance video appears to show ICE agents making arrests. City officials and immigrant advocates say ICE agents raided this local business, arresting three undocumented immigrants and briefly detaining an American citizen, a military veteran, while they asked him for documentation. Do you plan to use city resources to impede ICE? We're not going to participate in what we think is unlawful. Newark's Democratic Mayor, Rous Baraka, telling us late today there were two more operations in his city, where more than a third of the population was born outside the U.S. Meantime, Gabe, you have some new reporting about Mexico's role in all this.

Starting point is 00:25:19 Yes, Lester, two U.S. defense officials tell NBC News that Mexico denied access to a US military deportation plane on Thursday. As we mentioned, two planes landed in Guatemala today. I saw the president also had a chat with Bukele from El Salvador. Had a nice talk, talked about the criminals. I had to play this additional clip here. This is that from El Jezira. And this is the Deportation Inc. complaints that this was never reported. I'm surprised that our people didn't report it this way too, but play this clip. The Brazilian government says it's outraged after dozens of migrants

Starting point is 00:26:02 deported by the US arrived in handcuffs. Brazil ordered US officials to immediately remove the restraints. The Justice Minister called it a flagrant disregard for the rights of Brazilian citizens. The flight carried around 80 men, women, and children. State officials distributed meals and checked on their well-being. So they sent the 80 guys, any of these flights, they're gonna cuff the guys because if they're the criminals, you don't want some criminals

Starting point is 00:26:28 who are roaming around the plane causing havoc. No, it's an outrage, it's an outrage. But so they sent these guys back to Brazil, which was not reported in any of our other media. They only had Guatemala. Guatemala, and so the Brazilian guys got bent out of shape about it. What's interesting is that France is cracking down on immigration.

Starting point is 00:26:50 Don't hear much about that. Here's how France 24 reports on their tightening of immigration. France is tightening its policies on undocumented migrants. Notice the same words. It's undocumented migrants. And these are probably not even criminals. France is tightening its policies on undocumented migrants. On Friday, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau circulated an official memo to departmental and regional officials,

Starting point is 00:27:19 which will restrict their capacity to grant them legal status. The new directive on exceptional admissions of residents will reverse guidelines implemented in 2012 by former Minister Manuel Valls, which gave prefectures a certain margin in dealing with the status of migrants on a case-by-case basis. If we are too open to offering possibilities to grant legal status to migrants, what will be compromised, which is already happening, is integration or assimilation. It's a numbers game. Retalliot set out a number of criteria for migrants seeking legal status.

Starting point is 00:27:50 Now listen to this. Most notably, his official memo increases the residency requirement in the country from five to seven years. Only workers in key sectors will be granted legal residency status and their mastery of the French language must be proved by a French diploma or a language certification. Undocumented immigrants who quote, pose a threat to the public order, who practice polygamy or are subject to an obligation to leave France, won't be granted legal status in the country. Polygamy?

Starting point is 00:28:20 If you practice polygamy? Yeah, this is targeting the Muslim population that practices polygamy. Yes. Imagine President Trump saying that. It would be outrageous. It would be outrageous. Everyone would be losing their crap over it. But France and the French are like, eh, we, eh, we.

Starting point is 00:28:44 All right, we're going to stay in Europe. I have some very, very short little snippets from Queen Ursula, who is very, very clear about everything going on in the world and Trump has just ruined everything and we got to do something. We got to work together. But it is important that we balance the imperative to safeguard our security against our opportunity to innovate and enhance our prosperity. In this spirit, we will need to work together to avoid a global race to the bottom because

Starting point is 00:29:23 it is in no one's interest to break the bonds of the global economy. Rather, we need to modernize the rules to sustain our ability to produce mutual gain for our citizens. We have to modernize the rules. She's trying to desperately hold on the globalism while it's crumbling underneath her feet. There was an interesting, I didn't, I don't think I clipped it, but the, uh, Tommy smothers, I mean, uh, Davis Hanson,

Starting point is 00:29:53 Tommy Smothers was on Victor Davis Hanson. You mean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. He had an interesting point to me. He said that the EU is bitching about the Davos thing. Yeah. And he said that 25 years ago, the entire part of Europe that became what's today's today's EU, uh, had the exact same GDP as the United States. And now after all these years of globalism, 25 years later, their GDP is about half of what ours is.

Starting point is 00:30:23 Is that really true? I didn't know that. I thought that about Nicole. I didn't know that. I thought that about Nicole. I didn't know that either when I'm listening to him. And he's not a guy who makes these kinds of mistakes. He's very, you know, he's a, he's a, uh, uh, bean counter at heart. So, and he says, and, and the, the salaries are 60% of ours. It just that this whole, this whole scheme is falling apart. And when she says race to the bottom, it makes some sense because that's what they're doing.

Starting point is 00:30:51 Their own race to the bottom. Yeah. So she's now going to explain, and this is the exact opposite. It's wonderful to see. We are drill baby drill, although oil baron Paul keeps telling me, bro, we're not drilling that, we're not drilling more. It's getting, he's now up to $20 million for R&D for each well that he drills up from 16 million. He says, we're not gonna be drilling a lot more.

Starting point is 00:31:23 But okay, that's our policy is drill baby drill in Europe. Here's Queen Ursula. Queen Ursula The last 25 years, Europe has relied on the rising tide of global trade to drive its growth. It has relied on cheap energy from Russia. Yeah was good and Europe has too often outsourced its own security But those days are gone. They're gone. They're gone. They're gone. You're screwed So she's not gonna outsource her security to us. That's what she's saying

Starting point is 00:32:01 These days are gone good for us good for us That's what she's saying. These days are gone. Which is good for us. Good for us. Now, of course, the days of cheap Russian energy are gone. You could bring them right back if you wanted to. Yeah, all you have to do is tell the Russians to go ahead. Do a deal.

Starting point is 00:32:16 No, no, no, but we have to explain this as climate change. The coming years will be vital well beyond Europe. All continents will have to speed up the transition towards net zero and deal with a growing burden of climate change. Its impact is impossible to ignore. Well the impact of what climate change or net zero? I think net zero that's impact will be impossible to ignore, but she's got solutions. Here's what we're going to do. We will have to invest in next generation clean energy technologies like fusion, enhanced

Starting point is 00:32:56 geothermal. Oh, please. I knew you were going to. Oh, man. Fusion. Here comes the old fusion. Fusion. Here comes the old fusion again. Pie in the sky!

Starting point is 00:33:07 Energy technologies like fusion, enhanced geothermal and solid state batteries. Solid state batteries? What is this nonsense? What's a solid state? What is she talking about? Lead acid? Okay, fusion, let's start with that. Let's start with fusion, yes.

Starting point is 00:33:21 That's bull crap. They can't do it. No one's been able to do this. And they can't. Of course, the real goal is cold fusion, where you don't have to even worry about the heat. But they can't seem to get that to work. So then this has been worked on forever.

Starting point is 00:33:34 And everyone knows it would be great if it ever worked. But they can't get it to work. It's just a money loser. And then, so I don't know what she's talking about. Battery technology is oldest from the 1800s. Nothing's really changed. They've only tweaked it. Well, let's talking about battery technology is oldest from the 1800s. Nothing's really changed They've only tweaked it. Well, let's look at that's not a loser. What are Who was the other one solid state batteries?

Starting point is 00:33:54 What are solid state batteries? That's either capacitors You know, they're all capacitor battery. Oh, wait, they're known as SS bees solid electrolyte for ionic conduction between the electrodes, as opposed to the liquid or gel polymer electrodes found in traditional batteries. Yeah. Okay. You know, I'm going to get email for you. You don't know, the Vorex all wrong. There's all kinds of...

Starting point is 00:34:23 Yeah, if it was any good, they'd already be implemented. So what is the, what was the second one? She had the Fusion, which is just bogus. Let's listen. Energy technologies, like Fusion, enhanced geothermal. Enhanced geothermal. Enhanced geothermal. Okay, so that, you know, Iceland is largely a geothermal hotspot,

Starting point is 00:34:43 and the whole country is run by the volcano they're sitting on top of. What is enhanced? I guess you have to drill a little deeper. I don't know, you drill a deep hole until you hit the molten rock in the middle of the earth and you... I have no idea how you enhance it. You either got it or you don't.

Starting point is 00:35:01 And Europe doesn't have that. Not yet, they need to invest. Europe hasn't got oil. They haven't got the coal has been dug out. I mean England. England has it. England has a lot of coal. But the main part of Europe has very little. I mean, there's some fracking opportunities and they have a lot of minerals and stuff. They need this better to get their stuff from outside. They're nuts. And then when they do have something like, uh, standard nuclear, like the Germans have, and then they shut it down, that's nuts.

Starting point is 00:35:31 These people are out of control. Yeah. They're just trying to, I think they want to get themselves into another, you know, uh, war between the states. I didn't clip it, but I watched President Trump's speech to the Davos crowd and the question-and-answer session was quite entertaining, quite good. And he said, hey, if you build a factory plant here, we'll let you put your, you won't have to be on the grid, you can build your power plant right

Starting point is 00:36:01 next to your factory, you can use gas, beautiful cheap gas. And if you want, if you need a backup, you can use our Clean Coal. Beautiful Clean Coal. I didn't hear that. I thought I heard the whole thing, but I guess I missed that. Yeah, it was during, it might have been during Q&A.

Starting point is 00:36:18 Clean Coal. Well, we have Clean Coal. Yeah, we do have, we have anthracite. It's a very clean coal. Clean Coal is beautiful. And then if you have a right scrubbing mechanisms, the things that can clean out the effluent, We have clean coal. Yeah, we do have clean coal. We have anthracite. It's a very clean coal. Clean coal is beautiful. And then if you have it right, scrubbing mechanisms, the things that can clean out the effluent, it's dynamite.

Starting point is 00:36:30 Yeah. So, I mean, but think about that versus all this enhanced germo, germo, enhanced germothermics and cold and fusion and what else is here? And the solid-state batteries. Solid-state batteries. the solid-state batteries and solid-state batteries we must all and let's start with this one before you get your notes from the from the angry producers that we have out there listening to this show so they're picking what we have to say yeah why are

Starting point is 00:36:57 what exactly why are our solid-state batteries any better than any other battery if they were any, they'd be in the Tesla's today, I'm sure. Wouldn't you think? I would totally think. And solid-state batteries, we must also mobilize more private capital to modernize our electricity grids and storage infrastructure. Yeah, we need money. They can't do that. They don't know how to do that part. And then she did something very interesting because she dropped it, which means it's in play. Uh, you know, of course you've got AI.

Starting point is 00:37:30 Everyone's got to have some AI that I have some AI and she dropped the Q word from AI to clean tech from quantum to space. To the South China sea. The race is on. Yeah, baby. This brings me to the news about AI is, oh, everyone's talking about it now. Oh, boy. They're going to have to crank up the quantum because they want that.

Starting point is 00:37:58 Yeah, we need some pie in the sky thing that that can suck up all the money that's floating out there is It's like $150 billion. And the US markets alone just ready to invest in something stupid like quantum because the AI game appears to be over. I go to CNBC. First, we were reeling from the success of China's AI upstart DeepSeek. Now TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has just entered the AI race in a big way, escalating competition between the US and China. Deirdre Bosa has more in today's Tech Check. Deirdre?

Starting point is 00:38:31 Kelly, I feel a little bit like a broken record this week, but the momentum from Chinese AI players has been unrelenting. ByteDance, as you mentioned, now claims that its model, DuoBao 1.5 Pro, outperforms OpenAI's latest reasoning model products. And just days before you mentioned this, an open source model out of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek was released that rivals OpenAI's O1 on several third party performance benchmarks. I love it. But those two have something else besides performance in common that makes it starkly

Starting point is 00:39:01 different than our American ones, and that is cost. They were many times cheaper to build and are many times cheaper to access. So developers are really interested in these models. Big American players, too, at Davos are taking note. Each of them, extremely influential CEOs working in AI, they mentioned DeepSeek by name. And so we've been digging into this lab that's very mysterious. And also the breakthroughs that has everyone talking. We'll be publishing our long form tech check take tomorrow morning,

Starting point is 00:39:32 diving into what it all means. So don't miss that, Kelly. So diving into what it all means. What is the big difference? What is the real advantage? What is really happening? So going back to what TikTok is up to, what's most significant about it, do you think? The cost. I mean, these models coming out of China are just built at a fraction of the price. When you think about OpenAI that's spending $5 billion a year burning through billions of dollars a year, these models, the DeepSeq one, for example, they say they built it for

Starting point is 00:40:01 less than $6 million. ByteDance as well. You know, it shows that it was built and you can access it at much, much lower prices. So this really turns on sort of this truth that we have thought about generative AI for the last few years, that you need hundreds of millions of dollars to develop bigger and better models. What the Chinese labs and companies are doing is they're going straight to the frontier. They're building with sort of infrastructure and outputs that are already out there, built

Starting point is 00:40:29 in many cases by American companies and startups, and they're improving on it. They're innovating on it and producing models that are just as good in some cases at a fraction of the cost. So maybe we don't need to buy the nuclear stocks after all. Maybe we don't need a million GPUs down in Abilene. That's a good question. Interesting. And it does raise a lot of questions even about Project Stargate, right?

Starting point is 00:40:52 What kind of infrastructure are we building here? Is it for pre-training like we've had for the last two years or is it for reasoning and inference which is a different cost proposition? Exactly. You almost wonder if that's why Microsoft is evolving its partnership with OpenAI. Yeah, Microsoft may be the last to laugh in this. They're throwing out nothing.

Starting point is 00:41:11 There's no proof of anything that they said. No, the models. It's all black. Oh, we did. It's like you and I, we come up with an AI model that's one-tenth the cost. It's one-tenth the cost, Adam. We've got it at one-tenth the cost. Tell CNBC, oh, they've got it at one-tenth the cost. That's one-tenth the cost. Adam, we've got it at one-tenth the cost. Tell CNBC

Starting point is 00:41:25 Oh, they've got it at one-tenth the cost. You said it. It doesn't mean you did it. The tests have actually been done. The models have already been released. People are testing it and they're seeing that the training goes much faster at a lower cost. Yes, because they're doing, they're doing, there's a bunch of tricks that they're up to. Oh fine, alright, please, please. They're up to tricks A and B, they can't get the Nvidia chips, so they've got to come up with some way of doing this without going broke. This is bull crap. Sam Altman on the phone for you. Thanks John, thanks. You keep my stocks going, This is good. Thank you very much. Regardless, I'm keeping my eye on it. I see the pivot to quantum coming. They're going to start talking about it.

Starting point is 00:42:14 That's the problem right there. What do you mean? You can't pivot to quantum because quantum is bull crap. Yes, of course it's bull crap. So was pets.com at the time. Yes, this is the bubble. This is the bubble. The pivot to quantum is coming. It doesn't matter.

Starting point is 00:42:32 Let's see what this means to consumers down on the ground, you and me in the home. What does all this incredible investment AI result in? For that, we only have to go to CES 2025, which you used to cover. I've been to it. I don't think either of us has been in over a decade or longer. Since COVID, that's for sure. Or longer. Let's get a report from KTLA's Rich on Tech.

Starting point is 00:42:58 CES 2025, where the tech world descends upon Las Vegas. This year, over 4,000 exhibitors and over 130,000 attendees expected. Everything must be there, all the good stuff, all the wonderful enhancements and inventions. To check out innovations in AI, smart home, cars, and of course, TVs. But big screens are also getting more personal, thanks to augmented reality glasses like the X-Real

Starting point is 00:43:25 One. They are connected to my phone. Oh, wow. Plug them into your phone or computer and suddenly I can see my phone screen now hovering in space. Nice. I think people want to stop the clip. I saw this technology.

Starting point is 00:43:41 Oh, let's see. Probably in the 80s. You could see your phone screen hovering in space from your StarTAC. Well you saw, no these glasses that could do this. It was like, and by the way, really hard on the eyes. You don't notice it at first. Hard on the eyes by the way to look at the person

Starting point is 00:44:01 wearing them, it's like you're wearing like big jam pot bottoms. It's bad, by the way, to look at the person wearing them. It's like you're wearing like big jam pot bottoms. It's bad every which way. I can see my phone screen now hovering in space. Mobility. I think people want to take their... Hold on a second. Why don't you just use the phone?

Starting point is 00:44:17 You've got your phone in your hand and now you can see the phone screen hovering in space? Yes. What's the point? You got the phone in your hand. What do you phone screen hovering in space? Yes. What's the point? You got the phone in your hand. What do you need it hovering in space for? So you can go, oh wow. I mean.

Starting point is 00:44:33 Phones in space. Hovering in space. Mobility. I think people want to take their entertainment, their work on the go. On the go. On the go. On the go, John. It's on the go. On the go, on the go, on the go John. It's on the go.

Starting point is 00:44:47 Which it already is, but now it's on your head. It's got to be an improvement. Entertainment their work on the go. Samsung teaming up with the Museum of Modern Art to provide high quality artwork to its frame TVs. No, haven't seen that before. Oh, I've never heard of such a thing. Which look like a print when not in use.

Starting point is 00:45:06 Samsung promoting a vision of AI for all. You're going to be able to just live your life and let the technology take care of that backend work for you. All our backend work, they're going to do the spreadsheet for us. Fire Jay. It's done. It's done. The technology is going to do the backend work for us. It's going to just do it for you. So you feel empowered by that technology rather than overwhelmed. And we'll feel empowered. LG wants AI to be more personal for users.

