No Agenda - 1815 - "Attunement"

Starting point is 00:00:00 That's not interesting. Adam Curry, John C. DeVorak. It's Sunday, November 9th, 2025. This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination Episode 1815. This is no agenda. Providing our public service and 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 Christy Knome's in trouble.

Starting point is 00:00:27 I'm John C. DeVorek. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill In the morning Why is she in trouble? What is she done? Oh, she bought jets Without engines. Without engines?

Starting point is 00:00:40 Oh, no! Do you have a clip of this incredibly interesting story? No, I don't have a clip because it just showed up this morning in the feed and it's an article on, I'll just read you the headline

Starting point is 00:00:52 from The Guardian. DHS head reportedly just a head, by the way. Just the hedge. Reportedly authorized purchase of 10 engineless spirit airline's planes that the airline didn't own. Oh, that sounds like something horribly bad. It sounds like who, what kind of a story is this? Well, now, it is not, it is not abnormal to purchase an airframe and an engine separately, depending on what you're doing.

Starting point is 00:01:26 It's not completely, I mean, they are. separate items they have separate uh time between overhaul and everything so it's that's not crazy it's not crazy no what's crazy is spirit supposedly authored the purchase of the spirit airline's planes that spirit airline didn't own how does that work i don't know where did you find this what what new this is guardian the guardian they're trying to make a smear out of it the guardian the guardian the guardian the worst it's all right she can't fly many way anyway. We're shutting down, baby. We're shutting down everything. We're shutting it down.

Starting point is 00:02:03 Shutting it down. This is not good. In fact, this really is kind of a problem. You think? The shutdown. I've had, this is a little Well, it is if you want to travel. Yeah, here's a little update. Chaos in U.S. airports

Starting point is 00:02:20 with delayed flights and endless cues at security control. The government shutdown has not just left severe star shortages. but some 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 security agents working unpaid. The Federal Aviation Administration decided to stabilise the situation by cutting 10% of air traffic across 40 airports, which could further affect travellers. Airlines have 36 hours to slash flights after the US Transportation Secretary announced cuts to transport hubs across 24 states.

Starting point is 00:02:54 Among them are the busiest airports like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas. There'll be frustration. We are working with the airlines. They're going to work with passengers. But in the end, our sole role is to make sure that we keep this airspace as safe as possible. The FAA's reduction plan, which excludes international flights, will begin at a 4% cut on Friday before escalating to a 10% cut next week.

Starting point is 00:03:21 While airlines like Delta Air and American Airlines moved to reassure panicked passengers by offering refunds. The White House took a different approach. President Trump stated on Thursday that despite the reduced air traffic, it is still safe for Americans to fly. So if they actually get to next Friday with 10%, that will be chaos. And the main reason is our system doesn't allow for that type of reduction. You can't get the cruise to the next airport so they can take the next.

Starting point is 00:03:56 It'll screw up everything, absolutely everything. Which is interesting because the way that your gal Katie Porter there in California, because this is all politics, of course, and we'll get into it. Katie Porter, who I guess she's no longer in the running, did she cancel herself out of becoming governor of California? No. I thought you said that some other person was the lead now, that she had screwed it up.

Starting point is 00:04:26 I've never said any of the thing of the sort. Oh, that's odd. And the election's not till next year or so it's just, you know, we've got plenty of runway here. Ooh, I see what you did there. You should work at MSNBC. It's great. So here is Katie Porter either grossly misunderstanding what's going on or perhaps lying.

Starting point is 00:04:50 Here's a question for Donald Trump as he forces airlines to cancel thousands and thousands of flights. Okay, so I don't think the president is forcing any airline to cancel any flights. Okay, let's keep it going. Why is he starting first with the commercial planes that we all use to go visit our families or get where we need to for work? Every day, thousands of private jets take off carrying CEOs, billionaires, and the 1%. And they take up the work of the air traffic control system too. Wouldn't it make more sense to cancel the planes that carry the fewest passengers first? It's just another example of who Donald Trump really cares about. And it isn't us. So first of all, of all the people I know who own private jets or fly private, a lot of them are

Starting point is 00:05:39 Democrats. Maybe the majority. I would guess the majority. Everyone I know who has a private plane or well actually they tend to not have them anymore they're in pools yeah yes of course but who fly private democrats rich democrats but the what is happening here is there because of air traffic controllers and tsa agents calling in sick and i can't blame them um and in order to keep the airspace safe they had to reduce IFR traffic so that's instrument traffic that that two airports around the country. What they actually did, in the first, you know, the first pool,

Starting point is 00:06:23 we've got Newark, JFK, we've got Dallas, Fort Worth, we've got Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Portland, everybody. Everybody. But they also did that to Teterboro. And I thought that was a good move

Starting point is 00:06:41 because Teterboro is the private plane airport for the tributtal. state area, mainly for New York. That is probably one of the busiest for jet travel of billionaires. So, you know, I think everyone kind of gets affected equally. And I thought that was a good one to put Tiduboro into the mix, because maybe, maybe someone would call the Democrats and say, hey, dude, I can't land my G5, baby. Stop this, knock it off. So she's just a liar. She's a horrible person. She's not a good person. No, and she, she, she, she, looks like a horrible person, the more she puts herself out there like, like in that tweet,

Starting point is 00:07:21 yeah, the less like, she loses votes. She's making a huge mistake. Yeah. Well, as I told you, she's not going to be the governor. I already told you that. Remember? Told you. No, I don't remember you telling me that. I didn't tell you that. So now we have a new development, just to reiterate the situation. Before you leave that topic, let's go to the, I have some ATC reports. Oh, I didn't. Yes, you do. I actually didn't even look at your list today. Well, you should. Well, you know what? Can I just say something right off the bat? You sound grumpy today. You sound grumpy today.

Starting point is 00:07:59 Well, yeah, because you're right immediately passed over my clips. No, you sounded grumpy before you even said hit it. I know you. Oh, okay. You can go ahead and try your psychological torture, which all the women have observed over the years and then notice. I'm gaslighting him again. There you go. The psychological torture. That's what I'm calling it. Psychological torture. P.T.

Starting point is 00:08:23 Okay. Yes. I see. I have two. Actually, I have a three clips. You have three. I do. The simple one is from NPR.

Starting point is 00:08:30 And then there's a two-parter from PBS. All, you know, all slanted. Oh, good. Because it's Trump's fault. Mm-hmm. And it's just, I don't know. It's hard to do these clips with these. these outlets.

Starting point is 00:08:49 With these lias. Yeah, the national public radio, yes. More than 1,400 flights around the country have been canceled after the Trump administration ordered airports to cut flights, as the FAA deals with a shortage of air traffic controllers who are working without pay. The FAA says the flights at 40 airports will be cut 10% on a phase-in basis as the government shutdown, now on its 39th day, continues. Nick Dalycanal has more from The

Starting point is 00:09:17 Charlotte Douglas Airport in Charlotte. Inside the Charlotte terminal here, Jessica Lemuscio and her one-year-old daughter are trying to re-book after their flight to Manchester, New Hampshire, was canceled, leaving them scrambling to get to a family wedding. It just makes it more complicated, right? Especially with her, just to figure out, like, what's our plan? How long do we stay here? How long do you wait it out?

Starting point is 00:09:38 If you book again, is it going to get canceled again? The Charlotte Airport says this morning's ground stop, which lasted about an hour, was caused by staffing issues in the air traffic control tower. Huh? Well, there you go. I like the little nat pop of the baby. Did you hear that in there? Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:09:54 There's a lot of, wait until we get to the Thanksgiving turkey nat pops. It's going crazy, crazy. My favorite one, which I don't have, which was on a local news story, was these people from Australia, trying to get back to Australia. So they're in San Francisco, and their flight is leaving today or tomorrow to Australia, but it's in Los Angeles and the connecting flight has been canceled. Yeah, that's the problem. Well, hop in the car.

Starting point is 00:10:21 Drive fast. Well, you know, it depends on the date. You can actually make it to L.A. from San Francisco in a rental and do a drop-off at the airport. Yeah. And you could probably do that within eight hours. Yeah. That was my, that's my suggestion. But they'd be on the wrong side of the road.

Starting point is 00:10:40 Ah. Okay. Woo! There you go. Okay, here we go. This is the PBS reporting on this. More national public media. I can't wait to hear it.

Starting point is 00:10:52 On the second day of reduced flights at 40 airports, the aviation data company, Sirium, said nearly 4% of flights were canceled, and about 2.5% have been canceled for tomorrow. Randy Bavitt was FAA administrator in the Obama administration. Mr. Bavitt, is this working here? Are reduced flights reducing delays? Okay, stop in a second.

Starting point is 00:11:14 So they bring, you know, they, you know how they book people. So they get, what can we, we got to get somebody in here that maybe can slam the Trump administration. Just get Obama guys. But it didn't work out because the Obama guy's pretty reasonable. Oh, no. No. Randy Babbitt was FAA administrator in the Obama administration. Mr. Babbitt, is this working here?

Starting point is 00:11:35 Are reduced flights reducing delays? No, they're reducing the flights for the primary purpose and a good purpose of making the system safe. They're suffering a loss of controllers at the various stations. They're not interchangeable. And to ensure the system operates safely, you just have to reduce traffic down to the level of the number of controllers you can put up. Is this sustainable? No, it's actually going to continue to accelerate in the wrong direction. The longer we ask people to work without a paycheck, the longer we ask people to work 10, 12, 14-hour shifts, you know, you just can't sustain that.

Starting point is 00:12:11 People are calling in sick. They're tired. it's an intense job. The controllers are well trained. And there's a lot of stress in that job. And you can't keep doing it. You know, we have the staffing levels where they were for a good reason. And we're not achieving that level of controllers, you know, on site and on their stations. I'm going to go back to the point you made about controllers not being interchangeable. It's not that you can sort of see how many controllers are working nationwide. It depends on each airport, each air traffic control center. Oh, absolutely. There's a big difference between being an en route controller or a tower controller or an approach control person. Those are different jobs. And they're not interchangeable. Someone who's working en route cannot go the next morning and be in the Richmond Tower. You know, it takes months of training to make those transitions. That was a good comment from a troll in the troll room. Like the answer should be from the U.S. officials like the president and who's our boy there at the FAA? What's his name?

Starting point is 00:13:17 Duffy? Duffy, yeah. Boyce Department of Transportation. Yes. Yeah, yeah. She'd say, well, this is a preview of what socialism is like. Let's just say that. Whether it's true or not, just say it.

Starting point is 00:13:31 Just say it. Yeah, that's a good bit. Okay, troll guy. Everyone's lying. Anyone from flying anyway. Well, this is a preview of socialism. So your socialist representatives are making this happen. So this is what New York can look forward to.

Starting point is 00:13:46 No flights. Okay, part two of this is kind of his little tidbit. Controllers are you talking about how they're sort of being stressed now, no pay, many of them having to call out to work other jobs to get pay. They were already stressed, even before this. began, the system was already stressed, wasn't it? Yes. We're still recovering post-COVID. You know, they let, like a lot of companies did, they let people go because the system was only operating at 30% at the peak of COVID. But you don't just call them back. A lot of them early

Starting point is 00:14:18 retired. And second, if you have to hire them, it takes several years to train a controller to be fully up to speed and be able to go into the different control positions. Former FAA administrator Randy Babbitt. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Good luck. I like his voice. He's got a great voice. He should do a podcast. That would be a great follow-up career.

Starting point is 00:14:40 He should. He's got a better voice than I do. So they never mentioned, of course, they had, yeah, the traffic was way down during COVID, but they also laid people off who refused to get the VACs. Well, why would they do that now? That doesn't behoove anybody. You don't think they would mention that because it's a fact?

Starting point is 00:14:59 Ah. I needed this guy. Where's my guy here? Oh, good Lord. Yeah, that's my guy. He's that guy. You know, you're doing that side constantly now. Because it is kind of exasperating.

Starting point is 00:15:21 And the thing is, it's always a health care. No, this is about insurance companies who are basically banks. And all I know is that throughout, my life, I have heard that in Congress, you just, no one discusses health and, no one discusses insurance, period. You don't mess with the insurance companies. It's out of control. We used to be tough on insurance.

Starting point is 00:15:46 It was a, it was a point of fact that in like states like California, it has an insurance commissioner. They're supposed, they crack down on, on, you know, illegal. Oh, let's just raise it because we can. Oh, there's no, there's no competition. let's just gouge everybody and too bad if they don't like to pay it what are they going to do this is interesting that you bring up California specifically because I got an I think you got an email too this morning from one of our producers who emailed I got it from Jay from the back

Starting point is 00:16:17 office and he had he had called the crowd health outfit that we've been talking about first of all he says it was amazing I got someone with an American accent calling me back he was blown away by that. That would be a big deal. He's like, whoa, what just happened? He says, it turns out, well, he says it's, he says, I can't, I can't do that. Well, he can, but I said, I can't do it in California because, and I don't know if this is true, apparently it's illegal in California to be without health care.

Starting point is 00:16:49 I don't know that to be true or not. And that you have to pay a $900 annual fine if you don't have health care in California. I don't know this. Well, this is what our producers said. And apparently that's where... I didn't get the note. Oh, well, you were copied. I mean, I got to...

Starting point is 00:17:06 I probably got the note, but I didn't read it this morning. I was doing some of work. No, I understand. This is... I'm not... I'll look into it. I'm not psychologically torturing you. I'm just...

Starting point is 00:17:15 You're psychologically trying to torture me. Just reading a note. Since we're talking about these lines, you have to play this clip, this is a woman. And by the way, there's tons of these clips with different kinds of stories. And I'm going to start collecting. him because I like them. And it's disgusting. It's a disgusting. This is the anecdote clip. These are disgusting stories. And you talked about it. I've talked about it. We all talk about it. We all talk about it. But it's still disgusting. So I don't normally jump on that

Starting point is 00:17:45 insurance, health insurance is a scam. But today, it is absolutely a scam. And I swear it's fraud. I need an MRI on my back because I hurt my back. My clinic sent it over to a hospital. They They ran it through my insurance. They called me and said, hey, your portion of it that you're going to have to pay after insurance is $5,100 for this MRI. So I'm like, wow, okay. I was like, you know, before we do that, like, just wait, you know, because I'm like $5,100 just seems wild. I called another place who was also waiting for my insurance to go through to see how much it was going to be. My insurance was still on hold with them. But I asked them, hey, if I just cash pay this, how much is it going to cost for this MRI? And they're like, well, if you just want to cash pay it, not run anything. through insurance, it's $700. And so I'm like, it sounds a lot better than $5,100. So I called the original hospital back and said, hey, if I don't run this through insurance,

Starting point is 00:18:38 what is the cost if I just decide to self-pay it? Since I know the other place is $700. The lady's like, I'll rerun it under you being self-pay and I'll call you back with your total. So a few minutes go by, the lady calls me back and she goes, hey, I talk to my supervisor,

Starting point is 00:18:53 since you have insurance, we are not going to let you self-pay it. so we won't give you that number. How is that not a scam? Isn't it my choice if I want to self-pay something versus running it through my insurance? I should get to decide that not you, but they're like, nope, since you have insurance and you've already done it that way, we are not going to allow you to self-pay it. And I think that's because they probably were going to give me a self-pay price, kind of like the other place,

Starting point is 00:19:19 maybe a $700, maybe up to $1,300, still way less than $5,100 that it was going to make me pay. I just think, like, what if, you know, somebody wouldn't, like, what if I wouldn't have called around? I would have been stuck with this $5,100 bill. Insurance is such a rip-off. I don't know how in the world this hospital is telling me that I now can't self-pay it. What is it matter? I'm going to go to the other place, but I don't know how this hospital is allowed to now tell me, hey, yeah, you can't self-pay something if you have already had us run it through your insurance. I haven't even had it yet. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll remind all of the socialists out there that having lived under the fabulous, fantastic, five-pound, a visit national health care system in the United Kingdom,

Starting point is 00:20:03 the choice was, and Christina need an MRI on her knee because it popped out a couple of times, the choice was, of course, of course the national health care system, the NHS, it's our pride and joy. In 18 months, you can get your MRI. And I call up the MRI place, and I say, hey, can I just come to you and pay directly? Well, of course, I go there. There's no one there. No one. No one. I pay cash. Good to go. It's, and so. There was no one there? No one was there. I think that, well, we were doing the show, I believe.

Starting point is 00:20:37 We may have discussed the fact that. I vaguely remember this story. You've told it at least twice. Yeah, I'll have to look it up at Binget.com. But the point is, is no one was there. No one was there. In other words, yeah, whatever, you know. So they put you on the 18-month waiting list on purpose. To torture you. Yes. Talk about torture. Psychological torture.

Starting point is 00:21:02 Yeah. Well, it's more than psychological in this case. But you've got a bad knee, you know. But the whole point is that insurance companies, they're just banks, right? I mean, is it or the question about this last anecdote is the insurance company plus her $5,100, How much money is the hospital getting? Oh, they're getting $700. They're getting $700.

Starting point is 00:21:31 The insurance company takes the rest. This is why they all want to go outside of the system. This is why you can go to any doctor, any health care provider, and say, what's your deal for cash? And they will say, oh, you'll see them go, oh, thank you. We don't have to do all those forms. This is great. Yeah, here's your price. Because they don't want, they have to fight.

