No Agenda - 1797 - "Death Buses"

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

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What's the important thing you can do is get a booster. Adam Curry, John C. DeVorey DeVore. In Sunday, September 7th, 2025, this is your award-winning Cuban Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1797. This is no agenda. We've got the Powerball. And we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.

I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're still wondering how pink salt can remove stubborn belly fat. I'm John C. DeVorek. It's Crackbott and Buzzkill. In the morning. Well, I don't know where to start now. I mean, I was all excited about the powerball. And now, uh, and now the pink salt has me curious. You haven't seen these ads, these incessant ads on YouTube?

No, I don't get ads on YouTube because I pay for YouTube. What then you're missing out? Oh, yeah, I'm sure I am. I went to, um, I went to, um, I went to, what is the other one called? The one that Russell Brands. Rumble. Yeah, Rumble.

Oh, man. You get ads every five minutes. You fast forward, ad. Fast forward, ad. And it's like, skip in five seconds. It's like, it's a ridiculous game. Do they get crudited? Yeah, but you get to see the ads for the pink salt.

What is the pink salt? It removes belly fat? Here's the thing that really bugs me. And everybody out there has experienced this. oh we've got a secret this is as good as those epices is pink salt the big pink salt secret and you then they yack yack yack and they they go on forever the thing will go on forever so you have to click on like stantsburgh research to watch the video and so there's a video that they play i think this is some sort of a sciop it's like stantsbury research where it goes on forever

and it never gets to the point video says and then furthermore you're going to find what you're going to find out just we're going to tell you in three words what to do And those three words are the most important three words. And it goes on and on and on. And it's just like, what? And it's just unbelievable. Who's dreaming this stuff up? How can anyone watch it?

It's a boomer trap. But does it trap me? Because I see it coming a mile away. I love the troams like, What? Those guys don't know how to get an ad blocker? I've got plenty of ad blockers. Most of the ad blockers don't work very well.

Oh, my Unique. got the wrong headblock. I've been watching the troll room this morning, you know, since, I don't know, since 8 o'clock. Kind of, I'm from my peripheral vision. I'm convinced after observing this that Sci Girl and Lady Vox, they're dudes. Oh, I'm sure most of the women on the troll room are dudes. They're dudes, for sure. So the winning or a winning lottery ticket of the $1.8 billion, a lottery,

a lottery powerball Yeah Was sold in Fredericksburg, Texas Did you get it? Would I be doing this show? I don't think so Yeah, you would Everybody says they're never going to change anything

I want a billion dollars I'm going to be the same old guy I'm bringing my lunch to work I would I would call you up and say Hey John here's a mill Bye Yeah that's probably what I do too

I give you two I give you two I give you two I'd give you two. I'd give you two. Screw it. Five million. Bye. And then I'd hop on the jet.

I'd come out there and I'd finally see your studio. I'd be great. I didn't have you guys working. If you'd send me five mill, I'd be, a mill would go into fixing the studio. About what it takes. Oh, man. So I went to, um,

we went to Austin Friday, stayed overnight with our friends. Yeah. Uh, and, uh, now this is the former Hollywood, this is the director, the, or the producer. No, no, the former Hollywood executive. Yeah, executive. He was a producer, basically. Well, I think he's more, it was more like a deal maker.

Yeah. He did like, you know, he's chief financial officer of Marvel, but really he was. Okay, that guy. Yeah, that guy. He, who did you think it was? No, I thought he thought it was. He thought the other guy? I forgot that he was.

Yeah, the other one guy that, you know. No, I didn't realize. I forgot he was a CFO. Yeah, but really he was doing like the, you know, the merchandise deals. And I think he'd go with Ike on the jet and rough up some people. I think that's basically what he did. And they were all in a tizzy. How many people were there?

There's just the two with them, him and his wife. And the two of them were in a tizzy. Yeah, well, this is, everyone's talking about it. Have you heard? Have you heard? I'm like, no, what's going on? Because, you know, first of all, we enter Austin and we're always like, wow, I'm glad we moved out of here. It's just, it feels like you're always driving through Queens in the 1970s for some reason.

Except for the actual downtown. Well, about the Bronx in the 70s, there's even better. Yeah, all this missing is the, is the trains with all the graffiti on it. And everyone has ever, oh, have you heard? Have you heard? No, we haven't heard anything. And here's what they were talking about. The city of Austin has unveiled its first ever logo and brand replacing 300 across city services. Leaders say it creates one clear identity, but with a $1.1 million price tag, the new look is getting mixed reviews. Mixed reviews is the least of it. You got to take a look at this thing. Just go on your, I'm going to go look.

Go on your Google machine and look at the... Google machine. So it took them two years to come up with this logo and $1.2 million. And that's the result. Most people think it looks like a tent, you know, which makes sense for the homeless tents in Austin. Ah. Oh, the thing that you... Is this the thing with the...

It looks like the purple and green. Yeah. With Austin underneath. With the A. Yeah. It's like an A, but it's like an A where the thing going through it. It's like like freeways that are intersecting. Yes, exactly.

It sucks. Yeah, it's, it's not great. What's the point? Well, the point is now we have a brand. Austin has a brand that can brand everything. Well, they, from what they have, the image I'm looking at has the thing next to it, which is a city of Austin. Yeah, like a coat of arms.

It's got a logo, not a logo, but it's coat of arms. Yeah. What's wrong with that? Well, the city has important work to do, and this is what they did. And, of course, you know, the running joke is like, well, they got a guy who couldn't afford Canva Premium, which is it does look a bit like that. That's a good one. It looks a bit like Canva Premium.

Yeah. That was the, so there was that news and the other big news. What's the point again? It was so they can have consistent branding. Why? It's said, what's the point of that? Again. It's a city.

Look at the city council. A bunch of nut jobs. It's a Democrat run city. And this is what they come up with. Of all the problems we have in Austin, this is the one. We needed to fix this. Yeah.

And it's small compared to their budget. But it's funny. That was the main topic of conversation. And then the concrete cancer. This is another first world problem. but apparently a very big one. Have you heard of the concrete cancer in Austin? No, but I'm about to.

So during COVID, a lot of people had swimming pools put in. I'm talking serious swimming pools. During COVID? Yeah. Yeah, because these are all rich people. They have mansions. And if they didn't end up in relatively small plots of land. And so people would just, and also, I think everyone, remember when the PPP came out, the, that scam?

Yeah, the personal protective. No, no, no, no, the loans. The PPP, and that's, oh, the PPP loan. The PPP loans. So everyone, everyone upgraded their, their lake gear. I've got new. Oh, I see. Yeah.

They spent the money on their employees. They spent the money, not on their employees. No, they spent the money on their pools. And there's people, from what I heard from them, who put in a 500,000. thousand dollar pool but apparently the main contractors who were doing all this work got bad concrete and now it's splitting and leaking in every single pool that's a scandal yes it's also kind of funny it's very funny it's like wow you're dealing with that okay feel bad for you bro feel bad for the whole show is not going to be about local news except for the fact that you

still owe us the story about Dilbert. I'm going to hold on to that one. No, I'm going to hold on to it. I'm going to hold on to it. I'm going to hold on to it. No, we've got to get it. How can you hold on to it? We've been putting it off and putting it off and we keep forgetting it.

Now I bring it up. I say, I'm going to bring it up at the beginning of the show. And then you, you, you stiff me. No, no, it's just, I'm, I'm afraid that, you know, now it's been such a buildup. It's going to be a letdown. You're going to go, well, I'm not going to say anything. Well, it's not. that funny.

Well, there goes to sigh, so that says something. It's out of context. Oh, good Lord. Out of context. It's just, I'll get to it later. I promise. I put it on the list. I put it on the list.

I put it on the list. I put it on the list. We've said it a number of times that we're going to get to it. And then I put it on the Post-it note. There you go again. All right. All right. So we have the neighbors up the street.

They're the tockis. They moved in. They're running a commercial construction business out of their house with all kinds of trucks parked there. It's been going on for 18 months. And everybody's upset about it in the neighborhood. On that side. See, we're on the cool, quiet side. There's nothing going on here. Now, to get a vision or an image of this, there's a road that goes up to a T.

And on the left is your side. No, no, no, no. No, there's an entrance way to the road that we're all on. Yeah, which I would call a T. Okay. Wow. And then you, it's, all right. Then, and that goes up to the mailboxes.

which the kids crashed into once I was telling about how like on a Friday or Saturday night they were driving up and down in an ATV gasoline powered

and with one light and like 10 teenagers on it Joy riding around Yeah they're going to kill themselves Well apparently they crashed in the mailbox As the whole structure came down And the guy's like Oh yeah I'll fix it

And it's still down You know It's like one of it construction guy should have fixed it instantly. He should have had his kids come around and apologize to all the neighbors here by the scruff of the neck. We're sorry. No, none of that. So, but this has been going on for a long time up there on that side of the street.

And, you know, shooting off fireworks and all the, all the fireworks papers get into the neighbor's yard in their pool and they're all upset. And they have these dogs and they just let them roam around. It's one thing after another with this family. And these dogs, they, you know, they're kind of aggressive. And there's a family with kids who live right next door. You guys have got guns. Well, so Dilbert and his wife, they're retired feds. Now, who's Dilbert?

Okay, Dilbert lives on the street. And this is, by the way, I believe this would be a tall tale. No, no, this, no. It involves somebody named Dilbert. When I first met him, because he mows, he out of the goodness of his heart, he mows the grass to the side of the entire street so that, you know, snakes don't start to live in there and stuff. And so I go out there

One day's say, hey man, how are you doing? Let me pitch in for some gas and he used himself. He's Dilbert. And he's retired. And yes, it was hard to suppress the laugh, but that's his name. I mean, there are people named Dilbert. It's, I mean, one of these days I'll say, hey, man, how does that feel? Okay, I'll do that.

But after the story, you might understand why I don't. So he's an ex-fed. I think he's ex-FBI. and I'm not sure. His wife was also a federal agent, but of something else. I don't remember. Nice people.

And so he's telling me the other, he's telling me, you know, that dog came out running after my dog, and I went right up to the lady. I'm not going to use her name. And she started screaming at me and yelling about this.

And he says, next time your dog comes running, my dog's going to shoot it in the face. That was the story. I told you to be disappointed. That was it? I told you you'd be disappointed. It's better if it's in context of something about the neighborhood.

Well, that was in context about the neighborhood, about the dogs and the whole thing. I told you. So the guy's packing. Yes. So imagine me. I'm not going to make fun of his name. Well, he's not going to shoot you. I don't know.

He's ready to shoot a dog in the face. Well, I thought it's from the sounds ever, those dogs, be shot. We have secret meetings going on now. Yes, that's right. That's the other thing that I forgot to. You're now having secret meetings against the neighbor. I find this to be fascinating.

That's called an HOA. There's no such, you don't have an HOA, though. You're just creating one out of the blue. No, we actually do. But it went, yeah, it went defunct. But everyone had to sign like the covenant letter. It's like one of those things like, yeah, whatever, no chickens. But there's all kinds of stuff in there.

You can't have chickens? No, no. You live in the middle of, you're not even in Fredericksburg. You're in the county. Yeah, but you're in county land. You're out in the middle of nowhere. There's no police jurisdiction. There's nothing going on and you can't have chickens?

It's a subdivision. It's a very quiet subdivision until those people moved in. It was very quiet. It was nice. Yeah, I guess it would be if no chickens. And then we got the other neighbors. They're from Dallas. and they took this house and expanded it by three times the size.

And they've got these huge gate they put up with huge lamps on the front. We have a dark sky city, city ordinance. That's, I mean, it's, it's typical. It's typical rural, I wish I'd won that Powerball. I'd be out of here. Come on, Tina, let's go. Let's go. Let's buy the ranch.

Let's get out of here. That's okay. Powerball. Oh, everyone's in it. Who won it? Who won that? And someone got at the gas station at Biggs 103 gas station. Wow.

It was like, no one goes to Biggs. We don't go to Biggs. Someone did. And I got the Powerball. Well, let's start over some clips. I've got one clip that's just a standalone clip that I thought was the best clip that I'm going to have. Uh-oh. Well, not really.

Is it better than my Dilbert story? I think it's on par. far okay this is and this just came out and i don't see any news coverage of it they had a lot of coverage it's the latest with abrego garcia yeah it's the one it's at the bottom it's called the wow clip yeah so ice might be giving criminal illegal immigrant kilmar abrego garcia a new home in a country called eswatini that tiny nation sits mostly inside south africa now the trump administration settled on that country after Abrago Garcia's lawyers claimed their client feared persecution and torture in 22 other countries. Christina Coleman is live with the latest on this. Christina?

Hi, guy. Yeah, initially the so-called Maryland dad, Abrago Garcia, was going to be deported to Uganda from the U.S., but his lawyers also listed Uganda as a persecution or torture risk for him. Now, this adds to their long list of a bunch of other countries they've expressed concern over. Take a look at them. These are all of them. lot of countries they're worried about. In response, a principal legal advisor from ICE and DHS said in the letter to Garcia, quote, that claim of fear is hard to take seriously, especially given that you have claimed through

your attorneys that you fear persecution or torture in at least 22 different countries. DHS also responded to this. You see it right there writing, quote, homie is afraid of the entire Western Hemisphere. So now, Abregos's new country of removal is Eswatani. Man, that place is going to be a tourist destination now. Who had ever heard of it? I'd never heard of it. And I've been to South Africa.

It's like, isn't that where Eddie Murphy came from and coming to America? Yeah, maybe. It's a little enclave country or something. It's like a city state or something. It's like Fredericksburg in Texas. It's unbelievable. They dug it up because this guy didn't want to go to Uganda because the Uganda is going to want to torture him. They don't have that reputation.

No. And they also made the comment, by the way, they didn't want to send him to a country that he didn't speak to language, of course, which is, and the joke of it is that one of the official languages of, the official language of Uganda is, there's two of them, Swahili and English. Yes, yes, and English with an English accent. So, this is ridiculous, I think. Well, the president is doing a lot of marketing right now, and it kind of hit me when, with his least, most recent truth is truth it's kind of amazing how he started that network which is probably worth negative five dollars but somehow the company is i haven't looked at it what is the dj t stock

at these days have you looked at it's up it's higher than you'd think oh no it doesn't surprise me at all um but it is obvious that you know that's i mean like what social network is what is ex really worth you know um do you ever get ads on x i never see an ad on x ever yeah i get you do yeah they're they're they're they're very well hidden no i don't see them um i mean you wouldn't know their ads they're really well done yeah usually in the in the form of ticot videos you keep following for it no no no there's real ads and they're really well done but but he's marketing and he's I think he's marketing because of this issue with the courts saying, and he wants it to go to the Supreme Court as soon as possible,

saying that, you know, there's no emergency there for deporting people under this emergency authorization act. What exactly is that again? I think it's the, uh, do you know, no, I can't, it's not the emergency authorization. No, but it's like, it was like, but it's a, it's basically a, yeah, some emergency. We're being invaded. I think, and I believe that that's why this all fits together.

An ominous warning from the U.S. presidents echoing the film Apocalypse now after he rebranded the Department of Defense as the Department of War. I love the smell of deportations in the morning. That was a good bit. He had little helicopters. I think this whole Department of War rebranding is, and you know, he's saying that it's a war and Chicago is a war. I think he's trying to play this off

or that'll be the defense as we've been invaded. It fits together somehow. It's not just... Well, you might be onto something as possible. The war thing, though, is like, people are making a fuss about this. It's always called the Department of War until after World War II.

And what's funny is that one of our producers sent me a link to this guy Lutz, who was a... He's a writer and he was an expert on double. speak and there's a book you can see it on amazon is very famous called double speak and which is the you know taken from 1984 the idea of creating things that aren't what there's what they sound like and we've seen that a million times in this country with the naming of bills and legislation yes it says one thing patriot acts let's just start there and it's just the

opposite you know and and it turns out that uh changing the department of war right after world World War II to the Department of Defense was not only a form of double speak, but won an award for it. Oh, like the Austin logo. Yeah. Well, yeah. So the Department of Defense is a form of double speak that should be abolished. Is it double speak or newspeak?

Well, I think he calls it double speak. It might be newspeak. Let me look. Yeah. I don't want to be wrong. No, because then you will get emails. I will get any, no, you'll get emails. I'll get your emails, yes.

Exactly. John blocked me. Did you look it up? Yeah, I'm looking it up by, uh, no, he calls it double speak. Okay. And the guy's name is, I have it here since I looked it up. And I think it was called double speak. Newspeak is, I think, is something else.