Starting point is 00:45:32 We're looking at it as affectionate intelligence. And affectionate intelligence means if we're affectionate, we care. So I think whenever you start changing the name of a new technology from artificial to affectionate, I think they you start changing the name of a new technology from artificial to affectionate, I think they're in trouble. ...position and entrepreneur Will.i.am on hand to talk about his new LG X-Pool speakers. He's got speakers with AI. Which are tuned for balance and warm sound.

Starting point is 00:45:57 They also have an AI DJ to mix personalized music. No, brother. ...proves once again that this is the must-see show for any tech lover. No, I don't think so. That is not the tech lover in me. Oh boy. I did run across, just to wrap this segment up, I ran across a very interesting Freakonomics episode with computer scientist Ben Zhao. He's an AI skeptic, but he has some tips. This is an early tip of the day for artists out there, how to help bring AI to its knees to create more AI slop with two tools, which he will mention by name. So Zhao's solution was to poison the system that was causing this trouble. Poison is sort of a technical term in the research community. Basically it means

Starting point is 00:46:55 manipulating training data in such a way to get AI models to do something perhaps unexpected, perhaps more to your goals than the original trainers intended to. They came up with two poisoning tools, one called Glaze, the other Nightshade. Glaze is all about making it harder to target and mimic individual artists. Nightshade is a little bit more far-reaching. Its goal is primarily to make training on internet scrape data more expensive than it is now. Perhaps more expensive than actually licensing

Starting point is 00:47:31 legitimate data, which ultimately is our hope that this would push some of these AI companies to seek out legitimate licensing deals with artists so that they can properly be compensated. Glaze and nightshade. And so to the human eye, there's no difference, but it does something with the image itself, and it messes up the AI. AI poisoning. Oh, this is very intricate.

Starting point is 00:47:57 This sounds like bull crap. Everything's bull crap to you. It's not. Today's theme? Bull crap. No, it's proven to work. It makes it very, what I go to one of these systems and I download something and tell it to make

Starting point is 00:48:12 it look like a Monet and it gives me some, some product. What does these other things got to do with it? So that if you put your artwork artwork out there, when the AI goes to ingest that and steal your soul, it will either not be able to ingest it. Okay. I got my artwork just posted someplace. How does glaze fit into the picture? Do I have to put my artwork through glaze and then post it that way?

Starting point is 00:48:36 Yes, correct. So it's like a water marking system. No, it's not. It's, it's much. No, but it's the same idea. You, you, you embed code, the point into the, into the artwork and that embedded code is like, it's just, I don't see the district that the watermark is better watermark is used for identification, but in this case it's used to screw up the AI model. And so everyone has to do that. How does this change?

Starting point is 00:49:04 Picasso is not going to do that. How does this change? Picasso's not going to do that. He's dead. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm sorry I even brought it up with you, Boomer. No, I'm glad you brought it up because it just shows you the futility of trying to put a stop to it with these cheap tricks. It's going to... I'm all for poisoning AI. I just like how it sounds. I like the whole idea. I like being a radical. You're nuts. Poison the AI. Yes, I'm all for poisoning the AI. Why?

Starting point is 00:49:33 Because I can't take the emails anymore. What's the emails telling you? Oh, the artists. The artists. They're crying. Crying. I don't get any of these emails I think you're imagining this you must be dreaming it so not only is everything I play wrong and stupid and not true there's a bull crap now I'm lying you

Starting point is 00:49:55 just have to put up with it can you tell donations were low everybody John is in one of those mood Tina even said to me, Oh, John will be something to deal with today. I'm like, yeah, yeah, you're right. I heard her predictive programming. AI! AI, yeah. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. AI. here. Why do I hate AI so much? I mean why? I don't like it. I think it's dumb. I think it's expensive, stupid, and it just does images and sound and we have an end-of-show mix which is it's okay done by AI but it's not you know I did a test because one of the artists was like okay which artist was this?

Starting point is 00:50:45 I'm not gonna tell you that, no, no, no, that's, it's between me and the artist. And the artist says to me, you know, this sucks and blah, blah, blah. And I say, you know, it's a tool, and it still works for now until we poison it, but it's a tool. And there's no way that AI can create an image by itself without the

Starting point is 00:51:09 soul of the artist going into it. Now that may go in the form of a prompt. I mean, when we got graphics generation programs and... Actually I want to stop you because JC, my son who's into this stuff, he has an interest. He, he, he remarks pretty much the same way you just did, which is it can't just dream something up and it can't actually create, which means it's not really AI. There's no,

Starting point is 00:51:40 there's no intelligence involved. So then, so you're complaining about just a robotic function. No, no, I'm,'m with you i'm with jc what i'm saying to the artist is you're wrong You are wrong because the artist the artist and I had an example which I have the output for I said I took the entire transcript of episode 1732 So the ai had the entire show They know what we talked about they know what we laughed about They knew all all the things of all the topics and everything the AI had it all. It by the way, go on. I don't know what the pronoun is of is a AI

Starting point is 00:52:22 I don't know what the pronoun is. It. It. It. It. And I said, in fact, if you go to crapart.noagendanotes.com. Crap art? Yes, crap art. This is one of your new crap art.

Starting point is 00:52:38 Crap art. Go to it. It's HTTP, by the way, not HTTPS. And I said, this is the prompt given to ChatGPT using this transcript of the No Agenda podcast, and there's the link, create an image that displays in a humorous, topical way something that will grab… Oh, this is interesting what you did. Let me tell you why.

Starting point is 00:52:57 Let me finish the sentence. Create an image that displays in a humorous, topical way something that will grab people's attention and entice them to listen to the episode. And then the result came back, and I will read it first. Here's the humorous and attention-grabbing illustration inspired by the No Agenda podcast episode 1732. It combines satire, bold visuals, and a playful approach to the themes mentioned in the episode. Let me know if you need any adjustments.

Starting point is 00:53:23 Now you tell me, would we choose that art? Oh, I have to go look at it. Yeah, I can't believe everyone's looking at it. But me. But you. Crap AI? No, crapart.noagendanotes.com. Oh, brother, crap art.

Starting point is 00:53:42 Crap art. Dot no agenda notes dot com dot com hey I cannot do it are soon here's the artwork this is the you're talking about the army of this thing that's what it produced based on the entire knowledge of the entire episode. Well, you made your point. Well, just tell people what, would we ever choose? This is a disaster. Thank you. A disaster because there is no intelligence. There's no humor. There's no soul. Well, that's, that's the interesting thing.

Starting point is 00:54:21 That's what I was going to say before you had to finish the sentence, which was when you give, when you give professional spot artists, the guys who do these illustrations for newspapers and magazines and every place in between, we used to do this in PC magazine. Mac user used to always have a piece of spot art for my column that was in the back of the, I made a lot of friends with these artists because I always begged them to get the originals and I ended up with a lot of art. And they'd read the article and then something that would dawn on them that would be a cute illustration and that's what a spot artist is good at. You'd read the article and then you say, you know, I think this would be, and they draw some

Starting point is 00:55:01 piece, little art piece that somehow reflected the article. Very difficult to do. In this instance, what you've done is try to recreate that system, which is the way humans operate, and the AI failed. Miserably. Bigly. Miserably. Bigly.

Starting point is 00:55:22 Yes. I mean, just look at it. It's a complete disaster, as a matter of fact. It's a disaster, exactly. So people should go to this website that you have that you can rewind, I'm not gonna do it again. No, but so my point is that when I asked it, I didn't say make it like this, do it like that.

Starting point is 00:55:41 That comes from the human soul. No, you just had to do an original piece of art. Yeah, based upon what it heard in the episode. So a human can listen to our episode or could even read through the transcript and could go, oh, I know what I'm going to do. And they come up with ideas. That's intelligence. That's the human psyche. That is, that's, it's in your DNA. That's the kind of stuff that AI cannot do. So get to it, hop to it before it's all poisoned. You can still make cool stuff. So I'm, I'm on your side. So you were assuaging the artist. This part was part of your long-term scheme to get the

Starting point is 00:56:19 artist to calm down and just use the tool until it craps out. Correct. Yeah, OK. I can't call you out on that. No. Oh, finally. We got one. A little bit better material. 56 minutes in.

Starting point is 00:56:33 I've got one thing you agree with. Well, then let me spin you around, and I'll be done for a moment. As I predicted, or as I said, what would needed to happen was in order for crypto to take off in the United States, the SEC had to change their SAB 121 regulation and they did. They rescinded SAB 121 now permitting banks to custody crypto, specifically Bitcoin, and did not be a liability on their balance sheet. So they can hold it now.

Starting point is 00:57:08 They can be an asset holder for customers. And this is all in part thanks to the new crypto czar, crypto and AI czar from the All In podcast. A podcaster is a crypto czar in the administration, David Sachs. And I've been waiting to figure out what they're going to do with stablecoin. And I think I have it figured out. So this executive order bans agencies from developing a central bank digital currency. Why is that?

Starting point is 00:57:38 Well, CBDCs are a real threat to freedom and liberty. What you're talking about there is moving to a central bank digital currency that would be run out of Washington by the Fed and would basically gradually replace cash and catalog everybody's transactions. And it could lead to new laws and dictates about how people spend their money. So I think people are very concerned that that could be an Orwellian path to go down. No one wants to go down that path. And I think we can create stable coins, basically digital dollars, without doing that. So the executive order is really clear.

Starting point is 00:58:11 We want to create a regulatory framework for stable coins, but we don't want to go down the path of CBDCs. But a digital currency for a government could be competition to Bitcoin. Did that play into that decision? Well, I mean, any government can create a stable coin, but I think the US dollar is already the world's reserve currency. So I'm not really worried about competition there. I just want to extend, or I believe that what we should be doing is extending the dollar's

Starting point is 00:58:35 dominance into digital areas, extend it online. And I think that could actually create trillions of dollars of demand for US treasuries. It could be really useful to us in basically supporting our debt and also bringing down long-term interest rates. So I don't know about long-term interest rates and debt, but I figured it out. The regulations or the way the executive order reads is anybody can start a company and create stablecoin,

Starting point is 00:59:02 which is typically a stablecoin, I don't know of any others, is pegged to the dollar one to one. So here's how it works. You buy a U S treasury, which is debt. And you, let's just say you buy $1 treasury doesn't exist, but a $1 treasury. So you've spent your dollar, you now hold the treasury. And because you have that $1 treasury, you can create a one dollar stable coin you get your dollar back his genius then flood the flood of flood the world with American dollars in the form of

Starting point is 00:59:36 stable coins this will be interesting because it will result in the biggest depression we've ever seen but this we'll see how that works out. It might. It might. I'm not going to argue with you on that. But now I understand what they're doing. It's like, oh... Well, they gotta do something about this debt. Well, yeah. At this point, they can't even do the trillion dollar coin

Starting point is 00:59:58 because they need to make 30 of them. The 37 trillion of them. 37 coins. It's like, wait a minute. I just thought, wow, that is an amazing trick. Well, we'll see how it goes. Yeah. I like, I mean, you gotta do something. So the might as well give this a shot. Yeah. All right. Well, keep our eyes on it. And of course you could, um,

Starting point is 01:00:20 cause Tether, the biggest stable coin holder, which I think they're the ones that are in cahoots with, who's the guy, Bacanter Fitzgerald, I believe that they're also using Bitcoin to back their stablecoin, which can't be a one-for-one. They have to do it like 50% or something for the fluctuation. But we'll see. We'll see. But the stablecoin is how the American dollar is going to just flood the world. Everyone's going to be using it. And that's what Trump has always wanted. He always wants to keep the dollar, it's just it'll be the stablecoin.

Starting point is 01:00:57 Four more years, baby, then we're out, you and me, and we're done. There'll be nothing left to talk about. There'll be nothing left to talk about. There'll be nothing left to talk about. There'll be nothing left. All right, you're up. What you got? Okay.

Starting point is 01:01:12 Well, we got a bunch of stuff, foreign stuff. We also talk about Hegseth because it got through. Yeah, let's do Hegseth. Well, let's do it. Let's do the rundown from NPR for starters. And this is called, this is three clips called Trump R Trump run down firing Hegseth NPR Okay, Pete Hegseth was confirmed as Secretary of Defense last night There's a squeaker of a vote you're part of a lightning round that was the first week

Starting point is 01:01:34 I love it the squeaker of a vote squeaker the speaker You actually have his voice down pretty well. Thank you the new Trump administration He tired of changes sweeping the countrylight is pouring over the entire world. So this is January 6th. These are the hostages. Approximately 1,500 for a pardon. Yes. Full pardon.

Starting point is 01:01:58 I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good. process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good. That's great. President Trump wielded his sharpie to sign cards and commutations for supporters who participated in the riot at the US Capitol four years ago and a profusion of executive orders declared in...

Starting point is 01:02:18 Profusion? Hold on. What is a profusion? What is a profusion? Profusion. Bunch. A bunch? Why doesn't it just say a bunch? Why doesn't it? What is a profusion? What is a profusion? Profusion. Profusion. Bunch. Bunch.

Starting point is 01:02:26 Why does it just say a bunch? You know, NPR, you've got a profusion is a good word. Riot at the U.S. Capitol four years ago and a profusion of executive orders declared a national emergency on the... No wonder they have no listeners. They don't understand what they're saying. Southern border pledged to end birthright citizenship. And last night, according to a number of media sources, fired at least a dozen inspector generals of major federal agencies. Hold on.

Starting point is 01:02:51 One of our producers made an excellent point. They're all saying inspector generals. It's inspectors general. I thought that was a very astute, make it sound like the generals. These guys are NPR says 12, the Washington, I think it was the Washington Post said 15, but there's actually 17. Nobody gets these numbers right. I mean, how hard can it be?

Starting point is 01:03:17 It's inspectors general, not inspector generals. According to a number of media sources fired at at least a dozen Inspector Generals of major federal agencies. If you're going to say profusion, you should at least say Inspector General. And here's Ron Elvin joins us. Ron, thanks for being with us. Good to be with you, Scott. What do we know about last night's firings?

Starting point is 01:03:37 The Inspector General position is a kind of in-house watchdog in federal agencies. In-house but independent. It's been a source of reform and oversight, but also a source of frustration because of their independence and uncertainty as to whom they answer to. Trump sent firing notices to a dozen of these last night, some of whom are people he himself appointed

Starting point is 01:03:58 in his first term. And it's unclear what the legal effect of this will be. As the law says, Congress has to get 30 days notice in advance and obviously that didn't happen. Well how do you know? How do you know he didn't give 30 days notice? We don't know. That's what everyone says.

Starting point is 01:04:14 Inspector Gadget, you're fired. Done. So, okay, I'm over with you. I can't do anything. Number two. Number two. What? Number two.

Starting point is 01:04:22 Number two. Yeah. Vice President Vance had to cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary last night. Republican senators, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted no. So did Mitch McConnell, former Republican leader. What's the significance? Sure.

Starting point is 01:04:37 Mitch McConnell. Murkowski and Collins were expected, and there were plenty of reasons for relatively centrist Republicans to be unhappy with Hegseth. His personal problems, of course, but also his views on women and opposition to diversity in general in the Defense Department and the Army and maybe and so on. But McConnell was a surprise. He is no longer the party leader in the Republican Party in the Senate. He is serving out his last term as a regular member.

Starting point is 01:05:01 So in that role, he can to some degree be his own man. And last night we saw that included the desire to resist pressure from Trump when he thought Trump had made a bad choice. What do you think we're seeing over these last few days? We didn't call it Trump 2 or Trump 2.0. It's more like Trump 1, more like Trump being the president that he wanted to be all along. Now, eight years ago, Trump came to Washington willing to listen to people who wanted to help him, people who were part of the power structure in the Congress or in the military

Starting point is 01:05:34 or within the power structure of the Republican Party itself. He allowed himself to be restrained by some of his cabinet members and by his first two chiefs of staff. It now seems that he very much regretted that restraint and things are going to be quite different this time around. Well, then it's not Trump won if it's going to be different. Collins and Murkowski. Collins and Murkowski. Collins is the worst. She's the only Republican who voted for Xavier Becerra,

Starting point is 01:06:07 that guy who runs HHS who's got no experience whatsoever. He's worse than, if you're going to compare him to Kennedy, for example. And she's the one Republican who voted for him. Why? Yeah, I don't know. Every Republican said, no, this guy's no good. No, no, I'm going to vote for her. She had a stroke some years ago. I think it really, this guy's no good. No, no, I'm going to vote for her. She had a stroke some years ago. I think it really, she's addled. Oh, Mikowski or Collins.

Starting point is 01:06:29 Collins? Collins, yeah. That's why she talks so funny. But Mitch McConnell's got something. He's got some neurological disorder that's really, did you see the latest clip of him? He's got brain freeze. He just stops.

Starting point is 01:06:43 Yeah, he's got something wrong with him. He's a candidate for NeuroLink. But he's the one who said he's an apologist for China. He voted against Heg Setska. He's married to a Chinese lady. He's married to a Chinese family. I think she's a Chinese national too. I know who this was. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:06:58 TikTok. TikTok lady. He's... So he's no good. He's no good. And neither is Collins. I don't know what Murkowski's no good. He's no good. I don't know what Murkowski's problem is.

Starting point is 01:07:08 Well, just think of the name Murkowski. I can't even say Murkowski. You're a problem. So are they going to be problems with everybody, do you think? Yep. Oh, yeah. Interesting. Okay.

Starting point is 01:07:20 Final clip? Yeah. The idea seems to be to issue his challenge, not just to his rivals or critics, but to the entire federal establishment. And I think he would like that description. The main thing, he feels very empowered, no more worries about reelection, so he can be the kind of president he always wanted to be. Try and review some of those items, beginning with the January 6th pardons and commutations.