Starting point is 00:21:53 They have to fight with the insurance company to get their measly $700, which is what it was in the first place. It's theft. And the media branding it as health care, as health care and politicians, health care, well, health care, it's not health care. It's theft. And the whole shutdown, and this is what,

Starting point is 00:22:13 this is the irksome part is while they keep talking about health care, health care, is this was, this subsidy for the, for the insurance company slash financial institutions. Let's call it that. Warren Buffett, by the way. Can we just say Warren Buffett? Isn't he the big insurance guy? He's got a lot of insurance companies, although he's going, he's going heavily, he's moving his finances heavily into cash. Yes. But by the way, Warren Buffett, Democrat, private jet, Omaha. Exactly. The Oracle of Omaha. But the whole, the whole point is, It's big finance, big finance that is in this game and the politicians.

Starting point is 00:22:58 And I'm sure that the payoff, if we really go and look and if we go to OpenSecrets.org, all these Democrats are loaded to the gills with the financing from these cases. Not just the Democrats. Oh, no, Republicans too, obviously. And this is why the Republicans, they don't want to, and you'll disagree with me, they don't want to use that nuclear option and end the filibuster to open up the country again because they will get penalized by their backers as well. well. So they don't want to do it. I don't want to lose my money. You know, my re-election campaign,

Starting point is 00:23:29 my million dollars to get me on the committee. The whole thing that people should, I think we need pitchforks. That's time. Pitchforks. Pitchforks and AR-15s. Seriously. And so President Trump, he sees this. He's already tried to convince the Republicans. Hey, just do it. You'll be a hero. If you got, no, no, no, no, no, you only need five Democrats to vote, yes. And they would be heroes. No, no, you can't get them through that either. So the president, he just goes, he's starting his own nuclear option campaign as he posted today on truth social. President Trump is out with a proposal on health care, would eliminate Obamacare and send money directly to people to buy their own health care.

Starting point is 00:24:18 My question for you, Senator, do you support? President Trump's plan to eliminate Obamacare and send money directly to the people? Well, his statement wasn't to eliminate Obamacare. His statement was very clear. It was, why are we sending money to insurance companies? Right now, the Democrat proposal they put out, with Chuck Schumer put out this past week, was let's continue to send billions of dollars to insurance companies and hope insurance companies will bring down premiums.

Starting point is 00:24:41 That's not worked. That's not worked for years now. You go back to Obamacare when it was first released, it was it's going to bring down rates 25%. Can anyone tell me that their rates have gone down 25% anywhere in this? And so the president's proposal was pretty straightforward. Stop sending money just to insurance companies. Hope it gets better. Give Americans freedom of choice.

Starting point is 00:25:00 If we're going to allow subsidies to get out there, get them to people, not to insurance companies. You're saying something really interesting. I want to make sure I understand. Whoa. Stop. She said he's not saying anything. This is like, this is as bad as that's a great question. You're saying something interesting there.

Starting point is 00:25:22 He said nothing interesting. We need to come up with a better interlude. That's not interesting. That's not interesting. Give Americans freedom a choice. If we're going to allow subsidies to get out there, get them to people not to insurance company. You're saying something really interesting. I want to make sure I understand.

Starting point is 00:25:42 Is the Republican proposal not to repeal Obamacare, which has been the long health position? Yeah, right now, Obamacare is health. care in America. What Democrats did 15 years ago was they radically changed all health care in America. They moved all physicians under hospitals. They changed all the reimbursement programs. They shifted everything in. So it is health care in America. So the challenge is what we have now has to be fixed. Oh, yeah. It was only Democrats. Okay, sure. It was only Democrats. You're all in on it. Hillary Clinton tried this the first time around the Clinton administration. They all, this this theft game was always the plan always and it's just so much money and what do you think it's

Starting point is 00:26:26 about hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year it's got to be it goes right into the insurance companies finance companies Warren Buffett what's this what's his stock price that what's his stock price 147000 dollars a share is something like that right yeah I know right that I know and who's there all the all the rich people oh he's the Oracle sure She also talked to Hakeem Jeffreys about this. Leader Jeffries, President Trump floated what he believes

Starting point is 00:26:55 is a potential solution to this online. Let me read it to you. He says, quote, I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the hundreds of billions of dollars currently being sent to money-sucking insurance companies in order to save the bad health care provided by Obamacare be sent directly

Starting point is 00:27:11 to the people so that they can purchase their own much better health care. Would you ever support giving subsidies directly to the American people instead of Obamacare. Yes. I think that's an interesting question. We have a broken health care system,

Starting point is 00:27:27 but the Affordable Care Act has been part of actually providing health insurance to tens of millions of Americans. Of course, there's always opportunity to improve current policy that exists, but Republicans aren't operating in good faith as it relates

Starting point is 00:27:43 to doing anything to actually make health care more affordable. And we've seen that repeatedly over the last several weeks. Now, if Donald Trump is changing his tune and is actually willing to sit down and negotiate a bipartisan path forward, of course we are interested in doing that. We've been making that point for the last several weeks. What do you make of that proposal online now? Does it sound like he's interested in doing that? I mean, it's hard to take these online things seriously. There's no actual legislation. There's no text. There's no policy documents to be able to review. If that exists, if that somehow

Starting point is 00:28:20 materializes and manifests itself in the next day or so, we look forward to reviewing it in good faith. It doesn't see, it seems like parties are rather far apart at this point. It doesn't seem like anyone's getting any closer. You know? Well, I mean, one side is, I mean, the, the Republicans want to open. the government. The Democrats don't. And they think they have, and they call it leverage. And they think they've got the Republicans over a barrel and they think they can get the money back to their insurance buddies because insurance buddies have all paid the way, you know, for most of these Democrats to get in office and stay in office, as you just said. And so they're doing the best they can to get

Starting point is 00:29:10 this over. And then they got this latest with one of these guys, I forgot which one of the congressmen said, that we've won in the blue states, we won our governorships. Now we have to make sure that people don't think we're going to knuckle under to the Republicans. We're tough guys now. So being tough guys, we've got to stay the course. So I don't know. I just want to say again, I mean, you say it's a non-star, I never going to happen. But Republicans also have a one second solution to this.

Starting point is 00:29:42 I mean, just say, okay, we're just done with the. with the filibuster rule. And then we open it back up. Republicans can also do it. It's all political. They think it's bad because, well, then the Democrats can use it. Okay.

Starting point is 00:29:55 Well, to get the filibuster across the line, they're still going to have to get the Democrats because it's still that do 60 votes too. That's not true. I look this up. No, it is true. I don't think so.

Starting point is 00:30:07 I believe. It is true. Absolutely. Okay. I looked it up. I looked it up. And the nuclear option the nuclear option is a procedural workaround to bypass the two-thirds cloture requirement and change the rules with a lower threshold.

Starting point is 00:30:26 It involves raising a point of order. And if the presiding officer rules against it, appealing that ruling, overriding the president's officer requires only a simple majority. That's the nuclear option, as I understand it. Okay. Well, I mean, it's possible that what you read there is exactly. right and that's we'll do that would do the trick but it's not my understanding and they the way they present it at least the way i heard it is that you still need the 60 votes and democrats will vote for it knowing that it's going to benefit them in the end and they can still vote against

Starting point is 00:31:00 the uh final proposal and look like like the good guys well and they have actually used this method in the past to eliminate certain parts of filibuster in 2013 for most executive and judicial nominations and in 20s that was the democrats and in 2017 to expand to extend well it's still in play by the way for the for those processes that still exists what do you mean well they put it in 2013 2017 whatever the dates where you had yeah that is still in play you still don't need 60 votes to pass a court guy but that's what i mean so they use the same yeah they use it but yeah but once it went in play it stayed in play Yes, of course it does.

Starting point is 00:31:46 That's the point. So it's all just, it's a power game. No matter which way you look at, it's a power game. It's not what the people want. Well, I know it's hurting the show. It is. It's definitely hurting the show. No doubt.

Starting point is 00:32:01 And then, and I think President Trump. No, we have a lot of government workers that can't afford to donate to the show. No. And I have a lot of people that are, you know, affected by the downturn in the government work. Yes. I know. Buckle down, bear down on it, brother. Tighten the belt.

Starting point is 00:32:18 No agenda shows in trouble. With every trouble, but everybody else. It's not good. No, hence your mood this morning. I get you. I got you. The president, though, I think is making a mistake. Now, it was really the Republicans running for governor and for different state positions

Starting point is 00:32:41 who all ran on. woke and the border and did not run on the president's economic plan, which is pretty clear, if you see what he's doing, bringing back manufacturing, doing deals, getting investments in. But they didn't. They ran on, you know, those guys have trannies and the, yeah. That works on the national level. Yeah, it was a political mistake because right at the moment when people are starting to feel it, they're sending the wrong message. Democrats go, give it to you. It's no problem. We'll freeze the rents, free buses, government grocery stores. So now the president has an affordability problem. Affordability. And the Democrat media can, well,

Starting point is 00:33:31 the Democrat influenced and occupied media mainstream, they are using it to an extreme. So when I hear this little supercut of the president, he knows it too. It's no good if we do a great job and you don't talk about it. And I don't think they talk about it enough. You know, they have this new word called affordability, and they don't talk about it enough. The reason I don't want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows that it's far less expensive under Trump.

Starting point is 00:33:56 So I don't want to hear about the affordability, because right now we're much less. It was a con job. Affordability, they call it. But we just lost an election. They said, based on affordability. You know, I saw that they kept talking about affordability. So we talk about affordability. We should be talking about it because

Starting point is 00:34:12 they talk about affordability. The affordability is much better with the Republicans. We are the ones that have done great on affordability. So we are the victors on affordability. So no one cares when the president says that. They're looking at their wallet and going, no, something's wrong. It's not affordable. And NBC slash MSNBC, when are they going to be MS now?

Starting point is 00:34:36 I can't come soon enough. November 15th. They set a trap. They set a trap for me. and he walked right into it. Here's the setup. Well, I haven't heard that. You're telling me, who are you with?

Starting point is 00:34:50 Who are you with? I'm an NBC news, sir. You're fake news. NBC's gone down the tubes along with most of the rest of them. Well, they feel better about our country right now, other than the shutdown, obviously, which is caused by the Democrats, could be ended by the Democrats in two minutes. They feel much better. We have more jobs.

Starting point is 00:35:09 We just set a record on jobs. You do know that we have more investment in our country. than any country in history. We're over $18 trillion as of this moment, and we're going to be maybe a $20 or $21 trillion by the time I finish up my first year. And there's been no country, China, no country in the world that's done anywhere even close to that number. Your friend Biden, as an example, in four years, was less than a trillion. We'll be a $21 trillion in one year. So there's no country that was even close to that, and our country was a laughing stock, over the world. We have more jobs. We have more potential than any of the country. And frankly,

Starting point is 00:35:50 with the hottest country right now, Victor said to me before, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. Think of it. We'll have 2021 trillion dollars invested. We have auto plants pouring back in. We have AI pouring back in. We're leading China in AI by a lot. We're leading everybody in every category. There's no category that we're in second place. So I just heard this yesterday that Walmart said that the Thanksgiving was 25 more expensive 25% more expensive

Starting point is 00:36:22 under Biden. That's a big, to me, that's a big number, because Walmart's respected. I mean, Walmart is Walmart and, you know, they're giving you prices. So that would mean that the whole series of pricing and costs,

Starting point is 00:36:38 you know, the groceries and everything else, it was a con job. It was a con job. It was a con job. Affordability, they call it, was a con job by the by the democrats the democrats are good at a few things cheating on elections and conning people with facts that aren't true so he for he walks right into the walmart trap he should have known that walmart is a bunch of crazy democrats who are setting them up because if you listen to the full question it was about walmart and he goes off and he and it's all true all this investment of course but it's not going into people's populace

Starting point is 00:37:13 for Thanksgiving. Here's the setup paid off, in this case, by Jen Psocky. Mr. President, since you brought up the Walmart Thanksgiving meal, and it is cheaper, but it also contained less. Well, I haven't heard that. You're telling me, who are you with? Who are you with? I'm with NBC News, sir. Fake news. NBC. You're fake news. That's right. The Walmart Thanksgiving meal that Trump has been touting as proof positive that he has made the country more afforded. is cheaper this year because it has less stuff, like a lot less stuff. I mean, for days now, Trump has been pushing the fact that the pre-packaged Walmart Thanksgiving dinner is 25% cheaper than it was last year.

Starting point is 00:37:57 But he has been conveniently ignoring the fact that this year's Walmart Thanksgiving package is missing a bunch of items it had last year, like onions, celery, sweet potatoes, chicken broth, seasoning, muffin mix, marshmallows, whipped topping, and pecan pie. I mean, those are all pretty key, delicious parts of Thanksgiving, right? The meal also downgraded certain items, like swapping Hawaiian rolls for cheaper dinner rolls. So, yeah, surprise, surprise. His claim is completely misleading. But he was pushing this whole Thanksgiving meal narrative for a reason.

Starting point is 00:38:29 I mean, since Democrats swept Tuesday's election, the right has all of a sudden woken up to America's affordability crisis. I think this was a trap set by Walmart. They said, Mr. President, it's great. It's great. 25% cheaper. And people are going to get their packages and they'll open up and like, what is this? I'm like tiny Tim here. I think it was a purposeful trap. I mean, you're telling me that Jen Saki's team went to Walmart. Oh, let's go investigate the package. Oh, there's no. No, I'm not going to say that you're wrong about that, but I don't think the impact is the way

Starting point is 00:39:03 you're making it out. Nobody lists the Jen Saki. She's got zero ratings. She is just, I'm just, this is, I said this is an example of the NBC payoff. I think you're going to see this because he's been saying this the whole for a week. Oh, it's cheaper, it's cheaper. I think they set them up. You watch is. You're going to have, don't know, NBC nightly news. Oh, the Walmart packages.

Starting point is 00:39:25 If it shows up on nightly news, then I, then I'm in total agreement. All right. Yeah. I think it was, I think it was a setup. I think he, uh, he was, he was, uh, he was, uh, too prideful. He wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, it wasn't on watch. Well, he's missed a lot of things. He's busy. Yeah, he is busy.

Starting point is 00:39:43 That's true. And of course, we've got to sneak in some other things here. But I think this is an opportunity. This is ABC. Well, I will say that I'm going back on this on what you said, because the question was about Walmart specifically to trigger the Walmart reaction. And then Saki follows up. But again, it's small potatoes because it's like nobody listens to the gym.

Starting point is 00:40:07 Nobody watches her show or her. But I don't. This is just how. happening i think we okay well i'm just saying it's just that they could have could have been it like if it was rolled out by and you know they skip the socky step let's skip the sock it would have been better well ABC's on it but they have a different bent this morning with less than three weeks until thanksgiving new concern that turkey and egg prices could rise once again that's been that not pop of the week ladies and gentlemen

Starting point is 00:40:41 Earned that turkey and egg prices could rise once again. That's because bird flu cases are rising again as more wild birds head south. What? Within the last month. Bird flu cases are rising again. This is news to me. Yeah, well, they're tying it into Walmart. Don't worry. That's because bird flu cases are rising again as more wild birds head south. Within the last month, nearly 70 poultry flocks nationwide have been hit with the virus,

Starting point is 00:41:08 killing more than three and a half million turkeys, chicken, and ducks. Hold on a second. Shouldn't we just open up shooting at wild birds then? Isn't that the solution? Shouldn't we all just be in our backyards and just shooting any birds that go over? Solve the problem? I mean, there's enough guns. Shoot all at birds.

Starting point is 00:41:27 Wild birds are really the carrier for the avian influenza virus, especially migratory waterfowl. Experts fear the government shutdown and staff cuts at the CDC. and agriculture department could weaken the federal response. One virologist telling NPR a network of researchers used to be in constant contact with federal agencies to monitor cases, but she says that communication has been scaled back, saying, we're not in a great position for monitoring things. I'm finding myself in a very uncomfortable place.

Starting point is 00:41:58 The number of turkeys in the U.S. has already dropped to its lowest size in nearly 40 years. With limited supply, wholesale turkey prices are up 75. percent in the last year. Retail prices up about 25 percent. Egg prices may also suffer, but there are Thanksgiving deals to be had. Walmart says it's lowering the cost of its Thanksgiving meal bundle by 25 percent this year. And Target is offering a Thanksgiving dinner for four for just 20 bucks. Yeah, you wait. You wait until we're going to have, it's going to be. Well, they didn't say anything about this shrink inflation on the Walmart. Not yet. Not yet. I think we're going to see the Thanksgiving reports.

Starting point is 00:42:37 and it's going to be sad children going, Mommy, there's no marshmallows in my sweet potatoes. Where's my pecan pie? I'm sorry, tiny Tim. Sorry, Tiny Tim. That's President Trump. He shrunk your Thanksgiving Day package. You know, watch.

Starting point is 00:42:58 I don't want to, like, move these things into place because of this, like, a grand conspiracy. Like, you're saying it. But that brings me to this bird test nonsense because it involves birds. I got it again. It's that time of year. Oh, I have one of those around here somewhere, too. Is that time of year? I got to go find my.

Starting point is 00:43:21 I just found mine. I got to find mine. Okay. All right. Yes. Bird test. So I didn't make this connection that because they birds, birds, birds, turkeys, turkey dinner. And then there's this stupid, the stupid.

Starting point is 00:43:37 story that I've heard on PBS forever. I don't know if you're even aware about the bird test. I'm not sure. I don't know. Well, I got some clips about it. It's ridiculous. But here it is. One of the latest relationship tests on

Starting point is 00:43:53 social media to go viral is the bird theory. It starts with a casual comment. You know when you were inside, I saw a really pretty bird? A bird? I saw a bird today. I saw a bird today. I forgot to tell you that I saw bird today. The test is how the partner responds. Wait, I saw a blue jay the other day, too.

Starting point is 00:44:14 No, literally, I saw one on my run. Do they engage, pointed beak, rounded beak, or not? Why are you telling them? These tests have racked up millions of views. They're based on a theory developed by couples researcher John Gottman about the importance of engaging with partners when looking for a connection. But what do they really tell us? Alexander Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, and the host of a podcast called Reimagining Love. Alexandra, how valuable is this test? What does it really reveal?