Well, Newspeak is what they called it in 19. Okay. Well, the double speak is what. It was, is William Lutz. And he ran an operate. In fact, he ran the double speak conference that met four times a year. They had a magazine and they gave awards out for the best person who did double speak. And, and his thesis is that it should be resisted. Yes. Because it's a form of dishonesty. And so the Department of Defense is a form of dishonesty. Yes. Well, you mean like, reproductive health care. Yeah, exactly. All of these terms. Well, let's listen to the rest of this. Maybe we'll pick something up.

After he rebranded the Department of Defense as the Department of War. I love the smell of deportations in the morning. Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of War. Immigration and customs enforcement has not confirmed whether it has sent more agents to Chicago. The governor of Illinois has said that he believes immigration raids would cover. coincide with Mexican Independence Day festivals organized for this weekend and next. Some Mexican festivals in the Chicago area have been called off amid fears of raids. Trump's threats have also prompted many Latino residents to carry their U.S. passports.

Residents of the Democratic stronghold took to the streets in the wake of the president's warnings. Every single immigrant is a human. Every single immigrant has every single right to have their families stay together. of them rally at Broadview last week. When the cops tried to tell us to leave, when ICE tried to tell us to leave, we stayed and they were forced to accept our presence. Chicago's residents also bracing for the potential arrival of National Guard troops after the U.S. president announced he decided on another city he plans to send them

without specifying where. Trump's troop and federal agent deployments, which started in June in Los Angeles, followed by Washington after Trump declared what he called a crime emergency, a viewed by critics as an authoritarian display of force. Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that his administration illegally deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles amid demonstrations against immigration raids. I'm telling you'll see. You'll see this whole Department of War is about, because it's National Guard troops,

it's going to be, oh, we're under attack. And then... Nothing is going to say we're under attack, we're under invasion. Invasion, yes. Well, it's a form of attack. And by the way, Chicago... This was just a little ditty I picked up, you know, crime in Chicago. They went looking for one car of some elderly couple, or not even elderly, but they'd been drinking and they were lost.

And they're like, well, let's go see if we can find them in the water. Well, they came to Chicago looking for one car, but found 97. Now, that dive team is checking license plates and VIN numbers to find out if their haul. lead to any answers. This mangled Nissan is just one of nearly 100 cars the chaos divers discovered in the Chicago River. It's not uncommon for us to find vehicles. Heck, that's what we do. When they started their search at the Richard J. Daily boat launch near 31st and Western last week, they didn't find just one or two vehicles, but they kept calming the water, ultimately, logging dozens.

A lot of these are in piles. We have three piles that are ranging. from 12 to 19 cars in one spot. The independent dive team uses sonar technology to solve missing persons and cold cases. Their goal to bring closure to families. We are a little bit more interested in those cars. That's kind of the one-off where it's just one vehicle by itself, because that's going to be more indicative of an accident or even self-harm or foul play. Yeah, it's 97.

Oh, who knew? It's like, I thought the Amsterdam canals were bad when they, you know, dredge up bikes, but 97 vehicles they didn't know about? I find that peculiar that they were down there that long that they've just all of a sudden stumbled on to them. It's very strange. Well, they were looking, yes. Well, but dude, what about these South, dude, what about these South Koreans? What a story that is? Excellent story.

Yeah, I have a two-parter. One with like the headline and then some details, which I think are interesting. First, a dramatic scene in the United States, a massive immigration rate. You always get, somehow, I'm always getting better clips from the European news outlets. I don't know why that is, but they just have more detail. And they still hate Trump and, you know, disdain us, but it's more detail. State of Georgia, hundreds of federal agents, many masked NR. Massed.

Old workers at a car plant owned by South Korean manufacturer, Hyundai. These evil men, they're masked and armed. Two line up. Nearly 500 people were detained. ICE and Homeland Security were accompanied by the Georgia State Patrol, the FBI, the DEA, the ATF, and other agencies in executing a search warrant. I love that. Executing a search warrant.

They're so dramatic the way they read this. FN other agencies in executing. All of them. search warrant. It is one of the latest raids and the largest yet by the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration. Reaction from Seoul. South Korea's foreign ministry expressed concern and regret officials to fly to Washington to try and resolve the issues. And this comes after July when South Korea pledged to invest $350 billion in America, including $26 billion by Honda alone, as part of a trade deal reached with the Trump administration. Before we get into these

this details clip, some observations. One, isn't this kind of an Asian thing, and I'm not trying to generalize, but I'll do it. Like, yeah, we're going to invest. It's almost like China. We're going to invest in your country. And then I'm going to bring in all our own people. And they're going to run it. I don't think that's, well, actually, I was going to defend the Asian people.

And then I started thinking about it because there used to be, the Chinese are notorious for doing this. And Africa's proof of that. But, and I was going to defend it saying it was just the Chinese that we're generalizing from. But in fact, on that, I think about it, there used to be a thing called death buses. And this is when a Japanese company bought an American company and they would have the run it with American bosses. And then, because I knew a guy that was fired it during the situation, they fire all the upper management and bring in what are called the death buses, which were buses loaded with Japanese executives who take over the company.

Yeah. So this is, you might be right. You've generalized, but I think you nailed it. Well, also, these are contractors, these companies that, you know, they get a contract, like, bring me, bring me a whole bunch of people to run this battery factory and they go and farm them. And they, you know, get, I guess, I mean, they just get them in. From the White House, they were illegal aliens and ICE was just doing its job. This is what President Trump said. people on short-term or recreational visas are not authorized to work in the U.S., I said.

And, of course, this was necessary to protect American jobs. So clearly, and there's a lot of this. There's so much of this going on, especially in New York, in the service sector. But the other thing I noted is, where's the protests? Where's people protesting ICE in this? I haven't seen a single protest. Is that because, is that because, is that because they're Asian? It could be a function of the state they're in.

Georgia? Is that because they're Asian? Well, maybe it's because they're Asian. If they're, if you're trying to make the claim that these protesters are a bunch of racist pricks. But it's also possible that Georgia doesn't have a bunch, a bunch of groups and enough, enough oomph to, to, to, to, to, uh, but all of these protests are organized. And they're brought in from out of town. But it's not, my point is, it's not about kicking people out who are hardworking, hard workers. It's only about Mexicans or brown people, not the yellow people.

The yellow people don't count for these protesters. That's my point. Well, you can say that, you know, if you want to take that generality, you can also point to Harvard, who have, you know, basically kept out Asian students. Yeah. Yeah, they're happy they're going. So you're saying that the protesters and the left in general are a racist. The Asians.

They're racist. They're racist. Here's some details. As U.S. immigration and customs enforcement conducted their largest ever raid on a single site. I mean, this was the largest raid ever, so bigger than anything. No protests. Some tried to flee. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, come on. And were fished out of the factory. Oh, this is funny. So they jumped into the water to escape. The raid on a single site. Some tried to flee. Come on, fellas. And were fished out of the factory's sewage pond.

construction is so bad you got to be hard they think they're going to go swim into the sewers and maybe come up in somebody's toilet what were they thinking they're standing there with their phones you know calling home base or whatever high-endized massive car battery facility in georgia after u.s authorities arrested 475 people there most of whom south korean nationals accusing them of illegal work Officials said it was the culmination of a month's long investigation.

This was not a immigration operation where agents went into the premises, rounded up folks and put them on buses. Agents did, though, go into the premises, round up people, and put them on buses. This was the best part of this report. Most were taken to an immigration detention center near Florida. One man who used to work at the site spoke. about the fear caused by such operations. You know, nobody in America should ever be treated like that or have to work in these kind

of conditions. It's caused... Now, that's interesting, because they throw this sound bite in, and they're making it sound like the guy is saying, this is, you know, no one should ever be treated like this. But what he's really saying, as far as I can tell, is they were slave workers. If you listen carefully, he's saying no one should be treated like this, like slaves. Well, you know, it's possible that what he's talking about, this is a... out-of-context clip.

Yeah. What he's actually talking about is Hyundai. Yeah, precisely, that they were running a slave. But it makes it sound like they're talking about the ice agents. The ice agents. But no, it's about. That's a very, you have to put, that's very, that's a very interesting, uh, juxtaposition of dropping in a clip that, that is misleading.

Or maybe it was not, maybe it, if I'm the editor and I'm saying, no, we put it in for the reason you just said, which is this. that no one should be working under these circumstances in the plant. We're not talking about the ice ages. Right, but the lead in is a little misleading. The lead in is what makes it be. You have to play it from the lead in back to that clip. We have to hear this again.

Round it up folks and put them on buses. Agents did, though, go into the premises, round up people, and put them on buses. Most were taken to an immigration detention center near Florida. One man who used to work at the site spoke about the fear caused by such. operations. You know, nobody in America should ever be treated like that or have to work in these kind of conditions. It's cool. See, they make it sound like he spoke about the raid, but he didn't. Yeah. He's like, no, nobody should have to work in these conditions. I think, yes, this is a misuse of the clip. I think they screwed it up. This is an intentional misuse and misdirection of a,

of a clip that was talking about something else completely different. Hey, did you get anything of anyone talking about how horrible that raid was? No, but I got this. Ah, jam it in. You know, nobody in America should ever be treated like that or have to work in these kind of conditions. It's caused uproar in South Korea. At a summit last month, the country pledged $150 billion in U.S. investments, including $26 billion from Hyundai Motor. Indeed, Georgian officials had billed the megasite as the biggest single investment in the state's history. Economic activities of our companies investing in the United States and the interests of our citizens must not. be unduly violated during the course of of U.S. law enforcement.

Hyundai Motor says it will investigate the employment practices of its suppliers and subcontractors and bring the site under its full control. Ah, okay, so they're taking a little responsibility, I guess. Yeah, well, they're actually, the government apologized. I do have the PBS version, I think it's the

PBS version. We actually, we have, I think we have a Korean news report. It got a little news report from them. Legal Koreans at factory, PBS, this is a very short report, doesn't have anything about standing in the sewer or the sewage or any of the good stuff that your report has. You're absolutely correct. This is lame. This is a lame report.

The South Korean government is expressing concern and regret over this week's immigration raid at a Georgia Hyundai plant that swept up South Korean nationals. Today, ICE released new video of the operation. It shows agents descending on the site of an electric vehicle. battery plant, nearly 500 workers were lined up, searched, and detained most of them, South Koreans. The lead agent for Homeland Security investigations in Georgia claims the detained workers either entered the country illegally, had expired visas, or entered on visas that prohibited them from working. I got a, here's from the troll room, from goat, so that it comes with authority.

He says, I knew a guy that worked for Kuandai in Alabama, and they put padlock. on all the doors until they decided the shift was over. Yeah, that sounds about right. We don't like slavery in America. Only in New York City when, you know, we want you to want you illegals to

clean our house, but that's about it. That's terrible. Of course it's terrible. Do you get a fire or something? You can't get out? Oh, God forbid. Anyway, it's always rough, you know,

when the president promised something and now he's doing it. And Americans don't like, we don't like seeing anyone roused it for anything. But come on. Korea. And all the M5M is like, oh, South Korea, they're so great. Very democratic country. Yes. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yes.

You've been doing. So recently they had nothing but fist fights in their legislature. Exactly. So democratic. Although we could use some of that here. That would be kind of fun to see. A little bit, that would be nice. Let's see.

Further fallout from RFK Jr. And when I say fallout, as predicted, I think the only thing I've heard anyone talk about it, Did you see Elizabeth Warren? So I'm glad we played some other clips on the previous episode. But I almost can see this meeting taking place with the fine folks at ABC Good Morning America, where, you know, we must have a producer somewhere who works in advertising or sales or advertising sales, television sales.

Someone must be aware of these meetings or must. Maybe you work at the reception desk. You must see these advertising executives come in for the meeting. I mean, it's, I can't, do you think it's just phone calls or Zoom? and they come in and say, hey, we've got a real problem? I'm not sure. I don't know. We've got a real problem here with the RFK Jr.

And he's going to cut us out of advertising. Well, there was supposedly there was a, there was a, I only saw this in a written word. There was supposedly a memo that went out amongst a bunch of executive, media executives and, and legislative types that basically said they have to get rid of this guy. And it has to be the pharmaceutical companies worried sick because the promises he's made,

which he has not executed, has got to have them shaking in their boots, and I think now's the time to one time they're able to get rid of him before he puts these in place. He has got to pull the plug on TV advertising immediately. Yeah. Well, already the big farmer's advertising on podcasts, they hear it everywhere now,

which is fair game. I saw an ad for the COVID vaccine that was, that, for the tick, it was a Tick talker. Yeah. I'm a Ticktoker, but I got the COVID vaccine because I, I did a lot of research. And it turns out that is the most important thing you can do is get a booster. Yeah. And it was just somebody yakking away. Because you won't, you won't have to go to the hospital.

You won't get as sick. You won't get as sick. You just get sick. And it's just like it was an obvious. It's obvious somebody paid them money, but it's hard to identify some of these. They are spotting there's a bunch of these. No, but I'm hearing actual like a pre-roll ads, you know, real dynamically inserted ads. That's not as insidious.

No, they're just throwing in ads, just actual ads. Well, anyway, so good morning America, Stephanopoulos and the gang over there and Michael Strehan. They bring in their resident doctor, Dr. Tara Nerula. Let me see. I've never actually, I don't know what her credentials are. She's been on quite a few times. Now, and she's good looking. She's a good looking doctor. But big mistake, she did not wear her uniform. She didn't have a lab coat on, didn't have a stethoscope wrapped around her neck.

You need a lab coat and a stethoscope. Yeah, that's what, if I was an executive, I would say, okay, I want Dr. Tara in there. I want her with the lab coat. I want a stethoscope. She can have her little hospital branding on it. Maybe just do the Austin logo. That'd be cool. And, but we need her to hit. Name tag.

It would be nice. Yes, name tag. And a slage card. We need her to, we need her to hit all the points. Now, we need to remind everybody just how, how horrible it was during COVID. And that just, we've got to trigger those memories. We've got to trigger everybody to get all upset again, obviously to revolt, revolt against this horrible, like Kennedy, whose whole family is now.

come out against them as well. You probably, I haven't seen any. I love the Kennedy videos. We don't have any yet because they all talk like that. My cousin is, he kills children. So they can't get that yet, but here's a Dr. Tara. Chief medical correspondent, Dr. Tara and. Chief medical correspondents.

Dr. No, let's start with the science right here. Why is it important for kids to get vaccinated? What happens if they're not? George, it feels like right now it is a chaotic situation. Like we are on moored, there is no captain steering the ship. Oh, no captain. You got to listen. You're going to miss.

I'm sorry. Every second is good. Now, we'll stop it, but every second is good. And like we are unmoored, there is no captain steering the ship. And I know there's a lot of misinformation and mistrust. Well, one thing that should not be under fire is vaccination. And the public health story. It's the only thing under fire.

It's the only thing because of the MRNA gambit. But, okay. Fire is vaccination. And the public health stories. success that vaccination has been in this country. We know that it has saved millions of lives. We know that it prevents disability from diseases. So we forget, but polio...

We know that it prevents disability from diseases. I guess that's the polio vaccine that she's talking about. I guess. I have no idea what she's talking about. One thing, the only thing under attack is the MRNA technology. That's technology. All technology. It's not even a vaccine.

And that's what's under attack. attack, and that's what they're trying to protect. Nobody's bitching and moaning. I mean, they complain a little bit about the mumps vaccine or who cares, but that's not what's under attack. Let's just be honest about it. We know that it prevents disability from diseases. So we forget, but polio can cause paralysis.

Measles can lead to brain inflammation. So if you get sick, it can end up resulting in complications. I don't think Kennedy has at any point, in fact, quite the opposite. I think he said, yeah, MMR, you know, if you want to get that, that's okay. Poli. I don't think he's had any, he said anything about that, has he? But did I know of? No.

We have vaccines for cancer, HPV. What? We got vaccines for cancer? I must have missed the memo. Complications. We have vaccines for cancer, HPV and hepatitis. No, HPV, there's a cancer. That's what they're talking about.

Yeah. Okay. Another big success. Vaccines for cancer, HPV, and hepatitis. We need vaccinations to protect. the vulnerable, the ill, the immunocompromise children, right? So it is so important that we not forget the powerful impact. And I know it's easy as we, you know. Okay, here she goes. Now, the script is it's so easy to forget, remember, remember, remember. It's so easy to forget the impact

of vaccines. Come on. I'm going to pull, I'm going to pull you right back into the past five years. Right. Right. So it is so important that we not forget the powerful impact. And I know it's easy as we, you know, live in a world where we don't see infectious diseases that much. But we don't have to look far back to COVID a couple years ago, and we can see how one virus, one vulnerability can impact us, not to mention the economic impact of hospitalizations, doctors cost, lost wages. But I think that personalization of remembering the lives that we all saw lost, I remember the freezer trucks behind Lenox Hill Hospital where I worked, filled with bodies. No.