Starting point is 01:07:45 This move may have been the biggest surprise of the week. And the one thing that put the public... Really? Oh, was it Shirella's biggest surprise? Really? No, everyone knew he was going to do this. Risk. Vice President Vance had said he supported pardons for nonviolent protesters, but not

Starting point is 01:07:59 for those who were violent and especially not those who beat on the police. But then Trump pardoned almost all of those charged, including the organizers, including the ringleaders, including the most violent. And how do you assess the executive orders we've seen? They run the gamut from pure fantasy to cold reality. Deportations are real, they have begun. But Trump's suggestion that he could really eliminate birthright citizenship with a wave of his black sharp He was shot down before the week was over

Starting point is 01:08:28 Federal judge in Seattle who was appointed by Ronald Reagan four decades ago called it a legal absurdity and clearly I don't know because it was He was appointed by Ronald Reagan and the old coot Eliminate birthright citizenship with a wave of his black sharp He was shot down before the week was over. Federal judge in Seattle who was appointed by Ronald Reagan four decades ago called it a legal absurdity and clearly unconstitutional. Does President Trump really want to get rid of FEMA? You know, you can always get cheers at a rally by promising to get rid of a federal agency

Starting point is 01:09:01 and Trump was not saying the federal government would never provide any money, but just that it wouldn't be up to FEMA. He said the agency got in the way. Yeah, which is not even, this thinking is not even that crazy. But before we get to that, I want to stick with Hegseth, because I got Elizabeth Warren here with some choice words for our new secretary of defense. Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host who Trump nominated to lead the Department of Defense faces a Senate confirmation vote later tonight. That vote will occur amid Hegseth's own admission that he made a $50,000 payment to the woman

Starting point is 01:09:39 who accused him of sexual assault in 2017. The revelation was one of the written answers that Hegseth provided to Senator Elizabeth Warren in response to additional questions that Warren posed to Hegseth as part of the vetting process. Senator Warren also had much to say about these troubling allegations involving Hegseth's drinking habits. Here we go. The kind of drunk that you take work folks to a strip club and so drunk then that you

Starting point is 01:10:09 try to get up on stage and dance with the strippers, the kind of drunk that stopped the Uber because you're going to vomit drunk. Look, I understand there are people who have alcohol problems, but we cannot trust the safety of our country to someone who has demonstrated repeatedly using very bad judgment with alcohol and doing it in ways that truly have incapacitated him. Wow. Well that reminds me of the smear I have the clips here that they, as NPR tried to pull this is a lot a week ago. This is Hegseth NBX smear.

Starting point is 01:10:54 Is NBX, is that NPR? Is that, is that like cute winter boots? Probably, it's hard to say. So when I'm typing away. Cute winter boots, NBX. From now on NPR is known as MBX on the show Nbx MBX here we go the president's nominee for secretary of defense is once again facing allegations of alcohol abuse and misconduct Yeah, Pete Hexeth endured a round of questions about his past as well as his qualifications and his nominations

Starting point is 01:11:22 Made it out of a Senate committee on a party line vote. The full Senate has yet to vote and now his former sister-in-law has added her own views. She submitted an affidavit to senators saying Hegseth caused his ex-wife to fear for her safety. Unsurprisingly, the affidavit is now public. NPR congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh is among reporters who obtained copies. Deirdre, good morning. Good morning, Steve. Okay, so what in this document adds to what was already known? This is an on the record sign sworn statement from Hegseth's former sister-in-law.

Starting point is 01:11:53 As you noted, Danielle Hegseth, she was married to his brother, Nathaniel. And she states that she was asked to provide the statement by the top Democrat on the panel, Jack Reed. Senator Reed told me last night he made the request for the details because he didn't think the FBI background check on Hegseth was adequate. Danielle Hegseth says in her personal opinion, Pete Hegseth is, quote, unfit for the job. She says her former sister-in-law, Samantha, Hegseth's second wife who he divorced, feared for her personal safety during their marriage.

Starting point is 01:12:24 She often hid in a closet. She said Samantha had a plan about texting her a safe word or code word that meant she wanted someone to fly to Minnesota to help her. Danielle Hegseth also said she personally witnessed Hegseth intoxicated, yelling in her face. She told the FBI that Hegseth abused alcohol numerous times over the years to the point of actually passing out during a holiday gathering. Well, what does Hegseth abused alcohol numerous times over the years to the point of actually passing out during a holiday gathering. Well, what does Hegseth say about all that? Well, MPI reached out to his attorney, Tim Parlatori.

Starting point is 01:12:52 He has not responded. But Parlatori told NBC, which first reported on this affidavit, that Samantha Hegseth, this ex-wife, never alleged any abuse and actually signed court documents acknowledging there was no abuse and she affirmed that as part of Hegseth's background check. I see a book deal coming. I see a book deal. So this one, let's play this part too and then I can tell you some other details. He maintained, parlatory, that Danielle was, quote, an anti-Trump far-left Democrat who was

Starting point is 01:13:23 divorced from Hegseth's brother and never got along with the family. He said she has an ax to grind. In Samantha Hegseth's case, she told NBC in a statement there was no physical abuse. She wasn't going to comment on her marriage and she didn't have representatives speaking on her behalf. It's worth noting that during the public confirmation hearing, Pete Hegseth was pressed about previous allegations about excessive drinking and appropriate behavior, which he denied.

Starting point is 01:13:48 In a broad sense, said they were anonymous allegations and so forth. I guess the key question here involves Republican senators. How are they responding to this? You know, they're standing behind them. I spoke with several last night after this affidavit became public. Most said they hadn't read the document, but they questioned the timing, the motivation. Hegseth's nomination is on track for a full Senate vote later this week or over the weekend at the latest. I talked to Armed Services Chairman Roger Wicker. He told reporters he had grave doubts about Danielle Hegseth's account in the

Starting point is 01:14:21 affidavit, but he also admitted he hadn't read it. He said he was planning to review it, but he dismissed it as political. So far, no Senate Republican has publicly said they're going to oppose Pete Heges nomination with the 53 seat majority. He can lose three Republican votes and still get confirmed. He's not likely to get any support from Democrats, but he's not going to need them. Right now, he has the votes. All right. So now you're going to smear this woman.

Starting point is 01:14:45 So here's the thing. Why is this report even? This is a smear report on the part of NPR, just to throw these details out there about this crazy Danielle girl who's just nuts, obviously. And this is the same, you know, kind of bull crap where somebody reached out to her from the Democrat party saying, can you give us some dirt? Here's something you want. Why don't you sign this? Yeah, like the Booth Lady. Yeah, exactly. And it's just this kind of thing should, to report on this as though there's even any hint that is possibly legit is irresponsible. And NPR does this constantly. Hold on, hold on. We've cracked the code. It wasn't NPR. NBX is clearly NBC. If you look at the keyboard.

Starting point is 01:15:36 Well, okay. This is an NPR report about the NBC report. Ah, okay. I'm with you. I'm with you. Got it. Because those are the two NPR people. I'm still going to call NPR NBX. They got the information from NBC and turned it into a smear. Got it. And NBC, of course, is another one that's just another bad actor that they would be the ones to do this to begin with.

Starting point is 01:16:01 Well, I'm glad you brought that up because I have, what do I have here? I have NBC. I have an NBC report from your girl. Yummy. Oh my God, I saw this. I wish I had clipped it. I got it. She's lost it. Also this morning, President Trump is celebrating a razor thin victory. His controversial pick to head up the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, has been confirmed thanks to a late night rare tie breaking vote by his vice president, JD Vance, NBC White House correspondent. Wait, hold on a second. Stop the clip.

Starting point is 01:16:37 They've been in office for what, four or five days and this is now a rare vote? Well, okay. So I happen to know what this is. Only one other time has an appointee been a tiebreaker and that was in 2017 and that was some woman, I forget, that Trump nominated. So a tiebreaker is not rare, but they make it sound like this is just crazy rare and

Starting point is 01:17:05 it's too bad JD Vance is there, Kamala Harris would have voted. I don't know what it is. It's just let's get to Yamiche. Is in Las Vegas traveling with President Trump. Yamiche, good morning. Good morning. Last night, the Senate narrowly voted to confirm Pete Hexeth as the new defense secretary. Vice President JD Vance had to cast a tie breaking vote

Starting point is 01:17:26 when lawmakers deadlocked 50 to 50. It was only the second time in history a cabinet vote needed a tie breaker. Vance stepped in after- See, that's a lie. It's not the first time the cabinet has ever had a, well, I guess if you call it cabinet, maybe she's right, but she kind of makes it sound, when she talks like this.

Starting point is 01:17:45 No, she's in tears. I've seen some reports recently. This woman's lost it. It was only the second time in history a cabinet vote needed. That's a hybrid. What? She said second time. Yeah, second time cabinet vote.

Starting point is 01:18:00 So she's correct. Vance stepped in after former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Van stepped in. He's like, I'm Janie Vance, I'm here to stop the proceedings. Van stepped in after former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and two other Republican senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins joined all Democrats in voting against the nomination. Heg says got the job despite a number of controversies, including allegations of alcohol abuse, domestic

Starting point is 01:18:29 violence, a sexual assault, and the financial mismanagement of organizations that he led. But wait, there's much more to come. Yamiche will be breaking, breaking all over the place with the coming nominees. President Trump has a number of other nominees that still need to make it through the Senate with hearings for RF.F.K. Jr., Cash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard set for next week. Gabbard, Trump's pick for director of national intelligence, has possibly the toughest road ahead.

Starting point is 01:18:55 She has never worked in the intelligence world and has been accused of amplifying Russian propaganda. Gabbard has denied the claims. C-SPAN is gonna be on fire this week. Russia and Europe, you coddle up to dictators like Assad. It's amazing, it's amazing. Well, I think the hearing's gonna be dynamite with her because she's gonna throw it back.

Starting point is 01:19:22 Talking about JD Vance, that's a bonus clip we might as well play. This is JD Vance, that's the bonus clip we might as well play. This is JD Vance, I think it's this morning, a recent clip of him on, I guess it's Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, who's jumping all over him on these immigrants. And this is one of those moments where I used to say, well, you know, this guy could have been a little harsher. And so we play this clip. I'll be the house. I'm going to coach everyone on how to be a little harsher with this. When you talk to us in August, you said, I don't think we should

Starting point is 01:19:54 abandon anybody who's been properly vetted and helped us. Do you stand by that? Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all of these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted. And then we're literally planning terrorist attacks on our country. That happened during the campaign, if you may remember. So clearly not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted.

Starting point is 01:20:15 But there are 30,000 people in the pipeline, Afghan refugees. But my primary concern as the Vice President, Margaret, is to look after the American people. And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. It's not good. These people are vetted. Just like the guy who played a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted.

Starting point is 01:20:39 And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted. Clearly, he wasn't. Yeah. I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with said that he was properly vetted, clearly he wasn't. I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted. And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not gonna force any other American citizens kids to do that either. No, and that was a very particular case. It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living here.

Starting point is 01:21:00 I don't really care, Margaret. I don't want that person in my country. And I think most Americans agree with me. We'll be back in one minute with more of our interview with Vice President Vance. Thanks for leaving that in. So yeah, I left that in. So the thing that she said was, well, and by the way, he does a good job of conflating the Democrat Party and the media.

Starting point is 01:21:23 He does that pretty slickly that nobody notices. She could have called him out on that. But he could have called her out when she said, well, we don't know whether this guy was radicalized over there or when he came over here. And so the comeback to that would have been, Martha, are you telling me that living all those years in Afghanistan would have no effect on his personality? And then when he comes into the United States of America, here, he gets radicalized to become a terrorist. Is that what you're saying?

Starting point is 01:21:54 Is that what you're trying to tell me? Yeah. And that would have turned the table as she would have, she would have not been able to deal with that. But he's a nice guy. He's in these trying to be a nice guy. Well, he's, he Well he can be pretty sharp. He's a nice guy. I think he missed an opportunity to throw it at her. Yeah, he's already vice president. He's laughing.

Starting point is 01:22:16 He's like, I'm vice president. I don't care what you say. Well, I like to have seen it. I have a couple of quickies here as President Trump has been doing all kinds of interesting stuff. Of course, we talked about some of this on Thursday, but these are all short, less than half a minute. Next tonight, President Trump has revoked the security detail assigned to Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to sources. Dr. Fauci was the president's top COVID advisor during his first term and has faced regular

Starting point is 01:22:41 threats on his life for years. Trump has also revoked security for three other former advisors who face threats from Iran. In North Carolina today, Trump said they all have made a lot of money. They can hire their own security too. Then this has got to be my favorite because it is the season of reveal. Lastly sir, we have an executive order ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Starting point is 01:23:15 That's a big one, huh? A lot of people are waiting for this for a long, for years. For decades. years, the decades, and everything will be revealed. Yeah. There it is. I know you only play that clip. You know it. You know it.

Starting point is 01:23:37 Everything will be revealed. I had that clip. I was saying, I'm not putting this clip out there because it's the year of reveal or some horse shit. Season of reveal. This is another promise made and kept. This is an important one for the black voters because that's what this was all about. Administration has withdrawn a proposed rule that would ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. A menthol ban had been a top priority for the US Food and

Starting point is 01:24:05 Drug Administration when former President Joe Biden was in office. However, the Biden administration never gave the ban the green light amid lobbying from stakeholder groups. Menthol will stay. Menthol cigarettes, very important. Masa, make America smoke again, is good, we're rocking and rolling.

Starting point is 01:24:24 So there used to be a product that you could get. This is, people who don't know this, I say most of our audiences, the old, olders do. The olders? The olders? The olders. The olders. So you have, used to be able to buy these little,

Starting point is 01:24:39 it's like a little wooden peg, very small little thing, and you'd stick it in the end of a cigar. And it would blow up. And it would blow up. I remember those. You could stick it in the- Whatever happened to the exploding cigar? They were great.

Starting point is 01:24:56 It was like a little match, and you stuck it. Because I did that to my mom and my dad, and they hated it. Oh, you did. You would. Oh, yeah, definitely. And they'd light it up, and then after about three pops, pssh. And it wasn't really an explosion, but it was funny.

Starting point is 01:25:12 It was kind of an explosion, like a small miniature fire crate. It blew the end off the thing. I bet you can still. Yeah, sometimes you're like a smokestack. It would go pow like that. Like when it was exploded. I remember that.

Starting point is 01:25:24 Oh, man. My mom. Rest in peace, mom. That was funny. Those days were good. stack it will go pow like that like when I was exploded I remember that oh man my mom rest in peace mom that was funny those days were good my dad probably egged me out. I didn't know your mom smoked cigars but okay. She wore army boots too. Cute winter boots. Since it was discussed here's the the minute clip of President Trump talking about FEMA. I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think frankly, FEMA is not good. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA.

Starting point is 01:26:05 And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area. They've never been to the area. They want to give you rules that you've never heard about. They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have. And FEMA's turned out to be a disaster. And you could go back a long way. You could go back to Louisiana. You could go back to some of. You could go back to Louisiana. You could go back to some of

Starting point is 01:26:25 the things that took place in Texas. It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work. It just complicates it. I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away and we pay directly. We pay a percentage to the state, but the state should fix this. If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation. I think you guys agree with that, right? What are we going to call the FEMA camps? would have been a lot better situation. I think you guys agree with that, right? What are we going to call the FEMA camps? We can't call them FEMA camps anymore. And what FEMA region will I live in?

Starting point is 01:26:53 I'm in FEMA region number six. You're at a crossroads here. This is going to change the show. Everyone knows the FEMA region they're in. What's your FEMA region? Six. No, I'm in six. Are you also in? You can't be in six. Well, I'm in nine. Yes, FEMA region? Six. No, I'm in six. Are you also in?

Starting point is 01:27:05 You can't be in six. Well, I'm in nine. Yeah, so I'm going to say you can't be in six. Everybody knows their FEMA region. Ow, sorry. I don't know. I mean, it's probably a good idea. It's very expensive, the FEMA.

Starting point is 01:27:17 No, it's a horrible operation. So then there was the- Brownie. Yeah, good job, Brownie. Brownie. Good job, Brownie. So then there was the President Trump in Los Angeles with the First Lady, man. She's great. She's going out with him now. Our First Lady, very stylish First Lady. Hopefully she'll be giving her props.

Starting point is 01:27:38 She got her hat on. She got her glasses on. A little stylish. And then she had a beanie on, like a Tim Pool beanie. That was cool. So I have two clips. The first one is about the permits. I mean, it was basically President Trump just railing on,

Starting point is 01:27:56 well, not railing, but saying, you're nuts. He was railing on the Democrat representative. He was railing less on the mayor, but he was giving her grief, too. He was giving everybody grief. And I have to say, the politico of them all, which is Governor Newsom, avoided being there. He met him at the tarmac and then took off.

Starting point is 01:28:21 I have the tarmac clip. A new effort is underway to recall Governor Gavin Newsom. It is being led. I'm sorry. That's the recall Governor Newsom. Somewhere I had a meeting. Anyway, here is the exchange with the Los Angeles Mayor Bass.