Starting point is 00:44:48 You know, these tests come and go, and I tell you what, this one is particularly sneaky because it does have Gottman's research behind it. And there's a wish that all of our relationships could boil down to one little test like that. So although there's validity, it's putting too much weight in one little micro moment. Wow. Folks, this is a four-parter from PBS about some test to see if you should divorce your spouse based upon how they answer the question or a statement that you make about a bird that you saw. I saw a bird. Yeah, so what?

Starting point is 00:45:26 Did you shoot it? Did you shoot it? It might have bird flow. Wow. And it has science behind it apparently. Yes, this guy, I looked at this John Gottlieb character. He's like the most gosh-awful-looking person there is. I mean, it's one of those, you know, very ugly, ugly effer.

Starting point is 00:45:47 Perfect face for science. And it's just like, okay. But I guess it caught on on TikTok. This is the kind of thing that we, as oldsters, we can't kind of keep up because it's going too fast for us. This is your boomer moment, people. All right, here we go. And so I had to extract this from PBS.

Starting point is 00:46:06 made a whole segment out of it. By the way, this is not the whole thing. It goes on and on and on, but this is part two, which is the yuck part of it. Well, tell us about Gottman's theory. Tell us about that. What Gottman says is that romantic relationships are not made up of the grand sweeping gesture, you know, the rose petals on the bed

Starting point is 00:46:26 and all of the sort of fairy tale ideas that we grow up with. In fact, romantic relationships, the healthy ones, are made up of a series of thousands and thousands and millions of micro moments of connection that build trust and safety and authenticity between partners. That's what this test is about. It's a bid for connection. You know, the New York Times calls this social media's relationship yardstick du jour. And you talked about how these come and go. Why are we so drawn to this? We're drawn to it because there are a few things in our lives that make us feel quite as vulnerable as our intimate relationships do. The stakes are high, the consequence of losing the person that we love, you know, through a breakup, through

Starting point is 00:47:10 divorce, certainly through death. Those consequences are very, very big. You know, we risk heartbreak. And so I think we are forever looking for evidence to the, to answer the question, are we okay? You know, are we okay? Are you with me? Do you have my back? Do you see me? My mother to you. Hold on. Please tell me I have a clip of the actual test and how it works because I can't wait to try this right after the. In fact, I might call Tina during the show. It's simple. It's as you say, I saw a bird. And then you get the reaction of the other person.

Starting point is 00:47:41 Which it goes on. They kind of explain it. Let it play out. But the only, here, we'll do it. This is how two people who have been together in a relationship for 18 years do this test. Go ahead, John. Ask me. Well, in fact, I have this plan for the end.

Starting point is 00:48:01 Oh, okay. All right. And what's the motivation for people to put these. online and have strangers discuss it. Well, John, here's where the rubber hits the road. I do think that, especially in these scenarios we're seeing, where people have taped their partner without their consent. You know, that's a kind of boundary violation.

Starting point is 00:48:19 And I think there's somebody tempted to tap. What's the boundary violation? Taping someone without their consent. You know, the way the kids do with the cameras with their little phone, you bring your phone out and you record someone. That's a, but I'm going to use this. Uh, darling, that's a boundary violation. It's a boundary violation.

Starting point is 00:48:41 Seeing where people have taped their partner without their consent, you know, that's a kind of boundary violation. And I think that if somebody is tempted to test their partner in this way, the first step is to check in with themselves. You know, what is, what's going on here? And we really have normalized that we sort of live these two lives. We live the flesh and blood life of ours and we live this online life. so I think we really have normalized it seems kind of, you know, ordinary or no big deal right now to be showing little windows into our world online. But I think it's a problem. I think we ought to be careful. This does show a willingness to sort of let the other partners' world in, something that they

Starting point is 00:49:23 value in the world. They found interesting. Does that tell us anything? Absolutely. Absolutely. It feels really good. When we notice something or we raise something and our partner turns toward us, Is she in a relationship currently? No, she's a single mom at best. Instead of, you know, looking at their phone and saying, uh-huh, or not responding at all. It's really painful. Those breaks and connection are really painful for us.

Starting point is 00:49:52 And those moments of attunement where our partner turns their attention toward us feel really good. So there's, that's where the validity is. The validity is that our desire to kill. connect with our partner in these small, seemingly insignificant ways. Can you imagine being with this woman? It makes sense that people want, you know, to have the partner ask follow-up questions about this little bird that we saw. So, okay, first of all, the term attunement is a possible show title.

Starting point is 00:50:23 This is attuned. Okay, put it on the list. Okay. I think there was the last clip. No, no. No, there's a bird test for retort clip. Yes, that's what we're going to do the test. You're going to ask me, I found a script for how to answer this correctly so you pass the test.

Starting point is 00:50:39 Well, I know the answer too. And don't play it. It's clip four, but this is, you're going to ask me what I, you saw a bird and then you play clip four because that will be my answer. Okay. And then, then you're going to ask me the question and I'll give my answer. Okay. Can we play? Ask me, then play okay.

Starting point is 00:51:00 Okay, okay. I ask you and then I hit the clip four. Okay. Now, am I supposed to, isn't it just a statement? Like, I saw a bird today, isn't that? I'm not supposed to ask a question. Right, right. Okay, could you pretend to be on your phone for a second?

Starting point is 00:51:11 Because I think that's part of the test. I'm on the phone. Okay. I saw a bird today. I don't you know, everybody's talking about the bird. I'm a bird. So, fern, good. Okay.

Starting point is 00:51:29 Everybody's talking about the bird, bird. But I'm a bird, bird, bird. Yes. The bird is the word. Yes. Question for you. Yes. Name that group. Everybody's talking about the birds. It's the surfers? The trashman. The trashman. Ah! I should have known.

Starting point is 00:51:49 Okay. And it was based on another song called Birds the Word. Yes. By another group. Name that group. You've got me. The Rivingtons. Very good. Is that available on 78?

Starting point is 00:52:05 No, but I'll tell you, everyone should go look up the Trash Man presentation of birds the word, or surfer bird, surfing bird. That's why I was confused. On YouTube and watch this guy. And then you realize where Mick Jagger got all his moves. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so now I'll be on my phone and then you say, I saw a bird today. Okay, here we go. Hold on, let me get on my phone.

Starting point is 00:52:26 Okay, I'm on my phone. I saw a bird today. Hey, man, birds aren't real. That's reasonable. That's my answer right there. Everybody knows birds aren't real. They're spy drones. So I have seen people do a version of this.

Starting point is 00:52:50 And really, if I understand this abbreviated version of this very long report that was apparently on public broadcast systems. he was um and and this is noticeable um especially if in a group setting where where someone is on their phone and you'd be talking and or even if it's just two people and they're texting something it's typical if they're texting and you know they will it's it's interesting to see they'll actually be you might have seen this yourself with the kids maybe maybe not you probably forbid phones at the table no i i bitch about it a lot yeah um then then then will answer you but it'll be when they have a break in their typing so it's like a delayed response

Starting point is 00:53:37 they hear what they're saying you're right i've seen this happen yeah it's a delayed response yeah they're there you say something they're still typing and they can't lose the train of the train of thumb typing yes and then once they finish and you see them finish then they say something yeah that's what it is and and so some people will say something like ooh we almost crashed you know just to see if their friend, partner, spouse, whatever, is listening, which, of course, they aren't. They are, they're hearing, but they're not listening. And this is, I blame that you, there's only one reason. The phone.

Starting point is 00:54:13 The whole bird test, the whole thing is really, it's all about one thing, which is the addiction to the phone. Phones, yeah, that's what it is. So, okay. You know, I'm against this. I think it's a bad idea. What? I'm against tricking.

Starting point is 00:54:30 This is a boundary violation. Oh, you're against the tricking, the tricking concept itself. I mean, you might, why don't you just say, I saw a bird. Why don't you just say, hey, you suck. You know, you just say whatever you want because the whole intent is to make the other person feel crappy because they, what? You said what? I saw a bird.

Starting point is 00:54:55 You know, oh, and just, and then, of course, the follow up is, You aren't listening! I mean, that's pretty much what this is about. Wow, that's a pretty good shout. It's not a good, it's not a good, it's not a, it's a, it's a, it's a boundary, boundary violation. You should have an adult conversation and say, hey, you know, when we're talking, you know, let's just put the phones down. That's it. How about just grabbing the phone out of their hands and stomping it?

Starting point is 00:55:25 Stomping it on the floor. Wow. Wow. That's, well, you know. It's basically a double shaggy dog story. Yeah, no, I like it. I like that. Bringing in the, the surfing bird was good. It is, unfortunately, that time of the year again. Do you know what time it is? You know what time it is? You don't know what time it is, do you? You don't know. Taco time. Yeah, I wish. It's cop time. Cop time. Cop, cop, cop, cop time. Oh, brother. You've got clips from this.

Starting point is 00:55:58 Oh, yes. Well, it's not so much... It's all yours. I have a set-up clip from the opening of COP 30. All the elites are in Brazil. Woo! Party time. Let's fly our jets down to Brazil. They all flew in their private jets,

Starting point is 00:56:11 and you can have a lot of party time. Brazil is the place to be. In Brazil, that's party town central. The president of Brazil, Lula de Silva, greeted heads of state from all over the world as they arrived for the UN's COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon. The leaders from the planet's three biggest polluters,

Starting point is 00:56:28 China, the U.S. and India were nowhere to be seen. In his opening address, Lula urged countries to actively fight against climate disinformation. That's the theme for this year's COP 30. It's climate disinformation, which, funny enough, is coming from themselves. Extremist forces fabricate fake news to obtain electoral gains and imprison future generations in an outdated model that perpetuates social and economic inequalities and environmental degradation.

Starting point is 00:57:02 A message echoed by French President Emmanuel Macron. Climate disinformation today threatens our democracies, the Paris agenda and therefore our collective security but it's a tough sell

Starting point is 00:57:17 when the leader of one of the world's largest carbon emitters, Donald Trump, is the source of that disinformation calling climate change a hoax and a con job and refusing to send any to the meeting. For its part, China will send its deputy prime minister, while Argentina's president a Trump ally has also boycotted the summit. In his speech, the UN Secretary General tore into countries for their failure to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a key aim of the 2015 climate

Starting point is 00:57:46 summit in Paris. Every fraction of a degree means more hunger. Displacement is not lost. No, you've got to listen to what he says. Every fraction of a degree. 2015 climate summit in Paris. Every fraction of a degree means more hunger, displacement, and loss, especially for those least responsible. It's horrible. Every fraction of a degree. Due to climate change. Now, we know that there's a scandal brewing in Denmark, but that doesn't matter because it's

Starting point is 00:58:15 COP 30. We've got to promote killing the cows, man. As climate change worsens and fossil fuels run out, finding new green energy sources is of the essence. Oh, wait, this isn't the cows clip. This is even funnier. You as a chemist slash industrialists will like this gambit. The world's first large-scale e-methanol facility in Kusa, Denmark, is trying to foster the green transition. E-methanol. Do you know what e-methanol is? E-methanol. I'm trying to come up with. Is environmentally friendly ethanol? Yes, and how would you make e-methanol? How would you make e-methanol? This is great. I would stick a tube up a cow's butt.

Starting point is 00:58:58 That was... No, that's wrong. E-methanol is made using renewable energy by splitting a water atom with an electrolyzer and then combining the pure hydrogen and a reactor tower with biogenic carbon dioxide. European energy, the company that co-owns the facility, intends for e-methanol to be a green alternative

Starting point is 00:59:17 to traditional methanol. So they're doing hydrolysis with solar panels. Yeah, hydrolysis with solar panels and windmills and then some cow burps and, oh, it's really good. This report proves it. Made with fossil fuels. The world market today is 100 million ton of methanol. And part of the consumers of that wants to green their supply chain. So it can be in shipping for fuel, which is actually new for methanol.

Starting point is 00:59:49 That's even an additional use of methanol. Decarbonizing the shipping sector, which has grown to account for, about 3% of global emissions is a focus for global leaders and an issue set to be discussed at COP 30 in Belam, Brazil on Monday. E-methanol could help green the industry by replacing the large amount of fossil fuels

Starting point is 01:00:07 used by vessels to transport cargo across the globe. European Energy's CEO, Eric Anderson, says the company expects price parity with fossil fuels by 2030. Even so, the facility's current e-methanol production capacity is 40,000 tons annually, a ways away from replacing the 100 million ton global market for methanol produced for fossil fuels.

Starting point is 01:00:29 40,000 tons, but we only need 100 million thousand tons by 3rd. We can make it, boys. We'll be able to make it. No worries. And crank up the windmills. Because, of course, what's happening now is now that COP 30 is taking place. This is the money summit. This is where everybody puts their proposals in.

Starting point is 01:00:49 I need some money for my research. I need some money for my e-methanol. It's a big money suck. And here's the killing the cows clip. When cows eat, the grass foments in their stomachs and produces methane. Methane is over 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide. At trapping heat in the atmosphere in the short term, a single cow can release more than 100 kilos of methane a year. Now, multiply that by the world's billion cows, and the number gets wild.

Starting point is 01:01:21 to climate change. The number gets wild, everybody. But scientists are testing fixes, like seaweed feed, which in some trials has cut methane by up to 80%. Garlic additives have also been found to change a cow's gut microbes and reduce gas production. Oh, get to the point. Get to the point you really want to sell us.

Starting point is 01:01:44 And then there are even cow vaccines designed to block methane-making microbes in the stomach. Yeah, that sounds good. If these solutions scale up, the payoff could be massive. Dead cows. As cutting methane from livestock is one of the fastest ways to slow global warming. Releasing wind can be pretty funny, sure. But from cows, they are no laughing matter. I mean, yes, this will work.

Starting point is 01:02:07 This will absolutely work. If you kill the cows with your silly vaccine, there will be less methane in the atmosphere. Absolutely. So that's the vaccine guy. So I'm, since where I'm sitting in this office, I have an overview of a freeway. Yeah. And there are thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of cars that go by.

Starting point is 01:02:32 All pumping out, you know, moderate amount of CO2 out the tailpipe. Yes. And I'm thinking, I haven't seen a cow for months. But yet somehow the cows are going to be responsive. This is a bunch of vegan meat haters. Yes, yes. blaming the cows for climate change when there's no such thing it's bull crap no this is the vaccine people trying to make money right there's that too

Starting point is 01:02:57 okay you have a combination of lethal cons the lethal combination of vegans and waxers it's unbelievable want to just give the vaccines to the vegans there's a solution that I saw a bird today Come, now, everybody's talking about the bird. Okay. So if you're a scientist, I need more money for my research. I need more money for my research. I must come up with a term that gets me money for my research.

Starting point is 01:03:35 Put it into a report for me, please. 2025 has not been a good year for glaciers. A series of reports all appear to confirm that climate changes melting these bodies of ice at an alarming rate. Since 2000, the world has lost more than 7 trillion tons of ice from mountain glaciers. Signs of melting evident here on the Italian side of the Montblanc Massif. Now, see if you can spot the term the scientist is going to use to get more money for research. We have observed over the years is that the glacier is slowing down.

Starting point is 01:04:12 And this is a sign that there is less input of mass. to the glacier from snowfall. Now scientists are rushing to recover the record. You're going to understand. No, you'll hear it. Don't worry. Don't worry. Where the ice has created a natural archive

Starting point is 01:04:27 full of important information about rainfall, volcanic eruptions, and other climate events. So the point is that because the glaciers are melting, we're losing history. Yes, we're losing critical data. But what can happen as the warming progresses, he will have very hot summers, even up there,

Starting point is 01:04:50 very hot meaning above the melting point of ice, which means that water can percolate into the firm, that's the compacted snow that is on top of the firm ice, and therefore contaminate the climate signals. It's a critical mission to secure the first. It's the climate signals, John. climate is we're losing climate signals you kind of put a boing right after the word you wanted me to identify yeah i kind of did that yes kind of did that it's the climate signals but you know what

Starting point is 01:05:26 let's get japan in on this scam because they're there everyone's at the cop 30 except for america russia and china arc and india oh india uh i think india sent a dude though I think they sent a dude, a representative, climate, climate dude. I'm going to send somebody. And I think China also sent a dude, but an insignificant dude. Because, you know, all the bigwigs are there.

Starting point is 01:05:52 Anyway, Japan? Ah, we got a problem with climate change. Holes and walls. Chairs scattered about. Refrigerator doors ripped from their hinges. This is the aftermath of a bear probably looking for food in a hot spring onsen in northern Japan.

Starting point is 01:06:09 Why are they talking like this all the time at the Climate Summit? Is it a library? And they have to speak like this when they talk about, oh, we're talking about climate, so we have to be quiet. It's very, very serious business. You know, this is about death of the entire planet. In Japan, the authorities killed it soon after the inn's owner called the authorities. This 68-year-old was taken by surprise when he opened his garage,

Starting point is 01:06:34 and he found a bear sitting inside. A bear! I thought, it's over for me. this is how I'm going to die I thought that I was going to be killed by that bear. This map shows the number of non-fatal bear attacks in yellow and bear attack deaths

Starting point is 01:06:49 in red, with a stark uptick in October. We've got a bear attack map going, plip, plip, plip, plip. A record setting 13 people have died in bear attacks since April, more than doubling the previous record set in 2023. More than 100 people have been wounded in attacks

Starting point is 01:07:05 across the country. According to experts, a warming climate has produced an abundant of food for bears in the mountains, creating an ideal environment for them to thrive. Due to climate change. It's all climate change. Everything is climate change. You're going to be killed with this for the next week. I think the way, what's interesting to me is that at the same time they're reporting,

Starting point is 01:07:25 even though not all the networks are doing it, they're reporting that because of this cold snap that's coming in from the Arctic that's going to hit us, you know, this week. It's hitting us now. A lot of people aren't listening to the show because of it. It's called the, isn't it, no, it's not the bomb, it's the... No, it's something else, but whatever it's, whatever it is, they've now predicting 200-year records are going to be broken for all-time lows. How does that work?