No. There was no. There was a lie. There's no bodies in the freezer. trucks, zero bodies. That's what I mean. So she's like, you know, loss of lost wages. The economic impact, you know, was so horrible. We had freezer trucks filled with bodies. No, they were empty. That personalization of remembering the lives that we all saw lost. I remember the freezer trucks behind Lenox Hill Hospital where I worked filled with bodies. Patients saying goodbye on iPads. Let us not forget the toll that can happen, the immeasurable. loss in suffering when we let our guard down. Disgusting.

She is, this is a, this is a psychological operation and she is executing it. They have serious impact on public health and given what's happened with some states that are pushing to make vaccines more accessible. In Florida, they're accessible. To remove vaccine mandates. So we

may just be looking at patchwork. Right here, Strandhan says about making vaccines more accessible, but Florida is removing all mandates has nothing to do with accessibility. They're just twisting words. With some states, they're pushing to make vaccines more accessible. In Florida, they're moving to remove vaccine mandates. So we may just be looking at patchwork the states with different, you know, protocols, different policies. Yeah, this is, this is where it's all headed. Everyone's going

to have their own gang. That's the right word, I think, a patchwork. And it's a fractured approach that we really haven't seen right now in this country before. And unfortunately, we are seeing exactly that. Florida sort of stepping backwards with their mandates, the northwest and the northeast forming alliances. But the reality is, Michael, vaccines don't know borders. They don't know the difference between Texas and Washington. No, that's not true. We stop the viruses from Washington state right at our Texas border. We don't allow it to come in. It's not going to happen. Even though you're vaccinated, it's not perfect. So you can still get sick. So it's going to be a tough situation we what did she just say it's not perfect by too she blew it by yeah it's not perfect

even though you're vaccinated you can still get sick not a vaccine then they don't know the difference between texas and washington and even though you're vaccinated it's not perfect so you can still get sick so you know it's going to be a tough situation we may see the rise of groups like the vaccine integrity program that's now coming out of minnesota also known as VIP the i got a great name for our a vaccine integrity program. We'll call it that. It's a VIP. Sounds important. To kind of fill in these gaps in the science, because people feel lost now for where to turn. I can't help but follow the money here. And you have to wonder if the removal of a mandate potentially takes the insurance companies off the hook for reimbursements here.

There's absolutely going to be ripple effects, Rebecca. We have a signal that private insurance companies for now will continue to cover. But the big concern is around Medicare, Medicaid, vaccines. Oh, old people. Now, hold on. This makes no sense because it is recommended for people on Medicare. It's recommended. Yeah, that's true. 65 plus, so that's not true.

And she said, oh, no, well, the insurance companies. Yeah, if you're 65, when you get on, you don't get on Medicare before you're 65, you just, you can't. No, so you get on Medicare. And boom, you get the checkboxes there. And so they get, they pick up the tab. So what are they talking about? They're lying to you. Big concern is around Medicare, Medicaid, vaccines, the vaccine fund for children.

Those who are getting free vaccines, what will happen to their coverage for vaccinations? You talk about gaps in the science, but the basic science about vaccines is pretty clear, right? Vaccines are safe, they are effective, they should be used by kids. George, the science has not changed. The science doesn't change. It's fun. Listen, what is she talking about? The science doesn't change.

Are safe, they are effective. They should be used by kids. George, the science has not changed. changed. The science doesn't change. What changes is how we interpret it, our policy. The science has not changed. Science never changes, people. It never changes. That's what science is. Not changing, ever. That's what I mean. It's like... Yeah, tell to Copernicus. Copernicus would tell us the story of Copernicus. What was he like? He's an old Polack. What are you going to do? Well, what did he? Well, tell us the story of

Copernicus. He's the inventor of modern astronomy. I mean, he's basically the one to decide there's a solar system. Right. So you were saying that he changed the science? Well, yeah, because before that, it was, there was no such thing. The Earth was in the center of the universe and everything spun around the earth because it was, you know, God's creation and everything else was bull crap. There's a lot of just dots in the sky. Why do I think that was Galileo? Galileo discovered, the Galileo took it to the extreme because he actually proved it. Ah, he proved the signs. Well, he had a telescope. Copernicus is just out of living. He was just faking it till he made it. I am Copernicus. Fake it until I make it. Let's take a look.

Let's get this straight since we're here. Why don't you ask your friend? Yes, my girl. Yes. What is the difference between Copernicus and Galileo and what they discovered? Okay. Arrow, what is the difference between Copernica? What is the difference between Copernica? What is the difference between Copernicus and Galileo? Niccolo's Copernicus and Galileo, Galilei, were both giants in astronomy, but they played different roles in the shift from Earth-centered to sun-centered models. Copernicus, back in the early 16th century, proposed the heliocentric theory, sun at the center, Earth and planets orbiting around it.

His book, Practice, lead the groundwork but was cautious, avoiding direct clashes with the church. Galileo, a century later, took it further by using a telescope, to observe Jupiter's moons and Venus's phases. Okay, got it. Exactly what I said. Hi there. You all right? Yeah, I'm fine.

Yeah, exactly what you said. Okay. So the science, the point was, is that the science changed. Yeah, the science changed. And this will probably be used against RFK, now that he's, you know, defunded all mRNA research. Oh, all of it. Uh-oh.

The Russians are moving ahead. Well, Russia is gearing up to treat cancer patients with what could become one of the world's first personalized MRNA cancer vaccines. A treatment tailored to each patient's unique tumor. The announcement marks a key moment and what's shaping up to be a global race to beat cancer using next-gen technology. According to Russian news outlets, Russia's first patients could begin receiving the newly manufactured, developed cancer vaccine within the next few months. So they're talking about a vaccine, MRA vaccine,

but I wish they would just be honest and call it gene therapy. Because you already have the cancer. You already have the cancer. It's not stopping you. I wonder, yeah, you already have the cancer. So what kind of a vaccine is it? I will. Right. It's a therapy. I don't know what you. They can't do that because of the liability

situation and the indemnification. So you just call everything a vaccine so he can't get sued for making crap. Yeah. for producing a genuinely bad product. So I'm surprised by this because the Russians are the ones who eschewed, to use that word. I hate to add it. But we know what eschewed means the MRNA to begin with.

Yeah. Yeah, but this is maybe a troll from Russia. Who knows? I think it's a troll. Whole story is a troll. But of course, ultimately, this whole COVID thing is really about, well, it's actually two things. One is they don't want MRNA to be outed as gene therapy. They want to continue to call it a vaccine.

So they commingle it with all kinds of other vaccines, stories and nonsense. And it's really when they talk about accessibility, this is probably, I don't know, can you get the MMR vaccine from the pharmacy? Do you know? That's the problem because the pharmacies want to be able to do. give you the shut just what was a walk-in. Yes, and that's the problem. This is a report from Virginia. It used to be able to easily walk to your local pharmacy and get a COVID vaccine,

but with new FDA regulations, it might not be as simple in the future. Patients who are normally able to just may walk over to their local pharmacy to get these vaccines now have to call the doctor's office. Dr. Marcia Newby Goodman from primary care specialist says new COVID vaccine regulations could create more hurdles for anyone looking. to get the vaccine. I'm looking for the vaccine. So it's a lot of work on both the patients, pharmacies. People on the street. Hey, hey, brother. Hey, brother. Are you holding? Did he shoot me up? Can you shoot me up, brother? A lot of work on both the patients, pharmacies, and doctor offices.

The next round of COVID vaccines was approved by the FDA on Wednesday, but limited availability to people 65 and older or anyone with a high risk for the sickness. Now, Virginia is one of several states requiring a prescription for the vaccine at local pharmacies. They're putting a lot of layers to prevent people from getting the vaccine. A lot of layers. It's one layer. You got to get a prescription. That's not a lot of layers. According to the CDC, so far during 20. Get there. There's a lot of layers. You got to get a, you got to get it. First, you got to make the appointment to get the prescription. Then you got to get the prescription. Then you got to go to the, then you got to find your way to the pharmacy. And you got to tell there's a prescription that you have to bring the prescription if you have it by hand. That's a lot of layers.

Hold on. Can I get a prescription for the COVID vaccine through telemedicine? Let's see. That will be the answer. It doesn't say per se. Did you ask your girl? No, I'm tired of my girl. Now, generally, you cannot get a prescription for COVID vaccine through telemedicine.

Not yet. According to the CDC, so far during 2024, 2025, more than 1.3 million Virginians received a COVID vaccine in the state. Nearly 800,000 of those people under the age of 65. That's why Dr. Anna Peoples from People's Pharmacy says new restrictions could be problematic. Those of us that have really benefited from receiving the COVID vaccine, then it makes it more difficult. cold. People's pharmacy does administer the COVID vaccine, but like other pharmacies in Virginia, in order to get the shot, you'll need a prescription from your doctor. Even with these new requirements, Dr. Peoples and Dr. Newby Goodman say, with the current guidelines, it's still

possible to get the vaccine. But you might need to jump through the hoops to get it. And I just feel so. We should write down the names of all of these ghouls. Because if you're information diet, if you're news diet, is what it is for a lot of people in America, then you're just getting sci-opt every single day. I mean, we have family members. Really? We have family members. Now, listen, we have family members who have had five boosters after the, and now have COVID again. Safe and effective. And they have COVID again. But it's not funny anymore because, you know, you see. Well, not to you. But no, because I love them. I love my family members. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and you say, hey, you know, maybe you should

stop with these boosters for your immune system. No, no, no, no. And by the way, every single time I get COVID, I'm definitely not as sick as I would have been. This is the answer. That's a classic, but it's actually no, that's a non, it's super sad because, and, and, and they're hearing this from their doctor, their doc, you know, and it, it, it hurts my heart when I, when I, when I hear this, like, oh. And, you know, you can send them. I, I've, vermectin and they'll roll their eyes at you. Oh, no, I think you're nuts. That's toxic.

They already think, yeah, it's horse dewormer. And I know, but it's just, it's, it's incredibly sad that this is, well, I don't know how you can say this is it. I don't know how you can say this is an op because I watched the entire PBS news are on yesterday and Saturday, and they didn't have one story about, about the VACs, although I will say they ended the show. they ended the show with this Vax PBS straight plug. Oh boy, they went straight forward, huh?

Now online with the CDC and turmoil and fall approaching, we give you helpful tips on where and how to get COVID vaccinations. All that and more is on our website, pbs.org slash news hour. Wow. And then they close the show. That was amazing to be. Wow. Because they didn't have any stories on it, so they decided to put it in anyway.

Why didn't they have any stories on it? It was the new story of the week. No, they were talking about Kennedy, get rid of Kennedy. It was more important to get rid of Kennedy. That's a back story. That's it. Yeah, but it wasn't the same as telling people to get the booster. Well, let's do some PBS Kennedy stuff.

You haven't? Well, I've got some PBS. No, you do not. You have Chemidi PBS. I don't know what that is. You know what I've got here. This is the attack of the, just about the CDC and Kennedy, and this is more about Kennedy's, you know,

battle with the CDC. Let's listen to these. Turmoyal at the CDC, the debate over the federal government's vaccine policy remains as contentious as ever. Yeah. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s combative appearance on Capitol Hill this week did little to clear up the issue.

He was pressed by senators of both parties, including two Republicans or physicians. Now, some states are taking matters into their own hands. They're forming alliances to review scientific data and make their own vaccine recommendations. This is the term alliance, alliances. This is what everyone's using. We're forming an alliance, a front. We are the resistance.

The resistsons, the partisans, yes, alliance, the resistance. The Democratic governors of California, Oregon, and Washington were the first act. They were joined the next day by Hawaii. Earlier, I spoke with Hawaii governor, Josh Green, a Democrat who's a physician. Because everything went so well with COVID in Hawaii. We are in a great time of crisis as far as public health goes right now. The HHS administration led by Mr. Kennedy is in disarray, and it's causing a lot of concern across the country. We need to have good science.

We need database science. We need database. This is good. This is a new term. It's evidence-based science, but now it's data-based science. but now it's database. No, no, database science. It's demonstrated.

He said it with a D. Databased. What, you said, what? He said, you didn't say database. He said, databaseed. Database. Yeah, database with a D at the end. Databased science.

Databased. Yeah, listen. Is in disarray and it's causing a lot of concern across the country. We need to have good science. We need databaseed science. Oh, database. Okay. I thought he was talking about.

a database and you need to be in the database. We need evidence-based science. And so my good friends, the three governors from the West Coast, form this alliance. And I had a lot of experience as a physician and the person who dealt with COVID in Hawaii as lieutenant governor. So it just made a lot of sense. But we're going to try to guide the country in a positive way, just non-politically, but in a way that helps us, you know, protect lots. But they want data-based science. Isn't that the evidence? Isn't that the evidence? The evidence? that is being shown? We have data. You have to ignore the fake evidence and use the evidence that says what you want it to say. Well, there it is. Well, this guy gets better. How are you going to

develop the recommendations? Who's going to do that? This will be from scientific experts. Our expectation is we will use a lot of the people that have been around for several years doing the job under Republicans and Democrats in different administrations. Bring back Fauci. People who are trained pediatricians and infectious disease experts. It's very likely some of the people that have recently been pushed out of the CDC or the special committees. They may very well want to come aboard. We also have directors of health in our own states that are thoughtful public health leaders. All of these people will contribute. Hey, we are thoughtful public health leaders if you want to talk about credentials. I mean, what is it thoughtful?

Our thoughtful public, you have to be thoughtful. I'm a thoughtful public health leader. Our thoughtful public health leaders, all of these people will contribute, plus we'll do what you should do, which is rely on things like the National Pediatric Association and Internal Medicine Associations and all of these individuals that have given us the right guidance to keep disease at a minimum, to prevent outbreaks like measles and mumps and polio. Because I tell you, it's very disconcerting right now to see what's happening. Not only are they dismantling what will be good advice, but they're kind of giving license to other states to go rogue.

And that's what you're seeing in Florida. They're going to pretty much move straight away from science, and they're going to allow people to do whatever they want, which is going to cause outbreaks when people don't get vaccinated. Okay. First of all, I love the car honk. That's a good new. That's a good new sound effect.

Second of all, what happened to the measles outbreak? Did it just die off? How come we're not all suffering from measles? What happened to the outbreak? Remember the outbreak? Died off. It was just what happens. You get the measles, then you get over it.

Yes. Yeah. And one unfortunate child died. Which could have been from anything other than measles. Probably some comorbidities. I'd be remiss if I didn't say that none of this would be necessary if RFK Jr. would just step down and allow someone with the scientific background to run that department because right now you are seeing the great dismantling of public health in America and we'll do our part to build it up.

I think this is another one, the great dismantling of public health in America. Because it's worked so great. Everything's peachy keen. It's just fine. We'll do our part to build it up. But this could be a bumpy couple years, and we're hopeful that this will give people an opportunity to see what the right science recommendations are. And no, you were lieutenant governor when the pandemic began. You became governor in 2022. Hawaii had one of the highest vaccination rates and one of the lowest mortality rates during that time. Are there lessons that can be learned from that for other states or for the federal government? Is that true?

I couldn't find out. I looked and looked and looked. I tried to get this because I wanted to have a slam dunk like a refutation, but I couldn't find anything. So I don't know if it was true or not. It doesn't mean that the vaccine didn't kill a lot of people. They're just talking about what was happening. But then again, they didn't block their beaches like they did in California. People were out and about.

But you couldn't even fly. You couldn't even fly to Hawaii. They locked everybody out? Yeah, they had to. It was screwy. I'm not convinced that what he says is accurate. According to, what is this from? This is from global health.

While Hawaii generally managed COVID-19 deaths effectively, means they kill people really quickly compared to other states, it's important to note that native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders experienced some of the highest COVID-19 death rates amongst racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Hmm. They're killed the Hawaiians themselves. Absolutely.

Hawaii has a population of 1.4 million total, something like that. It's a very small kind of state. I mean, compared to California, which is 40 million. I mean, it's ridiculous. Absolutely. What we did was we just expressed in a fair way to everyone what their options were. It wasn't about mandates. It wasn't about anything that would scare people like you're seeing come from RFK Jr.

What? It just was good science. As a physician, I was able to express what I learned as a family practice physician, how you would best protect yourself. We went analytically one community by the next. And what we saw was when people knew that they would have a lower mortality rate, death rate, by getting vaccinated, they made a good choice. So that's the way it's got to go.