Starting point is 01:28:40 You're going to move as fast as we can, but we want you to be safe. We want you to be back in your homes immediately. But the people are willing to clean out their own debris. It doesn't cost a lot. Yes, and they can. You should let them do it because by the time you hire contractors, it's gonna be two years. If a family-

Starting point is 01:28:59 People are willing to get a dumpster and do it themselves and clean it out. And they can't- There's not that much left, it's all incinerated. That's right. And it's just gonna take a long time if you do, you can do some of it, but a lot of these people, I know that guy right there that's talking, I know my people. You'll be on that thing tonight throwing this stuff away and your site will be, it'll look perfect within 24 hours and that's what he wants to do. He doesn't wanna wait around for seven months till the city hires some demolition contract

Starting point is 01:29:28 that's gonna charge him $25,000 to do his lot. I think you have to, you have emergency powers just like I do and I'm exercising my emergency powers. You have to exercise them also. I did exercise them. I mean you have a very powerful emergency power and you can do everything within 24 hours. Yes, and if individuals want to clear out their property, they can.

Starting point is 01:29:53 We think within a week. That's a long time a week. I'll be honest, to me, everyone's standing in front of the house, they wanna go to work and they're not allowed to do it. And the most important thing is for people to be safe. They're safe, they're safe. You know what they're not safe? They're not safe now. They're gonna be much safer.

Starting point is 01:30:11 A week is actually a long time the way I look at it. I watched hundreds of people standing in front of their lots and they're not allowed to go in. It's all burned, it's gone, it's done. Nothing's gonna happen to it. It's not gonna burn anymore. There's nothing to burn. There's almost nothing to burn. And they wanna go in. It's all burned. It's gone. It's done. Nothing's going to happen to it. Not going to burn anymore. There's nothing to burn. There's almost nothing to burn and they want to go in there. The people are all over the place. They're standing. And I say,

Starting point is 01:30:32 Warren, you're going in. We're trying to get a permit and the permit's going to take them. Everybody said 18 months. You said 18 months. You said 18 months. And she didn't have a comeback for that because she probably did say 18 months. But then... Yeah, 18 months. That's ridiculous. You know, he goes all over this and she was... She kept going on about, well, there's hazardous waste.

Starting point is 01:30:54 She also had some comment about that. It was like, what hazard? Everything's gone. It just like... She is terrible. And the whole operation down there is just completely out of control and she's useless. She's like a classic bureaucrat yacking away. And then some county guy pipes in and this is where President Trump just brought the humor back with sincerity.

Starting point is 01:31:17 Mr. President, we're going to be together next week and during the interim, many of us are involved in, and Tom McClintock, who you know has been an expert on this for years. We are going to be putting conditions on the money that do two things, require that it be done timely and affordable. And then secondly, that we protect those who will come afterwards. As we speak, there are 6,000 acres burning in my district on the Mexican border.

Starting point is 01:31:47 There will be more fires until we include in any disaster relief items which will prevent it or at least mitigate it from happening again. So you're gonna see us proposing both of those. Like water, little things like

Starting point is 01:32:03 water, the party of common sense. See, we're the bread, we're the party of common sense he with a bread with a party of common sense you're not in all fairness we like water to put out fires it's really quite efficient water just make sure you have, that's great. That's great. It's funny. I mean, humor in dire circumstances, of course, because it's a total disaster. Where are these people? Where are they right now?

Starting point is 01:32:36 They can't all be in hotels. I mean, they're staying with family. Probably with friends mostly. It's horrible, man. It's like, phew, but you know what? If anything ever happens in Northern California, like an earthquake or something, you can stay in our spare room. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:32:54 We can do the show together. We can do briskets together. Yeah, there you go. I did a brisket. I did my first brisket the other day. Oh really? Yep. Okay. Well, give me, describe to me what you did. Okay so we had the brisket, ten pounds. Ten pounds.

Starting point is 01:33:12 Tina did the rub which was a mustard based rub, salt and pepper. Yeah she'd be the one doing the rub. She rubs the best. Yeah, it would seem so. Okay, easy. Uh, 225, three hours, internal. Where? In what? Pit boss. Internal temperature up to 160, then wrapped it in butcher paper. How many hours did you do the 225? Three hours.

Starting point is 01:33:42 Three hours until internal temp was 160, wrapped itpped it in butcher paper right there on the grill. Bam. Yes, that's what everyone talks about. Yeah. Internal temperature up to 190. Then take it out in the butcher paper, wrap it in a towel, put it inside a cooler, but not a cool cooler, but like a Yeti bag cooler. So it maintains the heat for two hours, actually two and a half hours. It was dynamite. Perfect. Actually 192 was the temperature I took it to. That sounds right. Yeah. It was the first time ever that we've ever done a brisket and the brisket, 10 pounds, you know what we pay for that out here in cow country Not at the restaurant in cow country Now thirteen bucks

Starting point is 01:34:30 Thirteen bucks good. There's a 13 bucks for ten pounds. Yes, but 30 a pound No, no, it was ten ten pounds thirteen bucks Ten pounds thirteen bucks. Yeah, that's a buck thirty a pound. I thought you said 30 bucks. I misunderstood. Yeah, a buck 30 a pound. Exactly. That's a good price. In the restaurants here, you can't even go to the restaurants. No one can afford them. I find that peculiar. Especially beef. Now as you bring it up, now as you tell me that you can get brisket meat for a buck thirty a pound and the restaurant would charge you like forty bucks for three slices. A couple slices and some gravy.

Starting point is 01:35:13 What's wrong with those restaurants? I don't get it. You know what? You order online and the guy brings it the same day to your door. Hey, hey Mrs. Curry, how you doing? Here we go. Here's your beef. He's right down the road. Yeah, well that's a good thing. Yeah, that's probably why the restaurants are so expensive. What do you mean? Why? Nobody in their right mind would go to one. We're a tourist. You gotta make up for it in

Starting point is 01:35:39 higher prices. Do you know how many people visited Fredericksburg last year? A million. Two million people. Yeah, why? For our cute German bakery, of course, and for our beautiful little Main Street and our 150 wineries where everyone can get hammered and our open container on the street. Oh yeah, that's right, you can drive around drinking a beer. And smoking a joint at the same time. People don't realize that in Texas you can drive around drinking a beer. No, it's not true. Yeah, it is true. No, it's not true. But in Fredericksburg, you can walk around with an open container and drinking, which is one of three, I think only three cities in the country. Or maybe six, because we're very special that way. One of three, I think only three cities in the country, or very, maybe six, we're very special that way.

Starting point is 01:36:27 Final clip for me, for the time being, on the media, which by the way, we say four more years, I don't know if we're gonna make four more years. I mean, CNN and MSNBC are, they're gonna have nobody left. They're firing everybody. So they're just going to have, I don't know, what are they going to do? They're just going to put podcasters on? We always have PBS and NPR.

Starting point is 01:36:53 But all of the NPR is also struggling. They're all, the model is broken. You know, everybody wants you, like who wants to watch Margaret Brennan with JD Vance with little sound bites and shortened edited interviews when you can watch him on Rogan for three hours and get an actual opinion about somebody. The whole distribution idea of linear television is broken and Fox will run into the same problem. Everyone's rah rah right now, but it'll run into the same problem.

Starting point is 01:37:24 It can't do it. It's not going to now, but it'll run to the same problem. It can't do it. It's not going to function. So what are we going to be doing? Just critiquing podcasts at the end of the road? Well, we have some clips from podcasts that are quite entertaining. Yeah, I know, but there'll be nothing left to complain about. It's just going to be a free for all. We got nothing to complain about. That'll be the day, by the way. That will be the day. There'll be nothing to complain about. So On The Media is still a fun NBX show, formerly known as NPR, where they supposedly give us the insights as to what the media is doing.

Starting point is 01:38:02 And they're focusing very heavily on what to do about Trump and his supporters. They're not voters. There's never going to be voters for Trump. They're still always going to be supporters. And loyalists. And loyalists. So that's the people that work with him.

Starting point is 01:38:16 They're loyalists. And the attack vector is clear. This is on the media this week, top of the show, right away, a minute and a half of this. We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution. And we will not forget our God. Donald Trump's second White House boasts more confidence and resolve than his first. Results?NYC in New York. This is on the media I'm Brooke Gladstone 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 that my life was saved

Starting point is 01:38:59 For a reason I was saved by God to make America great again. And so sayeth the clergy at his inauguration. Fair enough, that's the view through the prism of Trump and his supporters. That was Monday. Now, unlike the Capitol riot, which everyone could see in real life, God's reality has long been debated. As they say, faith is antithetical to proof and vice versa. And the nature of God is viewed variously as well. There's a long tradition among some evangelicals dating back at least a hundred years of seeing Jesus as a warrior and the faithful as his troops fighting to impose their way of life on America. Fighting to impose our way of life on America. Go Jesus! They see the Jesus of the Gospels helping the poor, turning the other cheek as effeminate.

Starting point is 01:39:54 As for those who follow the prosperity... What? Effeminate? That's pussies! Jesus turning the other cheek is gay! They see the Jesus of the Gospels helping the poor turning the other cheek. Who's this? This is Brooke Gladstone. No, no, who is this that thinks that? Brooke Gladstone and no one else. This is what I'm saying. This is their attack vector. It's so weak, but it's almost done. They see the Jesus of the Gospels helping the poor turning the other cheek as effeminate. As for those who follow the prosperity gospel favored by the president which I've got to ask pastor Jimmy. What is prosperity gospel? Do you know what that is? Yeah, I do. What is it?

Starting point is 01:40:34 Well, there's a bunch of these guys. I think my Mike Murdoch is one of them Whose is just a wreck now is really a shame because he did some of the bit some really good material that's the gospel that, gospel if you want to call it that. The gospel. It's a way of, who is, there's one black preacher that really made the most out of, he used to wear a sport coat made out of dollar bills.

Starting point is 01:40:59 Well, he's on my TikTok, that's for sure. I don't know who it is. Yeah, well you'll be seeing him. And it's the idea that the more virtuous you are, the richer you'll get. It's all about making a lot of money and that's God's reward and thus... Yes, you're right. You're right. You're right. Yes. And because you make all this money, by the way, you should give us 4% as a tithe because... Four? Four?

Starting point is 01:41:23 For 10? What happened to 10? Yeah, four percent. Okay, well then it's, okay, you're right, you're right. Well, yeah, actually, these guys do push for ten. So, you give us ten and then because you're already rich, you're going to get tenfold back. Amen. So, the ten plus tenfold back plus the money you're making because you're doing God's work, all of it, all of it. And so, that's the game you're playing. And it's work, all of it, all of it. And so that's the, that's the game you're playing. And it's really, it's quite the entertainment. It sounds like a Ponzi scheme.

Starting point is 01:41:49 Oh, hold on. Here we go. As for those who follow the prosperity gospel favored by the president, which holds that God rewards the worthy with wealth in this life. By the way, stop. Trump has never that I can recall, and we've been following him very closely, promoted the prosperity gospel ever. No, he's never.

Starting point is 01:42:14 Find one clip where he says anything about it. No, but I believe that he adheres to it. His dad taught him a long time ago, you give money away, it comes back to you because he gives a lot of money. And you know, not the phony baloney stuff they always moan about, oh, his fake nonprofit. No, he does give a lot of money away. To lots of people for all kinds of things. But the prosperity gospel is within the church itself. It's not giving you money away to other people. Here we go. As for those who follow the prosperity gospel is within the church itself. It's not giving money away to other people. Here we go.

Starting point is 01:42:45 As for those who follow the prosperity gospel favored by the president, which holds that God rewards the worthy with wealth in this life, they would dismiss the claim that Jesus ever said, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. In today's parlance, they'd probably call the gospel of Matthew fake news. Matthew was fake news, man. Fake news. That's their pathetic attack vector. That's their pathetic attack vector. I think you might be right. The left generally speaking is atheists.

Starting point is 01:43:32 And they like to use religion as an attack vector, even though it's a shotgun approach. They don't understand enough about anything to do it well. Because the only way it really works is religion against religion. It doesn't work. No. Atheists against religion. It just doesn't fly. It's really amazing though, that they, how she rolled.

Starting point is 01:43:54 And that was the top of the show. I'm like, really? That's where you're going with this? Good luck. I have one clip before we take a break. It's kind of interesting because it's not being reported on at all. And I guess they're going, talking about this sort of, you know, this anti-populist mentality, which is what you just played. Is the, about the AFD protests going on in Germany.

Starting point is 01:44:21 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And this is from Al Jazeera, so you know it's going to be against the AFD. Protests have been held in cities across Germany against the rise of the far right. The demonstrations come ahead of federal elections next month. These were the scenes at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. A similar protest was held in Cologne. The rallies come as far right politician Alice Rigel launched her campaign to become Chancellor. Yes I have a clip as well about the AFD. Well tens of thousands of Germans rallied Saturday against the far

Starting point is 01:44:54 right ahead of next month's federal elections. US tech billionaire Elon Musk once again endorsed the AFD party telling its supporters via video link that their party was the best hope for the future of Germany and Europe. AFD is polling at around 20% ahead of the February 23rd elections, a record for the far-right party in post-war Germany. We have to wake up again in these times because unfortunately it's going in the wrong direction I think.

Starting point is 01:45:22 And yes, we simply want to send a message. Democracy is simply a good thing and we simply have to stand together and above all simply show that what the AfD is doing is not conforming. It's not reasonable. So Elon was out there, big head on the big screen saying, you know, if Germany goes down then that's all of Europe. It's going to be going to end, which I think he's kind of right. I think so too. He's far right. He's kind of far right.

Starting point is 01:45:51 He's far right. He's very far right. Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the exploding seagulls. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John C. Devore! And the morning you used to be a snarker, and you'd wear a ship of sea boots and round feet in the air, subs in the water, and the names of the nights out there. And the morning you used to be a troll, well, how about you? How you doing?

Starting point is 01:46:15 Let me go in everybody, let's count them. All right, well, once again, record numbers... 2,471. That's not record for Sunday. But it's, it's above the average. The average is 2,400. Yeah. So it's record.

Starting point is 01:46:36 It's. You know what the high mark was? 4,000, I think. 3,000, 4,000. Yeah. When was that? 4,000. Was after what? What?

Starting point is 01:46:44 It was after COVID, so it wasn't during COVID. I can't remember what, what triggered it. Hmm. Yeah. When was that? Was after what? It was after COVID, so it wasn't during COVID. I can't remember what triggered it. Yeah. Well- Which is right then and I should have noted what was the reason it happened. Maybe we do that again. Whatever we did then, make that happen.

Starting point is 01:46:57 Make that happen again. These trolls are all- Maybe it was when Trump was, no, it was even before Trump was shot in the ear. No, no, no, I don't think so. These trolls are all in the trollroom, trollroom.io, and they're listening in live and they're trolling along as usual. It's Sunday. What do you mean?

Starting point is 01:47:16 I know what day it is. It's Sunday. People think I don't know what day it is. I don't actually, but I think it's Sunday. No, you don't. You never do. We don't know what day it is. I don't actually, but I think it's Sunday. No, you don't. You never do. We don't know what day it is. And they're also listening on those modern podcast apps. And if you're in China, by the way, hello Chinese, get yourself a modern podcast app because Apple, and I have to

Starting point is 01:47:38 go in and check it. There's a tool that I can check it with. Apple is now allowing the Chinese government, also known as the CCP, the communist Chinese government to remove episodes they don't like from podcasts. So if you're using your Apple podcast app in China, and I'm sure this will, I mean, if Apple is going to do it for China, why wouldn't they do it anywhere else? They allow the government sensors to go in and delete episodes they don't like. How about that? They probably have a team of people. Yeah, well exactly. And who knows? I mean, so the modern podcast apps, they hook up to the podcast index, which is never going to censor anybody. And you can get to it in a million different ways.

Starting point is 01:48:23 You can go directly to podcastindex.org even. So you want to consider what you're using. Those modern podcast apps, they're good because they also give you the live stream. Another thing Apple hasn't figured out yet. You know, these guys are so short-sighted. Every single radio station in the world has a stream. Yeah, nowadays. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:48:44 And now you got to the point where Netflix is decided to start to stream. Well, not streaming radio, just streaming. No, no, I'm just saying, I mean, the idea of streaming as opposed to just stagnant content has been picked up by everyone. Yes, streaming is, it's hip. All the kids are doing that. This is a podcast that we do. So you can listen to it anytime you want, just like any other podcasts,

Starting point is 01:49:10 but it's also streamed. It's streamed live every Sunday and Thursday. And, uh, and, and you can sit there and you can say things and, uh, John doesn't look at it cause I understand why but you know I have peripheral vision like okay there's someone saying something okay and we added in it's like a studio audience with the voice only I can't hear you so that I can I can tell people what you're saying but you're not just yelling it out and I don't be great if you get the sound so we can just hear people in the

Starting point is 01:49:41 background yelling like hecklers. Let's do that. That would be kind of funny. It would be funny. Yeah. We can do a Discord where everybody can scream and yell. I'll try. I'll set it up. We'll see how that goes.

Starting point is 01:49:54 Oh yeah. I can already tell you how it's going to go. I know exactly how it's going to go. Hey man, that's fake and gay. Okay. That's the standard line. You suck, Curry. Yeah, I know I know That's the only line these guys are very mature audience

Starting point is 01:50:12 But we appreciate the trolls and they are of course a driving force behind no agenda nation. We love all of you the trolls I'm sure that a lot of the trolls are not actually trolls, but they're artists. And those artists participate in our value for value model. We talked about it earlier. How the transition to AI, which don't worry, it's not going to be long. Pretty soon we'll have quantum art. QA, quantum art. It's all coming. Quantum art is on the way the pivot to quantum is happening but instead I'd like to just get the put get a desktop quantum computer that can even add two plus two I'd be happy with that yeah well I run my own models at home so this AI stuff is you know it's like it's I don't need

Starting point is 01:51:01 chat GPT I run my own at home on a little, little computer works fine. Now there was once again, some complaints about the artwork. I got a complaint. Wow. Yep. I got one complaint, but I got a complaint. Okay, let's read the complaint. I took the phone out of my pocket and was very embarrassed when I pulled up your episode. It was not safe for work or children. That was the complaint. Yes. That's not true.