Starting point is 01:07:51 Yeah, well, it's due to climate change. Due to climate change. Don't you understand anything? And then amidst all of this, the people who actually get it right, they're going out of business. After more than two centuries, the Farmer's Almanac announcing it is ending production after the 2026 edition. That's after it releases. The publication says rising costs and a changing media landscape made it impossible to keep going.

Starting point is 01:08:22 The website will also slowly shut down, along with its social media posts. Staff say they're thankful for the sport that they've had over the years, and they are proud of the legacy they leave behind. This is a travesty. Yeah, not you mention it. The farmer's almanac was, it's cool. It wasn't the last time you bought it with copy. Probably. There's reason.

Starting point is 01:08:44 This is what happens when people neglect things like the farmer's almanac or even the no agenda show for that matter. Yeah. And they just take it for granted. Oh, there it is. Yeah, it's predicting the weather again. And there you have it. No, blah, blah, blah. And there they go out of business because you didn't buy a copy.

Starting point is 01:09:00 Well, I feel really bad now. You should. What, uh, let me see. With the, let me see, because I think, yeah, there's a 20, so we should buy the 20, if everyone on mass buys the 2026 Almanac, they might be able to keep the website going. Well, I think we should all buy a copy. Let me see. $4.79, people. It's cheap.

Starting point is 01:09:25 No wonder they went out of business. It should have been eight bucks by now. Well, the real problem is that they only released, they didn't release it. Did they release it every year? The farmers' almanac? They did? Yeah, they should have Farmers' Almanac monthly.

Starting point is 01:09:41 Well, their website is no good. I mean, they should have done V for V, baby. They should have done value for value. But yeah, you're right. Your point is well made is because everyone just kind of expected the news to tell us what the farmer's almanac said and we didn't support them.

Starting point is 01:09:59 Me included. I stick my hand to my own breast. Me included. now they're going away. And who are the people behind it? Yeah, they're a lot of work. They're FAA controllers. Was it farmers?

Starting point is 01:10:18 I don't think it was a farmer involved. Asking for a friend. Yeah. So, yeah, so we'll be absolutely obliterated with this nonsense for the next week, at least, at least. So I have some ice, a couple of ice clips? Yeah, the ice thing is, I do have some local boots on the ground stuff about the ice stuff. Oh, good. Well, let's get to that right.

Starting point is 01:10:43 These clips are interesting. This is the wild ice. This is a kick. This is a wild ice app. They get some apps they're using and everyone's stunned by these apps. Yeah. Oh, there's things, crazy, crazy things in this app that like, you know, do facial recognition. And it's just a scandal.

Starting point is 01:11:01 As immigration and customs enforcement. Oh, I forgot, yeah, it says SS on there, me, Scott, Simon. Well, how, I mean, oh, okay, is that now the code? Is that the... Yeah, I'm sorry. I should have, I've been doing this for a while with the code, but I forgot to tell you the code. Suffer and succotash. I'm Scott. Sorry, that's my fault. Simon.

Starting point is 01:11:24 As immigration and customs enforcement or ICE strive to deport more immigrants, it is increasing its surveillance tools. Critics warn these new technologies can violate privacy and civil liberties. And as Jude Joffey Block joins us now, Jude, thanks so much for being with us. Oh, thank you. What are some of the tools that ICE agents are using these days? Well, they've got new contracts to monitor social media and help find people's locations. ICE has also revived a contract with a company called Paragon Solutions, which is known for making spyware. that can hack into cell phones.

Starting point is 01:12:03 We're all going to die. But one big thing that's new is an app ICE and Border Patrol agents have in the field. Social media videos show they're using it to scan people's faces during encounters on the street. No way. Are you an idiot? In an attempt to identify them and figure out if they're deportable.

Starting point is 01:12:21 Jude, how does this app work? Well, there's still a lot that's unknown. But one of these videos that was first reported by 404 media was shot outside of Chicago, and you see Border Patrol agents approaching two young people. If you're not, just tell me that you were born here and give me an ID, you'll be good.

Starting point is 01:12:39 The young man filming the encounter says he doesn't have ID, and then the agent turns to his colleague and asks, can you do facial? Can you do facial? He says, and his colleague pulls out his phone and holds it up and appears to scan his face, though it's possibly took a photo.

Starting point is 01:12:54 The video was posted by someone claiming to be the cousin of one of the boys who was stopped. The poster didn't respond to a request about the post, but NPR was able to verify exactly where it was taken. We did get a statement from ICE, and they didn't answer questions about this app, but said nothing new here. For years, law enforcement across the nation has leveraged technological innovations to fight crime. Yeah, I do have a problem with this. I mean, we can make fun of it, but we do live in a constitutional republic where papers please, and if you don't give your

Starting point is 01:13:30 papers you get a facial is not cool i'm against that i don't care what's going on yeah well they have the you know you ask for your driver's license all the time you have to have a like you now you have to have real ID to get on a plane yes i know and somebody's got a guy in front of you that you want to deport you want to make sure boy i might i think my voice you're choking up man you're falling apart you're choking up I'm not choking up, I'm choked. And so they take a picture of the guy's face and it shows up as who it is.

Starting point is 01:14:07 I mean, we've been primed for this if you've watched television mysteries and dramas over the last 25 years. I know, I know we've been primed for it. Here's the problem. And they do it on Facebook. Yeah, that's the problem. It's like you should not have a Facebook profile.

Starting point is 01:14:25 This is problem number one. I don't even have a Facebook account. You? No, I gave mine up at least 11 years ago. At least. And people still, it's amazing that people still send me, hey, you got to see this post and it's Facebook. And I can't see the post. Actually, you know, recently, I don't know when this started. Sometimes you can. You got to click the Facebook login thing, but then if you scroll, then right away, it pops up again. Oh, yeah, if you scroll, but if it's just a video, you can see the video. Yeah, that's true.

Starting point is 01:15:00 That's true. Anyway, we'll play the second clip and then... The second clip hasn't got no gimmicks. No gimmicks. It's gimmick free. Jude, do we know if this technology, except for Scott Simon, which is gimmick by itself? Jude, do we know if this technology can be used to identify essentially everybody, U.S. citizens? Well, a group of Democratic senators has been trying to get answers to that question and others about this app since September, but haven't gotten them from ICE.

Starting point is 01:15:30 they've called on ice to stop using this technology and reiterated that demand on Monday. My colleague Martin Costi spoke to Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. This type of on-demand surveillance is harrowing and it should put all of us on guard. It chills speech. It erodes privacy. It ultimately undermines our democracy. He expressed concern that this tool could be used against people who criticize the government or protesters. What safeguards exist? to try to ensure that these technologies are not abused? Well, I asked that to ICE and DHS, and we didn't hear back.

Starting point is 01:16:06 I also spoke with legal and privacy experts who told me that our current legal and regulatory framework just isn't robust enough to ensure that these kinds of new tools are used with the appropriate oversight and accountability that's really needed. Emily Tucker is with Georgetown Law School's Center on Privacy and Technology. Immigration powers are being used to justify mass surveillance of everybody. And she says it's a mistake to think this doesn't. affect every one of us. Okay. So my opinion remains the same. And yes, I'm okay with tools, tools for immigration, but there's, here's the problem. So this needs to be very clear who can use

Starting point is 01:16:43 this and under what circumstances. Just, so if you're pulled over, then showing your driver's license, which you don't even have to hand off, I don't think technically, you can just hold it against the glass. But you can also. Try doing that. Texas. It will work in Texas. It will work in Texas. Just give me your license what there is a make. Yeah, listen, you have less road ahead of you than you have behind you, but there's a lot of young people. I don't want them living in a society where cops just come up to you and just scan your face to see who you are. I don't want that. I don't. Now, what's the problem with the immigration enforcement right now, in our sleepy little town of Fredericksburg,

Starting point is 01:17:28 20 minutes, 15 minutes up the road, we have Boot Ranch, Boot Ranch. You should look at it up, Boot Ranch. Poor house? No, Boot Ranch is a gated community. I don't know how many houses, a lot of houses. You cannot buy a house there for under $2 million. Most of them are $3 to $7 million. It's crazy. They got private golf course and everything. It's fine. Perfect. but they have maids service. And this is how I know about it. Because the maids stopped showing up. You know why?

Starting point is 01:18:03 Because ICE came into Fredericksburg and they're not looking for criminals. They're just looking for numbers. Like we got to have numbers. We have quotas. We got to arrest people. And yeah, guess what? A lot of the maids who have been here maybe 20 years, they've been arrested and deported.

Starting point is 01:18:21 So they're not just. kicking on criminals. Technically arrested. No. What do you mean? They were taken into custody. Yeah, but that's different than being arrested. Oh, be a dick about it. You know what I mean? No, not being a dick about it. I'm just trying to your words matter. You're the one that says that all the time. So they have been deported. Yeah. And yes, they were here illegally, but this is no longer just looking for criminals. There's, there are ice patrols. I understand why people get freaked out about this,

Starting point is 01:18:58 particularly in Booth Ranch, because who's going to clean their homes? And this is a real problem. Oh yeah. Those poor people. Yeah. But, you know, it's, it's gotten a little bit beyond we're kicking out criminals. They're just doing quotas now. Chicago, I don't know. But when you're in Fredericksburg trolling for, uh, for cleaners, which yeah, you're going to find a lot of that. And yes, should be replaced by American citizens. But, you know, when you're just walking around and face scanning everybody, it's, eh, I don't like it. Well, you should be like this woman then.

Starting point is 01:19:35 This is the talk anti-constitution Zed, or Jen Zetter. All right, here's my hot take of today. I don't think that a society governed by a document that was written in the 1700s by a bunch of drunk white guys in their 20s who couldn't even conceive of the existence of the majority of the United States of America should be used to this day and I don't think that we are going to have a successful society until we get rid of the thing

Starting point is 01:19:58 and restart. Because the founding fathers could not have conceived of my existence. They just could not have. They couldn't conceive of it. Their brains would have exploded. So how could that document possibly serve me? How could it? We need a new one. We need to restart. We need to start over. This one's trash. We need to revamp it and get a new one. Well, going from what I said,

Starting point is 01:20:20 to what she says and saying I should be like her is rude and just uncalled for. There's no... Psychological. That's okay because I'm not a baby like you and whine about it. I just tell you straight up.

Starting point is 01:20:32 And by the way... I just tell you straight up. And by the way, the founding fathers were aware of people like her. Yeah. They were called witches. I was right there with you.

Starting point is 01:20:46 But this, but all of this facial recognition and digital identity. This is really happening. Although in France, they're kind of downplaying it right now because there was a bit of a fracas. I got a Euro News debunk report,

Starting point is 01:21:02 although sounds like it could kind of happen anyway. A claim is circulating online that France is entering an era of total traceability. Amid allegations that the country's digital ID will be directly tied to personal social media accounts. This post on X says that the measure would, on paper, allow authorities to fight against the bad guys, but that unofficially it would be one more step towards a society where words and opinions are policed. It attaches a video

Starting point is 01:21:31 of Paul Medi, a member of the French Parliament and of President Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance Party, giving an interview in which he says that the measure would prevent complete anonymity online to help tackle impunity for online harassment and other illegality. However, the caption is wrong. While French MPs did consider linking the digital ID to citizen's social media, these proposals were rejected, and the country is not currently poised to introduce the measure. The idea first emerged in 2023 as part of the discussion on the law aimed at securing and regulating the digital space, or SREN law. At the time, Midi and others tabled an amendment that would have required a certification by a state-approved third party, such as the digital

Starting point is 01:22:14 ID when creating new accounts on social media. The video of Medi attached to the social media post is from an interview with French radio station RTL at around the time that politicians were discussing the proposed amendment. So it's not new. Ultimately, the amendment faced fierce opposition and was withdrawn. And the final law came into force in May 2024 without the measure linking digital IDs with social media accounts.

Starting point is 01:22:39 As things stand, the digital ID can be used to verify someone's age when creating a social media account, for example, but you're not required to do so, and the digital ID is not automatically linked to your social media accounts. Yeah, I give them one year before that's required in Europe. One year max, that is definitely happening, because they have the digital ID. Everybody's got digital ID in Europe. And the Brit card, it's going to be tied to it. I wish I, now I'm irked that I didn't get this clip of this French woman who's floating around, attractive lady, floating around telling people to, some guy got arrested in France for posted, just getting like England, posting pictures of a bunch of migrants just hanging around, you know, the bakery and,

Starting point is 01:23:29 you know, harassing ladies. And got thrown in jail this guy for posting it. And so she came out with a video saying, we got to start posting this stuff because it's bull crap and what's going on. But digital ID and facial recognition out of the blue is different. Yeah, it's different. But it's all going to be tied together. Palantir, man.

Starting point is 01:23:52 Don't you know, don't you know Palantir? Palantir is going to do us, Alan Musk or Palantir. Peter Thiel. They're all going to kill us. And they might. They just might. Packers will save the day. Okay.

Starting point is 01:24:10 Meanwhile, oh boy, we've got another drone scaring people in Brussels. They're showing video literally a drone with red blinking light saying, I'm a drone, I'm a drone. Brussels Zaventam Airport is still feeling the aftershock of Tuesday's drone sightings, which forced the city's main airport to close and left dozens of flights grounded. The country's defense minister told local media that the incident appeared to be carried out by professionals. Intent on the stabilizing the country. All the parting and deriving flights were...

Starting point is 01:24:47 Professionals. I mean, I don't understand. Someone flies a drone with a red flashing light. It's not a Reaper Doe drone. It's just a drone. Flying around the airport, which should, of course, be completely illegal. Some jokers is some teenagers. Yeah, but the payoff is in the report. Intent on destabilizing the country.

Starting point is 01:25:08 All departing and arriving flights were... temporarily suspended, forcing hundreds of passengers to spend the night at the airport. Lise Airport, used principally as a cargo hub, was also closed due to drone sightings on Tuesday. Both airports have now reopened, but officials have warned that disruptions are expected to continue and that passengers should be prepared for delays. Both NATO and the European Union have been on high alert recently, following a string of airspace violations, thought to be carried out by Russia. Of course. It's Russia. Oh, of course. It's Russia.

Starting point is 01:25:44 Oh, please, Russia. But this is no longer drones. This is a red flashing light. That's why. Yes, but it's no longer drones. It's hybrid. This is what we call this. This is hybrid. It's hybrid. And when you're talking hybrid, there is no one better but Mark Ritter to come in and tell you about the hybrid. Well, you know, when it comes to a hybrid and the word is a bit strange. It's a very strange word. Because on the hybrid, we have seen assassination attempts.

Starting point is 01:26:10 We have seen the in... What, assassination attempts at John, have you seen an assassination attempt in a hybrid? No. Except for Trump and Charlie Kirk was not an attempt, was the real one. In some countries, the jamming of commercial airplanes. Jamming of commercial... West planes were commercial were jammed.

Starting point is 01:26:31 Which ones? Oh, Ursula's. Okay. Which could pose great risks, of course. Oh, yes. Commercial aviation. Yes. We assume an attack on the NHS in the United Kingdom.

Starting point is 01:26:43 What attack on the NHS in the United Kingdom? I don't have the report. Do you know it? Can I ask a question? Yes. We have people that can hit a target at, oh, I don't know, 600 yards with a scope and the laser spotting gear. Why can't we just shoot the, why don't we have just one sharpshooter at, the airport these things aren't that high up

Starting point is 01:27:12 they're not at 30,000 feet you are missing the points man and just shoot the drone I don't understand why these they let these drones fly around we might need to make the people scared don't you understand this to make the people scared so I don't like the word hybrid

Starting point is 01:27:30 too much I do I love it okay it is it is the accepted language and okay it is the word we're just going to use the bird is the word we use the hybrid Clearly this is something where within NATO and within our allies, we are working extremely actively to make sure that... Oh, yes. We are on the case, people. NATO is good. Get your money ready. Get your tax money ready. It's all good. We counter whatever is necessary. I mean, you take, for example, the situation, Christmas time last year when the undersea sea kale was cut.

Starting point is 01:28:03 Between Estonia and Finland, we immediately launched Baltic Sentry. and that was launched to make sure that we would be able to use in the latest technologies, et cetera, to counter what happened there. So sometimes it is big what we do, sometimes it is smaller, sometimes you cannot see it.

Starting point is 01:28:23 Sometimes it is invisible what we do with your money. It's complete, don't worry. It's good what we're doing with your tax money. It's invisible. But we are working very hard collectively to make sure that we defend against any threat, including hybrid threats. And Russia. And Russia. It's always about Russia.

Starting point is 01:28:42 Oh, man, these guys. So Orban, Orban was at the White House, the president of Hungary. And this was really interesting. Because I'm confused now. What power does the president have? Because Hungary is a part of the EU, no? Yes, they're part of the EU. They are in EU country.

Starting point is 01:29:08 And NATO, too. Yes. So, but somehow the president of the United States has jurisdiction over their use of Russian oil. I'm a little confused about this. It was smiles and compliments as U.S. President Trump welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán. Meeting in Washington, the two men discussed economic cooperation and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And just weeks after imposing what Trump called tremendous sanctions on Russian oil and gas, the U.S. president has given Hungary a one-year exemption. Orban, who's a long-time Trump ally and critic of Western support for Ukraine, made his case and welcomed the decision.