So we should give credit to the president for his work in his first term on the production of the MRNA vaccine. And we should also make sure that this is not a political question so that everyone can get access to that vaccination if they want it, if their doctors recommend it. And the same can be said for other research because they're... Well, hold on a second. First of all, access is not cut off. And if their doctor recommends it, you can get it with a prescription. Is that not the same as a doctor recommendation? Yeah.

Okay. Move to move away from bird flu research and MRNA research. That means people will not get vaccination. in the next iteration, which, by the way, is a national security threat. If only China gets the vaccination, say the next time, what's going to happen? Yeah, we're all going to die. China. Wow, there it is.

He's talking about the bird flow. He's talking about taxpayer funding of research that benefits the big pharma companies that have more than enough money in profits every year, billions and billions and billions of dollars that they can invest in research if it's that important. That's what he's talking about? Well, how about this? If everyone is so sure in the,

that it's not a matter of when, but if I would totally, if you and I are running Pfizer, I'd be like, hey, hey, Dr. DeVorek. So I'm like really sure. It's not a matter of when, but if. So we better have that thing to make a bundle. And we'll give it to ourselves first so we outlive everybody. That's what you do. That's what I'd be doing.

When we have to worry about some terrible virus, or even, God forbid, an attack of some sort. You know, these are real issues for we. governors and senators and presidents and so it's a colossal mistake what they're doing and we're just trying to fill in the gap until there's a new leadership what does it say the fact that you and your fellow governors on the west coast feel the need for this okay i'm sorry to stop it again until there's new leadership is this a foregone conclusion or is you talking about in three years from now or he's like he's talking about getting rid of kennedy okay and presidents and so it's a colossal mistake what they're doing and we're just trying to fill in the gap until there's

there's a new leadership. Get rid of Kennedy. What does it say? The fact that you and your fellow governors on the West Coast feel the need for this alliance, what does that say about the state of public health in this country? Well, the state of public health is a cataclysmic disaster right now because of Mr. Kennedy's leadership.

Now, let me be nice here for a moment. Mr. Kennedy could very well have something to offer the president in the country in the areas of processed foods or nutrition or pesticide. use. I appreciate that. But because he's so divisive and because he has a political acts to grind with vaccinations, we have a full schism, a true divide in our country. And it tells you that there are two camps, those who will follow science and those who will follow politics. And those who will follow politics are currently in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services. And it will kill people, kill people. It will kill people. You've already seen some fatalities from this big measles outbreak. And believe me, in year two and three, of this second administration, it's going to get very bad. So Mr. Kennedy is not doing the president any favors at all. I've had very good conversations with leaders at every level in the federal government, including the president.

And I am expressing this openly that he should move Mr. Kennedy to a different place in the government if he wants to keep him. That's okay. And put in someone that aligns with him politically, perhaps conservatively, but follows science. Hold on a second. Kennedy is a Democrat. does not align politically or even at a at a at a human level at times with President Trump. Right.

So this is this is nonsense. And they can world. It's terrible nonsense. It's ludicrous. With Kennedy on some of these nutrition issues, that's fine. But our health is at stake in our country, especially for our children, especially for children who are not even yet of age to get some of the vaccinations. It's going to be really bad. And it's going to be worst in the states that are rural, that are poor, that don't have access to health care providers at all, which, by the way, happened to be in the president's base, as ironic as that might be.

Yeah, but we win powerball, bro. So, okay. So don't worry about us. We're good. We got powerball in Texas. Oh, man. And again, it's the sad part is that these people, and did he have a lab coat on? No, no, he's just a doofus, the governor-looking guy.

Oh, no. He was very, very Casper milk toast type. People really buy into this, you know, they really do. Well, yes, you were bitched about a minute ago, and I think, yeah, that's one of the things that makes the show that we do kind of helpful to. Valuable. Valuable. It's very valuable.

The show's valuable. And people should appreciate the fact. fact that at least we're giving a perspective that is not bought and paid for by big pharma that's all there is to it that's all there is to it and that's only because we won powerball and we have nothing to lose nobody's won powerball in this family so another you know I figured out there's many tickets as I buy if I don't buy any tickets I have the same odds of winning that's true um then there's this other uh issue which is another big government movement which has been taking place around the world since the 60s, maybe even the 50s,

but the 60s, certainly in the 70s, got really big. And it came back with a vengeance during the course of the past 18 years of this program. And so now there's a new report saying that climate change, it's not all that big a deal. And boy, we've got to fight that. Department of Ecology is urging the federal government to withdraw its latest climate change report saying it's inaccurate and ignores science. The U.S. Department of Energy's new draft report claims that warming temperatures due to greenhouse gases are less damaging than believed. It also downplays links between climate change and extreme weather events, heat, wildfires, and drought.

The Department of Ecology says the report is harmful to communities seeing the impacts firsthand. Denying climate change by cherry picking a few pieces of data won't alter the reality that we are experiencing on the ground, where our communities and ecosystems are really experiencing the damage first. firsthand. Right now was the comment period on the draft report. Dozens of climate scientists have weighed in with one saying the report, quote, makes a mockery of science. It makes a mockery of science. So we have the only 100 degree day we've seen in Texas this entire summer was Friday and it was in Austin, not here. Our grass is green. It's been raining again for two days.

And we're getting a cold snap starting Wednesday. Kold snap, starting Wednesday. Yeah, there was something coming down from Canada. I was supposed to hit a lot of Texas. Not just Texas. All of all of Middle America. Yeah. And of course, at the end of the year, you can already predict it.

Well, 2025 was the hottest year on record. Hottest ever. We're boiling over here. And where's all the horrible hurricanes? Oh, it's going to be the worst season ever. Do we have a, we should probably, I should probably start tagging. We got to start saving those clips. They always show up at the beginning of the season.

season. Here we go. This is, uh, this is from August. The Atlantic hurricane season is entering its peak months. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its final outlook for 2025 yesterday. The agency says climate conditions are tracking with their original prediction from May, but with slightly less confidence, there is now a 50% chance of an above normal hurricane season. Above normal. That's down from 60% in May. Federal forecasters expect a range of 30% of 13 to 18 total named storms, including two to five major hurricanes. So far, there have been four named tropical storms and no hurricanes. That's an entirely new metric.

We'll have a four, we'll have a whole bunch of named storms. Well, Kiko is a named storm, which is supposedly coming towards Hawaii. So they can name it. But 13 to 18, what have we had this year? Two or three? I mean, real hurricanes. Oh, no hurricanes. No.

I mean, there was one out in the middle of the Atlantic that never, that threw a bunch of rain, but it was a hundred miles from the coast. Not a hurricane. Exactly. It got to a four or five, but it was out in the middle of nowhere. Didn't move. Didn't move the needle, man. Didn't move the needle.

I don't tell me. So, you know, we've been laughing about CBS and Paramount about this deal with the Ellison kid. What's the kid's name? David, I think. Yeah, David Ellison's Skydance. So the first article that came out, when does this come out? September 4th.

So according to people familiar with the matter, CBS, Paramount Skydance, whatever you want to call it, has purchased Barry White. is free press, the free press. Yeah, for $100 million to $200 million. And apparently they're going to make her a big wig at CBS News. They're thinking of giving her the executive job at CBS News.

And I thought that, and you know, and Tina and I were talking about us. That's actually kind of interesting. That may change the way they do news. That could be kind of interesting. But then I got this next report. which now, of course, I have to get from the way back machine because Wall Street Journal gives you a readable copy and then it takes it away. Here we go.

You should download. I should download. So Skydance chief executive, David Ellison, I guess he had a dinner party. He had a dinner party. And the dinner guests put forward ideas to bring back MTV the way it was. What, the original MTV?

Yeah, play music videos. Oh, brother. Yeah, that's going to go over. And he's like, oh, this is a great idea. This is very interesting. Oh, man, that's good. I think we should do this. I'm like, okay, a, exit strategy for Adam.

Hey, Adam's out of here. Hey, it's Boomer TV, everybody. How are you doing? Let's play some old David Bowie videos. They are literally talking about bringing back old MTV segments and interviews. I'll be famous again. I got to grow my hair so people recognize me on the street. You can get it.

Hey, wigs. I mean, so I can tell you unequivocally that people of the Gen X, Generation X, and some boomers, yeah, they all enjoyed a very special time. And, you know, say, hey, man, what happened to MTV? Want to play videos anymore, man. Okay. Well, because nobody says that. They made 10 times as much by putting on reality shows. They didn't make you a lot more.

And that was where the money is. And that's why they did that. Oh, okay. Well, thanks MTV for 12 years of music and your 50 year of history. Yeah, that was a great time. And we all shared that. You can't bring that back. You can't.

That is really, we think maybe, I'm reading from the Wall Street Journal. We think that MTV could become the music. tastemaker again, music pacemaker maybe, but tastemaker, I did that on the fly, on the fly. That is pure comedic stylings. He aims to keep and revitalized networks like MTV, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon as part of a revamp of the struggling entertainment company. And he wants to keep it on cable. What is wrong with this picture? Oh, this is just publicity for the whole thing.

They're not going to do any of that. Well, what is he, what is he going to do with this? I think the Barry Weiss thing is right. I think they're going to do, they're going to try to make, you know, Paramount, they're going to Sky Dance, which is actually producing pretty good movies. I can't name them, but every time I see one, no, every time I watch a movie that's decent, I see the Skydance logo come by. I think, oh, that's interesting.

They got the, definitely have the right winger, you know, dad Larry Ellis and Larry and you have to assume the son is conservative let's just look at these pretty good movies terminator genesis terminator dark fake fate the tomorrow war top gun okay that was a good one top gun now there was that movie saved that movie saved the industry transformers rise of the beasts mission impossible rogue nation another one another killer Star Trek into darkness. World War Z. I think that was a dud.

Jack Reacher. That's big. And the old guard. Okay. Well, so they have some hits. They have some hits in there. Talk to Brunetti about that. He'll know.

He'll know if they actually made money on it. Yeah. I'll ask him. I actually do have to ask him something about making money anyway. So instead of green lighting the next seasons of popular BET originals, that's Black Entertainment Television, like Tyler Perry's Divorced Sisters,

which apparently is a hit. It is? Yes. Divorce Sistas. The former Netflix executive who now heads streaming at Paramount SkyDance, Cindy Holland, has floated the idea of asking the creator to make originals that would cost more than $7 million an episode. which is double what these shows typically cost.

Can you believe that they're paying $3.5 million for an episode of Divorced Sisters? That's too high. It's way too high. If they're paying more than a million, it should be the most that anyone should pay for, to produce a TV show is a million bucks. And they paid Perry, they're paying him $200 million a year to make shows. Well, he should just be fired. There's some cost-cutting people.

That's amazing. I just don't see how they can keep these cable shows and make them work. And they want to keep it on cable. They want to revive cable. I just don't see it. Well, maybe the whole thing's a disaster. Feels like it. The kid, he's a millennial.

He's like, yeah, you look at him like, okay, you know, you got Irving Azov and the guys from Universal Music at the dinner table. hey, let's make MTV grading. There's the music guys that want to revive MTV. I'm just like, no. I wonder if you can sucker this stupid kid into doing this. What do you think? I need a call with him.

I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. You bring it up. You bring it up. Yeah. And I'll jump in and say what a great idea it is. And then we'll go from there. Yeah.

And that's the kind of thing you and I would do. Think of the merch, David. Think of the merch. Think of the merch. Hey, I need a call with David, with David Ellison. Hey, man, bring me back. Bring me back for Headbangers Ball, man. I'll bring hundreds of thousands of people.

Watch. Would have him with Walker. Watch Ricky Rackman to get the gig. Oh, man. It's just too funny. It's like, no, that doesn't feel like a strategy to me. What they pay for? Ford, $7 billion, $8 billion?

No, I don't know what. Your friend right there can answer instantly. Yeah, he's not, oh, my friend right here. Error, you think she can answer? Yeah, she'll know. Okay. How much did Skydance pay for Paramount? That'd take it too long.

Skydance shelled out $8 billion total for Paramount, 1.75 to buy national amusements outright. Then another chunk to wipe out debt and sweeten the deal for shareholders. Whole thing closed just last month. but felt like forever with all the FCC drama. I don't need you to editorialize, okay? She had to go into some other stuff. I don't need you to editorialize. This is too short and easy answer.

I can just answer the question or I can answer the question and embellish it. We don't need the embellishment. We don't. Okay, $8 billion. It just doesn't feel right to me. Meanwhile, the best idea ever for cable, no one wanted to bite,

and that was our podcast channel, which was a great idea it still is yeah but no one no one wants to do it no one wants to you know it's just a head you typical you you you actually any idea that involves you is typically 10 years i'd say five to 10 years ahead of its time yeah i know and then i sit on the podcast bitching a moaning about having no money because then you complain yeah that's exactly right but that's just that's your that's your lot that's yeah that is that is my lot Yeah, you're stuck with it. Yes, I will turn into salt.

Oh, you turn into pink salt and get rid of that stubborn belly fat. So there's a big couple of lawsuits, actually, involving AI, which are quite interesting and predicted by Professor Devorak. We are getting some news on Anthropic. Mackenzie Segalos, is that for us? Hey, Mac. Hey, Leslie. So there is a new filing in the class action lawsuit against Anthropic. they are going to pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright case that was brought by authors who said that the AI startup downloaded millions of pirated books.

Now, the company had faced the risk of more than a trillion dollars in damages if they didn't settle. A San Francisco judge does still need to approve the deal. Anthropics Deputy General Counsel telling me in a statement that this case established a key legal precedent, saying that in June, the district court issued a landmark ruling on AI development and copyright law, finding that Anthropics' approach to training AI models constitute fair use. Now, that is a big win for the AI industry, Leslie. It's a pretty large amount for a, what is it, four-year-old company there. McKenzie, thanks for staying on top of that for us.

1.5 billion. Agreement. Okay. All right. And who's my? You know, I guarantee I did 12 tech books on, you know, I got the PC telecommunications book. I did two versions of that. I got online the book. I got a bunch of other books. where's my $3,000 a book? How do I get it? I know that they scan those books in. Why wouldn't you? Well, who gets the $1.5 billion?

That was completely unclear. The way I read the story, and it turns out that the authors or the publishers, that's not clear, get $3,000 per book. It's all going to go to J.K. Rowling. It's just like Taylor Swift gets all the music money. No, she's per book. How many books does she done? 10, maybe? So she gets $30,000?

She gets $30,000. That's nothing. Hmm. One of our producers is involved in investment banker meetings right now, and he actually sent in a PDF, which is a big eye roller about, oh, this is it. This is the future. But here's the quote from his note that I thought was most interesting. The big shops like Open AI Anthropic and perplexity are struggling.

to find data to ingest for their models. They are looking for partnerships with companies that have large and or unique non-public data sets and they are willing to pay a premium for access. Quote, data is the new gold in the world of AI. So they're out of it. They've got to start using synthetic data. That's why all these images look so bad on the art generator.

Well, that's an interesting little tidbit. Apple is being sued by authors now now that that $1.5 billion Well, I got to get on the bandwagon. Who's the law firm? I got to call them up. I got to be on these lawsuits. Let me see.

I've written a lot. Look at all the columns I've written for PC magazine. I don't think I'd be able to get any money out of that. It's like I'm not getting any ellis and cash if they start replaying my Headbangers Ball episodes on the new MTV, believe me. Here's ball. Yeah, we didn't do the right contract. My sister-in-law called me up.

She says, hey, they just played a clip of you on Sirius XM from MTV. Do you get money for that? No. No, that's not how it works. Oh, here we go. Oh, no, this is the lawsuit filed by authors Grady Hendricks and Jennifer Robertson. So that was too individual. You need your own lawyer.

Hey, I know who. Rob the constitutional lawyer. Well, maybe he might work out. He can he can coat tail on some other stuff. It shouldn't be that much work. He's a bully, too. He's great. Oh, I like a bully as a lawyer.

He's a bully in boots. That's his new. I've had lawyers that were not bullies and they were just lame. No, they suck. They take forever to get the job done if they is never as good as it should be. And then the SNAP AI. So the FTC commissioner, Rebecca Slaughter, I guess she's. still around. I thought she was being kicked out.

But they're now saying, hey, we had a complaint against Snap because I guess Snap also has my AI chatbot and it has posed potential risks and harms to young users. Oh. All of this stuff. These are lawsuits just waiting to happen everywhere. And I think the author thing, that's a real deal. You get anthropic, you get Apple. I think there's money in it for you.