Starting point is 01:51:35 Well, this particular person who is a knight, by the way, said- I appreciate that knights chiming in with their thoughts. Yeah. I appreciate that Knight's chiming in with their thoughts. Yeah, and said, you know, it was not safe for, to which I replied, noted. That's always a good one. I learned that from you. What did you say? I said noted, noted. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:51:55 That's my note. Noted, like I wrote it down on a note. And then I said, I said, to be fair, our podcast is marked as explicit in the feed and everywhere on all podcasts apps. So we have signaled ahead of time that we are an explicit podcast, whatever that means. But art wise, I mean, we couldn't stay away from it because it was, see, this, this is the stuff that chat GPT, you know AI can come up with this, even though it's made with AI, because we know that Francisco Scaramanga who did this piece for us, we know that he uses AI exclusively. Yes, but we can see that Davos hospitality wasn't put on there by AI.

Starting point is 01:52:42 AI can barely print its own name. Quantum will be able to spell its own name. Q, U, W. Okay, so here's the way, this is the artwork which we both agreed that it was the only acceptable artwork. You actually pushed back while I was saying we should go with it. You were apprehensive. You were apprehensive. Well, I... Okay, this is not untrue. Noted. What do you mean?

Starting point is 01:53:09 Noted. This is not untrue, Fitch. Oh, man. The reason was because I said, you called me out on it, I think rightfully so. I said, you know, as much as I'm the big advocate for cheesecake, I said, I don't think we can keep just doing it, you know, constantly and Scaramanga loves it. Yeah. And so I kind of pushed back a little bit and then you jumped all over me because I'm the one who is behind it.

Starting point is 01:53:41 I'm actually literally, this would have never been produced by Scaramanga if it wasn't for my commentary over the years about cheesecake being attractive to people. It's just attention getting and that's what we're trying to do with art. You try to get people's attention and a couple of big boobs holding a plate of lemons and garlic, which is a reference to partly of the show. And the Davos hospitality. And the Davos hospitality. Because we talked about the hookers.

Starting point is 01:54:12 High-end escort, I think, is what is preferred. It was, I thought, was, uh, sketchy, but at the same time, it was the best piece. It was good. But I don't see how it's offensive. No, I didn't say it was offensive. No, your knight thought it was. He thought it was not safe for work.

Starting point is 01:54:33 It's not naked woman. It's not a naked woman. He thought it was embarrassing. This kind of outfit you can see on the street. I'm just... It's true. You can see... What do you mean the street?

Starting point is 01:54:42 You can see this in the grocery store. Women walk around in yoga clothes, yoga pants, everywhere. This is like, yeah. Yeah. Oh, you've noticed. And that Sanchez woman, that Bezos is hanging out with, it's like this. Right! Inauguration! At the inauguration. Yeah. Did he turn off the inauguration? Probably not.

Starting point is 01:55:04 I don't think so. Yes, anyway. So I'll defend the piece from that perspective. Let me see. We did look at a few other things. We looked at the AI meal plan, which... You like the Stargate. I didn't push for it.

Starting point is 01:55:19 I said, what about the Stargate? And you said, no one will know what it is. I'm like, you're correct. What else was there? What was this pickle surprise with a French guy? I didn't understand that one. I mean a lot of this AI art is really crap and it's just bad ideas by people who can use AI, which is everybody. That's the downside. That's the downside. We both kind of liked what Darren O'Neill did because how does Darren O'Neill even do it where he gets an AI prompt to make a robot painting the French artist

Starting point is 01:55:59 guy? I mean, it was just bizarrely good. I used it for the newsletter. Yeah, it just bizarrely good. I used it for the newsletter. Yeah, it was bizarrely good. Because it's like, I mean I wanted to use something else because Darren is producing all this material that is unbeatable. Highly usable. He is really nailed it. The art of the art.

Starting point is 01:56:26 Yes. Yeah. He's, people should call him up and make him teach them. Yeah. Yeah, they should. He should charge for it. He could. Yeah, he could.

Starting point is 01:56:39 So I think that was about it. That was the only thing that was really, that we really discussed. I thought the comic strip blogger Trump with his No Agenda Best podcast, the universe executive order was cute. I used that for the bat signal this morning. That was just cute. Yeah I was gonna use almost use that for the newsletter. Yeah it's cute. But it's like it's illegal. Illegal? To be honest about it and I decided I'm not gonna do it. Illegal? Yeah you honest about it, then I decide that I'm not going to do it. Illegal?

Starting point is 01:57:07 Yeah, you can't use a famous person to promote something without compensation. Right. Right. But I think we're pretty safe with the president. I think so too, but it's still technically illegal. Yeah, I felt okay. Yeah. I felt okay. Yes. I felt okay though.

Starting point is 01:57:27 I don't think I'm ever going to get to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom. Joe Rogan got there before me, but otherwise. Yeah, I don't think that Trump, as far as Trump's concern, there's another picture of him out there in the- Yeah, he's good with it. He's good with it. I'm good. I'm good. So in our value Yeah, he's good with it. He's good with it. I'm good, I'm good.

Starting point is 01:57:45 So in our value for value model, we have time. But anyway, but people should note that, by the way. Yeah, that's a good point. A lot of people don't know that. Yeah, still people, a lot of people are like, breaking a rule, whatever. We go to the treasure portion, which means we thank everybody who supports us financially, which is incredibly important because we have bills to pay and this is all we have. This is all we do.

Starting point is 01:58:10 This is a, it's a full time job. Let me just note for a second. I had 79 clips. Now that includes meetups and really, I don't even have ISOs. That's without ISOs. You came in with 28. Now my 70, it includes five real shorties from, no, six shorties from Queen Ursula. Yeah, I have a 30 clip maximum.

Starting point is 01:58:42 I don't, if I go beyond that, I refuse to. Yeah. Because the other words, you only use about 20 of these. No. 20 maybe. No, well, we use a lot of the clips, but the point is... No, I know, but I'm just saying it's just like having... If I had to produce 70 clips, I would never keep track of them. We never get through.

Starting point is 01:58:58 I don't know how you do it. I'm the pod father. So there's real work that goes into this, a full time gig, you know, doing on vacations. Um, we only take, we only try, don't take more than two shows off an entire year. So it's what we do. And we've got four more years. So support us now.

Starting point is 01:59:18 Unless you want to be two more years. We got eight days off coming. What? Eight days off. When's that? Yeah, two a year, you said. Yeah, we never do them in a row though. No, we never do them.

Starting point is 01:59:33 Let's do them in a row. Let's do the next eight shows off. No. Yeah, well, you can tell John's not happy. I'm always happy because I just don't have the same, I don't have as many homes as John. I don't have as many children. It's easy for me. John's got a whole empire to support. So we thank everybody.

Starting point is 01:59:56 And two compounds. Yes. We thank everybody $50 and above. And just like Hollywood, we like to give special props to people who support us with more like executive and associate executive producers just like Hollywood does and the cool thing is you get a credit which is just like Hollywood's credits because you can use it anywhere Hollywood recognizes that so it's it's like being a part of Hollywood but not being lame or as the troll who would say fake and gay so 200 $200 or above you get an associate executive producer credit you can use it on IMDB.com your LinkedIn profiles your resume and if anyone ever questions that will be happy to vouch

Starting point is 02:00:35 for you we have done it several times over the years. We'll also read your note $300 and above executive producer same credit applies that you can use that anywhere that Hollywood credits are used and we will read your note And I will start it off with our top executive producer, which is a switcheroo from Sean Homan He's in Noblesville, Indiana and he comes in with a with the heavenly number the striper boost 777 dot 7 7 and he says it's a switcheroo and Birthday donation for his wife. She becomes a dame with this donation doesn't get any crazier and henceforth shall be known as

Starting point is 02:01:11 Dame Liz of Roxyville. Thank you for your courage fellas God bless gitmo nation and please visit stealth arms net and design your platypus today the finest 1911 double stack pistol that takes glock 17 mags it does he has 17 17 rounds in that thing the platypus thank you very much and dame liz will be or liz will be dames dame liz of roxvile today meanwhile we got sir meister chit Chat in Little Rock, Arkansas, 34373. He writes in, howdy, salutations, good day gentlemen. This donation is a switcheroo. Number two, two switcheroo's at the top, first time ever.

Starting point is 02:02:00 To be, to de-douche, to de-douche my wife. You've been de-douched. To be to dedouche to dedouche my wife You've been deduced he doesn't actually give her name which is kind of odd Yeah, she's she's Mrs. Chit chat okay miss and start to her path to Dame Hood as a knight sir master chit Chat of Harmony Homestead, must a lady befitting his title as they begin their journey of forging…" Some people write convoluted sentences. "...as they begin their journey of forging human resources."

Starting point is 02:02:40 Having babies, I think that's what that means. The lineage must be pure and sourced of royal stock. That makes sense. Ah, I see what he's up to. Gotta give her a damehood so they have royal stock. We have been going through fertility treatments over three years and are attempting our second IVF transfer in the next few weeks. As such, I'd like to request prayers and a double helping of baby-making karma. Always a winner.

Starting point is 02:03:05 Thank you guys for all that you do and helping us tap into the promise of where two or more gather in my name, there I will be. Huzzah to four more years, Sir Master Chit Chat of Harmony Homestead in Little Rock. So we'll give that to Mrs. Chit Chat of Harmony Homestead. Yes. Yes, we will. I already prayed for you when I saw the note, so here's your baby making karma.

Starting point is 02:03:30 You've got karma. All right, beautiful. Let us know and remember, you gotta name it after us. Yes. Let us know and remember, you gotta name it after us. Yes. Gene Nause is in Petrolia, Ontario, Scandinavia, 333.61, which is a $500 Scandinavian donation in dollarets. And it's from Gene Nause, the matriarch of Nause drywalling clan.

Starting point is 02:04:03 Get your drywall completed by Noah Jendite, based near Petroleum, Canada. This donation is in honor of my wonderful husband Herman's 76th birthday on January 27th. Besides having an amazingly wonderful human being, besides being an amazingly wonderful human being, he is the patriarch of our tribe of five children and 17 grandchildren. No baby making karma for you. We are a family of homeschoolers, lovers of Jesus, lovers of truth, and lovers of Canada. Thank you, John and Adam, for helping us wade through the nonsense that is culture and is trying that culture is trying to present to us.

Starting point is 02:04:42 We are also thrilled to hear Adam's testimony about his new life with Jesus. Keep up the good work, guys, from Gene, and we thank you very much. And on the list, taken care of. Brian Skelton in Cedar Park. Oh, Brian! Everybody knows Brian from the No Agenda meetups in Austin. Brian, he's a good guy. the No Agenda meetups in Austin. Brian, he's a good guy. 333. Well, this is a bunch of hogwash, he writes. PayPal won't let me change my donation amount to less than 333. But whatever. It's been too long since John got any of my money to so enjoy. Thank you guys for the best podcast in the universe in the morning. We know Brian very well. He's a good guy. We love Brian when he donates.

Starting point is 02:05:34 You love him anyway. Now, how would I pronounce this? Yohola Salt Corporation? J-O-L-L-A? Yeah, it'd be La Jolla. La Jolla Salt Corporation. I'm guessing it's in La Jolla. Like J O L L A y'all la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la moisture and exfoliating power of our small batch sea salt scrubs handmade by the sea in the village of La Jolla For complete decimation kick it in for a bundle of ten at La Jolla salt comm putting the sea back in sea salt scrub La Jolla salt comm and thank you for your courage see you're almost doing this right La Jolla salt corporation La Jolla salt comm You need to send some to John and I so we can then try your products.

Starting point is 02:06:28 Now we can't say anything. We can't say if it's good. We can't say anything. We don't know. I would, I would like a luxurious sea salt scrub. Yeah, you could use one. Wow. Really?

Starting point is 02:06:40 Eat what? You're rude. It's just rude. That's not disparaging. Eli the coffee guy in Bensonville, Illinois two oh one two six a Last episode was dynamite Ever since listening I've been using chat GPT to plan my meals Lot of lemon I guess

Starting point is 02:07:02 the there was somebody who did a posting that they did the whole meal and recipes and everything and then they produced it. This was on Twitter and it was aimed at us and they did the whole thing and they found these and then they produced it. They said it tasted pretty good, but he had a picture of this food. Yeah. Oh my god, it looked like somebody threw up on a dish. That's AI slop. There it is. If I keep it up, he continues, my guess is within a year, I'll get at least one recipe for bugs. Let us know when you do.

Starting point is 02:07:40 I also asked Chad GPT what the best brand of roasted coffee was and what do you know? The AI told me it was gigawatt coffee. It's crazy. It also advised me to use code ITM 20 For 20% off my order gotta love technology stay caffeinated Eli the coffee guy 21 to the $200 and once $200 and one's 201 to six. Yeah, I'm drinking the gigawatts this morning the espresso. Yeah, we noticed. Oh, please. You already made that joke five thousand times. I Know I have no maybe sir angel. I hate it when people do that. Oh Okay. Well good then I shall remind you when you do it

Starting point is 02:08:25 Yeah, you should it says it his bad form. Yes Sir Angel of Smyrna who was knighted on the last show in Smyrna Georgia $200 associate executive producer credit for him and he says thank you for the advice on your Thursday show. Ah this is our stock tip guy. I created a sub stack where my story and stock market theory will be published in full. No agendination can find it at angel of Smyrna with a Yofsmyrna.substack.com. For anyone who missed the Thursday show, the theory details how the Federal Reserve appears to be overtly influencing market direction, specifically the S&P 500 in conjunction with a broader consortium of actors that are orchestrating events in the world around us.

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Starting point is 02:09:35 He nuts it. Yeah reason is he's got a screwy I it's very it's very crazy, but I think it I'd like the thing if that's what the Market players there they're all, they're all, they're just borderline and veteran gamblers. We've talked about this type of personality before. And the people that play the market is very similar. Some people are very lucky. They're very good. They have a sense of things, but they're always looking for an edge that nobody else has.

Starting point is 02:09:59 This guy has one of those possibly, possibly, there's no way of knowing for a while, whether he has this edge, but it's always takes someone who's a little nutty to come up with something that might just work. And so I bet you he does very well. I think so. And we got him started. We did. We got him the substack. It was our, it was our fault. By the way, Clip Custodian in the troll room says that Trump is bad for the show.

Starting point is 02:10:26 This Trump 2.0 is no good. He needs to do something wacky. There's something to it. Trump is not good for the show. I disagree. Okay. I disagree. And so would Linda Lupatkin is in Lakewood, Colorado.

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Starting point is 02:10:59 and work with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Yeah! New jobs for me. And we're almost at the end of our associate executive producers and therefore this donation segment. Anonymous comes in with $200 and says this donation is because you've ruined all other podcasts for me that have commercial interruptions.

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Starting point is 02:12:45 I have a couple of clips about RatNote. RatNote? Well, that's what they're calling it, at least on NPR. When TikTok looked doomed in the US, many users quickly signed up for another Chinese-owned app called Shaohongshu in protest, known as RedNote in English. What happened next was a surprise, as NPR's Owensau reports. TikTok refugees, that's how American users

Starting point is 02:13:12 are describing themselves as a connect with the Chinese community on red note. Until last week, the app was mainly used in China. However, frustration over a potential ban has led many TikTok users to switch to Red Note. I'm a female farmer, so of course I convinced my husband to let me get pigs for Valentine's Day last year. 31-year-old Tyler Ross is one of them. Her day job is in human resources, but she also posts videos on Red Note of her life on the farm in central Virginia.

Starting point is 02:13:40 She says her lifestyle is far from the typical image of American farming, and the response she's got has exceeded her expectations. It's interesting to see people's reactions when they only know things from the media or TV, to see different types of ways of doing things. Everyone's been super friendly, they all love our animals. The videos of chickens and dogs she posts gained her 18,000 followers within two days of starting her account. Once all of the chickens have had their breakfast, I spend some time with them.

Starting point is 02:14:10 Now a week later, that number has nearly tripled, surpassing her TikTok followers. Lizzy Shen, a teacher from eastern China, is one of Ross' new followers. She shared a picture of her own garden in the comments. She says that seeing videos on Rat Note has given her a strong connection to ordinary Americans. I like Rat Note. I like Rat Note too. I think that's what we're going to call it. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Let me see. That's not a bad show title either actually.

Starting point is 02:14:42 That's what I wrote it down for. Yeah. Shall I? Let, let me see. Um, hold on. You think I wonder if it's available. Let's see. The rat note. You never know. Dot com. Yeah. Let me be, be quicker than the producers are now. Now it's taken rat note. Too bad. Rat note. So to follow that up, I have a Tik TOK clip of some girl it's taken rat note. Too bad. So to follow that up, I have a Tik Tok clip of some girl who went to rat note.

Starting point is 02:15:10 Yes. And she just fell all over herself about how great things are in China. Thanks to what she's learned from rat note. This is the talk Chinese propaganda clip. For my Chinese friends, I just want to tell you some discussions Americans are having right now. All of us agree and are astounded at how cheap and affordable your groceries, housing, and cars are.

Starting point is 02:15:31 I have been watching you guys' grocery haul videos and it is blowing my mind America could never. A lot of us also cannot believe how advanced your country is because we were always shown and told that you guys were a third world like starving country. That's just not the case. The fact that 95% of you guys own homes is mind-boggling. It is like seriously almost impossible to own a home anywhere in the U.S.