Starting point is 01:29:44 It is not possible to secure Hungary's energy supply and to provide affordable energy to Hungarian families and businesses if sanctions continue to be imposed on two key pipelines. We looked at the issue and we asked the President to lift the sanctions. We asked for two pipelines to be exempted from all sanctions. International Monetary Fund figures show Hungary relied on Russia for 74% of its gas, and 86% of its oil in 2024. It warned that an EU-wide cutoff of Russian natural gas alone could force output losses in Hungary exceeding 4% of GDP. Trump agreed that Hungary needed reprieve from the sanctions

Starting point is 01:30:21 because of its Landauk position. He also accused other European countries of buying Russian oil and gas for years. It's a great country, it's a big country, but they don't have the ports. It's a big country. And so they have a difficult problem. But when you look at what's happened with Europe,

Starting point is 01:30:37 many of those countries. They don't have those problems and they buy a lot of oil and gas from Russia and as they know I'm very disturbed by that because we're helping them. Shortly before Friday's exemption announcement, Ukraine's President Zelensky said they cannot let Russia profit

Starting point is 01:30:53 from energy and said they would find a way to ensure no Russian oil was in Europe. How does the President of the United States get to exempt Hungary from taking Russian energy from through the pipelines.

Starting point is 01:31:08 Is that our pipelines? It's our sanctions. Well, no, but the Europe has sanctions. We don't have sanctions on Europe other than we'll put tariffs on you. Is it the exemption from our tariffs

Starting point is 01:31:19 on that what Hungarian salami? What do we get from Hungary? What do we get from Hungary? Yeah, that's a good question. There's got to be something from Hungary. They probably get something from them, you know. It's just We're running the show.

Starting point is 01:31:38 I don't know. You know, this is not a shock to you. I was just, I was just curious. It's like, maybe the Israelis told us to do this. Yeah. Hey, Scott Besson was on, with George Stephanopoulos this morning.

Starting point is 01:31:53 And I thought it was kind of a fun exchange. Um, because Scott, Scott Besson, he can, he can get in people's faces. Have you noticed this? He does it in his own, with his own style.

Starting point is 01:32:05 It's a, he's a stylizer. he had or style a stylist he does it very he's very calm he's a stylist she's a stylist in more ways than one and he's quite calm and he's uh sharp-witted and uh yeah i think i think i like rubio style the best yes yeah but rubio wasn't on the morning shows it was yeah no rubio's been out of the picture for a while for some reason and for sure i like well he's going to Oh, well, while you're talking about that, the rubia, the stands are back in the picture.

Starting point is 01:32:43 The stands. The stands. The stands? The stands. Yeah, the stands. Yeah, the stands. Kazakhstan, Tajikistan. Oh, those stands.

Starting point is 01:32:53 The stands, and this is a great little clip. Well, I've just... Several issues were on the table at the summit between U.S. and several Central Asian heads of state. Among them, rare earth minerals, the sale of Boeing airplanes, and the Abraham Accords. U.S. President Donald Trump announced soon after that Kazakhstan, the largest country in the region, would join them.

Starting point is 01:33:13 This evening, I'm also delighted to report that Kazakhstan has officially agreed. What country, Mr. President? Kazakhstan, dude. You heard me? Kazakhstan is joining in. I'm delighted to report that Kazakhstan has officially agreed, and that's official now, as of about 15 minutes ago. A tremendous country with a tremendous leader

Starting point is 01:33:39 has officially joined the Abraham Accords. At first glance, the move seems hollow. Kazakhstan has had diplomatic relations with Israel for decades, a contrast to countries such as Morocco and Bahrain that only opened them up as part of the accords. For his part, the Kazakh president said that before the summit, such cooperation would yield economic dividends. After the meeting, he expressed his willingness

Starting point is 01:34:03 to maintain strong relations with Washington. My political will to seize all those unique opportunities, and I have no doubts that we have very bright future as it comes to our bilateral cooperation. It could also be that Central Asian countries in the meeting, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, in addition to their abundance of rare earth minerals, are sandwiched in between Russia and China,

Starting point is 01:34:30 and the U.S. is vying for favor over its adversaries. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio has announced visits to those countries in 2026. Rubio's going to the stands. Oh, he should go to the newest stand. What's the newest stand? New Yorkistan. New Yorkistan. I had a Boots on the Ground report from W.

Starting point is 01:34:56 Let me see. W. ABC, I think. Let me see. Yes, ABC, New York. This is the voters, boots on the ground in Astoria Queens. This is Mamdani's home turf. It looked like a New Year's Eve party, but this was an election night celebration. This is Citizen App video of overjoyed Zoran Mamdani supporters, who filled 24th Avenue in Astoria last night to mark the historic results of a groundbreaking victory.

Starting point is 01:35:28 Young voters energized by the campaign promises of a 34-year-old Muslim state assemblyman born in Uganda hit the streets to mark the dawn of a new era in... That's great. We've got to remember that rundown. Hold on. We hear it again. Young voters energized by the campaign promises of a 34-year-old Muslim state assemblyman born in Uganda hit the streets to mark the dawn of a new era in New York City politics. I think that it's really amazing that we have, like, a nose ring. A movement that everyone was excited about that was able to prevail over something that we were all really worried about. Mamdani supporters crowded the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden to watch the election night returns,

Starting point is 01:36:16 returns that quickly confirm what pre-election polls reveal time and time again. A sizable lead for the frontrunner who saw winning projections about an hour after the polls closed. In Mamdani's home district this morning, the excitement and energy of last night's epic win looms large. Astoria resident Hannah Lieberman is also a small business owner. I really like that he wasn't bought by anyone. I think like those kinds of grassroots campaigns are so inspiring and what we need. I mean, I think the big thing is having better access to housing, expanding the availability of housing and some of the rent control that they can pursue.

Starting point is 01:37:00 Affordability, Mr. President. Affordability. That's what did it. So we got a note from one of our more famous executive producers. Oh, that one. In the business, Brunetti. Yeah. Oh, that guy.

Starting point is 01:37:15 Yes. So the subject, Miranar. N-A-I-R. Miraner. Miraner. Miranair? Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:37:25 You know who she is? No. She is the famous Hollywood director who's Brunei, who's Brunei's, who's, who's, who's, um, and he writes this note. Oh. Haven't heard much in the press about her or mention of her on the show. Okay. No.

Starting point is 01:37:42 We, I noticed that too. She's a sought after director after monsoon wedding. Don't know what the angle is, but there seems to be something. thing here considering it's not getting much, if any, play. If anything, maybe that's why Mondami is good with his TikTok videos, question mark. Not saying she has anything to do with making them, but maybe just odd that she hasn't been mentioned. Just odd more hasn't been made of her being his mom or the lack of attention to it,

Starting point is 01:38:19 especially everyone seems to be love everything Hollywood. Now, so I went back and looked at his videos, the really good ones, like the Valentine's Day 1 and the one he's on the street. Two things I noticed. One, he uses a Hollywood movie-style microphone. He doesn't use a normal microphone. This is equipment gear from, you know, they're extended or like a shotgun mic. They're used, people hold them underneath the actor.

Starting point is 01:38:42 Wait, what you're saying he's not using a DGI mic with a big fuzzy thing on it? He's not using a DGI mic. He's not using any normal mic that you would use if you were doing man on the street stuff. It's a Hollywood movie mic that nobody uses. So it's gear.

Starting point is 01:39:01 And if you watch his videos, there are three and four camera shoots. They're beautifully edited. Overlays and all kinds. Fade-ins, fade-outs. It's slick. It looks like the old TV show, homicide, life on the streets.

Starting point is 01:39:18 The shaky cam comes and goes, and there's a shot of him talking to somebody with the camera crew. Part of the camera crew behind him, and you see two people next to each other. One guy with extremely high-end gear and another woman right next to him, filming with an iPhone, next to each other so you can interspersed a slick look with the shaky cam look or with the iPhone look. And you go back and look at these and think of them as being produced by. Hollywood. You go, oh, yeah. Duh. And so this was rigged. This was, people were scammed. It's not rigged. That's great. That's smart. Oh, it is great. I mean, if you look back on it as professionally done, they are slick. But it's a scam. People have gotten taken to the cleaners in New York by this

Starting point is 01:40:11 guy and his mom. She's been, hold on a second. You mean Hollywood style production has, has convinced people of something, has tricks people? You don't say. I know. I was stunned. Shocked. Well, shocked, I tell you. Clearly, Brunetti should have been producing Andrew Cuomo's videos.

Starting point is 01:40:32 What a misser. Cuomo did have some videos that came out at the end. They were all done by AI. His AI videos were pretty funny. They were very funny, but it was a little too little too late. But Cuomo has no personality. And what the first lady said, the first nose ring said, is exactly what went down. Well, at least there's someone we could get behind.

Starting point is 01:40:54 He's our age. He's, you know, they're not really, uh, something, something, something rent freeze. Okay, whatever. Something, something, something, something free. Something, something free, something free, fast buses. Yeah, something free. And he's young, he's attractive, he's got cool videos. And then they've got the sex, you know, the guy accused of sexual abuse.

Starting point is 01:41:16 Creepy, creepy old guy. That's what it was. There was just no candidates. No candidates. Well, they had plenty of opportunities to bring up candidates. The Republicans gave up on the city. Well, you can't blame them. And then the Democrats had a bunch of stiffs.

Starting point is 01:41:35 Yeah. Yeah. So this kid comes in with this professionally produced videos. But even Sleva, I mean, man, the amount of archive footage, but it's still it's not what people want to see guys coming in kicking ass cleaning up the subways no they want free that's just that's that's what these millennials want free i can't afford to live here have you considered booming somewhere else no i want to live in new york i want to live here we've got bodegas we've got bodegas yeah i am i'm telling you i'm very much looking forward

Starting point is 01:42:11 to the day when uh daughter number three says I'm a little short this month. I'm like, call your boy. It's City Hall. Mum, Dami. Call him. Yeah, she voted for him. She definitely did.

Starting point is 01:42:26 Yeah. But who else she's going to vote for? She was sending us memes. I love her dearly. And we can have our disagreements. That's what I love so much about her. She doesn't go all nuclear. You know, she's just grown up in that regard.

Starting point is 01:42:42 She sent, it was a meme. It was like a prize. flag in shape like a gun pointing at someone's, I think it was, was it maybe even a Trump head? Let me see. No. So it was an arm, I should send this to you for the newsletter. It was an arm with a gun pointed at a black silhouated head, not looking like anybody that head, really, who's bent forward.

Starting point is 01:43:07 So the guns at the back of the head and it's pride colors and says, now put the pronouns back in email. And this is exactly what they care about. Yeah, I had a, oh man, I didn't get that clip. Another one I passed on of some TikToker going nuts about how great it is that woke is back. None of you saw that one. No, no, no. Gee, didn't hit my news feed.

Starting point is 01:43:36 Yeah, yeah. All right, let's go to Besant because Besson's a grown up and he's funny and he's sparring with Stephanopoulos and throwing stuff in his face. It was cute. And we were joined now by the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson, Mr. Besson. Thank you for joining us this morning. We've just talked about... Before you play this, hold on.

Starting point is 01:43:52 You know, I'm surprised as Stephanopoulos is a little more humorful and quick-witted and has funny material because, you know, he's married to a comedian? I did not know this. Who is she? Oh, I can't remember. Who is he? I'm sorry.

Starting point is 01:44:08 No, it's a she. I messed up the punchline. That would have been fun. Yeah, you're right, you blew it. We can, you know, we can do it in post. So I can't remember her name, but she used to be on a lot of stuff. She's mostly a skit comic. Her name is Allie Wentworth.

Starting point is 01:44:30 Yeah, Allie Wentworth, yeah. Hmm. And she's very, like all female comedians, she must be tough at the dinner table. and so far as having the one-liner the retort and you think he'd pick up something. She was on in Living Color, which was... Yes, she was one of the actresses.

Starting point is 01:44:51 Wow. She did impressions of Cher, Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Princess Diana, Brooke Shields, Sharon Stone. Huh. It's interesting. It's one of those cute faces, but because she's a comedian,

Starting point is 01:45:06 every picture makes her look odd. You know, she has to make a face. Yeah, yeah. They met on a blind date in 2001. Yeah, it's Mary Stephanopoulos. She must have been blind. November. Yeah, there it is.

Starting point is 01:45:21 You got one in. You got one in. Hold on a second. I'm back. I'm back, everybody. Finally. Back to Besson. And we were joined now by the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson. Thank you for joining us this morning.

Starting point is 01:45:32 We've just heard about all these impacts from the government shutdown right now. Are we starting to see a permanent impact on the economy? Sure, George. And good, good to be with you. And he's already got something ready. You know, good to be with you. And, you know, it's possible that that tough at the dinner table that he and, what's her name? I forgot her name already. Wentworth. Wentworth. Allie, Wentworth. You know, like, ah, you got to get this Besson. You got to get him. You got to get him good. I'll get you some one lines. But Besson came prepared. We've seen an impact on the economy from day one, but it's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under President Trump the past two quarters, and now there are estimates that the economy, economic growth for this quarter, could be cut by as much as half if the shutdown continues. And what your correspondent didn't talk about there, George, was there's, of course, the human costs,

Starting point is 01:46:30 and we're going to have the busiest travel day of the year, the day after Thanksgiving. And Americans should look to five Democratic senators to come across the aisle, to open that. But on the other side, there's also cargo is being slowed down. So we could end up with shortages, whether it's in our supply chains, whether it's for the holidays. So, you know, cargo and people are both being slowed down here. And that's for safety's sake, George. Okay, so he kept his powder dry. President continues to post about ending the filibuster. Is that the best way to end this shutdown right now? Is that what the administration's position is? No, George, the best the best way to do it. And look, you were involved in a lot of these in the 90s. And, you know,

Starting point is 01:47:14 you basically called the Republicans terrorist. And, you know, you said that it is not the responsible party that keeps the government closed. Wow. Oh, wait, it gets better. It gets better. And so what we need is five brave moderate Democratic senators to cross the aisle. Because right now, it is 52 to 3, 52 to 3, 5 Democrats can cross the aisle and reopen the government. That's the best way to do it, George. I can disagree with you about the history there, but we don't need a history lesson right now. George, let's talk about, no, no, no, George, George, George, let's talk about what's happening right now.

Starting point is 01:47:54 If you want, I've got all your quotes here, I've got all your quotes here, George. I am sure, I'm sure you do. And I went back, let's talk about the situation right now. So you got one purchase on Amazon this week, and that's very much what you said. The best way is for five Democratic senators to come across the aisle. What are we on vote 13, 14, 15. Mike Johnson got the reopening out of the house very quickly. And what's changed since the spring, George, is Chuck Schumer's poll numbers.

Starting point is 01:48:27 He had a clean continuing resolution in the spring. And why are Democrats doing this now, George? Again, you've been involved with this. You know, explain what's changed. You know, Senator Chris Murphy gave the game away this week when he said, well, you know, now it's our advantage to keep the government closed. They have turned the American people into pawns. I feel the best of just really running the tables on Stephanopoulos with this one. You know, pulling up his books saying this is what you said.

Starting point is 01:49:00 when you called the Republicans terrorists. Yeah, Stepanophilus is not very good at defending himself. He starts to... Yeah, exactly. He stumbles. He fumbles. He stutters. He tries to push back.

Starting point is 01:49:14 He doesn't take... He never takes the guy on. No, no. If he was any good, he would say, yes, this in the past. I have said that you're correct. In fact, you can quote me if you want. But the way I see it now, it's different. No, you should just...

Starting point is 01:49:29 That's all you have to say. say they were terrorists. What I just said is all you have to say. And then the guy with the best report, because Besson always he had this rehearsed, the best he could say was, well, what's different about it? And then if Stephanophilus was keeping up, he said, there's a lot different about it. It's a different circumstance. We were, they pulled the plug with a very, we, there's a pushback against the big beautiful bill, which was something they didn't want. And then he could start to bore him with bull crap, and then Besson would have to back off. Besson could lose this, but no, he knows that Stepanopoulos is lousy.

Starting point is 01:50:07 All he could, who had to say was, I saw a bird today. And it would have been fixed. The president has also come forward with a new proposal overnight saying it's time instead to do away with Obamacare and said to have the money go directly to the people. Do you have a formal proposal to do that? We don't have a formal proposal, but, you know, what I have noticed over time, is that the Democrats give all these bills, the Orwellian names, the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation Reduction Act.

Starting point is 01:50:34 Patriot Act, Republicans. And we end up with just the opposite. You know, the Affordable Care Act has become unaffordable, and the Inflation Reduction Act set off the greatest inflation in 50 years. He was well prepared for this. Well, I'm a little confused because the president has been posting about that overnight and into this morning, but you're not proposing that to the Senate right now? We're not proposing it to the Senate right now.

Starting point is 01:51:00 No. Then why is the president posting about it? Because he's trolling you, George. George, the president's posting about it. But again, we have got to get the government reopened before we do this. We are not going to negotiate with the Democrats until they reopen the government. It's very simple. Reopen the government, then we can have a discussion.

Starting point is 01:51:24 By the way, the word around town. the shutdown. And when I say the word around town, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah? 90 days. What? 90 days. Okay, so that's good news. That means it won't be 90 days. That's funny because that's the first thing I said, oh, well, it'll be over next week then.