And I want a finder's fee, Rob. Because I connected you to John. So I want $3 of every $3,000 John gets. What? 0.1%? I'm kind. That's not what finder's fee is. I'm kind.

Okay. $1,500, thanks. No. That's not what a finder's fee is. You don't know what you're doing. I need you to be my agent for the money I'm taking from you. And then I'll take the 15% from what you get. All right.

What do you want to do next? Okay, let's see what we got. I got lots of Ukraine stuff, but we can hold off on that. Some what stuff? Ukraine. There's some stuff happening. Ruta. Ruta.

I have a funny set of clips. Unfortunately, I only took the second. You're going to have to look at up the first of this from the last show 96. and it's a funny exposition on the word um yes um is a word but i have npr number two is that from yeah number one was from last one i was going to move it over i was going to move it over and i thought i did yeah yeah i have one and i have two we have we have a match we have a match we say and hear it all the time and it's often frowned upon but this two stop stop stop stop hold on a second i got a message from Rob, the constitutional lawyer.

Oh, he says he's going to hire me as an expert witness. There you go. Perfect. Perfect. It's coming out of your check. That's the way you do business. Coming out of your check, DeVarach. I told you, the guy's a bully.

He's great. He bullies his own clients. We say, and hear it all the time. And it's often frowned upon, but this two-letter filler word is a mighty building block of conversation. So, for our latest word of the week, let's, um, Have a talk about... Oh, how cute.

Let's... Um, um, um, um, um, oh, um. Lidest word of the week. Let's, um, have a talk about, um, um, um, and peers, Ianna Archie has more. We use, um, for good reason. It fills the space when we're trying to think of what to say next. Um, it can soften our tone to make us sound more, um, casual or polite. Dumb.

It also, um, signals to people that we're not done talking, which is known as turnholding. that buys you time and helps prevent other people from talking over you. That was Jess Safaris, an etymologist and co-hosts of the Words Unravelled podcast. Delphine Dahin leads a psycholinguistics lab at the University of Pennsylvania. The planning of this word doesn't take much effort, which means that's something that speakers can produce on the drop of a hat. Because of this, filler words with similar sounds and uses show up across languages and cultures. In France, it's an ugh sound. Brits and Australians say, um, despite its dominance, um, gets a lot of hate.

We have established in corporate culture and in public speaking and rhetoric that to make a clear argument, you should sound as decisive as possible. So, where did um come from? That's very interesting. The lady who is the expert on the um word, she's drawing out words like that and I. to replace um and it's obvious she's doing it yeah i think so the earliest record of the word is in plays written by john marston he was an english playwright who used um as early as 1604 the oxford english dictionary says people typically don't write um down because we have time to pause and think

about what's next but younger people have started writing um informally to express humor confusion irony or signal a correction. TikTok captions say things like, um, is this normal? Mignon Fogarty has written several books on language under the moniker grammar girl. Here's what she had to say. It does show up more in social media than in business emails or things like that. Situations where people are writing as though they were speaking. Um is still used mostly in face-to-face conversations. It tells the person you're still there and still thinking. So your commitment to the conversation. session isn't questioned. If you're on the speaker, say you ask me a question and now I answer it, I have to give you an answer.

Um, isn't the bad guy. But if you want to use it less, it takes practice. You can start by speaking more slowly. Iiana Archie in PR News. I'm going to come. Um, well, okay. Is that both parts? That's both parts, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I thought too. like I thought it would be a little more exciting. Anyway, that was the... Because we always criticize people who say, um, um, um, constantly. Yeah, I do it. I thought that was a good segment. I do it. You do it.

We all do it. Yeah, but not to an extreme. No. Let's get some ums from, uh, from our boy here. From, uh, Ruta. Ruta. Oh, your buddy. Yeah, he was on the Euro debates.

And, uh, there we go. And, uh, Trump's best. friend. There you go, instead of om, I say, en, how come they

didn't put that in the, and he was talking on the Euro debates and he is indeed Trump's friend because

he is right off the bat. At first I thought he was talking about some prime ministers when I heard the

names he was rattling off because it's very unclear. But what he was actually saying was Raytheon, Boeing,

I thought he was talking about prime ministers. And he's telegraphing to them what they need to do next. This is all about the war industrial base.

If I was Raysian or Lockheed Martin or Riemetal or Leonardo, I would think, hey, that is strange. And why is this happen? At this moment in NATO, because we are not producing fast enough. And by the way, when it comes to shipbuilding and our Navy, and particularly the U.S. Navy,

I'm really worried. The shit building, we are very worried. If I was Raycion or other companies, like Leonardo. He said. He had a list. He had one there. It was just... Leonardo. Let's listen. If I was Raycian or Lockett Martin. Racian, Raytheon or Lockett Martin.

Or Leometall. Or Leonardo, I would think, hey. Leonardo. Leonardo. What does Leonardo do? Leonardo. It must have been something else. It just sounded like Leonardo. Ships. Do they build ships? Do they build ships? Yeah. They build cruise ships. Oh, a company called Lianardo?

Apparently. Huh, maybe. That is strange. That is strange. At this moment in NATO because we are not producing fast enough. And by the way, when it comes to shipbuilding and our Navy and particularly the U.S. Navy, I'm really worried because this China has now more ship sailing than the U.S. And shipbuilding in the U.S. is not at the rate that they can anywhere catch up on what China is doing at the moment.

We really have to do some more shit building. Shitbuilding is where it's at these days. Recyon, get into it. But I don't think there will be an Article 5 that kind of situation for China and Taiwan. When Article 5 is yes or no triggered. It's there, I can... Yes or no triggered.

When Article 5 is yes or no triggered. When Article 5 is yes or no triggered, it's there, I can assure you that anyone listening in from China or Russia or other people who wish us well who think that we are not clear on this, our reaction will be devastated based on the whole thing behind Article 5. And when it comes to hybrid, we are not naive.

No. No, they chopped it a little bit on the... Euro debates themselves cut him up. They chopped him up. This, our reaction will be devastated based on the whole thing behind Article 5. And when it comes to hybrid, we are not naive. Hybrid is a cuddly word. It sounds nice.

It's a what kind of word? Cudley. Hybrid is a cuddly word, but it is not nice. Behind article 5. And when it comes to hybrid, we are not naive. Hybrid is a cutly word. It sounds nice, but it means assassination attacks, jamming off planes, attacks on the National Health Service in the United Kingdom,

and many other examples. What is this attacks on the health service in the United Kingdom? That was a very odd statement. I have no idea what he's talking about. So hybrid is assassinations. Hybrid is a cutly word. It sounds nice, but it means assassination attacks, jamming off planes. General plagues.

No, gemming of planes. Gemming of planes. Oh, gemming. Oh, yeah. There's reasons he's saying all this stuff. But I had not heard of the attacking the national health system of the UK. That sounds like something yet to come. A text on national health service in the United Kingdom and many other examples.

Very, very strange. That is very strange. And then try and riddle me this one. Sometimes we know President Eisenhower when it comes to the military industrial complex, although he was all in, didn't he basically build NATO? I can't say that. I think he was a big part of it. I don't know, maybe.

Well, listen to this statement. I don't know. I just don't know. Listen to this statement. Sometimes people think we do the 3.5% core defense spending for an audience of one. No, it is a coincidence that by spending 3.5%. We equalize what Europeans and Canadians are spending and the U.S. is crucial, because we had to end that debate, which started with Eisenhower, basically saying that the U.S. was paying more than the Europeans, and the U.S. was totally right and rightly irritated and expecting the Europeans in Canada to step up. That's now happening. So what he's saying is that Eisenhower said Europe is not paying enough? I don't recall this. I looked for speeches of him saying that. I don't think he's ever said that. If anything, he said, be aware of the military industrial complex.

Well, no, he, we know that because that's his famous speech. But maybe, I mean, he was there in the office for eight years. He could have said that anywhere along the line. Well, it's not famous where I could find it easily on YouTube. But he brought up GPS plane jamming, GPS plane jamming. Now, I'm sure you saw the story of Queen Ursula's flight being jammed, GPS jamming. while she was flying to... I have not seen the story. Oh.

Give me a rundown. I have a rundown and pay attention to how these ladies talk about it on CNN. A plane carrying the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was targeted by GPS jamming or trying to land in Bulgaria. A spokesperson has said it's believed the interference was carried out by Russia. The plane landed safely after the pilots used paper maps. Senior international correspondent Melissa Bell has more on this from... Paris. Paper maps. I can't believe they use paper maps.

So, Melissa, good to have you on. What more do we know about what happened here? I mean, pilots reverting and resorting to using paper maps. Paper maps. It just shows the incredible jamming that occurred here where the plane systems, essentially, the GPS systems, went down. Okay. Now, there's another piece of this from this lady. But let's just talk about what this means. Paper maps! Okay. So up until 2006, literally, I was still flying without a GPS until 2008. Yeah, you had a sectional map, but if you're landing at an airport, you use something called the ILS instrument landing system.

And it is radio transmitter based. Yeah, they're telling you what to do, right? Well, it gives you two. you have an actual instrument that is not GPS based and it grabs the vertical and the horizontal and there's literally two lines and when they align you're on the glide scope and you're headed right for the runway and that's been used since World War II but now it's like paper maps oh they had to land with paper maps why am I talking like Grita she's British anyway so this is that's like I mean you still have to train with on an I

that every pilot who flies knows has the instruments it's not it's not GPS based in fact you use ILS landing more often than you think this whole GPS jamming thing the way they're making it sound like oh oh we're so so glad she got on the ground so lucky they had you i can't they had to use paper maps we don't even use that in the car anymore this is crazy and of course we need to blame it on Russia uh froze that's right we only found out about this today as a result of the Commission speaking out about it, Eleni, after getting word from Bulgarian authorities

that this GPS jamming was, they believe, the work of Moscow. But it happened, of course, on Sunday. This is part of Ursula Vandelein, Europe's top leader, of course, the Commission President's Whistlestop Tourism in Europe, designed specifically to shore up support

for Ukraine. On this tour, as she landed in southern Bulgaria, this incident on what was a charter plane, the Commission's also recognized that they don't know whether she herself was specifically targeted or the plane in general, but certainly very concerning, as you say, the pilots having to resort to paper maps to land the plane safely. It did land safely, and she was able to carry on with her work. But she pointed out on the tarmac there after, of course, learning of this incident,

but before the rest of the world had learned of it, that there was an urgency that we needed to keep in mind about fighting Russia and continuing to support Ukraine. And you can see those, the images of her landing on Sunday on that airport tarmac in southern Bulgaria safely. But another example, as she said, of the need to keep a very close eye on Russia and continue fighting. Now, unfortunately, the whole story is bullshit. I said it. I use the bullshit word. Because for 10 years now, we've had something called ADSB.

And ADSB is directly connected to the GP. system of the aircraft. And ADSBB, ADSB transmits altitude, position, speed, all these different parameters to the ground over radio waves, which is being received by hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts around the world. If you've ever looked at flight radar 24 or flight aware or any of these other systems, that data is actually collected by people with some have antennas outside but most of them they just have a USB stick you stick into your computer and your Raspberry Pi and it

receives this data position altitude altitude speed of the aircraft and they aggregate that on these websites well you can see this flight from Queen Ursula there was no deviation all the data comes through perfectly they were not circling around for hours If anything, it looks like they had a missed approach and they went, oh, I think they lied. They missed the approach. They screwed something up. Maybe they were flying GPS approach, RNAV or something. And they didn't like it and they went around like, oh, man, we can't tell anybody we screwed this up.

You can see that there was no interruption of GPS data. It just kept transmitting exactly where they were throughout the entire flight. This is a lie. And it's a laughable one. well it tells me one thing there's way too much ambient rf in the atmosphere oh yeah well there's a lot of that these have been around for a long time yeah it's a real so bull crap yeah good that's a good good so now this all comes it sounds like it sounds like bull crap anyway i mean besides that I mean, what mechanism are they using to jam the GPS?

They got a bunch of, what, is Russia got a bunch of antennas positioned in Bulgaria or what's going on? You can jam them from satellite. We do this. We purposely throw GPS. That should be traceable. Yeah. There's the, where's the evidence then? Why don't we show some evidence that Russia did this?

We're not. This is just Queen Ursula, just, they're just making stuff up. but nothing as good as Rutter who had to for whatever reason he had to downplay Putin in an amazing way. Ukraine is a sovereign nation if Ukraine

wants to have security guarantee forces in Ukraine to support the peace it's up to them. Nobody else can decide about it and I think we really have to stop making Putin too powerful. He is the governor of Texas, not more. So let's not take it too serious.

What? Did you just say? What did you just say? Careful now, Mark, the governor of Texas. And, you know, I think Abbott should come out and complain about that comment. That was rather rude. Anyway, so with the Coalition of the Willing, they had their big meeting, big meeting everybody, big meeting about what we're going to do, we're going to do boots on the ground, who's going to do it, how we're going to have, what's going to happen. Come on. of intense talks at the Elisei Palace,

the coalition of the willing, has reached an agreement. Today, 26 countries have formally agreed, and some others still have to confirm their position. 26 countries have agreed to deploy troops as security guarantees, troops in Ukraine, which will be present on the ground, at sea, and in the skies, to bring that reassurance to Ukraine the day after a ceasefire or peace deal. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky welcomed the agreement and expressed his gratitude for America's support.

We agreed that there will be a presence. I'm not yet ready to speak about the numbers. Although, to be honest, we already understand an approximate number of those who've already agreed. We're also discussing a matter, which I believe will be further discussed. It's the backstop of America. We count on that. We are very grateful to America for supporting and being a part of the security guarantees for Ukraine. The coalition concluded the talks with a call with U.S. President Donald Trump. A White House

official was quoted as telling reporters that Trump urged Europe to stop buying Russian oil and put pressure on China to punish it for funding Russia's war efforts. On Thursday morning a spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the guarantees would be a springboard for provocation.

They're not guarantees of Ukraine's security. They're guarantees of danger to the European continent. The Coalition of the Willing now looks to the U.S. to formalize the plan in the coming days. Yeah, so President Trump being very vague about all of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're here. We're around.

You call us if you need us. Russian President Putin is very clear. It took Vladimir put in a few hours to react to pledges made by the Coalition of the Willing. According to French President Emmanuel Macron, 26 countries out of the group's 35. have said they would deploy troops by land, sea, or air to help protect Ukraine

after a ceasefire or peace is reached. This was the Russian president's response. Should there be any troops deployed in Ukraine, especially now in the course of the military action, we would treat them

as legitimate targets. Vladimir Putin said he saw no reason to deploy foreign troops in Ukraine once peace is signed. She also said that if Ukraine is getting security guarantees, then Russia should get some as well. Meanwhile...

Hey, we'll back you too. Hey, Vladimir, we'll back you, we'll back everybody. Then Russia should get some as well. Meanwhile, Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky held pledges made by the coalition, adding that countries can step up their support to

Ukraine before a ceasefire is signed. In the next few weeks, we'll talk with each country about what exactly they can do. And it's important that security guarantees start working now. What? I'm working on getting a Zelensky voice. During the war, not only. I'm mumbling in the background. All right, all right. It ends. President Donald Trump has excluded sending U.S. troops to Ukraine, but has mentioned the U.S. providing security guarantees with no details on what they would entail. Responding to journalists on Thursday, Trump said he would hold new discussions with

Vladimir Putin soon. So what I'm hearing is Europe, who is war hungry, war mongers, they just want war. They can't help themselves. They're saying, well, you know, we're going to put all of our hundreds of thousands of troops that were rousing from the German streets. we're going to put them in Ukraine, and Putin is saying, well, if you do that, they're valid targets, unless I can get some security guarantees, which I take to be as, well, we're going to put our troops on the other side of the demilitarized zone, and we'll have an ongoing

armistice for the rest of our lives so everybody can keep their war economy. But to find out what's really going on, we turn to my sage in all of this, our Canadian, Andrew Rosulis, who I think had some good takes on this. The first, the audio on this first one is a little choppy, but that's only a little bit in the first clip. We're on this story. I'm now joined by Andrew Rosulis. He is a fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and a retired Department of National Defense Official. Thanks so much for talking to us this morning. First of all, your reaction to this latest attack. I think there's two elements to it. First is Putin and the Russian military are following up

Putin's political words over the weekend that the Russians would never tolerate any coalition of the willing forces, that's NATO-type forces, deploying to Ukraine, either either before a ceasefire or after a ceasefire, that the Russians would consider them as hostile forces, and that would also include any Canadian contingent. The second point, though, I think the Russians are actually gearing up for a very determined fall offensive. They have waged a very strong summer offensive and recently have made some unexpected type of I think what's going to happen

now. If the Russians are going for victory, because all this talk about coalition of the willing, deploying forces, the Russians are not having that and they're saying, look, we need to negotiate a neutral Ukraine status or oblast or we're going to go for victory.