Starting point is 02:16:03 You have to work immensely hard. How about y'all's law school is like $800 a year and I think that your homeless rate is like 0.18%. I have people living outside, it's inside of my building. Like it's terrible here, what? I saw somebody say earlier that a cancer medication that they get is about $20 in China and they

Starting point is 02:16:27 are paying $22,000 a month in the US for that same medication. What? A lot of you guys were also thinking that it's propaganda that our kids sometimes if they can afford it and their parents want to, we'll put them in a bulletproof like backpack to go to school. They also do stand up and do the Pledge of Allegiance every single day before class starts. This whole experience might just be the most awake and united I think I've ever seen this country. We are pissed at our government, number one. Number two, astounded. Absolutely astounded. Yeah, well listen, talker, rat note. Do you think that they

Starting point is 02:17:16 can talk smack about their government? I don't think so. No, of course not. They won't even let episodes in on Apple podcasts, please. No, but they love clips like this. Yeah. I have, ah man, the propaganda wheel is turning up again because it's just, I mean, forget about Stargate, forget about a simple blood test that Joe Ellison, formerly known as Larry, will immediately result within 48 hours of a personalized cancer vaccine. Who needs any of that? It's the only thing Ozempic can't do.

Starting point is 02:17:56 Ozempic is the magical mystery drug. Dr. Mike, tell us all about it. In medical news, new research shows the diabetes and weight loss drug, Ozempic, could cut the risk for kidney disease. Kidney disease. Fox Medical team's Dr. Mike joins us live now this morning with more on this. Kidney disease, John, it's amazing.

Starting point is 02:18:14 Dr. Mike, second time in a day. Oh boy, let's treat. How did I get so lucky? Woo, Dr. Mike. Well, almost every day, Danielle, Deborah, Caroline, all of you have to hear this. Even in patients who have diabetes, it's been shown now to reduce the risk of kidney failure and even heart problems and even death by 24%. So the data just keeps going and going and going. Recently there

Starting point is 02:18:41 was a study looking at the same drug for congestive heart failure, significant reduction in risk of stroke, heart attack, as well as congestive heart failure symptoms. So it's the real deal. Now, why is this effective? Some people think it has to do with inflammation. That's what it's all about inflammation it reduces inflammation John it reduces inflammation that's what it's all about inflammation this they're going crazy they're letting any any Yahoo doctor on just all you gotta get it don't worry it's not for everybody I mean if you just want to lose five pounds you don't want it, but you really do.

Starting point is 02:19:26 So Dr. Mike, you know, we've been hearing about, you know, now it can help cut kidney disease. You won't drink as much alcohol or maybe you don't smoke as much, you're losing weight. I mean, that seems like a lot of benefit, but we know that there is, you know, some negative to this as well. So, I mean, but the benefits sound really good though too.

Starting point is 02:19:45 Well, yeah, look, there's always something that can happen in terms of nausea, vomiting, bloating, constipation. Some people just don't tolerate this. And it's not for everybody. People with multiple endocrine neoplasia I syndrome syndrome people with a history of pancreatitis should not be using this but The proof is in the pudding and the amount of data coming out showing tremendous benefit is really a game changer And when it comes to either diabetes or obesity Then then it's a win-win situation by the way I'm not talking about people that just want to lose five pounds I know right now real issues that will benefit from this

Starting point is 02:20:31 So I looked at this study because the data just keeps on coming It's been around this drug has been around for 20 years, but it still just keeps on coming. We never knew it's amazing They will the FDA says will update the label to apply for patients with chronic kidney disease. It may be effective in treating blood clotting, respiration, and infection. All of this was unexpected as reported in the Washington Post. In addition, this study supports research that GLP-1 drugs can improve mental health and reduce the risk of suicide. Yes, you won't need your Prozac anymore.

Starting point is 02:21:17 This is, it's amazing. It's just an amazing drug. Well, they still haven't gotten to the big boy. They're waiting for that one. Yeah, the- It's in the book. Yeah Well, they still haven't got to the big boy. They're waiting for that one. Yeah, it's in the book. It's in the book. Erectile dysfunction.

Starting point is 02:21:30 We're waiting for the big boy. Meanwhile, across town, we have a change. We have a change. We have a change. Bird flu, there's a change. Here's the change. Mass cull of poultry has been ordered after an outbreak of bird

Starting point is 02:21:47 flu on a farm in Yorkshire. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs says all poultry on the premises near Hornsey in the East Riding will be humanely killed. A protection zone of three kilometers has been put in place

Starting point is 02:22:00 around the site which hasn't been identified. Tests found the H5N5 strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was present at that Hornsey site. It is the first case of the strain found in poultry or captive birds in England during the current outbreak. Notice it's the H5N5. Yeah, I noticed that.

Starting point is 02:22:20 Not H1N5. This is H5N1. Either way, it's not there. And this is what really, now I know something's up. Because they brought Rachel Maddow back. They said, listen, look, you're getting 13 million a year. You've got to do a show every night of President Trump's first... No, she's getting 25 million a year.

Starting point is 02:22:43 Listen... Down from $30 million. Listen, we know we cut you back to $25 million a year. I know you want to be a podcast a real bad because we know that's where the money is, but we can only pay you $25 million a year and you have to do one show a day during the first 100 days of President Trump's 2.0. And this is what she does. You know what else isn't a popular idea? Bird flu.

Starting point is 02:23:14 Bird flu. Today in Long Island, New York, a duck farm that has been in operation since 1908 shut down, they had to shut down to start the process of euthanizing their entire flock of 100,000 ducks. Because at that farm in Long Island, New York, they've got a confirmed outbreak of bird flu. Where do you think this report is going? I don't know. Okay.

Starting point is 02:23:39 Trump. And bird flu has now killed more than 130 million birds in the United States and all 50 states. No, no, no, no, no, no. The people have killed 130 million birds. The Bird Flu didn't kill them, the people killed them. It's, in 28 states, they're now testing their dairy cows for it as well because it has jumped from birds to cows.

Starting point is 02:24:05 Which means one of the risk factors they're now alerting people to for this thing has jumped from birds to cows. Raw milk. Cows. Yep. Which means one of the risk factors they're now alerting people to for this thing is consumption of or contact with raw milk. It's a risk factor now for bird flu. Contact, contact with, you can't even get it on your hand. You can't even touch it. Don't touch it. Nearly 70 people in the United States have been infected with bird flu thus far.

Starting point is 02:24:26 We've even had deaths of people's pet cats because the cats have drunk raw milk meant for human consumption. The raw milk was from cows infected with bird flu. It gave the cats bird flu and then the cats died. Oh, the cats died. Say it's not so. Can the CDC help? The CDC just sent urgent guidance to American hospitals. Urgent guidance, urgent guidance. Advising hospitals that when people appear at the hospital with flu this flu season

Starting point is 02:24:58 people shouldn't just be tested for normal flu they need to be tested for bird flu as well. Because that needs to be handled differently. And anybody who tests positive for bird flu needs to be separated from other patients. Hospital staff need to know about it in order to wear appropriate protective clothing to protect themselves. You need PPE to be around raw milk and bird flu. I say the CDC just sent that urgent advice to American hospitals but when I say they just sent it what I mean specifically is they sent

Starting point is 02:25:32 that advice last week while President Biden was still president because now that President Trump is president he has ordered that the CDC and all US health agencies should no longer release any information to anyone on anything This is the new one. You see this this is how they're gonna try and do bird flu Whatever by saying Trump wouldn't let the CDC report anything We don't know we're in the dark. We could be under extreme threat from h5n5 and raw milk Not just to the public but to scientists and doctors and hospitals. And that includes the CDC's flagship health alert publication for doctors and scientists called MMWR

Starting point is 02:26:17 morbidity and mortality weekly report. This week CDC was scheduled to publish several MMWR reports including three about this burgeoning bird flu outbreak that is happening and rapidly progressing right now. Oh my god. So you were kind of right in both cases. It's about raw milk and about Trump. It's a twofer. Meanwhile, Trump's nominee to run Health and Human Services for the U.S. government reportedly approached one of the nation's largest raw milk producers. Uh-oh. Asking him to please become an advisor to the FDA in Washington. This is a man whose company has been the subject of at least 11 different lawsuits stemming

Starting point is 02:26:56 from contamination of his raw milk products. This farmer has also been the subject of 13 recalls, including for E. coli and Listeria and Campylobacter and Salmonella and yes, bird flu in his raw milk. No! His products are currently barred from sale in California for making so many people sick. One Salmonella outbreak his company is being sued for resulted in 171 people being sickened including some people who got kidney failure. Oh my goodness. Well, or as I would say, goodness gracious. Here is the final one.

Starting point is 02:27:29 This is an epidemic where the CDC is- Wait, stop. What did she name this guy or the company? It's McAfee Farms, but she didn't, I don't know why she didn't name him, but that's who it is, McAfee Farms. Here's the kicker. This is an epidemic where the CDC is advising hospitals how to deal with people coming in But that's who it is, in that MacAfee Farms. Here's the kicker. This is an epidemic where the CDC is advising hospitals how to deal with people coming in with flu, making sure they're tested for it, telling hospitals how they can protect patients

Starting point is 02:27:54 and protect their own health workers. The CDC is warning that raw milk from an infected cow, not only just drinking it, but potentially even just being splashed in the face with it. Yes. They're saying contact with raw milk from an infected cow is one of the ways people can be exposed to this emerging epidemic of bird flu. Splash.

Starting point is 02:28:15 And while that is how the last administration was trying to get their arms around this emerging threat as recently as the end of last week, this new administration this week says, first of all, let's get the raw milk people here to Washington to advise the FDA, presumably on all the benefits of raw milk. And in the meantime, stop releasing any information on this bird flu thing, anything. Honestly, it sounds scary.

Starting point is 02:28:37 Scary. Maybe if we don't talk about it, maybe it'll go away. And by the way, pay no attention to the price of eggs. We're all paying attention to the price of eggs. We're all paying attention to the price of eggs. So that's, so they're stretching so far now that that's all they got. Well, they got something. They got something. They do have something. But oh man oh man I think that relates to this clip which is the foreign-age stoppage oh yes yeah there's a lot oh yeah there's another Al Jazeera report the day he was an all-year president

Starting point is 02:29:15 Donald Trump signed an executive order basically saying a pause needed to happen for 90 days when it comes to US foreign assistance now it's not unusual for presidents and their incoming teams to pause future contracts but we now know that is not what is happening here. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a memorandum basically pausing all US foreign assistance spending as of right now. So in the middle of the night, local time, all of these people and companies and contractors started getting memos basically saying stop work notice.

Starting point is 02:29:48 So what exactly does that mean? Except for aid to Israel and Egypt and immediate food assistance, it means all US foreign assistance is going to be paused. What does that do? That's about $68 billion in 2023. It went to things like building democracy, peace forces and security, building schools, building hospitals, uh, mind clearing the program that gives AIDS to people with HIV.

Starting point is 02:30:15 That's going to, Did she say a program that gives AIDS to people with HIV? That's what it sounded like. Let me hear that again. Forces and security building schools, building hospitals, mind clearing, a program that gives AIDS to people with HIV. Wow. Yeah, she said AIDS.

Starting point is 02:30:35 That program should be stopped. I agree. Do not give AIDS to people with HIV. That's not good. Building schools, building hospitals, mind clearing, a program that gives aids to people with HIV, that's going to be paused. So it is going to have a very large impact on the community here that does this sort of work, but really across the globe people are going to see this impact immediately. For example, if your town has a school being built with US foreign assistance,

Starting point is 02:31:06 that construction is supposed to stop immediately. This is very interesting. As an American, as an American citizen, I think it's, I think, I presume he's doing this to take stock of what we're actually giving to whom and where. I know there's, you know, there's been all kinds of, and a lot of this is through NGOs. Exactly. All the NGOs where they're the cutouts. Sucking this dry. Yes. And I think it's a lot of money. And so maybe we'll get a little appreciation of what we've been doing for other people without helping ourselves. I know I can just hear the Europeans going, you only care about yourself, stupid Jack.

Starting point is 02:31:45 I have an NPR report on this if you're interested. Yeah, sure. I don't know if it's that, guys. An internal memo obtained by NPR calls for U.S. humanitarian and development programs to stop their work. And blocks virtually all new foreign assistance. Yes, there it is. The directive expands on an executive order that President Trump issued earlier in the

Starting point is 02:32:07 week. And here, global health correspondent Fatma Tanis joins us now. Fatma, thanks for being with us. Thanks for having me, Scott. And please tell us about this memo. So it was signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and it says that U.S. foreign assistance will be frozen while a comprehensive review of all programs can be undertaken to quote ensure that all foreign assistance is aligned with President Trump's foreign policy

Starting point is 02:32:31 agenda. Now the memo says the review will be completed within 85 days and that means for nearly three months there's going to be no new funding for any foreign assistance and programs that have already been approved for funding will have to stop work. There are some exemptions, such as foreign military financing for Israel and Egypt, and also emergency food aid. Okay, you want to hear more? We hear more from NPR, which is such a...

Starting point is 02:32:57 Yes, but they play that out and they have a follow-up clip. NBX, NBX here. What kind of programs are likely to be affected? It's everything from the building of roads to vaccination programs, and there are also aid efforts in sensitive conflict zones. These are often logistically complicated programs, so once you pause them, it's hard to get things running back up again immediately. And you know, Scott, we're talking about a lot of investment, around $60 billion worth.

Starting point is 02:33:25 That's how much the US provides in foreign assistance annually. And it's the biggest financial supporter of development aid in the world. So this is going to have a huge impact across the board. And there's a lot that's still unclear. There are questions about how this is going to affect, you know, aid to Ukraine and Taiwan, for example, also critical global health programs like PEPFAR, that's the U.S. effort to combat HIV around the world, and it's credited with having saved 25 million lives. By giving aids to people with HIV.

Starting point is 02:33:53 What might happen to people who work for these programs? So until this review is over, these U.S.-funded programs are likely going to have to cease operations, even furlough or lay off their staff. Employees of USAID, the agency primarily responsible for administering humanitarian and development aid, will be keeping their jobs for now. But I should also note that many of the organizations that partner with the U.S. on foreign assistance are based in the U.S. and they employ people here and overseas. So this is going to impact overseas staff in the short term, but it will also lead to layoffs in the US if it continues.

Starting point is 02:34:32 Yeah, okay. That's the third clip, but what do you want to play as a follow-up? No, play the third clip now, play mine, which is about pulling the money from the WHO. Oh, okay. What kind of reaction from aid groups? Jubilence! People are shocked and really worried. A senior official at USAID told me that, quote, the work stop order is completely reckless and disruptive and said it was draconian.

Starting point is 02:34:54 The official asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the agency. I also spoke to the leader of an organization that partners with USAID. They offer humanitarian assistance and that person told me the administration has quote thrown a grenade right into the middle of foreign assistance. This person also spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing retribution against their organization for speaking out. They said that they would have to pull out their staff who are providing critical services

Starting point is 02:35:23 in the field and also lay off U.S. staff. The person said that, quote, we can't afford to keep funding our programs because we don't know if we will be reimbursed per our contracts with U.S. agencies. Now, aid experts are also warning that this move could have a destabilizing effect in countries where humanitarian aid is critical. I spoke to Abby Maxman. She's the president of Oxfam America. It's a charity that does not take funding from the U.S. government.

Starting point is 02:35:49 And here's what she said. No, they just steal it and lose it. It's having seismic impacts for the entire global aid system. And really... The AIDS... everything's about the AIDS system. I don't know. There's something about AIDS here. It's having seismic impacts for the entire global aid system. I don't know. There's something about AIDS here. It's having seismic impacts for the entire global AIDS system. And really, frankly, it's

Starting point is 02:36:08 a cruel decision that has life or death consequences for millions of people around the world. She's called on the Trump administration to reverse the move before it's too late. I bet it's a lot more than 60 billion. I bet it's just an enormous amount. Maybe 60 million, a billion a month. It's a lot. Those NGOs, it's crazy. That's all the refugee resettlement program in Austin alone is one billion a year. That's an NGO.

Starting point is 02:36:37 These guys are just stealing our money. Yes. All right, WHO. But here's the WHO clip. There's another money waster. I didn't realize, I was under the that well, maybe there's some sharing going on, but I guess the W.H.O. is going to go under because of us. Oh, sorry.

Starting point is 02:36:52 Here we go. The World Health Organization says it is reviewing its priorities to cut costs following U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the body. The United States is the largest donor to the WHO, but shortly after his inauguration on Monday, Trump signed an executive order stating his country's withdrawal. The AFP news agency reports WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sent an email to its employees on Thursday. In it, he said the US decision

Starting point is 02:37:25 has made the organization's financial situation more acute. He said they are now reviewing which activities to prioritize with a reduced resource envelope. He went on to say that recruitment will be frozen except in the most critical areas and that travel expenses will be dramatically cut back. Oh, there goes my sweet. WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier described the US decision as a concern for global health. He noted the WHO both provides critical information to the US and receives information from it so as to have the best possible response in case of outbreaks.

Starting point is 02:38:07 Hmm. Another issue for Rachel to pick up on. Oh, she will. Yeah. Some war news now, war news. President Trump. I got war news too. Well, let me start with my war news.

Starting point is 02:38:24 My war news may be better than your war news. I mean, I've got good war news. Donald Trump has always insisted there would have been no war in Ukraine if he had been president at the time. On Friday, Vladimir Putin backs him up, also taking the opportunity to repeat Trump's false claim that he won the 2020 election. It's a claim. It's just a claim. It's a claim, not a false claim. It's false claim that he won the 2020 election. It's a claim. It's just a claim.