Starting point is 01:51:48 Yeah, that's the word around town. That's the whisper number. Oh, no. And it goes like this. yeah it's going to be the Trump's going to keep it shut down for 90 days so we can really find out what we really need to pay and get rid of all the other stuff we don't need to pay for yeah the problem of course with the 90 days theory is that that's way past Thanksgiving people even though the joke the comedians joke of the day all of them are using the same line and bill more even used it on his monologue which is that oh Thanksgiving they're not going to be able to travel so he won't have to to see our lousy relatives. This is good news, not bad news. Oh, yeah, okay. So that's the joke. And the fact is that there's enough weak-kneed Democrats that are moderates that are going

Starting point is 01:52:37 to be worried and are going to have to, because they're going to take it up to 20%. And like you said, which has not been discussed, the fact is you can't just knock it down 10 or 20% without causing scheduling issues across the board making things terrible. Oh, it's going to be horrible. So the might as well shut down the whole system. And by the way, that shuts down cargo. It shuts down Amazon. It shuts down every gift.

Starting point is 01:53:06 Hey, and explain this to me just while we're on the topic. So our UPS guy, I know all our people. I know our mail carrier. I know the UPS guy. I know them all because it's the same people. So he drops off a package for Tina. And he's got another guy with him with like an orange vest on. All he missed was a hard hat and a clipboard.

Starting point is 01:53:26 I'm like, what is this going on? He rings the bell. He goes, hey, how are you doing, UPS guy? He said, hey, good. Yeah, I just want to introduce you to this guy. For the holidays, we have a lot of civilians. It was funny, he said, civilians. He said civilians, yeah.

Starting point is 01:53:43 Well, that means he won't have the full uniform, but it'll have the vest on. I saw the vest. It was an orange, you know, reflective vest that had UPS on it. And he said, and they'll just be in there. So basically a DoorDash guy. I was an older gentleman. He actually had his head bowed a little bit. I was like, hey, hey, civilian.

Starting point is 01:54:01 How you? I said, hey, civilian, how you doing? I shook his hand. He said, yeah, I just want you know that, you know, so if you see someone with a regular car driving up, you don't get freaked out. You have to say that in Texas because we come out guns blazing, dogs loose.

Starting point is 01:54:16 And I just thought it was interesting. Didn't they fire like 30,000 people and now they're hiring civilians? to jump in for the Christmas rush? I don't know what's going. Okay. Anyway, final clip from Bessent. I'm skipping over everything. And now we go to the dividend. Everybody gets money.

Starting point is 01:54:35 Do you have a proposal, a formal proposal, to give a $2,000 dividend to every American? I haven't spoken to the president about this yet. But, you know, it could, the $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways, George. You know, it could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the present agenda. You know, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans.

Starting point is 01:55:04 So, you know, those are substantial deductions that, you know, are being financed in the tax bill. I want to check. No, that's chicken. That's exactly what he said. He gave it away. You're not getting a check. That's what you're getting. Yeah, I want a check.

Starting point is 01:55:20 getting a deduction on your on your loan for your car good i want to check with president trump's face on it and his signature happy smiling here you go citizen here's two thousand dollars that's what i want yeah that's good promotion well that's what he should be doing you know because we're taking in billions and trillions and and gazillions of money yes so anyway i i sincerely hope because you're right A lot of our producers work in government. And I have to say most of them are pretty upbeat still. Because, of course, they're no agenda listeners.

Starting point is 01:56:01 And they were prepared. You know, they save some money because they're, this is probably going to happen somewhere down the road. So they made sure they had, you know, contingency to run this when this happened. But it's, you know, it's hurting a lot of people. It's getting real now. And, boy, it's by the, by this coming Friday, when we're up to 10%, I think you're pretty much going to see passenger travel at a standstill. You know, you did the right thing by not traveling.

Starting point is 01:56:33 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We canceled our vacation. And Tina's immediately like, oh, we can do this. We can go here. We can go there. I need a new MacBook.

Starting point is 01:56:42 Like, what? What? She does need a new Macbook. Take a vacation. I got an idea. Yeah. Take a vacation in Dallas. Dallas is a great town.

Starting point is 01:56:55 We actually have discussed that about going up to Dallas because Dallas has this new, oh, now, what was it called? How far is it to drive to Dallas for you? Five hours. About five hours. That's not that bad. It's like me going to Reno. I'm trying to think the name of this.

Starting point is 01:57:15 They have this new thing called Cosm. Cosm, Dallas, C-O-S-M-com. And you can, well, you can see sports games there. It's kind of like a miniature sphere in Vegas. Only it's much smaller. It's for a couple hundred people. And you can see, they have a couple of movies that you can see, and they have games.

Starting point is 01:57:43 I think the Matrix is playing. They have a special version of it. It's a complete immersive experience. And with the games, I'm not, as you know, not a sports ball guy. But, man, I mean, they have, they have you literally sitting on the 50-yard line and then it switches and the whole thing swivels around and then you're behind the goalposts and then you're... I'm looking at it now. It's super cool. My buddy Vic told me about this.

Starting point is 01:58:08 I'm like, wow. You should go to this. I might go to it. We might go. You go to, there's a couple of great hotels in Dallas. You can spend the night. Yeah. I could.

Starting point is 01:58:19 Yeah, and there's some good restaurants in Dallas. Yes. The only problem with Dallas, in my opinion, is the people that live there. No, they're fun to watch. They got high hair. They're arrogant. They think that Dallas is the greatest place in the world. They wouldn't live any place else ever.

Starting point is 01:58:35 It wouldn't even consider it. Yeah. They're self-absorbed. A lot of pretty girls and they're all self-absorbed and they're all Dallas girls. What I've always liked about Dallas, you go in the restaurant, it's much more, I mean, we're white. We're a white town. You go to Dallas. There's just all kinds of good looking people, of all colors. You immediately realize, wow, we live in a really white town in Fredericksburg. It's enjoyable. And I got friends up there. So you're right. Maybe we'll do that. We might.

Starting point is 01:59:05 I'll have boots on the ground from Dallas. Woo! Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage in the morning to you, the man who put President Trump's picture on the $2,000 check. Say hello to my friend on the other end. Mr. John C. DeMore. Yeah, in the morning, he was Sean Kirk. In the morning, our ship to see,

Starting point is 01:59:32 the graph, in the air, subs in the water, the names of the nights out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Stop, right, count you. Well, count you. 1930. Still a little bit low, but we're crawling back. We had a lot of DNA.

Starting point is 01:59:47 Ness issues and stuff for a while there. And I think a lot of people, I'm just going to give up. Just going to give up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it happens. Mimi's complained a couple of times about,

Starting point is 02:00:00 right in the middle of the show, it goes to a different show and then comes back. Well, that's a network issue. It's amazing. Any of this stuff works at all, man. I'm really, I know. I always say that.

Starting point is 02:00:11 When I say it, she says you're right. Yeah. When you remind people of that, you say, remember when you used to call, me from a room. Hey, we're doing this over over the internet. I'm in California. He's in Texas. We don't have much latency, if any. Almost none. No, not with the system we're using. And we have a, and it works. It works. Do you remember? And we do it for three hours or plus, well, actually more than three hours, unfortunately, but it was just long. Uninterrupted. Yack, yak,

Starting point is 02:00:41 yak, yak. And, and I, and I, and I, fidelity's good. I used to have a whole 19 inch rack filled with gear and wires and patch cables and now it's just one box it's got it all in there the same names I used to have 19 inch rack thing, Amfx you know

Starting point is 02:01:00 Amfx used Apex I'm sorry Apex used to have Yeah that was the big bottom Yeah yes right The Apex big box I still have the big bottom 19 inch rag module I have one of them in the closet We got big bottoms yes

Starting point is 02:01:14 I had my Warsanis sound process I mean, all kinds of stuff we did. And now, I mean, it's amazing. It's amazing. I remember back in... What do you remember there, Jim? Back in the mid-90s when I had, we had the Think No Idea as my company. We were going all over the country.

Starting point is 02:01:33 And, I mean, then you didn't have Zoom. You needed to pitch something to Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch. You went to St. Louis. You got on a plane. Granted, there was no TSA. you just walked to the gate and it was fine you you got to go through that little middle a couple of ladies standing there with with wands let me wand you okay you threw your keys in a in a little box okay fine yep yeah wand you uh and then you just walked to the gate

Starting point is 02:02:02 but you need to do pitch you had to fly places and now we just do zoom zoom baby just zoom you you do a pitch on zoom is fantastic so this is when christina was uh four or five years old and I got one of the first video telephones. Man, I wish I still had it. And I don't even remember what it was, what brand it was. But it was a white phone. It had a receiver. You pick up the receiver, you know, push buttons to call.

Starting point is 02:02:34 And it had a little screen on it, which would tilt up. And then you'd connect to the phone on the other end. And then you'd get like one frame per every three seconds. like, hey, it's that. Now it's just a FaceTime. Right from the palm of your hand. People don't realize. This is amazing.

Starting point is 02:03:00 Now you want a song. You just say, give me a song. Your phone gives you a song. Or you say, hey, make me some art. Now, strangely enough, you still have to have some funny in you to tell the computer what to do. but at least you can do it. Hey, just give me some art. That's the world we live in.

Starting point is 02:03:19 Appreciate it. You know, I was looking, this is your bonus content. I was looking at the cost of running my own AI model at home. Because the biggest problem with, you know, as we discussed on the last episode, is getting consistency. So if I wanted to clone my voice and have it consistently sound the same after some tweaking of the model, and training. You can do that,

Starting point is 02:03:47 but not when you're in a cloud-type scenario where you might be hitting another machine or literally the temperature changes in the data center. I mean, there's all kinds of variables that make it impossible for these cloud-based AI models to consistently deliver you the same results. I mean, you can type in the same prompt. You'll get something different every single time.

Starting point is 02:04:10 Yeah, you will. Now, I've been watching a lot of, of these YouTubers, and they've got huge Nvidia, you know, stacks. They're doing the comparisons with the top end Nvidia, GPU, and the Mac G, what is it, the M4 Super Pro, which has 512 gigs of RAM,

Starting point is 02:04:40 which you can use for either CPU, or GPU, and the results are very similar to what you get out of chat GPT or GROC. The cost, $10,000 to $15,000. That's actually not that bad. I know, but is it, so is that what this is costing? Like, to have Adam vibe code at home, are they running like a $10,000 install for me? Yeah. No wonder they're going on, well, they're not going broke.

Starting point is 02:05:13 Well, they're not going broke. That's the joke of it. Yeah, because people keep shoveling money in. Yeah. It's a Ponzi scheme. It's amazing. It's a Ponzi scheme. They always work.

Starting point is 02:05:25 Well, until they don't. Until they don't. Until they don't, yeah. Well, and I see there's a big discussion now about, well, Sam Altman is basically saying, we're too big to fail. So, you know, if, if Nvidia, well, Nvidia is okay, But if Open AI starts to stumble, can't get money, then maybe just go to the government and say, well, you know, Mr. Trump and Mr. President. This is, you know, we're in a race against China.

Starting point is 02:05:50 Yeah, the problem with that theory is simple. Elon Musk. Because Elon Musk has got Trump's here. Trump is going to say, what do you think about these guys too big to fail? Elon Musk who has a feud with the chat GPT guys are going to say, no, let him sink. Who cares? Here's the bonus clip since we're talking about him. Love him or hate him.

Starting point is 02:06:12 Elon Musk boldly goes where others don't dare. In space, inserting himself into politics and social media with his takeover and rebrand of Twitter as X. He's had just as many failures as he has had successes. His latest success, convincing 75% of Tesla shareholders to approve a record $1 trillion pay package. $1 million is a big pile of cash. equivalent of nearly a century of work for the average human. One billion is a hefty pile and the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy. One trillion dollars, one with 12 zeros. Think of it as row of row of bills, filling a football field completely. The monster payout is contingent on Tesla's

Starting point is 02:06:57 autonomous vehicles, robotaxies, and humanoid robots all seeing incredible success. Profit needs to skyrocket along with Tesla stock. The fact that one in four shareholders, Wanted to go in another direction, I think is telling. There was some concern that Elon Musk might quit as CEO if he didn't get what he wanted. An endorsement of Elon's ability to steer the EV maker, even as sales and profit, tumble. It was a referendum on the very future of technology. A vote of confidence in Musk's vision for the future of robotics and AI. Analysts say this record compensation sets a precedent, pushing other tech CEOs to ask for more.

Starting point is 02:07:37 The deal was so controversial. that even the Pope weighed in, voicing concern about rising income inequality at a time when many warned the AI bubble could come crashing down. Yeah. What a publicity stunt. That's great. He's not getting a nickel. And this guy, by the way, if you hear the word, there's two words I always look at as

Starting point is 02:08:00 code, telling, oh, it's telling, it's telling, it's code for your left winger, chilling, is another one. If you see that, anyone using it. Oh, it's chilling. Oh, what he did was chilling. That left wing code, these are communists.

Starting point is 02:08:18 You know, increasingly good Texas boys, good friends of mine who drive trucks, trucks, like a periodontist, a dentist. He's a good friends of mine.

Starting point is 02:08:34 Born and raised in Texas, one in El Paso, one here in, Fredericksburg, six-generation, Fredericksburg, German. He lives on the compound with a family, 400-acre ranch. Buying Teslas. And they're kind of like, oh, yeah, I know, I bought a Tesla. I'm like, what?

Starting point is 02:08:57 Are you a communist? What are you doing? He said, you're buying battery cars? And they say, yeah, I got to admit, I just really like being able to drink that extra beer and have the car drive me home. These things are outrageous. They do indeed drive you complete self-drive, no hands on the wheel, no touching it every 30 seconds.

Starting point is 02:09:21 They drive you all the way home. It's, it is compelling, I have to say. What, are you going to get one so you can have a beer? No. How about this for an idea? Don't drink and drive. Hello? I think it's cheaper to get a driver.

Starting point is 02:09:38 That's my, I was like, once you... Yeah, and those Tesas are expensive. Yeah. Once you get a guy with a hat to drive you, that's cheaper. Like, I got Robert. When his garage blows up, you'll know the reason why. I'm just, I'm just amazed. Well, you know, Elon Musk is now saying,

Starting point is 02:09:54 oh, the next Tesla might fly. If he builds a car that flies, I'm in. Yeah, okay. He said this about the... What you're referring to there is the Roadster 2. The Roadster 2, yes. at which some people have already put their down payment on for 200 grand or whatever it is. And yes, he made that.

Starting point is 02:10:14 This guy is a master of promotion. Oh, yeah. And, you know, he's seen as an industrialist and all these other things and he's smart. He's not a dumb guy. But his real skill is in promotion and he does it like falling off a log. It's so easy for him. The trillion dollar deal and gets the pope to say something. Give me up, or what's the Pope got to do with it?

Starting point is 02:10:34 I would love the Pope to say, what is up? with this podcasters on no agenda this is this is please Pope please please I beg of you say that yeah no he is the master there's so many flying car scams out there and and yeah sure they'll fly for 20 minutes you can't go anywhere electric because it would it made it's it was compounded by the fact that he's electric only yeah this is so the thing if it gets in the air I mean maybe You can fly over a traffic jam and land again and get back on the road. Maybe that would do it. And you always, when these Tesla guys said, did you go to Dallas and your Tesla?

Starting point is 02:11:16 Yeah, I did. How did it go? It went great. I said, did you have coffee? Yeah, I love, you know, we had like, you know, 30 minutes of coffee break. Oh, because you were charging. Brunetti drove his cyber truck to Hollywood. Yeah, he must have stopped along the way.

Starting point is 02:11:36 yeah he has a long story yeah he did a couple of times and apparently they have it set up the truck itself sets you up so you can have these short stops along the way yeah just get a little the navigator tells you 10 minutes here 10 minutes there 10 minutes there like like a douche get so get just get listen get Alex get yourself a corvette you know maybe a maybe get a 67 you know cool looking one. Actually, the newest Corvettes are the coolest looking ones. The brand, the brand new ones. The mid engines are beautiful.

Starting point is 02:12:14 They're just gorgeous. But I'm talking to a movie guy, a Hollywood guy. Get yourself a 67 Corvette red with that white panel on the side and have her put a... Well, you're thinking 57 with the white panel on the side. I'm sorry, 57. You're right. Get a scarf for Alex, you know, her head's in a scarf. The scarf is flying.

Starting point is 02:12:33 You've got your shades on. James Dean. And then her scarf gets caught in the wheels and she has her head to pull off in a lot of publicity. Well, that is true. That would be good for us next movie. Hollywood producer, wife, killed in freak accident. In the Corvette. In the Corvette.

Starting point is 02:12:51 But that's romantic. Driving that ugly box and stopping 10 minutes everywhere along the road. That is the antithesis of America, my friend. That is not who we are. You tell him. I'm going to tell him. I may have to, I may take a vacation out to the ranch. But, you know, if I drove my buddy's Tesla, it would take me three weeks.

Starting point is 02:13:16 It'd take three weeks to get there for sure. All right. So back to the AI. Of course, this is a value for value podcast. And I do want to mention that you probably want to try out one of those modern podcast apps. Podcast gurus is my daily driver. I really love it. just as one of them, you can find it,

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Starting point is 02:14:05 So get one of those. Don't buy a Tesla. Boost the show. And value for value, V for V, also known as vaccines for vegans, but we say value for value. That means whatever value you get out of the show, just send it back to us.

Starting point is 02:14:22 You can do it with time, talent, or treasure. Now, the talent, we do have a lot of talented people. In fact, the artwork for, episode 1814. Hold on a second. Let me get my in a show notes.com. We titled that needle drop, which a lot of people thought was very funny

Starting point is 02:14:40 that I explained for 20 minutes what that was. And I think some people appreciated it because they didn't know what needle drop was or taping your spouse as a boundary violation. Who knows what taping is anymore? Yeah, that's true. Now, by the way, the needle drop thing

Starting point is 02:14:58 came up at a dinner conversation. And when you said, the first thing it came up with, like, oh, it's so silent, you could hear a needle drop. Oh, interesting. But that's a pin. That's a pin drop. Yeah, I realize it's a pin. That's what the saying is. But that's the first thing that came to mind.