And I think the Russians are very serious about waging a war to force the Ukrainians to accept the Russian conditions. By the way, as a technical point of note, the reason why he started cutting out is because some idiot sound guy decided to pot up the sound of Putin in the background

and Zoom doesn't know what to do with it. So they stopped that luckily. So what about President Trump and all of this? Let's talk about the timing of this though, because this is all coming just a week or rather a few weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he reached understandings with U.S. President

Donald Trump. When it comes to the end of the war with Ukraine, of course, that came out of the meeting with Trump in Alaska. Based on that and what's now happened overnight, what was achieved there? Well, I think what was achieved actually was dialogue at the highest level. We didn't have that before Alaska and then the follow-up meeting at the White House with Zelensky and Trump on the Monday following. So no, we do have this dialogue. And because we have the dialogue, we actually know how far apart the positions are. But that is a result of dialogue, which we, again, didn't have before. So we now know that the Russians are not going to

accept the Ukrainian position, and the Ukrainians are not going to accept the Russian position. So we know there will be more war until one can force the other. Right now, the Russians are winning the war, and they have the stronger hand. Yeah. He just says it. That's really good. You don't get that from any other Western media. Now we go to the boots on the ground part and the sanctions. Is any of that working? Let's talk about something you touched on just a few moments ago. The fact that Putin has attacked this plan about sending any foreign troops to help out in this conflict. What are your thoughts on that, given what Canada has said it plans to do,

given what France has said it plans to do in deploying troops by land sea or air to guarantee Kiev security? Where do they go from here? Well, I don't think they go very far because the Russians clearly said this is a non-starter. Now, the Western response to that is more sanctions. So they're saying, okay, we need to pressure the Russians to accept our coalition of the willing and Ukrainian position. And the Russians are saying, no, and they were in Beijing, Putin was in Beijing with, you know, a couple of days ago for the big 1945 end of World War II parade. And the meetings there, the Indians were there, the Chinese were there, all of Putin's allies were there. and they formed a very strong phthalang so Putin is feeling very strong about resisting western sanctions

but western sanctions are the only option available for the coalition of the willing and ukraine i'm telling you they they just don't want to resolve it the Europeans are crazy and isn't this the proverbial nobody wins a pissing contest because there's really only the kind of thing that deteriorates that's the problem this is similar to what happened in World War I. Explain? Well, in World War I, it started off with the assassination of this character.

The Ferdinand. Ferdinand in the middle of nowhere by some nut job. And then it became a bunch of people shaking their fists at each other, and the next thing you know, it devolved into a world war. It was this damnedest thing.

Yeah. And this is kind of thinking, it festers. It's like an open wound. Well, you're right, because there's only two ways this can go. Last clip from Andrew Rusulis. Finally, I do want to ask you this. Some analysts have said that Putin is betting Ukraine's army will break before his economy does. How do you see it? Yes, exactly. That is the Russian position. The Russians are now, as I mentioned, mounting what appears to be a major fall offensive. That is exactly what they're trying to do is break the Ukrainian forces, burn them out before the Russian economy struggles further.

the Russian economy is under pressure. There's no doubt about that. But it's not at the severe point. There's no rationing in Russia. And if you get into a severe wartime economy, you start to ration. So the Russians are not there yet, but they don't want to go there. They want to try and bring this war to a closure on their terms as soon as possible. And I think they're launching these military operations now, but they're open for a dialogue with Ukraine. If they want to come around and accept Russian terms, the Russians will stop the war. And the Europeans don't care about Ukraine. They're cannon fodder to them. They really don't care. I agree. And if Russian, the people talk about the Russian economy, the Russian economy is doing just fine,

just as he said, there's no rationing or anything going on. And they're doing, and if they just turn their sights on China and India, as a, making a giant market there with, you know, maybe even Iran and South Africa and some other people thrown in. Yeah, the bricks, the The bricks gang. The bricks thrown in for good measure. The Russians are, would concoast through this economically. They don't, like they said, they can't,

what are they going to sanctioned? They're not doing any business with us now. Caviar? We don't even use Russian caviar anymore. Now, where do we get it from Nova Scotia? No, we get it from everywhere. Caviar is growing, is every, if we can get some good,

there's some good caviar in North Carolina. We have sturgeon. We have sturgeon. We have sturgeon. We have. Caviar from North Carolina? Yeah, and they grow the sturgeons there, and the big ones, the big boys. Yeah.

And they have a, it's all farmed in a very elaborate system, and they cut out the caviar and sew up the sturgeon and put them back in action. And it's just, and you get this terrific product. They even have the high end, super high end caviar, comes out of the United States. China has a lot of caviar. Caviarians, the big caviar makers, they're the, you know, alongside the high end caviar. the Russians, but we don't trade with them that much. You know, I can get Iranian saffron. I can go

down, I know two stores that sell it so we're doing some trading. But, yeah, where's PETA in all of this, cutting open, the sturgeons and so on them back up. They're having, you know, they're... Just for some eggs. Can't we just catch them as they shoot them out? With their

bellinis. Blinis. There's nothing like a blini with some sour cream. Mm-hmm. A little bit of egg, a little bit of onion. Oh, yeah. baby i love me some caviar especially from where is it north carolina yeah i believe it's north carolina i got to look for that there's but that's not the only farm we have in this country there's a couple i've i look it up every once in a while because i before there's an event or something i think well i'm going to buy some caviar and they ship it out you know what event what event

i haven't bought any for i would use that christmas i'll buy caviar for christmas i used to i don't do it anymore because we're starving to death we're not getting enough donations for the podcast but But beside the point, I'm not squandering. I'm using my income from investments for the caviar. I just want to mention that. But I don't have it. I haven't been getting it. I'm kind of reluctant because, you know, you can get cat.

Now the caviar, they even sell it to Russian grocers in San Francisco. There's a little Russian segment of town there. The caviar is just this hybrid crap. It's no good. Hmm. Well, if Europe really wants America as a backstop, Maybe they shouldn't be doing stuff like this. Not happy with the EU's fine on Google, Donald Trump is threatening sanctions.

And, no, I'm going to be speaking to the European Union, but it's not fair. People say there was nothing wrong with what they did. It's almost a source of income to run Europe. Google says it's appealing a fine of almost 3 billion euros by the European Commission, which says the search giant took advantage of its grip over online advertising to favor its own ads and content. Google abused its dominant position in ad tech, harming publishers, advertisers, and consumers. Harming! Also this week, Google was fined $425 million in the U.S.

for gathering data from smartphone users that should have been protected by their privacy settings. I didn't hear about that. Did you hear about this? No, I'm not heard about this. From their privacy settings? The privacy settings? I didn't realize that they're stealing data. Data.

Data. What? What? There's gambling down on there? And France's Data Protection Authority find Google 325 million euros for failing to respect the law on internet cookies. Oh, the cookies.

They were going to get rid of cookies. 325 million dollars were the cookies. Remember they were going to get rid of cookies? They kept saying, oh, no, we've got a better system now. We want to use cookies. What's a better system than cookies? What was it called? It was a, hold on it.

It's got to be bad, whatever it is. Cookies are bad enough. If you know what cookies were invented. It was flock. Who invented cookies? Netscape. Yes. Originally invented for your, my netscape, wasn't it?

It was invented. I think it was invented for the purposes of tracking. I don't, there's no other reason to do it. But it was like supposedly you went to the website, then it logged you so when you went back, you wouldn't be getting redundant information. It was supposed to be a good idea. But it was, I don't think so.

Well, Google said many times they were going to replace cookies with flock. Flock. You've heard of flock. Federated learning of cohorts. A tracking feature. Yes, attract you. It's just a tracking like a dog. Exactly.

But I guess they can't get it to work or they'd have to share the information with other people or they don't like doing that. And I don't know how they're going to manage eventually with. with AI. Anyway, let's continue this. These might sound like scary sums, but there are a small fraction compared to the quarter of a trillion dollars that Google added to its market share this week

as its stock shot up by more than 11%. Why? Because investors are breathing a sigh of relief. Google avoided being broken up. The European Commission could have ordered Google to divest part of its business but said it first wants to assess the company's efforts to comply, giving it 90 days to do so. And on Tuesday, a U.S. judge rejected the American government's demand that Google sell its Chrome web browser. As a reminder, it was Donald Trump's first administration that brought that case against Google.

I think we didn't really talk about it, but I thought that was quite interesting. They didn't have to divest from Chrome. If anything, I thought that would be the right way to go. I don't know what the right way to go is with breaking up these companies. Well, how about spinning out YouTube? and see if they really make any money. That would be a good way to go. But I think YouTube, now that they get YouTube TV,

they have to be making money at this point. I don't know, ma'am. There's a lot of data, a lot of cashing at the edges. I mean, it is not cheap. What is it? No, they have an hour-long videos. Those things can't be cheap to post. I'm streaming the quad screen all day long,

and every four hours it says, Are you still there? And they're not doing that because it's not costing the money because they turn it off. So you're using Google TV and they're using the, they have a feature where you can, you can have four screens up at the same time. Right. But are you using it on one screen or you're separating it out? How are you doing it?

No, I have one, one screen, one television screen. One big giant screen with four quads. Big giant screen. But it doesn't matter. Anything, if you're watching CNBC, it doesn't matter what you're watching. after four hours, if you haven't interacted, they shut you off because it's costing them money, basically. Well, they figured, you know, if you're not,

if you don't get the message when they flash it in the screen, you're not there. Yeah. So why should it be wasting bandwidth sending you crap? That's the way I see it. Yeah, because it's still costing them money. I just don't think. Of course it's costing them money.

It's not free. Remember when Leo thought the bandwidth was free? Yeah, I remember that one? He made a big fuss about it. Remember how funny that was? Yeah, Ben, it's free. What's the frie? What's the fris?

Yeah, he did say that. With that, I want to thank you for your courage. In the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the European coal mission. Say hello to my friend on the other end. The one, the only mister. John C. DeMore. Yeah, well, in the morning, he was Adam Crian in the morning. See, Mr. Smith, the grass feet, the air, subs in the water,

and all the names of nights out there. into the trolls in the troll room. I had to cough in the middle of my announcement of you. That was bad. And I thought that the echo would keep going when I cut the mic, but it cut the echo. It's very bad. Oh, that's the reason that you had the delay?

Yeah, because I cut it off and it stops. Oh, interesting. Yeah, it was bad. 1931 in the troll room today. Still about 250 shy, if what, we're used to, but it's okay. No, no. What do you mean? No, it's 2,400, 2,200? What is it on As far as I'm concerned, it's 2,500. No, it was never 2,500. It was always 24. It was 1,800 on Thursday and 2,400 on Sunday. Sucks. It's just people who can't, maybe they can't

listen live because they're all, they've all become plumbers and they're working on stuff. They have jobs. Our people have jobs, man. Well, we do have people that work for a living. There's no doubt about that. But I think it's when we lost them during that, the, the dark era where they couldn't, they couldn't get on. They never came back. This is like when you lose a market person to, when you lose a person, so old marketing rule, it's harder to get them back. Than to get a new person. Yeah. So you have to work in getting new people constantly. So talk to your neighbor and say, hey, are you listening live? And if they're not, then tell them they should be. Because it's fun. It's fun. And you get

the news right away. You get everything's fresh, hot off the griddle. And, and if you use a modern podcast app, you'll be notified when we go live. And I'm sure, I can't put a message in that. I should probably, I don't think I can do that. Yeah, but make it, put it in the podcasting 2.1. Yes. Okay, we'll work on that. Podcasting 2.1 is coming right up. Get your modern podcast app at podcast apps.com. That's where you want to be. That's what you want. You don't want a legacy app. You want something fresh, modern that brings you all of the great new features, now including animated chapter images. I haven't seen that yet. Well, do you, you don't even have it. You don't even use an app. You don't even listen to the show. You'd have to see it on this,

on the art generator, wouldn't you? Well, he doesn't get them from the art generator. He gets them from other places and puts, he just puts it in. and with animated. Oh, just random images? Rando. Rando images. It's got something to do

to the show maybe or not? Well, no, of course. It has something to do with the topic. Yeah. Rando images. Yeah. He does a good job. And that is part of our

value for value proposition. Dreb Scott, he does the chapters for us, which is quite a lot of work. Because he has to mark everything, go back, put it all in, go to the chapter studio and add in the images.

adding little titles and funny stuff, and then he's got to save it all, send it to me, and then I put it on this server. It's a big process. But it's value for value. He's sending value back as part of the value he received for the show. And a lot of those images that he uses that aren't animated are, in fact, value that we receive from our prompt jockeys.

I don't think I've seen that single original piece of art in the last 10 shows. No, no, there was one. There was one that said, this is not a, I art. Okay. There was one. And to be honest, you know, it's hard to find something that's really exciting anymore. They're all okay.

Now, Nessworks, this, I'm not sure about Nessworks because he is a real artist and it looks like he's doing hybrid. He's doing, well, he's a real artist, but he's not an idiot. Yeah, correct. So he's going to use the tools available to him. Yeah. So this, the big one, the bomb with Noah Jenner. He's got the no agenda, like exploding O, and he's got hypodermic needles going into this thing. And it looks really good on a white background, which is one of the...

That's a good piece. It's a very good piece. And we used that for episode 9th, 1796. Wow. This is 1797, only three more to go. And that's episode 1800, moving up on our 18th anniversary. We titled that one Zeds, Zeds, for the Zed. The Generation Zid.

Man, let's see what else we have. I like, we need the list. Yeah, because it was another orange cartoon. It's blind to me. It's an orange. It's not even orange anymore. Now it's just brown. You're colorblind, so you're seeing more orange than anyone.

It's orange. It's an orange cartoon. I also like leader of China is Mike. That would have been great if it wasn't a cartoon. by Jeffrey. I'm going to tell you right up front, people who make cartoons that have orange in them. I'm not,

I'm going to veto them time and time again. It makes me tired. It makes you tired? Yeah, it makes me tired. I look at it, I just go, oh, I'm so tired. And comics are blogger, you can stop with the butts in the boobs any time now.

It's not even exciting us after the show. It's like just more scrolling. I hope there's another butt there's another boob, okay so no and this is consistent please let me know Jeffrey Ria who I think

is a digital 2112 man and who else does these Jeffrey Ria Jeffrey Ria Darren O'Neill tell me what AI you're using because it's all coming out the same

you know and that's model collapse on that one for sure just nothing new. But Sir Shug, who did the Therapai, TheraP AI, which we didn't choose, but that's also cartoonish AI, but has no, well, it actually does there. No, it's totally different.

It's got to be a different product. But it's got orange in the letters and orange in the thought bubble. I mean, it's, it's crazy, the amount of orange. Why orange? We talked about this before. That's where they're keeping all the metadata. Well, we want to thank Nessworks for bringing us an outstanding piece. No agenda, artgenerator.com.

People are still having problems getting an account. I'm not sure why. I don't know if there's some secret to it. It'll kick back an error message saying you uploaded the wrong size. Does anybody know what that is? I thought I was, don't you have to do 512 by 512? Isn't that what every? I have no idea, does you mention it.

Yeah. Well, there's a problem. And then people send it to me and say, what am I doing wrong? I don't know. I really don't know. Why don't you just forward the messages off to our buddy? I do it all the time to Paul Couture. And he's not paying attention?

No, probably not. Anyway, thank you very much, Nessworks. We appreciate that. And we appreciate all the work, all of our prompt jockeys do. I miss the Dutch masters. I'm not going to lie. I miss the Dutch masters. I miss it a lot, but I understand.

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AI is fake? Sir Sam in Bedford, UK, and here's your 333.33. Gentlemen, it's been too long since my last donation, and I can't stand that my cousin Scott Long is still a douchebag. Dushbag. Well, Dooshbag. Okay, sorry. I'd have to do.

Yeah. He's the only person I've ever successfully hit in the mouth. Well, try harder. So I'm using some of my Apple shill money through the less than $20 a share. Oh, you bought the stock of 20. Nice, nice. You can give us more than this. Oh, it depends on the home and shares.

Weren't there a couple of splits along the way? Oh, it's outrageous. He sold it last year for a lot more. And to put an end to this situation. Oh, okay. Oh, so he gets a deduishing now. See, that's why I was holding them back. You've been deduished.