Starting point is 02:38:45 It's a claim, not a false claim. It's a claim. But Putin backs up his false claim. I must agree with him that if he had been president, if his victory had been stolen in 2020, then maybe there would not have been a crisis in Ukraine that emerged in 2022. Putin said he was ready for talks with the new US president. This has got to gall everybody and these reporters must be beside themselves because this is what Trump's been saying all along.

Starting point is 02:39:10 Yeah, yeah, whatever. And so now Putin comes out and says it. Oh brother. Well, even better, he says, if it hadn't been stolen, then the war would never have happened. If you guys hadn't stolen that election. If his victory hadn't been stolen in 2020, then maybe there would not have been a crisis in Ukraine that emerged in 2022. I mean, Putin loves trolling as well. He's good. Putin said he was ready for talks with the new US president on ending the fighting, but was waiting for signals from Washington. This despite Trump saying even before his inauguration

Starting point is 02:39:41 that he had been working on setting up a meeting. Trump has upped his rhetoric this week saying he would put pressure on Moscow by lowering global oil prices and he threatened new sanctions and tariffs on Russia if the war didn't stop. But Putin dismissed this possibility. He's not only a smart person, he is a pragmatic person and I can hardly imagine the decisions will be made that harm the American economy itself. For Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky Putin's latest statements are a naked attempt to flatter Trump. Specifically he is trying to manipulate the US president's desire to achieve peace. I am confident that no Russian manipulations will succeed any longer. What? This is a huge blunder.

Starting point is 02:40:25 Yeah? Yeah, you can't say that, well, Trump is a dumb shit because he's going to get manipulated by Putin and expect him to give you money? This was a huge blunder. I am confident that no Russian manipulations will succeed any longer. Kyiv has warned against any Putin-Trump peace talks that exclude Ukraine and European allies. But the Russian president says there can be no serious talks with Ukraine unless the West pushes Zelensky to cancel a 2022 decree that prohibits him from negotiating with the Russian

Starting point is 02:41:01 leader. No, don't worry about that. All right, I have more war news, but your war news is up next. I got some offbeat war news, because it's not being reported. Do you know anything about the Syria returning home story? Probably not. No, you don't. You have to go to Al Jazeera. The head of the UN's refugee agency says there's been a huge increase

Starting point is 02:41:23 in the number of Syrians who want to return home. Almost 30% of the Syrian refugees living in Middle Eastern countries now say they want to go back. That's up from almost none last year. The shift follows the ousting of President Bashar al-Assad in December. Oh, that's good. Meanwhile... That's like 200,000 people. Meanwhile, President Trump is seemingly threatening to drop the bomb.

Starting point is 02:41:49 President Trump says he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they're accepting from Gaza. Trump says he would like to, quote, clean the whole thing out. He also says that he will now allow the US to send 2,000 pound bombs to Israel, which had been paused by President Biden. Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire deal last week. So far, seven of the remaining hostages taken by Hamas militants in the 2023 attack have returned to Israel.

Starting point is 02:42:19 For its part, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners. Meanwhile, Israeli defense forces say they will not be able to withdraw from southern Lebanon today, which is a violation of the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah. Both sides have 60 days to remove soldiers from the region, but Israel is now accusing Hezbollah and the Lebanese army of not upholding their son of the deal. Lebanon says Israel is getting in the way of doing their job. Yeah, not in this report. President Trump apparently has said, hey, I got these 2,000 pound bombs I'm going to give to Israel.

Starting point is 02:42:52 That's interesting. I have the Al Jazeera report about the Lebanon. The Lebanon? Overlooky. Overlooky. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is blaming Lebanon for the delay in implementing the terms of the ceasefire there saying the Lebanese army isn't upholding its end of the deal. Israeli troops were supposed to withdraw on Sunday but Netanyahu says there aren't enough Lebanese soldiers in border villages for them to do so. He also says Hezbollah

Starting point is 02:43:20 has not pulled back sufficiently from the border region. Lebanon denies the claims and is urging Israel to respect the deadline. The November deal ended more than a year of cross-border hostilities between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, as well as two months of a large-scale Israeli assault on Lebanon. Al Jazeera's Zainah Hodda has more now from southern Lebanon. We are in Bourj al Malouk, a village in southern Lebanon, roughly four kilometers from the border with Israel. Early on Saturday, Israeli troops and bulldozers approached the village and they closed one of the main roads using earth mounds and barricades.

Starting point is 02:43:55 The Israeli army will not be pulling out from territory along the border in line with a ceasefire agreement. That's a 60-day deadline. They're supposed to leave Lebanon by early Sunday. The Israeli Prime Minister saying that Lebanon is not upholding its side of the agreement. It is claiming that the Lebanese army is still not able to ensure that Hezbollah doesn't re-establish its military presence along the border. Now, Lebanon and Lebanese officials are demanding that Israel respects that ceasefire agreement.

Starting point is 02:44:31 They believe that these are excuses and that the army is not able to deploy simply because of the presence of Israeli troops. Israel's position is supported by the Trump administration, with the White House saying, quote, there is an urgent need for a short and temporary extension of that ceasefire deal. That's still a mess. There's one thing that's interesting and no one's picked up on, which is the ratio of Palestinian because of the nature of the, you could say it was racism or it's like this is just something that no one's picked up on.

Starting point is 02:45:09 You had four, the release of four more hostages from the Hamas and then 200 Palestinians were released, which means that one Jew is worth 50 Palestinians. No, that's an interesting way to look at it. that one Jew is worth 50 Palestinians. Now the idea that one Jew is worth 50 Palestinians and which is a pretty much the ratio for all these exchanges is kind of an insult to the Palestinians at some point. But no one has done anything with this with this ratio and ridiculed it. You know what we call that? Best price. Best price.

Starting point is 02:45:47 Best price. Our producers never ceased to amaze me. I should have done this a little bit earlier when we're talking about Newsom's Inferno. One of our producers wrote in, and this is verified, I don't know who he is. He was there when the Vistra ML300 battery power storage facility was built, which I think is still on fire. Do you know if it's still on fire? The one at Moss Point? Yeah, the Vistra, the Vistra battery storage. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:46:15 I think it still is on fire. Yeah, listen to this. The original control system was Fluence and that was a miserable failure that they replaced and they replaced it with ovation. So he's getting into the details of what these systems were. The risk of fire was always known at this facility. In fact, it was a high risk register item for corporate. The problem is that the batteries were put into an old turbine building from a previous power plant that was on the site. This was considered a good thing because no new building was needed to be built or permits,

Starting point is 02:46:49 I presume. However, during the fire, this became a hindrance because the batteries were very close together and had limited fire suppression. This is a big blow to the California battery push. The chemistry of these batteries is extremely dangerous if they ignite. Think of all the EV fires you've seen and multiply that by a thousand. From a corporate standpoint, batteries were a big play for Vistra and their push for net zero. This may change things. My former boss who still works for the

Starting point is 02:47:16 company called me about the fire when it happened as I and others had raised some risk questions in the past. Another big problem with the battery sites is the digital inverters at the utility scale are not holding up. No. Yeah. People are just telling them like, no, it's not a good idea. It's not a good... By the way, you want to say hi to Rick Nelson and his lovely wife who were in Fredericksburg this weekend. Hi, Rick. Just want to say hi. It's that old DJ thing. You always want to say hi when someone's in town. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 02:47:50 Yeah. Yeah, it's just me. DEI? Little DEI laughs? Yeah. Okay. Joy Reid, how could you go wrong? Federal employees are receiving emails warning that they could face repercussions if they do not

Starting point is 02:48:05 snitch on their coworkers who work in diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility positions that might have gone unnoticed by government supervisors. DEI efforts date back to the civil rights movement to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces. Nah, I don't think so. That's not true. But on Thursday, Trump slammed them as absolute nonsense in remarks

Starting point is 02:48:30 to the World Economic Forum. My administration has taken action to abolish all discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion nonsense. And these are policies that were absolute nonsense throughout the government and the private sector with the recent yet somewhat unexpected great

Starting point is 02:48:49 Supreme Court decision just made America will once again become a merit-based country. What Supreme Court decision is he talking about? I have no idea. I think it's he must be referring to that older one where they were they I think it was, he must be referring to that older one where they, where they, I think it was against Harvard where they, the Asian students couldn't get in because they were Asian and there was like, wait a minute. Yeah. That's some DEI for you.

Starting point is 02:49:13 And a final one. Federal employees are receiving emails. Oh no, I already got that one. Sorry, it's the same one. It's just longer. Never mind. Never mind. Let's play a funny clip.

Starting point is 02:49:22 Okay. TikTok clip on smelling hair. I was watching a clip of JD Vance's kids, just being kids yesterday. And that was awesome. But you know what I picked up on immediately? Trump never tried to smell them. Not one sniff was given. Okay, that's good.

Starting point is 02:49:43 You know, the, that Bill Gates thing where he talked about his meeting with Trump? Yeah. So there's more to that. There's two more pieces to that that I don't think anyone saw because why bother? Why bother and go look and see what else there was? So we talked about meeting with President Trump and he had this three-hour dinner and la-di-da was also great, but he also talked about RFK Jr. What do you make of RFK and vaccines and what he's saying about it and the position he's being given in this

Starting point is 02:50:17 incoming administration? Well he wrote a book saying that Tony Fauci and I kill millions of children and make billions of dollars with vaccines and you know people can judge for themselves whether that's that's correct or not. Ahead of Trump's election the Wall Street Journal reported Gates donated around 50 million dollars towards a pro-Harry Potter movie. No he didn't. You can judge for yourself. It wasn't millions, it was only a couple hundred thousand. Ahead of Trump's election the Wall Street Journal reported Gates donated around $50 million towards a pro-Harris super PAC. But you didn't actually ever publicly endorse him. Why was that?

Starting point is 02:50:54 In my role as chairman of the Gates Foundation, you know, we've had incredible relationships with... Was it a tell-wrap? Yeah, I missed that one myself. Hold on. Right. In my role as chairman of the Gates Foundation... I miss that one myself. In my role as chairman of the Gates Foundation. Wow. In my role as chairman, there's a lie coming up.

Starting point is 02:51:13 Here's a lie. Here's a lie. I did give $50 million to the Super PAC, but I'm going to lie about it. In my role as chairman of the Gates Foundation, we know, we've had incredible relationships with Every administration, you know the progress since year 2000, you know cutting childhood death in half cutting HIV Deaths in half, you know, that's due to partnerships with rich world governments where the u.s. Is in absolute the most generous and so You know, I look forward to working with every, together with every administration.

Starting point is 02:51:49 Yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, hum, hum, hum. And then the final one, and I'm so surprised that no one got this. I mean, all they had was Bill Gates having dinner with President Trump, but this is the killer. The Journal previously reported on Gates' ties to Jeffrey Epstein, including that Epstein threatened Gates over an affair he had. The two met a few times, Gates says, to discuss philanthropy. Do you think, looking back at that moment, that you were being played?

Starting point is 02:52:20 Well, Jeffrey, in retrospect, I was foolish to spend any time with him, and he sort of, you know, got time with various people by spending time with other people. So yes, I think I was quite stupid. You know, I thought it would help me with global health philanthropy. In fact, it failed to do that, and it was just a huge mistake. Has it made you more wary of connections? Definitely. I mean, are you kidding?

Starting point is 02:52:49 No, you're not elected, but I think it's fair to say that you could probably pick up the phone to any world leader out there. Who's the last world leader that you spoke to? Because of how engaged the foundation is in these global health issues, I talk to world leaders a lot. So in the last month, I've talked to President Macron, Ursula von der Leyen. Do any of them read you up and ask you for advice on how to handle Donald Trump? No, I've never had that.

Starting point is 02:53:15 You know, I've had people be quizzical about maybe what they should do, but I'm—you know, they'll have to— they're on their own on that one That guy's a scourge He's a scourge. Did you see the John Stewart podcast with AOC? I Only saw clips a part of it. I did not sit down and actually watch it, which I should do Well, no, you should she's off the rails. Yes, she went way off the rails with John and this was- He's off the rails too. Yeah, he is.

Starting point is 02:53:51 I don't even know why he's still doing his podcast. I mean, he's got gigs and stuff. It's not a great podcast, but this was a humorous little moment. There need to be Democrats who walk the walk and talk the talk. There is an insane amount of hypocrisy and the hypocrisy is what gets What was that? He grunts into the microphone a lot. What was that noise? That was horrible. He's going mmm. An insane amount of hypocrisy and the hypocrisy is what gets exploited to use the cynicism. And wherever there's a hypocritical window, for example, I think one of the most biggest examples of this is insider trading in Congress.

Starting point is 02:54:36 Like, dude, dude, I don't know. I like I don't know if I like do I give snaps? Do I I don't know what the kids do anymore, but like, dude. Dude. Yes. It is like. That's so crazy. It's so crazy. It's crazy.

Starting point is 02:54:52 Crazy. I mean. Do you think they think it's crazy? Are they just discovering this? You know, a gender show has been talking about this for how long? 15, 16, 17 years. Like that's the, and this is the thing.

Starting point is 02:55:04 It's like, like people think that everyday people are stupid. I'm like, do you really think that people don't see this shit? Like they sit on a committee, they get information about a drug or a contract or a thing. They immediately make a call. The stockbroker changes things and, and their portfolio swells. It explodes. It explodes. What are we doing?

Starting point is 02:55:29 And you're doing this on public trust. Right. On, on like taxpayer finance, public, you know, facilities. Like you're regulating the market that you're trading on. Exactly. And like... You run the casino. And then we're supposed to act like money doesn't only corrupts Republicans?

Starting point is 02:55:53 Give me a fucking break. Yeah, welcome to the party, AOC. Jeez. With the cussing, again with the cussing. Yeah, the cussing. So much cussing. And this is what I mean by, I don't know if we're gonna make four more years Because she won't say that on MSNBC. Then she's all

Starting point is 02:56:11 I mean, this is only on podcasts. We've been such frontrunners of this. I Don't know what to do. It's gonna get harder. It's gonna get very hard. Alright, I'll let you play one more clip. It's never gonna get hard. That's what she said. How do we get out of here? You got something for me? Well, let's see. We can play a little. We can do the Korea thing. We can do the justice back off on abortion clinics. We can do the overlap where you did that porn site age verification.

Starting point is 02:56:39 Yes, yes, yes. It's interesting and I have a comment about it. Now there you're talking. The Supreme Court heard a challenge today to a Texas law that requires age verification for adult websites. A trade group representing adult entertainment performers and companies argues the law violates the First Amendment. After two hours of oral argument, a majority of the court signaled that states should be

Starting point is 02:57:02 able to impose some kind of age requirement for such websites. This is to ensure that minors can't easily access obscene material online. But several justices also flag concerns that their ruling could spill over and affect other First Amendment rights. A decision is expected by this summer. The Texas law from 2023 is similar to 19 others enacted around the United States. Under the Texas law, adult websites must require all users to submit personally identifying information, verifying that they are at least 18 years old. Challengers, including the American Civil Liberties Union, argue the law is an unacceptable burden to access constitutionally protected free speech.

Starting point is 02:57:45 Some adult sites have responded by blocking access entirely in states with age verification laws. Yep, no porn in Texas. Well, that's probably good for you. Yeah. This is never gonna fly. No one's gonna put their, prove your, besides that, there's a couple of things.

Starting point is 02:58:04 This is ludicrous. This is the internet age. We're not living in the dark ages here. So, someone says, hey, verify that you show us your driver's license and prove that you're such an age. So, I'm a kid and I look at it, hey dad, can I buy your driver's license for a second? Yeah, sure. What do you need it for? It's a school project. Okay. And give it a boom.

Starting point is 02:58:28 You scan the dad's license. You scan somebody else's license. You do something. You've kids. When I was a kid, when I was a kid, there were, you know, everybody in high school had a fake ID so they could go drinking. The girls mostly, because in those days, before you got your actual license, you had a temporary license that was a piece of paper

Starting point is 02:58:48 that could easily be changed, counterfeited, forged, whatever. So every girl who, every 16 year old that I knew had a fake ID saying they were 21. And if they put enough makeup on them, they can get away with it. And this is not gonna work. It's dumb. I think what they're all angling here of a fang This is a globalist push which say is a big was ID good universal ID. Yeah was a big conversation and not gonna happen

Starting point is 02:59:19 It better how you think it is. I think I think it is I think it is I'd be yeah well you well Well, I would, yes, because I like it. I think it's good. You don't think it's good. You're just paranoid for no good reason. Login.gov is essentially already your digital ID. And you know what they do when you do AML, KYC type stuff, you know, it's like they, it's not just your driver's license.

Starting point is 02:59:45 They also force you to take a selfie and then they compare the selfie. So you're gonna have to say, dad, can I borrow that for a second? And then, hey dad, look over here. And then you have to get his picture in the little round. You're gonna have pictures of your dad on your phone anyway.

Starting point is 03:00:00 No, no, no, it's not, I'm telling you, it's a lot more difficult than you think. Kids are smarter than you think then. I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah, on No Agenda. You heard it here first, kids are smarter than you think.

Starting point is 03:00:24 That's some boomer talk for you They were just two old guys. What do we know? and We do know that we have several people we'd like to thank who supported the show today value for value $50 and above John is gonna take us through it and it's not that many no Brian key Is the top of the list in Sierra Vista Arizona one two four three three. I'm just gonna read these are the guys this is the last of

Starting point is 03:00:51 the Trump inauguration donations and by the way Bryant in Sierra Vista Arizona says please tell John that the hardcover egg book is beautiful. We love it. Nice. TooManyEggs.com. Aaron Joyce in York, Pennsylvania, 12433. I'm just going to read the names and locations. Lauren Matthew in W-E-A-R-E, New Hampshire.