Starting point is 02:15:15 Really? They didn't think about a vinyl disc? Not immediately. Well, actually, once I explained it, they'd say, oh, yeah, so we were thinking. It needed explaining. That's the point. Right there. It was explaining.

Starting point is 02:15:28 So the artwork, which is always very important, no agenda, art generator.com is where you can upload all of your AI slop, came to us from Nestworks, a real artist. And this was an artist at work. I don't know what tools he used, but this gigacad with the vinyl and then the C prompt, go-to toe tapper, the way the robot gigacad was positioned in front of the no agenda letters. this is high quality work here. I don't think this was 100% AI, do you? No, not at all. It may not, in fact, it may be zero. There's no way that AI could even come close to this.

Starting point is 02:16:08 For one thing, that thing at the top go-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-tapper, that's AI's never going to produce that. It'd be misspelled. By the way, gitmojams.com, everybody. It's up and running. Get-Moddjams.com. All your AI slop all the time. 24-7, end-of-show mixes AI slop.

Starting point is 02:16:26 Soon it will be the best. place to get your AI music. So go-to-to-to-to-to-tapper was perfect. That was the deal clincher right there. Yeah. That was perfect. And Nessworks, thank you. Thank you, brother.

Starting point is 02:16:40 Good job. Let me just see. What else was there that we looked at at the generated? Let's take a quick little. I like the piece next to the slop thing from Coach Joe, but it was not going to be used because you couldn't read anything on it. But I thought it was a cute piece. We didn't talk about it.

Starting point is 02:16:56 I used the dawn of a better day from Jeffrey Ray. Yeah. Which one? For the newsletter. With the New York or with the sunrise? The New York with the sunrise in the back. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:17:08 It was very orange, of course. It's Jeffrey Ray. You know, if you see orange, you don't think Trump anymore. It wasn't that bad. It didn't bother me so much. Even the letters are orange. This should be white. I do like, I, like, Jeffrey Ray also did the Tucker 2 and the letters are white.

Starting point is 02:17:23 He's actually got white in there somehow. Yeah, but look how washed out that thing is. What, Tucker 2? Tucker 2. It's washed out. It doesn't look washed out to me. That might be you. We obviously have to remind people that you're colorblind.

Starting point is 02:17:41 That's washed up. That's not washed up. It's not washed out. You have to understand. That's the email I get at least once a day. Oh, you washed up, Vijay. Luckily, Mossad is paying the bills. and say, yes, I shower daily.

Starting point is 02:17:56 Luckily, Mossad is paying the bills. We're all good. Yeah, they're not paying the bills. We're not good. In fact, man, we got, we got... It was our intelligence money. We haven't seen that for a while. No, no, I don't know.

Starting point is 02:18:10 Well, they're all furloughed. No way... Oh, yeah, they're probably all... Yeah, that's probably true. That's the problem. That's the problem. So keep trying, everybody. Once again, it still takes creative thought

Starting point is 02:18:23 good ideas, I don't care what tool you use, good ideas result in good products. And there were some, no, there weren't a lot of good ideas, honestly, just a few. No, this piece, one. Hands down, hands down. So now we go to the treasure portion of our value for value model. This is where we thank everybody, $50 and above. So we're very transparent. Can't get more transparent than that.

Starting point is 02:18:57 And we tell you exactly who sent it to us. And we have a special segment for those fortunate enough to be able to send us $200 or more. In that case, we'll thank you, of course. We'll read your note as a thanks. And we will also give you an official Hollywood title. You too can be just like Brunetti and be an associate executive producer of the best podcast in the universe. Now you can't be Brunetti Because if you're $300 or more

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Starting point is 02:20:41 long-lived payments sent by... What is this? Square. What does it say here, John? I have to look at it. Long liveth payments sent by... Let me look. Long live it's payment.

Starting point is 02:21:00 By squirk? By squire, it says. Squire. Okay. Long liveeth notes of brevity. Oh, yes. And long liveeth no agenda. Your humble servant producer, Sir Kevin, Keeper of the Spee.

Starting point is 02:21:13 Thank you. Thank you, Sir Kevin. Really appreciate it. This was needed, as you'll hear. Well, it would have been a short donation segment. if some people hadn't sent in long notes. The, I will say that he sent this in a while back, 1031, notice the date. Oh, yes.

Starting point is 02:21:33 What is up with that? Well, it's been good, we've got back and forth. How come this hasn't shown up? He's wanted this to show up forever. So here we are, November of 6th or 7, 8th, 8th, 9th. It took over a week, week and a half or something, or I guess a week. Was there a check? Yeah.

Starting point is 02:21:53 Oh, okay. It was a check in two notes. He has a second note, which you may have a copy of, but it wasn't meant to be read. I don't have a second note. No, I don't. No, I should have. You should have got a copy. Sorry.

Starting point is 02:22:05 Don't have it. Was it personal? Oh, I was just saying what a great guy I am. You're mean to me. Oh, yeah. Well, that's personal, obviously. So it was something like that. Oh, so this next note is a request for me to read it in my best.

Starting point is 02:22:20 Yes, and this is your note to read. because he wants you to read it as Mark Ruta. I think it's a she. She is Luz van Osseland-Coland Kohloff from Hilo in the Netherlands, 333. L-O-E-S is a female's name in Holland? L-O-E-S is a female name. Hiloes, L-O-E-S, Luce, yes. That's a very, very female Dutch name, Luce.

Starting point is 02:22:43 Hoy, Adam, please read this in your best Mark Rutter voice. Dear Adam and John, I'm listening to your show since the end of 2018, after being hit in the mouth for many, many times by my husband. Oh, it hurt. You have been the voice of reason and kept me sane during the vape wars. I worked in a vape shop. A vape shop? That is amazing that you worked in the vape shop.

Starting point is 02:23:09 That is fantastic. She goes on to say, I wanted to be a dame for my 40th birthday on the 9th of November. Please put me on the birthday list. But inflation and other financial setbacks don't make, didn't make it possible. It's possible now, ain't it? Yes, it's very good. Still, I wanted to donate.

Starting point is 02:23:31 You give me a lot of value. More than I can ever pay you back. Every time I doubt it if I should donate it, I saw a lot of 33's, 1111s, 8,0008s coming by the supermarket I work. So the universe is telling me to donate. So please deduce me. You've been deduced. Uh, jingles, vape wars, look at that use, and it's true.

Starting point is 02:23:58 Please give my husband Pelosi jobs karma. He starts a new job in January and a travel karma force because we're going to visit France in America during Christmas. Four more years, Grewishes, Grewishes from Luce. Hey, Luce, tell me where you're going to be. Are you going to be anywhere near Texas? I will come to see you.

Starting point is 02:24:17 That would be fun. And bring some Dutch. Lickrish, please. Oh my gosh. Can you see that juice? Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You know, I should say that all Dutch people know this.

Starting point is 02:24:49 That whenever you visit someone from a Dutchman or someone who grew up in Holland, who no longer lives in the country, you have to bring Dutch licorice with you. And the other day, someone sent me four bags of Dutch licorice. It's like crack. Most Americans hate it. It's salty black licorice. But, oh, man, it's so good. It's like a Vegeta.

Starting point is 02:25:19 Marmite. Marmite. Marmite. Yeah. It's like Vichita Marmite. It's salty and terrible. No, it's wonderful. It's so good. Yeah, salty and terrible. If you're going to bring something in from Holland, tell them to bring in some of the Dutch absinthe.

Starting point is 02:25:37 Now, Scholkreit, Booterry drop, Sammy Jackball, Engelsso drop. Those are some of my favorites. Switch a real from the day. The indie meetup, $300 came in. And this is the longest note ever. And I'm not sure that they want us to read this whole note. But it's a switcher route to Ohio bloke from the Buckeye State checking in. Another late stage boomer here who absolutely loves it when you two launch into boomer talk.

Starting point is 02:26:09 Oh, they were winning. Winning. Winning. It's always spot on and never fails to crows. rack me up. I've been on board since around episode 200 and truly appreciate the twice-weekly dose of Santa T. My human resource span three generations, millennial, gen X, and Gen Alpha.

Starting point is 02:26:32 And let me tell you, now let me tell you, much of what you say about the younger generation rings true in my own HR department. The good news is, the good news is, all of mine can read an analog clock. And know how to use a tape measure. So there's still hope out there. Make the short hope over to the short hope. The short hop over to the New England, New England. Northeast.

Starting point is 02:27:01 Northeast, Indiana next week. And he's New England to me. Indiana next weekend for the Indiana and a tri-state short and long barrel safety meetup. Brought a long sir son of a bloke for another one of my Gen Z sons. Okay, goes on and on. a lot of lead down range at pumpkins. That's what their meet-up was. It was a...

Starting point is 02:27:24 Shooting. You said that's what it was. Yeah, shooting at pumpkins. I love it. I love it. And he goes on. Pres JCD's tip, I tracked down some old crow 86,

Starting point is 02:27:35 or it's actually just crow 86 to throw it into the raffle. Excellent stuff. Yeah, okay. And then he wraps it up with, I can't read because it's off the spreadsheet. He says, we even got droned again at the end of a great, photo group,

Starting point is 02:27:51 a great group photo, the perfect wrap-up to an awesome meetup. Finally, could you add my youngest Lucy to the birthday list? She turned 11 last Friday. I believe she's on there. So, new worries. Anyway, with Nathan Parker

Starting point is 02:28:02 from Seattle, Washington, 222.22. A row of ducks, no notes. So a double-up karma for Nathan Parker. You've got. Double-up. Karma. Eli, the coffee guy,

Starting point is 02:28:16 as the government shut down, drags into November, which it has done. Delays are everywhere from airports to food stamps, plus the paychecks of the federal workforce. At least coffee deliveries are still running on time so far. Yes, so far. Order now.

Starting point is 02:28:36 So visitig, go out coffee roasters.com, use code ITM, 20 for 20% off your order. Stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy. P.S., can you add the United States Marine Corps to the birthday list on 1110? Happy 250. Semperfy. Sir Q checks in from Cisco, Texas, $210.60. I'm donating because I spent $17 on an eight-part series that Sean Ryan put out. He's charging money now? I don't know what he's talking about. We know who Sean Ryan is. The name rings about, but I don't know who he is. Sean Ryan podcast. He's a big, big, he's a former CIA mill guy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know who it is. Seems like a nice guy. Yeah, it probably is. But he's charging money. So $17 on an eight-part series that Sean Ryan put out.

Starting point is 02:29:29 Here's the kicker. I should have saved my money and sent it to you guys. You should have. Though it was about sci-ops and had good info in it, it seemed like the series was a sci-op itself. Probably was. It was a radio lab type of audio-only stress fest. Sean Ryan's show. Sorry, up. Oh, radio lab. Something like that, I guess.

Starting point is 02:29:55 Mm-hmm. Listening to no agenda, I get the same deconstruction with none of the stress. Thanks, says Sir Q of Eastland County. No, thank you very much, brother. Interesting. Linda Lepatkin. She's in Lakewood, Colorado, wants jobs karma. And writes,

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Starting point is 02:30:34 And then finally on our list, we have $200 that came in in some Bitcoin, through the strike, which you can find at no agenda donations.com. There's no name, no note. You got to send this a note. And it should be just put subject line, donation. Yeah, Bitcoin donation. Might even well.

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Starting point is 02:32:07 And I don't know where we haven't played these clips. This is about the Hillary bribe. Wait, is this the Overstock CEO? Yeah. We've played this. I don't remember playing it. I would have remembered this. Oh, no.

Starting point is 02:32:21 Okay. I don't want you to think I'm mean to you. Well, you are mean to me, but that's beside the point. Can you look it up and see if we played these? Yes, of course we played these. What's the guy's name again? Patrick Bryce. No, it's not Bryce.

Starting point is 02:32:36 I think it's Bryce. No, it's not Patrick Bryce. Well, it's Patrick something. Burn. Patrick Byrne. Patrick Byrne, exactly. That's what I said. Patrick Byrne.

Starting point is 02:32:45 Okay. I can find it for you. This will be good because then I don't have to play these. Hillary. Let me do. The search is Patrick and Hillary. Here it is. I have, this is a long time ago, actually.

Starting point is 02:33:04 Let's see. now and first thing she's going to do when today she becomes president is she's going to send her goons over to the FBI remember this yeah yeah yeah we put this is from what was the date on this then November 1st 2020 that's interesting because the problem I have with it I'm wondering it's the same clips because he talks about the Durham report in these clips and he This could be a reiteration of what we already played. Well, let's do with them because it's still. Well, I don't know.

Starting point is 02:33:41 You know, I hate to play repetitive. Well, let me just. Five years ago. Let me just summarize. This is where he was given, he was supposed to give Hillary a bribe. She actually took the money and then she went down the elevator and he went the elevator. And then the FBI came. There's no elevator talking this one.

Starting point is 02:33:59 Oh, and then the FBI says, no, no, we're not talking about it. It's over. Right. You got to forget this ever happens. I think this is a. of the old story, so I don't think we need to play it. But again, it's five years old. It might be worth playing again to remind people, but I'm going to say no.

Starting point is 02:34:13 Okay. Well, I'll go on your no. Yeah. Yeah. But people can look it up. Just go to YouTube and, you know, Hillary bribe. I thought it was a disgusting tale. And sorry, I didn't remember.

Starting point is 02:34:26 Let's go to Tariff Doom. How about that for an idea? Tariff Doom? And since you like the way I spell tariff, I made sure to spell it even better. It's been over seven months. There's no SS. No, it's because the SS came earlier, so you're not going to play that same jingle again,

Starting point is 02:34:46 so I just reneged on the second SS. It's been over seven months since President Trump enacted those sweeping duties on goods from nearly every country. And one of the questions before the Supreme Court this week, who's paying them? And as Juliana Kim joins us. Juliana, thanks for being with us. Happy to be here.

Starting point is 02:35:03 Have we seen retail, prices change in the past seven months? So far, prices have gone up, you know, for coffee, clothing, furniture, things that are almost exclusively imported. But interestingly, only about 20% of the tariff burden has actually made it to retail prices. That's according to Erica York, an analyst at the Tax Foundation, a group that advocates for simplifying the tax code. She told me companies probably had stockpiles of products before tariffs hit. And also, a lot of businesses held up. of changing prices, while there was some uncertainty around tariff rates.

Starting point is 02:35:39 But that strategy is beginning to change, and companies are starting to pass higher costs to the consumer. Economists say that's going to become more common in the months ahead. What could cost look like in the next year? So there's some different numbers floating around. The Tax Foundation estimates that if tariffs stay in place throughout next year, a household could face an average burden of $1,600. I also asked this question to Kent Smetters.

Starting point is 02:36:05 the faculty director at the Penn Wharton budget model, and he estimates that existing tariffs could tack on as much as 1% to your average spending. So if you spend $50,000 a year, that's an extra $500. Keep in mind, prices are just one part of the story. You know, tariffs can also lead companies to slow hiring or cut wages, which isn't good news for an already weakening job market. Okay. This suppose a couple of things we're going to have to come to grips with. These high tariffs and reestablishing American manufacturing is not going to save the consumer money. The Chinese can produce products and have them shipped over here cheaper than we're ever going to be able to make the product, no matter how good we are. So, I mean, but nobody wants to admit this and they're faulting Trump.

Starting point is 02:36:58 I mean, it's more important to have the jobs over here and suffer a little bit. So, you know, so your bird, you know, your little bird house you bought at Joanne's or wherever you got this thing is, you know, you got for a buck and a half. It's going to cause you $2.50. I mean, it's fine. You're just going to, but this idea that things are going to be cheaper when we're cutting off the supply of cheap junk is unlikely. Part two. Of course, exit polls from key races this week show that the cost of living and the economy are the biggest. concerns for voters. How do you think tariffs have played into that? Tariffs have pushed prices

Starting point is 02:37:40 higher, but for the most part, the increases have been fairly modest. That being said, many Americans are struggling with inflation fatigue. I spoke to Michelle Floreo, a paraprofessional in New Jersey, as she says she's held off buying a new car and a mattress because tariffs have made them too expensive, and even her holiday plans are changing. I have been giving baked goods as gifts for 53 years. And now I don't know. But wait a minute. Baked goods?

Starting point is 02:38:10 She makes baked goods as gifts, but now she doesn't know. I don't know. Maybe I can't make it because of the tariffs. What does the tariffs got to do? This is the problem I'm having with the Democrats in this bull crap. They extend it to something like bake goods. Yeah, it's bad.

Starting point is 02:38:29 Oh, I'm making baked goods. I don't know if I can make the baked goods anymore. because the tariffs, I don't know, flour is so expensive. It's made in somewhere. I don't know where I'm getting it. That's bull crap. I've been watching the quad screen, and I've been seeing this developing story,

Starting point is 02:38:45 and it is worth discussing for a moment. I'm going to bring you about the BBC. The BBC chairman has announced that both the director general, Tim Davy, and the new CEO, Deborah Tennis, are to resign. Let's bring you more on that story. Our cultural reporter, Nornangi, is with me here. So tell us about the background to this and about the resignation statements. Yeah, that's right.

Starting point is 02:39:08 Really significant news that's just come to us in the last few minutes. So both the BBC's Director-General Tim Davy, but also Deborah Tenes, who is the CEO of News, both resigning. We've just had that, as I say, in the last few minutes. Okay, well, that was a useless report. But I know what this is about because I'm looking at all the news. This is over the BBC Panorama episode where they edited Trump. together to make it look like he was telling the January 6 protesters to go fight like hell and go storm the Capitol. Did you, do you know anything about this story? This is amazing.