Well, the douche bag was, oh, okay. Scott does some amazing custom vehicle upholstery. Oh, good. At, what do we have here? Sean? Sean Interiors.com Shana,

Shana, Shana, S-N-A Shena. No, it's pronounced C-N-A. This is a horrible name. So you print, you spell it. Oh, C-N-A. This is not a good URL. It's S-E-N-A-E-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I-Nteriors.com.

Pronounce C-N-A-N-E-Nteriors.com. C-N-A-Nteriors.com. Check, check them out if you live in the Midwest and need any vehicle. He's not the guys in the UK and need any vehicle of postery services. Keep up the amazing work, John, keep on bringing the TikTok clips and everyone else. Keep buying iPhones. I guess he's still holding. He's still owned stock.

Okay. Sir Sam of the Bedfordshire and River Great. What's that say? Ouse. Ouse. Ouse? What's an house? I don't know. It's a kind of bird.

I have no idea. Confusing note. Then we get, what do we have here? We have Charlotte in San Francisco, 333.33. Another match. I guess we're going to be done for the matches. Hello, John and Adam. Here's my donation.

She writes on a handwritten note. You can tell she's a woman, just from the how she writes. It's beautiful handwriting. Hoping to be part of the matching rally. One of your other generous donators has offered. well, you're in. You two make me laugh, underlined. And that's why I keep coming back. Yours truly, Charlotte, in San Francisco, California. Nice handwriting.

Well, thank you, Charlotte. Sir Eric in Texas, and he's in San Antonio, 261, 69. ITM, gentlemen, Sir Eric here, first and foremost, happy birthday, Adam. Thank you. Delated, but there it is. I would like to congratulate you two on y'all All's continuing success and maintaining what is the best podcast in the universe. Y'all's value to me is incalculable. So please accept this donation for exactly 261.69. I would like to call out Jacob Klyse as a douchebag. I hit him in the mouth a few years, in the mouth a few years ago.

and he admitted to me that he has listened to ever since and has never donated. With that said, please attribute this donation and associate executive producer shipped to him. Oh. Okay. So this is a switcher-roo. Okay. My success of hitting people in the mouth is lacrimos. There's a word that's got my, I don't know.

Lachromos? I've never heard of this word. with humorless or something. But Jacob gives me hope in sharing your message. Please play 69-69 dude jingle and some relationship karma would be appreciated. P.S. John, please forgive me for forgetting the H last time. Do you remember what that's about? No.

69, 69, dudes. You've got karma. And Steve Weiss in Nevada. of Las Vegas comes in with 250 Associate Executive Producership and he has a switcheroo for his smoking hot wife in honor of their 25th anniversary

and they never had a fight. We don't know her name though which, so what do we call just Mrs. Weiss? Yeah. Miss Steve? Ms. Weiss. Ms. Weiss. I think Ms. is funnier.

Ms. Weiss. It's funnier. Give her a train horn and a boogity, Bootty Boots on the Ground Report on Summer Job sent in separate email to John. To John. Did you receive a separate email to you, to John? Probably mentioned his wife in that one. I'd have to look. No, I got blocked.

Do you have a train horn? What? Do you have a train horn? I don't have a train horn. I got this? I got this. Wow, that was a lot of noise at the same time. I'd say.

Okay. Yes, I have train. I got plenty O'Train horns. Yes. Jeremy Gray in Owasso, Oklahoma, 220. I also have, I also have this classic. Tickets. Yeah, well.

There's John and Adam. This is my second donation to the show. Thank you for a consistently high quality product. Thank you for saying that. I like the following jingles. One, Rubbleyzer, two, Obama, no, no, no. And any old explosion sound effect. Thank you, Jeremy, 220.

Okay, a couple things. One, I'm retiring the Rubelizer. It is to only be used for Rubelizer donations after this. Don't you agree? Yep. Okay. Two, I don't actually have an explosion sound effect. Do you have an explosion sound effect?

I can find the other little sound effect device. I mean, I have a boom crash sound effect. But I don't have an explosion. I don't think I... No, no, that's not even close. Wait, wait. No, no, no, that's not going to do. No, no, no.

Well, I'll try this. India, tango, mic. Stand by 33, 33, 33, 33. Rubbleizer, out. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hey. All the board.

All right, there you go. Okay. You're up. No, I just read this one. You're up. Sir Hib. Really? I thought I just read Jeremy Gray and Owasso, Oklahoma, 20.

Sir Hib of Hogtown, 20166. Hi, fellas, hi. It's been a while, but I have an excuse. I had a ruptured brain aneurysm last December. Well, that's not much of an excuse. That's a good excuse. However, not only did I survive, but I made it through with no deficits. I can walk, talk, et cetera, and I'm back to work.

Thanks in part to the Duchess of Jobs. Oh, Linda Lou, nice. Well, we're very happy for you. I asked karma for my friend Trixie. You could use Jobs Karma, but also special karma while dealing with an ex-husband who is suing her to get her to get her young children vaccinated for COVID. She lives in a deep blue state, so we're hoping for the best. Wow. That is, that is, I'm going to pray for her.

That sucks. As always, thank you for what you do. And God bless Sir Hib of Hogtown. Jobs, jobs. jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You go. Karma.

A little goat there. A little goat to help out with a suing karma. And we're going to wrap it up here with Linda Lupakin. She's in Lakewood, Colorado, 200 bucks. Jobs, Karma. Worried about AI for a resume that gets results and tells your unique story and highlights the value you bring. Go to ImageMakersink.com.

That's ImageMakersink with a K and work with LindaLoo. of jobs and writer of winning resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma. Yeah. And they really do work. You heard it right there?

The guy had a ruptured brain aneurism, comes back, gets a resume from Linda Lou. Boom, he's back in business. I love it how the no agenda. Gitmo Nation helps each other. And thank you to these executive and associate executive of producers for episode 1797. Three more to go until we hit the big 1800. And of course, these credits are real.

You can use them anywhere. Hollywood style credits are recognized, which includes IMDB. It includes LinkedIn, any social media profile, or just, it may just look very handsome on your letterhead. And of course, one of those resumes from Linda Lou. And we'll be thanking the rest of our donors, $50 above in a few minutes. But once again, congratulations to these associate and executive producers. Our formula is this.

We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Water. That's true. Shut up, sleep. Hmm. Okay. All right. What we got?

Huh? What do you got? You got anything good? How about mandat? Let's get it out of the way. Let's do a little Mondami. Let's catch you up with Mondami in Brooklyn. Mom. Let's get it right. Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie. Mom Donnie. They're afraid of Mr. Mumdani becoming an example to what can happen all over this country.

The communists and socialists alike are taking over the Democrat Party as Bernie Sanders and Zoran Mamdani team up to push their far left message in New York City. tonight. Mom Donnie is causing headaches for the rest of the Democrats with his toxic policies. But Mamdani hit his fundraising goal and is loaded with cash as he seems ready to take over the party. Well, folks, you've done it again. We can't take any more of your money. Truly, you need to stop. Thanks to you, we've raised the maximum amount of money we can spend to this race. Eight million dollars. Well, now AOC is calling out the rest of her party for not falling in line and endorsing Mom Donnie. concerned about the example that is being set by anybody in our party. And so I think for the good of the party, we must put our differences aside and support

our party's nominee. Yeah, support my acting colleague. Yeah, exactly. The two actors together. When we were talking to our friends in Austin, you know, they lived in New York for a long, long time, even though he just worked remotely. And they had completely forgotten about AOC because I said, who's running them done? He had Democrat Socialists of America.

I said, okay, because he's a theater kid. He is? He is? I said, yes. Oh, just like AOC and like, what do you mean? She auditioned for the job. She auditioned. She did? What did you think she just came out from the bar and all of a sudden was a congresswoman?

No. I'm surprised how many people don't know anything. Don't know anything. Exactly. They don't know anything. No, don't know nothing. Yeah. All right.

Keep going. Oh, well, I could almost do a clip blitz, but I'm not going to pull it down. Clip blitz. Let's go to what, here's another one. This, I think, is right up your alley. This is the China New Moon threat. Oh, is it New Moonies? Senate lawmakers.

No, no. Oh, I was going to get out, though. It would be great. Moonies. Senate lawmakers say that maintaining the lead over China in space is not just a race, but a matter of U.S. national security. NPD correspondent Jason Blair reports. We are in a new space race with China. And if we fail, there will be a bad moon on the rise. Oh, please. What's this? It's critical to our future economic and national security.

During a Senate hearing examining the race and space, the main theme was that the U.S. must maintain leadership over China. If they get there first, we will see a global realignment that will impact our economy, our tax base, our ability to innovate, and our national security in terms of diplomacy and geopolitics that will affect security and many other aspects of our daily lives. It is clear to me that the Chinese Communist Party is already employing its own integrated grand strategy for the Earth-Moon system, with only superficial distinction between civil, commercial, and national security activities, and all focused on a common purpose. Senator Tim Sheehe questions whether NASA needs to make adjustments in order to stay ahead of the game. And I'm very concerned that the bureaucracy of NASA, of which I love NASA, I'm a supporter, but we have to be honest with ourselves, is the bureaucracy of NASA positioned to give us space dominance in 21st century? What in the world is this? We went to the moon six times, seven times?

Seven. I mean, how many more times you have to be talking this? Oh, we can't do it. China. I know, it's pretty funny. It used to be the Russians, you know, oh, they got Sputnik. This is, this just really, really. I thought you'd like that clip.

Yeah, yeah. It's like we've all forgotten we went to the moon. It's just, it's just, it's piling on. It's piling on. It is. Here's an interesting little story, since you were. giving me the floor. How about, oh, let's play this for stock trade.

Did you know that there's going to be a government shutdown? I thought the big beautiful bill took care of that. Yeah, it's a little confusing to me too, because now they need a basically a new, what is it, continuing resolution just to keep a good? Yeah, this is ridiculous. The clip is stock trading. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has given House leadership until the end of September to vote on a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading in stocks.

It is time for Congress to act. It is time for the leadership of Congress on both sides of the aisle to do what the American people have been demanding, which is to end day trading by members of Congress. They do not send us here to enrich ourselves while we are voting on the issues. They send us here to fix an address and then have members who are trading stocks on the very issues they're supposed to be voting on. The clock is also ticking on government funding. Democrats have threatened with a government shutdown unless Republicans who control the House and the Senate reach a bipartisan agreement with Democrats.

We had an opening conversation last week about the importance of trying to find common ground where possible in order to meet the needs of the American people. But in that conversation, I also made clear we're not going to support partisan funding legislation, period, full stop. The Senate has already reached a bipartisan agreement on three out of the 12 appropriation bills, and the House has passed two, but in a partisan line. Congress will likely opt for a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. This is so tiring. How many times?

20 times, have we heard this that we've been to? At least. Oh, getting down to the wire. The government's going to shut down. Checks won't go out. But I thought it was all covered by the big, beautiful, I guess not. I don't know.

I've lost control of this one. I'll dive in. I'll have information. I'll get information for you on Thursday. I don't know what this is. You know the information will come to light? It will. Yes.

This is troubling. All right, let's keep up with Chicago. This is Trump versus Chicago so we can see what's going on with Chicago. Chicago. Okay. We kind of did that earlier, but let's see. Yeah, I should have brought it in earlier. President Trump on social media today.

threatened Chicago with apocalyptic force. This is a redundant clip. Forget it. Very redundant, yes. Redundant clip. I should have played it earlier. I'm deleting it right now. Delete.

Well, here's what I don't have to do that. Oh, too late. Well, let's go with this one. And this is kind of where I think things are headed. They're not going to go to Chicago. They're going to go to New Orleans. And let's play this clip. This is crime in New Orleans.

President Trump says New Orleans could be next in line for a National Guard deployment to fight crime. Trump is also floating the same idea for Chicago and Baltimore. He says Louisiana's Republican governor is urging him to send in law enforcement to help police the state's largest city, but local officials in New Orleans don't appear to be on board with the plan. But wait, doesn't have to be the governor? Did she say? Yeah, it would be the governor. If the governor asked for it, then he can send in National Guard. Isn't that how it works? That's right. So he's, okay. Okay.

So the locals are bitching in Mona. They don't like anything. Well, they're very woke in New Orleans. They got so woke during COVID. Did you know that? Yeah, I understood it. Yeah, they got really super woke. There were some friends of ours who were younger, surprising here in Fredericksburg.

They initially they wanted to move to New Orleans. They were all in on it. And then because they've been to New Orleans a lot and a vacation there and they loved it and loved the food. It's a nice town. It's fun. The food is good, but the management of that city sucks. It's horrible. Horrible. Well, that would be a good one. So, you know, all in time for the midterms, the president can show, oh, look at what's going on here. Yeah, we could have done in Chicago. I don't think he's going to. But they were, they were resistant. They didn't like us. Bring in the war department. I love the smell of deportation in the morning. Wait, don't we have an ISO of that? I should have an ISO of that.

We should have that ISO. I love the smell of deportations in the morning. It's something about that guy reading it. That guy reading it that makes it good. I love the smell of deportations in the morning. That's pretty good. Here's a very interesting clip. This is my FBI BS Armed Public.

It's from a vlogger. It's freaking huge. Armed citizens stopped 48% of all criminal shooters last year. And the FBI was just caught massively lying about those numbers in their public reports. They recorded, get this, none of them. Zero percent. Now, you and I and everyone else have seen those local heroes on social media, but rarely do we ever see these stories in mainstream media. Well, the script is about to flip because a new study by the Crime Prevention Research Center reveals that armed civilians stopped over one third of.

active criminal shooters between 2014 and 2024, nearly 10 times higher than FBI's reported 3.7% average. And again, with even more Americans getting armed post-2020, just last year alone in 2024, civilians stopped half of all criminal shooters. Yet as I just stated, the FBI recorded zero of them. You might be asking, how was this possible? While, while digging for the study, researchers found that police were often falsely credited instead of the armed civilian, which is a recording pattern that clearly increased over the last 10 years. Now, this begs the question, why would they work so hard to hide the significant benefits of an armed public?

Okay. So first of all, the term vlogger, that is no longer a thing. So I don't know why you called this YouTuber. I put it down, just to remind me that this is some independent news girl. No, that's not a newsgirl. This is a YouTuber. She's a vlogger then. She was a vlogger.

She's a YouTuber. And you can sit on YouTube all day and get... My favorite is people say, this is a pretty good breakdown. Look at this video. And there's a YouTube video. And it's actually some video report from mainstream media, which is good.

And I'm listening to the report. And then, oops, all of a sudden, a little window appears in the right hand side. And the person there is going, yeah, this. Okay, listen to this. That's unusable. Yeah, the tech grouch does this sort of thing. The tech grouch is dead.

I tried to revive him. The tech grouch is six feet under. Nobody likes the tech. Nobody liked that guy. The tech grouch was great. That's your exit strategy. And no. No.

Yeah, it wasn't meant to be. That was basically the Swedish chef of technology. It was a perfect. I could bring that guy in. So I have two, now I'm going to finish with these two ads. Okay. Ads. Yeah, these are on NPR.

They're, they're, They're NPR people and PBS people are doing more and more house ads because they don't get, you know, they're trying to get people to listen to some of their stuff, especially the podcasts. NPR in particular is promoting all kinds of screwball podcasts. And none of them sound even remotely interesting. I'm sure they don't have any audience at all. And so I've got two of them here and they're NPR. And here's the first one says ad for, and it says something.

I can't read. Leaf Kit. Yeah, Leaf Kit. What is it, do you mean to write Life Kit? Yeah, maybe. Here at Life Kit, we encourage you throughout life's big moments. But what about support for those smaller problems? Sometimes you just need a tiny pep talk.

Like, for when your clothes don't fit. Or? For when you want to order delivery, but should cook. That's this week from NPR's Life Kit. Listen in the NPR app. or wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, my goodness. What?

Who listens to that? Oh, who would want to, what kind of a tease is this? Do you have trouble fitting into your clothes? Listen to our show. Hey, John. You don't know whether you should cook, listen to our show? Did you hear the most recent episode of Life Kit? That was just...

I never listened to Life Kit. Leaf Kit. It's called Leaf Kit, actually. Well, Life Kit, Leaf Kit. I don't care. I don't listen. Why would you? you. And that

boom, boom, boom, plum, boom, boom. I know, it's ludicrous. It's, it's royalty-free music made by by AI. So here's the other ad that they're playing a lot of. This is

you'd like, this is a religious podcast. Oh, yeah, I'm sure I'll love it. There you go. It's called ye god or something like that, which is like it, which is insulting actually, I think. So this is this is another this is the ye god podcast listen to this life is a mystery for those of faith or no

faith ye gods with scott carter is the podcast that makes sense of how we make sense of life each week we talk to celebrities scholars and mere mortals to on earth what on earth we believe and what we don't listen to ye gods with scott carter part of the npr network wherever you get your podcasts yeah not going to listen to that one here i just put into 11 labs I said, make an NPR-style music bed, no vocal, sounds like Pomp-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P. Let's see if it can do it for me. Maybe we might hit upon a gem and we can sell it to NPR. Okay.