Starting point is 03:01:18 I'm not sure how to pronounce that. Sir Alan in Midlothian, Virginia. Baron Victor in Corvallis, Oregon, Jason Stewart in Manchester, Missouri, Garrett Fothery, I guess in River Oaks, Texas, ITM, Eric Hanna in Chicago, and that's our group. He says, Eric says says the show is fantastic oh yes yes reminder that he asked me personally to remind everybody reminder reminder reminder reminder there's a Chicago meetup at Reggie's on the near

Starting point is 03:01:55 the south side this upcoming Saturday Saturday Saturday Reggie's Chicago okay did it people get overone it a little better. Kevin McLaughlin, the Conker, North Carolina, shows up with 8008 once again. He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America, and boobs, which is what 8008 means. Sir Island Dog in Fernandina Beach, Florida, 7377 is a switcheroo to recognize his lovely wife's birthday, Dame Janet of Dog Nation. She turns to big seven zero. Wow.

Starting point is 03:02:30 Nice. She's on the list. Wayne Larkham in Sunny Hills, Queensland, Australia, $65. Jonathan Sagers in Brie, Belgium. Oh, we're getting into the Belge. Yes. 6333. Surprise!

Starting point is 03:02:48 The Night of Astonishment in Yukon, Oklahoma, 5444. For Scott Brinkley in North Canton, Ohio, 5272. Brett Denton in Boise, 50. Oh, now they were at the 50s already. Already at the fifties already already at the fifties and starting with Brett Denton, then Melissa Alvarez and Ponta Verde beach, Verdra beach Diane Schwanneback in Edison, Illinois,

Starting point is 03:03:14 George Wushit in Lavernia, Texas. And we're already done with Alex Alexis. I'm sorry. Alexis Robles in Chula Vista, California, uh, Calling yourself the Mexican Hobbit. And so that's it. Yes, and Diane said congratulations to David Schwannabeck on his 17 years of leadership at Twin Piping If you want some piping, that's twinpiping.com If you want some piping, Twin Piping are the guys for you. That's right. Thank you all very much Especially you want to thank those who came in under 50 because they don't get mentioned but that's for reasons of anonymity Which is important that we do not blow their cover

Starting point is 03:03:52 So I see you 49.99 and of course we have that wonderful opportunity to give us a sustaining donation by Going to know agenda donations comm setting any amount you want. Yes, and there's one note You're gonna have to read because it's a nighting note on line 67. Line 67, 67. Yeah, no, I have the notes. It's okay. That's what I'll say.

Starting point is 03:04:20 Yeah, that's Sir Nathan Lee. Yes. We have that note in the preparatory documents. Well, it's a cheese throw. Soon we'll just be done by AI. Don't have to worry about it. AI's gonna take care of everything for us. It's gonna be great.

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Starting point is 03:04:56 Alex J. Myers, which is his daughter Jacqueline Winsay Myers. Very happy birthday. She turned one year old yesterday. Jean Nouse says happy birthday to her wonderful husband Herman turning 76 on the 27th. Sir Island Dogg, which is his wife Dame Janet of Dogg Nation. A very happy one. She turned 70 on the 27th. Sir Island Dogg wishes his wife Dame Janet of Dogg Nation a very happy one. She turned 70 on the 27th and Sean Holman of StealthArms.net which is his wife Liz a happy birthday. And of course we join in the celebrations to say happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. Overbaron just wanted to announce that on this occasion 1733 It's an important note that date show number for him because that's when modern Freemasonry began So we'd like to take this opportunity He wants his baron title to be Baron Nathan Lee of Nantucket whose title so long you'll love it He says with the grin no agenination. I would like to thank you for your courage protected of Massachusetts owned island of Nantucket. If that passes the board I believe so, very good, happy to accommodate. Feel free to just say Baron Nathan Lee of Nantucket. Well there

Starting point is 03:06:12 you go. And of course you may know him as a cult fan, dark journalist for you UFO truthers. Baron Nathan Lee, welcome brother. Thank you very much for your continued support. He also does the Red 33, Red 33 meetups in Boston. And he is a...oops...just sorry. A long time supporter, we appreciate it. Then we do have the Dame, which came through a switcheroo. So if you can grab a blade there, that would be very helpful. Here you go, the big boy.

Starting point is 03:06:43 Liz, Liz, Liz, Liz, Liz, Liz, step on up. Thanks to your hubby who loved you very much. the big boy. and cold women and probably won't like that. What else do we have? We have Masticholi and margaritas, maybe nice beer and blunts, how about that? Geishas and sake, I don't know. Vodka Manila, Bongits and bourbon, sparkling cider and exports. How about some ginger ale and gerbils? It's always a favorite. Also we have the breast milk and pablum,

Starting point is 03:07:17 but for you Dame Liz, I'm thinking mutton and mead will serve you just right. Your husband did not ask for anything else in the round table, but you Dame Liz, go to NoAgendaRings.com. There you will find our very attractive rings for Knights and for Dames. It's a signet ring. It's if you can actually hit someone in the mouth, it'll leave a mark or you can seal your important correspondence, your envelopes with the wax that we provide with it. And as always, it comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by John and myself. You are a knight, I mean a dame. Congratulations, Dame Liz.

Starting point is 03:07:47 No agenda meetups. That's right, connection is protection at the no agenda meetups. It's where you meet the first responders in your life. You'll be able to count on them. This is where you're awkward, you're perfect. That's what the No Agenda meetups are all about. You can be yourself because it doesn't matter where you come from. You have one thing in common. You are all members of No Agenda Nation. You're citizens of No Agenda Nation. You all have the show in common. You all have the media deconstruction in your mind. It is a perfect

Starting point is 03:08:21 opportunity to meet people, to hang out with people, have a drink. It's a good reason to go to a bar. And we have some meetups, the Indie Meetup. This is from January. Always a killer. Hello, this is Dame Maria, straight back from Amsterdam. And this is Sir Mark Mary, the Dame Maria. Sir Benny, through wind, snow, sleet or hail, we're going to show up for a goddamn no agenda meeting.

Starting point is 03:08:44 In the morning, Dame Swanee. In the morning, John and Adam, Sir PBR Street Gang. Just a reminder to everyone out there and get no nation that Indy still has the A number one meetup, thank you. In the morning, Dame Trinity, having a great time in Indy as always. Thank you for your courage.

Starting point is 03:08:58 Adam and John, this is Shannon visiting from Fort Wayne. And Adam, I submitted a sound sample to the Maury Povit Show and you'll never guess the results. You are the Podfather. Pruski here, just drinking some beers at the Bline now. In the morning, John and Adam, this is Emily and I'm over this cold. Gary here, as of the recording, eight more days until the third act of the movie starts. Grab your popcorn, people. This should be interesting.

Starting point is 03:09:20 In the morning, Guzman of the Midwest, happy New World Order. In the morning, John and Adam, this is Nick. California's gonna fall into the ocean. China's gonna occupy the place. And John C. DeVarock will still be like, oh, it's great, I love it here. This is Graney here at the wine house, hanging out with this riff-raff

Starting point is 03:09:37 and giving them some drinks and having a good time. Adios, mofos, bye, bye, Biden. Yeah, I love it when you bring in your servers. That's always fun. Thank you, Damonette, for putting that together. Now we go to Fredericksburg, Virginia for the arcade party meetup. Hi, it's Happy in Virginia at the arcade meetup in Fredericksburg, again, back by popular demand.

Starting point is 03:10:03 This is Roundy. I played a lot of video games here and picked up a nice virus. Jeffer Sprayfield in the morning. Hey, this is Sir William of West Pencil, Kentucky from Alexandria. Train's good, plane's bad, and that's it. That's Roy from Spotsvania, Virginia, and the beer's great. Sir Harry Pilgrim here with the Baron of Massaponics. I realized I'm not quite the pinball wizard I used to be.

Starting point is 03:10:26 People are playing games so hard, night rings are falling off onto the floor. Yeah. Alright, this is Sarah from Richmond, and as always, life is a scam. ITM, where's the due to climate change ringtone on Phone Boy? This is Tom Starkweather. I'm enjoying our second Reclaim Arcade Meetup. In the morning! I gotta tell you that Roundy always makes these beautiful no agenda signs and he takes them to the meetup.

Starting point is 03:10:54 Not just actual letters that stand on the table. It's really cool. I wouldn't mind having one of those. He's a great participant. Doesn't do any more art for us, because he's getting paid for it, and so he doesn't do that. He won his couple of times, and that was... Yeah, now I got a job, I'm good to go. I'm not going to do this anymore. And have you ever wondered what happens

Starting point is 03:11:18 if you give a world renowned, award winning architect garage band and a meetup and a phone and tell him, hey, put together a meetup report. Well, that's what you get from Tokyo with Sir Mark. Hi, John and Adam, Tokyo Calling. We're having a really great meetup here tonight. We have 14, 15 people from all over Japan, some visitors from the US as well. It's been really amazing.

Starting point is 03:11:44 We're holding it at 10 cups in Shibuya, really fantastic bar and everybody wants to say hi. Hey guys, this is El Mexicano, this is Tokyo. In the morning. Hi guys, and this is his wife that he punched in the mouth. And a little human resource. Sir 3D Whiskey 5 India Tango Mic. I flew here from ITM Osaka Airport to check out this Hui Hui. Hey Adam and John C. This is Brandon. This is David. This is Harold. Please say hi to the camera.

Starting point is 03:12:17 In the morning John and Adam, this is Casey. In the morning John and Adam, this is Alexander. I've got hairy legs! This is producer Pete in Japan. Yo yo, come back. Come back, Adam. In the morning, boys, this is the pursuit of peace and tranquility. Okay, Adam, John, congratulations on your opening. This is Dustin. We don't have any agenda today, so please relax. Thank you! Hi! Thank you! It's Unvarnished Veracity and it's so fitting to No Agenda.

Starting point is 03:13:06 See ya! Hey, I'm just in the edit and I've realized I've lost producer Steve's clip. I'm so sorry. Anyway, we want to thank everybody for their courage for coming out tonight to the No Agenda Tokyo No Cheesecake Meetup. See you soon. Moshi Moshi! Unvarnished Veracity.

Starting point is 03:13:23 That's who we are according to Daym Astrid. I don't know, I kind of like that. You know that there's some dudes in there who said something really rank in Japanese. Of course, that's what you do. That's what you do, exactly. Hey, the Psyop seasonal meetup is underway today as we speak at Toby's Bar and Grill in Toronto. The Cowpea Kanoa Genna meetup of the Black Hills also underway at Crowe Peak Brewing

Starting point is 03:13:46 in Spearfish, South Dakota. The TMI-EVAC Zone Fortune Cookie meetup also underway in Evergreen Brewing, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. You can probably still catch them. On Thursday, our next show day, the North Georgia Monthly Meetup will kick in at 6 o'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alfred, Georgia. And a special note, the Northern Silicon Valley Get John Out of the House Meetup 6.0 is taking place,

Starting point is 03:14:09 I believe, is that February 1st, John? Are you booked for that? I believe so, at the Mallard Club. And you're going, right? Because people love hanging out with you. That's it on No Agenda Meetups. There's many more that can be found on noagendameetups.com.

Starting point is 03:14:24 Go to noagendameetups.com. Go to noagendameetups.com. You can search by location, by time, by calendar, by date. Thank you, Sir Daniel, for keeping that running and Mimi for doing all the back office work. Soon to be taken over by AI. It's going to do all that work for us. Go to noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start one yourself. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.

Starting point is 03:14:40 You want to be where you want to be. Drink with the boys and girls. You want to be where you want to be. You want to be where you want to be. You want to be where you want to be. You want to be where you want to be. You want to be where you want to be. You want to be where you want to be. You want to be where you want to be. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be where you want be, drink it or hell's a lame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party

Starting point is 03:15:00 It always is. It is always like a party. I love hearing those reports from all over the world it makes us sound so international Yeah, because we are we international. It's not just America. It's international people love it So we have an ISO off. We only each have one ISO which makes total sense You have the carryover from last show which I think is a good one. I will play it. I remember it It's two guys. These two guys are so cute and all I have to compete with you is this one it's so crazy mmm muddy these two guys are so cute that's the one we're going with and now

Starting point is 03:15:42 of course it's time for the only at John's tip of the day So I have a sense with this theme of today's show seems to to be AI I'm jumping to an AI product. Okay. Wow. And this is a thing called Hot is hot pot dot AI is the website hot hot hot hot They can't do hotspot because that's been somebody sitting on ad, but it's hotpot.ai. And it has a million different functions that are mostly free to use, but they have this system they want to try to make money. Sorry, I have to laugh. Okay. They're going to try to make money using a tokenized system, which is the way where you

Starting point is 03:16:44 say, I'm going to buy X number of credits and for this I need three credits and for that I need two credits and to do this I got five credits and six credits, so you buy 100 credits, you buy 1000 credits. It's just okay. They've gamified it. Good luck. But this thing does, I mean, this is the most comprehensive series of AI products I've ever seen. It'll create art, it will edit photos, it will create posting, it'll give robots a post,

Starting point is 03:17:16 logos. I mean people should look at this, it's really fascinating. Can it do the spreadsheet for us? That's coming. And the meetup calendar, all that can be done? Yeah, all that's coming. It also do stuff that these phones have these things like remove someone from a picture, it'll do that rather effortlessly. It'll change backgrounds. It's actually pretty powerful. It's something people should play with.

Starting point is 03:17:42 And our AI experts, I'd like to get some feedback from them. Can it code? Can it code? No, this doesn't code. It doesn't code. And what's it called again? Just so we can put it in the right website? Hot Pot, as in the, you know, the Chinese dish. Yes, Hot Pot. Hotpot.ai. Hotpot.ai. That, ladies and gentlemen, is your tip of the day. The one and only John C. Dvorak delivers it to you every single show. Created by us for you and me. Just a tip with JCB. And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Brunetti.

Starting point is 03:18:16 Yes, thank you very much Dana Brunetti for creating it. What would we do without Dana Brunetti? We'd be lost. Almost no show, I'm telling you., that's it for today. Too long. Too long. We delivered the value. We'd love for you to consider sending some value back. We're not just doing it for our health, you know. Or maybe we are. Coming up next. We are doing it for our health. For our mental health. That's right. Yeah, our mental health and we're doing good work. And soon we could just take Ozempic and not have to do this for our mental health.

Starting point is 03:18:51 It's going to be great. And for our ED is fantastic. Coming to you. Wait, before I say that, we have up next on the stream at Trollroom.io, the modern podcast apps and NoAgenda.stream. Podcasting 2.0. It's the modern podcast apps, and NoAgenda.stream, podcasting 2.0. It's the weekly board meeting with me and Dave Jones. It's the booby trap where Dave, he needs help. He's a cry for help, so you better listen to it if you're a developer.

Starting point is 03:19:16 Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill country, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak. Remember us at NoAgendaDonations.com and enjoy a classic end of show mix about immigration in the classroom and young villain nafis with a ritter, ritter, ritter. Until then, adios, mofoes, a hooey, hooey, and such. Hey, hi, hello, hi, hoi It's Mark Rourke T here

Starting point is 03:19:48 Hello, hey, hi, how's it go? I'm sure you know I'm now the boss from the NATO That's not for nothing to say so After years of searching I'm the only one they know That can slow the orange man or say bro Oh! NATO, NATO, NATO Don't call me Rudy, call me Mark and let me show That if you also don't like sinking war Play safe and let NATO in your cookie jar

Starting point is 03:20:22 You know a France man says not NATO but OTAN It's same same same just in derriere spoken Let me explain to you how to pronounce it as a pro If you say origami sensation atlantique don't know All macarons know that not cheese but pieces what about it goes Those kids are alone, they are in cages, they are given peanut butter on tortillas, they're given frozen sandwiches that still have ice in them Is that the kind of environment you would want your kid to be in? We don't need no immigration We don't need no immigration We don't need no Border Patrol No peanut butter enchilada Donald, leave the kids alone. Hey, Donald, leave the kids alone. All in all it's all, all for funding your wall.

Starting point is 03:21:47 All in all it's all, all for funding the wall. Here's to Nilsson, will you not think that we are ruining your dinner? She is the secretary of PHS. ICE rips children apart from their families every day. They lock them up in cages, they sleep under those silver blankets you guys get at marathons. These kids will never be reunited with their parents, because Kirsten Nielsen's staff doesn't think it's necessary to make a play out to reunite them with their parents. And have you ever been to a detention center? I've been to one in Nogales, Arizona.

Starting point is 03:22:33 Those kids are alone there in the ages. They are given peanut butter on tortillas. They're given frozen sandwiches that still have ice in them. Is that the kind of environment you would want your kid to be in? That was a very interesting comment, I thought. That the idea of giving these children tortillas with peanut butter and some of them were out of the fridge, they still had ice on them is just despicable to this woman. It's just the whole idea. Meanwhile, I don't know if she has kids, but she's probably feeding them mac and cheese. If they see any weakness, they will come by the millions.

Starting point is 03:23:10 They will come by the millions. If they see any weakness... Zero tolerance for criminal aliens. Zero. Zero. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs, rape, they're bringing crime on our southern border. They're not sending their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime on our southern border.

Starting point is 03:23:26 They're rapists. And I will have Mexico pay for that. The Best Podcast in the Universe. Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash NA. These two guys are so cute.

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