Starting point is 02:39:42 No, I have no idea about this, but that is scandalous. And so the director and the CEO have resigned. I have a clip of the controversy. I actually had it from, uh, uh, I think maybe two shows ago. Here, check it out. Well, it's the biggest story in town. It turns out American president Donald Trump was onto something. Where are you from? BBC. Okay. Here's another beauty.

Starting point is 02:40:07 Good line. Impartial, free and fair. Yeah, sure. Well, that criticism of the BBC and John Sopel, who was talking to there, apparently, was well-founded because the so-called impartial and accurate public service broad is nothing but. You are fake news. Sir, go ahead. Can you stay categorically that nobody?

Starting point is 02:40:30 No, Ms. President. Because tonight, the BBC. is facing serious questions over its credibility after the Daily Telegraph exposed a panorama segment that heavily doctored a speech by the American president in 2021, hours before the infamous January the 6th Capitol riot. As you're about to hear, the corporation spliced together two quotes, one hour apart to make it seem like he encouraged an insurrection. They played the following clip. We're going to walk down.

Starting point is 02:41:02 to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell. But Trump didn't, in fact, say this at all. The BBC spliced together two clips that took place 54 minutes apart. So let's go through it again. We're going to walk down to the Capitol, and I'll be there with you. Now, see there, between Capitol and and that's a cut. Here's what Trump actually said. We're going to walk down to the Capitol. And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

Starting point is 02:41:48 It's different. It wasn't until nearly an hour later that he then said the second part of the BBC's version. We're going to walk down to the Capitol. Now they're fast-forwarding an hour. And we fight. We fight like hell. So that's the scandal. And wow.

Starting point is 02:42:09 The North Sea Nexus under attack. Look at what's happened. We got the prince stripped of his title. We've got the ambassador wrapped up in the Epstein affair, gone. What's his face? Yep. And now the director and the CEO of the BBC resigning over this, this is, this is pretty big. That is big.

Starting point is 02:42:38 Man, I'm glad we caught this on our show day. Thanks for doing on a beautiful show day. This kind of dubious editing took place on Friday. I don't have clips on the news hour. Because everybody's in a tizzy. everybody's in a tizzy over the Tucker Carlson Nick Fuente's interview

Starting point is 02:42:57 which we played a couple of the guy at the Heritage Foundation got into trouble and got kind of booted from you know they being accepted as a I don't know conservative operation

Starting point is 02:43:10 I don't know what the deal is was going to happen did he get kicked out of the heritage no he did there was he asked him to resign but he wouldn't and all he said was I didn't you know but apparently said it out of the blue

Starting point is 02:43:20 it wasn't so and I'm not even sure that's true. But he says, I think that Nick Fuente's doing Carlson is fine because they were just having a conversation that they both wanted to have. And the reason for the conversation initially, according to Tucker, was they were having an online beef with each other. And so let's put it on the, let's have the beef, you know, face to face, like you and I do all the time.

Starting point is 02:43:43 But this is exactly the op that I was talking about. So the other side is now retaliating. And this is the neocons. and they're retaliating against this guy who you said was too weak and would never be able to kick Lindsay Graham out. I'm not saying that that's not true. But that is exactly the response you would expect.

Starting point is 02:44:02 They're going after that guy. And so the latest thing is, I think it was today or yesterday, or probably yesterday the day before, Ben Shapiro shows up on CNN. On Jake Tapper's show to condemn Tucker. Wow. He's going into the,

Starting point is 02:44:21 into the enemy camp. Calling him a racist, which is like, you know, boy. Shapiro is sketchy. We have to remember that he hated Trump. It was, you know, we went to the whole thing in the last show. But then the one that really got me, though, was on Friday, on PBS NewsHour,

Starting point is 02:44:39 the woman there, Mina, blah, blah, blah, whatever her name is, who's got not a good stage name, because I can't remember her name. She did a whole thing, an entire segment on Nick Fuentes. and on Tucker and she said here's some of the stuff he said and they took clips from the Tucker show

Starting point is 02:44:58 out of context completely out of context Wow every one of them was out of context the whole thing about his misogyny and they played the out of context clips that we had

Starting point is 02:45:12 in context we had ours were in context as usual and those were out of context and make him sound like an idiot and then they condemned Tucker. So there's all kinds of, and Fruentes, does he have a publicist? This guy's getting more publicity than anybody I know. Well, he's, he's the perfect, the perfect poster child for the

Starting point is 02:45:35 moment. It's perfect. It's a perfect kid. It's perfect. It is a lot of material, a lot of very inflammatory material. You know, the podosphere is still buzzing. Still buzzing. Everyone's all the buzz, oh, yeah. Go on each other's podcasts. But this idea of taking stuff out of context and rejiggering it

Starting point is 02:46:01 to make your point is not acceptable. I would like someone to edit Adam and John out of context and make a really funny bit. Something we can play. If you're a humorist, you can probably make it very amusing.

Starting point is 02:46:17 Yeah, we'd like to have that. Especially if you can take an hour out of the conversation and drop some bomb in from the end like the BBC did. Yeah, wow, that's fantastic. I mean, that's, you know,

Starting point is 02:46:32 who could be next? I, with all of this happening, and by the way, we don't really have much on it, but of course, we have Brennan supposedly getting subpoenaed and Lisa Page and her boyfriend,

Starting point is 02:46:49 whatever his name was. you know, people are going to go down. Well. Now, I know you're skeptical, but this Arctic Frost is still hanging in there. And of course, we also have, this was big news from the blaze, which is quite interesting. One of his reporters did a gate analysis on the January 6th pipe bomber. Have you been following this story? I've been trying to.

Starting point is 02:47:19 They can't seem, you know, this, the pipe bomber was a bop of some sort. Yes, a former Capitol Police cop who worked for the CIA. Yeah. But I like that they did gate analysis. I don't know what a gate analysis is. Your gate, someone's gate, how they walk, their gate. Oh, the gate, O-G-A-I-T. Yes, the gate analysis.

Starting point is 02:47:40 Oh, yeah, gate analysis. You know, I could spot Biden a mile away. Well, so exactly. So the first thing is, I think I said right away, that's a woman. That's a woman who's walking with that hoodie. So, wow, I got that one. But they have other video for her and they did some AI analysis. And the AI gate analysis shows 94% match between the January 6 pipe bomber and an ex-capital police cop who works for the CIA. I want to see a gate analysis on that daddy long legs skipping over the lawn. Skipping over the lawn to the helicopter.

Starting point is 02:48:15 Give me a gate analysis. I don't even know. Do you need a gate analysis? I mean, come on. The guy's legs were five inches longer than Biden's. He didn't have that back and forth kind of, you know. I demand the gate analysis. I want a gate. Get it in it. Grock.

Starting point is 02:48:31 Grock, give me a gate analysis. This is fantastic. And this, by the way, this was an it, which brings me to another interesting, another, another interesting point because I'm so interesting. The, um, there was a story, if you remember about three weeks ago, Biden, who's supposedly dying of all kinds of, you know, he's like a wreck. Oh, he rang the bell. He's cancer-free. I didn't know that. He is?

Starting point is 02:48:57 That's what they say. Oh, brother. Okay, well, whatever the case, during his cancer moment, supposedly he and Obama were at the same restaurant. You remember this story? It was about... Yeah, yeah, several months ago. Yes. Yeah, and they were at the same restaurant, and Obama never went to talk to him. And it was like, oh, Obama's a jerk because he wouldn't need the vice president. his old buddy is there and he wouldn't even say hello and everyone monitored this and

Starting point is 02:49:22 Biden was in the front outside and I guess in the outdoor eating and he's eating with somebody and and and the reason he never went and talk to him because it wasn't Biden. It was some other, it was daddy long legs. It was the daddy long legs guy. What's he going to talk to him about? Yeah, I got nothing to say, man. I got to get back to my basketball game. I got a, I got a pickup game I got to get to.

Starting point is 02:49:47 And he knew it, and so what was no reason to talk to him? So that's the explanation for this. It's not because by, I mean, Obama might be a jerk, but I don't think that, but he knows enough to do, you know, public stuff. Yeah. Wow. Wow. This, there's, you know, you're skeptical on Arctic Frost.

Starting point is 02:50:06 Yes, I agree with you. No, I'm not skeptical of Arctic Frost. I'm skeptical that they're going to take action that's going to be meaningful. I think they are. I think that. And it's not Congress. Who gives a crap about Congress? I'm talking about a Department of Justice.

Starting point is 02:50:21 You got A.G. Barbie. Yeah. Let me remind me who's the head of the Department of Justice. Agee Barbie. Yeah. Yeah. And what has she done so far? Hang in there.

Starting point is 02:50:34 I have a feeling. I just feel on my water. My water tells me something's coming. Your water. It's a Dutch. Is this some new thing that you picked up from the Five Bryans? It's a Dutchism. No, it's not from Pastor Jimmy and the Five Bryans.

Starting point is 02:50:47 in Holland we say I feel it on my water I don't know where it comes from I have no idea it's a Dutchism Huh Should we look into the etymology No I don't think you need to But I think we should document some of these I need it's a book, it's a jiblet

Starting point is 02:51:05 It's a jiblet There's a jiblet in there somewhere All right Well wait go back If you feel in your water that something's up We would say feeling in our bones Our bones are bones. Right.

Starting point is 02:51:19 Well, the Dutch feel it in their water because they live underwater practically. I don't know why they say it. This is true. I have this feeling, and it could be hopium. I'll be the first to admit. I have this feeling that they all pulled back on the Epstein stuff because that's the big bomb that's coming. I know it sounds crazy. Well, no, I'm not going to deny the possibility they're going to.

Starting point is 02:51:45 But the Epstein thing is just going to. be the release of the documents. And in fact, there was a report that they have one guy that's supposed to be that this is ridiculous. This was on, I think it was PBS. They said, oh, they're worried that, you know, they, Mike Johnson's not bringing Congress back. Oh, it's because of Epstein, the Epstein.

Starting point is 02:52:08 Because of the Epstein files, because they got this one guy, they're going to have to, you know, he's going to come in. He's the new Democrat. They're going to change. He's going to add one more vote to getting the. Epstein files released is going to, well, this guy's coming in eventually. Yeah. So that's bull crap, but I think you're right.

Starting point is 02:52:25 The Epstein files may be a lot. This comment. Yeah, and I think they're going to push it off as far as they can closest to the midterms. Yeah, of course. That's when you want to do it. By the way, Void Zero correctly, corrects me. He says the, the term is actually, fool it's on a teva, but I think it's often shortened to water.

Starting point is 02:52:43 So I feel it on my tea water. Ah. So that may be like... That makes it even more obscure. What tea water? I don't know. I can't help you there. Avoid. What is that from, man? Explain. It's got to be like reading the tea leaves. Maybe. Maybe something like that.

Starting point is 02:53:07 I do have a quick series of three clips to wind this up as this will enrage every... You know what? I'm not going to do. I'm going to save these. save these. Oh, wait, what are they about? That cancer. Oh, you don't want to do cancer. No, it's like every stroke and cancer is blamed on alcohol. It couldn't be anything else. Couldn't be any, it couldn't be any. It was going to be one of those.

Starting point is 02:53:30 What? Yeah. And then I have two, I have a couple of, I have a funny rant we can finish with. If you got something funny, let's finish with something funny. This is the, this is, I think her name is Megan. She's getting very famous online for, she's a black very blunt is a little cussing going on in this one for people warning she's a black woman who who just a tell it like it is type and she goes off on the trans the you know the bathroom ever since this thing happened at the gym oh yeah but they kicked her out instead of the dude yeah now i don't know this is the i don't think there's the same woman but this woman has been

Starting point is 02:54:08 making a fuss and she goes off she goes off and here it is so let me start this off with i lost my housing i lost my food stamps um no no no wrong one wrong one okay that's the food stamp woman the one we're looking is black woman on tire tyrant's rants oh i'm sorry oops tyrants tyrants okay so i have a PSA announcement okay so i am a woman okay uteries cooch ovaries all night okay so i am a woman okay and i'm telling you we don't want y'all in our bathroom. Okay? I don't give a damn if you feel like a woman,

Starting point is 02:54:50 if you've always felt like a woman, if you think you're a woman, if you think you look like a woman, if you're feminine, if you act more like a woman than women do and all this other shit. I'm telling you what it is, huh? We do not want your asses,

Starting point is 02:55:07 your dick, your beans, your balls, testicles. We don't want y'all in our bathroom. Okay? You understand what I'm telling you? I don't care how you feel. I don't care what you think. I don't care about human rights, civil rights, rights of transition of transformation, whatever it is. I don't give it there.

Starting point is 02:55:28 Stay your asses out of women's spaces. That's it. Let's stop discussing it. Okay? It's not up for discussion. Do not go into the woman's bathroom. Okay? Now that's it.

Starting point is 02:55:40 All right? Okay? Just take your ass into the. all gender bathroom or the men's bathroom or go pee in the bush we don't give a damn just don't bring your ass into the woman's bathroom okay we got that okay fantastic i'm gonna show my school by donating to no agenda imagine all the people who could do this oh yeah that'd be five yeah oh no agenda in the morning and so we wow yeah isn't that great wow yeah she's she's phenomenal uh so we have the people that donated, which is down to like a total of very few people that have

Starting point is 02:56:19 contributed to today's show. But we do have a few of them and Adam's going to read them off. Yes. After I, you know, I was so consumed with that woman that I need to set up a few things here. I'm almost ready. Because, you know, typically when we'd hit this segment, you'd start reading and then I'd set up the thing. And I'm done. Okay, there we go. Yes, I'm going to thank the donors $50 and above. And as John said, it'll go pretty quickly. Valerie Steensland from Kirkland, Washington, 105.35. And she says she'll write a real note when her next $100 moves her to be, to what I get to be after Damehood. We look forward to that.

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Starting point is 02:57:33 Yeah. Oh, I sent it off to Jay. She's the publisher. She's the publisher. Okay. So you're in the system. your your submission has been taken into into consideration. Sir Tin from Arnold Maryland, 6,008, that's a crazy boob,

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Starting point is 03:02:42 And we do have our end of show mixes coming up Half AI Slop and Half Homemade It's interesting how when you start introducing a lot of slop That the homemade people say, I can beat that. Then they're pretty good, I have to admit. Time for the ISOs. These are the clips that with one clip that will be chosen

Starting point is 03:03:03 at the very end of the show to send you off into the rest of your Sunday or Monday whenever you're listening to this show. I only have one today. You have two. So I will play my one and we'll see if it's a contender. Okay, bye. I'll just do my own show. Kind of nasty sounding.

Starting point is 03:03:24 Well, it's Candice. I expect. Oh. Okay, bye. I'll just do my own show. Okay. Well, now I know that. It's not quite up to the snuff of Alex Jones.

Starting point is 03:03:35 No, no. Here's a Scott Simon one, the SS thinks. Ooh. Thanks so much. Oh, it's short. It's a little short. Thanks so much. It's a little short.

Starting point is 03:03:44 Okay, a little short. Okay, well, let's go with the old standby. Holy moly, that was beyond great. Of course, that is always a winner, AI to the rescue. Time for tip of the day. Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCB. And sometimes Adam.

Starting point is 03:04:07 Okay, there's a pro tip. Pro tip. I'll be with dogs. I don't know if anyone noticed us that we have dogs. You got dogs. They stink. Dogs stink. Our dog is stinking right now.

Starting point is 03:04:22 This is good. I'm very excited about this tip because Phoebe is stinking. Stevie? No, Phoebe. Oh, Phoebe. Not like you said Stevie. Oh, little siblings going. No, that's my teeth. No, it's my teeth. It's a combination of my teeth and you're hearing.

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Starting point is 03:05:35 No, no, no, it just, it's a, you get a mop and you get a bucket of water and you put this in there and you mop around. You just mop everything with it. Oh, no, I'm not going to do that. Yeah, you mop up. No. If you want to, hey, give the dog a bath, okay? Yeah, this is what you're, you're looking for dog bath stuff. This is not for dog baths.

Starting point is 03:05:57 Oh. This is for the area that you get the dog in the car to all. The car stinks. Oh, yeah. You got a dog in a, you got a kennel, you got some place in a dog cage. It stinks. You use this, K-O-E. Amazon has it.

Starting point is 03:06:10 It's available everywhere. Interesting. By the way, breaking news from Dreb Scott. Breaking, hashtag, breakang, three alarm, three revolving lights. Breaking, breaking news. A senior Democratic senator says there are enough Democratic votes poised to end the 40-day government shutdown. Sorry for the breaking.

Starting point is 03:06:31 resist. All right. It's breaking. It's breaking. It's all breaking. Well, you know, Horowitz and I predicted the 10th. Really? That will be tomorrow. I mean, do we have a prop? Can we do it? Are there prop bets on? This has got to be prop bet. I'm sure there's tons of prop bet. Well, they have to, they have to do. We need news to cover up the BBC director. We need some news. The North Sea Nexus is looking for some news. Oh, good point. The calls went out. Oh, we got to stop people thinking that our news is fake. Come on, guys, vote against it. Wow.

Starting point is 03:07:05 That would be good. Well, it would be nice. It has to. It has to. If it goes to Friday, your Christmas gifts are not coming from Amazon. Yeah, well, there's a lot of pressure. It's a pressure cooker. We got a real pressure cooker going on here, everybody.

Starting point is 03:07:22 That is John's tip of the day. Find them all at tip of the day. Dot net. me just the tip with JCD and sometimes Adam created by Dana Bertetti Yeah, that's it everybody. We conclude our

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No Agenda - 1815 - "Attunement"

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