It's creating the intro. Oh. Here we go. Come on. Give me the Pomp-Pum-Pum. Oh, this is horrible. Oh, you suck. Can't believe I spent 10 credits on that.

Well, I think you did? I think it was 10 credits. Get a free account. So the, so I think Life Kit, I think this is their credit role. You have to go to the top of the list, the credit roll. I think this is the credit role for a show that probably just has a couple of interviews. Wait a minute. Life Kit has a credit role?

I believe this is it. That's it for this week's show. I'm Randabed Fattach. I'm Ram. What's her name? Ram Brabara to Bam, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. That's it for this week. week's show. I'm Randabed Fattah. I'm Ramtin Arablui and you've been listening to ThruLine

from NPR. This episode was produced by me. And me and Lawrence Wu. Julie Kane. Anya Steinberg Casey Minor. Christina Kim. Devin Katayama. Sarah Wyman. Lina Mohamed. Irene Noguchi. Thanks to Tony Kavan, James Hider, Daniel Estrin, Greta Pittinger, Yohanus Durgy, Punit Matiwala, Nina Puchalski, Edith Chapin, and Colin Campbell. Voiceover work in this episode was done by Devin Schwartz, Casey Morel, and Nick Nevis. Backchecking for this episode was done by Kevin Vocal. This episode was mixed by Gilly Moon. Music for this episode was composed by Ramtin and his band, Drop Electric, which includes Anya Mizani, Navid Marvi, Cho Fujiwara. And finally, if you have an idea,

or like something you heard on the show, write us at ThruLine at NPR.org. Thanks for listening. Here's an idea. How about less people working on your podcast? That's, wow. Well, we have clip custodian, clip collector. We got Jay. We got Jay.

We have, um, we have no agenda. Dave Ackerman. We got Mimi in the background. Yes. We have our artists. We have our end of show mixer. We got one. we're playing three.

Well, we have a lot. And you know what? If you add all our producers, our credit roll is much longer. I'm going to show my support by donating to our agenda. Imagine all the people who could do with us. Oh, yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah.

Oh, no agenda in the morning. I don't think we should be complaining because our credit role is longer. Yeah, but we don't have so screwy names. By the, okay. Okay. Got a donation idea from the. real Calvin 33. I'm not sure why Jay put this on my list, but... I told her to. Okay. So this was very interesting. Donation idea. Sell...

Okay, that's not a donation. Sell your... It's true. It's not a donation. Sell your printed clip list. That would be yours, I guess, after each show. Auction, maybe. And can I have last shows list? Well, you put it on there, so you take it away. John. Well, I wanted, I put it on there because I wanted you to give me some input on this idea, because I told me, you know, that's an interesting idea, but who the hell wants this clip list? Nobody wants your clip list. Well, he says somebody doesn't. He wants the show 96, I guess it was. Here's a donation idea. Sell a picture of John in his speedos with his crocs on a shay's lounge in the studio. Now, that's something I'd have money for. Yeah, you would, but I don't have crocs.

I never had crux. I don't wear Speedos and I haven't got a Chase's lounge. I know. Wait, so I have to go buy all this stuff or we have to have AI make the image. Think of it as an investment. Investment in what? A picture of a doofus.

Invest in the show, man. Invest in the show. All right. Well, we do, of course, have our coveted tip of the day on the way end-up show makes his meetup reports. And John is going to thank the rest of our supporters for episode 1797, $50 and above. Yeah, starting with Berenetis Knight, who just got upgraded.

She's in Edmonds, Washington came with $150 bucks. She's now a Viscountess. Ah, nice. Yes, she gets a title upgrade, I think. Yeah, she does. Yeah, beautiful. And so she bumped off the top of the list, our regular Dame Rita in Sparks, Nevada, who comes in 109-07.

And we appreciate you, Dame Rita. You're getting up there. She's got to be going. Yeah, she's probably a Viscountess by now. She should check. You should check your... She's been donating consistently show after show after show for the last year. Check your levels.

Check your levels. Check your levels. Yes, you is. Especially you had an old Jaguar. Check that levels on those things. Check your levels. Danielle Pompu in Los Angeles, 100 bucks. And that's a happy birthday donation.

Oh, thank you. And she's got a birthday. So we'll put her on the list. She's on the list. Eric in Auburn. Alabama, 100. Here we get all these reversals again. This is strange.

Sir Eric, and I just did him. Sir Andrew Gardner in Leonardtown, Maryland, 9325. And that's a happy birthday. This is the 9-325 donations, and there's two of them. James Shelley's the other one from Grand Forks, North Dakota. Thank you. 93-25. McLaughlin comes in with 808.

By the way, did you see what Andrew Gardner says? He says, I never lived in New York. I was wrong. I guess it's Richard Gardner. There's a Gardner somewhere in New York. Yeah, the one I keep saying lives in New York. You're the one that says that Andrew lived in New York. I must be wrong.

I must be wrong. But you must be. Must be. You must be. Kevin McLaughlin, he's the Archduca Luna, lover of America and lover of Melons, 808. Surrup, as in syrup, Lake Forest Park, 7777. Adam, you found your exit strategy. Jesus. That's right. That's my way out. Yeah, you're out of here. Get out of here. He says, John, you're next. Join us in the exit strategy, John. You'll, you'll enjoy it.

Where's the money? Stephen Hutto. Store your treasures in heaven, brother. not in the in your barn i'm not ready to go okay stephen hutto in st petersburg florida 75 mason strong and uh cochran alberta canada huh well that's the first time from that area this is 104 dollars in canadian dollarettes and he says avoid t rt if possible oh he's got a long lecture about testosterone testosterone replacement therapy yeah he actually says if you vape nicotine you probably your your testosterone is fine That's what's interesting. I'm going to get the test.

I'll find out. Well, to get the test is beside the point, what he had to say. Well, no, but I just want to know. If that's true,

then I should have perfect tea. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, then you did nothing to complain about. What if it's not true? What if you've been smoking nicotine and then you still have low tea?

What then? Mason Strong is going to have to give you more information. He says hormone replacement is a lifelong lifetime commitment to big pharma. Start with good sleep vitamins and exercise first. I could exercise more. That's for sure. Well, who can't? I walk. I walk three times a day with the dog. That's my exercise. Michael Edmund in Brookings, South Dakota. And that's, these are happy birthdays. I'm going to just read names and locations. These are all people saying, happy birthday, Adam. And, except for, I would have to say, Stephen and a ruby in Pine Bluff, Arkansas,

who's also saying, happy belated birthday. Oh, no, is that belated? These are all belated. They're all belated. Momentum Finance LLC in Eden, Utah. There you go. Amy Harmon in Asheville, North Carolina. Gordon Walton in Austin, where you was just there.

Yeah, that's baron. David, Duke, whatever he is. Sternmeier. It's Steinmeier. He's in Lakeview, Michigan. And this is Switcheroo. He's donating on behalf of my wife, Alexander Hilliker.

Hilliker. She needs a deduishing. You've been deduished. And last, a couple more on these, David Cox. And he's also in Austin. We got Austin covered. Teresa Dump.

What? Oh, Teresa Dempster, Andrews, and Camarillo, Brillo, California, 61, which would be birthday, birthday, birthday. Birthday, birthday. Sarah Gardner in Wilmington, North Carolina, 61, and these are all 61's. Rob Barron in Leiden. Ah. Thank you, Rob. Douglas.

Oh, Engstrom. Engstrom in Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania. Oh, look of Bitcoin. donation. He's got a title change. That's not Bitcoin. Blue is not Bitcoin. No, Bitcoin is purple. Title change in accounting. It'll become Sir Douglas Engstrom becomes baronet of the French Creek. Crick. I'm sorry. French Creek Valley. You give us a pronunciation. French Creek Valley. Okay. Got it. Blue is stripe. You'll find all your, uh, uh, Bitcoin donations. Go to the very bottom of the list and you'll find most people are giving us 10 cents, 20 cents. I don't know what

I think even three cents, one cent, yes. Yeah, that's 11 cents. Yeah, that's the Bitcoin people. Michael Ragusa in... They're huddling, man. They're hodling. They don't want to spend their Bitcoin on us. Yeah, well, that was what I suspected.

Are David Weicker in Jacksonville? Wicker. Do I keep saying Wiker? Yes, for a... That would be with a Y, maybe. I don't know how you get Wiker. That's Sir, by His Grace. He's a knight.

I plead guilty. Yes. Sir B. Boop. He's in New Brighton, Minnesota. And that's a happy birthday to you again. Gerald Preston in Bennington, New Nebraska. Sean Murray in Warrenville, Illinois. Go bears.

Cameron Linga in North Branch, Minnesota nuts. And that's the end of our well-wishers, which is still a few more. We had quite a few total. So they're all saying, Happy Birthday, Adam. Les Tarkowski and Kingman, Arizona, 606. Steve Bandsra.

He's in Nashville. Sir Steve. 6933. Pilot, SIRS, B&A. Dame Nancy. She's in San Bruno over here. And she has a note. She came in with 55 and she says,

donate. It helps the show and it's good for your soul. Yes. Yes. Troy Funderberg in Missoula, Montana, 55. I like the way these, if you notice, the U.S., the states have been reversed again, re-reversed, and now we're back to the oddball. Eric, so that was a check, so that was put in properly. The rest of these are, it's weird, I have to ask what happened.

Eric Johnson in Vienna, West Virginia, 5272, Josiah Thomas, in Ankeny, Iowa, 51. Now we've got the $50 donors. I'll just read them off. Fifty dollar donors, starting with Alex Zavala. And he's in, Alex. He's in Kylie, Texas. Kyle. Sir Alex. Stephen Ray in Spokane, Jacob, or Jacob, Rottrammel, Rottrammel, one of those names. And he's in Decatur, Illinois, and Edward Missouri is in Memphis, Tennessee. We haven't heard from him for a while. Ray Howard in Kremlin,

Kremlin, Colorado. And last on our list of well-wishers and supporters and producers is Kerry Jackson in Watertown, Tennessee. You want to thank all these folks for making the show 1797 the reality that has become.

And thank you, especially to these $50 donors. I love seeing you. And the 60 ones. Thank you all for the birthday wishes. It's much appreciated. Anybody can support the show any way you want. Time, talent, or treasure. Go to no agenda donations.com. Any amount, any time you want, whatever the value you receive from the show, send it back to us. And you can become a sustaining donor by supporting us with a recurring donation. Any amount, any frequency, noagendidonations.com. Well, it's going to be another short one. Daniela Pompey. Pump.

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And time for the meetups. No agenda meetups. Yeah, we got a couple left in September. Actually, we have a couple this week. We've got one today that is well underway in the Netherlands, our first head village forest meetup. That is a dark camping, Hailemer Mier-Saboss in Hofdorp, north Holland, in the Netherlands. Expect a meetup report from you guys. Tomorrow, not very often we get one on Monday.

The Kootenay Mountains and Rivers meetup, 3.33 p.m. Pacific Time, the dam restaurant and bar in South Slokane, British Columbia. I expect to meetup report from you as well. Still to come in the month of September. Keyport, New Jersey, Oakland, California. John will be there. Charlotte, North Carolina, Tilburg in the Netherlands. Bedford, Texas, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Indianapolis, Indiana. We're hoping Dame Maria and Sir Mark will be back. And, of course, we got two Texas meetups in October on the list so far. Johnson City on the 10th and right down the road about 45 minutes here in Fredericksburg on the 11th at J-Sister 6 or Jenny's place. I'll be there along with Tina the Keeper and many other luminaries from the Fredericksburg area.

Go to know agenda meetups.com. Find out how you can get protection from the connection. You get at these meetups. You will meet the people who are the first responders in your life. You need this. And once you go to one, you can't stop. 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. You want to be where you won't be. Triggered all hell's the lame.

You want to be where everybody feels the same. Bum, bum, bum, bum. It's like a party. It's like a party. It's just like a party, everybody. All right. I have a one, two, three, I have four. You have one.

You want me to play mine first? Yeah, please. That's it. It's a wrap. It's over. Okay. That's one. The best.

The best. The best. The best. Alex keeps on giving, man. Okay, boomer. And my final one is a classic that we already played. I love the smell of deportations in the morning. It's not too bad.

Okay. I'm going to put mine off to next show because I like the Alex Jones one. much. The best. The best. The best. The best. The best. And now, before we get to that end of the show mixes, it's time for John's tip of the day.

Green advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCD. And sometimes Adam. Well, here's a, I'm at the point where in the rotation, I have to find a good website that people should put on their list of things to visit constantly. And this is for

The CEOs, want to be CEOs, people interested in the business and finance, people in finance, investors, that type of person. Yes. It's a, and I think this is, I think it's AI that does this. There's no other way. It's a massive scraping operation that is pretty phenomenal, to be honest about it. They've got some good code. So when you hover over things, all kinds of action takes place, it's a site called,

B-Z-T-O-C, as in table of contents, B-I-Z-T-O-C dot-com. Biz-T-T-T-O-C. B-T-T-O-C. Hold on. Something must be wrong because I get a, I get a parking page. B-I-Z-Z-Z or 1-Z? B-I-Z-T-O-C dot com.

Okay, I got it. Whoa! Whoa. there's a lot here scroll down scrolling down yeah there's a lot of this is like a show a show prep page yeah exactly wow there's a lot going on here no this is a scraping operation it's a hell of a scraping operation believe me man i think it's borderline probably illegal well they have a legal statement here uh hmm their registered trademark of toomatic ink.

Okay. Yeah, maybe it's overseas. I'm not sure what they're doing, but this is pretty phenomenal. It's a great website. People would, you're getting a kick out of it. It's good for your morning briefing,

you're going into the office, you sit down, what I'm going to do here today, and you go, you'll catch up with everything on this website. So did you look at the Aboot page? Actually, I did not look at the Aboot page. I am Thomas Marban,

and I created BizTalk, official successor of the infamous Web 2.0 phenomenon, pop URLs. After building award-winning news aggregators for two decades, BizTalk is the ultimate attempt in delivering the entire business world on a single page. And check this. BizTalk is proudly crafted in Austria and backed by American entrepreneur Mark Cuban. How about that? Who knew? Then you know it's legit.

Mark Cuban. So if you're going to sue anybody, Mark Cuban is your deep pockets. And there it is, everybody. The tip of the day. Find them all a tip of the day. Doc Met! Created pies for you and me. Just the tip with JCD.

And sometimes Adam. Created by Dana Burnetti. Well, Mark Cuban, he sure has his fingers in all the pies, doesn't he? Biz talk. Biz talk. Could be have a better name. Yeah, it could be a better name. Especially if you type in Biz Talk with a K, then you're screwed.

They should get that domain problem. Well, I said, table of contents is what they're referring to. Yeah, I understand. I'm an idiot. Just letting you know. Two idiots by the camera. That's right. Okay, boom. Ender show makes us from Joseph Grillo. That's a brand new one.

We got classic Clip Custodian and Tom Starkweather classics, all of them. We're looking for more end-of-show mixes. Come on, guys, what you're doing? Get on the stick. And Canary Cry, news talk is next on the No Agenda Stream. If you feel like hanging out on your modern podcast app or noagendastream.com. And we return on Thursday with more media deconstruction for you. Who knows what will happen?

We might be invading New Orleans. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill country where we won the Powerball. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm going to go to Amazon and order my pink salt. I'm John C. DeVorek. We'll be back on Thursday until then. Remember us at no agenda donations.com.

Adios, mophosa, hooey, hooey, and such. You're eating cardboard. You would always say that. You're eating cardboard. I think my parents said cardboard too. I'm a boomer. We are the boomers. You're a little bit older than I am, so you do cross into true boomer territory.

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Oh, me? Yes, you. Pedaling in half-truths. Pedaling in false statements. Pedaling in theories that, you know, create doubt about whether or not things that we know are safe are unsafe. You frighten people. in a gobsmacking statement of irresponsibility. Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself,

are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I thought that that would go. No. Are you supportive of these onesies? I'm supportive of vaccines. You are going to do such a solid job for the people of this country. How long does it keep going? At some time, you're just battering the witness.

Not bartering the witnesses. Yes, you are. You're getting upset at him. You're going at him just like anybody else would. Bernie's going over. The best podcast in the universe. Adios. Mofo.

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